Aim - While modern treatment has improved rectal cancer (RC) survival, it can cause late side effects that impact health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of this study was to evaluate HRQoL and late effects 1 year after diagnosis in patients who underwent major resection for Stage I–III RC.<p> <p>Method - All patients with RC registered in the Cancer Registry of Norway between 1 January ...

This paper carries out an initial assessment of the integration of the ecosystem approach in the recently adopted agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). The analysis seeks to assess whether or not such integration is likely to be effective. In this respect, this paper follows up on earlier analyses offered during the ...

During the Paleocene and Eocene, many Arctic basins experienced multiple, yet synchronous periods of increased sedimentation rates. Several causal factors have been suggested including major volcanic events, tectonic plate reorganization and plate break-up, as well as widespread uplift along with contemporaneous and short-lived hyperthermal events. However, the significance of and relation between ...

Forskning viser at kroppsøvingsfaget ikke lykkes med å inkludere alle elever i like stor grad. For å lykkes med inkludering er det derfor nødvendig å utforske nye pedagogiske tilnærminger. Denne studien undersøker hvorvidt samarbeidslæring (SL) som pedagogisk modell kan bidra til å skape et mer inkluderende klassemiljø. Problemstillingen som undersøkes, er: Hvordan erfarer lærer og elever samarbeidslæring ...

Oppgavens tema er bevisforbud som følge av utilbørlig bevisinnhenting. Denne avhandlingen søker å klarlegge rekkevidden av begrepet utilbørlig, samt balansegangen mellom de overordnede hensynene som gjør seg gjeldende ved håndheving av tvl. § 22-7 i lys av den teknologiske utviklingen som har skjedd de siste årene. I avhandlingen vil det blant annet undersøkes hvilket gjennomslag personvernhensynet ...

Deep Neural networks has pushed the boundary for what is achievable in the field of machine learning. At its core the Neural network maps data from an input space, to a highly abstract latent space. The representations of these latent mappings are critical for the neural networks ability to perform the task it is given. However critical, our knowledge on these abstract representations in the latent ...

Tema for avhandlingen er barns rettslige vern mot mishandling i nære relasjoner. Det sentrale i avhandlingen vil være å undersøke hvilke menneskerettslig vern barn har, samt å klarlegge hvor den nedre grensen for straffansvar etter straffeloven § 282 ligger.

Oppgaven ser på hvordan de økonomiske forskjellene mellom menn og kvinner, bidrar til at kvinner er i en økt risiko for å komme i en dårlig økonomisk situasjon etter endt ekteskap, som følge av utviklingen av skjevdelingsbestemmelsen.

There is an urgent need to promote a sustainable entrepreneurial mindset in Higher Education (HE) across fields and disciplines, to address the deficit of new and innovative value creation activities and bring about necessary transformations towards sustainability. This can be strategically achieved by educating new generations of entrepreneurs in tackling the sustainability challenges of our times ...

Background - Women with South Asian ethnicity have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared with white women of European descent, especially after gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Central obesity and adipose tissue dysfunction have been linked to their higher risk of T2DM, but the mechanisms are not known. We hypothesize that low-grade, persistent immune cell activation ...