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How Can Inequalities in Mortality Be Reduced? A Quantitative Analysis of 6 Risk Factors in 21 European Populations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality are one of the greatest challenges for health policy in all European countries, but the potential for reducing these inequalities is unclear. We therefore quantified ... -
How can mariculture better help feed humanity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The primary production of the marine and the terrestrial domains are similar, ~49 and 56 Gt C year−1, respectively (Field et al., 1998), and the marine primary production must likely be more readily available for grazing ... -
How Can Material Stock Studies Assist the Implementation of the Circular Economy in Cities?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)City and regional planners have recently started exploring a circular approach to urban development. Meanwhile, industrial ecologists have been designing and refining methodologies to quantify and locate material flows and ... -
How Can Social Expectations and Related Stress among Adolescents and Young Adults Be Better Coped with through Practicing Yoga?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this chapter, I discuss how practicing yoga was experienced by adolescents and young adults and how such experiences seem to contribute to better coping with stress. As a contextualization, I will describe the current ... -
How can technology enhance cognitive behavioral therapy: The case of pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Many children with mental health disorders do not receive adequate treatment due to the uneven dissemination of resources, and other barriers to treatment. In the case of pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder treatment ... -
How can transforming representation of mathematical entities help us employ more cognitive resources?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article discusses the cognitive process of transforming one representation of mathematical entities into another representation. This process, which has been called mathematical metaphor, allows us to understand and ... -
How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym recognition) and then identifying their geospatial ... -
How can we contribute to solving the sustainability puzzle with bioclimatic architecture?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Bioclimatic architecture enables a symbiotic relationship between people, nature and our built environment. By focusing on the integration of freely available natural forces and materials, it promotes energy and resource ... -
How Canada can supply Europe with critical energy by creating a Trans-Atlantic energy bridge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Public policy decisions made over the past 10–15 years have significantly impacted the resiliency of Canadian and European energy systems. Rightly or wrongly, these decisions have included shifts away from coal and nuclear ... -
How colour-deficient observers see things, or not.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Colour deficiency or, colloquially, colour blindness, is common and has been observed and described in the scientific literature for ca. 200 years. In more recent times, algorithms have been developed that simulate the ... -
How combinations of network participation, firm age and firm size explain SMEs' responses to COVID-19
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important to the economy but vulnerable to changes in their environment. A current example of an exogenous shock threatening SMEs globally is the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ... -
How company law has failed human rights - And what to do about it
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article discusses three questions. First, what drives business to ignore human rights, or even worse, consciously undermine the achievement of human rights? Second, given the state of affairs of business and human ... -
How Complex Systems Sometimes Follow Murphy’s Law: Train Delay Prediction at a Station Using Delays at Previous Stops as the Features
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How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article I contribute to the scholarly discussion on how minority religions and world-views could be represented in the RE subject of Norwegian primary and lower secondary school. I will focus on Islam since Islam ... -
How deregulation can become overregulation: An empirical study into the growth of internal bureaucracy when governments take a step back
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Over the past decades, government safety management regulation has been driven by deregulation, simplification and organization-level regimes of inspection. So-called functional rule-making requires organizations to implement ... -
How Did People with Prediabetes Who Attended the Diabetes Prevention Education Program (DiPEP) Experience Making Lifestyle Changes? A Qualitative Study in Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Diabetes can be prevented through lifestyle modification in the prediabetic phase. A group-based lifestyle intervention called ‘Diabetes Prevention Education Program’ (DiPEP) was tested recently in Nepal. The present study ... -
How different iterative and filtered back projection kernels affect CT numbers and low contrast detectability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate how different iterative and filtered back projection kernels affect the computed tomography (CT) numbers and low contrast detectability. Methods: Five different scans ... -
How Digitized Art May Invite or Inhibit Online Visitor Participation (and Why It Matters for Art Museums)
(Journal article, 2018)The aim of this article is to examine diversity dimensions of participation and its role in visitors’ encounters with digitized artworks online. Though often employed in discourse on museum digitization, the notion of ... -
How do 66 European institutional review boards approve one protocol for an international prospective observational study on traumatic brain injury? Experiences from the CENTER-TBI study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Bakgrunn Den europeiske unionen (EU) har som mål å optimalisere pasientbeskyttelse og effektivitet i helseforskningen ved å harmonisere prosedyrer i alle medlemsstater. Likevel kreves ytterligere forbedringer for å øke ... -
How do age structure and urban form influence household CO2 emissions in road transport? Evidence from municipalities in Norway in 2009, 2011 and 2013
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article investigates the influence of age structure on CO2 emissions from household road transport by using an extended STIRPAT model plus data from 380 Norwegian municipalities for 2009, 2011 and 2013. After controlling ...