• Blind search for post-translational modifications and amino acid substitutions using peptide mass fingerprints from two proteases 

      Barsnes, Harald; Mikalsen, Svein-Ole; Eidhammer, Ingvar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-12-19)
      Background: Mass spectrometric analysis of peptides is an essential part of protein identification and characterization, the latter meaning the identification of modifications and amino acid substitutions. There are two ...
    • Blind-prediction: estimating the consequences of vented hydrogen deflagrations for inhomogeneous mixtures in 20-foot ISO containers 

      Skjold, Trygve; Hisken, Helene; Bernard, Laurence; Mauri, Lorenzo; Atanga, Gordon; Lakshmipathy, Sunil; Lucas, Melodia; Carcassi, Marco; al., et (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)
      This paper summarises the results from a blind-prediction benchmark study for models used for estimating the consequences of vented hydrogen deflagrations, as well as for users of such models. The work was part of the HySEA ...
    • The BLLAST field experiment: Boundary-Layer late afternoon and sunset turbulence 

      Lothon, Marie; Louhou, Fabienne; Pino, David; Couvreux, Fleur; Pardyjak, Erik; Reuder, Joachim; Vilà-Guerau De Arellano, Jordi; Durand, Pierre; Hartogensis, Oscar K.; Legain, Dominique; Augustin, Patrick V.; Gioli, Beniamino; Lenschow, Donald H.; Faloona, Ian C.; Yagüe, Carlos; Alexander, Daniel C.; Angevine, Wayne M.; Bargain, Erwan; Barrié, Joël; Bazile, Eric; Bezombes, Yannick; Blay-Carreras, Estel; Van De Boer, Anneke; Boichard, Jean Luc; Bourdon, Anne; Butet, Alain; Campistron, Bernard A.; De Coster, Olivier; Cuxart, Joan; Dabas, Alain M.; Darbieu, Clara; Deboudt, Karine; Delbarre, Hervé; Derrien, Solène; Flament, Pascal; Fourmentin, Marc; Garai, Anirban; Gibert, Fabien; Graf, Alexander T.; Gröbner, Julian; Guichard, Françoise; Jiménez, Mantonia Antonia; Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Van Den Kroonenberg, Aline C.; Magliulo, Vincenzo; Martin, Sabrina; Martinez, Daniel; Mastrorillo, Laurence; Moene, Arnold F.; Molinos, Francisco Lendinez; Moulin, Emilie; Pietersen, Henk P.; Piguet, Bruno; Pique, Eric; Román-Cascón, Carlos; Rufin-Soler, Caroline; Saïd, Frédérique; Sastre-Marugán, Mariano; Seity, Yann; Steeneveld, Gert Jan; Toscano, Piero; Traullé, Olivier; Tzanos, Diane; Wacker, Stefan; Wildmann, Norman; Zaldei, Alessandro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-16)
      Due to the major role of the sun in heating the earth's surface, the atmospheric planetary boundary layer over land is inherently marked by a diurnal cycle. The afternoon transition, the period of the day that connects the ...
    • Block preconditioners for mixed-dimensional discretization of flow in fractured porous media 

      Budisa, Ana; Hu, Xiaozhe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In this paper, we are interested in an efficient numerical method for the mixed-dimensional approach to modeling single-phase flow in fractured porous media. The model introduces fractures and their intersections as ...
    • Block-Diagonal and LT Codes for Distributed Computing with Straggling Servers 

      Severinson, Albin; Graell i Amat, Alexandre; Rosnes, Eirik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03)
      We propose two coded schemes for the distributed computing problem of multiplying a matrix by a set of vectors. The first scheme is based on partitioning the matrix into submatrices and applying maximum distance separable ...
    • Blockchain as a Technology to Facilitate Privacy and Better Health Record Management 

      Gebremedhin, Tsigab Angosom (Master thesis, 2018-09-01)
      Fear of stigmatization and discrimination from colleagues, friends and family drives patients with various type of mental health problems away from a traditional face-to-face therapy and enforces them to look for an ...
    • BlockDiploma – Decentralizing the Norwegian Diploma Registry using Blockchain Technology 

      Reite, Thomas Mårstøl (Master thesis, 2020-06-03)
      Academic diplomas are being falsified and potentially resulting in unqualified individuals getting the job, or a better candidate being bypassed by a forger. Secure and reliable verification mechanisms for academic diplomas ...
    • BLOKKHAV PÅ FJELLTOPPER PÅ YTRE SUNNMØRE OG LANGS INDRE ROMSDALSFJORDEN 

      Vestre, Judith Margrete (Master thesis, 2022-03-07)
      Åtte blokkhavsdekkede topper på ytre Sunnmøre og langs indre Romsdalsfjorden viser varierende overflatekarakteristikk og en stor spredning i 10Be-aldre. Aldrene strekker seg fra 15 ± 1 ka til 151 ± 2 ka, uten noen tydelige ...
    • Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: The Optical Signal of Shallow In-Cloud Discharges 

      Li, Dongshuai; Luque, Alejandro; Gordillo-Vázquez, F.J.; Liu, Feifan; Lu, Gaopeng; Neubert, Torsten; Chanrion, Olivier; Zhu, Baoyou; Østgaard, Nikolai; Reglero, Víctor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Narrow Bipolar Events (NBEs) are powerful radio emissions from thunderstorms, which have been recently associated with blue optical flashes on cloud tops and attributed to extensive streamer electrical discharges named ...
    • Blue mussels in western Norway have vanished where in reach of crawling predators 

      Meister, Nadja; Langbehn, Tom; Varpe, Øystein; Jørgensen, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) are declining around the world. In western Norway, they have widely disappeared from rocky shores but still thrive on floating structures. Other refugia are cracks in rocks, exposed sites, and ...
    • A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program 

      Howell, Kerry L.; Hilário, Ana; Allcock, A. Louise; Bailey, David M; Baker, Maria; Clark, Malcolm R.; Colaço, Ana; Copley, Jon; Cordes, Erik; Danovaro, Roberto; Dissanayake, Awantha; Escobar, Elva; Esquete, Patricia; Gallagher, Austin J; Gates, Andrew R.; Gaudron, Sylvie M.; German, Christopher R.; Gjerde, Kristina M; Higgs, Nicholas D.; Le Bris, Nadine; Levin, Lisa A.; Manea, Elisabetta; McClain, Craig; Menot, Lenaick; Mestre, Nélia C.; Metaxas, Anna; Milligan, Rosanna J; Muthumbi, Agnes WN; Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E.; Ramalho, Sofia P.; Ramirez-Llodra, Eva; Robson, Laura M; Rogers, Alex D.; Sellanes, Javier; Sigwart, Julia D.; Sink, Kerry; Snelgrove, Paul V. R.; Stefanoudis, Paris V.; Sumida, Paulo Y.; Taylor, Michelle L.; Thurber, Andrew R.; Vieira, Rui P; Watanabe, Hiromi K.; Woodall, Lucy C.; Xavier, Joana R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The ocean plays a crucial role in the functioning of the Earth System and in the provision of vital goods and services. The United Nations (UN) declared 2021–2030 as the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. ...
    • Body size adaptions under climate change: Zooplankton community more important than temperature or food abundance in model of a zooplanktivorous fish 

      Ljungström, Anna Jeja Gabriella; Claireaux, Marion; Fiksen, Øyvind; Jørgensen, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      One of the most well-studied biogeographic patterns is increasing body size with latitude, and recent body size declines in marine and terrestrial organisms have received growing attention. Spatial and temporal variation ...
    • Body-snatcher from the deep? The effect of the parasitic copepod, Sarcotretes scopeli (Jungersen, 1911), on its mesopelagic fish host. 

      Andersen, Øivind (Master thesis, 2022-06-30)
      Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837) is one of the most abundant fish species found globally. The species plays an important role in the food-web of marine ecosystems, as a link between the trophic levels. In west Norwegian ...
    • BonMOLière: Small-Sized Libraries of Readily Purchasable Compounds, Optimized to Produce Genuine Hits in Biological Screens across the Protein Space 

      Mathai, Neann Sarah; Kirchmair, Johannes; Stork, Conrad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Experimental screening of large sets of compounds against macromolecular targets is a key strategy to identify novel bioactivities. However, large-scale screening requires substantial experimental resources and is ...
    • Bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions 

      Maitner, Brian S.; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Telford, Richard James; Strydom, Tanya; Chacon, Julia; Lamanna, Christine; Sloat, Lindsey L.; Kerkhoff, Andrew J.; Messier, Julie; Rasmussen, Nick; Pomati, Francesco; Merz, Ewa; Vandvik, Vigdis; Enquist, Brian J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      1. Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their moments (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) ...
    • Bottom melting of Arctic Sea Ice in the Nansen Basin due to Atlantic Water influence 

      Muilwijk, Morven Korneel (Master thesis, 2016-05-24)
      The hydrographic situation for a region north of Svalbard is investigated using observations from the Norwegian Young Sea Ice Cruise (N-ICE2015). Observations from January to June 2015 are compared to historical observations ...
    • Boundary-value problems and shoaling analysis for the BBM equation 

      Senthilkumar, Amutha (Master thesis, 2012-02-20)
      In this thesis we study the BBM equation u_t+u_x+ \frac{3}{2}uu_x - \frac{1}{6} u_{xxt}= 0 which describes approximately the two-dimensional propagation of surface waves in a uniform horizontal channel containing an ...
    • Bounds on the nonlinearity of differentially uniform functions by means of their image set size, and on their distance to affine functions 

      Carlet, Claude Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We revisit and take a closer look at a (not so well known) result of a 2017 paper, showing that the differential uniformity of any vectorial function is bounded from below by an expression depending on the size of its image ...
    • Boussinesq modeling of the influence of wave energy converters on nearshore circulation 

      Jacobsen, Andreas Bondehagen (Master thesis, 2023-06-01)
      In Chapter 4 it was found that particle transport is much more sensitive to waves originating in the infra-gravity (IG) band. These are waves which typically have much smaller amplitudes than the typical waves seen on the ...
    • Brachiopod and mollusc biomineralisation is a conserved process that was lost in the phoronid–bryozoan stem lineage 

      Vikberg Wernström, Joel; Gasiorowski, Ludwik; Hejnol, Andreas Helmut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-19)
      Background: Brachiopods and molluscs are lophotrochozoans with hard external shells which are often believed to have evolved convergently. While palaeontological data indicate that both groups are descended from biomineralising ...