The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health and humanitarian crisis that catastrophically affects many industries. To control the disease spread and restore normal lives, mass vaccination is considered the most effective way. However, the sustainable last-mile cold chain logistics operations of COVID-19 vaccines is a complex short-term planning problem that faces many practical challenges, ...

Cruise no.: 2022703 : The 2022 survey of harp and hooded seal pup production in the Greenland Sea was carried out to obtain updated estimates to be used to assess current status of these two seal stocks. Since a similar survey in 2018 indicated a 40% reduction in harp seal pup production since the 2012 survey, and the continued lack of increase in pup production of the severely depleted hooded ...

An increasing body of research points to the importance of childhood trauma (CT) in psychosis, and as a risk factor for schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs). The aim of this thesis was to investigate and compare the frequency and severity of CT in relation to clinical aspects and treatment outcomes in SSDs. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short-Form (CTQ-SF) was used to retrospectively measure ...

Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has the potential to improve research validity and relevance. Objectives: To explore how PPI has been carried out and how its impacts have been reported in occupational therapy (OT) health research. Methodology: Scoping review based on a search in four databases for OT research with descriptions of PPI, published between 2010 and 2020. Results: Across ...

Circumpolar Indigenous populations continue to experience dramatic health inequities when compared to their national counterparts. The objectives of this study are first, to explore the space given in the existing literature to the concepts of cultural safety and cultural competence, as it relates to Indigenous peoples in Circumpolar contexts; and second, to document where innovations have emerged. ...

This chapter discusses the ways in which the Sámi and their host states were framed during the final phase of Lappological research (1923–1954). Was the state still the only source of legitimate historical knowledge in studies of the history of the Sámi during this period? Did the subject positions of the Sámi change? Selected works by Väinö Tanner, O. A. Johnsen, Gutorm Gjessing and Helmer ...

The present thesis is a study of how doctors learn to make clinical decisions; decisions about diagnosis and therapy of the individual patient in the context of the clinic. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological analysis carried out in 2006-2009. The key informants are nine doctors who go through internship and the empirical field is the wards and clinics of regional hospitals, ...

Persistent toxic substances like organochlorines (OCs) and certain toxic metals have been or are extensively used, and can be globally distributed by long-range transport. The fetus and growing child are exposed via the placenta and breast milk and are vulnerable to their negative health effects. Concentrations measured in maternal blood or breast milk are thus potential indicators of risk for ...

This thesis highlights several clinically important questions related to bone loss the first year following stroke and with regard to bone mass at stroke onset:<br> Lack of mobility and weight bearing early after stroke is an important factor for the greater bone loss in the proximal femur on the paretic side. Relearning to walk within the first two month after stroke, even with support of another ...