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Oral health and use of dental services in different stages of adulthood in Norway: a cross sectional study

BMC Oral Health, 2021
Background Socioeconomic status and oral health care habits may change throughout adult life. This calls for age-stratified analyses of oral health in the adult population to uncover differences that could be of importance for organizing adequate oral ...
Elin Hadler-Olsen, Birgitta Jönsson
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Oral health related quality of life in long-term survivors of head and neck cancer compared to a general population from the seventh Tromsø study

BMC Oral Health, 2022
Background Both the incidence and survival rate of head and neck cancer (HNC) is increasing, making quality of life of HNC survivors an important issue. Methods In this cross-sectional study we compared the oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) of
Renate Andreassen, Birgitta Jönsson, Elin Hadler-Olsen   +2 more
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Comparative ecology of over-wintering Calanus finmarchicus in the northern North Atlantic, and implications for life-cycle patterns

, 2004
Data from plankton net and Optical Plankton Counter sampling during 12 winter cruises between 1994 and 2002 have been used to derive a multi-annual composite 3-D distribution of the abundance of over-wintering Calanus finmarchicus in a swath across the ...
Richards, KJ, Rasmussen, J, Jónasdóttir, SH, Richardson, K., Head, Erica J.H, Boyle, PR, Hay, Stephen J, Lindeque, Pennie, Rasmussen, Jens, Jonasdottir, S.H., Richards, Kelvin, Speirs, D, Head, E.J.H., Smerdon, Gary, Gislason, Astthor, Lindeque, PK, Boyle, P.R., Ingvarsdottir, A, Gurney, WSC, Speirs, Douglas C, Speirs, D., Lindeque, P., Smerdon, GR, Pollard, RT, Boyle, Peter R., Holmes, Steven, Holmes, S, Hay, SJ, Rasmussen, J., Gislason, A., Richardson, K, Gurney, W.S.C., Holmes, S., Smerdon, G., European Union (Funder), Head, EHJ, Ingvarsdóttir, Anna, Heath, MR, Gurney, William S.C., , European Union (Funder), Heath, M.R., Pollard, R.T., Hay, S.J., Gislason, A, Jónasdóttir, Sigrun H, Pollard, Raymond T, Richardson, Katherine, Heath, Michael R., Richards, K., Ingvarsdottir, A.   +49 more
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Exploring the Burden on Patients Living With and Receiving Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Patient and Physician Perceptions From the ITP World Impact Survey (I‐WISh) 2.0

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited data exist on how patients and physicians perceive immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) symptoms and treatment‐related burden. I‐WISh (ITP World Impact Survey) 2.0 surveyed 1018 patients and 431 physicians in 15 countries to characterize the impact of ITP and its treatments on patients.
Nichola Cooper, James Bussel, Waleed Ghanima, Drew Provan, Yoshiaki Tomiyama, Ming Hou, Donald M. Arnold, Cristina Santoro, Francesco Zaja, Barbara Lovrencic, Mervyn Morgan, Michal Winograd, Jennifer DiRaimo, Danielle Boyle, Olivera Rajkovic‐Hooley, Meritxell Vendranas, Susan Frade, Caroline Kruse   +17 more
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Climatic adaptation of seed maturity in Scots pine and Norway spruce populations

Silva Fennica, 2001
Seed maturation of Scots pine and Norway spruce in a provenance experiment at Kortkeros (northern Russia) was examined by the X-ray method. Logarithmic relationships were found between seed anatomy development and long-term average thermal sum.
Fedorkov, Aleksei
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Sami-speaking municipalities and a control group's access to somatic specialist health care (SHC): a retrospective study on general practitioners’ referrals [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2012
Objectives: The Sami people constitute the indigenous people in northern Norway. The objective of this study was to clarify whether they have a similar supply of somatic specialist health care (SHC) as others.
Jan Norum, Carsten Nieder
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The New Northern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood. CEPS Paperbacks. January 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
In the contemporary policy debate on the EU’s neighbourhood, grand designs are transforming into more pragmatic considerations. This book examines regional cooperation among the countries in Europe’s northern neighbourhood, with an emphasis on the ...
Blakkisrud, Helge, Aalto, Pami, Smith, Hanna   +2 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life, Everyday Executive Functioning, and Eating Behavior in Adults With Bardet–Biedl Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare genetic condition with a broad phenotypic spectrum. Knowledge about quality of life, executive functioning, and eating behavior in adults with BBS remains limited. This study aimed to assess health‐related quality of life (HRQoL), everyday executive functioning, and eating behavior in adults with BBS and ...
Cecilie Fremstad Rustad, Charlotte von der Lippe, Hilde Nordgarden, Jeanette Ullmann Miller, Mina Susanne Weedon‐Fekjær, Ragnheidur Bragadottir, Solrun Sigurdardottir   +6 more
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