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Why hospital physicians attend work while ill? The spiralling effect of positive and negative factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Recurrent reports from national and international studies show a persistent high prevalence of sickness presence among hospital physicians. Despite the negative consequences reported, we do not know a lot about ... -
Why include impacts on biodiversity from land use in LCIA and how to select useful indicators?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Loss of biodiversity is one of the most severe threats to sustainability, and land use and land use changes are still the single most important factor. Still, there is no sign of any consensus on how to include impacts on ... -
Why intraperitoneal glucose sensing is sometimes surprisingly rapid and sometimes slow: A hypothesis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The artificial pancreas requires fast and reliable glucose measurements. The peritoneal space has shown promising results, and in one of our studies we detected glucose changes in the peritoneal space already at the same ... -
Why is integration so difficult? Shifting roles of ethics and three idioms for thinking about science, technology and society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Contemporary science and technology research are now expected to become more responsible through collaboration with social scientists and scholars from the humanities. This paper suggests a frame explaining why such current ... -
Why Is the Construction Industry Killing More Workers Than the Offshore Petroleum Industry in Occupational Accidents?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In Norway, the fatal accident frequency per year is discernibly higher in the construction industry than in the petroleum industry. To probe the difference between the occupational safety levels in the two industries in ... -
Why is the Locative NP in Kiswahili not Syntactically Oblique?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Kiswahili, a Bantu language, distinguishes between PPs, e.g. kutoka soko-ni 'Cl. 0 COP-a from market-Cl. 17/26, i.e. from market, lit. from in market' and NPs, e.g. m-pishi w-a soko-ni 'Cl. 1-cook Cl. 1 SM-COP-n of market-Cl. ... -
Why not integrate ethics in HTA: identification and assessment of the reasons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)From the conception of HTA in the 1970s it has been argued that addressing ethical issues is an element of HTA, and many methods for integrating ethics in HTA have become available. However, despite almost 40 years with ... -
Why rogue waves occur atop abrupt depth transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abrupt depth transitions (ADTs) have recently been identified as potential causes of ‘rogue’ ocean waves. When stationary and (close-to-) normally distributed waves travel into shallower water over an ADT, distinct spatially ... -
Why securing smart grids is not just a straightforward consultancy exercise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The long-term vision for modernization of power management and control systems, Smart Grid, is rather complex. It comprises several scientific traditions; SCADA and automation systems, information and communication technology, ... -
Why the Norwegian 2021 guideline for basic life support are different
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Medical guidelines provide health care professionals with a framework for how they should treat patients and perform training. Although based on the available scientific evidence, their legitimacy depends on a transparent ... -
Why we don't need "unmet needs"! On the concepts of unmet need and severity in health-care priority setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In health care priority setting different criteria are used to reflect the relevant values that should guide decision-making. During recent years there has been a development of value frameworks implying the use of multiple ... -
Why we should distinguish between mobilization and participation when investigating social media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the recent past, social media has become a central channel and means for political and societal mobilization. Mobilization refers to the process by which political parties, politicians, social movements, activists, and ... -
Why we will all be looking for a new job soon, true story based on study case of Orkdal footbridge
(Chapter, 2017)The fourth industrial revolution, already present in the several industries, is now entering the field of civil engineering. Digital fabrication, mass customization, robot arms and drones are connected within the building ... -
The Why, What, and How of Immersive Experience
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Wi-Fi based Telecommunication Infrastructure Delivered as a Service by UAV for Emergency Response
(Chapter, 2022)In this paper we discuss Wi-Fi and complementary technologies that can be used to mitigate telecommunication gaps in search and rescue (SAR) activities and during natural disaster (ND) response scenarios. We present and ... -
Wick polynomials in non-commutative probability: A group-theoretical approach
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Wide awake and surgery
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: “Wide awake hand surgery”, where surgery is performed in local anaesthesia with adrenaline, without sedation or a tourniquet, has become widespread in some countries. It has a number of potential advantages and ... -
Wide field-of-view Fourier Ptychography microscopy based on Fresnel propagation scheme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging method that gives a significantly increased space-bandwidth product, in practice high resolution combined with a wide field of view. In this article, we ... -
Wide frequency range measurements of absolute phase and amplitude of vibrations in micro- and nanostructures by optical interferometry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)A heterodyne interferometer has been built in order to characterize vibrations on micro- and nanostructures. The interferometer offers the possibility of both absolute phase and high resolution absolute amplitude vibrational ...