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Upper secondary education for youth at risk: A comparative analysis of education and training programmes in Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
(International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training;Vol. 7 No. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-20)Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training, and integrating youth at risk in upper secondary education. To ensure that more young people complete ... -
Upper-class romance: homogamy at the apex of the class structure
(European Societies;Volume 23, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-23)This article focuses on social closure by way of marital homogamy within the upper class. It offers new insights into the social structuring of romantic partnerships, while drawing on research on assortative mating and ... -
Upregulation of the lactate transporter monocarboxylate transporter 1 at the blood-brain barrier in a rat model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder suggests hyperactivity could be a form of self-treatment
(Behavioural Brain Research;Volume 360, 15 March 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-11)The energy deficit hypothesis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) suggests that low lactate production by brain astrocytes causes the symptoms of the disorder. Astrocytes are the main producers of lactate ... -
Uptake of Attendance Benefit for Children with a Disability in Norway: Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Immigrant Background
(Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research;Volume 22 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-24)In this study, we examine the take-up of a non-mean tested cash benefit for children with a disability in Norway. We question if the uptake of the attendance benefit varies according to socioeconomic status and immigrant ... -
Urban climate governance and co-creation – In Cape Town, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo
(NIBR Report;2020:8, Research report, 2020-06)The study provides an outline and comparative analysis of the evolution in climate policies and governance systems of four cities with ambitious climate goals and strategies; three Scandinavian cities, Copenhagen, Gothenburg ... -
Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': Bridging socio-spatial divides between the formal and informal city?
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Urban governance of climate change and health: A literature review
(NIBR-notat 2013:102, Notat, 2013)Climate change creates additional threats to existing health problems in developing countries. Among the most likely health problems due to climate change are increased incidences of water and vector-borne diseases due to ... -
Urban Governance of Disaster Response Capacity: Institutional Models of Local Scalability
(Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Increasingly confronted with the acute risk of large-scale disaster, local governments across the globe are searching for effective and efficient strategies for scaling their disaster response capacity. Emergency management ... -
Urban landscapes of adolescent substance use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Cities are increasingly organised according to socio-spatial divisions in which groups with similar characteristics live in the same areas. This social polarisation is associated with differences in living conditions, ... -
Urban Population Ageing and its Impact on Social Policy - Lessons from Oslo
(Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2019)Ageing and urbanization bring major consequences and implications to all facets of human life. We see changes not only in terms of population structure and location, but also in living arrangements, family composition ... -
Urban Sustainability and Sustainable Mobility
(NIBR-notat 2007:113, Notat, 2007)Last ned gratis Sustainable development is a concept few would disagree with at a general level, but is contested when put into actual practice. How is sustainable urban development discussed, defended and even coopted ... -
Urban transitions towards sufficiency-oriented circular post-consumer textile economies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Wealthy cities are the primary hubs for excessive consumption and disposal of fashion and textiles. As such, cities have the power to support urban transitions toward more circular and sufficient consumption patterns. ... -
De uregistrerte barna - En systematisk litteraturgjennomgang av forskning om de uregistrerte barna
(Master thesis, 2018)It is a human right to be registered at birth. In spite of this, many children in the world are not registered in national data, and thus do not formally exist. This study reviews the knowledge base for causes and consequences ... -
The urge to work: Normative ordering in the narratives of people on long-term sick leave
(Health Sociology Review;Volume 28, 2019 - Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study analyses the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification – as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot – to investigate ... -
Urinary extracellular vesicles: A position paper by the Urine Task Force of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles
(Journal of Extracellular Vesicles;Volume 10, Issue 7. May 2021 - e12093, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-21)Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast-growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles ... -
Urinprøver eller relasjon – kanskje begge deler? : en studie av ansattes opplevelser av urinprøvetaking i rusbehandling
(Master thesis, 2012)De aller fleste rusmiddelavhengige som mottar behandling i dag må avlegge urinprøver. Det anses som en del av deres behandling. En kan forestille seg at det er ubehagelig å avlegge en urinprøve, men hvordan oppleves det ... -
Us and Them – First-line Management and Change Resistance
(Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 8, Number 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06)Change agents are vital in enacting organizational change, yet we know little about the specific challenges first-line managers face in this role. This study draws on written responses from managers in Norwegian public ... -
Usability and acceptability of technology for community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic literature review
(Clinical Interventions in Aging;Volume 13, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-20)Background: The objective of this review was to obtain an overview of the technologies that have been explored with older adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia (MCI/D), current knowledge on the usability and ... -
An usability and universal design investigation into hamburger menus
(MAUU;2021, Master thesis, 2021)With the implementation of different interface designs in applications across various devices, the concerns related to usability in these designs have also increased. Navigation is an important functionality in websites ... -
An usability and universal design investigation into hidden user interface navigational elements
(ACIT;2021, Master thesis, 2021)With the trend towards simplicity starting to gain supremacy in digital design, designers are now being forced to adapt. One of the practical areas recommended for them is working within mobile user interfaces' navigational ...