• Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk 

      Shrine, Nick; Izquierdo, Abril G.; Chen, Jing; Packer, Richard; Hall, Robert J.; Guyatt, Anna L.; Batini, Chiara; Thompson, Rebecca J.; Pavuluri, Chandan; Malik, Vidhi; Hobbs, Brian D.; Moll, Matthew; Kim, Wonji; Tal-Singer, Ruth; Bakke, Per S.; Fawcett, Katherine A.; John, Catherine; Coley, Kayesha; Piga, Noemi Nicole; Pozarickij, Alfred; Lin, Kuang; Millwood, Iona Y.; Chen, Zhengming; Li, Liming; Wijnant, Sara R A; Lahousse, Lies; Brusselle, Guy; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Manichaikul, Ani; Oelsner, Elizabeth C.; Rich, Stephen S.; Barr, R Graham; Kerr, Shona M.; Vitart, Veronique; Brown, Michael R.; Wielscher, Matthias; Imboden, Medea; Jeong, Ayoung; Bartz, Traci M.; Gharib, Sina A.; Flexeder, Claudia; Karrasch, Stefan; Gieger, Christian; Peters, Annette; Stubbe, Beate; Hu, Xiaowei; Ortega, Victor E.; Meyers, Deborah A.; Bleecker, Eugene R.; Gabriel, Stacey B.; Gupta, Namrata; Smith, Albert Vernon; Luan, Jian'an; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Langhammer, Arnulf; Willer, Cristen; Bhatta, Laxmi; Porteous, David; Smith, Blair H.; Campbell, Archie; Sofer, Tamar; Lee, Jiwon; Daviglus, Martha L.; Yu, Bing; Lim, Elise; Xu, Hanfei; O'Connor, George T.; Thareja, Gaurav; Albagha, Omar M E; Suhre, Karsten; Granell, Raquel; Faquih, Tariq O.; Hiemstra, Pieter S.; Slats, Annelies M.; Mullin, Benjamin H.; Hui, Jennie; James, Alan; Beilby, John; Patasova, Karina; Hysi, Pirro; Koskela, Jukka T.; Wyss, Annah B.; Jin, Jianping; Sikdar, Sinjini; Lee, Mikyeong; May-Wilson, Sebastian; Pirastu, Nicola; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Joshi, Peter K.; Timmers, Paul R H J; Williams, Alexander T.; Free, Robert C.; Wang, Xueyang; Morrison, John L.; Gilliland, Frank D.; Chen, Zhanghua; Wang, Carol A.; Foong, Rachel E.; Harris, Sarah E.; Taylor, Adele; Redmond, Paul; Cook, James P.; Mahajan, Anubha; Lind, Lars; Palviainen, Teemu; Lehtimäki, Terho; Raitakari, Olli T.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Rantanen, Taina; Pietiläinen, Kirsi H.; Cox, Simon R.; Pennell, Craig E.; Hall, Graham L.; Gauderman, W James; Brightling, Chris; Wilson, James F.; Vasankari, Tuula; Laitinen, Tarja; Salomaa, Veikko; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Dupuis, Josée; Hayward, Caroline; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Langenberg, Claudia; Weiss, Stefan; Homuth, Georg; Schmidt, Carsten Oliver; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Morrison, Alanna C.; Polasek, Ozren; Rudan, Igor; Lee, Joo-Hyeon; Sayers, Ian; Rawlins, Emma L.; Dudbridge, Frank; Silverman, Edwin K.; Strachan, David P.; Walters, Robin G.; Morris, Andrew P.; London, Stephanie J.; Cho, Michael H.; Wain, Louise V.; Hall, Ian P.; Tobin, Martin D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of lung function to date, comprising 580,869 ...
    • Multi-Armed Bandit Networks: Exploring Online Learning with Networks 

      Hansen, Viktor (Master thesis, 2018-06-26)
      Classical Multi-Armed Bandit solutions often assumes independent arms as a simplification of the problem. This has shown great results in many different fields of practice, but could in some cases, presumably leave untapped ...
    • A multi-dating approach to age-modelling long continental records: The 135 ka El Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (NE Spain) 

      Valero-Garcés, Blas L.; González-Sampériz, Penélope; Gil-Romera, Graciela; Benito De Pando, Blas Manuel; Moreno, Ana; Oliva-Urcia, Belén; Aranbarri, Josu; García-Prieto, Eduardo; Frugone, Matías; Morellón, Mario; Arnold, Lee J.; Demuro, Martina; Hardiman, Mark J.; Blockley, Simon P.E.; Lane, Christine S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We present a multidisciplinary dating approach - including radiocarbon, Uranium/Thorium series (U/Th), paleomagnetism, single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), polymineral fine-grain infrared stimulated ...
    • A multi-decadal record of oceanographic changes of the past ~165 years (1850-2015 AD) from Northwest of Iceland 

      Simon, Margit Hildegard; Muschitiello, Francesco; Tisserand, Amandine Aline; Olsen, Are; Moros, Matthias; Perner, Kerstin; Bårdsnes, Siv Tone; Dokken, Trond Martin; Jansen, Eystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Extending oceanographic data beyond the instrumental period is highly needed to better characterize and understand multi-decadal to centennial natural ocean variability. Here, a stable isotope record at unprecedented ...
    • Multi-decadal warming of Atlantic water and associated decline of dissolved oxygen in a deep fjord 

      Aksnes, Dag Lorents; Aure, Jan; Johansen, Per-Otto; Johnsen, Geir Helge; Salvanes, Anne Gro Vea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11)
      Previous studies have shown decline in dissolved oxygen of the ocean basins. A hypothesis for this development is that ocean warming through increased stratification has caused reduced ventilation of the interior ocean. ...
    • A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) 

      Bakker, Dorothee C.E.; Pfeil, Benjamin; Landa, Camilla Stegen; Metzl, Nicolas; O'Brien, Kevin M.; Olsen, Are; Smith, Karl; Cosca, Cathy; Harasawa, Sumiko; Jones, Stephen Daniel; Nakaoka, Shin-Ichiro; Nojiri, Yukihiro; Schuster, Ute; Steinhoff, Tobias; Sweeney, Colm; Takahashi, Taro; Tilbrook, Bronte; Wada, Chisato; Wanninkhof, Rik; Alin, Simone R.; Balestrini, Carlos F.; Barbero, Leticia; Bates, Nicholas R.; Bianchi, Alejandro A.; Bonou, Frédéric; Boutin, Jacqueline; Bozec, Yann; Burger, Eugene F.; Cai, Wei-Jun; Castle, Robert D.; Chen, Liqi; Chierici, Melissa; Currie, Kim; Evans, Wiley; Featherstone, Charles; Feely, Richard A.; Fransson, Agneta Ingrid; Goyet, Catherine; Greenwood, Naomi; Gregor, Luke; Hankin, Steven; Hardman-Mountford, Nick J.; Harlay, Jérôme; Hauck, Judith; Hoppema, Mario; Humphreys, Matthew P.; Hunt, Christopher W.; Huss, Betty; Ibanhez, J. Severino P.; Johannessen, Truls; Keeling, Ralph; Kitidis, Vassilis; Körtzinger, Arne; Kozyr, Alex; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Kuwata, Akira; Landschützer, Peter; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Lefevre, Nathalie; Lo Monaco, Claire; Manke, Ansley; Mathis, Jeremy T.; Merlivat, Liliane; Millero, Frank J.; Monteiro, Pedro M.S.; Munro, David R.; Murata, Akihiko; Newberger, Timothy; Omar, Abdirahman; Ono, Tsuneo; Paterson, Kristina; Pearce, David A.; Pierrot, Denis; Robbins, Lisa L.; Saito, Shu; Salisbury, Joe; Schlitzer, Reiner; Schneider, Bernd; Schweitzer, Roland; Sieger, Rainer; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Sullivan, Kevin F.; Sutherland, Stewart C.; Sutton, Adrienne J.; Tadokoro, Kazuaki; Telszewski, Maciej; Tuma, Matthias; Van Heuven, Steven M.A.C.; Vandemark, Doug; Ward, Brian; Watson, Andrew J.; Xu, Suqing (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-15)
      The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) is a synthesis of quality-controlled fCO2 (fugacity of carbon dioxide) values for the global surface oceans and coastal seas with regular updates. Version 3 of SOCAT has 14.7 million ...
    • Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway 

      Bunse, Laura (UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      The northern Norwegian soapstone quarries display small, mainly rectangular extractions possibly for the production of smaller types of artifact or a kind of blank or rough out for various objects. In addition, some soapstone ...
    • Multi-frequency acoustic discrimination between gas bubble plumes and biological targets in the ocean 

      Kubilius, Rokas (Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-18)
      Seabed-originating gas bubble seeps have been observed worldwide from a variety of sources (e.g. Hovland and Judd, 1988) and are most frequently composed of methane and carbon dioxide. Some seabed gas leaks, such as ...
    • Multi-GPU Rendering with Vulkan API 

      Tolo, Lars Olav (Master thesis, 2018-08-21)
      Vulkan API provides a low level interface to modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). With this thesis, we demonstrate how to use Vulkan to send commands explicitly to separate GPUs for implementing platform- and vendor ...
    • Multi-Instrument Observations of the Evolution of Polar Cap Patches Associated With Flow Shears and Particle Precipitation 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Xing, Zan-Yang; Lyons, L.R.; Yang, Hui-Gen; Li, Guo-Jun; Hosokawa, Keisuke; Shinbori, Atsuki; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Wang, Yong; Wang, Xiang-Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Simultaneous observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, Swarm, Resolute Bay all-sky imagers, GPS Total Electron Content and Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, are used to investigate the evolution and key ...
    • A multi-layer perceptron network for perfusion parameter estimation in DCE-MRI studies of the healthy kidney 

      Klepaczko, Artur; Strzelecki, Michał; Kociołek, Marcin; Eikefjord, Eli Bjøvad; Lundervold, Arvid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is an imaging technique which helps in visualizing and quantifying perfusion—one of the most important indicators of an organ’s state. This paper ...
    • Multi-Level Communication of Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells via Tunneling Nanotubes 

      Wittig, Dierk; Wang, Xiang; Walter, Cindy; Gerdes, Hans-Hermann; Funk, Richard H. W.; Roehlecke, Cora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-03-22)
      Background: Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) may offer a very specific and effective way of intercellular communication. Here we investigated TNTs in the human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell line ARPE-19. Morphology of ...
    • Multi-level governance in a “Europe with the regions”. 

      Schakel, Arjan Hille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)
      The concept of multilevel governance was introduced to reveal the impact of regions on European Union (EU) policy making in Brussels. In this contribution, I show that multilevel governance also exposes regional involvement ...
    • Multi-list Food Recommender Systems for Healthier Choices 

      Asotic, Edis (Master thesis, 2021-06-01)
      Recipe websites are a popular destination for home cooks to discover new recipes and find what to cook. However, the most popular way of recommending recipes to users is trough similarity and popularity-based recommendations, ...
    • Multi-List Recommendations for Personalizing Streaming Content 

      Vlasenko, Anastasia (Master thesis, 2023-06-01)
      The decision behind choosing a recommender system that yields accurate recommendations yet allows users to explore more content has been a topic of research in the last decades. This work attempts to find a recommender ...
    • Multi-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of the fish-pathogenic bacterium Yersinia ruckeri by multiplex PCR and capillary electrophoresis 

      Gulla, Snorre; Mohammad, Saima; Colquhoun, Duncan John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-17)
      Yersinia ruckeri is an important pathogen of farmed salmonids worldwide, but simple tools suitable for epizootiological investigations (infection tracing, etc.) of this bacterium have been lacking. A Multi-Locus Variable-number ...
    • A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences 

      Kageyama, Masa; Sime, Louise C.; Sicard, Marie; Guarino, Maria-Vittoria; De Vernal, A; Stein, Ruediger; Schroeder, david; Malmierca-Vallet, Irene; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Bitz, Cecilia M.; Braconnot, Pascale; Brady, Esther C.; Cao, Jian; Chamberlain, Matthew; Feltham, Danny; Guo, Chuncheng; Legrande, Allegra N.; Lohmann, Gerrit; Meissner, Katrin; Menviel, Laurie; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; O'ishi, Ryouta; Ramos Buarque, Silvan; Salas y Mélia, David; Sherriff-Tadano, Sam; Stroeve, Julienne C.; Shi, Xiaoxu; Sun, Bo; Thomas, Robert; Volodin, Evgeny; Yeung, Nicholas K.H.; Zhang, Qiong; Zhang, Zhongshi; Zheng, Weipeng; Ziehn, Tilo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Last Interglacial period (LIG) is a period with increased summer insolation at high northern latitudes, which results in strong changes in the terrestrial and marine cryosphere. Understanding the mechanisms for this ...
    • Multi-national Gene Expression Profiling of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas. Biological Pathways Regardless of Differences Related to Life-style and Ethnicity 

      Lunde, Mai Lill Suhr (Doctoral thesis, 2012-02-02)
      Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a major health problem in many developing countries, representing more than 25% of all new cancer cases in some countries such as India and Sri Lanka. Cigarette smoking, smokeless ...
    • A multi-nuclide approach to constrain landscape evolution and past erosion rates in previously glaciated terrains 

      Knudsen, Mads Faurschou; Egholm, David Lundbek; Jacobsen, Bo Holm; Larsen, Nicolaj Krog; Jansen, John D.; Andersen, Jane Lund; Linge, Henriette (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10)
      Cosmogenic nuclides are typically used to either constrain an exposure age, a burial age, or an erosion rate. Constraining the landscape history and past erosion rates in previously glaciated terrains is, however, notoriously ...
    • Multi-omics and machine learning for the prevention and management of female reproductive health 

      Kharb, Simmi; Joshi, Anagha (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Females typically carry most of the burden of reproduction in mammals. In humans, this burden is exacerbated further, as the evolutionary advantage of a large and complex human brain came at a great cost of women’s ...