• ‘Lab on a Chip’ systems for environmental analysis 

      Rhituparna Payel, Paul (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-08-13)
      ‘Lab on a chip’ refers to devices and methods for controlling and manipulating fluid flows at micro levels. These microfluidic devices used for manipulating and controlling fluids are widespread now, and are used in many ...
    • Large Eddy Simulation of buoyant plumes 

      Pappas Zountouridis, Konstantinos (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)
      Industrial and environmental safety relies on understanding and evaluating risks and failures on the individual processes and operations. Simulating hazardous fluid flows with the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) ...
    • Leptogenesis in crossing and runaway regimes. 

      Hohenegger, Andreas; Kartavtsev, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)
      We study the impact of effective thermal masses and widths on resonant leptogenesis. We identify two distinct possibilities which we refer to as ‘crossing’ and ‘runaway’ regimes. In the runaway regime the mass difference ...
    • Ligand activation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor 2 (AhR2) from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) 

      Liknes, Unni (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)
      Petroleum products are the major and most widespread class of contaminants in the marine environment. Anthropogenic sources are heavy contributors, like discharges of industrial and urban effluents, shipping, offshore oil ...
    • Lil3 assembles with proteins regulating chlorophyll synthesis in barley 

      Mork-Jansson, Astrid; Bue, Ann Kristin; Gargano, Daniela; Furnes, Clemens; Reisinger, Veronika; Arnold, Janine; Kmiec, Karol; Eichacker, Lutz Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06)
      The light-harvesting-like (LIL) proteins are a family of membrane proteins that share a chlorophyll a/b-binding motif with the major light-harvesting antenna proteins of oxygenic photoautotrophs. LIL proteins have been ...
    • Limitations of the Revised DREAM Model 

      Breivik, Stian (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)
      DREAM (Dose-related Risk and Exposure Assessment Model) is a risk assessment tool for modeling offshore waste discharge to the marine environment. The drilling waste model was developed through the joint industrial project ...
    • Matkvalitet på norske brunalger, med fokus på butare (Alaria esculenta) og sukkertare (Saccharina latissima) 

      Jordbrekk Blikra, Marthe (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      I denne masteroppgaven ble Alaria esculenta (butare) og Saccharina latissima (sukkertare) undersøkt for overordnet kvalitet, med vekt på mikrobiologi, farge og tekstur. Algene ble dyrket og høstet på Værlandet-Bulandet ...
    • Mechanisms of TRP-channel mediated dopaminergic degeneration in C. elegans 

      Popovitchenko, Tatiana (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-16)
      One of the most common manifestations of dopaminergic degeneration in humans is in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Although dopaminergic degeneration affects a significant portion of the aging population, the pathways and ...
    • Metabolic Assessment of Metformin Treatment in Colon Cancer Cells 

      Alhourani, Abdelnour (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-01)
      Resistance against traditional chemotherapy is a challenge in the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). The use of metformin, a commonly prescribed biguanide anti-diabetic drug, has shown to correlate with cancer preventive ...
    • Metabolic assessment of metformin treatment in the colon cancer cell line SW1116. 

      Bokil, Ansooya (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-02)
      Cancers have different metabolic profiles, with varying dependency on glycolysis and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). The metabolic profile of cancer influences it sensitivity to treatments. Metformin, an ...
    • Metabolic phenotype of leukemia cells as a determinant factor for the response to metformin in different glucose conditions 

      Szwedo, Aleksandra (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKBM/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-15)
      Cancer cells are known to have highly dysregulated metabolic pathways and altered mitochondria which governs their limited capability of adaptation to nutritional growth conditions. Metabolic flexibility can be reduced by ...
    • Methods for determining the activity of nitrifying bacteria in wastewater samples 

      Raoeliaritiana, Jany Olivia (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      The present study investigated the feasibility of nitrification in wastewater and the community structure of nitrifying bacteria at two different temperatures, 10 and 25°C. The experiment was conducted in sequencing batch ...
    • Microbiology of Lava Tube Skylights on Earth: Implications for Astrobiology 

      Kommedal, Eirik Garpestad (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-03-15)
      Microbial life is abundant in Earth’s subsurface and is extremely diverse. Subsurface habitats on extraterrestrial bodies offer microorganisms protection from hostile surface conditions. Lava tube caves are widespread on ...
    • microRNAs as prognosticators in breast cancer 

      Kafle, Sagar (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)
      Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. It is the leading cause of death due to cancer among women in the western world. With the increase in incidence of breast cancer and mostly the lymph node negative breast cancer, ...
    • Microwave-Assisted One-Pot Synthesis of Novel Polyarylpyrrole Derivatives of Expected Anticancer Activity 

      Younis, Ahmed; Hassan, Ali M; Mady, Mohamed Fawzy; El-Haddad, AF; FA, Yassin; Fayad, Mahmoud (Journal article, 2017)
      An efficient synthesis of Novel pyrrolederivatives was achieved via solventless reaction of chalcones 1(a-e) with different aldehydes 2(a-e) and ammonium acetate in the presence of sodium cyanide in one-pot under microwave ...
    • Mikrobiell og sensorisk holdbarhet på fiskekaker og pesto tilsatt sukkertare (Saccharina latissima) og butare (Alaria esculenta) 

      Bjørvik, Tanya Sivertsen (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)
      I denne masteroppgaven ble det utført analyse av Sukkertare (Saccharina latissima) og butare (Alaria esculenta) med det formål å studere holdbarhet av matprodukt tilsatt tare. Tare er blitt benyttet i mange sammenhenger ...
    • Mimicking orchids lure bees from afar with exaggerated ultraviolet signals 

      Scaccabarozzi, Daniela; Lunau, Klaus; Guzzetti, Lorenzo; Cozzolino, Salvatore; Dyer, Adrian G.; Tommasi, Nicola; Biella, Paolo; Galimberti, Andrea; Labra, Massimo; Bruni, Ilaria; Pattarini, Giorgio; Brundrett, Mark; Gagliano, Monica (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01)
      Flowers have many traits to appeal to pollinators, including ultraviolet (UV) absorbing markings, which are well-known for attracting bees at close proximity (e.g., <1 m). While striking UV signals have been thought to ...
    • Model based optimization of biogas production at SNJ plant 

      Popov, Jovan (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)
      The main purpose of this thesis is the acquisition of knowledge and familiarization with the SNJ biogas plant and effects of codigestion. Plant operation and performance was monitored in order to understand and evaluate ...
    • A modelling study of environmental fate and effects of oil leakage from abandoned wells 

      Pham, Hanh Thi Hong (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKBM/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06-15)
      Potential environmental consequences of oil leakages are taken into consideration in the ongoing development of plug and abandonment (P&A) activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The P&A on the NCS has been ...
    • Molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells from pancreatic cancer patients by single-cell quantitative reverse transcription PCR 

      Kilibarda, Marija (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-16)
      Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal disease, which kills approximately 70 000 people per year in Europe alone. The median survival after the time of diagnosis is five to six months for patients with advanced cancer, making ...