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The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is one of the most central indicators informing the international development agenda. Reported annually by the Rome-based UN agencies in their flagship report The State of Food ... -
A history of late and very late stent thrombosis is not associated with increased activation of the contact system, a case control study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-04-15)Background: The pathophysiological pathways resulting in Late Stent Thrombosis (LST) remain uncertain. Findings from animal studies indicate a role of the intrinsic coagulation pathway in arterial thrombus formation, while ... -
A History of silence: Representations and aesthetics in John Okada's No-No Boy and Julie Otsuka's When the emperor was divine.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-05)Denne oppgaven tar for seg japansk-amerikansk litteratur og den demokratiske rollen den innehar i ettermælet av den andre verdenskrig. I de litterære representasjonene av interneringen av japanske og japansk-amerikanske ... -
History, theory and the resurrection faith
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Hit by the Wave: K-pop in Norway, its characteristics, community, and its place in the lives of Norwegian K-pop fans
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01)This qualitative study delves into the K-pop fandom in Norway, seeking to explore its cultural underpinnings and social significance. Beginning with an exploration into the origins and contemporary landscape of K-pop, the ... -
Hit Dexter 2.0: Machine-Learning Models for the Prediction of Frequent Hitters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Assay interference caused by small molecules continues to pose a significant challenge for early drug discovery. A number of rule-based and similarity-based approaches have been derived that allow the flagging of potentially ... -
Hit ‘em where it hurts: Measuring and testing the impact of economic nonviolent strategies on democratization
(Master thesis, 2019-06-29)The literature on nonviolent political action has found that nonviolence far outpaces violence when it comes to winning political conflicts. Yet which actions nonviolent movements may perform to achieve success has rarely ... -
Hitting Topological Minor Models in Planar Graphs is Fixed Parameter Tractable
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For a finite collection of graphs F, the F-TM-Deletion problem has as input an n-vertex graph G and an integer k and asks whether there exists a set S ⊆ V(G) with |S| ≤ k such that G \ S does not contain any of the graphs ... -
HIV and AIDS related knowledge, source of information, and reported need for further education among dental students in Sudan- a cross sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08-14)Background: Information on the HIV and AIDS-related knowledge among dental students provides a crucial foundation for efforts aimed at developing an appropriate dental curriculum on HIV and AIDS, and for attracting the ... -
HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania
(Journal article, 2007-07-24)Background: Infant feeding is a subject of worry in prevention of mother to child transmission (pMTCT) programmes in settings where breastfeeding is normative. Nurse-counsellors, expected to counsel HIV-positive women on ... -
HIV antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia. Overcoming implementation challenges
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-03-16)Millions of people have died of HIV during the last 25 years. The highest number of deaths occurred in poor African countries where antiretroviral therapy was introduced only recently. Treating patients in settings with ... -
HIV Disclosure to Infected Children Involving Peers: A New Take on HIV Disclosure in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-21)Appropriately informing HIV-infected children of their diagnosis is a real challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Until now, there is no consensus on who ought to disclose and how to disclose. This paper describes the model for ... -
HIV patients with latent tuberculosis living in a low-endemic country do not develop active disease during a 2 year follow-up; a Norwegian prospective multicenter study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12-17)Background: Interferon-γ release assays (IGRA) serve as immunodiagnostics of tuberculosis (TB) infection to identify individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI) eligible for preventive anti-TB therapy. In this longitudinal ... -
HIV testing services in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: Determinants, experiences and responsiveness
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-06-17)Introduction: HIV/AIDS has been one of the most challenging pandemics in health and development. Sub- Saharan Africa remains the most affected region and it handles over two-thirds of the individuals infected world wide. ... -
HIV viral load non-suppression and associated factors among pregnant and postpartum women in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives We aimed to measure the prevalence of maternal HIV viral load (VL) non-suppression and assess associated factors, to evaluate progress towards United Nations-AIDS (UNAIDS) targets. Design Cross-sectional ... -
HIV-1 disease progression in immune-competent HIV-1-infected and breastfeeding mothers participating in the ANRS 12174 clinical trial in Burkina Faso, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia: a cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Objective: We have assessed HIV-1 disease progression among HIV-1-positive mothers in relation to duration of any or exclusive breast feeding in the context of ANRS 12174 trial. Methods: The analysis was completed on 203, ... -
HIV-1 Rev oligomerization is not obligatory in the presence of an extra basic domain
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-06-10)Background: The HIV-1 Rev regulatory protein binds as an oligomeric complex to viral RNA mediating nuclear export of incompletely spliced and non-spliced viral mRNAs encoding the viral structural proteins. However, the ... -
HIV-1 subtype distribution and its demographic determinants in newly diagnosed patients in Europe suggest highly compartmentalized epidemics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-01-14)Background: Understanding HIV-1 subtype distribution and epidemiology can assist preventive measures and clinical decisions. Sequence variation may affect antiviral drug resistance development, disease progression, ... -
HIV-1, HSV-2 and syphilis among pregnant women in a rural area of Tanzania: Prevalence and risk factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-06-02)Background: Evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of new HIV infections in African countries are associated with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). Thus, the magnitude of HSV-2 infection in an area may suggest ... -
HIV-infected persons with type 2 diabetes show evidence of endothelial dysfunction and increased inflammation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03-29)Background: Increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in both HIV infection and type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to the general population has been described. Little is known about the combined effect of HIV ...