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Cotton import to Norway 1835-1920. Import, industrialization and globalization.
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The COTUR project: remote sensing of offshore turbulence for wind energy application
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper presents the measurement strategy and data set collected during the COTUR (COherence of TURbulence with lidars) campaign. This field experiment took place from February 2019 to April 2020 on the southwestern coast ... -
Counselling, child growth and feeding of children in Uganda in the era of HIV. Contexts and consequences
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-06-03)Background: Despite gradual improvements in child survival, around 8 million children die globally every year before the age of 5 years. Infant feeding practices including breastfeeding vary considerably between settings, ... -
Count time series with application to corporate defaults
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Counter-stereotypical Images of Muslim Characters in the Television Serial 24: A Difference that Makes no Difference?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)In the early years of the millennium racial counter-stereotypes gained prominence in Hollywood entertainment. This article examines the television serial 24’s (2001–10) efforts to combat allegations of stereotyping by ... -
Counterterrorism Policies and Attitudes Towards Out-Groups: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Wiretapping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Terrorism often leads to increased stigmatization of groups perceived as “out-groups”. We test two versions of out-group theory and ask whether citizens clearly distinguish between radical Muslims and Muslims in general, ... -
Counting Instances of Software Components
(Proceedings of LRPP'04: Workshop on Logics for Resources, Processes, and Programs, Turku, Finland, July 13, 2004, Conference lecture, 2004-07-13)Component software is software that has been assembled from various pieces of standardized, reusable computer programs, so-called components. Executing component software creates instances of these components. For several ... -
Counting Mycobacteria in Infected Human Cells and Mouse Tissue: A Comparison between qPCR and CFU
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-04-19)Due to the slow growth rate and pathogenicity of mycobacteria, enumeration by traditional reference methods like colony counting is notoriously time-consuming, inconvenient and biohazardous. Thus, novel methods that rapidly ... -
Counting research ⇒ directing research : the hazard of using simple metrics to evaluate scientific contributions : an EU experience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In many EU countries there is a requirement to count research, i.e., to measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produced automatically based on the impact of journals, are used to rank universities, to determine ... -
Country contextualisation of cost-effectiveness studies: lessons from Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Emerging demographic, epidemiological and health system changes in low-income countries require revisions of national essential health services packages in accordance with standard healthcare priority setting methods. ... -
Country of first birth and neonatal outcomes in migrant and Norwegian-born parous women in Norway: a population-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background This study compares subsequent birth outcomes in migrant women who had already had a child before arriving in Norway with those in migrant women whose first birth occurred in Norway. The aim of this study was ... -
Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services: Experience from six countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper reviews the experience of six low-income and lower middle-income countries in setting their own essential packages of health services (EPHS), with the purpose of identifying the key requirements for the successful ... -
Countrywise results of total hip replacement. An analysis of 438,733 hips based on the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association database
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Background and purpose: An earlier Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) report on 280,201 total hip replacements (THRs) based on data from 1995–2006, from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, was published in 2009. The ... -
Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff victim of a coup or removed through a legal process of impeachment? The heated debate on the 2016 ousting of Brazil’s president testifies to the growing controversy around the definition ... -
Couple relationship problems—a task for the general practitioner? A cross-sectional survey from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: A healthy couple relationship is a predictor of good health. There is a lack of knowledge about what role family and couples counselling should have in general practice. Objectives: To identify the prevalence ... -
Coupled Al-Si geochemistry in an ocean general circulation model: A tool for the validation of oceanic dust deposition fields?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003-03-19)We introduced the marine cycle of Al into a geochemical ocean general circulation model in order to assess the potential of modeled surface ocean dissolved Al as a tracer for dust input to the world ocean. The geochemical ... -
Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-10)The Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age are among the best studied abrupt climate changes, yet a comprehensive explanation is still lacking. They are most pronounced in the North Atlantic, where they manifest as ... -
Coupled atmosphere–ocean observations of a cold-air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Marine cold-air outbreaks (CAOs) are vigorous equatorward excursions of cold air over the ocean, responsible for the majority of wintertime oceanic heat loss from the subpolar seas of the North Atlantic. However, the impact ... -
Coupled effects of wave and depth-dependent current interaction on loads on a bottom-fixed vertical slender cylinder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The coupled effects of waves and a subsurface current on the hydrodynamic loads on offshore slender structures in coastal water regions have been examined in this paper, especially the coupling of the weak nonlinearity of ... -
Coupled Mg/Ca and Clumped Isotope Measurements Indicate Lack of Substantial Mixed Layer Cooling in the Western Pacific Warm Pool During the Last ∼5 Million Years
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) plays a crucial role in influencing climate dynamics both in the tropics and globally. Yet, there is an ongoing controversy concerning the evolution of surface temperatures in the IPWP ...