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AA 757 Hits Pentagon-VideoSubmitted by fireant on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 13:09
This copy was released in 2009 following FOIA requests for the original re-recordings used by the 9/11 Commission. It is higher resolution, clearer, and better quality, hence why you can see the airliner.
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no bodies?
What happened to the victims then? They are listed on CNN 911 memorial. Could they simply have made them up? No commercial plane crash and a bunch of bodies doesn't add up.
Good job, Buggo!
You have touched on yet another $10,000 question: If there wasn't a plane that crashed in PA or the Pentagon, what happened to the REAL people who were on those flights? The thing is, those flights were an every-day thing...Boston to LA, everyday...and they were full,everyday! But not on that day; due to a "computer glitch", the planes were at around 30% capacity! Also, I recall reading an article years ago about an airline pilot who makes a hobby of writing down tail numbers of planes at gates around him...I guess he tracks them to see how often he sees the same ones or something...I dunno...ANYWAY...3 or 4 years after 9/11 he wrote down a tail number in Cleveland or something that was the same plane that crashed into tower 2. Given the way planes receive their numbers, it's just not possible that he saw what he saw! SOOOOO...if the planes that crashed into the towers were NOT domestic airliners, and given the evidence that no plane crashed in Shanksville or the Pentagon, WHERE are the people who were on those flights? Were they quietly re-routed to an airbase in Maine and gassed in a hanger? I certainly don't have the answers, but I know we're being lied to.
Silence isn't always golden....sometimes it's yellow.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry
No grieving families and friends showed up at the airport
The passengers can't just have been unloaded in a hangar in Maine. Someone would at least have missed them.
According to CNN 12:17pm, only two grieving family members and friends had showed up at the airport. 3 of the 4 flights were bound for Los Angeles. From 1:33 here: http://archive.org/details/cnn200109111216-1258
Why not just make up the flight and have the crash REPORTED on live news? Same goes for the passengers - just make up something and fake it. That is even legal - fake news is protected free speech.
Have in mind that this victim part of the story is part of the basis for the War on Terror, etc, so expect fierce resistance from the 911 operation management and their agents on the street if you express doubt or dispute this part of the story.
I have read...
I have read that there were many other videos made showing whatever it was that hit the Pentagon. Why haven't they been released for us to see?
But what you have read is not substantiated.
It just may be a fact that this one is all there is. Read about The Maguire Declaration. It's fully sourced: http://www.911myths.com/index.php/FBI_hides_84_Pentagon_videos
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They are lying to you - they don't have anything. Or they haven't faked it yet.
My best guess mbennett is that
the same people that took such excellent videos of the planes hitting the twin towers (Mosad Agents) have crystal clear video of what hit the pentagon. Those videos are likely being used to blackmail our Government and is why we are Israels bitch. Bibi keeps demanding billions and turning Gaza into a killing field without the US saying a damn thing.
No other country on this planet could get away with all the crimes that Israel gets away with without our trigger happy, war mongering, indiscriminant drone killing, always looking to bomb someone MIC being ALL OVER them. The pictures and videos of the JDAM or Global Hawk UAV, or "whatever" it was that was flown into the pentagon and exploded are world changing pics and videos. I'd love to see them but they are probably only shown at parties when the criminals that run this country and the international criminal gangs that control the Gold, Oil, and Drugs (GOD) get together and laugh at the brainwashed American tax livestock they have created to pillage.
If Fireant isn't a CIA troll, I sure hope he knows that he is probably on the cover of the Global Elite Newsletter for being the most gulible tax slave of the year. They must have tears in their eyes from laughing so hard watching as fireant attacks his fellow man and the truth while the real culprits just sit back and take another sip of wine. Regardless of 9/11 fireant, you are on the wrong side of history. The war in Iraq was a lie. Why would you even begin to try and support the liars? I guess you also believe that bin laden was buried at sea too because we didn't want to upset Muslims.``Never mind that we use drones to kill innocent women and children that are Muslims...THAT shouldn't upset Muslims...its an dishonorable burial that REALLY gets Muslims upset. I hope you have not reproduced and are sterile.
Why the vitriol go213mph?
And how am I attacking my fellow man?
I am trying to present evidence the conspiracy sites never acknowledge. Isn't it necessary to consider all the evidence in order to find the truth? If you seek truth, why be so afraid of any evidence? Or is it because a "group think" has developed here on DP, and since I don't seem to conform, I am ostracized. I thought this was a Liberty site.
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Choir preaching.
I concur about Uncle Sam being Israel's bottom boy, but I think rather than engage in conjecture, we need to keep asking questions that make people think. Many people like to lean but hate to be taught. To say that another way, when we try to force unproven theories onto folks, most dig in their heels and reject all we say. If we ask questions such as why the other 20+ videos of the object that stuck the Pentagon have not been released or why the flight data recorders and cockpit (okay, flight deck for all you PC folks) voice recorders were not found but a paper passport belonging to one of the "hijackers" survived the conflagration, people will try to find an answer. Most people don't like to be stumped and want to appear knowledgeable. This tactic I believe will lead more people to the truth that the official government conspiracy is incorrect and then perhaps demand a true criminal investigation.
Fireant you are high, mentally ill, or both
THIS is your "Money Shot"? The plane supposedly vaporized after it hit the building...maybe it was starting to vaporize just prior to hitting it.
I have no idea why you are so convinced a plane hit the building. You act like the Government never tells lies. When someone is a chronic liar you don't give them the benefit of the doubt. You certainly wouldn't use a video image like this one as proof that for once the liars are not lying.
You seriously crack me up. lol!
I'm happy to be a source of your entertainment.
But I have to ask; just because I allow the evidence to speak, how do you manage to extrapolate from that I believe the government never lies? Have you even bothered to study the history of my posts here on DP?
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the most watched and
the most watched and protected building in the world and that is the best we get????
This guy gropes a woman at 3am on the Las Vegas strip and is caught on film...
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the friendly resident CIA disinformation operative.
Let me know when you locate the 2.3 trillion dollars that Rumsfeld announced missing on 9/10.
Oh yeah...those working to solve this crime were killed in the Pentagon attacks.
"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy."
― Ron Paul
Please provide a source for your statement:
"...those working to solve this crime were killed in the Pentagon attacks."
I see it repeated over and over, yet can find no authentication. I believe Naval Operations took the biggest hit.
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Want more details?
"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy."
― Ron Paul
There were a lot of Army budget analysts on the list; no question. Now, can we conclude from that they were working on accounting for some of the unaccounted $2.3T? Probably. Keeping in mind Rumsfeld was not talking about the money being stolen, only that it could not be accounted for, he was revealing the fact the defense dept was hindered with hundreds of different computer systems which did not talk to each other, which made budget reconciliation impossible. The task of reconciliation did not stop with 911, but continues to this day, and the majority of the money has now been accounted for.
Now consider this question. If this Army accounting office was a specific target due to missing trillions, why would Rummy announce it the day prior? Does that make any sense? Why even reveal it? Just eliminate the people who are "hot on the trail", and be done with it.
As an added note, if your source seeks to conclude the Army office was indeed targeted, it would be necessary to analyze budgetary staffing levels throughout the entire Pentagon in order to determine the odds of hitting an accounting office by random.
At present, there is not enough evidence to show any particular dept was targeted, or that it was a random strike for that matter.
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Even if it was a 757...we know that remote control was possible. I don't think the video is groungbreaking. But, even if it did show flight 77 - that doesn't solve the problem of a nearly impossible maneuver of an inexperienced pilot.
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."--Mark Twain
The 270 degree descending turn is evidence of visual approach.
Such a maneuver would not be planned with remote control. The aircraft arrived at the target at 6000 feet altitude, which may have been a mistake, thus the u-turn descent. The descent also shows difficulty in keeping the nose down, the mark of inexperience.
I agree it leaves open the question of how the pilot was trained on a 757, far different from the cockpit of a 737. Oddly, evidence which followed that trail was blocked by the Bush Administration.
Some of this is taken from a book by Pilot Phil Marshall, The Big Bamboozle.
edit: 757, not 767
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If the target was the other side of the Pentagon, then the u-turn would be necessary. Plus, you are looking at a supposed black-box simulation released by government sources.
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."--Mark Twain
You can't ignore the fact it reached target way too high.
It approached from the west and initiated the turn prior to reaching the Pentagon, but within visual sight. The impact was on the side of approach, not the other side.
According to airline captain Phillip Marshall, who studied the flight recorder and the radar track, they are in sync.
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I think we are saying the same thing. Either the hijackers missed their target on first approach, or the plan all along was to hit that specific side of the Pentagon. It just seems that if they were good enough pilots to pull off the turn and the level descent at high speeds, they could have done it from the West.
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."--Mark Twain
cjewson88 deletes all comments that disagree with his BS...
This is the best view yet...No way it's a 757
its only a 50 second clip...check it out
Just one little problem...
The angle of approach is perpendicular to the building. All evidence shows whatever hit the Pentagon went in at about 110 to 120 degree angle.
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I don't know...
I don't know what I am looking at in that video. It appears to be a video recording of a computer monitor displaying some video. Is the computer monitor video a cyber creation? Who filmed itand from what vantage point? Without knowing the origin of the clip, its value at proving anything is minimal.
The Pentagon Attack
What a Crock
of Shit. Men who have flown this aircraft for a living say there is no way humanly possible THEY could have executed such maneuvers as the alleged Muslim pilot accomplished. The guy with NO training who couldn't even get certified to fly a single engine Cessna fixed gear aircraft. Really? That guy?
Not to mention the flight recorder data (wink wink)released by the NTSB via FOIA demand, when analyzed by professionals, doesn't show the path of the airliner on the same heading as the gubment conspiracy theory would have us believe.
Nice Try.... slide back under your rock now. Then you can work on you divisive topic dujour for tomorrow.
www.pilotsfor911truth.com See what the pros say.
A friend of mine..
A friend of mine is a commercial airline pilot who is certified on all Boeing jetliners and several made by Airbus. He told me that there is no way he could have performed that 270 degree descent and he has been flying commercially for over 25 years and flown to most international airports around the world.
So what really happened?
Phillip Marshall said essential the same, but he was able to
perform the maneuver after several tries in a simulator. He has 20 years airline experience with captain ratings on 727, 737, 747, 757, and 767.
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Through this program, the Community Facility Program provides guarantees up to 90% of the amount of a loan from a private lender to a public or nonprofit entity to be used for the construction of an essential community facility. Many community borrowers in the Community Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program are able to leverage loan guarantees with funds from private, state and local sources.
The Community Facilities also has a Grant Program used to fund projects under special initiatives, such as Native American community development efforts; child care centers linked with the Federal government's Welfare-to-Work initiative; Federally-designated Enterprise and Champion Communities, and the Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative area.
In most cases, grantees are able to leverage Community Facility funds with private and state dollars to enable completion of more construction than might have otherwise been possible.
The Community Facility Programs provides funds to assist in the development of essential community facilities in rural areas and towns of up to 20,000 in population. Grants are authorized on a graduated scale. Applicants located in small communities with low populations and low incomes will receive a higher percentage of grants.
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|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Said H. Ahmed and Tor Flå: 'Estimation of Evolutionary Average Hydrophobicity Profile from a Family of Protein Sequences', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007) Volume 4774/2007, 158-165. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75286-8_16
2. Said H. Ahmed and Tor Flå: 'Evolutionary Parameters in Sequence Families : Cold adaptation of enzymes', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2009) Volume 5780/2009, 1-12. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04031-3_1
3. Tor Flå and Said H. Ahmed: 'Evolution of cold-adapted protein sequences', in Sequence and Genome analytics : methods and application II (ed. Gabriel Fung), Concept Press Ltd (2010), ISBN 9780-9807330-6-8
4. Said H. Ahmed and Tor Flå: 'Position dependent mean hydrophobicity and structural profiles' (unpublished paper)
|This thesis addresses two approaches for change detection from multipolarization, multilooked SAR images: a post-classification comparison and a direct change detection. We consider the complete workflow associated with performing post-classification change detection from time series of multipolarization SAR (PolSAR) images acquired with different imaging geometries and polarimetric configurations. The application is connected to monitoring of changes in Arctic glaciers. The images are corrected for terrain effects by thoroughly reducing topographic effects on both geolocation, radiometry and polarization signature. The matrix-variate U distribution is found to enable proper statistical representation of the variable texture in our data. An unsupervised contextual non-Gaussian clustering algorithm is employed for segmentation of the terrain corrected images. This algorithm has built in contextual smoothing by MRF modeling, and yields homogeneous segmentation, leading to robust change results. The clustered data is subsequently labeled into glacier zones with the aid of ground truth data. The consistency of the segmentation algorithm is also demonstrated by characterizing the expected random error level for SAR images under different imaging conditions. Finally, the classified images of succeeding years are compared, and temporal changes are identified in the location of boundaries between glacier zones. The thesis also proposes a novel method for direct unsupervised change detection from PolSAR data. We assume that the matrix variates follow the complex Wishart distribution, and the complex Hotelling-Lawley trace statistic is applied as a new test statistic for change detection. The sampling distribution of the test statistic is then approximated by a Fisher-Snedecon (FS) distribution. The proposed method is to match the population moments of the FS distribution with those of the HL statistic. The no change hypothesis of equal covariance matrices may then be rejected at a predefined significance level. The performance of the method is demonstrated with good results on simulated and real PolSAR data.
|Papers 2 and 3 of this thesis is not available in Munin:
2. V. Akbari, A. P. Doulgeris, and T. Eltoft: 'Monitoring Glacier Changes by Multitemporal Multipolarization SAR Images' (manuscript).
3. V. Akbari, S. N. Anfinsen, A. P. Doulgeris, and T. Eltoft, G. Moser, and S. B. Serpico: 'Change Detection for Polarimetric SAR Data with the Hotelling-Lawley Trace Statistic under the Complex Wishart Distribution' (manuscript)
|This thesis presents methods for statistical analysis of the probability distributions used to model multilook polarimetric radar images. The methods are based on a matrix-variate version of Mellin's integral transform. The proposed theoretical framework is referred to as Mellin kind statistics. It is an extension of a theory recently developed for single polarisation amplitude and intensity data to the complex matrix-variate case describing multilook polarimetric images. This generalisation is made possible by the rediscovery of a generalised Mellin transform, which is defined for functions of positive definite Hermitian matrices. The domain makes it suited for application to the distributions used to model the polarimetric covariance and coherency matrix. The analysis tools include the matrix-variate Mellin kind characteristic function, which is defined with the Mellin transform in place of the conventional Fourier transform. Matrix log-moments and matrix log-cumulants are retrieved from this function. The matrix log-cumulants are used in a moment based approach to parameter estimation of the distribution parameters. The estimators make efficient use of all the statistical information in the polarimetric covariance matrix, and are superior to all known alternatives. The matrix log-cumulants are also used to construct the first known goodness-of-fit test for matrix distributions based on the multilook polarimetric product model. The algorithms are interpreted by means of a highly informative graphical visualisation tool displaying a space spanned by certain matrix log-cumulants. It is demonstrated that the matrix-variate Mellin transform is the natural tool for analysing multilook polarimetric radar images. This conclusion is based on the simple and elegant mathematical expressions obtained, the superb statistical properties of developed estimators, as well as the intuitive interpretations offered by the Mellin kind statistics.
|Swath bathymetry, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and seismic data from the continental slope offshore the Lofoten Islands, northern Norway reveal smaller-scale mass movements in water depths between 1100 and 2500 m. These mass movements have volumes of 0.061 to 8.7 km3 and are interpreted as translational slides involving spreading and multi-phase retrogression. The spatial variation in failure style is inferred to have been caused by the activation of different glideplanes (12.5-130 mbsf) within the thicker and more mounded contouritic deposits in the north-east of the study area. Data from a sediment core show that the shallowest style of mass movement (12.5 mbsf), was initiated within contouritic sediments characterized by high sensitivities and water contents. This unit overlies a plumite interval characterized by dilative behavior with pore pressure decrease with increasing shear strain and high undrained shear strength. As such, it is the difference in geotechnical properties which indicates that the interface between these units acts as the basal glide plane, with deformation in the weaker overlying unit. The mass movements in the study area are inferred to have been triggered by undercutting and removal of support at the foot of the slope due to large-scale mass movements that have occurred immediately south of the study area, such as the Trænadjupet or Nyk slides. Furthermore, a network of 2D seismic data reveals the presence of several paleo-canyons. The data illustrate that canyon formation is more extensive then previously thought. These paleo-canyons are buried by an extensive contourite drift interpreted to be a continuation of the Lofoten Drift. The distribution of the drift indicates changes in the depth and strength of paleo-currents. Mass movements only occur in the upper part of the sequence, most likely after the onset of the Pleistocene.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Nicole J. Baeten, Jan Sverre Laberg, Matthias Forwick, Tore O. Vorren, Maarten Vanneste, Carl Fredrik Forsberg, Tore J. Kvalstad, Michael Ivanov: 'Morphology and origin of smaller-scale mass movements on the continental slope off northern Norway', Geomorphology(2013), vol.187:122-134, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.01.008
2. Nicole J. Baeten, Jan Sverre Laberg, Matthias Forwick, Tore O. Vorren, Maarten Vanneste, Carl Fredrik Forsberg, Tore J. Kvalstad, Haflidi Haflidason: 'Origin of shallow submarine mass movements and their glide plane - sedimentological and geotechnical analyses from the continental slope off northern Norway' (manuscript)
3. Nicole J. Baeten, Jan Sverre Laberg, Matthias Forwick, Tore O. Vorren, Maarten Vanneste, Carl Fredrik Forsberg: 'Neogene - Quaternary contourite-drift growth and mass-movement activity on the continental slope offshore Lofoten, northern Norway'(manuscript)
|The aim of this PhD thesis is to deliver improved quantitative reconstructions of sub-surface temperatures, salinities and seasonal sea ice distribution. Additionally, the natural variability of Atlantic water inflow and seasonal sea ice distribution and possible forcing mechanisms such as solar insolation, atmospheric circulation patterns (e.g. North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)) and atmosphere-sea ice-ocean interactions are investigated. This is achieved by analyzing planktic foraminifera (faunal assemblages and preservation indicators), transfer function derived SST records, stable isotopes (δ18O, δ13C), Mg/Ca ratios and sea ice and phytoplankton biomarkers (IP25; brassicasterol; 24-methylenecholesterol; PBIP25 index). This multi-proxy study shows the oceanic variability in the Norwegian and Barents Sea along the pathway of Atlantic water. For the western and northern Barents Sea, the Holocene paleoceanographic evolution is described and highlights the regional and proxy-specific responses to climatic forcing mechanisms such as solar insolation. Further, late Holocene observations of fluctuating climatic conditions in the Norwegian and Barents Sea are linked to shifting NAO conditions. Overall, this study contributes to the understanding of potential forcing mechanisms and aspects of ocean-sea ice-atmosphere dynamics, as part of the climate system. The integrated sub-surface water mass and sea ice records suggest that the interaction between Atlantic water and sea ice depends on additionally interfering factors such as insolation and the NAO. Hereby, a series of new high resolution multi-proxy records illustrate the complexity of the interacting elements of the climate system resulting in different possible natural scenarios of the environmental conditions.
|Papers number 2 and 3 of the thesis are not available in Munin:
2. Berben SMP, Husum K, Navarro-Rodriguez A, Belt ST and Aagaard-Sørensen S: 'Atlantic water inflow and sea ice distribution in the northern Barents Sea: A Holocene palaeoceanographic evolution' (manuscript).
3. Berben SMP, Husum K and Aagaard-Sørensen S: 'A late Holocene multi-proxy record from the northern Norwegian margin: temperature and salinity variability' (manuscript)
|The main objective of this PhD thesis was to reconstruct the pattern and main processes of the last deglaciation of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet. The thesis consists of an introductory part and five papers. The conclusions presented in the papers were based on data acquired with a suite of marine geophysical and geological methods, including multibeam-swath bathymetry data, chirp data, airgun and sparker seismic data and sediment (gravity) cores. Bathymetric data were used for identification and mapping of main geomorphic features on the seafloor. The distribution, geometry, reflection signature and seismic/acoustic stratigraphy of seabed sediments, were assessed based on chirp and seismic data. Sediment core analyses provided information about the depositional environment and age constraints for deglaciation. The primary focus was on two main study areas. The first area is Kveithola, a small submarine trough on the western margin of the continental shelf (NW of Bjørnøya). Results from Kveithola are presented in papers 1-2. In the first paper, the sedimentary environment in the trough from the time it was deglaciated before ~14.2 cal ka ago until the last sign of glacimarine sedimentation in the trough ~10.3 cal ka ago, is reconstructed. The second paper summarises both the complex retreat history of the Kveithola Ice Stream and the following glacimarine sedimentation in a conceptual model. The second study area was the central Barents Sea, which is addressed in papers 3-5. The third paper includes a map showing the distribution of large tunnel valleys on the seafloor, along with descriptions and discussions of their attributes, genesis and relevance for glacial history. The fourth paper focuses on the seafloor of upper Bjørnøyrenna, where a landform assemblage related to ice stream stagnation is presented and a new model of ice stream retreat in meltwater-dominated areas is introduced. In the final paper a new reconstruction of the deglaciation of the central Barents Sea is presented. The reconstruction includes main ice flow patterns, prolonged ice margin positions and glacial dynamics during the retreat of the ice sheet, based on both new and old data.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Rüther, D.C., Bjarnadóttir, L.R., Junttila, J., Husum, K., Rasmussen, T.L., Lucchi, R.G. and Andreassen, K.: 'Pattern and timing of the north-western Barents Sea Ice Sheet deglaciation and indications of episodic Holocene deposition', Boreas (2012), vol. 41(3):494-512. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00244.x
2. Bjarnadóttir, L.R., Rüther, D.C., Winsborrow, M.C.M. and Andreassen, K.: 'Grounding line dynamics of the Kveithola ice stream, W Barents Sea, as identified from seabed geomorphology and shallow seismic stratigraphy', Boreas (2013), vol. 42(1):84–107. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00273.x
3. Bjarnadóttir, L.R., Winsborrow, M.C.M. and Andreassen, K.: 'Tunnel valleys in the Barents Sea' (manuscript)
4. Andreassen, K., Winsborrow, M.C.M., Bjarnadóttir, L.R. and Rüther, D.C.: 'Landform assemblage from the collapse of the Bjørnøyrenna palaeo-ice stream, northern Barents Sea' (manuscript)
5. Bjarnadóttir, L.R., Winsborrow, M.C. and Andreassen, K.: 'Deglaciation of the central Barents Sea' (manuscript)
|Using a time-dependent numerical model that spans the chromosphere, corona and solar wind, abundance variations resulting from gravitational settling in the chromosphere and corona have been studied. \noindent Gravitational settling in the chromosphere may lead to a depletion in the abundances of minor elements in the solar wind relative to the photosphere. The observed overabundance (relative to the photosphere) of elements with a first ionization potential (FIP) lower than 10~eV in the solar wind, and the underabundance of high-FIP elements such as He and Ne is a long standing problem in solar physics. In Paper~I and Paper~II, we study the significance of the magnetic flux tube expansion factor on the abundances of high-FIP elements He, Ne and O in the solar wind. With a low expansion factor, of order 15-20, we can reproduce the observed fast solar wind He abundance, but a high expansion factor, of order 40-100, is required to reproduce the observed fast solar wind Ne abundance. \noindent In the corona, gravitational settling leads to local abundance enhancements. The magnitude and location of a coronal abundance enhancement depends on the minor element heating rate and the background plasma parameters. Observations of minor element abundances in the corona, in combination with modelling, may place constraints on the minor element heating rates, thereby providing new constraints for models and theories on coronal heating. \noindent In Paper~I it is shown that, for proton-electron plasma parameters in accordance with observations from polar coronal holes, a coronal He abundance enhancement will occur in the region 1.2 - 2~$R_\odot$, where no observations of the He abundance exist. It can only be avoided by strong heating of the He ions, which leads to very high outflow velocities for both He and protons in the corona. In Paper~II we show that such high outflow velocities in the corona causes O and Ne to be pushed far out of ionization equilibrium, and leads to ion fractions for O and Ne that are not in accordance with in-situ observations in the fast solar wind. The results from Paper~I and Paper~II suggest that He abundance enhancements are common in the region above 1.2~$R_\odot$. In Paper~II we also investigate minor element abundance enhancements in the corona in a H-He background, using O as an example. We find that for O temperatures and outflow velocities in accordance with observations from coronal holes, coronal O abundance enhancements will occur at heights above 1.3~$R_\odot$. \noindent In Paper~III we study Fe elemental abundance enhancements in the slow solar wind. The results are compared to the observations of \cite{Habbaletal2007}, who found evidence of coronal density enhancements of Fe$^{+10}$ and Fe$^{+12}$, particularly along streamer edges. We show that the observations of \cite{Habbaletal2007} are consistent with an Fe elemental abundance enhancement, but owing to existing uncertainties about the plasma conditions in the source regions of the slow solar wind we cannot place any strong constraints on the coronal Fe heating rate. However, by comparing the modeled Fe ion fractions with in-situ observations in the slow solar wind we find that a background model with coronal hole-like densities and a high outflow velocity in the corona provides the best fit to observations.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. H. S. Byhring: 'The helium abundance in polar coronal holes and the fast solar wind', The Astrophysical Journal (2011) 738:172 (7pp). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/738/2/172
2. H.S Byhring, R. Esser and Ø. Lie-Svendsen: 'O and Ne in a H-He fast solar wind', (accepted paper in The Astrophysical Journal).
3. H. S. Byhring, S. R. Cranmer, Ø. Lie-Svendsen, S. R. Habbal, and R. Esser: 'Modeling iron abdundance enhancements in the slow solar wind', The Astrophysical Journal (2011) 732:119 (12pp). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/2/119
|Type 2 diabetes is one of the greatest challenges that continues to grow because of the ageing population, increasing morbid obesity and sedentary lifestyles. Social media such as Facebook and YouTube have transformed the way people interact in general and on the Internet, but the role of social media in healthcare is still not well-understood. Current understanding of the association between user interaction patterns and health outcomes or behaviour change is still limited. In this dissertation I present a framework, based on social network analysis, to explore the nature of patient interactions in online communities. Results show that people with diabetes join online communities typically immediately following diagnosis, with over 80% of the patients having being diagnosed in under 2 years. The networks are very centralized with continually shrinking density and diameter as the the networks grow, and these results directly contrast with current evidence about non-healthcare social networks. Further, using machine learning techniques, I show that we can predict health outcomes such as weight loss performance based on how the patients interact online. The results have practical relevance for understanding the nature of patients interactions, as well as for designing personalized diabetes interventions based on emergent social technologies.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Chomutare T, Fernandez-Luque L, Årsand E, Hartvigsen G.: 'Features of mobile diabetes applications: Review of the literature and analysis of current applications against evidence-based guidelines', Journal of Medical Internet Research (2011), vol. 13(3);e65. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1874
2. Chomutare T, Årsand E, Fernandez-Luque L, Lauritzen J, Hartvigsen G.: 'Inferring community structure in healthcare forums: An empirical study', Methods of Information in Medicine (2013, vol. 52(2). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME12-02-0003
3. Chomutare T, Årsand E, Hartvigsen G.: 'Characterizing Development Patterns of Healthcare Social Networks', Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (2013), vol. 2(3):147-157. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13721-013-0033-y
4. Chomutare T, Årsand E, Hartvigsen G.: 'Temporal community structure patterns in diabetes social networks', International Conference ASONAM (2012), pp.745-75. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2012.137
5. Chomutare T, Tatara N, Årsand E, Hartvigsen G.: 'Designing a diabetes mobile application with social network support', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (2013), vol. 188:58-64.
6. Chomutare T, Xu A, Iyengar MS.: 'Social Network Analysis to Delineate Interaction Behaviour that Predicts Weight Loss Performance' (manuscript)
7. Chomutare T.: 'Collaborative Filtering with Community Structure Properties in Healthcare Social Networks' (manuscript)
|In Europe it is estimated that the number of elderly people aged above 65 will have doubled by 2060. In several chronic pulmonary diseases patients can suffer recurrent exacerbation episodes that can lead to severe breathing or death. In this thesis we explore the association of physical activity to lung health parameters, focusing on cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and a group of the general population. The main goals of the thesis were to assess the feasibility of classifying exacerbation episodes in cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and to implement new parameters in the context of a cohort study. We conducted four distinct studies involving in total over 250 subjects. We asked them to wear a set of accelerometers, including GT3X and RT3, recording physical activity for up to 14 days. The data was processed and several features extracted that were used as inputs in three different classification algorithms: logarithmic regression, neural networks and support vector machines. We achieved an area under the curve of 67% with logarithmic regression, 83% with neural networks and 90% with support vector machines when classifying exacerbation episodes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A neural network was achieved an accuracy of 85% distinguishing cystic fibrosis patients from healthy controls. We proposed, extracted and tested a large set of physical activity parameters for use in KORA-Age. The work on classification of exacerbations in COPD patients is, to our knowledge, the first attempt based on features from accelerometer data. Overall SVM showed to be the most robust classifier with an area under the curve of 90%. Nevertheless the number of patients and episodes is too low to draw definitive conclusions. The next step to classify exacerbations in COPD is to design a study with a statistically significant number of exacerbation episodes.
|Some papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
Paper 2. Dias, A.; Gorzelniak, L.; Jorres, R.; Fischer, R.; Hartvigsen, G.; Horsch,A.: 'Assessing Physical Activity in the daily life of cystic fibrosis patients', Journal of Pervasive Computing (2012), vol. 8(6):837–844. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.08.001
Paper 3. Gorzelniak, L.; Dias, A.; Schultz,K.; Wittmann, M.; Karrasch, S.; Jorres, R.; Horsch,A.: 'Comparison of recording positions of physical activity in severe COPD', Journal Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2012), vol. 9(5):528-537. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/15412555.2012.708066
Paper 4. Dias, A.; Gorzelniak, L.; Schultz,K.;Wittmann, M.; Rudnik, J.;Jorres, R.; Horsch,A.: 'Classification of exacerbation episodes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients' (manuscript)
Paper 5. Ortlieb, S.; Gorzelniak, L.; Dias,A.; Schulz, H.; Horsch,A.: 'Recommendations for Collecting and Processing Accelerometry Data in Older Healthy People' (manuscript)
Additional paper 1. Dias, A.; Gorzelniak, L.; Doring, A.; Hartvigsen, G.; Horsch, A.: 'Extracting Gait Parameters from Raw Data Accelerometers', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (2011), vol. 169:445-449.
Additional paper 2. Gorzelniak, L.; Dias, A.; Soyer, H.; Knoll, A.; Horsch, A.; 'Using a Robotic Arm to Assess the Variability of Motion Sensors', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (2011), vol. 169:897-901.
Additional paper 3. Chen, C.; Dias, A.; Knoll, A.; Horsch, A.: 'A Prototype of a Wireless Body Sensor Network for Healthcare Monitoring', Medical informatics in Europe (2011).
Additional paper 4. Skrovseth, S.; Dias, A.; Gorzelniak, L.; Godtliebsen, F.; Horsch, A.: 'Scale-space methods for live processing of sensor data', Medical informatics in Europe (2012).
Additional paper 7. Peters A, Döring A, Ladwig KH, Meisinger C, Linkohr B, Autenrieth C, Baumeister SE, Behr J, Bergner A, Bickel H, Bidlingmaier M, Dias A, Emeny RT, Fischer B, Grill E, Gorzelniak L, Hänsch H, Heidbreder S, Heier M, Horsch A, Huber D, Huber RM, Jörres RA, Kääb S, Karrasch S, Kirchberger I, Klug G, Kranz B, Kuch B, Lacruz ME, Lang O, Mielck A, Nowak D, Perz S, Schneider A, Schulz H, Müller M, Seidl H, Strobl R, Thorand B, Wende R, Weidenhammer W, Zimmermann AK, Wichmann HE, Holle R.: 'Multimorbidity and successful aging: the populationbased KORA-Age study', Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (2011), vol. 44(2):41-54. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00391-011-0245-7
|Benthic foraminifera (micro-organism living on the sea-floor) were studied in the southwestern Barents Sea and Hammerfest harbor. The study focused on the response of the micro-organisms to natural and man made environmental changes. The study shows that the southwestern Barents sea is relatively clean, and the foraminifera are only impacted by natural changes. However, in the Hammerfest harbor, pollution had severe impact on the organisms. Understanding the response of the foraminifera to different types of environmental changes can be used to develop a bio-monitoring tool. Such a bio-monitoring tool based on foraminifera helps to register environment deterioration rapidly. Because of the expected increase in industrial activities in the Arctic, and consequently the potential for increased industrial discharges into the marine environment, such a bio-monitoring tool is expected to be important for the region.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Dijkstra, N., Junttila, J., Carroll, J., Husum, K., and Hald, M.: 'The impact of contaminants and grain size on benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the harbor of Hammerfest, northern Norway', (manuscript)
2. Dijkstra, N., Junttila, J., Carroll, J., Husum, K., Elvebakk, G., Godtliebsen, F., and Hald, M.: 'Baseline benthic foraminiferal assemblages and habitat conditions in a sub-Arctic region of increasing petroleum development', Marine Environmental Research (2013), vol. 92:178–196. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.09.014
3. Dijkstra, N., Junttila, J., Husum, K., Carroll, J., and Hald, M.: 'Natural variability of benthic foraminiferal assemblages and metal concentrations during the last 150 yrs. in the Ingøydjupet trough, SW Barents Sea', (manuscript)
4. Junttila, J., Carroll, J., Husum, K., and Dijkstra, N.: 'Sediment transport and deposition in the Ingøydjupet trough, SW Barents Sea', (manuscript)
5. Schönfeld, J., Alve, E., Geslin, E., Jorissen, F., Korsun, S., Spezzaferri, S., and Members of the FOBIMO group: 'The FOBIMO (Foraminiferal Bio-Monitoring) initiative – Towards a standardized protocol for soft-bottom benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies', Marine Micropaleontology (2012), vol. 94-95:1-13. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.06.001
|This thesis describes general methods to analyse polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images, with the primary application of unsupervised image segmentation. The fundamental physics of electromagnetic scattering from distributed targets leads to the image phenomenon called speckle. Speckle is shown to be potentially non-Gaussian and several statistical distributions are investigated. Non-Gaussianity and polarimetry both hold pertinent information about the target medium and methods that utilise both attributes are developed. Two approaches are proposed: a local feature extraction method; and a model-based clustering algorithm. The local feature extraction approach creates a new six-dimensional description of the image by extending standard polarimetric features with a non-Gaussianity measure. Importantly, the non-Gaussianity measure is model independent and therefore does not unduly constrain the analysis. This may be used for subsequent image analysis or for physical parameter extraction, and unsupervised image segmentation is demonstrated with good results. The model-based approach describes a Bayesian clustering algorithm for the K-Wishart model and incorporates both non-Gaussianity and polarimetry. The initial implementation required several key parameters to be given in advance. When compared to the more common Wishart model, the K-Wishart gives similar results for Gaussian image regions, but performs better for non-Gaussian regions. Further development of the model-based method resulted in a novel technique to automatically determine the number of distinct classes supported by the data, given the model and a statistical confidence level. All relevant parameters are subsequently estimated within the algorithm and no special initialisation is required. These are significant advances from existing methods, where key parameters are predetermined and the number of classes are found after many full clustering results are obtained. The methods are general and apply to all coherent imaging systems that exhibit product model based statistics. The methods are demonstrated on several real radar images and with different numbers of polarimetric channels.
|Paper number 2 of the thesis is not available in Munin due to publisher's restrictions:
Anthony P. Doulgeris, Stian Normann Anfinsen and Torbjørn Eltoft: 'Classification With a Non-Gaussian Model for PolSAR Data', IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing (2008), vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 2999-3009 Available at http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1109/TGRS.2008.923025
|The main objective of this thesis is to improve the knowledge on the depositional and environmental development of Svalbard during the Permian (299–252 Ma), with a primary focus on the Early to Late Permian Kapp Starostin Formation (Tempelfjorden Group). Thirteen localities of Permian sedimentary strata were investigated with respect to their sedimentological and geochemical properties. Sediments from this period reflect mostly marine deposition on a broad epicontinental shelf at the northern margin of the supercontinent Pangea. Sedimentary facies reveal distinct changes in depositional environment, from marginal/restricted marine settings in a warm and dry climate, to a temperate to cold-water, open-marine shelf. The latter is characterized by cool-water biota including brachiopods, echinoderms, bryozoans and siliceous sponges. These sedimentological shifts are related to a number of controlling factors including changes in palaeolatitude, ocean circulation and upwelling, global climate, and sea level changes. A sequence stratigraphic analysis reveals several orders of relative sea level fluctuations that can be traced within the sediments across the basin, which are likely controlled by a combination of eustasy and local shelf subsidence. By the latest Permian (at the top of the Kapp Starostin Formation), an abrupt loss of biota reflects the End-Permian mass extinction. Geochemical pyrite and stable carbon isotope analyses reveal a gradual onset of marine bottom water oxygen restriction that coincides with the stepwise decrease in biodiversity in the latest Permian.
|Papers 2-5 of the thesis are not available in Munin:
2. Blomeier, D., Dustira, A.M., Forke, H., Scheibner, C.: 'Facies analysis and depositional environments of a storm-dominated, temperate to cold, mixed siliceous–carbonate ramp: the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation in NE Svalbard', (manuscipt).
3. Dustira, A.M., Blomeier, D., Collins, D., Goode, T., Groen, R.D.: 'Sequence stratigraphic arrangement and sea-level curve for the Early to Late Permian Kapp Starostin Formation of Svalbard, Norway', (manuscript).
4. Dustira, A.M., Vihtakari, M., Greenacre, M., Blomeier, D.: 'Distinguishing Permian chert facies from Svalbard, Norway on the basis of geochemical criteria', (manuscript).
5. Dustira, A.M., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M., Blomeier, D., Hartkopf-Froder, C., Bond, D.P.G.: 'Gradual onset of anoxia across the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Svalbard, Norway', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2013), vol.374:303–313. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.02.004
|Norwegian fjords have a great potential for providing high-resolution sedimentary records that reflect local terrestrial and marine processes and therefore, fjords offer unique opportunities for the investigation of sedimentological and geochemical climatically induced processes. However, the complexity of fjord systems in terms of bathymetry and oceanography requires a profound knowledge of the fjord environmental setting before starting to interpret past climatic signals in Holocene sediment sequences. For this reason we first provide a comprehensive overview of the Trondheimsfjord environmental system by applying a multiproxy analysis on sixty surface sediments samples and compare our findings with available geochemical data from the fjords drainage area. Next we use the achieved knowledge to identify possible organic and inorganic geochemical climate proxies for changes in paleoproductivity and terrestrial run-off. Evidence for their consistency is provided by comparing a geochemical record of fifty years with instrumental data of temperature, precipitation, and river discharge in the Trondheimsfjord region as well as the NAO. Finally, a NAO reconstruction from past changes in paleoproductivity in the Trondheimsfjord is presented for the last 2,800 years.
|Virkninga av å ha et bølgedempende overflatemateriale i ei havoverflate er studert, med særlig vekt på betydninga av strålingstrykket (-stresset) eller bølgetrykket fra et innfallende, udempet bølgefelt. Det er et teoretisk studium av den dynamiske prosess som foregår når udempede overflatebølger propagerer inn i et område med bølgedempende overflatesjikt, i lys av det bølgetrykk bølgene øver på dette sjiktet. En hydrodynamisk modell som beskriver prosessen er utviklet. Perturbasjonsteori og ikke-lineær analyse er anvendt for å løse de grunnleggende bevaringsligningene for moment (Navier-Stokes' ligninger) og masse, innenfor en væskebeskrivelse hvor man "følger med i" bevegelsen til de enkelte væskepartikler (Lagrange-beskrivelse) - til forskjell fra den mer vanlige feltbeskrivelse av væskebevegelse (Euler-beskrivelse). Modellen er anvendt på to typer overflatemateriale: i) Mono-molekylær oljefilm, hvor tangentialstresset i filmen er viktig, og ii) et overflatelag av is-sørpe, hvor den økte viskositeten er avgjørende. En del dynamiske implikasjoner er utledet ved hjelp av analytiske beregninger: I tilfellet oljefilm vil det oppstå et midlere tangentielt overflatestress i filmen, og det er vist at dette kan uttrykkes ved en formel som er meget lett å interpretere fysisk. For is-sørpe viser beregningene at det vil oppstå sirkulasjon i sørpa, noe som også er påvist eksperimentelt av andre tidligere. Omfattende og tidkrevende analytiske beregninger har vært nødvendig. Det viste seg etter hvert at de svært uoversiktlige uttrykk som inngår, lar seg skrive på en meget kompakt og symmetrisk form som gjør framstillinga "lesbar". Resultatene er videre forenlige med resultater fra mye enklere og intuitive modeller, noe som bekrefter gyldigheten av de enkle modellene. Dette er viktig med tanke på anvendelser.
|The thesis enlightens how the choice of context as well as the approach to mathematics is important in introducing the concepts of angles. The analyses indicate that students should not be introduced to measuring angles before they are able to sort out angles according to their sizes. Angles can be introduced by use of the students' bodies in a climbing context, where the word angle refers to bent shape. Climbing is an activity which to a large extent is experienced as exciting and fun. The idea is to base the teaching on the students' talk about climbing. The teacher's job is to guide the students to build up their understanding of angles as a tool for improved climbing technique. The students' use of drawing and text in describing and explaining angles in a climbing context is analysed. These analyses indicate that the teaching should point out differences between narrative and analytical text and drawing and then the students' analytical drawings can function as basis for their further work with geometry. The thesis focuses on students' mathematising of climbing and on how the participating teachers relate to this activity. The analyses indicate that the teachers need some experience with inductive teaching of mathematics in some practical context before they are able to grasp the value of their students' mathematising. Thus two DVDs are made. The first one shows how inductive physical geometry activities can function as basis for written and oral tasks in mathematics. The second DVD shows how students can mathematise climbing with respect to angles, and how experiences from one climbing situation can function as basis for adapting the teaching of angles to the students' different levels of understanding.
|DVD 1, which is part of the thesis introduction, is not made available in Munin due to restrictions in the Personal Data Act.
|The focus of this thesis is the analysis of both regular and irregular lattice data, described in three papers. Paper I presents an extension of the pyramid algorithm for efficient Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform coefficient calculation. As opposed to common usage of two-dimensional wavelet decomposition, it here also allows for different scales in the vertical and horizontal direction. Wavelet variances are investigated for scale-dependent analysis of spatial patterns. A practical geoscience application with Synthetic Aperture Radar images of sea ice illustrates its potential. In Paper II wavelet variances are used to develop a novel test for isotropy of random fields. Isotropy is frequently assumed in spatial modeling. It requires the covariance or variogram function of a stationary or intrinsically stationary spatial process to depend only on the distance between two locations, independent of direction. In a simulation study, the presented test for isotropy is applied to realizations of various isotropic and anisotropic Gaussian random fields. Its performance is superior compared to existing methods, both on the general applicability and the consistent rejection rate close to the nominal level for isotropic fields, while the power for anisotropic fields is comparable to or better than other methods. An example connected to the manufacturing of paper also demonstrates practical applicability of the wavelet-based isotropy test. In Paper III microbiology test results of influenza A disease counts in North Norway are modeled to study the pattern of disease spread. The focus is to link the disease incidence to movement networks, with human travel patterns described by actual traffic data or a power law approach. Models with fixed, seasonal and random effects are used and extended with various covariates. An additional analysis is performed by grouping the data into adults and non-adults. All models are compared by one-step-ahead predictions using proper scoring rules.
|The papers of this thesis are not available in Munin:
1. Geilhufe, M., Percival, D. B. and Stern, H. L.: 'Two-dimensional wavelet variance estimation with application to sea ice SAR images', Computers & Geosciences (2013), vol. 54:351-360, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2012.11.020
2. Thon K., Geilhufe, M. and Percival, D. B.: 'A multiscale wavelet-based test for isotropy of random fields on a regular lattice' (manuscript)
3. Geilhufe, M., Held, L., Skrøvseth, S. O., Simonsen, G. S. and Godtliebsen, F.: 'Power law approximations of movement network data for modeling infectious disease spread' (manuscript)
|The unique properties of antimicrobial peptides have attracted the attention of chemists since the 1970's. This class of compounds provides additional tools in the treatment of infections and the work described in this thesis was therefore focused on the synthesis of short peptidomimetics on the basis of modified amino acids and evaluation of their antimicrobial activity. The compounds of choice were β-aminoboronic acid derivatives with different substitution patterns and this work describes the development of a synthetic approach to the synthesis of this class of compounds. The skeleton of a β-amino acid was built using a step-wise approach utilizing the Matteson homologation. New chiral centers were obtained with high levels of diastereoselectivity provided by the use of chiral directors with particular configurations. The variety of β-aminoboronates was provided not only by different substituents in positions α- and β- to boron, but also by the opposite configurations of these chiral centers. As their configuration was dependent on the chiral directors used, several attempts to obtain all possible stereoisomers were undertaken. Derivatives of β-aminoboronic acid were coupled with different amino acids (both natural and non-natural) and the library of (~70) short peptidoids was characterized and tested on the set of microorganisms (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans). High activity of the synthesized compounds against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (H37Rv) induced additional investigations on a set of resistant strains of this pathogen. Lead compounds has shown activity against all resistant strains tested. Investigation of the affinity of our compounds to secreted and internal chorismate mutase showed the absence of binding and led to the exlusion of this mechanism of inhibition from consideration. Antifungal activity (including resistant strains) was detected in one of the molecules synthesized. The low levels of toxicity of the lead compounds are very encouraging with regard to the prospects for developing drugs based on these compounds.
|Papers 2, 3 and 4 of this thesis are not available in Munin:
2. Alexey S. Gorovoy, Olga V. Gozhina, John Sigurd Svendsen, Anna A. Domorad, George V. Tetz, Victor V. Tetz and Tore Lejon: 'Boron containing peptidomimetics : a novel class of selective anti-tubercular drugs' (manuscript)
3. Alexey S. Gorovoy, Tore Lejon, Anton Liaimer: 'β-Aminoboronate based peptidomimetic as potential antifungal agent' (manuscript)
4. Alexey S. Gorovoy, Olga Gozhina, John-Sigurd Svendsen, George V. Tetz, Anna Domorad, Victor V. Tetz and Tore Lejon: ''Syntheses and anti-tubercular activity of β-substituted and α,β-disubstituted β-aminoboronates and boronic' acids' (manuscript).
|Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a special group of small amphipathic peptides (which hold both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions) composed of different amino acids and produced by all living organisms as a part of innate immunity. With the increasing microbial resistance to traditional antibiotics the need for unconventional therapeutic has become crucial. This thesis deals with the design and synthesis of a library of α-aminoboronic di- and tri- peptides and investigation of their biological activity against different bacteria strains, fungi and kinases in order to discover compounds that can further be developed into drugs. Preliminary results have provided a broad spectrum of data regarding structure-activity relationship of synthesized peptides and several new potential therapeutics have been discovered.
|Papers 1, 2, 4 and 5 are not available in Munin:
1. Olga V. Gozhina, Ivar K. Thomassen and Tore Lejon: 'Ultrasound promoted dimerization of benzylic halides' (accepted manuscript in Synthetic Communications).
2. Alexey S. Gorovoy, Olga V. Gozhina, John Sigurd Svendsen, Anna A. Domorad, George V. Tetz, Victor V. Tetz and Tore Lejon: 'Boron containing peptidomimetics – a novel class of selective anti-tubercular drugs', (accepted manuscript in Chemical Biology & Drug Design).
4. Alexey S. Gorovoy, Olga V. Gozhina, John Sigurd Svendsen, George V. Tetz, Anna A. Domorad, Victor V. Tetz and Tore Lejon: 'Synthesis and anti-tubercular activity of β-substituted and α,β-disubstituted β-aminoboronates and boronic acids' (manuscript).
5. Olga V. Gozhina, John Sigurd Svendsen and Tore Lejon: 'Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of α-aminoboronic containing peptidomimetics' (manuscript)
|This thesis aimed at enhancing our understanding of the oceanographic variability of the Nordic Seas during the last 11,000 years. The Nordic Seas are a key area within the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a process which helps to maintain the present mild climate of northwestern Europe through its meridional heat transport and plays an important role in global heat distribution. Sediment cores from key locations within the Nordic Seas were retrieved and analyzed for their microfossils content in order to reconstruct the water mass characteristics. The results of this thesis show that the inflow of warm Atlantic Water has occurred continuously throughout the last 11,000 years in the western Barents Sea. The strength of the inflow has however been variable. High –resolution records covering the last 3000 years document the temperature variability of Atlantic Water and show that the recent warming stands as unprecedented over this time period. Further, changing modes of deep water convection are implied for the last century.
|Paper 2 and 3 of this thesis are not available in Munin:
2. Diane E. Groot, Morten Hald, Lindsay J. Wilson, Katrine Husum, Steffen Aagaard-Sørensen, Fred Godtliebsen, Gaute R. Salomonsen: 'Late Holocene temperature variability of Atlantic Water from the northern Norwegian continental margin' (manuscript).
3: Diane E. Groot, Morten Hald, Steffen Aagaard-Sørensen, Katrine Husum: 'Deep water mass evolution of the last two millennia in the eastern Fram Strait, Polar North Atlantic' (manuscript).
|We know that the visible Aurora Borealis is structured on many different scales, down to a few tens of metres. By using the EISCAT radars on Svalbard as an interferometer, we have found structures in the radio echoes from the auroral ionosphere on a scale approaching that of the visible aurora, and simultaneously with it, but at far greater ranges. In this thesis we discuss how these radar observations were made, what they imply for theoretical explanations, as well as a new framework for the design and implementation of software-defined radar and other radio science instrumentation, in particular the signal processing which made these observations possible.
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SIL International Media Release
UNESCO and SIL Initiate a Joint Effort to Promote Multilingualism in Cyberspace
DALLAS, TX (January 24, 2003) Representatives from UNESCO and SIL initiated plans for a joint project to promote multilingualism on the web during meetings held January 20-22, 2003. "It's really great to see the enthusiasm of the SIL team here. With partners like you we can go a long way toward achieving these goals," said Paul G. C. Hector, UNESCO Information Society Division member.
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One of the key topics considered during the meetings was the utilization of an SIL-produced software known as Graphite, a program designed to enable computers to display complex non-Roman scripts. "Almost everyday we receive requests for tools to manage minority languages on the computer, so we are very excited to talk with SIL about their Graphite system," stated Davide Storti, UNESCO Information Society Division member. The agreement between SIL and UNESCO contains seven objectives including use of the Graphite software. These include plans that SIL will develop ways to enable software applications to input and display complex script data and will provide basic documentation of Graphite to help software developers incorporate Graphite into other software. SIL will also modify a web browser to enable it to display content in complex scripts.
"We were encouraged to learn last year of UNESCO'S desire to promote multilingualism in cyberspace. Their concern overlaps a great deal with SIL's efforts to facilitate the use of non-Roman and complex scripts in linguistic study, literacy, translation and publishing," says, Dr. Paul S. Frank, Vice President for Academic Affairs for SIL. "UNESCO and SIL share a common concern in finding technical solutions for hundreds of minority languages that have complex writing systems and thus are left out of the cyber-connected world," he stated.


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Welcome. This is the personal blog of Cane Prevost. The blog will be my place on the web to write down my thoughts on teaching and learning the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Who am I?
I'm a high school teacher, father, and BJJ coach. I live in Portland Oregon and train at Straight Blast Gym.
What's this blog for?
This blog will be my place on the web to talk about my experiences in coaching BJJ. I'll post my new experiences and lessons learned as I continue to evolve as both coach and student. Essentially this will be my training and coaching diary. I plan to blog my way through our entire 20 week BJJ curriculum.
Where am I?
I live in Portland Oregon and coach at Straight Blast Gym. I also teach at The Center for Advanced Learning.
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I hope you'll transfer your old content over? Some really great stuff I will be sad to lose…
Glad to find you at your new home on the interwebs. I look forward to more great stuff. Cheers.
from sweden.
im not training in a sbgi affiliate school,but i have found your instructionals very helpful and more importantly easy to understand.
great work,and looking forward to more solid fundamentals.
I just wanted to leave a comment and say that your blog is great.
Thanks for keeping the blog alive, Cane. Really good content in your previous site.
great blog SBGi Rulez!!!
Hi, I came across your site and wasn't able to get an email address to contact you. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. We are happy to offer you a 10% discount to our Online Store if you do so. Please email me back and I would be happy to give you our link.
Love the new site already! Looking forward to seeing more. I'm considering the same transition. I've had the .com for almost a year, but haven't had the courage to make the jump. Any advice?
Hi Cane, firstly I have followed your blog for quite some time, even at the old site! Just thought I'd say keep up the great work and I look forward to your next post!
Kind Regards
P.S. I often recommend my students check out your site too, particularly my trainee coaches!
Cane are you going to cover passing guard?
Open guard
Cane, awesome stuff – just finished the Mediocre BJJ Student blog and sifted through the Philosophical rants. Would it be alright to interview you about your blog on my blog? Hopefully it would get more readers. I've done some recent blogs about "BJJ nerd" sites (with Georgette, the guys from Jiu Jitsu Labs, etc…)
Be well and keep writing up a storm here.
Cane – great job, just found your website. Thanks, Rob
Hi Sensei Cane. I am from HK and tried your class in Portland before. I will stay in Portland on 1/12-13. Will you have class on these2 days?
Hi Cane,
Glad I found your website very straight forward and detailed.
My question is how do you get off people's grips/resistance when I am trying to apply the technique it seems a bit frustrating when I am learning the technique and yet does not necessarily work when rolling live especially with guys twice my size. Can you give me some tips and insights on how to grip fight? Thanks I would really appreciate it.


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Two French aid workers have been abducted in central Afghanistan.Action Against Hunger (ACF), a Paris-based organisation, said that the pair were taken in the early hours of Friday morning as they slept in a guest house in the town of Nili, in Day Kundi province.
"According to ACF knowledge, the two expatriates are alive," a statement said.The group condemned the abduction saying that it affected the integrity of humanitarian organisations and threatened assistance to civilians.
The two aid workers were allegedly seized after men overpowered security guards, ACF said.
"Some gunmen trussed [up] the ACF guards in front of the guesthouse and then went into the house. They kidnapped the two expatriates present in the house at that time, and ran away with several vehicles," it said.
Sultan Ali Uruzgani, the governor of Day Kundi, said: "The two aid workers working for Action Against Hunger were kidnapped by the enemies of Afghan government."
ACF said it was doing its utmost "to [secure] their release as rapidly as possible and in the best conditions".
A crisis group has been set up in Kabul and Paris to help win their release, ACF said.
Paris mobilisation
The French foreign ministry said in a statement that it was "mobilising, in Paris as well as Kabul, to obtain their release as quickly as possible".
It said that the "targeting of humanitarian personnel is totally unacceptable" while promising "discretion" in its efforts to free the duo.
France has 1,600 troops serving in a Nato-led force in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban and is planning to deploy more troops in the coming months.
ACF, who set up its first office in Afghanistan in 1979, from where it has conducted a series of operations since 1995, said it has suspended all its relief operations in the country following the incident.
The abduction comes after the kidnapping in May of a French businessman, who was released last month after weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations.
Last year, two French humanitarian workers for the Terre D'Enfance (A World For Our Children) relief group were released, several weeks after their abduction amid much speculation that a ransom had been paid.
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