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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article looks at the role that the European Parliament (EP), as the only democratically elected EU institution, plays in ensuring transparency in the EU’s newly concluded free trade and investment agreements (FTIAs). ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The EU’s new Free Trade and Investment Agreements (FTIAs) are meant to tackle many of the issues that led to the contestation of international investment law, by increasing the control of the contracting parties over the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background
Patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Our aim was to compare CVD risk profiles in patients with IJD, including rheumatoid arthritis ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, © ESO 2017
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
An alternating sign matrix, or ASM, is a (0, ±1)-matrix where the nonzero entries in each row and column alternate in sign. We generalize this notion to hypermatrices: an n × n × n hypermatrix A = [aijk] is an alternating ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The continuation of the Caledonides into the Barents Sea has long been a subject of discussion, and two major orientations of the Caledonian deformation fronts have been suggested: NNW-SSE striking and NE-SW striking. A ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Stochastic models for forward electricity prices are of great relevance nowadays, given the major structural changes in the market due to the increase of renewable energy in the production mix. In this study, we derive a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Socioscientific issues receive considerable public attention and there are concerns that people in general are not able or willing to deal with information at odds with what they believe to be true. In this study, we focused ...
Use of medicines, adherence and attitudes to medicines among persons with chronic spinal cord injury
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Objectives: To describe the use of medicines and adherence among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Further, to examine the influence of pain, spasms and beliefs about medicines on adherence.
Methods: Persons (18 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Objective: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable psychiatric condition. By exploiting the reported relationship between ADHD and educational attainment (EA), we aimed to improve ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The development of renewable energy is one manifestation of current transformations in the organisation of European energy production and markets. To illuminate the changes triggered by renewable energy policy, the evolution ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Å lese og navigere på nettet handler om leseres atferdsmønster når de leser nett-tekster, og forener innsikt fra tekstvitenskap og leseforskning. Det sentrale begrepet navigasjon i nett-tekster innebærer å manøvrere mellom ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Helsevesenet har utviklet seg på en nokså organisk måte, i stor grad «nedenfra» eller innenfra, men slik at innslaget av re/konstruksjon ovenfra har tiltatt, spesielt etter styrings- og ledelsesrevolusjonen fra midt i ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Curriculum content, the issue of what to teach is fundamental. For students with intellectual disabilities (ID), the choice of educational content is crucial in a life span perspective. Curriculum research for this learner ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this communication, we report the synthesis and characterization of a library of small molecule antagonists of the human gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor based upon the 2-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-4-piperazinyl-benzimidazole ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Spike sorting is a critical first step in extracting neural signals from large-scale electrophysiological data. This manuscript describes an efficient, reliable pipeline for spike sorting on dense multi-electrode arrays ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
An experimental observation of the structuring of a granular suspension under the progress of a gas/liquid meniscus in a narrow tube is reported here. The granular material is moved and compactifies as a growing accumulation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We generalize a recent construction of Exel and Pardo, from discrete groups acting on finite directed graphs to locally compact groups acting on topological graphs. To each cocycle for such an action, we construct a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The home environment is the first environment to shape childhood dietary habits and food preferences, hence greater understanding of home environmental factors associated with vegetable consumption among young children is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a call for all countries to move towards ‘Universal Health Coverage’ (UHC). The WHO defines UHC as «ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventative, curative ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A passive sampling device, the Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler (POCIS), was calibrated in-situ over a 4-week period in Oslo (Norway) for 10 illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals with the goal of developing an approach ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Rationale, aims, and objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is widely recommended and implemented. However, sometimes CRC screening is not implemented despite good evidence, and some types of CRC screening are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2017)
I derive the polar representation of Fieller's estimation of confidence sets for ratios and construct a polar plot of the test statistics for all angles associated with the ratios. This procedure helps in visualizing and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in how students make sense of physics concepts, but there is as of yet little consensus on what it actually means for students to "make sense" of physics. We propose a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Artemisia afra (Jacq. Ex. Willd), is an indigenous plant in South Africa and other parts of the African continent, where it is used as traditional medicine mostly for respiratory conditions. The objective of this study was ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Ultramafic pseudotachylytes have been regarded as earthquake fossils formed at mantle depths (i.e., >30 km). Here we show that pseudotachylytes hosted by ultramafic rocks from three localities have distinct magnetic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Jan Ragnar Hagland argued in volume 32 of this journal that the runic inscription on the Kuli stone, which provides the ear-liest Norwegian attestation of the toponym Norway, extends the late medieval duality of the second ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Chorismate mutase is a well‐known model enzyme, catalyzing the Claisen rearrangement of chorismate to prephenate. Recent high‐resolution crystal structures along the reaction coordinate of this enzyme enabled computational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Although pregnancy is known to cause changes in drug pharmacokinetics, little is known about its impact on serum levels of antipsychotics. In this study we retrospectively assessed 201 routine serum antipsychotic therapeutic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
It is important to include accessibility testing in software development to ensure that the software developed is usable by as many people as possible, independent of their capabilities. Few guidelines exist on how to ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Roland Barthes maintained that writing is not merely a technological process but also a physical, sensory experience. It involves the pleasure of sitting in front of a blank page made of good quality paper, of choosing a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The wave of uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” that swept over the Middle East and North Africa from December 2010 to early 2013 left its imprint on the political and social life in the countries concerned. This transient ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
By the modified directed likelihood, higher order accurate confidence limits for a scalar parameter are obtained from the likelihood. They are conveniently described in terms of a confidence distribution, that is a sample ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2017)
We model the symbiotic relationship between criminals and a part- nership of protection providers - the Firm. In the absence of state au- thority, insecurity and crime generate a demand for protection. When the protection ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We investigate the convergence rates of numerical schemes for degenerate convection diffusion equations. Recent results bound these rates as 1∕3 in one space dimension and 2∕(19 + d) in several space dimension. In our ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this chapter, Bragstad and Foss highlight key methodological challenges and lessons learned when studying complex care transitions from a quantitative perspective. Key challenges with regard to designing and planning ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this paper, we propose a new multivariate model for the dynamics of regional ocean freight rates. We show that a cointegrated system of regional spot freight rates can be decomposed into a common non-stationary market ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Preparing for international military collaboration includes raising knowledge about cultural differences. The differences in individualism–collectivism between countries are among the most central aspects likely to impact ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this paper, we examine infrastructuring in the context of developing national, public eHealth services in Norway. Specifically, we analyze the work of a project team engaged in the design and development of new web-based ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In its orthodoxy standard frequentist statistics deals only with aleatory probability, suppressing the intuitive epistemic probability representing inferential uncertainty. Confidence distributions, which are posterior ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Set in the urban-rural continuum of Thessaloniki, this paper explores the grounded social activities of certain groups, committed to building a social economy of distributing food without intermediaries. In the light of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background
Studies on adults suggest that the presence of comorbid depression and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with an elevated risk of self-harming behaviours and that self-harming ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Twentieth-century art music, according to dominant narratives, variously oscillates between extremes of progression and retrospect, and unity and multiplicity. While the music of György Ligeti displays qualities from both ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersionPublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)