International health and physiotherapy research has developed over the last few decades through the use and further development of a wide range of scientific theories. This enables researchers to address current issues more appropriately and contribute to change. In German-speaking countries, this diversity of scientific grounding has yet to be developed. The common distinction between quantitative ...

Hjerneslag rammer om lag 12 000 mennesker i Norge hvert år, og er en av de hyppigste dødsårsakene globalt. Prognosen korrelerer sterkt med tid fra symptomdebut til behandling. Trombolysebehandling bør gis så fort som mulig innen 4,5 timer. I Nord-Norge er det store avstander, og det kan være lang transporttid fra distrikt til sykehus. Målet med denne oppgaven er å se om det er like muligheter for ...

In this study, we aimed to provide novel evidence on the impact of changing lifestyle habits on cancer risk. In the EPIC cohort, 295,865 middle-aged participants returned a lifestyle questionnaire at baseline and during follow-up. At both timepoints, we calculated a healthy lifestyle index (HLI) score based on cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index and physical activity. HLI ranged ...

Introduction: This study investigates how Sámi traditional knowledge is integrated in science teacher education in Norway, and what teacher educators declare about its potential contribution to sustainable development.<p> <p>Methods: Data was collected through an anonymous electronic survey and analyzed by means of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Thirty-nine respondents from 15 teacher ...

Long-range correlations manifested as power spectral density scaling 1/<i>f^β</i> for frequency f and a range of exponents <i>β</i> are investigated for a superposition of uncorrelated pulses with distributed durations τ. Closed-form expressions for the frequency power spectral density are derived for a one-sided exponential pulse function and several variants of bounded and unbounded ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated many fundamental and challenging implications regarding security, for both states and people. This article addresses the pandemic as a security threat, whereby societal and human dimensions of security are intertwined with the narrower (so-called traditional) state dimensions, culminating in comprehensive security. This article uses mixed methods, combining desk ...

Mounting evidence indicates the involvement of neuroinflammation in the development of schizophrenia (SCZ), but the potential role of astroglia in this phenomenon remains poorly understood. We assessed the molecular and functional consequences of inflammasome activation using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived astrocytes generated from SCZ patients and healthy controls (CTRL). Screening ...

Spesialisering innen hjertesykdommer har over lengre tid vært populært og rekrutteringssterkt, men det er ingen oversikt over hvor mange leger i spesialisering (LIS) i hjertesykdommer som jobber ved norske sykehus. Det er også til en viss grad uvisst hvordan LIS i hjertesykdommer opplever spesialiseringsløpet, arbeidsforholdene og arbeidsmiljø. I et forsøk på å kartlegge disse forholdene sendte ...

Natural transformation is the ability of a bacterial cell to take up extracellular DNA which is subsequently available for recombination into the chromosome (or maintenance as an extrachromosomal element). Like other mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer, natural transformation is a significant driver for the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. Recent studies have shown that many pharmaceutical ...

Xenophyophores are large, agglutinated foraminifera that dominate the benthic megafauna in some parts of the deep sea. Here, we describe an assemblage of largely fragmentary specimens from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an area of the eastern abyssal Pacific hosting large, commercially significant deposits of polymetallic nodules. We recognised 18 morphospecies of which eight yielded DNA sequences. ...