Summary The validity of forearm fracture diagnoses recorded in fve Norwegian hospitals was investigated using image reports and medical records as gold standard. A relatively high completeness and correctness of the diagnoses was found. Algorithms used to defne forearm fractures in administrative data should depend on study purpose.<p> <p>Purpose In Norway, forearm fractures are routinely recorded ...

Objective: Criminality rates are higher among persons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and evidence that medication reduces crime is limited. Medication rates between clinics vary widely even within universal health care systems, partly because of providers’ treatment preferences. We used this variation to estimate causal effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on 4-year ...

The Tromsø dialect situation today is probably typical of many Northern Norwegian town dialects. It has developed from an old local non-standard speech variety which was very similar to the present local rural dialects. What clearly distinguishes the modern town version, as spoken by young people today, from the old one, however, is the inclusion of a significant number of bokmål features. This study ...

Robust estimates of climate sensitivity are important for decision-making on mitigation of climate change. However, climate sensitivity and its governing processes are still subject to large uncertainty. Recently it has been established that climate sensitivity changes over time in numerical climate model experiments with abrupt quadrupling of the CO₂ concentration. Here we conduct an ...

Natt til 30.desember 2020 gikk det et kvikkleireskred i Gjerdrum og en lang og krevende redningsaksjon ble satt i gang. Redningsaksjonen involverte en rekke aktører, både offentlige, private og frivillige organisasjoner. Samvirke er et sentralt begrep i slike redningsaksjoner. Kvikkleireskredet på Gjerdrum viste hvordan det norske beredskapssamvirket fungerer på sitt beste. I tillegg til et godt ...

This study seeks to examine the proposed anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, introduced to the Ghanaian Parliament in 2021 entitled Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights, and Ghanaian Family Values Bill,2021. The main objective of the study is to trace the reasons leading to the introduction of the proposed Bill and to propose recommendations, borrowing from Peace study approaches, to affecting the LGBTQ+ community ...

This study examines the use of the signifier "populism" in the political discourse of New Democracy, Greece's ruling party, and attempts to connect it to broader political and ideological antagonisms and goals. Specifically, the study focuses on a 42-month period during which three significant consecutive crises occurred and attempts to identify the specific meanings and functions that "populism" ...

"Beyond the Uniform: Analysing the Nexus of Privilege Violence and Militarisation of Public Security in the Context of Colombian Protests of 2019 & 2021" explores the impact of militarisation on civil-military relations during the Colombian protests of 2019 and 2021. The study analyses the behaviour of state security forces, with particular emphasis on traditional law and order maintenance police ...

The Svalbard Treaty confers full and absolute sovereignty of Svalbard’s land and territorial waters of the Svalbard archipelago to Norway. It also stipulates that all states that have ratified the Treaty enjoy equal right of access to the land and the territorial waters. Following the development in the Law of the Sea in the seventies, which allowed coastal states to establish an exclusive economic ...

The Scandinavian concept of friluftsliv has become established in the international literature on outdoor life. However, when emphasising fri-luftsliv as a recreational way of outdoor life, other understandings and nuances are disguised. With a post-colonial and Indigenous methodolo-gical perspective, the authors argue that the Sámi words olggonastin, meahcástallan and olggustállan are often more ...