• An urban Blitz with a twist: rapid biodiversity assessment using aquatic environmental DNA 

      Hupało, Kamil; Majaneva, Markus; Czachur, Molly Victoria; Sire, Lucas; Marquina, Daniel; Lijtmaer, Darío A.; Ivanov, Vladislav; Leidenberger, Sonja; Čiampor, Fedor; Čiamporová-Zat'ovičová, Zuzana; Mendes, Izabela S.; Desiderato, Andrea; Topstad, Lasse; Meganck, Danial Hariz Z. A.; Kjærstad, Gaute; Lin, Xiaolong; Price, Benjamin; Stevens, Mark; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Deiner, Kristy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As global biodiversity declines, there is an increasing need to create an educated and engaged society. Having people of all ages participate in measuring biodiversity where they live helps to create awareness. Recently, ...
    • Urban commuting – A threat to the work-family balance? 

      Denstadli, Jon Martin; Julsrud, Tom Erik; Christiansen, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Urban drainage models for green areas: Structural differences and their effects on simulated runoff 

      Broekhuizen, Ico; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Leonhardt, Gunther; Viklander, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Mathematical stormwater models are often used as tools for planning and analysing urban drainage systems. However, the inherent uncertainties of the models must be properly understood in order to make optimal use of them. ...
    • Urban Ecological Planning: Principles, value positions and application in practice 

      Sliwa, Marcin; Aranya, Rolee; Refstie, Hilde (Chapter, 2018)
      The paper presents the principles of Urban Ecological Planning - an approach of urban practice that challenges and supplements outdated technocratic urban planning methodologies that are still dominant in many developing ...
    • Urban Facilities Management in Smart Cities 

      Lindkvist, Carmel Margaret; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Collins, Dave; Bjørberg, Svein; Haugen, Tore (Book, 2019)
      Facilities managers have the skills to work within a top down strategic level and link to a bottom-up operational levelwithin an organization. This type of approach to managing services and facilities is lacking within a ...
    • Urban Facility Management 

      Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Lindkvist, Carmel Margaret (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper aims to illustrate where facility management (FM) is having an impact on the urban environment and what other work needs to be done to easier facilitate achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). ...
    • Urban heritage and the four pillars of sustainability: Urban-scale facility management in the World Heritage sites 

      Prabowo, Bintang Noor; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The discussion addressing sustainability issues of the World Heritage (WH) as cultural sites that hold outstanding universal values (OUV) has started to surface since the adoption of the “Strategic Action Plan for the ...
    • Urban heritage facility management: A scoping review 

      Prabowo, Bintang Noor; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Lohne, Jardar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This review examines current discussions from the cross-section study between urban heritage conservation and urban facility management fields in the academic literature from 2011–2020. The purpose is to identify the gaps ...
    • Urban hydroinformatics: Past, present and future 

      Makropoulos, Christos; Savić, Dragan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Hydroinformatics, as an interdisciplinary domain that blurs boundaries between water science, data science and computer science, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself. At the heart of this evolution, lies a continuous ...
    • Urban Market Production and Coastal Trade in the Early Viking Age. A Study of Eighth-Century AD Blue Period Millefiori Beads in Central and Northern Norway 

      Maixner, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Resources from outland regions of the Scandinavian Peninsula have been the topic of several studies about trade in the early Viking Age. In contrast, the distribution of highly refined items from the urban markets in ...
    • Urban polarisering: Antropologiske bidrag 

      Møgster, Trine Olsen; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Dette spesialnummeret er viet antropologiske studier av urbane formasjoner og fokuserer særlig på polarisering og det sosiale livet som utspiller seg i møte med denne. Særlig søker vi å utforske og sammenligne de mangeartede ...
    • Urban stormwater capture for water supply: look out for persistent, mobile and toxic substances 

      Mutzner, Lena; Zhang, Kefeng; Luthy, Richard G.; Arp, Hans Peter Heinrich; Spahr, Stephanie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Urban stormwater was traditionally managed for flood control and property protection. But this view is changing as urban stormwater is increasingly recognized as an underused water resource. As cities implement stormwater ...
    • Urban surfaces studied by VIS/NIR imaging from UAV: Possibilities and limitations 

      Burud, Ingunn; Vukovic, Marija; Thiis, Thomas Kringlebotn; Gaitani, Niki (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The present research approach aims at analyzing the relation between material properties and their thermal behavior using airborne multispectral imaging in VIS/NIR and IR with sensors mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...
    • Urban water system metabolism assessment using WaterMet2 model 

      Behzadian, Kourosh; Kapelan, Zoran; Govindarajan, Venkatesh; Brattebø, Helge; Sægrov, Sveinung; Rozos, Envangelos; Makropoulos, Christos; Ugarelli, Rita Maria; Milina, Jadranka; Hem, Lars J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This paper presents a new “WaterMet2” model for integrated modelling of an urban water system (UWS). The model is able to quantify the principal water flows and other main fluxes in the UWS. The UWS in WaterMet2 is ...
    • Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities 

      Petersen, Tanja Kofod; Speed, James David Mervyn; Grøtan, Vidar; Frøyen, Yngve Karl; Austrheim, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) are fenestrated endothelial cells with a unique, high endocytic clearance capacity for blood-borne waste macromolecules and colloids. This LSEC scavenger function has been ...
    • Urbanization erodes niche segregation in Darwin's finches 

      De León, Luis Fernando; Sharpe, Diana, M.T.; Gotanda, Kiyoko; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.; Chaves, Jaime A.; Hendry, Andrew P.; Podos, Jeffrey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Urbanization is influencing patterns of biological evolution in ways that are only beginning to be explored. One potential effect of urbanization is in modifying ecological resource distributions that underlie niche ...
    • Urban–Rural Differences in Hip Fracture Mortality: A Nationwide NOREPOS Study 

      Solbakken, Siri Marie; Magnus, Jeanette H.; Meyer, Haakon E; Dahl, Cecilie; Stigum, Hein; Søgaard, Anne-Johanne; Holvik, Kristin; Tell, Grethe S.; Emaus, Nina; Forsmo, Siri; Gjesdal, Clara Gram; Schei, Berit; Vestergaard, Peter; Omsland, Tone Kristin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Higher hip fracture incidence in urban than in rural areas has been demonstrated, but urban–rural differences in posthip fracture mortality have been less investigated, and the results are disparate. Hence, the aims of the ...
    • Ureteric injuries during hysterectomy—A Norwegian retrospective study of occurrence and claims for compensation over an 11-year period 

      Ravlo, Merethe; Moen, Mette Haase; Bukholm, Ida Rashida Khan; Lieng, Marit; Vanky, Eszter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Introduction: Ureteric injury is a rare but serious, iatrogenic complication of hysterectomy. The risk depends on indication for surgery, predisposing risk factors, and peroperative conditions. Our aims were to evaluate ...
    • Urinary albumin excretion as a marker of endothelial dysfunction in migraine sufferers: the HUNT study, Norway 

      Jacobsen, Line Melå; Winsvold, Bendik Kristoffer Slagsvold; Romundstad, Solfrid; Pripp, Are Hugo; Holmen, Jostein; Zwart, John-Anker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Objective: To investigate urine albumin leakage as a marker of endothelial dysfunction in migraine patients. Design: A population-based health study. Participants: 303 patients with migraine, 1009 patients with ...
    • Urinary detection of corticosteroid in topical treatment of skin disease by 19F MRS 

      Sitter, Beathe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objective To investigate if it was feasible to quantify the renal excretion of topically applied corticosteroids by 19F MRS. Materials and methods Five participants, one healthy and four with skin diseases, were treated ...