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    • Avoiding Cost Overrun Through Stochastic Cost Estimation and External Quality Assurance 

      Welde, Morten; Klakegg, Ole Jonny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Cost overruns are a threat to project performance and continue to attract interest in both the popular media and the academic literature. Numerous studies from all continents have demonstrated that overruns remain prevalent ...

    • Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses 

      Brumpton, Ben Michael; Sanderson, Eleanor; Heilbron, Karl; Hartwig, FP; Harrison, S; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Cho, Y; Howe, LD; Hughes, A; Boomsma, D; Havdahl, Alexandra; Hopper, J; Neale, M; Nivard, Michel G.; Pedersen, N; Reynolds, CA; Tucker-D, EM; Grotzinger, A; Howe, Laurence; Morris, Tim; Li, Shuai; Within-Family Consortium, The; 23andMe Research Team, The; Auton, A; Windmeijer, F; Chen, W-M; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, C; Evans, DM; Kaprio, J; Davey Smith, G; Åsvold, BO; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Hemani, G; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Estimates from Mendelian randomization studies of unrelated individuals can be biased due to uncontrolled confounding from familial effects. Here we describe methods for within-family Mendelian randomization analyses and ...

    • Avoiding snow and ice accretion on building integrated photovoltaics - challenges, strategies, and opportunities 

      Borrebæk, Per-Olof; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are becoming increasingly popular, the demand for optimized utilization will be increasing with respect to efficiency, aesthetics and reliability. In cold climate regions, we ...

    • Avoiding Snow and Ice Formation on Exterior Solar Cell Surfaces - A Review of Research Pathways and Opportunities 

      Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gao, Tao; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Kolås, Tore; Stenstad, Per Martin; Ng, Serina (Integrating Data Science, Construction and Sustainability;ICSDEC 2016, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Today energy-efficient and energy-harvesting buildings experience an ever-increasing interest and demand. Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) may in this respect represent a powerful and versatile tool for reaching ...

    • Avoiding the Next Silent Spring: Our Chemical Past, Present, and Future 

      Arp, Hans Peter Heinrich; Aurich, Dagny; Schymanski, Emma L.; Sims, Kerry; Hale, Sarah Elizabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, (1) published just more than 60 years ago, outlined how the indiscriminate use of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), a potent, environmentally persistent insecticide, was damaging the ...

    • Avvik og avvikshåndtering i Indre Fosen kommune 

      Aune, Veronika; Sagmo, Andre (Master thesis, 2022)
      Sammendrag Indre Fosen kommune ble etter en kommunesammenslåing, etablert i 2018. En helt ny organisasjon ble bygget med utgangspunkt i det beste fra de to tidligere kommunene. Sammenslåingen førte til flere endringer på ...

    • Avvik og avvikshåndtering i Indre Fosen kommune 

      Sagmo, Andre; Aune, Veronika (Master thesis, 2022)
      Sammendrag Indre Fosen kommune ble etter en kommunesammenslåing, etablert i 2018. En helt ny organisasjon ble bygget med utgangspunkt i det beste fra de to tidligere kommunene. Sammenslåingen førte til flere endringer på ...

    • Avvikssystemets effekt på læring av uønskede hendelser 

      Hiorth, Knut Christian James (Master thesis, 2023)
      Helsevesenet blir stadig mer komplekst og systemer for å ivareta pasientsikkerheten er viktig for å kunne yte trygg og forsvarlig helsehjelp. Denne studien avdekker at det er viktig med en felles forståelse av pasientsikkerhet ...

    • Avviste asylsøkere i Norge: Ventemottaksordningen og andre returmotiverende tiltak 

      Valenta, Marko; Thorshaug, Kristin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Denne artikkelen fokuserer på avviste asylsøkeres posisjoneringer og oppfatninger av ventemottak og andre returfremmende tiltak. Ifølge norske myndigheter skulle tilbudet i ventemottakene være nøkternt, noe som i kombinasjon ...

    • Avviste asylsøkere og ventemottaksordningen. Mellom passiv tvang og aktiv returassistanse 

      Valenta, Marko; Thorshaug, Kristin; Molden, Thomas Hugaas; Berg, Berit; Kjærre, Halvar A (Research report, 2010)
      Rapporten fokuserer på ventemottaksordningen,ordningens rolle i returarbeidet, og hvordan den samhandler med andre returfremmende tiltak som iverksettes av norske myndigheter. Rapporten baserer seg på kvalitativt og ...

    • Awareness based technologies for leadership development: utilising Immunity to Change coaching 

      Reams, Jonathan; Reams, Juliane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      This article presents a study of the use of Immunity to Change (ITC) coaching in an integrated leadership development programme as an example of awareness based leadership development technology. Constructivist developmental ...

    • Awareness of Ethical Challenges and Nursing Intensity in Care of Older People 

      Frilund, Marianne Louise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The article is an academic essay, a dialog between different aspects of nursing intensity (NI) and theory of Caritative Caring.(Eriksson, 2002a, K, 2003, Eriksson and Lindström, 2009, Eriksson, 2007c, Eriksson, 2007a) The ...

    • Awareness of polycystic ovary syndrome among obstetrician-gynecologists and endocrinologists in Northern Europe. 

      Piltonen, Terhi T; Ruokojärvi, Maria; Karro, Helle; Kajuanpää, Linda; Morin-Papunen, Laure; Tapanainen, Juha S.; Stener-Victorin, Elisabet; Sundrström-Poromaa, Inger; Hirschberg, Angelica L.; Ravn, Pernille; Glintborg, Dorte; Mellembakken, Jan Roar; Steingrimsdottir, Thora; Gibson-Helm, Melanie; Vanky, Eszter; Andersen, Marianne Skovsager; Arffman, Riikka K; Teede, Helena; Falah-Hassani, Kobra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objective To date, little is known about differences in the knowledge, diagnosis making and treatment strategies of health care providers regarding polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) across different disciplines in countries ...

    • Awareness of urban communities on biodiversity conservation in Tanzania's protected areas 

      Mwasaga, Rehema Ulimboka; Mbise, Franco Peniel; Nyahongo, Julius William; Røskaft, Eivin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This study used semi-structured interviews in two cities, Dodoma and Arusha, in Tanzania, to assess the difference in people’s conservation awareness between the two cities. Our results revealed that urban people were ...

    • Awareness, Control and Impact in Digital Wellbeing - Results from Explorative Self-experiments 

      Inal, Yavuz; Guribye, Frode; Taber, Lee; Whittaker, Steve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research and design for digital wellbeing commonly focus on a single device, and time spent is the most common indicator of digital wellbeing. In this paper, we examine digital wellbeing along three dimensions: awareness, ...

    • AWEbox: An Optimal Control Framework for Single- and Multi-Aircraft Airborne Wind Energy Systems 

      De Schutter, Jochem; Leuthold, Rachel; Bronnenmeyer, Thilo; Malz, Elena; Gros, Sebastien Nicolas; Diehl, Moritz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this paper, we present AWEbox, a Python toolbox for modeling and optimal control of multi-aircraft systems for airborne wind energy (AWE). AWEbox provides an implementation of optimization-friendly multi-aircraft AWE ...

    • AWkS: adaptive, weighted k‑means‑based superpixels for improved saliency detection 

      Gupta, Ashish Kumar; Seal, Ayan; Yazidi, Anis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Clustering inspired superpixel algorithms perform a restricted partitioning of an image, where each visually coherent region containing perceptually similar pixels serves as a primitive in subsequent processing stages. ...

    • Axial crushing of aluminum extrusions filled with PET foam and GFRP. An experimental investigation 

      Costas, Miguel; Morin, David; Langseth, Magnus; Romera, Luis Esteban; Díaz, Jacobo M. (Journal article, 2016)
      This research work investigated the axial crushing behavior of a circular aluminum extrusion in alloy AA6063-T5 internally reinforced with a glass–fiber structure and filled with polymeric foam. The components were ...

    • Axion electrodynamics and the axionic Casimir effect 

      Brevik, Iver Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A general scheme for axion electrodynamics is given, in which a surrounding medium of constant permittivity and permeability is assumed. Then, as an application, we provide simple numerical estimates for the electromagnetic ...

    • Axisymmetric smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics 

      García-Senz, Domingo; Wissing, Robert Bleckert Nils Håkan; Cabezón, R. M.; Vurgun, E.; Linares, Manuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Many astrophysical and terrestrial scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Although the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to magnetohydrodynamics ...