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The ion channel Anoctamin 10/TMEM16K coordinates organ morphogenesis across scales in the urochordate notochord
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)During embryonic development, tissues and organs are gradually shaped into their functional morphologies through a series of spatiotemporally tightly orchestrated cell behaviors. A highly conserved organ shape across ... -
Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Gas cooking is an important source of indoor air pollutants, and there is some limited evidence that it might adversely be associated with respiratory health. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the ... -
“Whatever is bad goes back to the woman”: The gendered blame game of sickle cell disease in Malawi and Uganda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Mothers are commonly blamed for the ill-health of their children, and this is well documented in research. However, few studies have considered gendered patterns of blame for hereditary conditions caused by mutations from ... -
Impacts of Norway's extended free choice reform on waiting times and hospital visits
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Norway's extended free choice (EFC) reform extends the patient's choice of publicly funded hospitals for treatment to authorized private institutions (EFC providers). We study the effects of the reform on waiting times, ... -
Health literacy among people at risk or with type 2 diabetes in Norwegian primary care—A cross sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Aims This study aims to describe health literacy for people at risk of type 2 diabetes and people with type 2 diabetes using the HLS-EU-Q12, and further examine the association between sociodemographic and clinical ... -
Janus-faced discourse in contemporary Norwegian policy framing for tackling educational inequality? A critical analysis of contemporary tensions and contradictions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper focuses on contemporary tensions and contradictions in current Norwegian educational policy discourse. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Norwegian governmental white papers our analysis reveals that ... -
Stress and coping strategies among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic caused a worldwide health- and societal crisis. Youth were exposed to enduring stressors. We examined types and load of stressors faced by youth, and their use of coping strategies. A population-based ... -
Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Inspired by African and other feminist scholarship on gender, sexuality and agency, this article studies narrations of norms and practices in sexual relationships between university students. A main aim of the article is ... -
Moral distress among physicians in Norway: a longitudinal study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objectives To explore and compare physicians’ reported moral distress in 2004 and 2021 and identify factors that could be related to these responses. Design Longitudinal survey. Setting Data were gathered from the ... -
Acute effects of light during daytime on central aspects of attention and affect: A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Light regulates both image- and various non-image forming responses in humans, including acute effects on attention and affect. To advance the understanding of light’s immediate effects, this systematic review describes ... -
Hallmark Molecular and Pathological Features of POLG Disease are Recapitulated in Cerebral Organoids
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this research, a 3D brain organoid model is developed to study POLG-related encephalopathy, a mitochondrial disease stemming from POLG mutations. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from patients with these ... -
Polymodal sensory perception drives settlement and metamorphosis of Ciona larvae
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Earth’s oceans brim with an incredible diversity of microscopic lifeforms, including motile planktonic larvae, whose survival critically depends on effective dispersal in the water column and subsequent exploration of ... -
Social inequality in the association between life transitions into adulthood and depressed mood: a 27-year longitudinal study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background: Few studies have considered the life-course development of depressive symptoms in relation to life transitions in early-adulthood and whether these might affect depressive trajectories differently depending on ... -
Risk of common psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours, and premature mortality following violent victimisation: A matched cohort and sibling-comparison study of 127,628 people who experienced violence in Finland and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Associations between violent victimisation and psychiatric disorders are hypothesised to be bidirectional, but the role of violent victimisation in the aetiologies of psychiatric disorders and other adverse ... -
Fra istidene til storpolitikken-Klima-forskningen ved Institutt for geovitenskap
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Palaeoclimate research at The University of Bergen (UiB) has through the last 50 years been developed into a central research environment in Norwegian and international climate research. As a central element of the Bjerknes ... -
Menarche and reproductive health in Spanish Roma women from a reproductive justice perspective: a qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objectives This study aimed to explore the perceptions of Roma women about their experience of menarche and reproductive health considering the principles of reproductive justice. Design Qualitative study based on ... -
Collaborative governance of an integrated system for collecting contributions for social health insurance, pension, and taxes from the informal sector: a synthesis of stakeholder perspectives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Many low-and middle-income countries have adopted social health insurance schemes. However, the collection of contributions from the large informal sector of these economies poses a significant challenge. ... -
The prevalence of subdural blood products in extremely premature infants with no history of abusive head trauma, studied by magnetic resonance imaging around term-equivalent age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Prematurity and enlarged subarachnoid spaces are both hypothesised to represent an increased risk of subdural haemorrhages (SDHs) in infancy, both with and without a history of abuse. Objective To examine ... -
Extreme genome scrambling in marine planktonic Oikopleura dioica cryptic species
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that remains unsolved. Our sequencing of several ... -
50+ years of psychological acculturation research: Progress and challenges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Acculturation psychology, now over fifty years old, has evolved significantly since its inception in the mid-1960s. This paper seeks to shape the future of the field by addressing recent criticisms and controversies such ...
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