The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents is increasing globally. In high-income countries, the prevalence of obesity has plateaued, although the rate is still high. Children with overweight and obesity are likely to stay obese into adulthood and tend to develop certain diseases, such as pulmonary, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, more frequently and at a younger ...

<i>Objective</i>: To investigate the association between eating habits and weight status in adolescents in Finland.<p><p> <i>Design</i>: Cross-sectional study.<p><p> <i>Setting</i>: The Finnish Health in Teens (Fin-HIT) study is a cohort study conducted in adolescents attending third to sixth grade in 496 schools in forty-four municipalities in Southern, Middle and Northern Finland in ...

We report from the initial steps of a collaboration project between two post-doctoral projects, both using a qualitative action research approach to address challenges related to shifting from a free text to a structured EPR system constituting important preconditions for establishing advanced decision support and reuse of healthcare data. We have started to explore three areas that may influence ...

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with diabetes, cancer, immunological and cardiovascular diseases as well as increased mortality. It has, however, been difficult to show a causal relation in randomized, controlled trials. Mendelian randomization studies provide another option for testing causality, and results indicate relations between the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level and some diseases, ...

Prior to this study, members of Canthyloscelidae, a small, relict family of nematocerous Diptera, have very occasionally been found in Fennoscandia. This led to the widely accepted opinion of canthyloscelids being rare elements of the regional fauna. New data presented here on the occurrence of the three European species suggest that this picture needs a more differentiated view. We report two ...

The public and political debate about Islam and Muslims in Norway have revolved around issues like topics of integration and “radicalisation” and the compatibility of Islam with democracy and “Western values”. Clothing related to Muslims – i.e. Muslim women – such as hijab, niqab, and burqa are in the public and political debate often referred to as examples that Islam is not compatible with “Norwegian” ...

This study investigates the labour on a Norwegian trawler through the study of tasks that are performed under the trawling operation. Study of tasks is one of the fundamental approaches to studying labour, and in this thesis, it is carried out using the technique of Hierarchical Task Analysis. This task analysis technique has been broadly and universally used in different industries for over 60 ...

Climate change has an inevitable natural impact on fisheries. Continually, several models made of both biological and economic factors are used to measure the effects of climate change on fish stocks. This study has as its objective to identify how climate change effect through carrying capacity affects the productivity and profitability of the cod stock in the Barents Sea. Two scenarios one with ...

Usage of triploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) have been of interest for salmon farmers to mitigate interbreeding between farmed and wild population, and to prevent early sexual maturation. Triploids tend to be more prone to develop skeletal deformities than diploids. This may result from inadequate rearing temperatures and/or diet formulation (i.e. low dietary phosphorus). The main objective ...

The paper deals with the bottom of the spectrum of a singularly perturbed second order elliptic operator defined in a thin cylinder and having locally periodic coefficients in the longitudinal direction. We impose a homogeneous Neumann boundary condition on the lateral surface of the cylinder and a generic homogeneous Fourier condition at its bases. We then show that the asymptotic behavior of the ...