scholarship time: Torgeir, Alf Inge, Alexander, Aleksander, and Jinghai.
lar: The Lunch Bunch, Sobah, Reidar, Carl-Fredrik, Elisabeth, Erlend, Pauline,
Herindrasana, Terje, Roxana, Lasse, Staal, Herman, Anne, Norun, Berit, B°
tianne.
nior Researcher Lawrence Cavedon (Stanford, USA), Associate Professor Zakaria
Maamar (Zayed, UAE), Assistant Professor Anthony Scime (SUNY Brockport,
USA), Managing Editor Helen Zhang (Zhejiang, China) and Research Scientist
Steven Willmott (Catalunya, Spain) for allowing me to participate in the inter-
national research community by being a reviewer for journals, conferences and
workshops. I would like to thank Associate Professor Ruck Thawonmas (Rit-
sumeikan, Japan) and his research team for finding interest in Zereal.
Jørgen, Jørund, Kari, K°
and to our daughter Anneli for just being herself. I would especially like to thank
my father Halvard, my mother Inger and my brother Gisle for all the support.
thank already!