The literature that examines cross-national satisfaction with democracy seeks to discover a set of predictors that are associated with evaluations of regime performance. The most common way of examining the determinants of satisfaction with democracy is null hypothesis significance testing. While this approach has merit, this paper argues that the literature, as it stands, can be complemented to ...

Arbeidet med Universitetsbibliotekets brukerundersøkelse 2022 ble gjennomført av Aili Sarre, Linnea Nordström, Marit Bull Enger og Stian Lillejord. Gruppen ble satt ned høsten 2021 og startet arbeidet i november 2021. Oversettelse til engelsk ble gjort av Ellen Nierenberg. <p> <p>Dette er den tredje undersøkelsen Universitetsbiblioteket har gjennomført med et intervall på om lag tre år. Denne ...

Med utgangspunkt i Universitetsbibliotekets handlingsplan 2016 der et av de ønskede målene var å kartlegge hvordan våre tjenester blir brukt og mottatt, ble det i perioden 24.11.16-01.02.17 gjennomført en nettbasert brukerundersøkelse der målgruppen var alle Universitetsbibliotekets brukere. I mai 2016 ble det nedsatt en gruppe bestående av Marit Bull Enger (Kultur- og samfunnsfag-biblioteket, leder), ...

In this episode, Dr Per Pippin Aspaas and Dr Andreas Klein discuss the ‘Lapponia’ of Uppsala professor Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679), a work which introduces the Sámi people and their region. <p> <p>First recorded in January 2023. Published at <a href=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/podcast>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/podcast</a>, 2 February 2023.

People with intellectual disabilities often have a sedentary lifestyle that can lead to long-term issues like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and depression. Although literature shows that the main reason for this is the lack of motivation to do physical activity, scarce research has been done in accessible apps to track and foster physical activities that address motivation. This paper ...

Thrombin plays a central role in thromboinflammatory responses, but its activity is blocked in the common ex vivo human whole blood models, making an ex vivo study of thrombin effects on thromboinflammatory responses unfeasible. In this study, we exploited the anticoagulant peptide Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro (GPRP) that blocks fibrin polymerization to study the effects of thrombin on acute inflammation in ...

A model is proposed to analyze the heat transfer of deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE)arrays. Based on this, a dimension reduction algorithm is proposed for the numerical simulation of heat transfer of DBHE arrays, which can improve calculation speed by several orders of magnitude compared with that by the CFD software. An index of heat extraction capacity (HECI) is adopted to evaluate the heat ...

Objective - This study aims to investigate hormonal contraceptive (HC) use and user characteristics in women aged 40–49 years in Norway, as little is known on use of HCs in this age segment.<p> <p>Material and methods - This prevalence study included 2296 women aged 40–49 years who participated in the 2015–16 Tromsø Study, which collected self-reported sociodemographic information and data from ...

<p><b> Purpose</b> The purpose of this study is to examine role stress over the course of an alliance between supply chains. This study examines ambiguity as antecedent to multiple organisational outcomes. <p><b> Design/methodology/approach</b> This study subsequently uses a time series design that uses a close replication of the authors’ initial study. The design affords the opportunity ...

Background Normal breast tissue is utilized in tissue-based studies of breast carcinogenesis. While gene expression in breast tumor tissue is well explored, our knowledge of transcriptomic signatures in normal breast tissue is still incomplete. The aim of this study was to investigate variability of gene expression in a large sample of normal breast tissue biopsies, according to breast cancer related ...