Democracy is the form of government in which citizens have an equal say in political decision-making. But what does this mean precisely? Having an equal say is often defined either in terms of equal power to influence political decision-making or in terms of appropriate consideration, i.e., as a matter of attributing appropriate deliberative weight to citizens’ judgement in political decision-making. ...

Domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) have been widely used as a model to study the motion cues that allow visually naïve organisms to detect animate agents shortly after hatching/birth. Our previous work has shown that chicks prefer to approach agents whose main body axis and motion direction are aligned (a feature typical of creatures whose motion is constrained by a bilaterally symmetric ...

Aims/Background: Serial blood pressure surveys in cohort studies can inform public health policies to control blood pressure for prevention of cardiovascular diseases.<p> <p>Methods: Mean levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP) were collected in six sequential surveys, involving 38,825 individuals aged 30–79 years (51% female), between 1979 and 2015 in the Tromsø Study in Norway. Mean levels of ...

Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced mortality among cancer survivors, but no study has focused on testicular cancer survivors (TCSs). We aimed to investigate the association of PA measured twice during survivorship with overall mortality in TCSs. TCSs treated during 1980 to 1994 participated in a nationwide longitudinal survey between 1998 to 2002 (S1: n = 1392) and 2007 to 2009 ...

SynQLite is a relational database (RDB) built on SQLite. Using conflict-free replicated relations (CRR) to apply conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT) to augment the SQLite database. With SynQLite sites update their local replica without coordination from others sites, and sites converge once they have applied the same sets of updates. These sets of updates are fetched from the CRR and ...

Endringsvilje er en sentral del av menneskers liv. Både på et personlig og kollektivt plan. Vi må kunne tilpasse, lære og være fleksibel for å skape en bedre hverdag. I særlig grad gjelder vilje til endring i periode etter sykdom. Det har gjennom flere tiår kommet stadig mer forskning som tilsier at sykdom ikke bare kan ses fra et klinisk perspektiv, men må også forstås som en større helhet. I min ...

Samandrag I dagens samfunn står vi overfor utfordringar knytt til fråfall i skulen og talet på unge som står utan tilbod, arbeid og utdanning er altfor høgt. Det er difor nødvendig å undersøkja korleis vi kan finna vegen inn til elevar i risikosona for å bli ein del av denne statistikken. Korleis få ned fråfallet i vidaregåande skule har gjennom dei seinare åra vore gjenstand for mykje forsking og ...

Masteroppgaven tar utgangspunkt i hvordan samarbeidet mellom skolen og Pedagogisk psykologisk tjeneste (PPT) fungerer med mål om å legge best mulig til rette for barn og unge. Denne kvalitative studien utforsker opplevelser de ansatte i PPT og i skolen har overfor hverandres samarbeid. Studiens problemstilling er: «Hvilke faktorer muliggjør og begrenser samarbeidet mellom skolen og PP-tjenesten?» ...

El aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera es uno de los ámbitos de investigación más activos en la actualidad. En este contexto, y como docente, la presente investigación trata sobre el tema de la concordancia nominal, un tema fundamental y básico dentro del aprendizaje del español -tanto en la competencia escrita como oral-. La presente investigación se focaliza en estudiar y describir ...

Norway is anticipated to experience an energy deficit in the coming years, and one solution to address this issue is the implementation of new renewable energy sources. To mitigate the projected energy deficit, increased energy production is required. With its considerable wind potential, the country offers ample opportunities for wind energy development. Consequently, there is a growing demand for ...