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    • Community based peer counsellors for support of exclusive breastfeeding: experiences from rural Uganda 

      Nankunda, Jolly; Tumwine, James K.; Soltvedt, Åshild; Semiyaga, Nulu; Ndeezi, Grace; Tylleskär, Thorkild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-10-20)
      Background: Universal exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months could reduce infant mortality by 13%. Although 99% women initiate breastfeeding in Uganda, exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low. Although peer ...

    • Community Composition and Habitat Characterization of a Rock Sponge Aggregation (Porifera, Corallistidae) in the Cantabrian Sea 

      Ríos, Pilar; Prado, Elena; Correia De Carvalho, Francisca; Sánchez, Francisco; Rodríguez-Basalo, Augusto; Xavier, Joana R.; Ibarrola, Teodoro P.; Cristobo, Javier (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Deep-sea sponge-dominated communities are complex habitats considered hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. They are classified as Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem and are listed as threatened or declining as a ...

    • Community composition, population structure and phylogeny of coastal sympagic meiofauna in eastern Svalbard 

      Andreasen, Magnus Heide (Master thesis, 2019-06-19)
      Coastal sea ice communities constitute a highly vulnerable yet little investigated part of the Arctic ecosystem. A better understanding of the Arctic sea ice ecosystem will aid in more accurate predictions of the ecological ...

    • Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources 

      Ison, Jon; Ménager, Hervé; Brancotte, Bryan; Jaaniso, Erik; Salumets, Ahto; Raček, Tomáš; Lamprecht, Anna-Lena; Palmblad, Magnus; Kalaš, Matúš; Chmura, Piotr; Hancock, John M; Schwämmle, Veit; Ienasescu, Hans-Ioan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The corpus of bioinformatics resources is huge and expanding rapidly, presenting life scientists with a growing challenge in selecting tools that fit the desired purpose. To address this, the European Infrastructure for ...

    • Community Detection in Complex Networks 

      Lund, Herman Møyner (Master thesis, 2017-06-20)

    • Community Detection in Social Networks 

      Fasmer, Erlend Eindride (Master thesis, 2015-05-01)
      Social networks usually display a hierarchy of communities and it is the task of community detection algorithms to detect these communities and preferably also their hierarchical relationships. One common class of such ...

    • Community Detection on the GPU 

      Naim, Md.; Manne, Fredrik; Halappanavar, Mahantesh; Tumeo, Antonino (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We present and evaluate a new GPU algorithm based on the Louvain method for community detection. Our algorithm is the first for this problem that parallelizes the access to individual edges. In this way we can fine tune ...

    • Community efforts help repository development 

      Bozec, Gaëlle (Journal article, 2006-08)

    • Community groups as "critical enablers" of the HIV response in Zimbabwe 

      Skovdal, Morten; Magutshwa-Zitha, Sitholubuhle; Campbell, Catherine; Nyamukapa, Constance; Gregson, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-05-26)
      Background: The Investment Framework for a more effective HIV response has become integral to discussions on how best to respond to the HIV epidemic. The Framework calls for greater synergy and attention to factors that ...

    • Community health workers and accountability: Reflections from an international "think-in" 

      Schaaf, Marta; Fox, Jonathan; Topp, Stephanie M.; Warthin, Caitlin; Freedman, Lynn P; Robinson, Rachel Sullivan; Thiagarajan, Sundararaman; Scott, Kerry; Maboe, Thoko; Zanchetta, Margareth; Ruano, Ana Lorena; Kok, Maryse; Closser, Svea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05-25)
      Community health workers (CHWs) are frequently put forward as a remedy for lack of health system capacity, including challenges associated with health service coverage and with low community engagement in the health system, ...

    • Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India - a randomized controlled trial 

      Taneja, Sunita; Sinha, Bireshwar; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Mazumder, Sarmila; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Martines, Jose Carlos; Dalpath, Suresh Kumar; Gupta, Rakesh; Kariger, Patricia; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhandari, Nita; Dua, Tarun; Abbasi, Farah; Panwar, Vaishali; Nagpal, Sugandhi; Shekhar, Medha; Ghosh, Runa; Kaur, Jasmine; Dube, Brinda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 8402 stable low birthweight (LBW) infants, majority being late preterm or term small for gestational age, community-initiated KMC (ciKMC) showed a significant improvement ...

    • Community participation as a strategy in reducing maternal and child mortality in rural areas: A Literature review 

      Indriani, Dewi (Master thesis, 2012-09-20)
      Background: Maternal and neonatal mortality rate are still high in many developing countries. Lack of access to health facilities is one of the biggest challenges in the poorest households and in rural areas which contributes ...

    • Community participation in formulating the post-2015 health and development goal agenda: Reflections of a multi-country research collaboration 

      Brolan, Claire; Hussain, Sameera; Friedman, Eric A.; Ruano, Ana Lorena; Mulumba, Moses; Rusike, Itai; Beiersmann, Claudia; Hill, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-10)
      Global discussion on the post-2015 development goals, to replace the Millennium Development Goals when they expire on 31 December 2015, is well underway. While the Millennium Development Goals focused on redressing extreme ...

    • Community participation in school development: Understanding participation in basic school performance in the Nanumba district of Ghana 

      Adam, Fusheini (Master thesis, 2005)
      This study has been an attempt to look at the impact of community participation on the performance of basic schools in Ghana, specifically the Nanumba District of the Northern Region. As a government policy under the ...

    • Community Participation in Solid Waste Management, Kathmandu 

      Gotame, Manira (Master thesis, 2012-06-26)
      Waste management in Nepal is one of the important topics discussed today. Participation of the community is thus,being encouraged to manage solid waste. My study area is Kathmandu (Buddhajyoti, Chamati and Milijuli, Ganesh ...

    • Community perspectives on randomisation and fairness in a cluster randomised controlled trial in Zambia 

      Kombe, Maureen Mupeta; Zulu, Joseph Mumba; Michelo, Charles; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-21)
      Background: One important ethical issue in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is randomisation. Relatively little is known about how participating individuals and communities understand and perceive central aspects of ...

    • Community Policing in South Africa - Mission impossible? A qualitative case study of police reform failure in South Africa after the 1994-transition to democracy 

      Fremmerlid, Lisa (Master thesis, 2014-06-02)
      Since the 1990s community policing has been promoted as an ideal and pursued though policing reforms in large parts of the developing world, especially in post-transitional societies faced with the twin problem of high ...

    • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum 

      Bentley, Michael J.; Ocofaigh, Colm Ó.; Anderson, John B.; Conway, Howard; Davies, Bethan; Graham, Alastair G.C.; Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter; Hodgson, Dominic A.; Jamieson, Stewart S.R.; Larter, Robert D.; Mackintosh, Andrew; Smith, James A.; Verleyen, Elie; Ackert, Robert P.; Bart, Philip J.; Berg, Sonja; Brunstein, Daniel; Canals, Miquel; Colhoun, Eric A.; Crosta, Xavier; Dickens, William A.; Domack, Eugene; Dowdeswell, Julian A.; Dunbar, Robert; Ehrmann, Werner; Evans, Jeffrey; Favier, Vincent; Fink, David; Fogwill, Christopher J.; Glasser, Neil F.; Gohl, Karsten; Golledge, Nicholas R.; Goodwin, Ian; Gore, Damian B.; Greenwood, Sarah L.; Hall, Brenda L.; Hall, Kevin; Hedding, David W.; Hein, Andrew S.; Hocking, Emma P.; Jakobsson, Martin; Johnson, Joanne S.; Jomelli, Vincent; Jones, R. Selwyn; Klages, Johann P.; Kristoffersen, Yngve; Kuhn, Gerhard; Leventer, Amy; Licht, Kathy; Lilly, Katherine; Lindow, Julia; Livingstone, Stephen J.; Massé, Guillaume; McGlone, Matt S.; Mckay, Robert M.; Melles, Martin; Miura, Hideki; Mulvaney, Robert; Nel, Werner; Nitsche, Frank O.; O'Brien, Philip E.; Post, Alexandra L.; Roberts, Stephen J.; Saunders, Krystyna M.; Selkirk, Patricia M.; Simms, Alexander R.; Spiegel, Cornelia; Stolldorf, Travis D.; Sugden, David E.; van der Putten, Nathalie; van Ommen, Tas; Verfaillie, Deborah; Vyverman, Wim; Wagner, Bernd; White, Duanne A.; Witus, Alexandra E.; Zwartz, Dan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-15)
      A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the forcing mechanisms ...

    • A community-based intervention to increase participation in cervical cancer screening among immigrants in Norway 

      Qureshi, Samera Azeem; Gele, Abdi; Kour, Prabhjot; Møen, Kathy Ainul; Kumar, Bernadette N.; Diaz, Esperanza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-12)
      Background The attendance to cervical cancer screening is low among immigrants in many high-income countries. Although several interventions have been experimentally tested,implementation remains a challenge. Several factors ...

    • Community-based Multidimensional Cancer Rehabilitation in Norway – a Feasibility Study 

      Ahmedzai, Hilde Hjelmeland; Oldervoll, Line M.; Sweetmore, Anne-Marte Hess; Hauken, May Aasebø (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Cancer survival is often accompanied by late effects that can be mitigated by tailored rehabilitation. In Norway this has traditionally been offered as residential programs, whereas community-based cancer ...