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Arctic/Atlantic exchanges via the Subpolar Gyre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)In the present study we investigate the decadal variability in the strength and shape of the Subpolar Gyre (SPG) in a 600-year pre-industrial simulation using the Bergen Climate Model. The atmospheric influence on the SPG ... -
Are 90% of deaths from cancer caused by metastases?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Numerous publications have stated that metastases are responsible for 90% of cancer deaths, but data underlying this assertion has been lacking. Our objective was to determine what proportions of cancer deaths are caused ... -
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly important in social science research. They have two obvious apparent virtues: they can model complex macrosociological phenomena without strong assumptions about agents and without ... -
Are associations between electronic media use and BMI different across levels of physical activity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-19)Background The use of electronic media has been found to be a risk factor for higher BMI and for being overweight. Physical activity has been found to be associated with lower BMI and lower risk for being overweight. Little ... -
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire-based survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A high proportion of people with severe mental illness (SMI) want to work, consider it essential for recovery, yet employment rates are low. Many employees in public employment services (PES) work according to traditional ... -
Are Autonomously Motivated University Instructors More Autonomy-Supportive Teachers?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We extended the research on autonomy-supportive teaching to universities and examined the relationships between autonomous motivation to teach and autonomy-supportive teaching. Autonomously motivated university instructors ... -
Are Candidate Evaluations Less Susceptible to Partisan Bias than Party Evaluations?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)According to the personalization hypothesis, voters’ attention is shifting away from collective entities like political parties to individual candidates. As attitudes towards candidates are growing more consequential in ... -
Are Central Bankers Inflation Nutters? An MCMC Estimator of the Long-Memory Parameter in a State Space Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Inflation targeting is a common monetary policy regime. Inflation targets are often flexible in the sense that the central bank allows inflation to temporarily deviate from the target to avoid causing unnecessary volatility ... -
Are child protection workers and judges in alignment with citizens when considering interventions into a family? A cross-country study of four jurisdictions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines whether and how the views of professional decision makers in public agencies and courts in four child protection jurisdictions align with the views of the public. Democratic states are built on the ... -
Are children with tuberculosis in Pakistan managed according to National programme policy guidelines? A study from 3 districts in Punjab
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-11-30)Background: The adherence to policies of National TB Control Programme (NTP) to manage a case of tuberculosis (TB) is a fundamental step to have a successful programme in any country. Childhood TB services faces an unmet ... -
Are Chronic Pain Patients with Dementia Being Undermedicated?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In dementia, neuropathological changes alter the perception and expression of pain. For clinicians and family members, this knowledge gap leads to difficulties in recognizing and assessing chronic pain, which may consequently ... -
Are citizens responsive to interest groups? A field experiment on lobbying and intended citizen behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting a field experiment in ... -
Are EEP Events Important for the Tertiary Ozone Maximum?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Energetic particle precipitation (EPP) increases the production of odd hydrogen (HOX ) species in the mesosphere, which catalytically destroy ozone (O3) in sunlight. Hence, the EPP‐HOX impact on the tertiary O3 maximum ... -
Are general practitioners characteristics associated with the quality of type 2 diabetes care in general practice? Results from the Norwegian ROSA4 study from 2014
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05-02)Objective: To explore the associations between general practitioners (GPs) characteristics such as gender, specialist status, country of birth and country of graduation and the quality of care for patients with type 2 ... -
Are good leaders moral leaders? The relationship between effective military operational leadership and morals
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-20)This thesis presents selected works investigating the relation between leadership and morals. Given the multitude of moral challenges and the grave consequences of moral transgressions in military operations, we have chosen ... -
Are infants exposed to antimicrobials during the first 3 months of life at increased risk of recurrent use? An explorative data-linkage study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives: To investigate whether infants exposed to antimicrobials in hospital during the first 3 months of life had an increased risk of ambulatory antimicrobial use during the following year compared with infants not ... -
Are low-skilled young people increasingly useless, and are men the losers among them?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Claims that low-skilled young people, and especially the men among them, are being excluded from the labour market have been influential over recent decades, contributing to an increasing concern over the issue of early ... -
Are migration timing estimates based on tagged Atlantic salmon smolts (Salmo salar) biased?
(Master thesis, 2020-06-20)Telemetry tags (e.g. PIT- or acoustic tags) are increasingly used in management to monitor the migration timing of Atlantic salmon smolts (Salmo salar). Recent findings, however, suggest that tagged fish consistently migrate ... -
Are MRI high-signal changes of alar and transverse ligaments in acute whiplash injury related to outcome?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-11-11)Background: Upper neck ligament high-signal changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been found in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) but also in non-injured controls. The clinical relevance of such ... -
Are patients with pulmonary tuberculosis identified by active and by passive case detection different? A cross-sectional study in Pakistan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives Our objective was to compare the characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) identified through “extended contact screening” (ECS) with those of patients identified through routine passive case ...