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Ripensare la pianificazione: le Community Land Trust
2012
Cosa sono le Community Land Trust? Qual è il principio che vi sta alla base? Possono queste rappresentare una soluzione alternativa per la nuova questione abitativa? L'articolo prova a rispondere a tali quesiti raccontando l'esperienza anglosassone delle CLT.
Livet som toppidrettsutøvere : langrennsløperes tanker og refleksjoner
2011
Masteroppgave i idrettsvitenskap -Universitetet i Agder 2011 De aller fleste i dagens samfunn, sportsinteresserte eller ikke, har en eller annen mening om toppidretten. Fra de som glorifiserer, nærmest tilber toppidrettsutøverne og mener det er nasjonens helter, til de som mener toppidretter fordummer samfunnet. Argumenter som at det opptar viktig radio/tv tid, er helseskadelig, sprer usunne holdninger, verdier, osv. er noen av de viktigste kjepphestene mot toppidretten. I denne oppgaven har jeg valgt å se toppidretten i lys av rasjonaliseringsteori, og forklare dens utvikling ut fra denne. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å se hvordan fire toppidrettsutøvere tenker og reflekterer over livet…
Usage and acceptance of Moringa stenopetala in the diet in Ethiopia
2012
Masteroppgave folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 Moringa stenopetala er en plante rik på antioksidanter, som muligens kan ha en forebyggende effekt på utviklingen av leverfibrose. Mål: Å finne ut hvordan Moringa stenopetala brukes i kostholdet i et område i Sør-Etiopia, hvor prevalensen av leverfibrose er funnet lav og undersøke mulighetene denne planten kan ha for å bli akseptert og inkludert i kostholdet i et annet område nord i Etiopia hvor leverfibrose er funnet høy. Design/Metode/Utvalg: I Sør-Etiopia ble et utvalg av 21 tilfeldige kvinner fra Sille landsby som lager mat til sine respektive husholdninger bedt om å beskrive hvordan de tilberedte matretter som inneholder mo…
Effekten av en tilpasset og kostnadseffektiv telefon- og (e)post-basert fysisk aktivitetsintervensjon på blodtrykk blant fysisk inaktive voksne i ald…
2012
Masteroppgave i folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a tailored and costeffective telephone and (e)mail based physical activity intervention on blood pressure in a group of inactive adults aged 40-55 years. Furthermore it was of some interest to investigate the effect of aerob capasity and body composition on blood pressure. This master thesis consists of one article and a written assignment. The assignment is an elaboration of the theory and methods in which the article is based upon. The written assignment starts off with an introduction presenting the theme, definitions, the aim of the study and the study apporach.…
Selvopplevd helse og fysisk aktivitet : effekten av en tilpasset og (e)post basert fysisk aktivitetsintervensjon på selvopplevd helse blant fysisk in…
2012
Masteroppgave i folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 Background Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for morbidity and mortality. The trend has become a major public health problem and burden on society, both economic and social are high. In order to monitor a population's health the traditionally measured parameters are birth-, mortality- and morbidity rates in the population. In recent years, an increased focus has been on individual’s subjective experience of his or her health. Existing research shows that monitoring self-perceived health can provide good information about populations sick leave, future morbidity and mortality. Physically inactive individuals report l…
Child poverty in a Scandinavian welfare context - from children's point of view
2011
Published version of an article published in the journal: Child Indicators Research. Also available from the publisher at: http;//dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-010-9092-0 The focus for this article is child poverty in a Nordic welfare state context. With data from two qualitative studies from Sweden and Norway, we discuss child poverty from the children's point of view, in the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, articles 27 and 28. In article 27, food, housing and clothing are mentioned as particularly important for an adequate standard of living. In poverty studies where children's voices are being heard there has been little focus on these necessities. We find that a fe…
Democracy Squared: Designing On-Line Political Communities to Accommodate Conflicting Interests
2005
Published version of an article published in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 17 (2), 133-168. Also available from the publisher at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol17/iss2/5. On-line political communities, such as the Norwegian site Demokratitorget (Democracy Square), are often designed according to a set of un-reflected assumptions about the political interests of their potential members. In political science, democracy is not taken as given in this way, but can be represented by different models which characterize different relationships between politicians and the citizens they represent. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative content analysis to analyze the communicat…
Implementing a health care reform through inter-municipal cooperation : Adaption and implementing the Norwegian cooperation-reform in three inter-mun…
2012
Presentation on department page: http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/om_universitetet/oekonomi_og_samfunnsvitenskap/statsvitenskap_og_ledelsesfag/ forskning_isl/isl_working_papers_series In this explorative article we will try to identify some issues and questions about how the Norwegian municipalities are preparing to implement the Cooperation reform and the new health care legislation. Our main focus is on examples of measures municipalities in three Norwegian inter-municipality regions so far have developed with respect to the Cooperation reform which will be implemented from spring 2012. By comparing and contrasting this three regions, with different history and adjustment patterns, our aim i…
Cytokines and Toll-Like Receptors in the Immune Response to Influenza Vaccination
2014
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are involved in immunogenicity. However, little information is available on the role of TLRs in the immune response to vaccination against influenza virus. The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between the immunogenic response to influenza vaccine and the presence of soluble forms of TLRs and selected cytokines in the serum. There were two groups of subjects participating in the main protocol of the study: 55 chronically hemodialyzed patients (Group A) and 55 healthy volunteers (Group B) participated in the study. Both groups were vaccinated against influenza using a subunit Agrippal vaccine. The concentrations of human TNF-α, IL-1β/IL-1F2, IL-6, an…
Initiation of adaptive immune responses by transcutaneous immunization.
2007
The development of new, effective, easy-to-use and lower-cost vaccination approaches for the combat against malignant and infectious diseases is a pre-eminent need: cancer is a leading cause of morbidity in the Western World; there are numerous pathogenic diseases for which we still have no protective or therapeutic cure; and the financial limitations of developing countries to fight these diseases. In this mini-review we focus on transcutaneous immunization (TCI), a relatively new route for antigen delivery. TCI protocols appear to be particularly promising by gaining access to skin resident APC, which are highly efficient for the initiation of humoral and/or cellular immune responses. Con…