Aims - The aims of this study were to assess quality of life after hip fractures, to characterize respondents to patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and to describe the recovery trajectory of hip fracture patients.<p> <p>Methods - Data on 35,206 hip fractures (2014 to 2018; 67.2% female) in the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register were linked to data from the Norwegian Patient Registry and ...

The Sunnhordland area in SW Norway hosts more than 100 known mineral occurrences, mostly of volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) and orogeny Au types. The VMS mineralization is hosted by plutonic, volcanic and sedimentary lithologies of the Lower Ordovician ophiolitic complexes. This study presents new trace element and δ ³⁴S data from VMS deposits hosted by gabbro and basalt of the ...

Nowadays, most people have a smartphone that can track their everyday activities. Furthermore, a significant number of people wear advanced smartwatches to track several vital biomarkers in addition to activity data. However, it is still unclear how these data can actually be used to improve certain aspects of people’s lives. One of the key challenges is that the collected data is often massive ...

Denne studien presenterer resultatene av et prosjekt som ble utviklet i samarbeid med avdelingsledere innenfor hjemmetjenester og sykehjem. Studien viser at å benytte digital etisk refleksjon kan øke graden av refleksjon og fremme den etiske bevisstheten hos den enkelte pleier. Digital etisk refleksjon gjorde pleierne mer oppmerksom på behovet for å ha en arena å gjøre dypere etiske diskusjoner på. ...

When performing operation of the energy system in a building, it is difficult to accurately represent the uncertain long-term objectives in the short-term window, and the correlation between long-term objectives. This work investigates a strategic modelling framework for representing long-term incentives during short-term operational planning for an energy system within flexible buildings. Multi-stage ...

The multi-step retrosynthesis problem can be solved by a search algorithm, such as Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS). The performance of multistep retrosynthesis, as measured by a trade-off in search time and route solvability, therefore depends on the hyperparameters of the search algorithm. In this paper, we demonstrated the effect of three MCTS hyperparameters (number of iterations, tree depth, and ...

Practical applications of microwave imaging often require the solution of inverse scattering problems with inhomogeneous backgrounds. Toward this end, a novel inversion strategy, which combines the multiscaling (MS) regularization scheme and the difference contraction integral equation (DCIE) formulation, is proposed. Such an integrated approach mitigates the nonlinearity and the ill-posedness of ...

Of the 158 million things housed by the Smithsonian Institution, about 56 objects originate from Sámi communities. By all accounts a small group of objects—even by the standards of the Arctic collections at the Institution—it may be easily overlooked or dismissed as insignificant, based on entrenched ideologies about idealized collections. Presenting a community-based methodology for the engagement ...

Background: Cerebral autoregulation is the mechanism that allows to maintain the stability of cerebral blood flow despite changes in cerebral perfusion pressure. Maneuvers which increase intrathoracic pressure, such as the application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), have been always challenged in brain injured patients for the risk of increasing intracranial pressure (ICP) and altering ...

In this work, we have studied the microsolvation of phenol in water. We started by identifying initial configurations of phenol-water clusters using classical molecular dynamics. The configurations are optimised at the ωB97XD/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. To understand the interaction between phenol and the solvating water molecules, we performed a quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis. ...