Bilingualism has been argued to help maintain cognitive functioning in ageing by contributing to the cognitive reserve, the brain’s functional adaptability and resilience against cognitive decline. Within this, the constant engagement with bilingual mechanisms to monitor multiple languages arguably leads to neurocognitive adaptations of attentional systems. Examining bilingual experience as a spectrum, ...

Background: In Scandinavia, various public reforms are initiated to enhance trust in the healthcare services and the public sector in general. This study explores experiences from a two-step service innovation project in municipal home care in Norway, coined as the Trust Model (TM), aiming at developing an alternative to the purchaser-provider split (PPS) and enhancing employee motivation, user ...

Denne rapporten omhandler det pågående prosjektet «Idegeneratoren ved UIT» tilhørende Handelshøgskolen (HHT) ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet (UIT). Prosjektet er eksternt finansiert gjennom Troms og Finnmark Fylkeskommune og hadde sin offisielle oppstart 01.08.2017. Prosjekts hovedmål er å bidra til å gjøre næringslivet i Troms og Tromsøregionen mer innovativt og konkurransedyktig. Dette skal ...

Kunnskap om innovasjon og entreprenørskap står sentralt for næringslivets evne til å omstille seg (Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, 2021) og entreprenørskap i høyere utdanning har vært et politisk satsningsområde de senere år. I 2015 la regjeringen fram gründerplanen «Gode ideer – fremtidens arbeidsplasser», hvor det blant annet er stadfestet at «utdanningssystemet er et sentralt virkemiddel for å ...

Graves’ er en autoimmun sykdom og den vanligste årsaken til høyt stoffskifte hos yngre personer. Ved Graves’ sykdom danner immunforsvaret antistoffer som stimulerer skjoldbruskkjertelen til økt produksjon av hormonet tyroksin. Symptombildet ved Graves’ sykdom kan inkludere uforklarlig vektnedgang, hjertebank, nervøsitet, skjelvinger, irritabilitet, tretthet, søvnvansker, varmeintoleranse, hevelse ...

We propose controllers for leader-follower attitude synchronization of spacecraft formations in the presence of disturbances, that is, the leader spacecraft is controlled to follow a given reference, while a follower spacecraft is controlled to synchronize its motion with the leader’s. In the ideal disturbance-free scenario, we show that synchronization takes place asymptotically. Moreover, we ...

This paper studies the capacitive coupling in a capacitive power transfer (CPT) system designed for charging applications. It proposes mathematical models using the conformal transformation for calculating air-gapped and underwater capacitance and verifies the proposed models using COMSOL multiphysics and measurements. The measured results show that we can achieve nano-farad capacitance ranges ...

Background: Vitamin D defciency has been associated with autoimmune diseases and oral health. Knowledge about the association between vitamin D status and oral conditions in JIA is limited. We aimed to investigate vitamin D status in a cohort of Norwegian children and adolescents with JIA and possible associations between serum vitamin D levels, clinical indicators of oral health, and JIA disease ...

In recent decades, our knowledge and perceptions of animals have changed considerably. An increasing number of scholars are interested in exploring animals and their roles in the context of tourism, hospitality and leisure. Recent studies have covered both practical and theoretical aspects of this topic, sometimes including considerations of animal ethics. This chapter argues that it is time to ...

We introduce some novel adaptations of Life-Like Automata. We focus mainly on some modifications of the original rules where the evolution of the system is depending from the step and the zone of the grid. We study also the properties of some novel non-deterministic adaptations.