• Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Primed Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Loaded on Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Biomaterial Exhibit Enhanced Macrophage Polarization 

      Rana, Neha; Suliman, Salwa; Al-Sharabi, Niyaz Abdulbaqi Abdulmajid; Mustafa, Kamal Babikeir Elnour (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) loaded on biphasic calcium phosphate biomaterial (MSC + BCP) have been used as an advanced therapy medicinal product to treat complex maxillofacial bone defects in patients. Further, MSC-derived ...
    • Extracting Rules from Neural Networks with Partial Interpretations 

      Persia, Cosimo Damiano; Ozaki, Ana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We investigate the problem of extracting rules, expressed in Horn logic, from neural network models. Our work is based on the exact learning model, in which a learner interacts with a teacher (the neural network model) via ...
    • Extracting Sign Language Articulation from Videos with MediaPipe 

      Börstell, Carl Anders (Chapter, 2023)
      This paper concerns evaluating methods for extracting phonological information of Swedish Sign Language signs from video data with MediaPipe’s pose estimation. The methods involve estimating i) the articulation phase, ii) ...
    • Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition 

      Rommetveit, Kjetil; Ballo, Ingrid Foss; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and ...
    • Extraction of form factors from a four-dimensional angular analysis of ¯B→D∗ℓ−¯νℓ 

      Lees, Jean-Pierre; Poireau, Vincent; Tisserand, Vincent; Grauges, Eugeni; Palano, Antimo; Eigen, Gerald; Brown, David Nathan; Kolomensky, Yury G.; Fritsch, Miriam; Koch, Helmut; Schroeder, Torsten; Hearty, Christopher; Mattison, Tom S.; McKenna, Janis A.; So, Rocky Y.; Blinov, Vladimir E.; Buzykaev, Alexey; Druzhinin, Vladimir P.; Golubev, Vladimir B.; Kozyrev, Evgeny A.; Kravchenko, Evgeniy A.; Onuchin, Alexei P.; Serednyakov, Sergey I.; Skovpen, Yuri I.; Solodov, Evgeni Petrovich; Todyshev, Korneliy Yu.; Lankford, Andrew J.; Dey, Biplab; Gary, J. William; Long, Owen; Eisner, Alan M.; Lockman, William S.; Panduro-Vazquez, William; Chao, Daniel S.; Cheng, Chih-Hsiang; Echenard, Bertrand; Flood, Kevin T.; Hitlin, David G.; Kim, Jae; Lee, Myeongjae; Miyashita, Tomonari S.; Ongmongkolkul, Piti; Porter, Frank C.; Röhrken, Markus; Huard, Zachary; Meadows, Brian T.; Pushpawela, Buddhi G.; Sokoloff, Michael D.; Sun, Liang; Smith, Jim G.; BABAR, Collaboration (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-30)
      An angular analysis of the decay ¯B→D∗ℓ−¯νℓ, ℓ∈{e,μ}, is reported using the full e+e−collision data set collected by the BABAR experiment at the Υ(4S) resonance. One B meson from the Υ(4S)→B¯B decay is fully reconstructed ...
    • Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology 

      Parkkinen, Veli-Pekka; Williamson, Jon (Chapter, 2020)
      In this chapter we explore the process of extrapolating causal claims from model organisms to humans in pharmacology. We describe and compare four strategies of extrapolation: enumerative induction, comparative process ...
    • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Pakistan- A nation-wide multicenter retrospective study 

      Tahseen, Sabira; Khanzada, Faisal Masood; Baloch, Aurangzaib Quadir; Abbas, Qasim; Bhutto, Mansoor Manzoor; Alizai, Ahmad Wali; Zaman, Shah; Qasim, Zahida; Durrani, Muhammad Najeeb; Farough, M. Khalid; Ambreen, Atiqa; Safdar, Nauman; Mustafa, Tehmina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Pakistan is fifth among high burden countries for tuberculosis. A steady increase is seen in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), which now accounts for 20% of all notified TB cases. There is very limited ...
    • The extreme Arctic warm anomaly in November 2020 

      Fan, Qiyao; Xu, Xinping; He, Shengping; Zhou, Botao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In November 2020, the eastern Arctic experienced an extensive extreme warm anomaly (i.e., the second strongest case since 1979), which was followed by extreme cold conditions over East Asia in early winter. The observed ...
    • Extreme Event Statistics in Dst, SYM-H, and SMR Geomagnetic Indices 

      Bergin, A.; Chapman, Sandra; Watkins, N.W.; Moloney, N.R.; Gjerløv, Jesper (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Extreme space weather events are rare, and quantifying their likelihood is challenging, often relying on geomagnetic indices obtained from ground-based magnetometer observations that span multiple solar cycles. The Dst ...
    • Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobb's Farm, Cambridgeshire 

      Mazzilli, Francesca; Wiseman, Rob; Neil, Benjamin (Journal article, 2021)
      Excavations at Knobb's Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire, uncovered three small late Roman cemeteries, positioned at the edge of a farming settlement. The 52 burials found included 17 decapitated bodies and 13 prone burials ...
    • Extreme Levels of Ocean Acidification Restructure the Plankton Community and Biogeochemistry of a Temperate Coastal Ecosystem: A Mesocosm Study 

      Spisla, Carsten; Taucher, Jan; Bach, Lennart T; Haunost, Mathias; Boxhammer, Tim; King, Andrew L; Jenkins, Bettany D.; Wallace, Joselynn R.; Ludwig, Andrea; Meyer, Jana; Stange, Paul; Minutolo, Fabrizio; Lohbeck, Kai T.; Nauendorf, Alice; Kalter, Verena; Lischka, Silke; Sswat, Michael; Dörner, Isabel; Ismar-Rebitz, Stefanie M. H.; Aberle, Nicole; Yong, Jaw C; Bouquet, Jean-Marie; Lechtenbörger, Anna K.; Kohnert, Peter; Krudewig, Michael; Riebesell, Ulf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The oceans’ uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) decreases seawater pH and alters the inorganic carbon speciation – summarized in the term ocean acidification (OA). Already today, coastal regions experience episodic ...
    • Extreme wave runup on a steep coastal profile 

      Bjørnestad, Maria; Kalisch, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      It is shown that very steep coastal profiles can give rise to unexpectedly large wave events at the coast. We combine insight from exact solutions of a simplified mathematical model with photographs from observations at ...
    • Extremely Randomized Trees With Privacy Preservation for Distributed Structured Health Data 

      Aminifar, Amin; Matin, Shokri; Rabbi, Fazle; Pun, Violet Ka I; Lamo, Yngve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Artificial intelligence and machine learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the healthcare domain. The data used by machine learning algorithms in healthcare applications is often distributed over multiple ...
    • Eyebrow position in grammatical and emotional expressions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A quantitative study 

      Kimmelman, Vadim; Imashev, Alfarabi; Mukushev, Medet; Sandygulova, Anara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06)
      Facial expressions in sign languages are used to express grammatical functions, such as question marking, but can also be used to express emotions (either the signer’s own or in constructed action contexts). Emotions and ...
    • A Face to Love or Trust 

      Johansson, Christer; Folgerø, Per Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article demonstrates the use of a card sorting game that is suitable for field studies. Subjective judgment in face perception is studied by sorting faces based on attractiveness or trustworthiness. Are beautiful ...
    • Facebook as a public arena for women: infringing on democratic ideals and a cause of worry 

      Sakariassen, Hilde (Journal article, 2022)
      Facebook allows users to engage in public discourse. However, debates on social network sites are criticised for damaging democracy by adding to polarisation, limiting perspectives, and promoting a derogatory tone driven ...
    • Facet arthropathy evaluation: CT or MRI? 

      Berg, Linda; Thoresen, Hanne; Neckelmann, Gesche F; Furunes, Håvard; Hellum, Christian; Espeland, Ansgar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objective To assess the reliability of lumbar facet arthropathy evaluation with computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with and without lumbar disc prosthesis and to estimate the reliability ...
    • Facilitating microplastic quantification through the introduction of a cellulose dissolution step prior to oxidation: Proof-of-concept and demonstration using diverse samples from the Inner Oslofjord, Norway 

      Olsen, Linn Merethe Brekke; Knutsen, Heidi; Mahat, Sabnam; Wade, Emma Jane; Arp, Hans Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Identifying and quantifying microplastic in marine samples can be facilitated by removing natural organic matter (NOM). Cellulosic material, like chitin, however, are a type of NOM that is resistant to chemical digestion, ...
    • Facilitating new movement strategies: Equine assisted physiotherapy for children with cerebral palsy 

      Norrud, Brita Cecilie; Råheim, Målfrid; Sudmann, Tobba Therkildsen; Håkanson, Margareta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Equine Assisted Physiotherapy (EAPT) offers children with cerebral palsy (CP) opportunities for new movement experiences, and may influence movement qualities. Descriptions of how, and to what extent EAPT affects ...
    • Facilitators for use of oral healthcare services among people with substance use disorders: a qualitative study in Norway 

      Carlsen, Siv-Elin Leirvåg; Isaksen, Katja; Åstrøm, Anne-Kristine N; Fadnes, Lars T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective Opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) patients in Norway are eligible for free oral healthcare services; however, oral health morbidity remains high and the uptake of services among this patient group is low. As ...