Breast cancers today are of predominantly T1 (0.1 ≥ 2.0 cm) or T2 (>2 ≤ 5 cm) categories due to early diagnosis. Molecular profiling using microarrays has led to the notion of breast cancer as a heterogeneous disease both ...

We consider a backward stochastic di erential equation with jumps (BSDEJ) which is driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. We present two candidate-approximations to this BSDEJ and we prove that the ...

A general market model with memory is considered. The formulation is given in terms of stochastic functional di erential equations, which allow for exibility in the modeling of market memory and delays. We focus on the ...

Sensor nodes and complex event processing (CEP) are important and powerful means for gathering data and detecting phenomena of interest in mission-critical pervasive systems, e.g. for emergency and rescue operations. ...

This article presents the methodology used in a population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates communicative development inventories (CDI), ...

Background: There is an increasing awareness of the role of the cerebellum not only in motor, but also in cognitive and emotional functions. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is an autosomal dominant hereditary ataxia ...

TCTP has been implicated in a plethora of important cellular processes related to cell growth, cell cycle progression, malignant transformation and inhibition of apoptosis. In addition to these intracellular functions, ...

This paper argues that the common practice of benchmarking is inadequate as a scientific evaluation methodology. It further attempts to introduce the empirical tradition of the physical sciences by using techniques from ...

Background. The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis predicts a transition from scale-free Lévy walk (LW) to scale-specific Brownian motion (BM) as an animal moves from resource-poor towards resource-rich environment. However, ...

Artikkelbaserte avhandlinger blir gjerne til i en veksling mellom flere ulike skrivefaser. Man arbeider parallelt med flere artikler som er på forskjellige stadier når det gjelder tilbakemeldinger og bearbeiding. Disse ...

Objectives: When psychotherapy is open-ended, the question of termination is a matter for negotiation. A model based on both content and the process of ending may explain how ‘good enough’ psychotherapies can be brought ...

We find a maximum principle for processes driven by martingale random fields. We do so by describing the adjoint processes with non-anticipating stochastic derivatives. In the case of the Levy processes this mimics maximum ...

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Language is a common good and a common property. Access to information about language should be fast, easy, and intuitive. The electronic dictionary should therefore be a knowledge base with language as its access point, ...

12. konferanse om leksikografi i Norden, Oslo, 13.08.13 - 16.08.13.

ScriptingRT is a new open source tool to collect response latencies in online studies of human cognition. ScriptingRT studies run as Flash applets in enabled browsers. ScriptingRT provides the building blocks of response ...

In this paper we present some custom designed filters for real-time motion capture applications. Our target application is motion controllers, i.e. systems that interpret hand motion for musical interaction. In earlier ...

"It is not a contingent fact that I cannot bring it about, just like that, that I believe something . . . Why is this? One reason is connected with the characteristic of beliefs that they aim at the truth." (Williams ...

The collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised, and this study focuses on the ethanol preserved material in particular. Eighteen species are reported for the first time from Norway, ...

Simply supported plates of laminated composite material subjected to uniaxial in-plane compression have been investigated. The ultimate strength analysis has been performed using a semi-analytical method based on large ...

Numerical simulations using non-linear finite element analysis have been perform to study ship grounding. The results are compared with experimental tests which was performed in USA in 1995 and good agreement is achieved. ...

The conceptual starting point for an `action-sound approach' to teaching music technology is the acknowledgment of the couplings that exist in acoustic instruments between sounding objects, sound-producing actions and the ...

This paper presents an overview of techniques for creating visual displays of human body movement based on video recordings. First a review of early movement and video visualization techniques is given. Then follows an ...

The development of technology with all its ubiquity and pervasiveness provides new opportunities and new challenges for the interaction design practitioners, both those coming from the design tradition and computer science ...

De fleste numeriske likevektsmodeller er deterministiske mens den økonomien de skal beskrive er preget av mange typer usikkerhet. Vi presenterer en metode for å transformere en eksisterende modell for energimarkedene i ...

We consider a class of Hilbert-space valued SDE’s where the drift coefficients are non- Lipschitzian in the sense of Hölder-continuity. Using a novel technique based on Malliavin calculus we show in this paper the existence ...

This paper draws upon an institutional entrepreneurship perspective to analyse the relationship between development and technological change, specifically within the context of public health information systems in developing ...

The health sector in many developing countries is undergoing restructuring to meet set goals, especially the health related Millennium Development Goals. To be able to monitor the performance of the health sector, an ...

In order to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape, using the lens of innovation and innovation theory adds value to media research. This chapter gives a theoretical introduction to the concept ...

Prediction of year-class strength is a critical challenge for fisheries managers. Theoretically, predictions of recruitment should be better when they are based on estimates of cohort size taken close to the age of recruitment ...

Differential change in the phenology of predators and prey is a potentially important climate-mediated mechanism influencing populations. The match-mismatch hypothesis describes the effect of predator-prey population ...

The term coarticulation designates the fusion of small-scale events, such as single sounds and single sound-producing actions, into larger units of combined sound and body motion, resulting in qualitative new features at ...

We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological awareness) in first- and second-language learners. ...

Karl Evang (1902–81) var norsk helsedirektør fra 1938 til han gikk av for aldersgrensen i 1972. Mer enn noen annen enkeltperson i moderne tid formet han utviklingen av norsk helsevesen. Men Evangs «orden» var på mange måter ...

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Linear and Multilinear Algebra Volume 61, Issue 3, 2013. Published online: 07 Jun 2012. Copyright Taylor & Francis, available online

Joint International Meeting of the AMS and the Romanian Mathematical Society, Alba Iulia, 2013-06-27-2013-06-30.

Denne rapporten presenterer resultater fra forskningsprosjektet ”Utenlandsadopterte barns tidlige utvikling i sine nye familier” som gjennomføres ved Institutt for spesialpedagogikk, Universitetet i Oslo. Prosjektet startet ...

Understanding the drivers (internal and external) that determine the productivity of marine ecosystems is challenging. For example, the correct estimate of recruitment is essential to estimate fish stock abundance. In this ...

J. Noncommut. Geom. 7 (2013), 525–546 Copyright 2013 European Mathematical Society.

Background: The literature describing neurocognitive function in patients with late-life depression (LLD) show inconsistent findings in regard to incidence and main deficits. Reduced information processing speed is in some ...

Population growth is affected by several factors such as climate, species interaction and harvesting pressure. However, additional complexity can arise if fishing increases the sensitivity to environmental variability. To ...

Current evidence of phenological responses to recent climate change is substantially biased towards northern hemisphere temperate regions. Given regional differences in climate change, shifts in phenology will not be uniform ...

In this paper, we present a Child-to-Child method (C2C) for co-designing with children for younger children. The method is illustrated using a design case, where an interactive space for young children in Children’s Museum ...

Objective The subject of research methods is not commonly covered in continuing professional development (CPD) courses in spite of its emphasis in undergraduate education. This initiative aimed to develop postgraduate ...

Objectives: To describe the panoramic radiographic and CT features of cherubism in an unselected series of 15 adults. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 15 individuals aged 29–84 years with familial non-syndromal ...

Objectives Patients with advanced cancer are often admitted to hospital as emergency cases. This may not always be medically indicated. Study objectives were to register the reasons for the emergency admissions, to examine ...

Objective To investigate urine albumin leakage as a marker of endothelial dysfunction in migraine patients. Design A population-based health study. Participants 303 patients with migraine, 1009 patients with non-migraine ...

The purpose of this study was to establish and validate a driving simulator method for assessing drug effects on driving. To achieve this, we used ethanol as a positive control, and examined whether ethanol affects driving ...

Fatigue in muscles that shorten might have other causes than fatigue during isometric contractions, since both cross-bridge cycling and energy demand are different in the two exercise modes. While isometric contractions ...

Adsorption and assembly of colloidal particles at the surface of liquid droplets are at the base of particle-stabilized emulsions and templating. Here we report that electrohydrodynamic and electro-rheological effects in ...

Objectives Gestational and chronological age may have an impact on myocardial function. We studied the longitudinal changes of the atrioventricular tissue Doppler velocities in premature infants through the neonatal ...

Background: Chronic neck pain after whiplash associated disorders (WAD) may lead to reduced displacement and peak velocity of neck movements. Dynamic neck movements in people with chronic WAD are also reported to display ...

Background: In some European countries and the US it is mandatory to assess and treat pain. In Pubmed there are more than 240 papers when searching for “skin conductance” and “pain”. Aims: The aim is to review the utility ...

Brown adipose tissue has gained interest as a potential target to treat obesity and metabolic diseases. Irisin is a newly identified hormone secreted from skeletal muscle enhancing browning of white fat cells, which improves ...

Reliable, sensitive and automatable analytical methodology is of great value in e.g. cancer diagnostics. In this context, an on-line system for enzymatic cleavage of proteins, subsequent peptide separation by liquid ...

Genes encoding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have been thought to play a vital role in the adaptive immune system in all vertebrates. The discovery that Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) has lost important components ...

Objective: To assess the effects of an intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients with early to mid-stage Huntington’s disease. Design: A prospective intervention study. Setting: Two Norwegian ...

Communication of a multivariate Gaussian source transmitted over orthogonal additive white Gaussian noise channels using delay-free joint source channel codes (JSCC) is studied in this paper. Two scenarios are considered: ...

Six transmembrane protein of prostate (Stamp) proteins play an important role in prostate cancer cell growth. Recently, we found that Stamp2 has a critical role in the integration of inflammatory and metabolic signals in ...

EU expert institutions delivering policy advice about the promise of emerging technologies, help frame the issues that technologies might address. Their assumptions about European contexts for technology futures therefore ...

This article focuses on the effect of dispersion in the field of tsunami modeling. Frequency dispersion in the linear long-wave limit is first briefly discussed from a theoretical point of view. A single parameter, denoted ...

I 1913 fikk norske kvinner stemmerett på lik linje med menn. I artikkelen gis et 100-årsperspektiv på hva dette har betydd politisk. Vi følger kvinnenes manøvrering og alliansebygging i stemmerettsdebattene rundt 1900, vi ...

Despite limited regeneration capacity, partial injuries to the adult mammalian spinal cord can elicit variable degrees of functional recovery, mediated at least in part by reorganization of neuronal circuitry. Underlying ...

Objective Alpha-tocopherol is the main vitamin E compound in humans, and has important antioxidative and immunomodulatory properties. The aim of this study was to study alpha-tocopherol concentrations and their relationship ...

Background Serum markers of inflammation are candidate biomarkers in multiple sclerosis (MS). ω-3 fatty acids are suggested to have anti-inflammatory properties that might be beneficial in MS. We aimed to explore the ...

The concept of authority has become increasingly palatable to scholars in law, political science and philosophy when describing, explaining and assessing global governance. While many now seem to agree that applying authority ...

In this paper, we discuss the dual role of the iPad among the teenage high school students using the tablet as a 1-1 (one tablet per student) educational tool. On one hand, the iPad is a personal, mobile and cool piece of ...

The paper presents a non-realtime implementation of the sonomotiongram method, a method for the sonification of motiongrams. Motiongrams are spatiotemporal displays of motion from video recordings, based on frame-differencing ...

An interaction of internal solitary waves with the shelf edge in the time periods related to the presence of a pronounced seasonal pycnocline in the Red Sea and in the Alboran Sea is analysed via satellite photos and SAR ...

Active Queue Management (AQM) design has again come into the spotlight of network operators, vendors and OS developers. This reflects the growing concern and sensitivity about the end-to-end latency perceived by today’s ...

Background Biomarkers to differentiate between active tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) and to monitor treatment responses are requested to complement TB diagnostics and control, particularly in patients ...

© 2013 Bye et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...

To realize our goals we continuously adapt our behavior according to internal or external feedback. Errors provide an important source for such feedback and elicit a scalp electrical potential referred to as the error-related ...

Age-related changes in brain structure result from a complex interplay among various neurobiological processes, which may contribute to more complex trajectories than what can be described by simple linear or quadratic ...

Background: Data about delayed tuberculosis diagnosis in Northern Russia are scarce yet such knowledge could enhance the care of tuberculosis. The Arkhangelsk region is situated in the north of Russia, where the population ...

The lack of recovery in Norwegian populations of the kelp Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C. E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G. W. Saunders after a large-scale disturbance that occurred sometime between the late 1990s and early ...

There is growing evidence that climate and anthropogenic influences on marine ecosystems are largely manifested by changes in species spatial dynamics. However, less is known about how shifts in species distributions might ...

The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these ...

Parallels between patterns of brain maturation and cognitive development have been observed repeatedly, but studies directly testing the relationships between improvements in specific cognitive functions and structural ...

Biochar addition to agricultural soils can improve soil fertility, with the added bonus of climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Conservation farming (CF) is precision farming, often combining minimum ...

Background. Alcohol has several social consequences that are associated with increased risk of tuberculosis. However, there have been no studies assessing the links between tuberculosis and alcohol consumption in northwest ...

This paper presents research on polar cap ionosphere space weather phenomena conducted during the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action ES0803 from 2008 to 2012. The main part of the work has been ...

We report the development of OikoBase (http://oikoarrays.biology.uiowa.edu/Oiko/), a tiling array-based genome browser resource for Oikopleura dioica, a metazoan belonging to the urochordates, the closest extant group to ...

The present distribution of the invasive slug Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon was studied in Norway. This important pest species has spread to many parts of Europe during the last decades, inflicting damage to agriculture and ...

Article 344 TFEU forbids Member States to pursue any other means of dispute settlement, when issues regarding the application and interpretation of the Treaties are concerned. The Court of Justice extended this principle ...

A first long-term monitoring of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Antarctic air has been conducted at the Norwegian research station Troll (Dronning Maud Land). As target contaminants 32 PCB congeners, α- ...

Satellite measurements of atmospheric trace gases have proved to be an invaluable tool for monitoring the Earth system. When these measurements are to be used for assessing tropospheric emissions and pollution, as for ...

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the correlations between the emitted particles can be used as a probe to gain insight into the charge creation mechanisms. In this Letter, we report the first results of such studies ...

“The inclusion of article 260(3) TFEU adopted as part of the Lisbon Treaty changed the landscape of infringement proceedings. The provision grants the Commission the power to propose monetary sanctions already during the ...

FcRn is a key player in several immunological and non-immunological processes, as it mediates maternal-fetal transfer of IgG, regulates the serum persistence of IgG and albumin, and transports both ligands between different ...

We here report a novel phage display selection strategy enabling fast and easy selection of thermostabilized proteins. The approach is illustrated with stabilization of an aggregation-prone soluble single chain T cell ...

We study presentations of Cox rings of K3 surfaces of Picard number 2. In particular we consider the Cox rings of classical examples of K3 surfaces, such as quartic surfaces containing a line and doubly elliptic K3 surfaces.

We present the first wide-range measurement of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density distribution, for different centralities (the 0–5%, 5–10%, 10–20%, and 20–30% most central events) in Pb–Pb collisions at View the ...

The heating of the Sun's chromosphere remains poorly understood. While progress has been made on understanding what drives the quiet-Sun internetwork chromosphere, chromospheric heating in strong magnetic field regions ...