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Is there a protective effect of normal to high intellectual function on mental health in children with chronic illness?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-01-20)Background High intellectual function is considered as a protective factor for children's mental health. Few studies have investigated the effect of intellectual function on mental health in children with chronic illness ... -
Is there a reduction in risk of revision when 36-mm heads instead of 32 mm are used in total hip arthroplasty for patients with proximal femur fractures?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background and purpose — 32-mm heads are widely used in total hip arthroplasty (THA) in Scandinavia, while the proportion of 36-mm heads is increasing as they are expected to increase THA stability. We investigated whether ... -
Is There a Switch in Accent for the Heavenly Chorus? Explaining differences in interest group preference attainment in the European Union’s climate action policies
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Over the past five years, there has been an increase in national and supranational efforts to combat climate change. The European Union’s (EU) ambitious climate initiative, the European Green Deal (EUGD), remains the Union’s ... -
Is there a Tornado in Alex's Blood Flow? A Case Study for Narrative Medical Visualization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Narrative visualization advantageously combines storytelling with new media formats and techniques, like interactivity, to create improved learning experiences. In medicine, it has the potential to improve patient understanding ... -
Is There a Trojan Horse to Aggressive Pancreatic Cancer Biology? A Review of the Trypsin-PAR2 Axis to Proliferation, Early Invasion, and Metastasis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal of solid tumors and is associated with aggressive cancer biology. The purpose is to review the role of trypsin and effect on molecular and cellular processes potentially ... -
Is there a U-shaped relationship between physical activity in leisure time and risk of chronic low back pain? A follow-up in the HUNT Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-11)Background: Physical activity in leisure time is often considered to have favourable effects on the risk of low back pain (LBP), but demonstrating a definite association in epidemiological studies has proven difficult. The ... -
Is there a weekend effect after hip fracture surgery? A study of 74,410 hip fractures reported to the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background and purpose — The term “weekend effect” describes differences in outcomes between patients treated at weekends compared with weekdays. We investigated whether there is a weekend effect for the risk of reoperation ... -
Is there a weekend effect on mortality rate and outcome for moderate and severe traumatic brain injury? A population-based, observational cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Purpose The aim of the study was to analyse patient and injury characteristics and the effects of weekend admissions on mortality rate and outcome after moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries. Methods This is ... -
Is there an Association between vitamin D status and risk of chronic low back pain? A nested case-Control analysis in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11-25)Objectives: To explore potential associations between vitamin D status and risk of chronic low back pain (LBP) in a Norwegian cohort, and to investigate whether relationships depend on the season of blood sample collection. ... -
Is there an increase in duration of long-term sickness absence in Norway from 1994 to 2007? A registry based study
(Master thesis, 2012-04-15)Background: Sickness absence in Norway is high despite improvements in key indicators of public health. The pull and the push models attribute the high levels of sickness absence to choice vs. coercion, respectively. ... -
Is there evidence for a 4.2 kaBP event in the northern North Atlantic region?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-02)We review paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic records from the northern North Atlantic to assess the nature of climatic conditions at 4.2 ka BP, which has been identified as a time of exceptional climatic anomalies in many ... -
Is this a men’s world? On the need to study descriptive representation of women in lobbying and policy advocacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How well are women represented in the world of political advocacy? Despite the important role of interest groups in modern democracies, the demographic composition of the interest group community remains a blind spot in ... -
Is total immunoglobulin E and atopic sensitization associated with food-related gastrointestinal complaints?
(Master thesis, 2014-04-08)Background: We have observed increased number of "IgE-armed" mast cells in duodenal mucosa of patients with food hypersensitivity, and therefore we wanted to explore whether serum total IgE levels and atopic sensitization ... -
Is universal health coverage affordable? Estimated costs and fiscal space analysis for the Ethiopian Essential Health Services Package
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Estimating the required resources for implementing an essential health services package (EHSP) is vital to examine its feasibility and affordability. This study aimed to estimate the financial resources required to implement ... -
Is vaccination coverage a good indicator of age-appropriate vaccination? A prospective study from Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-27)Background: Timely vaccination is important to protect children from common infectious diseases. We assessed vaccination timeliness and vaccination coverage as well as coverage of vitamin A supplementation in a Ugandan ... -
Is vaginal breech delivery associated with higher risk for perinatal death and cerebral palsy compared with vaginal cephalic birth? Registry-based cohort study in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Objective: This paper aims to study if vaginal breech delivery is associated with increased risk for neonatal mortality (NNM) or cerebral palsy (CP) in Norway where vaginal delivery accounts for 1/3 of all breech deliveries. ... -
Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol’ indices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Variogram Analysis of Response Surfaces (VARS) has been proposed by Razavi and Gupta as a new comprehensive framework in sensitivity analysis. According to these authors, VARS provides a more intuitive notion of ... -
Isavsmelting og postglaciale flaumskredvifter i Arna, Hordaland
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Isavsmelting og postglasiale havnivåendringer ved Nykvåg, Vesterålen
(Master thesis, 2020-06-16)I dette studiet er det presentert en rekonstruksjon av deglasiasjonsforløpet og de relative havnivåendringene i Nykvåg for perioden mot slutten av siste istid og overgangen til holocen. Datagrunnlaget for rekonstruksjonene ... -
Isavsmelting og senglasial strandforskyvning på Bokn i Rogaland
(Master thesis, 2018-12-21)