• Variation in antibiotic consumption in very preterm infants-a 10 year population-based study 

      Huncikova, Zuzana; Stensvold, Hans Jørgen; Øymar, Knut Asbjørn Alexander; Vatne, Anlaug; Lang, Astri Maria; Støen, Ragnhild; Brigtsen, Anne Karin; Moster, Dag; Eriksen, Beate Horsberg; Selberg, Terje Reidar; Rønnestad, Arild Erland; Klingenberg, Claus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objectives Wide variations in antibiotic use in very preterm infants have been reported across centres despite similar rates of infection. We describe 10 year trends in use of antibiotics and regional variations among ...
    • Variation in caries treatment proposals among dentists in Norway: the best interest of the child 

      Rønneberg, Anne; Skaare, Anne B; Hofmann, Bjørn; Espelid, Ivar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Aim To explore variation in treatment-related-decisions for severe caries in children among dentists in the Public Dental Service (PDS) in Norway. It was also to evaluate the treatment choices in relation to the best ...
    • Variation in d13C and d15N values of mothers and their calves across southern right whale nursery grounds: the effects of nutritional stress? 

      Carroll, Emma L.; Dunshea, Glenn; Ott, Paulo H.; Valenzuela, Luciano O.; Baker, C. S.; Childerhouse, Simon J.; Gaggiotti, Oscar; Flores, Paulo A. C.; Groch, Katia Regina; Gröcke, Darren R.; Hindell, Mark A.; Lundquist, David; Oliveira, Larrissa R.; Rowntree, Victoria; Sironi, Mariano; Newsome, Seth D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Southern right whales (SRW) are capital breeders that use stored energy reserves to sustain themselves and their calves on nursery areas. With successful calving events declining in some SRW populations, it has been ...
    • Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects 

      Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Collier, Jacqueline; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro; Vulchanov, Valentin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Aims and Objectives: This study explored the extent to which bilingual language exposure and practice might alter the way in which bilingual first-generation adult speakers use deictic demonstratives in their first language ...
    • Variation in general supportive and preventive intensive care management of traumatic brain injury: a survey in 66 neurotrauma centers participating in the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) study 

      Huijben, Jilske A.; Volovici, Victor; Cnossen, Maryse C.; Haitsma, Iain K.; Stocchetti, Nino; Maas, Andrew I. R.; Menon, David K.; Ercole, Ari; Citerio, Giuseppe; Nelson, David; Polinder, Suzanne; Steyerberg, Ewout W.; Lingsma, Hester F.; van der Jagt, Mathieu; Vik, Anne; Andelic, Nada; Andreassen, Lasse; Anke, Audny; Frisvold, Shirin; Helseth, Eirik; Roise, Olav; Skandsen, Toril; Håberg, Asta; Røe, Cecilie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background General supportive and preventive measures in the intensive care management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) aim to prevent or limit secondary brain injury and optimize recovery. The aim of this survey was to ...
    • Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation 

      Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Pepke, Michael Le; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Generation time determines the pace of key demographic and evolutionary processes. Quantified as the weighted mean age at reproduction, it can be studied as a life-history trait that varies within and among populations and ...
    • Variation in language mixing in multilingual aphasia 

      Goral, Mira; Norvik, Monica I.; Jensen, Bård Uri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Mixing languages within a sentence or a conversation is a common practice among many speakers of multiple languages. Language mixing found in multilingual speakers with aphasia has been suggested to reflect deficits ...
    • Variation in MHC genotypes in two populations of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) with different population histories 

      Pedersen, Åsa Alexandra Borg; Pedersen, Sindre Andre; Jensen, Henrik; Westerdahl, Helena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Small populations are likely to have a low genetic ability for disease resistance due to loss of genetic variation through inbreeding and genetic drift. In vertebrates, the highest genetic diversity of the immune system ...
    • Variation in Natural Kind Concepts 

      Cohnitz, Daniel; Haukioja, Jussi (Chapter, 2020)
      Since Kripke's and Putnam's work in the 1970's, most philosophers have assumed that our natural kind concepts are externally individuated. However, both psychologists and philosophers have questioned this assumption, partly ...
    • Variation in neurosurgical management of traumatic brain injury: a survey in 68 centers participating in the CENTER-TBI study. 

      Van Essen, Thomas; den Boogert, HF; Cnossen, MC; De Ruiter, Godard CW; Haitsma, Ian; Polinder, S; Steyerberg, Ewout W.; Menon, David; Maas, Andrew I. R.; Lingsma, Hester F; Peul, Wilco; Andelic, Nada; Helseth, Eirik; Roise, O; Røe, Cecilie; Vik, Anne; Skandsen, Toril; Anke, Audny; Frisvold, Shirin Kordasti; Andreassen, Lasse; Håberg, Asta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Neurosurgical management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is challenging, with only low-quality evidence. We aimed to explore differences in neurosurgical strategies for TBI across Europe. Methods A survey ...
    • Variation in predicting pantograph–catenary interaction contact forces, numerical simulations and field measurements 

      Nåvik, Petter Røe; Rønnquist, Anders; Stichel, Sebastian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The contact force between the pantograph and the contact wire ensures energy transfer between the two. Too small of a force leads to arching and unstable energy transfer, while too large of a force leads to unnecessary ...
    • Variation in serum PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9), cardiovascular disease risk, and an investigation of potential unanticipated effects of PCSK9 inhibition 

      Brumpton, Ben Michael; Fritsche, Lars; Zheng, Jie; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Mannila, Maria Nastase; Surakka, Ida; Rasheed, Humaira; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Graham, Sarah E.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Aukrust, Pål; Vatten, Lars Johan; Damås, Jan Kristian; Ueland, Thor; Janszky, Imre; Zwart, John-Anker; van't Hooft, Ferdinand M.; Seidah, Nabil Georges; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen; Smith, George Davey; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibitors reduce serum LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol (LDL-C) by increasing uptake in the liver. Although some long-term trials have evaluated their safety, ...
    • Variation in the ontogenetic allometry of horn length in bovids along a body mass continuum 

      Tidière, Morgane; Gaillard, Jean Michel; Garel, Mathieu; LeMaitre, Jean Francois; Toïgo, Carole; Pelabon, Christophe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Allometric relationships describe the proportional covariation between morphological, physiological, or life-history traits and the size of the organisms. Evolutionary allometries estimated among species are expected to ...
    • Variation in the practice of tracheal intubation in Europe after traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study 

      Gravesteijn, BY; Sewalt, C.; Ercole, Ari; Lecky, Fiona; Menon, David; Steyerberg, Ewout W; Maas, AIR; Lingsma, Hester F; Klimek, Magdalena; Vik, Anne; Andelic, Nada; Andreassen, Lasse; Anke, Audny; Frisvold, Shirin; Helseth, Eirik; Røise, Olav; Røe, Cecilie; Schirmer-Mikalsen, Kari; Sandrød, Oddrun; Borgen Lund, Stine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Traumatic brain injury patients frequently undergo tracheal intubation. We aimed to assess current intubation practice in Europe and identify variation in practice. We analysed data from patients with traumatic brain injury ...
    • Variation in trends of consumption based carbon accounts 

      Wood, Richard; Moran, Daniel; Rodrigues, João F. D.; Stadler, Konstantin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The UNFCCC requires the annual reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. These inventories focus on emissions within a territory, and do not capture the effect of emissions embodied in imports. Consumption based carbon ...
    • Variation of elastic energy shows reliable signal of upcoming catastrophic failure 

      Pradhan, Srutarshi; Kjellstadli, Jonas Tøgersen; Hansen, Alex (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We consider the Equal-Load-Sharing Fiber Bundle Model as a model for composite materials under stress and derive elastic energy and damage energy as a function of strain. With gradual increase of stress (or strain) the ...
    • Variation of Legionella spp. with Lake Depth and Season in Two Norwegian Drinking Water Sources 

      Meegoda, Charuka Saamantha; Waak, Michael B; Kim, Taegyu; Hozalski, Raymond M; Halle, Cynthia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • Variational Anisotropic Gradient-Domain Image Processing 

      Farup, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gradient-domain image processing is a technique where, instead of operating directly on the image pixel values, the gradient of the image is computed and processed. The resulting image is obtained by reintegrating the ...
    • Variational Approach for Capsule Video Frame Interpolation 

      Mohammed, Ahmed Kedir; Farup, Ivar; Yildirim, Sule; Pedersen, Marius; Hovde, Øistein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Capsule video endoscopy, which uses a wireless camera to visualize the digestive tract, is emerging as an alternative to traditional colonoscopy. Colonoscopy is considered as the gold standard for visualizing the colon and ...
    • Variational based smoke removal in laparoscopic images 

      Wang, Congcong; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Kaaniche, Mounir; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Elle, Ole Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces errors for the image processing algorithms (used in image guided surgery), but also reduces the ...