Summary - Subsequent fracture rates and associated mortality were compared before and after the introduction of fracture liaison service (FLS). In 100,198 women and men, FLS was associated with 13% and 10% lower risk of subsequent fragility fractures and 18% and 15% lower mortality. The study suggests that FLS may prevent fractures.<p> <p>Purpose - Efficient fracture prevention strategies are ...

Introduction: This study presents a Virtual Reality (VR) pilot for second-year medical students on the topic of psychosis.<p> <p>Methods: 14 students participated. The VR session included an introductory lecture and reflective discussion with an experience consultant present.<p> <p>Results: The students rated learning outcomes, understanding of psychosis, and overall satisfaction highly. There ...

<p>Hekseprosessene i Finnmark på 1600-tallet var en av Europas verste og mest brutale menneskeforfølgelser. Nordområdene var porten til Satans rike og et eneste stort drivhus for hekseri og gudsbespottelse, lød anklagen. Over 90 mennesker ble dømt til døden som trollfolk. <p>Her er deres historier samlet for første gang. Hekseprosessene var rettssaker der særlig kvinner ble beskyldt, forfulgt og ...

Norsk lov gir kommunane stor autonomi i å forme si eiga utvikling, men stillar samtidig krav om å ivareta nasjonale og regionale interesser. Dette krev samarbeid og balanse mellom lokale behov og eit breiare samfunnsomsyn. Planlegging, både samfunnsplanlegging og arealplanlegging, er viktige verktøy for å utvikle lokalsamfunna. Motsegnsinstituttet er eit viktig verkemiddel for å sikre at nasjonale ...

The risk of developing cancer increases with age, and the number of new cancer cases is expected to rise among the elderly due to an aging population, posing significant challenges to the health care system. This thesis investigated: (i) geographic and socioeconomic variations in curative treatment and choice of treatment modality for elderly patients with high-risk prostate cancer; (ii) geographic ...

The title of this book takes the Northern Sámi term searvedoaibma —which was an analytical framework developed throughout the project—as its starting point (Danbolt et al. 2022). This North Sámi term has no direct English equivalent. In Northern Sámi, searvi refers to something one participates in (e.g., an association or community), while doaibma describe practices of doing or enacting ...

Kompetansenodens formål er ifølge Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet sitt oppdrag å styrke den maritime næringens kompetanse om særskilte utfordringer knyttet til skipsoperasjoner i polare farvann. I arbeidet med å styrke arktisk maritim kompetanse skal det tas utgangspunkt i innmeldte problemstillinger, utfordringer og behov fra aktører i skipsfartsnæringen. <p> <p>Polarkoden stiller krav til ...

As the Arctic undergoes ‘Atlantification’ and warms at a faster rate than lower latitudes, dramatic physical and biological changes are occurring in the ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere systems. This project focusses on fjord environments connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet, which has recently experienced a significant and rapid loss of ice attributed primarily to changes in the surface mass balance ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is one of the climate tipping elements on Earth and the largest potential contributor to sea level rise. While the consequences of ice sheet collapse on oceanic and atmospheric changes are well documented, its impact on the global carbon cycle remains critically ignored in the current global carbon budget. This is particularly important because the Antarctic Sedimentary ...

Since 1954, the Norwegian Armed Forces have annually administered an unchanged general mental ability test to male cohorts, comprising figure matrices, word similarities, and mathematical reasoning tests. These stable and representative data have supported various claims about shifts in general mental ability (GMA) levels, notably the Flynn effect and its reversal, influencing extensive research ...