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Can a Successful Outcome After Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation Be Defined by the Oswestry Disability Index Raw Score?
(Global Spine Journal;Volume 10, issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Study Design: Prospective multicenter cohort study. Objective: To investigate (1) the discriminative ability and cutoff estimates for success 12 months after surgery for lumbar disc herniation on the Oswestry Disability ... -
Can access be accessible? Facilitating digital access to information for everyone
(Bachelor thesis, 2017)This thesis evaluates two norwegian library websites with regards to universal design. The research question guiding the thesis is, "How can two Norwegian library websites improve how they facilitate digital access to ... -
Can adolescent work experience protect vulnerable youth? A population wide longitudinal study of young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET)
(Journal of Education and Work;Volume 35, 2022 - Issue 5, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07-13)Early work experience is found to be an influential factor in young people’s transitions from school to work. Still, we know little about whether early work experience can protect vulnerable young people from subsequent ... -
Can Animals Refer? Meta-Positioning Studies of Animal Semantics
(Biosemiotics;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-16)This meta-study applies a socio-semiotic framework combining five basic communicational aspects, form, content, act, time, and space, developed to help answering the question Can animals refer? It further operates with ... -
Can Automatic Abbreviation Expansion Improve the Text Entry Rates of Norwegian Text with Compound Words?
(DSAI 2018 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-20)Text entry can be challenging for users with reduced motor function. Prefix-based prediction has been successfully applied for text in English and other languages. However, prefix-based text prediction does not work optimally ... -
Can bone mineral density loss in the non-weight bearing distal forearm predict mortality?
(Bone;Volume 136, 115347, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-30)Purpose: Low bone mineral density (BMD) is associated with increased risk of fractures and mortality. We investigated if rate of BMD loss in the distal forearm over seven years predicted mortality. Methods: 1725 postmenopausal ... -
Can breast cancer be stopped? Modifiable risk factors of breast cancer among women with a prior benign or premalignant lesion
(International Journal of Cancer;Volume 149, Issue 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-14)Physical inactivity, high postmenopausal body mass index, alcohol consumption and use of menopausal hormone therapy are established risk factors for breast cancer. Less is known about whether these factors influence the ... -
Can Computers Automate Welfare? Norwegian Efforts to Make Welfare Policy More Effective
(Journal of Extreme Anthropology;Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): Algorithmic Governance: Fantasies of Social Control, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-20)Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less ... -
Can depression in psychogeriatric inpatients at one year follow-up be explained by locus of control and coping strategies?
(Aging & mental health;22(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-04)Objectives: Treatment of depression (in late life) is good. The short-term, but not long-term prognosis after treatment of depression in late life is good. To identify modifiable factors, we wanted to examine whether coping ... -
Can depth data improve the accuracy when classifying mops?
(ACIT;2022, Master thesis, 2022)Since the emergence of low cost RGB-D cameras, a new world of possibilities have opened up in the field of Computer Vision. This projects focuses on both the practical and theoretical part of how depth data can improve ... -
Can dual energy CT with fast kV-switching determine renal stone composition accurately?
(Academic Radiology;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-23)Rationale and objectives To determine whether a single source CT system utilizing fast kV switching and low dose settings can characterize (diameter and chemical composition) renal stones accurately when compared infrared ... -
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset
(Journal of Development Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-22)Existing theories relate higher education to lower crime rates, yet we have limited evidence on the crime-reducing effect of education in developing countries. We contribute to this literature by examining the effect of ... -
Can GANs replicate eye-gaze trajectories?
(ACIT;2022, Master thesis, 2022)Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained popularity in the field of computer vision. Recently, GANs have shown promising results in generating sequential data, such as time series data and text. This thesis ... -
Can library use enhance intercultural education?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02-27)This article explores the questions to what extent educational research addresses library use in education and how the library can contribute to intercultural education. The focus is primarily on elementary education in ... -
Can master students’ experience and learning outcome, be improved?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Most studies on the follow-up and supervision of students, are focused on Ph.D. level, despite that most students complete their education with bachelor’s or master’s degrees. In a previous study on students working with ... -
Can medical algorithms be fair? Three ethical quandaries and one dilemma
(BMJ Health & Care Informatics;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective: To demonstrate what it takes to reconcile the idea of fairness in medical algorithms and machine learning (ML) with the broader discourse of fairness and health equality in health research. Method: The ... -
Can MLVA differentiate among endemic-like MRSA isolates with identical spa-type in a low-prevalence region?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Norway is low, but an endemic-like MRSA clone with Staphylococcal protein A (spa)-type t304 has been established especially in nursing homes in the ... -
Can Motivational Operations Explain Nudging: Can Nudging Increase Hospital Visitors Hand Hygiene Compliance
(MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)Healthcare-associated infections affects hundreds of millions of patients worldwide every year. Most of these infections are preventable. Hospital visitors interact with the same patients as health personnel a can be ... -
Can nursing homes patients’ appetite be increased by using brightly coloured dinner plates?
(Master thesis, 2022)The thesis uses behaviour analysis to conduct an experiment among dementia patients living in nursing homes. Malnourishment among dementia patients is common due to difficulties with eating or reduced appetite. Studies ... -
Can policies stall the fertility fall? A systematic review of the (Quasi‐) experimental literature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the course of the twentieth century, social scientists and policy analysts have produced a large volume of literature on whether policies boost fertility. This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the ...