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Ptolemaic Indexing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper discusses a new family of bounds for use in similarity search, related to those used in metric indexing, but based on Ptolemy's inequality, rather than the metric axioms. Ptolemy's inequality holds for the ... -
PTSD as a consequence of past conflict experience, recent exposure to violence and economic marginalization in post-conflict contexts: A study from Nepal, Guatemala and Northern Ireland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background: Exposure to war and conflict increases the risk of mental health problems. Poor living conditions are known to negatively impact mental health. Hypothesis: It is hypothesized that exposure to negative events ... -
PTSD patients show increasing cytokine levels during treatment despite reduced psychological distress.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: A reciprocal relationship between activated innate immune system and changes in mood and behavior has been established. There is still a paucity of knowledge on how the immune system responds during psychiatric ... -
PTSD relapse in Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan: A systematic review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This systematic review examines studies published between 2003, the initial invasion of Iraq, and 2018 related to the long-term treatment outcomes for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from combat-related posttraumatic ... -
Puberty disorders among ART-conceived singletons: a Nordic register study from the CoNARTaS group
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)STUDY QUESTION Do ART-conceived children have an increased risk for puberty disorders? SUMMARY ANSWER Both ART-conceived boys and girls had a higher risk of puberty disorders; early puberty was more common among girls ... -
Public funding, perverse incentives, and counterproductive outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the adverse incentives at the front end of government-funded projects with concentrated benefits and no liabilities for the privileged groups. In particular, the author ... -
Public health implications of endocrine disrupting chemicals in drinking water and aquatic food resources in Nigeria: A state-of-the-science review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This state-of-the-science review is aimed at identifying the sources, occurrence, and concentrations of EDCs, including potential public health risks associated with drinking water and aquatic food resources from Nigerian ... -
Public health in restructuring coastal communities: Generational trends in self-rated health following the decline in small-scale fishing. The HUNT study, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Restructuring rural communities can be seen as natural population level experiments of great social epidemiological interest. Following the extensive decline in small-scale fishing in the later decades of the 20th century, ... -
Public health nurses’ experience, involvement and attitude concerning mental health issues in a school setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of the study was to describe and explore public health nurses’ perceptions of involvement and their attitudes concerning the mental health aspects of their work in schools. Furthermore, we wished to explore their ... -
Public knowledge about dementia risk reduction in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Several modifiable lifestyle risk factors for dementia have been identified, but it is unclear how much the Norwegian public knows about the relationship between lifestyle and brain health. Therefore, this study ... -
Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: A crowdsourced study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background The vegetative state (VS)/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) denotes brain-injured, awake patients who are seemingly without awareness. Still, up to 15% of these patients show signs of covert consciousness ... -
Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood
(Chapter, 2019)Purpose – This study aims to gain an understanding of success factors and barriers to public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood. Design/Methodology/Approach – Qualitative research method: ... -
Public procurement reform in the EU: start of a new era?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the reform of public purchasing directives initiated by the European Union (EU) and discuss them in light of the criticism against existing public purchasing directives. ... -
Public project success as seen in a broad perspective.: Lessons from a meta-evaluation of 20 infrastructure projects in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Infrastructure projects in developed countries are rarely evaluated ex-post. Despite their number and scope, our knowledge about their various impacts is surprisingly limited. The paper argues that such projects must be ... -
Public road infrastructure inventory in degraded global navigation satellite system signal environments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Recent advancement of land-based mobile mapping enables rapid and cost-effective collection of highquality road related spatial information. Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) can provide spatial information with subdecimeter ... -
Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: Gender and geographic heterogeneity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Studies of wage inequality concentrate on private wages. Public sector wages are typically assumed to contribute to the overall wage equality. We challenge this understanding in an analysis of the relative skill premium ... -
Public stigma toward women victims of intimate partner violence: a systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Public stigma toward women victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) undermines their recovery. However, research on this topic is still recent. This systematic review aimed to analyze the way this stigma was studied, ... -
The public's perception of run-of-the-river hydropower across Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A large share of future European hydropower projects will be run-of-the-river schemes. To understand the potential for RoR hydropower development and modernization of the technology as an opportunity for sustainable ... -
Public-Private Innovation in Health and Social Care: The Implications of Transaction Costs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In response to the continual pressure on health and social services worldwide, there has been a demand for innovation in this sector. One area of interest has been collaboration between public and private actors in developing ... -
Public-Private Partnership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Historical Evolution
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The broad and extensive application of public-private partnership (PPP), as well as the divergent documented definitions and experiences, have led to a translucent perspective of PPP and strained academia and industry to ...