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    • The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence 

      Giavazzi, Michele; Kapelner, Zsolt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-26)
      In this paper we discuss an often-neglected topic in the literature on the ethics of voting. Our aim is to provide an account of what states are obligated to do, so that voters may fulfil their role as public decision-makers in an epistemically competent manner. We argue that the state ought to provide voters with what we call a substantive opportunity for competence. This entails that the state ...
    • Kunsten å vende hjem: Lars Hættas miniatyrduodji 

      Grini, Monica (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
      Artikkelen løfter frem Lars Hættas miniatyrduodji, laget mens han satt fengslet på Akershus festning (1856–1867) og samlet av Etnografisk Museum i Christiania. Denne samlingen tematiserer aktuelle museumsspørsmål knyttet til gjenstander laget og ervervet i situasjoner med asymmetriske maktforhold. Artikkelen setter søkelys på betydningen av Hættas samiske kunnskapshorisont og konteksten han befant ...
    • Towards automatic configuration and programming of a manufacturing cell 

      Arnarson, Halldor; Al-Sallami, Hussein Mahdi Yaseen; Solvang, Bjørn; Bremdal, Bernt Arild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-04)
      Manufacturing industries are moving from mass production towards customized production, aiming for highquality products with innovative technologies, low prices, and high reliability. A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is an attractive approach to facilitate the movement toward such flexible manufacturing systems. However, reconfiguration and programming of RMS are time-consuming and ...
    • Psychometric evaluation of the Coronary Revascularisation Outcome Questionnaire (CROQ) in Norwegian patients admitted to elective coronary angiography and possible percutaneous coronary intervention 

      Myrbakk, Ingvild Nordnes; Friborg, Oddgeir; Høye, Anne; Bergvik, Svein; Steigen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-05)
      Background: The Coronary Revascularisation Outcome Questionnaire (CROQ) measures health-related quality of life and outcome of invasive revascularization procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The CROQ has not been properly validated in Norwegian patient populations. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties ...
    • Ultrasonic image denoising using machine learning in point contact excitation and detection method 

      Singh, Himanshu; Ahmed, Arif Sheikh; Melandsø, Frank; Habib, Anowarul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-06)
      A point contact/Coulomb coupling technique is generally used for visualizing the ultrasonic waves in Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) ceramics. The point contact and delta pulse excitation produce a broadband frequency spectrum and wide directional wave vector. In ultrasonic, the signal is corrupted with several types of noises such as speckle, Gaussian, Poisson, and salt and pepper noise. Consequently, ...
    • Web-based training intervention to increase physical activity level and improve health for adults with intellectual disability 

      Fjellström, Sanna; Hansen, Elisabeth; Hölltä, Jessica; Zingmark, Magnus; Nordstrom, Anna Hava; Marie Lund, Ohlsson (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-10)
      Background - Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) are less physically active, have a higher body mass index (BMI) and are at greater risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) than people without ID. The purpose of the study was to explore the effectiveness of a web-based training programme, consisting of 150 min of activity per week, on the health of people with ID.<p> <p>Method - Participants ...
    • Molecular Epidemiological Characterisation of ESBL- and Plasmid-Mediated AmpC-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi 

      Choonara, Faheema Ebrahim; Haldorsen, Bjørg; Janice, Jessin; Mbanga, Joshua; Ndhlovu, Isaac; Saulosi, Osborne; Maida, Tarsizio; Lampiao, Fanuel; Simonsen, Gunnar Skov; Essack, Sabiha Yusuf; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-14)
      The global rise in infections caused by multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacterales poses a public health problem. We have performed a molecular epidemiological characterisation of representative plasmid-mediated AmpC (pAmpC) and ESBL-positive clinical isolates of Escherichia coli (n = 38) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 17) from a tertiary hospital in Malawi collected in 2017. BlaCTX-M-15 was the ...
    • Moon Imaging Technique and Experiments Based on Sanya Incoherent Scatter Radar 

      Li, Mingyuan; Yue, Xinan; Wang, Yonghui; Wang, Junyi; Ding, Feng; Vierinen, Juha; Zhang, Ning; Wang, Zhongqiu; Ning, Baiqi; Zhao, Biqiang; Zeng, Lingqi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-13)
      This article introduces the experiment design for Moon imaging based on Sanya incoherent scatter radar (SYISR) and algorithm research in data processing. The peak power of SYISR is 2 MW. The transmitted frequency used for Moon imaging experiments is 430 MHz. We conducted Moon imaging experiments using two types of waveforms, 13-bit Barker code, and linear frequency modulation (LFM) chirp. Considering ...
    • Barriers to and facilitators for making emergency calls – a qualitative interview study of stroke patients and witnesses 

      Bakke, Ida; Lund, Christian; Carlsson, Maria Kristin; Salvesen, Rolf; Normann, Britt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-26)
      Background and objectives - Early access to hospital for diagnosis and treatment is strongly recommended for patients with acute stroke. Unfortunately, prehospital delay frequently occurs. The aim of the current study was to gain in-depth insight into patient experience and behavior in the prehospital phase of a stroke.<p> <p>Methods - We conducted qualitative interviews with a purposive sample ...
    • The elusive impact of L2 immersion on translation priming. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 

      Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; González Alonso, Jorge; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-18)
      A growing consensus sees the bilingual lexicon as an integrated, nonselective system. However, the way bilingual experience shapes the architecture and functioning of the lexicon is not well understood. This study investigates bilingual lexical-semantic representation and processing employing written translation priming. We focus on the role of active exposure to and use of the second language ...
    • Body Size at Different Ages and Risk of 6 Cancers: A Mendelian Randomization and Prospective Cohort Study 

      Mariosa, Daniela; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Richardson, Tom G.; Ferrari, Pietro; Gunter, Marc J.; Papadimitriou, Nikos; Murphy, Neil; Christakoudi, Sofia; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Riboli, Elio; Muller, David; Purdue, Mark P.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Hung, Rayjean J.; Amos, Christopher I.; O'Mara, Tracy A.; Amiano, Pilar; Pasanisi, Fabrizio; Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel; Krogh, Vittorio; Tjønneland, Anne; Halkjær, Jytte; Perez-Cornago, Aurora; Chirlaque, María-Dolores; Skeie, Guri; Rylander, Charlotta; Borch, Kristin Benjaminsen; Aune, Dagfinn; Heath, Alicia K.; Ward, Heather A.; Schulze, Matthias; Bonet, Catalina; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Davey Smith, George; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-19)
      It is unclear if body weight in early life affects cancer risk independently of adult body weight. To investigate this question for 6 obesity-related cancers, we performed univariable and multivariable analyses using 1) Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis and 2) longitudinal analyses in prospective cohorts. Both the MR and longitudinal analyses indicated that larger early life body size was ...
    • Pilot-RCT Finds No Evidence for Modulation of Neuronal Networks of Auditory Hallucinations by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation 

      Marquardt, Lynn Anne; Craven, Alexander R.; Hugdahl, Kenneth Jan; Johnsen, Erik; Kroken, Rune Andreas; Kusztrits, Isabella; Specht, Karsten; Thomassen, Anne Synnøve; Weber, Sarah; Hirnstein, Marco (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-12)
      Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is used as treatment for auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). The theory behind the treatment is that tDCS increases activity in prefrontal cognitive control areas, which are assumed to be hypoactive, and simultaneously decreases activity in temporal speech perception areas, which are assumed to be hyperactive during AVH. We tested this ...
    • FANet: A Feedback Attention Network for Improved Biomedical Image Segmentation 

      Jha, Debesh; Riegler, Michael; Johansen, Håvard D.; Johansen, Dag; Rittscher, Jens; Halvorsen, Pål; Ali, Sharib (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-25)
      The increase of available large clinical and experimental datasets has contributed to a substantial amount of important contributions in the area of biomedical image analysis. Image segmentation, which is crucial for any quantitative analysis, has especially attracted attention. Recent hardware advancement has led to the success of deep learning approaches. However, although deep learning models are ...
    • The processing of bilingual (switched) compound verbs: Competition of words from different categories for lexical selection 

      Purmohammad, Mehdi; Vorwerg, Constanze; Abutalebi, Jubin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-09)
      This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) of the type [VERB+VERB]. In this type of code-switched structure, a lexical verb from the donor language English is combined with a light verb from the native language Persian. We tested the hypothesis that in Persian–English BCVs English verbs occupy the nominal slots of monolingual Persian complex predicates ...
    • New insight into air/spray boundary interaction for diesel and biodiesel fuels under different fuel temperatures 

      Jabbarzadeh Ghandilou, Ali; Taghavifar, Hadi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-09)
      The liquid fuel breakup mechanism in spray injection with ambient air for diesel and biodiesel at different fuel temperatures is studied numerically. We find that biodiesel fuel type injection with low fuel temperature induces more air entrainment volume to the boundary of the spray than diesel fuel injection and higher fuel temperature. Meanwhile, the normalized parcel density for biodiesel is 12% ...
    • Restriction of dietary protein in rats increases progressive-ratio motivation for protein 

      Chiacchierini, Giulia; Naneix, Fabien; Apergis-Schoute, John; McCutcheon, James Edgar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-29)
      Low-protein diets can impact food intake and appetite, but it is not known if motivation for food is changed. In the present study, we used an operant behavioral task – the progressive ratio test – to assess whether motivation for different foods was affected when rats were maintained on a protein-restricted diet (REST, 5% protein diet) compared to non-restricted control rats (CON, 18% protein). ...
    • Chronic pelvic pain sufferers’ experiences of Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy: a qualitative study on an embodied approach to pain. 

      Boge-Olsnes, Cathrine Maria; Risør, Mette Bech; Øberg, Gunn Kristin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-26)
      Purpose - Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a multifaceted condition, and many women live with CPP without receiving any explanation for their complex symptoms. A multimodal approach including physiotherapy is the recommended treatment. To increase the limited knowledge of what is beneficial in physiotherapy, this article aims to explore women’s experiences of Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy (NPMP) ...
    • Modelling drug diffusion through unstirred water layers allows real-time quantification of free/loaded drug fractions and release kinetics from colloidal-based formulations 

      Tzanova, Martina Martin; Moretti, Federica; Grassi, Gabriele; Stein, Paul; Hiorth, Marianne; Abrami, Michela; Grassi, Mario; Di Cagno, Massimiliano Pio (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-25)
      The correlation between in vivo and in vitro data is yet not sufficiently optimized to allow a significant reduction and replacement of animal testing in pharmaceutical development. One of the main reasons for this lies in the poor mechanistic understanding and interpretation of the physical mechanisms enabling formulation rely on for deploying the drug. One mechanism that still lacks a proper ...
    • Descriptions of qi deficiency and qi stagnation in traditional East Asian medicine: A comparison of Asian and Western sources 

      Birch, Stephen; Alræk, Terje; Lee, Myeong Soo; Kim, Tae-Hun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-20)
      Introduction - In a previous study, evidence was found of the variability of signs/symptoms (s/s) of blood stasis syndrome among texts of Chinese and Asian origin and English language texts including evidence of the differences between non-Asian and Asian patients. In the current study the diagnostic patterns of qi deficiency (QD) and qi stagnation (QS) were examined to see if similar results could ...
    • Economic analyses of supported employment programmes for people with mental health conditions: A systematic review 

      Park, A-la; Rinaldi, Miles; Brinchmann, Beate; Killackey, Eoin; Aars, Nils Abel; Mykletun, Arnstein; McDaid, David (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-19)
      Background - Employment is intrinsic to recovery from mental health conditions, helping people live independently. Systematic reviews indicate supported employment (SE) focused on competitive employment, including individual placement and support (IPS), is effective in helping people with mental health conditions into work. Evidence is limited on cost-effectiveness. We comprehensively reviewed ...