Background Influenza is difficult to distinguish clinically from other acute respiratory infections. Rapid laboratory diagnosis can help initiate early effective antiviral treatment and isolation. Implementing a novel ...

Background: Norwegian primary health care is maintained on the regular general practitioners (RGPs), GP’s contracted to the municipalities in a list patient system, working at daytime and at out-of-hours services (OOH ...

The widespread use of portable ultrasound scanners has promoted the concept of point of care ultrasound (POCUS), namely “ultrasound performed bedside and interpreted directly by the clinician.” The purpose of this short ...

Background Breastfeeding remains normative and vital for child survival in the developing world. However, knowledge of the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission through breastfeeding has brought to attention ...

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is currently listed as a vulnerable species by the IUCN red list, mainly due to the predicted decline in sea ice caused by global warming. Polar bears are dependent on sea ice for hunting ...

The composition and properties of crude oils have been subjected to much scrutinization over the past decades due to the decreasing oil quality and thus increasingly difficult oil recovery. The physical properties of crude ...

When the geomagnetic field is weak, the small mirror force allows precipitating charged particles to deposit energy in the ionosphere. This leads to an increase in ionospheric outflow from the Earth's polar cap region, but ...

To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ‘polarizing figure’ on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of ...

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a beautiful mathematical concept which binds internal symmetries of a quantum field theory with global symmetries of the space-time. Applications of this approach may stretch from unsolved puzzles ...