Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Document Types "Journal article"
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Activated prothrombin complex concentrate to reverse the factor Xa inhibitor (apixaban) effect before emergency surgery: A case series
(Journal of Medical Case Reports;12(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-16)Background The lack of an antidote against factor Xa inhibitors in case of major bleeding or need for urgent surgery is a concern to clinicians. Guidelines on managing major bleeding in patients under anticoagulation with ... -
Activating the person in the changing situation: A dynamic analytical approach to labour activation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)For several decades, the turn towards labour activation has dominated European social work and social work institutions. While social work research and practice focused on labour activation have long considered “the person ... -
Active Play in After-school Programmes: development of an intervention and description of a matched-pair cluster-randomised trial assessing physical activity play in after-school programmes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction Interventions delivered in after-school programmes (ASPs) have the potential to become a means of ensuring adequate physical activity among schoolchildren. This requires a motivational climate, allowing for ... -
Active play in ASP –a matched-pair cluster-randomized trial investigating the effectiveness of an intervention in after-school programs for supporting children’s physical activity
(BMC Public Health;20, Article number: 500 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-15)Background: Interventions directed at after school programs (ASPs) have the potential to support physical activity (PA) in young children. Research has indicated that interventions that emphasize competence building among ... -
Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media
(Journal of African Media Studies;Volume 12, Number 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-01)The article discusses political activism in Uganda and the role of social media. It focuses on two specific cases, the 2011 ‘Walk-to-Work’ and the 2017 ‘Pads4Girls’ campaigns in order to contribute to better understanding ... -
Activistic citizenship in nursing homes: co-ownership in the mundane
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The traditional narrative of dementia, focused on cognition as constructive of personhood, has been challenged by person-centred care as well as a rights-based citizenship lens. However, reports of everyday discrimination ... -
Activity of 6-aryl-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-4-amines to Tetrahymena
(Bioorganic chemistry;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06-05)A series 6-aryl-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-4-amines (43 compounds), some of which are epidermal growth 22 factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, were tested for their protozoal toxicity using an environmental Tetrahy- 23 mena ... -
Acupuncture for acute non-specific low back pain: a randomised, controlled, multicentre intervention study in general practice—the Acuback study
(BMJ Open;Volume 10, Issue 8, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-06)Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a single treatment session of acupuncture, when applied in addition to standard treatment for acute low back pain (ALBP), reduces the time to recovery compared with ... -
Acupuncture versus usual care for postoperative nausea and vomiting in children after tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy: a pragmatic, multicenter, double-blinded, randomized trial
(Acupuncture in Medicine;33, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Objectives To investigate the effect of a standardised acupuncture on nausea and vomiting in children after tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy when possible placebo effects were precluded. Methods A pragmatic, ... -
Acute low back pain – a cross sectional study: Fear-avoidance beliefs and associated characteristics
(Fysioterapeuten;78 (10), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-10)Abstract Background/Aim: Fear-avoidance beliefs (FAB) is exsessive fear of movements that may lead to movement avoidance and contribute to maintenance of LBP. The aim of the study was (i) to identify the percentage of ... -
Acute Post-Exercise Blood Pressure Responses in Middle-Aged Persons with Elevated Blood Pressure/Stage 1 Hypertension following Moderate and High-Intensity Isoenergetic Endurance Exercise
(International Journal of Exercise Science;Vol. 13, Iss. 3 (2020), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)International Journal of Exercise Science 13(3): 1532-1548, 2020.This study investigated the acute post-exercise hypotension (PEH) response in persons with elevated blood pressure or stage 1 hypertension following moderate ... -
Acute uncomplicated diverticulitis managed without antibiotics – difficult to introduce a new treatment protocol but few complications
(Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology;54(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-16)Objective: Routine antibiotic treatment of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis (AUD) has been shown ineffective. In this study, the adherence to a new treatment protocol for uncomplicated diverticulitis was evaluated and ... -
Adaptation of human skeletal muscle to nine weeks of intermittent resistance training
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)Twelve persons were randomly assigned to a training group (n=6) or a control group (n=6). The training consisted of intensive, intermittent elbow extensions three times a week at 55 per cent of 1RM for nine weeks. Needle ... -
Adapted Physical Activity Professionals in Rehabilitation: An Explorative Study in the Norwegian Context
(Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly;Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages: 458-475, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10)Adapted physical activity (APA) is characterized by a strong orientation to professional practice. Currently, there exists limited empirical research about the professional status of APA in the context of rehabilitation. ... -
Adapting a patient-reported outcome measure to digital Outpatient specialist health care services for type 1 diabetes: User involvement study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background:Diabetes self-management is crucial for patients with type 1 diabetes, and digital services can support their self-management and facilitate flexible follow-up. The potential of using digital patient-reported ... -
Adapting treatment length to opioid-dependent individuals' needs and preferences: A 2-year follow-up to a 1-year study of extended-release naltrexone
(Addiction;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-18)Background and aim: Extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX) is an underused treatment option for opioid dependence, today only available in a few countries in the world. Although effective, safe and feasible in short-term ... -
An adaptive knowledge evolution strategy for finding near-optimal solutions of specific problems
(Expert Systems with Applications;38 (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-04)Most real-world problems cannot be mathematically defined and/or structured modularly for peer researchers in the same community to facilitate their work. This is partially because there are no concrete defined methods ... -
Adaptive learning with artificial barriers yielding Nash equilibria in general games
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003)Artificial barriers in Learning Automata (LA) is a powerful and yet under-explored concept although it was first pro- posed in the 1980s. Introducing artificial non-absorbing barriers makes the LA schemes resilient to ... -
Adaptive learning with artificial barriers yielding Nash equilibria in general games
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Artificial barriers in Learning Automata (LA) is a powerful and yet under-explored concept although it was first proposed in the 1980s. Introducing artificial non-absorbing barriers makes the LA schemes resilient to being ... -
Adaptive Pursuit Learning for Energy‐efficient Target Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
(Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; e5975, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-25)With the proliferation of technologies such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of things (IoT), we are moving towards the era of automation without any human intervention. Sensors are the principal components ...