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(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
The present report is concerned with the evolution of boundary layers during runup of solitary waves on a beach in a wave tank of depth 0.2m. It comprises both theory and high resolution PIV measurements of velocity profiles. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Cone-in-cone (CIC) and beef (BF) carbonate lenses ornament detachment zone faults underlying Triassic growth basins on Edgeøya. Field relationships place CIC and BF growth as during early diagenesis and a transition from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This review “diagnoses” climate change as an international governance challenge and explores the political feasibility of alternative “cures.” Human activities’ growing effect on Earth's climate system is extremely ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Land and atmospheric initial conditions of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model are often interpolated from a different model output. We perform case studies during NASA's SEAC4RS and DISCOVER-AQ Houston airborne ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Social functioning and reading proficiency are critical for success in school and society. Therefore, identifying children with such problems is important. This study had 2 parts: first, a random sample of 234 elementary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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Involuntary care and coercive measures are frequently present in mental healthcare for adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent adolescents perceive or experience ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This chapter is about sixteen-year-old Bahar (pseudonym) who grew up in Afghanistan and moved with her family to Norway at the beginning of her teens. Bahar is transnational in the sense that she has “moved bodily across ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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The research of biomarker-treatment interactions is commonly investigated in randomized clinical trials (RCT) for improving medicine precision. The hierarchical interaction constraint states that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In Norwegian, unlike English, negative interrogatives are commonly used as requests for action. In addition, the negation adverb ikke can be placed either before or after a pronominal subject. The study explores pragmatic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
The competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) and the sigX-inducing peptide (XIP) are known to induce Streptococcus mutans competence for genetic transformation. For both pheromones, direct identification of the native peptides ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Background: Recent studies claim that weight-neutral approaches emphasizing physical activity might be as effective as weight-loss-centered approaches for improving pain and physical function in patients with knee and hip ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In recent years, governing regimes in education that emphasize ‘data’ and ‘evidence’ as a basis for decision making, performance management and accountability have been introduced in several countries, including the Nordic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Currently, the issue of inequality is one of the most pressing concerns in education and educational research. Factor such as increased socio-economic inequality, movement of people across national boundaries, and refugees, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article takes a new approach to the comprehensive study of an entire national Twittersphere. It identifies, to the extent that this is possible with the data made available through Twitter’s Application Programming ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The Grassmannian Gr(2,5) is embedded in ℙ9 via the Pl\"ucker embedding. The intersection of two general PGL(10)-translates of Gr(2,5) is a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X, and the intersection of the projective duals of the two ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
From 2017 the Norwegian teacher education in primary and lower secondary school will be a five-year master education. UiT - The Norwegian Arctic University started a master education already in 2010. The main differences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
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Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are in general prone to weight loss. We explored the risk of inadequate gestational weight gain (GWG), and the impact of GWG on adverse pregnancy outcomes, among ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We investigate initiation and evolution of sheath folds developing in multilayer sequences around slip surfaces in simple shear. The slip surface is initially circular and oriented at 135° to the shearing direction. The ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The literature on social media use in risk and crisis communication is growing fast, and it is time to take stock before looking forward. A review of 200 empirical studies in the area shows how the literature is indeed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I present an analysis of the interpretation of anaphora that takes concepts from type-theoretic semantics, in particular the use of the Sigma and Pi dependent type constructors, and incorporates them into a model-theoretic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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Musculoskeletal pain is a major cause of work disability. Many patients with musculoskeletal pain seek care from health care providers other than their general practitioners, including a range ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This paper describes experiences of sexuality stigma among same-sex attracted men in Zimbabwe and analyses the consequences of such experiences for healthcare seeking. It draws on qualitative research carried out in Harare ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Objective: Studies point to white matter (WM) microstructure alterations in both adolescent and adult patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). These include reduced fractional anisotropy in several WM fiber tracts, suggesting ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Elite Indian fashion designers consciously attempt to abstract the essence of Indianness from India’s numerous and geographically multiply localized crafts, turning their designs into a montage of exquisite handwork ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
For injury deaths, the underlying cause of death is defined as the circumstances leading to the injury. When this information is missing, the ICD-10 code X59 (Exposure to unspecified factor) is ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2013)
We consider a class of Hilbert-space valued SDE’s where the drift coefficients are non- Lipschitzian in the sense of Hölder-continuity. Using a novel technique based on Malliavin calculus we show in this paper the existence ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
An unidentified white substance was observed on the exterior parts of the southern side of Hopperstad Stave Church, located in Vik in Sogn and Fjordane (Norway). One of the 28 remaining stave churches in the country, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
I den norske stortingsmeldingen «Fag – Fordypning – Forståelse. En fornyelse av Kunnskapsløftet» er «bærekraftig utvikling» ett av tre tverrfaglige temaer som skal gi retning til fornyelse av skolefagene. Sammenlignet med ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to various methods of assessing the beat-to-beat variation in the heart over time, in order to draw inference on the outflow of the autonomic nervous system. Easy access to measuring HRV ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
The term coarticulation designates the fusion of small-scale events, such as single sounds and single sound-producing actions, into larger units of combined sound and body motion, resulting in qualitative new features at ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Seasonal variations in environmental exposures at birth or during gestation are associated with numerous adult traits and health outcomes later in life. Whether DNA methylation (DNAm) plays a ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Elementary Social Behaviour Assessment (ESBA), a teacher-report measure of students’ social skills and academic engagement adapted for use in Norwegian schools. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Chemical models must correctly calculate the ozone formation rate, P(O3), to accurately predict ozone levels and to test mitigation strategies. However, air quality models can have large uncertainties in P(O3) calculations, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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The number of patients with long-term chronic diseases is increasing. These patients place a strain on health care systems and health care professionals (HCPs). Presently, we aimed to systematically review the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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Well- and dedifferentiated liposarcoma (WD/DDLPS) are rare mesenchymal malignant tumors that account for 20% of all sarcomas in adults. The WD form is a low-grade malignancy with a favourable prognosis which may ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Selective markers employed in classical mutagenesis methods using natural genetic transformation can affect gene expression, risk phenotypic effects, and accumulate as unwanted genes during successive mutagenesis cycles. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
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Increased vascularity is a crucial event in the tumor progression and has prognostic significance in various cancers. However, the ultimate role of angiogenesis in the pathogenesis and clinical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
The current article provides a critical overview of the CJEU’s role as the main ‘architect’ of the relationship between the EU legal order and the international legal order. The activities of the CJEU are assessed in light ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
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Multigenic diseases are often associated with protein complexes or interactions involved in the same pathway. We wanted to estimate to what extent this is true given a consolidated protein ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In the northeast of Kazakhstan more than 110 above ground nuclear explosions were carried out between 1949 and 1963. After the moratorium on atmospheric nuclear tests, underground nuclear testing was continued until 1989. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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European countries are increasingly adopting systems of self –care support (SMS) for long term conditions which focus on enhancing individual, competencies, skills, behaviour and lifestyle ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Children with Down syndrome (DS) have an increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Although previous studies have shown that DS-ALL differs clinically and genetically from non-DS-ALL, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Immigrants have higher risks for some adverse obstetric outcomes. Furthermore, refugees are reported to be the most vulnerable group. This study compared obstetric outcomes between immigrant ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
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Preterm-born children are at increased risk of adverse developmental outcomes, and their parents may experience increased stress levels. The Mother–Infant Transaction Program (MITP) is an early ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
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The neocortex is a highly specialised and complex brain structure, involved in numerous tasks, ranging from processing and interpretation of somatosensory information, to control of motor functions. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Newborn infants with respiratory failure are often treated with intubation and mechanical ventilation for prolonged periods of time. Our objective was to evaluate whether increasing use of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) has been implicated in oncogenesis and progression of adenocarcinomas of the pancreatic head. The data on the prognostic importance of COX expression ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Open drug scenes are gatherings of drug users who publicly consume and deal drugs. The authors conducted a study of five European cities that have met such scenes constructively. The aim was to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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The frequency of Taenia solium, a zoonotic helminth, is increasing in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is also high. However, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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Day care services offer meaningful activities, a safe environment for attendees and respite for family caregivers while being expected to delay the need for nursing home (NH) admission. However, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The first of two Sentinel-2 satellites, launched mid-2015, has similar characteristics as the Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI satellites. Together, these satellites will produce a tremendous quantity of optical images worldwide for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Misperceptions regarding maternal health outcomes after vaginal delivery (VD) and cesarean delivery (CD) may contribute to the increasing trend towards CD. The effects of mode of delivery on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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The reproducibility of measurements on radiographs is influenced by the techniques by which the images as well as the measurements are obtained. Thus, bias resulting from errors in the image ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Chromatin remodeling is crucial for proper programing of developmental gene expression. Recent work provides a dynamic view of post-translational histone modifications during differentiation; ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Prescription drug sales may vary considerably across regions and over time. This study aimed to assess whether there is an association between mean drug sales and prevalence of excessive use in ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Introduction
Mammographic density (MD) is a strong biomarker of breast cancer risk. MD increases after women start estrogen plus progestin therapy (EPT) and decreases after women quit EPT. A large ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Research suggests an inverse association between parental rules and screen time in pre-adolescents, and that parents’ style of communication with their children is related to the children’s time ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Most periodontal intervention studies have focused on biomedical qualities like change in pocket depth and clinical attachment levels. Very few studies have described patient response in terms ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Involving nursing home patients and their relatives in end-of-life care conversations and treatment decisions has recently gained increased importance in several Western countries. However, there ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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The Lck and Src binding adaptor protein TSAd (T cell specific adaptor) regulates actin polymerization in T cells and endothelial cells. The molecular details as to how TSAd regulates this process ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Research suggests that rehabilitation is beneficial for persons with Huntington’s disease (HD), but there is limited knowledge about participants’ experiences with residential rehabilitation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Clinicians at Norwegian community mental health centres assess referrals from general practitioners and classify them into three priority groups (high priority, low priority, and refusal) according ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Repetitive microsatellite DNA forms a universal component of eukaryote genomes and specific biochemical properties of such repeat regions may influence the outcome of laboratory protocols. The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
This paper presents an analysis of the recent tropospheric molecular hydrogen (H2) budget with a particular focus on soil uptake and European surface emissions. A variational inversion scheme is combined with observations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
We discuss the capability of current state-of-the-art chemistry and transport models to reproduce air quality trends and interannual variability. Documenting these strengths and weaknesses on the basis of historical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Structurally controlled, syn-rift, clastic depocentres are of economic interest as hydrocarbon reservoirs; understanding the structure of their bounding faults is of great relevance, e.g. in the assessment of fault-controlled ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
Human activity influences a wide range of components that affect the surface UV radiation levels, among them ozone at high latitudes. We calculate the effect of human-induced changes in the surface erythemally weighted ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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The limited availability of maternal and child health data has limited progress in reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and children. Global health agencies, leaders, and funders ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The hepatokine fetuin‐A can together with free fatty acids (FFAs) enhance adipose tissue (AT) inflammation and insulin resistance via toll‐like receptor 4 (TLR4). Although some of the health benefits of exercise can be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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Liver resection is a treatment of choice for colorectal and neuroendocrine liver metastases, and laparoscopy is an accepted approach for surgical treatment of these patients. The role of liver ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an educational computer game, Lola’s World, on low-performing children’s early numeracy skills. Four preschools with 33 children from families of low socio-economic ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 1998)
Ninety observation series of solar irradiance and angular distributions of sky radiance at different sun angles and wavelengths from ultraviolet to red are presented in tabular form. The observed distributions of spectral ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Simulation experiments were used to show the impact of varying extraction efficiency, aliquot proportion, and PCR efficiency on the heterozygote balance of a range of diploid and haploid cells. Reducing either parameters ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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Many patients suffer from unrelieved pain in hospital settings. Nurses have a pivotal role in pain management. Hence, a nurse-based pain management programme may influence how hospitalized patients ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Despite recent advances in microbiological techniques, the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is still not well described. We applied polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and conventional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Introduction
Previous studies have suggested an effect of gender on outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but the results are conflicting. We aimed to investigate the association of gender ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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C-telopeptide fragments of type II collagen (CTX-II) are created during articular cartilage breakdown and CTX-II is considered useful as a biomarker of osteoarthritis. The primary objective of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Clinical ethics support, in particular Moral Case Deliberation, aims to support health care providers to manage ethically difficult situations. However, there is a lack of evaluation instruments ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Lateral epicondylitis of the elbow is a frequent condition with long-lasting symptoms. Corticosteroid injection is increasingly discouraged and there is little knowledge on the combined effect ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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In order to characterize the intracranial pressure-volume reserve capacity, the correlation coefficient (R) between the ICP wave amplitude (A) and the mean ICP level (P), the RAP index, has been ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Antibiotic resistance is a problem in nursing homes. Presumed urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common infection. This study examines urine culture results from elderly patients to see ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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All hospital trusts in Norway have clinical ethics committees (CEC). Some of them invite next of kin/patients to be present during the discussion of their case. This study looks closer at how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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The rigid and obsessional features of anorexia nervosa (AN) have led researchers to explore possible underlying neuropsychological difficulties. Numerous studies have demonstrated poorer set-shifting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Studies in ecology are often describing observed variations in a certain ecological phenomenon by use of environmental explanatory variables. A common problem is that the numerical nature of the ecological phenomenon does ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The Tres Arroyos granite–pegmatite system is located in the SW margin of the Nisa-Alburquerque Variscan batholith. Two granitic facies (monzogranite and marginal leucogranite) and three types of aplite–pegmatite dykes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
We demonstrate that the entropy per electron of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) exhibits quantized peaks at resonances between the chemical potential and electron levels of size quantization. In the limit of no ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In this paper, we discuss the phenomenon of aging in relation to Hofmann’s three perspectives on disease including disease, illness and sickness role. We further discuss how the introduction of technology supported elderly ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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Decentralization of healthcare services has been widely utilized, especially in developing countries, to improve the performance of healthcare systems by increasing the access and efficiency of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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Alternate transcripts from a single gene locus greatly enhance the combinatorial flexibility of the human transcriptome. Different patterns of exon usage have been observed when comparing normal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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With advances in next generation sequencing technologies and genomic capture techniques, exome sequencing has become a cost-effective approach for mutation detection in genetic diseases. However, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common causes of pain and disability in the adult population. Several studies have documented discordance between general practioners (GP) practice and ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
his book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts by outlining a more nuanced and socially responsive approach to medical expertise that incorporates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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The conversions of the n-3 and n-6 fatty acid of plant origin to the C20 and C22 very long chain fatty acids (LCPUFAs) is regulated by several cellular enzymes such as elongases and desaturases.
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