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    • Visual inspection versus spectrophotometry for xanthochromia detection in patients with sudden onset severe headache—A diagnostic accuracy study 

      Sjulstad, Ane Skaare; Brekke, Ole Lars; Alstadhaug, Karl Bjørnar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-01)
      Objective - There is still disagreement about whether to routinely use spectrophotometry to detect xanthochromia in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or whether visual inspection is adequate. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of these methods in detecting an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with sudden onset severe headache.<p> <p>Background - When a patient presents to the ...
    • Executive functions in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder and healthy controls: Associations with heart rate variability, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and physical fitness. 

      Sirevåg, Kristine; Stavestrand, Silje Haukenes; Specht, Karsten; Nordhus, Inger Hilde; Hammar, Åsa Karin; Molde, Helge; Mohlman, Jan; Endal, Trygve Bruun; Halmøy, Anne; Andersson, Eva; Sjøbø, Trond; Nordahl, Hans Morten; Thayer, Julian F.; Hovland, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-17)
      Executive functions (EF) decline with age and this decline in older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) may be influenced by heart rate variability (HRV), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and physical fitness. Understanding these relationships is important for tailored treatments in this population. In this study, 51 adults with GAD (M age = 66.46, SD=4.08) and 51 healthy ...
    • Joint attention, the pedagogical relation and pedagogical tact in the age of digital education 

      Lewin, David; Waterman-Evans, Louis Daniel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-04)
      This article aims to articulate the richness of the pedagogical relation and pedagogical tact in an age of the near ubiqui tous presence of digital education. Drawing on Citton, we argue that there is an ecology of attentional influence that is pedagogically decisive. Our argument proceeds as follows: first, we introduce Citton’s theoretical frame; second, we examine the general conception ...
    • Modeling individual differences in vocabulary development: A large-scale study on Japanese heritage speakers 

      Kubota, Maki; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-29)
      This study examines when the vocabulary knowledge of Japanese heritage speakers (HSs; N=427, M<sub>age</sub>=9.96, female=213) begins to diverge from monolingual counterparts (N=136, M<sub>age</sub>=6.69, female=65) and what factors explain individual differences in HS development. Vocabulary of HSs began to diverge from 5.61 years and this difference lasted until they were young adults. We ...
    • Does Lack of Commitment Undermine the Hypocrite's Standing to Blame? 

      Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-30)
      According to an influential account of standing, hypocritical blamers lack standing to blame in virtue of their lack of commitment to the norm etc. which they invoke. Nevertheless, the commitment account has the wrong shape for it to explain why hypocrites lack standing to blame. Building on the lessons of that critique I propose a novel account of what undermines standing to blame – the comparative ...
    • Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb-Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging 

      Soilemezidi, Marielena; Kubota, Maki; Chrisikopoulou, Marina; Fyndanis, Valantis (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-20)
      This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material-related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short-term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb-related morphosyntactic production (VRMP). A sentence completion task ...
    • The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Ringholm, Toril; Nyseth, Torill; Benjegård, Mina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-08)
      The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets. In line with other studies showing how European cities take passive, active, reactive and protective roles in their housing policies, ...
    • The Reindeer Circadian Clock Is Rhythmic and Temperature-compensated But Shows Evidence of Weak Coupling Between the Secondary and Core Molecular Clock Loops 

      Appenroth, Daniel; Ravuri, Chandra Sekhar; Torppa, Sara K.; Wood, Shona Hiedi; Hazlerigg, David Grey; West, Alexander Christopher (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-06)
      Circadian rhythms synchronize the internal physiology of animals allowing them to anticipate daily changes in their environment. Arctic habitats may diminish the selective advantages of circadian rhythmicity by relaxing daily rhythmic environmental constraints, presenting a valuable opportunity to study the evolution of circadian rhythms. In reindeer, circadian control of locomotor activity and ...
    • Temporal displacement: colonial architecture and its contestation 

      Huse, Tone (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-25)
      Between 1950 and 1979 the Danish state worked to modernise Kalaallit Nunaat (a.k.a. Greenland) and concentrate the Indigenous Inuit population in a few select cities. Technologies of urban planning and development were merged with those of the colonial state. New forms of housing materialised whose qualities aligned with assimilation schemes, but were also resisted, their uses repurposed. These ...
    • University snow science courses - an analysis of student learning outcomes 

      Valent, Sarah; Tilo Mikkelsen, Nilas; Hendrikx, Jordy; Hancock, Holt; D'Amboise, Christopher James; Vick, Louise Mary; Faber, Carly (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      The Department of Geosciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway offers two snow and avalanche courses to its students. The bachelor course ‘Introduction to Snow and Avalanche Science’ (GEO2015) focuses on teaching the physical characteristics of the seasonal snowpack and learning appropriate techniques for snowpack observation. Its master-level counterpart, the course ‘Snow and Avalanche Science ...
    • Impact of a cognitive training on reading of 6-year-old children 

      Reina-Reina, Claudia; Antón, Eneko; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-31)
      Numerous studies explore the effect of cognitive stimulation programmes on reading skills in children and adolescents, with mixed results. Although several studies support that the relationships established between executive functions and reading skills are more robust at early ages, when the process of formal reading acquisition is being consolidated, there are few studies that evaluate the impact ...
    • Security and Privacy in Physical Activity Chatbots on Social Media: A Scoping Review 

      Larbi, Dillys; Gabarron, Elia; Zanaboni, Paolo; Wynn, Rolf; Årsand, Eirik; Denecke, Kerstin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Background and objective: Social media physical activity chatbots use both chatbots and social media platforms for physical activity promotion and, thus, could face privacy and security challenges inherent in both technologies. This study aims to provide an overview of physical activity chatbot interventions delivered via social media platforms, specifically focusing on security and privacy ...
    • Material hardness descriptor derived by symbolic regression 

      Tantardini, Christian; Zakaryan, Hayk A.; Han, Zhong-Kang; Altalhi, Tariq; Levchenko, Sergey V.; Kvashnin, Alexander G.; Yakobson, Boris I. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-06)
      Hardness is a materials’ property with implications in several industrial fields, including oil and gas, manufacturing, and others. However, the relationship between this macroscale property and atomic (i.e., microscale) properties is unknown and in the last decade several models have unsuccessfully tried to correlate them in a wide range of chemical space. The understanding of such relationship is ...
    • Airborne bacterial and fungal species in workstations of salmon processing plants 

      Madsen, Anne Mette; Thomassen, Marte Renate; Frederiksen, Margit Wagtberg; Hollund, Bjørg Eli; Nordhammer, Anna Beathe Overn; Smedbold, Hans Thore; Bang, Berit Elisabeth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-11)
      Significant quantities of salmon are processed daily in the industry's indoor facilities. Occupational exposure contributes to an individual's exposome. The aim of this study is to obtain knowledge about potential exposure to viable airborne species of bacteria and fungi as related to workstations in the salmon processing industry. The study was conducted in nine salmon plants along the Norwegian ...
    • Perioperative Detection of Cerebral Fat Emboli From Bone Using High-Frequency Doppler Ultrasound 

      Jarmund, Anders Hagen; Kristiansen, Steinar; Leth-Olsen, Martin; Vogt, Ella Christina Stray; Nervik, Ingunn; Torp, Hans; Nielsen, Erik Waage; Nyrnes, Siri Ann (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-21)
      Objective - Fat embolism syndrome and cerebral fat emboli are rare yet serious conditions arising from systemic distribution of bone marrow emboli. Emboli are known to produce high-intensity transient signals (HITS) in a Doppler signal. We hypothesized that both intramedullary nailing in pigs and median sternotomy in human infants cause bone marrow release, that some of these cause cerebral emboli, ...
    • The challenge of non-Markovian energy balance models in climate 

      Watkins, Nicholas W.; Calel, Raphael; Chapman, Sandra; Chechkin, Aleksei; Klages, Rainer; Stainforth, David A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-30)
      We first review the way in which Hasselmann’s paradigm, introduced in 1976 and recently honored with the Nobel Prize, can, like many key innovations in complexity science, be understood on several different levels. It can be seen as a way to add variability into the pioneering energy balance models (EBMs) of Budyko and Sellers. On a more abstract level, however, it used the original stochastic ...
    • Climate change and Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in North America: modelling possible changes in range with different climate scenarios and interspecific interactions 

      Bommersbach, Cassandra K.; Grenier, Gabrielle Iréne Adrienne; Gendron, Haley; Harris, Les N.; Janjua, M. Yamin; Mandrak, Nicholas E.; Tallman, Ross F. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-09)
      One of the greatest challenges for researchers today is understanding climate-change impacts on fish populations, particularly in vulnerable and understudied ecosystems such as the Canadian Arctic. Among other impacts, northern fishes will undergo thermal stress as atmospheric and sea surface temperatures are projected to rise globally. Models that consider how both environmental factors such as ...
    • Exploring forest changes in an Ips typographus L. outbreak area: insights from multi-temporal multispectral UAS remote sensing 

      Östersund, Madeleine Cecilia; Honkavaara, Eija; Oliveira, Raquel A.; Näsi, Roope; Hakala, Teemu; Koivumäki, Niko; Pelto-Arvo, Mikko; Tuviala, Johanna; Nevalainen, Olli; Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, Päivi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-09)
      Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) offer a versatile solution for monitoring forest ecosystems. This study aimed to develop and assess an individual tree-based methodology using multi-temporal, multispectral UAS images to track changes caused by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus L.). The approach encompassed four key steps: (1) individual tree detection using structure-from-motion ...
    • Resting segmental speckle tracking strain and strain rate in stable coronary artery disease and revascularized myocardial infarction 

      Hatice, Akay Caglayan; Kjønås, Didrik; Kornev, Mikhail; Iqbal, Amjid; Jazbani, Mehran; Rösner, Assami (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-23)
      Patients with acute coronary artery disease (CAD) exhibit reduced global and regional strain and strain rate (S/SR). However, knowledge about segmental S/SR in stable CAD patients is still limited. This study aimed to investigate whether resting segmental S/SR measurements differ in patients with chronic chest pain who have normal coronary arteries or stenotic coronary arteries, and to compare these ...
    • Controlling the stock or the habitat – The crisis of native invasive encroachment in the grazing land of Norwegian reindeer husbandry 

      Pham, Minh Nhat; Armstrong, Claire W.; Braathen, Kari Anne; Skalska-Tuomi, Maria Wilhelmina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-10)
      Climate change negatively impacts reindeer grazing in Fennoscandia, with the encroachment of Empetrum nigrum (crowberry) being a significant, yet largely unrecognized problem. Crowberry encroachment affects the neighboring palatable vegetation negatively, homogenizing the pasture and decreasing ecosystem biodiversity. Current husbandry management aims are based on sustainable use of the pasture land, ...