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norskArtikler, rapporter og annet (UB): Recent submissions
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Comparison of High and Low Responders to a Cross-Country Skiing Talent Transfer Program: A Coach’s Perspective
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-02)Purpose: To examine how coaches differentiate athletes with successful and non-successful development during a cross-country (XC) skiing talent transfer (TT) program. Methods: We conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with seven Norwegian coaches working with a group of 23 Chinese summer endurance athletes transferring from running, rowing, and kayaking to the winter endurance sport XC ... -
Identification of the factor XII contact activation site enables sensitive coagulation diagnostics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-22)Contact activation refers to the process of surface-induced activation of factor XII (FXII), which initiates blood coagulation and is captured by the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) assay. Here, we show the mechanism and diagnostic implications of FXII contact activation. Screening of recombinant FXII mutants identified a continuous stretch of residues Gln317–Ser339 that was essential ... -
The β3 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonist L-748,337 Attenuates Dobutamine-Induced Cardiac Inefficiency While Preserving Inotropy in Anesthetized Pigs
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-23)Excessive myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO<sub>2</sub>) is considered a limitation for catecholamines, termed oxygen cost of contractility. We hypothesize that increased MVO<sub>2</sub> induced by dobutamine is not directly related to contractility but linked to intermediary myocardial metabolism. Furthermore, we hypothesize that selective b<sub>3</sub> adrenergic receptor (b<sub>3</sub>AR) ... -
The survival time of restorations is shortened in patients with dry mouth
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10)<i>Objectives:</i> The aim of this retrospective data collection study was to determine the effect size of dry mouth on the survival of restorations and teeth. <br><i>Methods:</i> The data were collected from the electronic patient files of City of Oulu Public Dental Services (Finland). Study population consisted of 71 dry mouth patients and 142 control patients. The survival of 3208 restorations ... -
A conformational change of complement C5 is required for thrombin-mediated cleavage, revealed by a novel ex vivo human whole blood model preserving full thrombin activity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-15)Thrombin activation of C5 connects thrombosis to inflammation. Complement research in whole blood ex vivo necessitates anticoagulation, which potentially interferes with the inflammatory modulation by thrombin. We challenged the concept of thrombin as an activator of native C5 by analyzing complement activation and C5 cleavage in human whole blood anticoagulated with Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro (GPRP), a peptide ... -
Vedde Ash constrains Younger Dryas glacier re-advance and rapid glacio-isostatic rebound on Svalbard
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-09)The distal deposition of tephra from explosive volcanism has the potential to geochronologically constrain sedimentary archives and landforms. With this technique, we constrain a Late Glacial glacier re-advance on Svalbard and suggest that glacioisostatic emergence rates during the Younger Dryas chronozone were at least three times greater than previous estimates. The identification of cryptotephra ... -
Likt og ulikt - vraking av saltfisk i Norge og Spania
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-27)I dette arbeidet er det undersøkt om kvaliteten på saltfisk vurderes likt av norske saltfiskprodusenter og spanske importører. Det ble gjennomført spørreundersøkelse og intervjuer, samt praktisk kvalitetsvurdering av saltfisk. Både spørreundersøkelsen og kvalitetsvurderingen viste at de spanske kjøperne var strengere på kriteriene for å klassifisere fisken som primera enn de norske produsentene. Det ... -
The Organic Grid: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-09)Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those produced by musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and danceable. It is curious, then, that the music currently dominating the dance floor, “electronic dance music” or EDM, is typically characterized by grid-based rhythms. But is such a “mechanistic,” grid-based aesthetic ... -
Evolution of laparoscopic liver surgery: 20-year experience of a Norwegian high-volume referral center
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-25)Background - Laparoscopic liver surgery has evolved to become a standard surgical approach in many specialized centers worldwide. In this study we present the evolution of laparoscopic liver surgery at a single high-volume referral center since its introduction in 1998.<p> <p>Methods - Patients who underwent laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) between August 1998 and December 2018 at the Oslo ... -
Statistical Distribution of Decameter Scale (50 m) Ionospheric Irregularities at High Latitudes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-15)We present a study of decameter scale ionospheric irregularities using in-situ electron density data from the NorSat-1 satellite. During the current period of low solar activity, NorSat-1 frequently observes significant plasma irregularities from several 10 s km down to several decameter. These are often observed near the dayside cusp and dawnside auroral zone. The decameter-scale irregularities are ... -
Evaluation of surface wind using WRF in complex terrain: Atmospheric input data and grid spacing
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-04)This study evaluates a numerical weather prediction model as a tool for wind resource assessment in complex terrain and how the simulations are affected by the selection of initial and boundary conditions and various grid resolutions. Two global reanalyses, ERA-Interim and ERA5, and four grid resolutions, 27 km, 9 km, 3 km and 1 km, have been considered. The simulations have been compared to ... -
Is simulation-based team training performed by personnel in accordance with the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM?—a qualitative interview study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-26)Background: Anesthesia personnel was among the first to implement simulation and team training including nontechnical skills (NTS) in the field of healthcare. Within anesthesia practice, NTS are critically important in preventing harmful undesirable events. To our best knowledge, there has been little documentation of the extent to which anesthesia personnel uses recommended frameworks like the ... -
Single women and holidaymaking
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)My interest in understanding female singlehood and holidaymaking started in 2001 when I, at the age of 37, for the first time travelled alone. During the one-week stay in a Turkish beach resort, I started to reflect on why I did not enjoy this holiday much, I felt lonely, self-conscious and vulnerable. At that time in my career, as an applied tourism researcher, I had never thought about notions ... -
Organisering og samarbeid mellom kommune og NAV om introduksjonsprogrammet og hurtigsporet
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)I dette kapittelet tar jeg for meg hvordan en kommune og et NAV-kontor i Nord-Norge er organisert, for å lykkes med introduksjonsprogrammet og hurtigsporet. 15 kvalitative intervjuer gjennomført høsten 2017 med ansatte i flyktningetjenesten og ansatte i NAV danner grunnlag for konklusjonen om at flyktningetjenesten i kommunen og NAV både er organisatorisk atskilt og sliter med å få til et fungerende ... -
Is information literacy ability, and metacognition of that ability, related to interest, gender or education level? A cross-sectional study of higher education students
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-01)How information literate are students in higher education, and how accurate is their metacognition related to that ability? Are students’ perceived needs to learn more and their level of interest in becoming information literate related to their pursuit of information literacy (IL) skill development? First-year undergraduates, master’s, and PhD students (N = 760) took an objective IL test and estimated ... -
Geospatial inequality of anaemia among children in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-28)Anaemia remains a severe public health problem among children in Ethiopia and targeted approaches, based on the distribution and specific risk factors for that setting are needed to efficiently target health interventions. An analysis was performed using Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2016 data. Blood specimens for anaemia testing were collected from 9268 children aged 6-59 months. A child ... -
A unified platform to manage, share, and archive morphological and functional data in insect neuroscience
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-24)Insect neuroscience generates vast amounts of highly diverse data, of which only a small fraction are findable, accessible and reusable. To promote an open data culture, we have therefore developed the InsectBrainDatabase (IBdb), a free online platform for insect neuroanatomical and functional data. The IBdb facilitates biological insight by enabling effective cross-species comparisons, by linking ... -
Nursing students'experience of learning ethical competence and person-centered care through simulation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11)Background: Ethics is a difficult subject for nursing students to grasp and learn but, like person-centredness, it has an important role in the relationship between nurses and patients. Simulation has been found to be a suitable method for learning nursing procedures and actions, and the researchers wanted to explore whether it could be a suitable learning strategy for acquiring ethical skills, which ... -
«La de usynlige bli synlige» Om kvenske steder og kvensk usynlighet
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-01)Kvenene har blitt betegnet som både et «usynlig» og «taust» folk til tross for en etno-politisk mobilisering fra 1970-tallet av og status som norsk nasjonal minoritet i 1998. Heller ikke de senere års vekst i kulturnæring og reiseliv i Nord-Norge har medført at kvensk kultur er blitt mere synlig i hverdagslivet på nordnorske steder. Gjennom en analyse av det offentlige rom i en nordnorsk bygdeby ... -
Four-dimensional mesospheric and lower thermospheric wind fields using Gaussian process regression on multistatic specular meteor radar observations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-17)Mesoscale dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region have been difficult to study from either ground- or satellite-based observations. For understanding of atmospheric coupling processes, important spatial scales at these altitudes range between tens and hundreds of kilometers in the horizontal plane. To date, this scale size is challenging observationally, so structures are ...
