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  Use of non-prescription (OTC) analgesics - utilization pattern and user characteristics in Norway, The Tromsø study: Tromsø 6 

  Salomonsson, Håkan Edvin Johannes (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-07-21)

  Background: Drug policies in western countries, as well as countries in most other parts of the world, support self-medication with Over-The-Counter (OTC) drugs. The switch from prescription (Rx)-to-OTC has been most common in the Nordic countries, Great Britain and Germany in the last decades and deregulations were done to make it possible to sell OTC analgesics other places than under the pharmacy ...
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  CorpOperatio: Game-inspired App for Encouraging Outdoor Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities 

  Haugland, Vebjørn (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-31)

  This thesis presents a serious mobile exergame for people with intellectual disabilities, to help people with intellectual disability be more physically active. Exergames are games with the purpose of physically engaging the user in the gameplay, and intervenes with sedentariness and repetitive behavior. The game is based around the use of augmented reality, which is described as bringing 3D virtual ...
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  AGA: A Game-Inspired Mobile Application for Promoting Physical Activity in People With Intellectual Disabilities 

  Wiik, Marius Foshaug (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-31)

  Obesity and other health problems have a high prevalence in people with intellectual disabilities. Many lead a sedentary lifestyle and often have low scores on fitness indicators such as muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. The purpose of this research is to identify design techniques and features of a mobile application that can help promote physical activity in people with intellectual ...
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  Hyperprov: Blockchain-based Data Provenance using Hyperledger Fabric 

  Tunstad, Petter (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-31)

  With data intensive computing helping advance state-of-the-art in varied fields, data provenance and lineage continue to remain formidable challenges in assisting with integrity and reproducibility in research and applications. This is particularly challenging for distributed scenarios, where data may be originating from decentralized sources without any centralized control by a single trusted entity. ...
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  The DOAJ Spring Cleaning 2016 and What Was Removed — Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? 

  Frantsvåg, Jan Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-27)

  In December 2012, DOAJ’s (The Directory of Open Access Journals) parent company, IS4OA, announced they would introduce new criteria for inclusion in DOAJ and that DOAJ would collect vastly more information from journals as part of the accreditation process—journals already included would need to reapply in order to be kept in the registry. My working hypothesis was that the journals removed from ...

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