scholarly journals Jusshjelpa i Nord Norge – a Legal Advice Clinic in Northern Norway

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Lancelot Robson ◽  
Christian Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
Northern Norway ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
The World ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
The Law

<p>The area covered by the Clinic must be one of the largest and most remote in the world. It covers the whole of northern Norway from Bodo in the south to Kirkenes near the Russian border, and includes the “counties” of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. All of it lies within the Arctic Circle, which brings special challenges from the climate and thinly spread population. The permanent base is in Tromso, in offices behind the port loaned from Tromso University. From there student volunteers travel to visit most communes in the area, including Norwegian Lapland. Volunteers attempt to visit clients in each major commune at least twice a year, (cases came from 78 communes in 2003), either upon request, or by advertising a clinic session in the local commune building. Sessions in 28 major communes outside Tromso were held in 2003.</p><p><br />The clinic is one of five similar clinics covering the whole of Norway, all founded upon operational and management principles pioneered by law students at Oslo University in the early 1970s. The Oslo JussBuss (literally the “law bus”) has passed into Norwegian legal legend.</p>

Amplified Piano

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-140
Author(s):  
You Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Escapement Mechanism ◽  
Keyboard Instrument

The introduction of electronic amplification to the piano, which began as an innocent bluff by a teenage composer living in the Arctic Circle, had a devastating consequence for Tudor’s virtuosity on the keyboard instrument: it dissolved his control of escapement mechanism, opening up instead the world of feedback where a sound once activated could potentially never end. A detailed examination of Tudor’s idiosyncratic realization of John Cage’s Variations II in 1962 shows what previous scholars, as well as the composer himself, have failed to see: the specific nature of the amplified piano that was altogether a different instrument from the piano. What the new instrument presented was not simply more complexity and indeterminacy but a specific kind of complexity and indeterminacy which is reflected in how Tudor actually performed the music.

Great Soviet Atlas of the World. Moscow, 1937

Polar Record ◽  
1939 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 91-91
Author(s):  
F.D.
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Usual Convention ◽  
Ice Drift ◽  
The World ◽  
Severnaya Zemlya

This Atlas is of interest to polar travellers since Soviet territory covers such a large section of the Arctic regions. We accordingly find that nearly every map of the territory goes well into the Arctic Circle. The two special pages of circumpolar maps are well printed and follow the usual convention for showing routes of expeditions. Insets on the Arctic sheet give a valuable map of Severnaya Zemlya with relief and soundings; there are also insets of parts of Novaya Zemlya, while weather charts and ice-drift charts complete the page.

Donat Pharand: The Arctic Scholar

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 3-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Lalonde ◽  
Ronald St. J. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Key Events

SummaryThe Arctic, long neglected, has been thrust into the limelight as climate change dramatically transforms its landscape. The ice, which for centuries has acted as a powerful barrier keeping the world at bay, is melting at an alarming rate. The promise of greater accessibility to the region inevitably raises a host of important issues. Donat Pharand, an internationally renowned scholar, has dedicated his long and illustrious career to researching and understanding the legal issues pertaining to Canada's claim over the waters of the Arctic archipelago. This article chronicles the key events in his life and examines Pharand's profound contribution to the law of the sea of the Arctic.

Hibernation, habitat and seasonal activity in the adder, Vipera berus, north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Activity Period ◽  
Peat Bogs ◽  
Seasonal Activity ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
Vipera Berus ◽  
Pregnant Females ◽  
The World

AbstractThis study concerns five of the northernmost adder, Vipera berus, localities in the world that are situated in the basins of Tornio, Lainio and Vittangi rivers, between 300 and 450 m.a.sl. The study area lies approximately 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. Three different kinds of slopes were used as hibernation sites, slopes on moraine ridges, slopes in canyons and on mountains. All were characterized by stony south facing slopes without topsoil and shading trees. Open areas of peat bogs and marshlands were always found within a kilometre's distance from the hibernation sites. Except pregnant females that remained around the hibernation sites, the adders were found feeding on voles in these areas from mid-June to mid-August showing a distinct shift in habitat use between seasons. The total length of the activity period was found to be 17-18 weeks.

‘Take it from the top’: northern conceptions about identity in the western Arctic and beyond

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Student Researchers

ABSTRACTDuring the last decades the Arctic has become more central on the world stage. However, despite increased interest how much do people really know about ‘the north’ and the ‘northern people’? The aim of this article is to chronicle a research project by students, who saw themselves as northerners, that used video to capture northerners’ definitions of the north, as well as asking the community about what they wanted newcomers and southern Canada to know about the north. The group also embarked on a new discipline of northerners studying ‘the south’. 43 students interviewed 95 people in the Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories and 25 people in Edmonton, Alberta. The student researchers’ responses and that of their interviewees are some of the most direct messages on how northerners view their identity and that of their fellow southern Canadians. This project created a video tool to share, educate, and commence a dialogue between people about the north straight from the source.

The 1977 Protocols: a landmark in the development of international humanitarian law

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (320) ◽  
pp. 483-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Kosirnik
Keyword(s):  
Initial Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Law ◽  
East West

By adopting on 8 June 1977 the two Protocols additional to the 1949 Conventions, the States meeting in Geneva brought to a successful conclusion four years of arduous negotiations. The Protocols took four years, the Conventions only four months. Why such a huge difference?In 1949, once the initial period of instinctive rejection of anything related to war had passed, a natural consensus emerged regarding the main evils which needed to be banned by law. Besides, the delicate subject of the rules governing the conduct of hostilities — the law of The Hague, as it is called, also part of humanitarian law — was left out of the discussions. It was also a time when the political map of the world was fairly monolithic, in the sense that the North still dominated the South, and East-West tensions had not yet escalated.

scholarly journals Signatures of Molecular Unification and Progressive Oxidation Unfold in Dissolved Organic Matter of the Ob-Irtysh River System along Its Path to the Arctic Ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. Perminova ◽  
E. A. Shirshin ◽  
A. Zherebker ◽  
I. I. Pipko ◽  
S. P. Pugach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
High Resolution Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
River System ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Molecular Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Irtysh River

AbstractThe Ob-Irtysh River system is the seventh-longest one in the world. Unlike the other Great Siberian rivers, it is only slightly impacted by the continuous permafrost in its low flow. Instead, it drains the Great Vasyugan mire, which is the world largest swamp, and receives huge load of the Irtysh waters which drain the populated lowlands of the East Siberian Plain. The central challenge of this paper is to understand the processes responsible for molecular transformations of natural organic matter (NOM) in the Ob-Irtysh river system along the South-North transect. For solving this task, the NOM was isolated from the water samples collected along the 3,000 km transect using solid-phase extraction. The NOM samples were further analyzed using high resolution mass spectrometry and optical spectroscopy. The obtained results have shown a distinct trend both in molecular composition and diversity of the NOM along the South-North transect: the largest diversity was observed in the Southern “swamp-wetland” stations. The samples were dominated with humic and lignin-like components, and enriched with aminosugars. After the Irtysh confluence, the molecular nature of NOM has changed drastically: it became much more oxidized and enriched with heterocyclic N-containing compounds. These molecular features are very different from the aliphatics-rich permafrost NOM. They witnesses much more conservative nature of the NOM discharged into the Arctic by the Ob-Irtysh river system. In general, drastic reduction in molecular diversity was observed in the northern stations located in the lower Ob flow.

On top of the world. communications inside the Arctic Circle

IEE Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Adrin J. Morant
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
The World

The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Van den Bossche ◽  
Werner Zdouc
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Multilateral Trading System ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law

Since the publication of its first edition, this textbook has been the prime choice of teachers and students alike, due to its clear and detailed explanation of the basic principles of the multilateral trading system and the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The fifth edition continues to explore the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. It has been updated to incorporate all new developments in the WTO's ever-growing body of case law. Moreover, each chapter includes a 'Further Readings' section to encourage and facilitate research and discussion on the topics addressed. As in previous editions, each chapter also features a summary to reinforce learning. Questions, assignments, and exercises on WTO law and policy are contained in an online supplement, updated regularly. This textbook is an essential tool for all WTO law students and will also serve as a practitioner's introductory guide to the WTO.

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