<p><i>Introduction:</i> The majority of pregnant women in Georgia attend the free-of-charge, national antenatal care (ANC) programme, but over 5% of pregnancies in the country are unattended. Moreover, Georgia has one of the highest perinatal mortality (PM) rates in Europe (11.7/1000 births). <p><i>Purpose:</i> To assess the association between unattended pregnancies and the risk of PM. <p><i>Methods:</i> ...

Background - Decision coaching is non-directive support delivered by a trained healthcare provider to help people prepare to actively participate in making healthcare decisions. This study aimed to understand how and under what circumstances decision coaching works for people making healthcare decisions.<p> <p>Methods - We followed the realist review methodology for this study. This study was ...

<i>Purpose</i> – The purpose is to understand how attitudes, norms (injunctive and descriptive), and perceived behavioral control (PBC) (capacity and autonomy) influence intention to publish Open Access (OA), and how personal innovativeness in information technology (PIIT) affects attitude and PBC.<p> <p><i>Design/methodology/approach</i> – This study employs an integrated and extended theory of ...

The field of buildings, health and human experiences may be divided between conditions (a) with scientific support for causal relations between exposure and health effects, e.g. dampness in buildings and asthma exacerbation; (b) lacking such scientific support, e.g. “sick building syndrome” (SBS). b) conditions are often disregarded as imaginations, psychogenic etc. Traditional ideas are (1) ...

We point out problems with the article Productivity beyond density: A critique of management models for reindeer pastoralism in Norway by Marin and co-workers published in Pastoralism in 2020. In our opinion, there are several misleading claims about the governance of the reindeer pastoralist system in Norway, the Røros model for herd management and density dependence in reindeer herds in their ...

Evaporative flux from soils in arid and semi-arid climates can be very high and may substantially reduce soil moisture retained between infrequent rainfall events. Direct measurement of the evaporative losses from soils is technically challenging. However, environmental tracers such as water stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope composition can be used to calculate evaporation rates if the initial ...

Arbeidet med Universitetsbibliotekets brukerundersøkelse 2022 ble gjennomført av Aili Sarre, Linnea Nordström, Marit Bull Enger og Stian Lillejord. Gruppen ble satt ned høsten 2021 og startet arbeidet i november 2021. Oversettelse til engelsk ble gjort av Ellen Nierenberg. <p> <p>Dette er den tredje undersøkelsen Universitetsbiblioteket har gjennomført med et intervall på om lag tre år. Denne ...

This article presents stories of life from Venembeli, a remote village in the hinterlands of Papua New Guinea. Caught up in a contentious mining development, villagers both long for and fear the development promised by global capitalism. But with a forty year development history, the proposed Wafi-Golpu mine has become the only lens through which the present or future is imagined and understood. We ...

For a ski guide, updating on the ever-changing natural conditions and group dynamics is essential to stay safe and provide a good experience for clients. In this paper, we explore how guides update their understanding in the mountains. Our data arise out of a one-season participant ethnography of ski guiding in Norway. The research team had two authors collecting data, one as an “outsider” and another ...