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    • "Vi har arvet mammas lengsel": Ainos fortellinger 

      Sørly, Rita (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)
      Dette kapittelet er basert på en studie om medvirkning blant samiske pasienter i psykisk helsevern; Brukermedvirkning i samiske perspektiver og kontekst.1 Bakgrunnen for studien var behovet for mer kunnskap om hva som kan fremme økt medvirkning for samiske pasienter og pårørende, og hvordan man kan skape gode tjenester som bygger på kunnskap om, og som vektlegger og ivaretar samisk hverdagsliv, ...
    • Investigating the impact of climate change on PCB-153 exposure in Arctic seabirds with the nested exposure model 

      Skogeng, Lovise Pedersen; Blévin, Pierre; Breivik, Knut; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Eulaers, Igor; Sagerup, Kjetil; Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-04-10)
      At the same time Arctic ecosystems experiences rapid climate change, at a rate four times faster than the global average, they remain burdened by long-range transported pollution, notably with legacy polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The present study investigates the potential impact of climate change on seabird exposure to PCB-153 using the established Nested Exposure Model (NEM), here expanded ...
    • Positionality 

      Murray, Emily Margaret; Anta, Alba Hernandez; Montaña Monoga, Ana Maria; Quist, Sofie Elise (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2025-01-25)
      This chapter explores the concept of positionality as one of the main themes of the OIN Ocean Literacy Toolkit. It draws on positionality theory and anti-oppressive, decolonial research methodologies that incorporate positionality as a reflexivity tool in social research. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s seminal essay on “Situated Knowledges”, the chapter elaborates on questions that researchers might ask ...
    • Activities for Ocean Literacy 

      Vita, Laura; Dabbah, Marcelle; Anta, Alba Hérnandez; Montaña Monoga, Ana Maria; Murray, Emily Margaret; Quist, Sofie Elise; Hayden/Nygren, Juliana; Peftieva, Olena; Ahmed, Dana; Heckman, Stéphanie; Porrone, Arianna; Panieri, Giuliana; Barrenechea Angeles, Ines Andrea; Zimmermann, Jane; Pooladi, Mojgan; Wasii Nyanda, Shamim (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2025-01-25)
      This chapter showcases over 20 examples of ocean literacy activities developed during the Ocean Incubator Network Living Laboratory and beyond (the Foraminifera Box contains more than six activities that can be downloaded freely). The authors of these activities include students, scientists, researchers, educators, linguists, legal scholars, and experts in accessibility. Each activity has been ...
    • At the Intersection of Pastoral and Intellectual Support 

      Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens; Edvardsen, Nanna Kathrine (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)
      The purpose of this article is to illustrate how poetic narratives, created based on lived experience of supervision, can contribute to raising awareness of the involved parties’ professional identity development, as well as of values and premises for dialogic and relational doctoral supervision. Applying narrative inquiry as the analytical entry point (Caine, Estefan, & Clandinin, 2013), five central ...
    • Subsidiarity 

      Føllesdal, Andreas (Book; Bok, 2025-02-20)
      'Subsidiarity' is vague and contested, yet popular in scholarship about international law due to its role in the European Union (EU). Which conceptions of subsidiarity are more justifiable, and how might they contribute to international law? A principle of subsidiarity concerns how to establish, allocate, or use authority within a social or legal order, stating a rebuttable presumption for the local. ...
    • Q for Quarantine 

      Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-22)
      This chapter focus on the need for the fictive universe, using fantasy building or narratives created by daydreaming, as a way to survive the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. A professor’s narrative is presented as a short story. By living, telling and retelling (Clandinin, 2013) the professor dive into a mix between her own lived life in quarantine and the fictive worst-case pandemic scenario.<p> <p>The ...
    • Hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress alters protein expression in two rat salivary acinar cell lines 

      Golnarnik, Golnaz; Thiede, Bernd; Søland, Tine Merete; Galtung, Hilde; Haug, Trude Marie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-04-07)
      Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress on the protein expression profiles of submandibular and parotid acinar cells using a proteomic approach. We sought to evaluate how oxidative stress might contribute to salivary gland dysfunction and whether the two glands respond differently.<p> <p>Design: Immortalized rat parotid gland (PG) ...
    • The changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems 

      Frost, Gerald V.; Bhatt, Uma S.; Macander, Matthew J.; Berner, Logan T.; Walker, Donald A.; Raynolds, Martha K.; Magnusson, Runa I.; Bartsch, Annett; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Epstein, Howard E.; Forbes, Bruce C.; Goetz, Scott J.; Hoy, Elizabeth E.; Karlsen, Stein Rune; Kumpula, Timo; Lantz, Trevor C.; Lara, Mark J.; López-Blanco, Efrén; Montesano, Paul M.; Neigh, Christopher S. R.; Nitze, Ingmar; Orndahl, Kathleen M.; Park, Taejin; Phoenix, Gareth K.; Rocha, Adrian V.; Rogers, Brendan M.; Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela; Tømmervik, Hans; Verdonen, Mariana; Veremeeva, Alexandra; Virkkala, Anna-Maria; Waigl, Christine F. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-04-10)
      Arctic landscapes occupy a nexus of environmental change processes, globally significant soil carbon stores, wildlife populations, and subsistence-based human societies. In response to rapid climate warming, tundra ecosystems are experiencing widespread changes to vegetation and underlying permafrost, coupled with an array of ecological disturbances that are expected to intensify in the future. ...
    • Association Between GABRG2 and Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol in a French Young Adult Sample 

      Moe, Jenny Skumsnes; Bramness, Jørgen Gustav; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Mørland, Jørg Gustav; Gorwood, Philip; Ramoz, Nicolas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-01-24)
      Purpose: Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for preventable death, injury, and disease globally. Low sensitivity to the effects of alcohol is influenced by genes and predicts risk for harmful alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Alcohol induces effects partly by modulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors type A (GABAARs). This study investigates the relationship between genetic variation ...
    • Searvedoaibma: Art and Social Communities in Sápmi 

      Danbolt, Mathias; Kramvig, Britt; Hætta, Christina (Book; Bok, 2024)
      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 ...
    • Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores 

      Nordmo, Morten; Norrøne, Tore Nøttestad; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-04-01)
      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 ...
    • Rehearsing Reconciliation: Frictional Dramaturgies and Postcolonial Moments in Ferske Scener’s "Blodklubb” 

      Kramvig, Britt; Danbolt, Mathias (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)
      <p>In 2018, the Norwegian Parliament established a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) to investigate the Norwegianization policy’s forced assimilation of the Sámi, the Kven, and the Norwegian Finn peoples. Besides a historical mapping of the policies and ideologies behind the Norwegianization process and an analysis of the repercussions of these policies today, the Committee was also asked to ...
    • Searvedoaibma: Art and Social Communities in Sápmi 

      Kramvig, Britt; Danbolt, Mathias; Hætta, Christina (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)
    • Using Research and Development to establish coherence in teacher education   

      Drageset, Ove Gunnar; Sæther, Kari-Anne; Antonsen, Yngve; Steele, Annfrid Rosøy; Killengreen, Siw Turid; Unhjem, Astrid (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-04-09)
      This chapter addresses a significant challenge in teacher education: the lack of coherence between subjects, pedagogy, and practice. The chapter explores an innovation in which a new approach for integrating Research & development (R&D) into teacher education provides coherence between practice, pedagogy, and subjects in the program, preparing student teachers for a more research-based and critical ...
    • Gendered Vulnerabilities and Violence in Forced Migration: The Rohingya from Myanmar 

      Salehin, Mohammad Musfequs (Book; Bok, 2024-07-29)
      This open access book investigates the gendered violence and vulnerabilities experienced by Rohingya men and women, drawing on qualitative data from refugee camps in Bangladesh. It shows that in Myanmar, men suffered torture and sexual violence, while women experienced physical, mental and sexual violence, legitimized by patriarchal norms. Sexual violence was wielded as a weapon to coerce their ...
    • Samlingsforvaltning i endring. Plan for å sikre tilgang til samlinger av utenlandsk materiale 

      Knutsen, Unni; Alstad, Jorunn; Berntsen, ingrid karin; Lingjærde, Grete Christina; Mühlburger, Marion; Larsen, Merete; Olsen, Leif Roger; Solvik, Ellen (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2025)
      Dette prosjektet har hatt som formål å sikre tilgang til samlinger av utenlandsk materiale ved BOTT1- bibliotekene (Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim og Tromsø) etter at Nasjonalbiblioteket avsluttet sin tjeneste for utenlandske tidsskrift. Prosjektet har utført omfattende kartlegging og analyser av de fysiske og digitale samlingene for å identifisere unike titler og overlapp mellom bibliotekene.<p> <p>< ...
    • Samisk kommunikasjon og konflikthåndtering 

      Henriksen, Jan-Erik; Hydle, Ida Marie (Book; Bok, 2024-08-22)
      Samene har status som urfolk, og nasjonalstatene Norge, Sverige, Finland og Russland er pålagt å tilrettelegge for at samene som urfolk kan bevare og utvikle sitt språk, sin kultur og sitt samfunnsliv. Dette innebærer blant annet at alle velferdsprofesjoner i Norge skal ha grunnleggende kunnskap om samiske forhold. Samtalen er ett av våre viktigste verktøy som mennesker, men kulturelle forskjeller ...
    • Traces of Shamanism in the Witch Trials of Norway. The 1692 Trial of the Sami Shaman Anders Poulsen 

      Hagen, Rune Blix (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2005)
      According to legal sources of the three counties which together make up Arctic Norway about 180 people were prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft between 1593 and 1695. Most of these cases are to be found in the region of Vardøhus, known today as Finnmark - the northernmost county in Norway, near the Russian border. In a few small fishing communities along the coast of Finnmark more than 90 people ...
    • The user`s perspective: Rethinking the concept of work in the context of the Norwegian welfare state 

      Innjord, Aud Kirsten Andersen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-28)
      This article deals with issues of work inclusion, with a particular focus on the user’s perspective on work, and the work inclusion policy in Norway. An expanded concept of work is applied, which includes all human activities that contribute social value to society, and not only paid work. However, work is typically seen as activities that are valued in society. One consequence of this is that some ...