This article discusses the linguistic make-up of business writing in late medieval / early modern Norway and addresses questions of language choice and language mixing. The most important foreign language was Low German, ...

The aim of this study has been to highlight the complexity of a linguistic community which has undergone two language shifts in less than one century. The different social actors are given a voice in this multiple environments. ...

One is sitting in one’s office, contemplating the snowy fields outside, when an email drops into your inbox inquiring if you would be willing to write a squib for a festschrift for Kyle. ‘Of course!’ one thinks. Such ...

Butanol (n-butanol) has been gaining attention as a renewable energy carrier and an alternative biofuel with superior properties to the most widely used ethanol. We performed 48 anaerobic fermentations simultaneously with ...

Patron-client relations were a ubiquitous feature of cultural and academic life under the state socialist social order, as were networks crisscrossing the borderlines between the domains of political power and scholarship. ...

Norway is one of the biggest fish exporters in the world, and the fish industry is the second biggest economy of the country after oil and natural gas. As fish industries expand rapidly, the resulting fish-oil refining ...

In the Northeast Atlantic deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) trawl fishery, the bycatch of juvenile fish and shrimp represents a problem. This study evaluated if inserting a 200 mm mesh size top-panel in the last three ...