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Can adults with cerebral palsy perform and benefit from ballistic strength training to improve walking outcomes? A mixed methods feasibility study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Power bursts of hips and ankle plantar flexors are prerequisites to walking propulsion. However, these power bursts are reduced during gait for persons with cerebral palsy (CP) and mainly in the ankle plantar ... -
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and ... -
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and ... -
Capital rationing and business cycles in the Norwegian petroleum industry
(Research report, 2020)We analyse business cycles of oil and gas investment on the Norwegian continental shelf. Investment declined steeply from 2014 until 2017, following business cycle-induced cost increase and a subsequent dramatic drop in ... -
Capital, Inequality, and Volunteering: A Bourdieusian Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this paper, I adopt Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical and methodological framework to investigate patterns of inequality in volunteering fields and practices in Norway. Multiple correspondence analyses of national survey ... -
Carbon capture and storage - Publics in five countries around the north sea prefer to do it on their own territory
(Research report, 2023)Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been identified as an essential part of the lowest-cost path toward reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement. In Europe, an accelerated pace of CCS development indicates that a CO2 ... -
Challenging the ethnic pyramid: Golden rules and organisational measures towards a more inclusive work environment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aim: To contribute to knowledge of how healthcare managers can promote connection and ethnic equality among staff in multicultural organisations. Background: The increase in migrant care workers often leads to deskilling, ... -
Change and Stability in Public Beliefs About Same-Sex Family Rights in Norway in 2008, 2013, and 2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Introduction In Norway, legal measures securing equal marriage and parenting rights for same- and different-sex couples took effect on January 1, 2009. The aim of this study was to assess Norwegian public beliefs about ... -
Changes in sea ice travel conditions in Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland (1985–2019) assessed through remote sensing and transportation accessibility modeling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Shorefast sea ice provides an important platform for winter and spring travel between coastal Arctic communities unconnected by road networks. In the past two decades, local Arctic residents have reported thinning and ... -
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically lexical change. This paper ... -
Changing Salty Food Preferences with Visual and Textual Explanations in a Search Interface
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Salt is consumed at too high levels in the general population, causing high blood pressure and related health problems. In this paper, we present results of ongoing research that tries to reduce salt intake via technology ... -
Characteristics of hospitalized patients during a large waterborne outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Very few reports describe all hospitalized patients with campylobacteriosis in the setting of a single waterborne outbreak. This study describes the demographics, comorbidities, clinical features, microbiology, treatment ... -
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper considers how Family Support is conceptualised in the European context with respect to its primary beneficiaries. The central question considers the focus of concern in a child welfare system and what it means ... -
Childhood maltreatment and sleep in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Childhood maltreatment is a global problem with the risk of serious health consequences for children and adolescents, including sleep problems. Former systematic reviews have examined the association between childhood ... -
The chronically ill in the labour market – are they hierarchically sorted by education?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background The chronically ill as a group has on average lower probability of employment compared to the general population, a situation that has persisted over time in many countries. Previous studies have shown that the ... -
Civil Society and cross-border cooperation between Norway and Russia
(Research report, 2023)This report looks at cross-border cooperation among civil society actors in Norway and Russia since the mid-1990s, in relation to the development of bilateral relation between Norway and Russia at a state-level. We look ... -
Climate at risk. The financial turn in corporate climate change communication
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The present article examines the linguistic aspects of climate change through a terminological analysis of the emerging concept of climate risk. The overall aim is to investigate emergent terminology and the evolution of ... -
Climate change risk perceptions and the problem of scale: Evidence from cross-national survey experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ... -
Clinical effectiveness of music interventions for dementia and depression in elderly care (MIDDEL): Australian cohort of an international pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Dementia and depression are highly prevalent and comorbid conditions among older adults living in care homes and are associated with individual distress and rising societal costs. Effective, scalable, and feasible ... -
Clinical features of gastroenteritis during a large waterborne Campylobacter outbreak in Askøy, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose Outbreaks of Campylobacter infection are common, but studies exploring the clinical features of acute illness in the outbreak setting are scarce in existing literature. The main purpose of the present study was to ...