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Contracts for primary and secondary care physicians and equity-efficiency trade-offs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We analyse how payment systems for general practitioners (GPs) and hospital specialists affect inequalities in healthcare treatments, referrals, and patient health. We present a model of contracting with two providers, a ... -
Contractual Protection of Confidential Business Information: In Norwegian Employment- and Business Contracts
(Master thesis, 2013-01-29)Confidential information can be one of the most valuable assets in a business. By avoiding the disclosure of such information, companies are able to maintain their competitive advantage. The main purpose of this thesis is ... -
The contradictory concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion
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"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Contrast stress echocardiography in hypertensive heart disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-18)Hypertension is associated with atherosclerosis and cardiac and vascular structural and functional changes. Myocardial ischemia may arise in hypertension independent of coronary artery disease through an interaction between ... -
Contrasting Biogeographic Patterns of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity in the Top- and Subsoils of Temperate Grasslands
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-01)Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil microbial diversity have been extensively studied in the past few decades. However, most research has focused on the topsoil, while the subsoil is assumed to have microbial diversity ... -
Contrasting climate variability and meteorological drought with perceived drought and climate change in northern Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-08-04)The rationale of this paper is to investigate peoples’ perception of climate variability, climatechange and drought frequency and compare it with measurements of rainfall variability andanomalies in northern Ethiopia. ... -
Contrasting geomorphic and stratigraphic responses to normal fault development during single and multi-phase rifting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-10)Understanding the impact of tectonics on surface processes and the resultant stratigraphic evolution in multi-phase rifts is challenging, as patterns of erosion and deposition related to older phases of extension are ... -
Contrasting HIV prevalence trends among young women and men in Zambia in the past 12 years: data from demographic and health surveys 2002–2014
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: The HIV epidemic remains a concern on the global health agenda, despite progress made in reducing incidence. Investigation of trends among young people is important for monitoring HIV incidence and informing ... -
Contrasting patterns of overweight and thinness among preschool children of different ethnic groups in Norway, and relations with maternal and early life factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-23)Background: Childhood obesity is a worldwide health challenge and risk factor for adult life obesity, which predisposes to development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. However, also thinness in early life ... -
Contrasting plant–soil–microbial feedbacks stabilize vegetation types and uncouple topsoil C and N stocks across a subarctic–alpine landscape
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Global vegetation regimes vary in belowground carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics. However, disentangling large-scale climatic controls from the effects of intrinsic plant–soil–microbial feedbacks on belowground processes ... -
Contrasting response to nutrient manipulation in Arctic mesocosms are reproduced by a minimum microbial food web model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-01-27)A minimum mathematical model of the marine pelagic microbial food web has previously shown to be able to reproduce central aspects of observed system response to different bottom-up manipulations in a mesocosm experiment ... -
Contrasting responses of the ocean’s oxygen minimum zones to artificial re-oxygenation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Studies assessing potential measures to counteract the marine deoxygenation attributed to anthropogenic activities have been conducted in a few coastal environments and at regional scale, but not yet on a global scale. One ... -
Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both ... -
Contrasting the phospholipid profiles of two neoplastic cell lines reveal a high PC:PE ratio for SH-SY5Y cells relative to A431 cells
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Lipids have been implicated in Parkinson's Disease (PD). We therefore studied the lipid profile of the neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell line, which is used extensively in PD research and compared it to that of the A431 epithelial ... -
A contrastive learning approach for individual re-identification in a wild fish population
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In both terrestrial and marine ecology, physical tagging is a frequently used method to study population dynamics and behavior. However, such tagging techniques are increasingly being replaced by individual re-identification ... -
Contribution of an extensive medication-based comorbidity index (Rx-Risk) in explaining the excess mortality after hip fracture in older Norwegians: a NOREPOS cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives Patients with hip fracture are typically characterised by extensive comorbidities and excess mortality. Methods that account for a wide range of comorbidities are needed when attempting to identify causal ... -
Contribution of Calanus to the mesozooplankton biomass in the Barents Sea
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Copepods from the genus Calanus are crucial prey for fish, seabirds and mammals in the Nordic and Barents Sea ecosystems. The objective of this study is to determine the contribution of Calanus species to the mesozooplankton ... -
The contribution of functional HNF1A variants and polygenic susceptibility to risk of type 2 diabetes in ancestrally diverse populations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims/hypothesis: We examined the contribution of rare HNF1A variants to type 2 diabetes risk and age of diagnosis, and the extent to which their impact is affected by overall genetic susceptibility, across three ancestry ... -
Contribution of homeobox genes to the development of the oikoplastic epithelium, a major novelty of tunicate Larvaceans
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-23)The development of complex organisms is controlled by numerous genes, including developmentally regulated transcription factors (TF) encoded by multiple gene families. A well diversified group of TFs is the superclass of ...