The literature on product variety provides great insights into various businesses. However, little research has been conducted on product variety in the healthcare industry. This study aims to explore the influence of product variety on inventory in hospitals. Since most hospitals are known to replenish products using a homegrown ad-hoc system, a model is developed for exploring all possible ...

This paper introduces a fusion convolutional architecture for efficient learning of spatio-temporal features in video action recognition. Unlike 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs), 3D CNNs can be applied directly on consecutive frames to extract spatio-temporal features. The aim of this work is to fuse the convolution layers from 2D and 3D CNNs to allow temporal encoding with fewer parameters ...

Track geometry is a fundamental subject in railway construction. With the demand for increased capacity in terms of load and speed, the need for suitable transitions between consecutive track sections is highly relevant. Properly constructed transition curves lead to improved travel comfort, increased safety, and reduced wear. The well known clothoid curve is widely used as a transition curve; ...

There is limited research done on whether Norway is in the process of shifting its security focus away from a transatlantic focus to a European focus. Such a shift would be completely unthinkable until recently, on grounds of Norwegian dependency of the US as its main security provider. Is this still the case? It is interesting to see what kind of effect the changes in international relations has ...

Hensikten med denne studien har vært å se på hvordan den politiske tilliten påvirkes når sentrale interesser står i motsetning til lokale interesser, og tar utgangspunkt i langtidsplanen for forsvarssektorens vedtak om å legge ned Andøya flystasjon. Dette skapte stor motstand i den nordnorske periferien, og studien benytter seg av Rokkans skillelinjemodell for å se på hvilke ressurser de perifere ...

Are there any queer Norwegian films? How would one find out about it? The main objective of this thesis is to make visible how queer gender and sexuality are represented in the most prominent work in the Norwegian film history discourse. With writing history, there is a danger of social exclusion and this thesis found that the queer community has been marginalized in the film history book "Norsk ...

The Arctic region holds valuable resources, and with the melting of sea ice shipping is thought to increase. The polar waters contain safety hazards that one will not encounter while sailing elsewhere, and that is why shipping in polar waters need to be regulated differently than shipping in other regions of the world. The Polar Code was adopted by IMO in 2015 and came into force in 2017. It is a ...

Digitalization of healthcare is done through development and delivery of health information technology, mobile health, wearable devices, telehealth, telemedicine, health portals, personalized medicine, or in other words – ehealth. Ehealth solutions are expected to improve the treatment process, improved safety, efficiency and quality, as well as empowerment of both patients and healthcare professionals. ...

Temaet for denne avhandlingen er kommunalt omdømmearbeid. Gjennom tre artikler og i kappa analyseres sentrale aktørers motivasjon for omdømmearbeid, og hvordan aktørers posisjon (politikk og administrasjon) og motivasjon kan påvirke hvilke mål og strategier som velges i omdømmearbeid. For å forstå og forklare aktørers rolle i omdømmearbeidet benyttes et rasjonelt og et nyinstitusjonelt perspektiv. ...

Denne artikkelen er svar på omtalen Sverre Stausland Johnsen hadde av boka Mønster (NSH I) i NLT 1-2019. Redaktørane og forfattarane noterer seg nokre feil som Johnsen påviser, men omtalen inneheld mange galne påstandar, og Johnsen misforstår teksten i NSH I. Det etymologiske synet hans på ‘norsk’ og ‘ikkje-norsk’ blir nedanfor avvist som ufruktbart viss målet er å forstå eigenskapar ved språk og ...