1 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, 2 Fram Centre, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, 3 Fram Centre, Akvaplan-Niva, Tromsø, Norway, 4 Department of Marine Sciences Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad, Sweden, 5 Department of Arctic Biology, University Centre on Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, 6 Department of Global Chan...

During May 1988 a 1230-m ice thickness profile was drilled across a floe in Fram Strait. The probability density function of this data set corresponds closely to extensive ice draft measurements from submarines and the thickness distribution of floes sampled randomly in the area. The observed similarity is attributed to the topography of the pack ice in Fram Strait where each floe is composed o...

Let W be a dictionary consisting of n binary strings of length m each, represented as a trie. The usual d-query asks if there exists a string in W within Hamming distance d of a given binary query string q. We present an algorithm to determine if there is a member in W within edit distance d of a given query string q of length m. The method takes time O(dm d+1) in the RAM model, independent of ...

State-of-the-art 3-D volume visualization and systematic approach of analysing gathers, 2-D and 3-D seismic and well data help in achieving better success ratio in the upstream sector of petroleum industry. Thorough 3-D volume visualization is impossible without the establishment of Virtual Reality Centres which need to be equipped with (i) multi-processors, (ii) good amount of RAM (iii) High s...

Effects of Dorset, Finnsheep, Romanov, Texel, and Montadale breeds for performance as sires were estimated in the initial phase of a comprehensive evaluation of these breeds as contributors to sheep crossbreeding systems. Objectives were to evaluate the effects of ram breed, ewe breed, season of mating, and two-way interactions. Rams from the five breeds were single-sire-mated with ewes from tw...

Background Although several studies confirmed positive effects of fish oil on semen quality, the antioxidant status in omega-3 supplemented diets of several studies is a fuzzy point. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of dietary fish oil and (or) vitamin E supplementation on cryopreserved sperm in Mehraban rams. MaterialsAndMethods Sixteen fertile rams were randomly allotted to...