Background Research exploring the use of specific Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) modalities by Norwegian cancer patients is sparse. The aims of this study were therefor to map the different CAM modalities cancer patients use and further investigate their rationale for use, communication about use, self-reported benefits and harms, and their sources of information about the different ...

The knowledge about why hip fracture rates in Norway have declined is sparse. Concurrent with decreasing hip fracture rates, the rates of total hip replacements (THRs) have increased. We wanted to investigate if hip fracture rates continued to decline, and whether the increase in THRs had any influence on this decline, assuming that living with a hip prosthesis precludes fracture of the operated ...

This thesis has no traditional narrative structure and the form stimulates a schizophrenic and bipolarity stance of the world, filled with different epiphenomenal characters and voices between fiction and reality, much like a manuscript based on my own experiences. A pre-determined and an orchestrated future is becoming more of a reality as technologies advance further, it seems that building a ...

This paper discusses the matter of shared space as embodied cognition – méteo du sens in a relation to the artistry process that arises from sonic awareness and from the processes of perception, sensing and artist’s personal relation to it. On a journey on sensing and becoming aware that our body does not limit with the physical body, one must loose their body to be able to share a space, a landscape, ...

This thesis is centred on an analysis of collage and détournement as artistic and hermeneutic methodologies in a relatively wide sense. It focuses on how the political and theoretical dimensions of détournement, as defined by Situationist theory and practice, can be seen as parallel to - and amalgamated with - specific forms of occult practice and philosophy, particularly alchemy. Arguing that ...

Based on the knowledge of the color theory, I have been playing a serial performance with participants of my project. The project is for proving a slight unbalance of power between a human relationship. Furthermore, this is the experience of racism regarding of skin color. From the first step to the last step, all the process is one performance interacting with the participants.

This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely ...

Air pollution involves multiple health and economic challenges. Its accurate and low-cost monitoring is important for developing services dedicated to reduce the exposure of living beings to the pollution. Particulate matter (PM) measurement sensors belong to the key components that support operation of these systems. In this work, a modular, mobile Internet of Things sensor for PM measurements has ...

<p>Unsafe medical practices and incidents where safety hazards cause harm to patients occur daily in general practice. The costs to society, health care personnel and individual patients are substantial and deserve attention. “Hazards” can be regarded as local error-producing factors, latent failures, which create conditions for unsafe medical practice to take place. “Harm” occurs when these conditions ...

Hoveddelen av dataene fra Medisinsk fødselsregister (MFR) for 2019 ble publisert i juni i år. Data om mors helse før og under svangerskapet samt data fra nyfødtavdelingene er publisert nå i desember og er tilgjengelig i vår statistikkbank. MFR har i år pga. den pågående pandemien også hatt en ekstrapublisering med et utvalg av variabler for 2020 data. Sjekk våre nettsider for mer informasjon om ...