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Who farted? Hydrogen sulphide transport from Bardarbunga to Scandinavia
, 2015 On September 9 2014 several incidences of foul smell (rotten eggs) were reported on the coast of Norway (in particular in the vicinity of Molde) and then on September 10 in the interior parts of county V\"asterbotten, Sweden.
Brännström, Niklas +2 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Permafrost is rapidly degrading in the sporadic zone, including palsa mires in Scandinavia. Peatlands in the area have likely accumulated heavy metals from atmospheric deposition of industrial contaminants in the wider region. As the palsa mire chemical composition is not well known, and in other permafrost regions the permafrost thaw may ...
Joanna Katarzyna Jóźwik +7 more
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Train Where You Expect to Fight: Why Military Exercises Have Increased in the High North
Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2020 The new Arctic Military Exercise (ArcMilEx) dataset, which I introduce in this article, demonstrates that since 2006, Western-led military exercises have increased in the ‘High North’ (European Arctic), and that involvement in such exercises is not ...
Duncan Depledge
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Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site
Oikos, EarlyView.Reindeer Rangifer tarandus, a large circumpolar herbivore, can influence whether nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) is the primary limiting nutrient in tundra plant communities. Specifically, findings from a site in northern Scandinavia suggest that under conditions where reindeer grazing stimulates inorganic N availability, grazing may drive ecosystems ...
Jerzy Szejgis +5 more
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Framing Scandinavian Conceptualizations of Irregular Migration
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012 In the academic literature there seems to be consensus on irregular migration being a marginal phenomenon in the Scandinavian countries. The reason for this is found in the highly regulated labour markets and strict control migration regimes both ...
Martin Bak Jørgensen, Susi Meret
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Verso le aree marginali del cattolicesimo contemporaneo. La diffusione internazionale dell’Opus Dei sotto la guida di Álvaro del Portillo (I) / Towards marginal areas of contemporary catholicism. International expansion of Opus Dei under Álvaro del Portillo guidance [PDF]
Studia et Documenta, 2015 First part of an article that briefly narrates the beginnings of the stable presence of Opus Dei in 21 Countries, between 1978 and 1993, the period when Msgr. Álvaro del Portillo was at the head of the Work. The geographic areas treated in this part are:
Carlo Pioppi
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Oikos, EarlyView.Plasticity of diel activity rhythms may be a key element for adaptations of wildlife populations to changing environmental conditions. In the last decades, grizzly bears Ursus arctos in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) have experienced notable environmental fluctuations, including changes in availability of food sources and severe droughts ...
Aurora Donatelli +4 more
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Taxation and Market Work: Is Scandinavia an Outlier? [PDF]
This paper argues that it is essential to explicitly consider how the government spends tax revenues when assessing the effects of tax rates on aggregate hours of market work.
Richard Rogerson
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Development of low-cost multi-wavelength imager system for studies of aurora and airglow [PDF]
, 2020 This paper introduces a new system that can monitor aurora and atmospheric airglow using a low-cost Watec monochromatic imager (WMI) equipped with a sensitive camera, a filter with high transmittance, and the non-telecentric optics.
Brändström, U. +22 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
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