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Drought index insurance and the risk behavior of smallholder maize crop farmers in the northern region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2017)Smallholder farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana are at risk in crop production because of uncertainties in the rainfall patterns and amounts caused by changes in the climate. This study revealed that, smallholder farmers ... -
Droughts, Morality, State Politics and the Brazilian Semiarid Landscape: A Study of the São Francisco River Integration Project
(Master thesis, 2008)The poorest region of Brazil, the Northeast is prone to devastating multi-annual droughts, an inherent part of its geography. The Brazilian state attributes the poverty of the Northeast to the semiarid landscape and a ... -
Drug Adverse Event Detection Using Text-Based Convolutional Neural Networks (TextCNN) Technique
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)With the rapid advancement in healthcare, there has been exponential growth in the healthcare records stored in large databases to help researchers, clinicians, and medical practitioner’s for optimal patient care, research, ... -
Drug and cell encapsulation: alternative delivery options for the treatment of malignant brain tumors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Malignant brain tumors including glioblastoma are incurable cancers. Over the last years a number of promising novel treatment approaches have been investigated including the application of inhibitors of receptor tyrosine ... -
Drug Combinations as a First Line of Defense against Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Viruses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The world was unprepared for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and remains ill-equipped for future pandemics. While unprecedented strides have been made developing vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, there remains a ... -
Drug Combinations for Treatment of Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Infections
(Master thesis, 2022)Den pågående SARS-CoV-2 pandemien er kun en av mange virale trusler som viser at det er behov for redskap for å bekjempe kommende og gjenkommende virusinfeksjoner. Bruken av antivirale legemidler er bevist behandlingsmetode ... -
Drug Delivery Using Oral Vehicles: Controlled Release in the GI-tract
(Master thesis, 2012)Oral delivery is considered a convenient route for administration of pharmaceuticals. Great effort has been made to optimize oral delivery vehicles to increase the bioavailability of the pharmaceutical, and enhance patient ... -
The drug efficacy testing in 3D cultures platform identifies effective drugs for ovarian cancer patients
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Most patients with advanced ovarian cancer (OC) relapse and progress despite systemic therapy, pointing to the need for improved and tailored therapy options. Functional precision medicine can help to identify effective ... -
Drug facilitated sexual assault and toxicological findings in patients after sexual assault
(Master thesis, 2021)Sammendrag Bakgrunn Overgrepsmottaket ved St. Olavs hospital i Trondheim har siden det åpnet i 1989, tilbudt medisinsk og rettsmedisinsk undersøkelse til pasienter som oppsøker mottaket, uavhengig av om de ønsker å anmelde ... -
Drug information centres and their provision of decision support: The Scandinavian experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)What is known and objective Appraisal of drug information centres (DICs) is mainly by word of mouth communication and surveys of overall user satisfaction. Efforts to study the impact of this type of informatics and ... -
Drug modification by nurses in Norwegian nursing homes: A cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Crushing and dividing pills among older patients in nursing homes appears to be a common yet not harmless practice. Because few updates exist regarding the role of nurses and their dispensing of drugs in nursing homes, ... -
Drug prescription patterns in elderly hip fracture patients at admission and discharge from hospital: A substudy of the Trondheim Hip Fracture Trial - a randomized controlled trial
(Master thesis, 2013)Background: Hip fractures in the elderly are common, and may have serious consequences. Drug use might be contributing to the falls and subsequent fractures, and might be of significance as an intervention target. The ... -
Drug therapy management in community-based elderly with focus on Fall-Risk-Increasing-Drugs
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:15, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Background Research shows that one third of home-dwelling elderly above 65 years, and half of those above 80 years fall at least once a year. Injuries caused by falls often lead to longstanding pain and disability, and ... -
Drug use during early pregnancy: Cross-sectional analysis from the childbirth and health study in primary care in Iceland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Objective. To analyse drug use in early pregnancy with special focus on socio-demographic factors associated with psychotropic and analgesic drug use. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting and subjects. A total of 1765 ... -
Drug-Eluting versus Bare-Metal Stents in Saphenous Vein Grafts Compared to Native Coronary Vessels: The Norwegian Coronary Stent Trial Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Drug-eluting stents (DES) reduce target lesion revascularization (TLR) with no effect on mortality or myocardial infarction (MI) compared to bare-metal stents (BMS) in native vessels. Randomized stent studies ... -
Drugs and Constipation in Elderly in Nursing Homes: What Is the Relation?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Introduction. Constipation is a common adverse drug reaction. Objective. Study associations between drugs and constipation in nursing home residents. Design. Cross-sectional study. Material and Methods. Nursing home residents ... -
Drugsniffer: An Open Source Workflow for Virtually Screening Billions of Molecules for Binding Affinity to Protein Targets
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has highlighted the importance of efficient and effective methods for identification of therapeutic drugs, and in particular has laid bare the need for methods that allow exploration of the full ... -
DrugVirus.info 2.0: an integrative data portal for broad-spectrum antivirals (BSA) and BSA-containing drug combinations (BCCs)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Viruses can cross species barriers and cause unpredictable outbreaks in man with substantial economic and public health burdens. Broad-spectrum antivirals, (BSAs, compounds inhibiting several human viruses), and BSA-containing ... -
Druknet og glemt Utviklingen i Økonomisk sosialhjelp under covid-19 pandemien
(Master thesis, 2023)Innledning: Covid-19 pandemien økte den norske arbeidsledigheten til et nivå på 14,6 prosent. NAV mottok over 360 000 søknader om dagpenger fra 1 mars 2020 til 19. april 2020. Regjeringen satte inn tiltakspakker for å ... -
Drunk - Driving, Relapse Pattern and Risky Driving Behavior Among Participants in a DWI Prevention Programme
(Master thesis, 2010)The overall aim of the study was to examine relapse among participants in the DWI Prevention Programme and those who get prison sentence after driving when influenced by alcohol and to examine the participants’ attitudes ...