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    • Biphasic release of the alarmin high mobility group box 1 protein early after trauma predicts poor clinical outcome 

      Ottestad, William Arne; Rognes, Ingrid Nygren; Pischke, Søren; Mollnes, Tom Eirik; Andersson, Ulf; Eken, Torsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objectives: The causal role of the prototype alarmin high mobility group box 1 protein in systemic inflammation and remote organ injury after trauma and shock is established in animal models but not in humans. Our aim ...
    • Bipolar multiplex families have an increased burden of common risk variants for psychiatric disorders 

      Andlauer, Till F.M.; Guzman-Parra, José; Streit, Fabian; Strohmaier, Jana; González, Maria José; Flores, Susana Gil; Fabeiro, Francisco J. Cabaleiro; Noriega, Francisco del Río; Perez, Fermin Perez; González, Jesus Haro; Diaz, Guillermo Orozco; Diego-Otero, Yolanda de; Moreno-Küstner, Berta; Auburger, Georg; Degenhardt, Franziska; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Frank, Josef; Foo, Jerome C.; Treutlein, Jens; Witt, Stephanie H.; Cichon, Sven; Kogevinas, Manolis; Bøen, Erlend; Dale, Anders M.; Djurovic, Srdjan; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Reinbold, Céline Sonja; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Agartz, Ingrid; Melle, Ingrid; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Stordal, Eystein; Andreassen, Ole; Rivas, Fabio; Mayoral, Fermín; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Forstner, Andreas J.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Rietschel, Marcella; Stahl, Eli A.; Breen, Gerome; McQuillin, Andrew; Ripke, Stephan; Trubetskoy, Vassily; Mattheisen, Manuel; Wang, Yunpeng; Morken, Gunnar; Vaaler, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Multiplex families with a high prevalence of a psychiatric disorder are often examined to identify rare genetic variants with large effect sizes. In the present study, we analysed whether the risk for bipolar disorder (BD) ...
    • Bird feathers as a biomonitor for environmental pollutants: Prospects and pitfalls 

      Jaspers, Veerle; Covaci, Adrian; Herzke, Dorte; Eulaers, Igor; Eens, Marcel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Due to increasing amounts of hazardous chemicals released into the environment, there is a high demand for developing easy and non-destructive biomonitoring tools. In a recent paper published in Trends in Analytical ...
    • Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation 

      Bailey, Liam D.; van de Pol, Martijn; Adriaensen, Frank; Arct, Aneta; Barba, Emilio; Bellamy, Paul E.; Bonamour, Suzanne; Bouvier, Jean-Charles; Burgess, Malcolm D.; Charmantier, Anne; Cusimano, Camillo; Doligez, Blandine; Drobniak, Szymon M.; Dubiec, Anna; Eens, Marcel; Eeva, Tapio; Ferns, Peter N.; Goodenough, Anne E.; Hartley, Ian R.; Hinsley, Shelley A.; Ivankina, Elena; Juškaitis, Rimvydas; Kempenaers, Bart; Kerimov, Anvar B.; Lavigne, Claire; Leivits, Agu; Mainwaring, Mark C.; Matthysen, Erik; Nilsson, Jan-Åke; Orell, Markku; Rytkönen, Seppo; Senar, Juan Carlos; Sheldon, Ben C.; Sorace, Alberto; Stenning, Martyn J.; Török, János; van Oers, Kees; Vatka, Emma; Vriend, Stefan J.G.; Visser, Marcel E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The phenology of many species shows strong sensitivity to climate change; however, with few large scale intra-specific studies it is unclear how such sensitivity varies over a species’ range. We document large intra-specific ...
    • Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems 

      Mikula, Peter; Tomášek, Oldřich; Romportl, Dušan; Aikins, Timothy K.; Avendaño, Jorge E.; Braimoh-Azaki, Bukola D A; Chaskda, Adams; Cresswell, Will; Cunningham, Susan J.; Dale, Svein; Favoretto, Gabriela R.; Floyd, Kelvin S.; Glover, Hayley; Grim, Tomáš; Henry, Dominic A. W.; Holmern, Tomas; Hromada, Martin; Iwajomo, Soladoye B.; Lilleyman, Amanda; Magige, Flora J.; Martin, Rowan O.; de A. Maximiano, Marina F.; Nana, Eric D.; Ncube, Emmanuel; Ndaimani, Henry; Nelson, Emma; van Niekerk, Johann H.; Pienaar, Carina; Piratelli, Augusto J.; Pistorius, Penny; Radkovic, Anna; Reynolds, Chevonne; Røskaft, Eivin; Shanungu, Griffin K.; Siqueira, Paulo R.; Tarakini, Tawanda; Tejeiro-Mahecha, Nattaly; Thompson, Michelle L.; Wamiti, Wanyoike; Wilson, Mark; Tye, Donovan R. C.; Tye, Nicholas D.; Vehtari, Aki; Tryjanowski, Piotr; Weston, Michael A.; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Albrecht, Tomáš (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Animal tolerance towards humans can be a key factor facilitating wildlife–human coexistence, yet traits predicting its direction and magnitude across tropical animals are poorly known. Using 10,249 observations for 842 ...
    • A Bird’s Eye View: Supranational EU Actors on Twitter 

      Özdemir, Sina Furkan; Rauh, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Given the politicization of European integration, effective public communication by the European Union (EU) has gained importance. Especially for rather detached supranational executives, social media platforms offer unique ...
    • Birth of dairy 4.0: Opportunities and challenges in adoption of fourth industrial revolution technologies in the production of milk and its derivatives 

      Hassoun, Abdo; Garcia-Garcia, Guillermo; Trollman, Hana; Jagtap, Sandeep; Parra-López, Carlos; Cropotova, Janna; Bhat, Zuhaib; Centobelli, Piera; Aït-Kaddour, Abderrahmane (Journal article, 2023)
      Embracing innovation and emerging technologies is becoming increasingly important to address the current global challenges facing many food industry sectors, including the dairy industry. Growing literature shows that the ...
    • Birth preparedness and complication readiness - a qualitative study among community members in rural Tanzania 

      August, Furaha; Pembe, Andrea; Kayombo, Edmund; Mbekenga, Columba; Axemo, Pia; Darj, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Background: Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BP/CR) strategies are aimed at reducing delays in seeking, reaching, and receiving care. Counselling on birth preparedness is provided during antenatal care visits. ...
    • Birth size after embryo cryopreservation: larger by all measures? 

      Landsverk, Eirik; Westvik-Johari, Kjersti; Romundstad, Liv Bente Bergem; Opdahl, Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      STUDY QUESTION Are the changes in birthweight after frozen and fresh embryo transfer associated with corresponding changes in other measures of foetal growth and placental efficiency? SUMMARY ANSWER Although placental ...
    • Birth Weight in Relation to Leisure Time Physical Activity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Meta-Analysis of Results from 13 Nordic Cohorts 

      Andersen, Lise Geisler; Ängquist, Lars; Gamborg, Michael; Byberg, Liisa; Bengtsson, Calle; Canoy, Dexter; Eriksson, Johan G; Eriksson, Marit; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Lissner, Lauren; Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund; Osler, Merete; Overvad, Kim; Rasmussen, Finn; Salonen, Minna K; Schack-Nielsen, Lene; Tammelin, Tuija H; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Sørensen, Thorkild I. A; Baker, Jennifer L (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-12-16)
      Prenatal life exposures, potentially manifested as altered birth size, may influence the later risk of major chronic diseases through direct biologic effects on disease processes, but also by modifying adult behaviors such ...
    • BISDU: A Bit-Serial Dot-Product Unit for Microcontrollers 

      Metz, David Christoph; Kumar, Vineet; Själander, Hans Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Bisection Algorithm based Indirect Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control for Modular Multilevel Converters 

      Hamayoon, Saad; Hovd, Morten; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Chapter, 2021)
      In this work, an idea based on the bisection algorithm is used to reduce the computational burden of indirect finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) for modular multilevel converters (MMCs). The proposed ...
    • Bishop Gunnerus as a naturalist: His impact on biodiversity research today 

      Bakken, Torkild; Fremstad, Eli; Aagaard, Kaare (Chapter, 2011)
      Bishop Gunnerus started his work as naturalist as soon as he arrived in Trondheim. In a pastoral letter to his clergymen he instructed them to collect specimens and information on natural history in their parishes. ...
    • Bisimulations Respecting Duration and Causality for the Non-interleaving Applied Pi-Calculus 

      Aubert, Clement; Horne, Ross; Johansen, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper shows how we can make use of an asynchronous transition system, whose transitions are labelled with events and which is equipped with a notion of independence of events, to define non-interleaving semantics for ...
    • BISMO: A Scalable Bit-Serial Matrix Multiplication Overlay for Reconfigurable Computing 

      Umuroglu, Yaman; Rasnayake, Lahiru; Själander, Magnus (Chapter, 2018)
      Matrix-matrix multiplication is a key computational kernel for numerous applications in science and engineering, with ample parallelism and data locality that lends itself well to high-performance implementations. Many ...
    • Bitcoin P2P Network Measurements: A testbed study of the effect of peer selection on transaction propagation and confirmation times 

      Gebraselase, Befekadu; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Jiang, Yuming (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Bitcoin is the first and the most extensive decentralized electronic cryptocurrency system that uses blockchain technology. It uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to operate without a central authority and propagate system ...
    • Bitcoin Unchained 

      Boyd, Colin Alexander; Carr, Christopher; Boyen, Xavier; Haines, Thomas (Journal article, 2017)
      Bitcoin’s distributed ledger is an innovative way of solving the double spending problem in a decentralised system. However, it causes incompressible transaction delays and incentivises consolidation of mining power. We ...
    • Bites-sized Lean 

      Powell, Daryl; Hicks, Christian; McGovern, Tom; Small, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      SMEs find it difficult to implement and sustain Lean tools. Larger companies have more resources that make it easier to provide employees with time to engage in Lean training and improvement activities. The European Regions ...
    • Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester 

      Smeby, Gunnar; Røyrvik, Emil André (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Artikkelen analyserer etableringen av Politiets fellestjenester (PFT), som er et av de sentrale reformtiltakene i den pågående politireformen. Basert på dokumentanalyse, en enkel spørreundersøkelse og kvalitative intervjuer ...
    • Bivalve beds reveal rapid changes in ocean oxygenation in the Boreal Middle Triassic – a case study from Svalbard, Norway 

      Engelschiøn, Victoria Sjøholt; Bernhardsen, Sofie; Wesenlund, Fredrik; Hammer, Øyvind; Hurum, Jørn Harald; Mørk, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A fossil-rich interval in the organic rich marine black mudstone of the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation on eastern Svalbard was logged in high-resolution on an extremely well exposed section with emphasis on bivalve ...