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2. 'We Do Not Eat Luxury Food': A Story About Food and Health in an Old Sami Woman’s Everyday Life in Norway
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Kvitberg, Trine, Powell, Jason L., Series Editor, Chen, Sheying, Series Editor, Naskali, Päivi, editor, Harbison, Joan R., editor, and Begum, Shahnaj, editor
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- 2019
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3. Concentration camps: A view on guards
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Bukvić Rajko
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concentration camps ,guards ,serbian camps ,north norway ,Criminal law and procedure ,K5000-5582 ,Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology ,HV1-9960 - Abstract
The paper considers the book Fangevoktere i konsentrasjonleire: En sosiologiska undersøkelse av norskefangevoktere i "serbienleire" i Nord-Norge i 1942-43, which has recently been published in Serbian language. It highlights the scientific significance, currency and relevance of the book at the time when it was written, as well the name and significance of author. It reflects the author's opinion on the development of theory and understanding of the phenomenon of concentration camps. This paper emphasizes the great importance of the book being translated into the Serbian language, not only because of its significance for the reasons previously stated, but also because it touches upon the Serbian camps in North Norway, in which some of the most tragic episodes in the history of the Serbian people occurred.
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- 2019
4. Staying in school, not dropping out - pupils' voices
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Anne-Mette Bjoru
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north norway ,upper secondary school ,qualitative research ,dropout ,relations ,Education - Abstract
This article asks: What can highly motivated pupils in upper secondary school tell us about dropout and relations? Bauman’s concepts: ‘liquid identity’ (2011) and ‘instant living’ (2012), as well as literature on ‘relations’ (Spurkeland, 2011; Drugli, 2012) provide the theoretical backdrop for the study. The findings are based on nine individual interviews with pupils, each lasted approximately one hour. They share their thoughts, beliefs and experiences relating to school days, workloads, relations to others, school subjects and dropout. The study shows that also highly motivated pupils do think about dropping out from school, and they present ways to establish relations in class, both inter-personally and in school-subject settings.
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- 2018
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5. KONCENTRACIONI LOGORI - POGLED NA STRAŽARE.
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Bukvić, Rajko
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SERBIAN language ,CONCENTRATION camps ,CAMPS ,HARD currencies - Abstract
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- 2019
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6. THE QUOTIDIAN, SMALL AND INCOMPLETE: WWII AND THE INDIFFERENCE OF THINGS.
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Figenschau, Ingar
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APATHY ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,HISTORICAL source material ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,EVERYDAY life - Abstract
This article examines how things contribute to an expanded and different understanding of contexts that are usually reserved for historical inquiry. To show this, the article illustrates how archaeological investigations of World War II prison camps connected to the German defensive Lyngen Line in northern Norway have uncovered aspects that are absent or unavailable in historical sources. Accordingly, it is argued that archaeology of the recent past is not the 'handmaiden to history'. How so? First, archaeological excavations and post-field work enable a unique material proximity and awareness. Secondly, fragmented artefacts offer new and different insights that do not rely on historical tropes. In conclusion, things are time witnesses that are not influenced by historical hindsight: they can present fragmented, unpleasant, personal and intimate aspects that are too trivial to be included in the grand narratives, but as archaeological investigations demonstrate, were fundamental to the everyday life of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
7. A common mid-Neoproterozoic chemostratigraphic depositional age of marbles and associated iron formations (Fe ± Mn ± P) in the Scandinavian Caledonides.
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Melezhik, Victor A., Ihlen, Peter M., Bjerkgård, Terje, Sandstad, Jan Sverre, Raaness, Agnes, Kuznetsov, Anton B., Solli, Arne, Gorokhov, Igor M., Pokrovsky, Boris G., and Fallick, Anthony E.
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CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY , *STRONTIUM isotopes , *CARBONATES , *GLACIATION , *IGNEOUS rocks - Abstract
Carbon and strontium isotope chemostratigraphy (178 δ13Ccarb and δ18O, and 81 87Sr/86Sr analyses of carbonate components in whole-rock samples) was applied to constrain apparent depositional ages of the carbonate protoliths of amphibolite-grade, calcite marbles occurring in siliciclastic sedimentary sequences within the Upper and Uppermost Allochthons in the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides. The Sr-rich marbles hosting banded iron formations occur only in the Uppermost Allochthon. The marbles show, over a distance of 350 km, rather similar least-altered 87Sr/86Sr (0.70645-0.70665) and δ13C (+6 to +8‰) values which are all consistent with a late Tonian (800-735 Ma) age. This sets up a maximum depositional age for the overlying iron formations and somewhat younger diamictites. The apparent maximum ages of the Scandinavian iron formations suggest their contemporaneous deposition with the oldest known Neoproterozoic iron formations reported from China (Shilu Formation) and Namibia (Chuos Formation). However, these maximum ages do not rule out the iron deposition and the diamictite accumulation in the early Cryogenian within a presumed Tonian-Cryogenian transition. Three other studied marble units in schistmarble sequences, spatially unrelated to iron formations, show different 87Sr/86Sr and δ13C values matching younger apparent depositional ages of 685-600 Ma (the Uppermost Allochthon), and 550 or 425-410 Ma (the Upper Allochthon). The schist-marble-iron formations sequences in several areas contain extrusive meta-igneous rocks, and rare glacial diamictites. In places, all are intruded by intermediate and mafic sills. The iron formations were originally formed outside Baltica and were subsequently thrust upon the Baltoscandian margin during the Scandian orogeny. The provenance of these iron formations represents an enigma, hinting towards a passive continental margin of an unknown, apparently missing microcontinent. The accumulation of the Scandinavian iron formations within a passive continental margin or a large back-arc basin, in places glacially influenced, represents an exception to other reported clastic, sediment-dominated, Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) iron formations which all were formed in volcanically active continental rift settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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8. A FISHY TALE ABOUT A SHEEP AND A DOG - ISOTOPE STUDIES AND MEDIEVAL SÁMI MOBILITY AND HUSBANDRY IN INNER FINNMARK, NORTHERN NORWAY.
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Spangen, Marte and Fjellström, Markus
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ANALYSIS of bones ,ISOTOPIC analysis ,DOG food - Abstract
Datings of sheep and dog bone samples from a so-called 'Sámi circular offering site' at Bealjalgnai in Karasjok Municipality, Finnmark, Norway, show that they were deposited in the Middle Ages. They are among the earliest dated bones from such structures, and the sheep is the oldest known example from this part of inland Finnmark. Isotope analyses show that the dog lived primarily on aquatic foodstuffs, with a substantial marine intake. The sheep's nitrogen and carbon values indicate that it had eaten protein from animals quite high up in the food chain, mainly from freshwater and terrestrial sources, though with a certain intake of marine fodder as well. Two methods were employed to establish the amount of different nutrients eaten by these individuals and the potential marine and freshwater reservoir effects on their datings. Despite several potential sources of error, the results raise intriguing questions about mobility patterns and husbandry among medieval inland North Sámi groups. The cultural historical context of the finds is discussed, suggesting some possible scenarios that may have led to the surprising isotope analysis results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
9. Голубая экономика Северного Ледовитого океана : управление аквакультурой на Аляске и в Северной Норвегии
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Andreas Raspotnik, Andreas Østhagen, and Svein Vigeland Rottem
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law of the sea ,sustainable development ,North norway ,business.industry ,Social Sciences ,General Medicine ,Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240 [VDP] ,mariculture ,The arctic ,Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Fiskerifag: 920::Akvakultur: 922 [VDP] ,Fishery ,Blue economy ,Geography ,Aquaculture ,aquaculture ,governance ,arctic ,blue economy ,business ,Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210 [VDP] - Abstract
In the Arctic, the concept of the blue economy is increasingly dominating discussions on regional development. This entails utilising the region’s ocean-based resources in a sustainable way – both from a global and local level, as well as from an environmental and economic perspective. A crucial aspect in this development is how blue activities are regulated. The UNCLOS-regime plays a vital part in providing the mechanisms and procedures for states to manage marine resources more broadly. However, the predominant mode of governance for Arctic maritime activities will remain unilateral management by each of the coastal states. Thus, the national and local legal and political framework needs to be mapped. In this article we will explore and explain how aqua/-mariculture is governed in the United States (Alaska) and Norway (North Norway). This will be done by examining how parameters for blue economic projects are defined and determined at the international, regional, national and local governance level. Thus, our article will illustrate the complexity behind the blue economy. There is no such thing as one blue economy and no such thing as one Arctic, but it is still possible to find common ground and avenues for knowledge and best practice exchange. By this we will bring the academic and political discussions about the blue economy on the right track.
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- 2021
10. Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform.
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Gulbrandsen, Kristin Smette
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ACTIVISM , *REFORMS , *GOVERNMENT report writing , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *MERGERS & acquisitions , *HOSPITAL mergers - Abstract
In 2016, the Norwegian government initiated an extensive reform of the regional scale, eventually reducing the number of political-administrative counties from nineteen to eleven through mergers. The territorial and institutional changes that followed can be understood as a partial regional (de/re)institutionalisation process, in which the political and administrative boundaries of the merged counties were reshaped. Using the reform, and particularly the involuntary merger of Troms and Finnmark counties as a case study, this paper examines how regional (de/re)institutionalisation processes are discursively and materially enacted through official government documents. This is achieved by analysing examples of government discourse and discursive practice in a selection of white papers along with draft resolutions and bills. In so doing, the paper explores forms of institutional activism and advocacy associated with the implementation of regional reform, providing the basis for unpacking and discussing a conceptual distinction between 'formal' and 'informal' spaces of regional institutionalisation. By building on previous scholarship around the notion of 'region work', the paper contributes conceptually to the theorisation of regional (de/re)institutionalisation processes through the construction of an analytical typology, intended to aid the operationalisation and analysis of agency and practice in the context of regional change. On the basis of the empirical analysis, the paper discusses limitations of institutional activism, as well as the influence of softer institutional advocacy on top-down regionalisation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. Holocene glacier and climate fluctuations of the maritime ice cap Høgtuvbreen, northern Norway.
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Jansen, Henrik Løseth, Simonsen, Joachim Riis, Dahl, Svein Olaf, Bakke, Jostein, and Nielsen, Pål Ringkjøb
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HOLOCENE Epoch , *GLACIERS , *CLIMATE change , *ICE caps , *METEOROLOGICAL precipitation - Abstract
Holocene fluctuations of a small outlet glacier from the ice cap Høgtuvbreen at 65° N in coastal northern Norway are reconstructed based on distal glacier-fed lake sediments, complemented by a moraine sequence dated by lichenometry. Glaciers respond to changes in accumulation-season precipitation, ablation-season temperature and redistribution of snow by wind. Hence, reconstructions of glacier fluctuations based on distal glacier-fed lakes may give detailed information about past climate at a potentially high temporal resolution. Yet, the importance of any of these climate components is often difficult to solve. Here, we apply the ‘Liestøl-relationship’, which expresses the relationship between ablation-season temperature and annual accumulation of snow at the equilibrium line altitude (ELA), to the reconstructed local temperature–precipitation–wind ELA (TPW-ELA) to infer the relative importance of winter-balance and ablation-season temperature as causes of reconstructed glacier variation. The reconstructions show a large glacier readvance corresponding with the 8.2-ka cold event and a sequence of eight distinct glacier advances and retreats during the Neoglacial time period bracket between 4300 ± 40 cal. yr BP and AD 1900. The glacier reached its Holocene maximum position in AD 1773 ± 29, subsequently followed by an ongoing unprecedented retreat, interrupted only by some minor halts and readvances. Based on a detailed comparison of our results with similar studies of both continental and maritime glaciers, as well as independent temperature proxy records across Scandinavia, we argue that significant and consistent deviations in ELA fluctuations between continental and maritime glaciers in the region are caused by a north–south migration of the arctic polar front. Additionally, we suggest that deviations in ELA fluctuations between Scandinavian maritime and continental glaciers around 7150, 6560, 6000, 5150, 3200 and 2200 cal. yr BP reflect the different response of continental and maritime glaciers to drops in total solar irradiance (TSI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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12. Medieval Shipwrecks from North Norway and their Contribution to Understanding Maritime Interaction and Trade.
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Wickler, Stephen
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SHIPWRECKS , *CULTURAL property , *COMMUNITY involvement , *UNDERWATER archaeology , *HISTORY - Abstract
This article presents the remains of three medieval ships from North Norway. The sites are clustered near the Arctic Circle, two from the islands of Husøy (Træna) and Lovund in the Helgeland region, and a potential third wreck from the small lake Fiskvågvatn in Saltdal. Available information from the wrecks is presented to provide a basis for assessing their cultural contexts and relevance to medieval maritime activities, the dried-cod (stockfish) trade in particular. The circumstances surrounding their discovery and documentation also offer insights into the history of cultural heritage management and role of community engagement in northern Norwegian shipwreck archaeology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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13. The settlement mounds in Divtasvuona/Tysfjord, North Norway. Traces of a Sami fisher-farmer economy
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Oddmund Andersen
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Cultural Studies ,History ,060102 archaeology ,Sociology and Political Science ,North norway ,business.industry ,Fishing ,Mixed economy ,06 humanities and the arts ,030207 dermatology & venereal diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Geography ,Economy ,Agriculture ,Anthropology ,0601 history and archaeology ,Middle Ages ,Settlement (litigation) ,business - Abstract
In Tysfjord Municipality, North Norway, written sources mention Sami farms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The farms had a mixed economy, with an emphasis on agriculture, fishing, hunti...
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- 2019
14. Concentration camps: A view on guards
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Rajko Bukvić
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History ,North norway ,Currency ,General Arts and Humanities ,Phenomenon ,language ,Nazi concentration camps ,Relevance (law) ,Social science ,Serbian ,language.human_language - Abstract
The paper considers the book Fangevoktere i konsentrasjonleire: En sosiologiska undersokelse av norskefangevoktere i "serbienleire" i Nord-Norge i 1942-43, which has recently been published in Serbian language. It highlights the scientific significance, currency and relevance of the book at the time when it was written, as well the name and significance of author. It reflects the author's opinion on the development of theory and understanding of the phenomenon of concentration camps. This paper emphasizes the great importance of the book being translated into the Serbian language, not only because of its significance for the reasons previously stated, but also because it touches upon the Serbian camps in North Norway, in which some of the most tragic episodes in the history of the Serbian people occurred.
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- 2019
15. Mis/translation, Colonialism, and Environmental Conflict
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John Law and Liv Østmo
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060101 anthropology ,Ecology ,North norway ,05 social sciences ,Fishing ,0507 social and economic geography ,Environmental ethics ,06 humanities and the arts ,Norwegian ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,Colonialism ,language.human_language ,Indigenous ,Politics ,Anthropology ,Political science ,State policy ,language ,Natural (music) ,0601 history and archaeology ,050703 geography ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This article describes a colonial encounter in north Norway between Sámi practices for fishing and knowing the natural world, and the conservation policies of state policy makers. In Sámi practices the world is populated by powerful and morally lively human and nonhuman actors. In caring for the land and its lakes in practical ways it is important to sustain respectful relations with those actors. Norwegian environmental policy works differently by distinguishing between nature and culture and seeking to protect landscapes from what it takes to be human interference, so that natural forces can operate unimpeded. The article first explores these two different worldviews and shows how environmental policy imposes restrictions on fishing practices that make it difficult or impossible for Sámi fisherpeople to care for and sustain respectful relations with their lakes. It then reflects on the significance of translation and mistranslation for this encounter, noting that important environmentally relevant Sámi words translate poorly into Norwegian or English, and that the practices that these index are ignored or misunderstood in those translations. In particular, it focuses on the notion of jávredikšun, a key term for Sámi people who fish on inland lakes, and shows that the word indexes environmental actions and realities that translate only with difficulty into English. Finally, it considers the potential political and analytical significance of refusing translations of this and other important environmentally relevant indigenous words.
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- 2018
16. Multiphase mafic dykes in the Caledonides of northern Finnmark revealed by a new high-resolution aeromagnetic dataset.
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Nasuti, Aziz, Roberts, David, and Gernigon, Laurent
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DIKES (Geology) , *MAFIC rocks , *GEOMAGNETISM , *DIABASE , *CARBONIFEROUS paleogeography - Abstract
New high-resolution aeromagnetic data from northern Finnmark provide confirmatory evidence for the existence of both metadolerite and unmetamorphosed dolerite dykes transecting the Caledonian nappes and subjacent (par)autochthonous lithostratigraphical successions from Magerøya in the west to Varanger Peninsula in the east. Three ages of mafic dykes are known from isotopic dating studies - Ediacaran, Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous - but actual dyke outcrop in the case of the two younger dyke sets is very limited. High-amplitude magnetic responses in two thrust sheets in northwestern Varanger Peninsula, north of the TKFZ and beneath the Tanahorn Nappe, are clearly shown to relate to swarms of Ediacaran metadolerite dykes. Individual dykes discontinuously exposed on the surface can be followed as linear positive magnetic anomalies over distances of 25 km inland. Their extent offshore is not discussed here because it is beyond our data coverage in this paper. In eastern Varanger Peninsula, 8-9 dolerite dykes of Late Devonian age occur in discontinuous or limited outcrop. The new aeromagnetic data show, however, that up to 20 such dykes can be identified in the subsurface in the region between Vardø and Syltefjorden based on their linear positive magnetic anomaly signatures. South of the TKFZ, two Late Devonian dolerite dykes, well known from small coastal outcrops, are clearly visible as linear positive magnetic anomalies both on land and offshore beneath the sea-floor of Varangerfjorden. The most spectacular manifestations of what we consider to represent blind dolerite dykes are seen in connection with linear positive magnetic anomalies relating to Early Carboniferous dolerite dykes exposed on Magerøya and western Digermul Peninsula. These prominent linear anomalies follow many of the mapped NW-SE- to WNW-ESE-trending faults that have disrupted the Caledonian nappes in this part of Finnmark, and some are continuous over distances of more than 100 km from Magerøya to western Varanger Peninsula. These particular dykes and faults have been interpreted as relating to a major period of extension and rifting that occurred in the SW Barents Sea and adjacent onshore areas of Norway in Carboniferous time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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17. Blir retningslinjer for behandling av mindre alvorlige hodeskader fulgt?
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Tor Ingebrigtsen and Kjell Alexander Thunes Akre
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,North norway ,business.industry ,Head injury ,Computed tomography ,Retrospective cohort study ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,University hospital ,Intracranial haematoma ,Hospital admission ,medicine ,Diagnosis code ,business - Abstract
Background The Scandinavian guidelines for initial management of minimal, mild and moderate head injuries in adults aim to identify patients at risk of developing intracranial haematoma, while also avoiding unnecessary computed tomography (CT) scans and hospital admissions. We examined compliance with the guidelines at the University Hospital of North Norway, Tromso. Material and method A search in the patient administration system identified 448 patients with a diagnosis code for head injury. We excluded 298 who met one or more exclusion criteria, and included 150 with minimal, mild or moderate injuries in a retrospective study. Management was categorised as being either compliant or non-compliant with the guidelines. We defined non-compliance as overtesting (unnecessary CT scan and/or hospital admission) or undertesting (omission of necessary CT scan and/or hospital admission). Results Management was in accordance with the guidelines for 96/150 (64 %) patients. This proportion increased with the severity of the injury (minimal 4/12 (33 %), mild 76/119 (64 %) and moderate 16/19 (84 %)). A total of 54/150 (36 %) patients were not managed in accordance with the guidelines. This was due to unnecessary CT scans and/or hospitalisation in 39/54 (72 %) patients and undertesting in 15/54 (28 %). Among patients with low-risk mild head injuries, 35/57 (61 %) underwent analysis of the brain injury marker S100B, as per the recommendations. Interpretation Compliance with the Scandinavian guidelines could be improved.
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- 2021
18. Risk scores for prediction of 30-day mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Results from a two-center study in Norway
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Svend Aakhus, Henrik Schirmer, Siri Malm, Didrik Kjønås, Rolf Busund, Lars Aaberge, Terje K. Steigen, Assami Rösner, Jo Eidet, and Gry Dahle
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Transcatheter aortic ,Receiver operating characteristic ,North norway ,business.industry ,Open surgery ,EuroSCORE ,General Medicine ,University hospital ,mortality ,TAVI ,risk prediction ,30 day mortality ,Internal medicine ,Cohort ,medicine ,Medicine ,business ,Research Articles ,Research Article - Abstract
Objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)-specific risk scores have been developed based on large registry studies. Our aim was to evaluate how both surgical and novel TAVI risk scores performed in predicting all cause 30-day mortality. In addition, we wanted to explore the validity of our own previously developed model in a separate and more recent cohort. Methods: The derivation cohort included patients not eligible for open surgery treated with TAVI at the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) and Oslo University Hospital (OUS) from February 2010 through June 2013. From this cohort, a logistic prediction model (UNN/OUS) for all cause 30-day mortality was developed. The validation cohort consisted of patients not included in the derivation cohort and treated with TAVI at UNN between June 2010 and April 2017. EuroSCORE, Logistic EuroSCORE, EurosSCORE 2, STS score, German AV score, OBSERVANT score, IRRMA score, and FRANCE-2 score were calculated for both cohorts. The discriminative accuracy of each score, including our model, was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and compared using DeLong test where P< .05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The derivation cohort consisted of 218 and the validation cohort of 241 patients. Our model showed statistically significant better accuracy than all other scores in the derivation cohort. In the validation cohort, the FRANCE-2 had a significantly higher predictive accuracy compared to all scores except the IRRMA and STS score. Our model showed similar results. Conclusion: Existing risk scores have shown limited accuracy in predicting early mortality after TAVI. Our results indicate that TAVI-specific risk scores might be useful when evaluating patients for TAVI.
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- 2021
19. The Char and the Oystercatcher. The Value of the Wild in Rossfjord, North Norway
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Bror R Olsen
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Archeology ,060101 anthropology ,biology ,North norway ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,VDP::Humaniora: 000::Folkloristikk, etnologi: 100::Etnologi: 102 ,06 humanities and the arts ,biology.organism_classification ,Fishery ,Geography ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Arctic char ,VDP::Humanities: 000::The study of folklore, Ethnology: 100::Ethnology: 102 ,Anthropology ,Oystercatcher ,0601 history and archaeology ,Char ,050703 geography ,Value (mathematics) - Abstract
This ethnographic study explores and compares the relationships that locals in Rossfjord, North Norway, have to the oystercatcher and the sea-going Arctic char respectively. Both these animals are highly valued locally, while the valuations at first look very different. The oystercatcher is protected by building bin-cases for its nesting, while the Arctic char is killed and eaten. Discussing these valuations against the value theory of David Graeber, I argue that they both connect to an underlying perception of the freedom and autonomy of wild animals, where what is not fully understood enhances an experience of wonder and appreciation of what I call the wild.
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- 2021
20. Microscopic identification of feathers from 7th century boat burials at Valsgärde in Central Sweden: Specialized long-distance feather trade or local bird use?
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Jørgen Rosvold and Birgitta Berglund
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Eagle ,010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,060102 archaeology ,North norway ,biology ,Folklore ,06 humanities and the arts ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Shamanism ,Archaeology ,Late iron age ,Eider ,Geography ,Feather ,visual_art ,biology.animal ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,0601 history and archaeology ,Identification (biology) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The warriors in the well-equipped, high-rank 7th–8th century boat burials at Valsgärde in Central Sweden were lying in feather stuffed beds. Feathers, especially from Common Eider, are known as trade commodities from the coast of North Norway from the 15th century onwards, but written sources indicate that it started much earlier. The main goal of this investigation was thus to see if the feathers from two of the boat burials, Valsgärde 7 and 8, showed any indications of such specialized long-distance trade of certain bird species. Various levels of bird identifications were obtained through microscopic analysis of the ancient feathers. Some of these identifications were corroborated with avian bones in the two burials and from a contemporary farm close to the burials. In this way a remarkably large variety of birds, among them Eagle Owl, was identified. The birds are likely to have been present in the surrounding areas including the nearby coast of the Baltic Sea. Therefore, the feathers do not suggest long-distance trade, but appear as a new source of knowledge of local bird fauna in archaeological sites. Scandinavian folklore and Islandic Sagas indicated that the feathers had a special meaning, in connection with death and shamanism. The investigations could not confirm long-distance trade with feathers, but gave new perspectives on the use and cultural significance of birds in the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia. 2352-409X/© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- 2021
21. Forbruk av opioider ved to kirurgiske sykehusavdelinger
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Aslak Johansen, Marthe Arnes Pettersen, Sidsel Kristiansen, Lars M. Ytrebø, and Trude Ingeborg Smukkestad
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medicine.medical_specialty ,North norway ,business.industry ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske, odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710 ,General Medicine ,University hospital ,humanities ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical, dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710 ,Cardiothoracic surgery ,Anesthesia ,Morphine ,medicine ,Oral morphine ,business ,Oxycodone ,medicine.drug - Abstract
BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to document the consumption of opioids in two surgical departments at the University Hospital of North Norway, Tromso, in the period 2010-17. MATERIAL AND METHOD The consumption of opioids in the department of gastrointestinal surgery and the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery was obtained from Nord hospital pharmacy. All opioids were converted to oral morphine equivalents. RESULTS The consumption of morphine in the department of gastrointestinal surgery was reduced from 223 835 oral morphine equivalents per year in the period 2010-13, to 147 641 in the period 2014-17. In the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, the yearly consumption of morphine was reduced from 28 652 oral morphine equivalents in the period 2010-13, to 22 945 in the period 2014-17. The consumption of oxycodone in the department of gastrointestinal surgery increased from 210 643 oral morphine equivalents per year in the period 2010-13, to 376 322 in the period 2014-17. In the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, the consumption of oxycodone increased from 28 922 oral morphine equivalents per year in the period 2010-13, to 123 875 in the period 2014-17. In the department of gastrointestinal surgery, the increase was most evident for oxycodone administered intravenously or subcutaneously. In the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, the largest increase was for oxycodone administered orally. INTERPRETATION The consumption of opioids increased in both departments studied, and oxycodone constituted the largest part of the increase.
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- 2020
22. Bruk av videosamtale i behandling av tuberkulose-sykdom i Nord-Norge
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Dag Seeger Halvorsen, Tone Ovesen, Renate Bendiksen, Anne Mette Asfeldt, and Kirsten Gravningen
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North norway ,business.industry ,Home care service ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske, odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710 ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,General Medicine ,University hospital ,medicine.disease ,computer.software_genre ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical, dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710 ,Tablet computer ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Home visits ,Videoconferencing ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medical emergency ,Drug intoxication ,business ,computer - Abstract
Background In 2017, a total of 261 patients with tuberculosis were reported in Norway, whereof 90 % completed their therapy. Anti-tuberculosis drugs are administered as daily directly observed treatment (DOT) to all patients. We investigated whether this could be done by video conference. Material and method We conducted a clinical observation study at the University Hospital of North Norway in the period 2016-2019, in which patients ≥ 16 years with tuberculosis after a minimum of two weeks of daily DOT during home visits continued their treatment through video conference (video DOT). The password-protected and encrypted video conference service provided by Norwegian Healthnet was used. The home care service contacted the patient by video conference in real time and observed the intake of drugs via a tablet computer, smartphone or PC. Results 20 out of 30 patients met the inclusion criteria, whereof 17 patients (15 foreign-born) with a median age of 32 (17-74) were included. The average observed drug intake per patient was 86.1 % in the period with home-based DOT and 75.9 % in the period with video DOT. The median daily time spent by the home care service was 17 (2-40) minutes for home visits and 3 (1-8) minutes for video conferences. Fourteen out of 17 patients and 14 out of 17 home nurses preferred video conferencing over home visits. Fifteen patients and all home care nurses would recommend video conferencing to others. Technical problems (8.9 %) were the most common reason for directly observed treatment not being undertaken during the period with video conferencing. Interpretation Video DOT was feasible for the selected patients. Video conferencing was time-efficient for the home care service and was preferable to home visits.
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23. Reinnleggelser ved en hjertemedisinsk avdeling
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Kristina Elisabet Larsby, Haakon Lindekleiv, Ida Christine Lorentzen, and Einar Bugge
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North norway ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Medical record ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske, odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710 ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,University hospital ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical, dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710 ,Health services ,medicine ,Blood test ,Medical emergency ,Risk factor ,business ,Contributory factor - Abstract
BAKGRUNN - Reinnleggelse av pasienter kan være uttrykk for uhensiktsmessige pasientforløp eller kvalitetssvikt. Formålet med studien var å se om vi kunne identifisere områder for forbedring ved å gjennomgå 50 ikke-planlagte reinnleggelser. MATERIALE OG METODE - Vi gjennomgikk 50 fortløpende ikke-planlagte reinnleggelser ved Hjertemedisinsk avdeling ved Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge. Journalene ble gjennomgått med utgangspunkt i en forenklet versjon av metoden «50 siste dødsfall». RESULTATER - Totalt hadde 29 pasienter minst én påvirkbar risikofaktor for reinnleggelse, hvorav mangelfull oppfølging etter utskrivelse og svikt i overlevering av informasjon til kommunehelsetjenesten var de vanligste. Mangelfull registrering og oppfølging av avvikende blodprøvesvar, nye symptomer like før utskrivelse og manglende informasjon i epikriser og til pasienter var andre risikofaktorer for reinnleggelse. FORTOLKNING - Gjennomgang av reinnleggelser kan være et verktøy for å identifisere områder for forbedring av behandlingskvalitet ved sykehus. Svikt i kommunikasjon mellom sykehus, kommunehelsetjeneste og pasient var den viktigste medvirkende årsaken til reinnleggelser.
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- 2020
24. Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia - The Norwegian management model
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Maria Therese Ahlen, Anne Husebekk, Çiğdem Akalın Akkök, and Heidi Tiller
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Norwegian ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Reference laboratory ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fetus ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,medicine ,Humans ,Antigens, Human Platelet ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700 ,North norway ,Norway ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,Infant, Newborn ,Integrin beta3 ,Management model ,Hematology ,University hospital ,medicine.disease ,language.human_language ,Thrombocytopenia, Neonatal Alloimmune ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700 ,Management strategy ,Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia ,language ,Female ,business ,030215 immunology - Abstract
In Norway, the management strategy for fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) has for more than two decades differed from most other countries. The focus of this paper is to describe and discuss the Norwegian FNAIT management program. We recommend antenatal IVIg to women who previously have had a child with FNAIT-induced ICH, and usually not to HPA-1a alloimmunized pregnant women where a previous child had FNAIT, but not ICH. When deciding management strategy, we use not only the obstetric history but also the antenatal anti-HPA-1a antibody level as a tool for risk stratification. The Norwegian National Unit for Platelet Immunology (NNUPI) at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsø provides diagnostic and consulting service for the clinicians and the blood banks all over the country, and serves as a national reference laboratory for FNAIT investigations.
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- 2019
25. CHANGING PETROGLYPHS – CHANGING BELIEFS?
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Helskog, K.
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North Norway ,beliefs ,rock art - Abstract
This paper takes a starting point in the periodic division of the approximately 6000 petroglyphs made during the last 5000 years BC in a North Norwegian fjord area, the ethnography of changing the hunter-fishing- pastoral Sami population in Fennoscandia and the documentation of their traditional system of belief as documented during the 16th 18th hundreds. In addition, the study draws upon the ethnography of Siberian indigenous populations and their understanding and interaction with other than human life in the environment. The makers of the petroglyphs were hunter - fisher - gatherers. This paper focuses on the communication between humans and non-humans such as spirits, reindeer, European elk (Alces alces), bears, birds, sea mammals, halibut and boats depicted in the rock art, and the environments of which they were a part. The analysis shows distinct diachronic morphological and stylistic differences between figures as well as variation in frequencies, compositions and classes. Variations that illustrates both continuity and discontinuity in stories and beliefs within a relatively small geographic area through time. For example, compositions and morphological changes and differences in groups of figures such as animals might reflect changing beliefs, rituals and identities related to contacts with other populations through time. Likewise, some changes in boats reflect both techno-logical alterations and outside contacts. Boats facilitates coastal mobility, resources exploitations and settlement movements, and there was probably extensive social and trade networks. Sometimes influences came from afar, such as agricultural societies in southern Scandinavia, and/or from foragers further to the east in Fennoscandia, societies that might have influenced how people in the Alta fiord region understood the environment in which they lived. In essence, the paper focuses on changes and continuities in the rock art from perspectives of beliefs.
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26. Cabin temperature during prehospital patient transport - a prospective observational study
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Knut Fredriksen, Tuva Svendsen, and Inger Lund-Kordahl
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Emergency Medical Services ,Admission hypothermia ,Aircraft ,Cold exposure ,Helicopter emergency medical service ,Hypothermia ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Ground-ambulance ,Ambulance ,Environmental temperature ,Patient Transport ,Risk Factors ,Medicine ,Humans ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700 ,Prospective Studies ,Ambient temperature ,Pre-hospital transport ,Original Research ,HEMS ,North norway ,business.industry ,Norway ,Air Ambulances ,lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid ,Temperature ,lcsh:RC86-88.9 ,Patient exposure ,University hospital ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700 ,Transportation of Patients ,Emergency medicine ,Emergency Medicine ,Observational study ,Female ,business - Abstract
Background Few studies have investigated the patient compartment temperatures during ambulance missions or its relation to admission hypothermia. Still hypothermia is a known risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity in both trauma and disease. This has special relevance to our sub-arctic region’s pre-hospital services, and we prospectively studied the environmental temperature in the patient transport compartment in both ground and air ambulances. Methods We recorded cabin temperature during patient transport in two ground ambulances and one ambulance helicopter in the catchment area of the University Hospital of North Norway using automatic temperature loggers. The data were collected for one month in each of the four seasons. We calculated the sum of degrees Celsius below 18 min by minute to describe the patient exposure to unfavourably low cabin temperature, and present the data as box plots. The statistical differences between transport mode and season were analysed with ANCOVA. Results The recorded cabin temperatures were higher during the summer than the other three seasons. However, we also found that helicopter transports were performed at lower cabin temperatures and with significantly more exposure to unfavourably low temperatures than the ground ambulance transports. Furthermore, the helicopter cabin reached the final temperature much slower than the ground ambulance cabins did or remained at a lower than comfortable temperature. Conclusions Helicopter cabin temperature during ambulance missions should be monitored closer, particularly for patients at risk for developing admission hypothermia.
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- 2019
27. An invertebrate macrofauna from an early Holocene fjord-delta system, North Norway
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Jesper Kresten Nielsen, Jan Kresten Nielsen, Kenneth Evison, Nils-Martin Hanken, and Samuli Helama
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Delta ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,North norway ,Fjord ,law.invention ,Oceanography ,law ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Radiocarbon dating ,Geology ,Holocene ,General Environmental Science ,Invertebrate - Published
- 2018
28. Stratigraphical signatures of glacier activity, marine processes and a possible tsunami in the Leirfjorden fjord-valley system, north Norway
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Reidulv Bøe, Louise Hansen, Katrine Husum, and Harald Sveian
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Archeology ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,North norway ,Geology ,Glacier ,Fjord ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Oceanography ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Published
- 2018
29. Sustainable Development of Pathology in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Example From Ghana
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Ernest Adjei, Helge Stalsberg, Osei Owusu-Afriyie, and Vidar Isaksen
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Models, Educational ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Capacity Building ,Sub saharan ,Pathology, Surgical ,Cytological Techniques ,Ghana ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Teaching hospital ,Hospitals, University ,Surgical pathology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medical Laboratory Personnel ,medicine ,Frozen Sections ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Hospital Costs ,Hospitals, Teaching ,Developing Countries ,Africa South of the Sahara ,Pathology, Clinical ,North norway ,Norway ,business.industry ,Internship and Residency ,Pathology Department, Hospital ,General Medicine ,University hospital ,Immunohistochemistry ,Medical Laboratory Technology ,Models, Economic ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Workforce ,Autopsy ,business - Abstract
Context.—Pathology services are poorly developed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, asked for help from the pathology department of the University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø.Objective.—To reestablish surgical pathology and cytology in an African pathology department in which these functions had ceased completely, and to develop the department into a self-supporting unit of good international standard and with the capacity to train new pathologists.Design.—Medical technologists from Kumasi were trained in histotechnology in Norway, they were returned to Kumasi, and they produced histologic slides that were temporarily sent to Norway for diagnosis. Two Ghanaian doctors received pathology training for 4 years in Norway. Mutual visits by pathologists and technologists from the 2 hospitals were arranged for the introduction of immunohistochemistry and cytology. Pathologists from Norway visited Kumasi for 1 month each year during 2007–2010. Microscopes and immunohistochemistry equipment were provided from Norway. Other laboratory equipment and a new building were provided by the Ghanaian hospital.Results.—The Ghanaian hospital had a surgical pathology service from the first project year. At 11 years after the start of the project, the services included autopsy, surgical pathology, cytopathology, frozen sections, and limited use of immunohistochemistry, and the department had 10 residents at different levels of training.Conclusions.—A Ghanaian pathology department that performed autopsies only was developed into a self-supported department with surgical pathology, cytology, immunohistochemistry, and frozen section service, with an active residency program and the capacity for further development that is independent from assistance abroad.
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30. The Social and Material Context of the Iron Age Blacksmith in North Norway.
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Jørgensen, Roger
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BLACKSMITHS ,IRON Age ,ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY ,SOCIAL status - Abstract
The prehistoric blacksmith was not only considered a craftsman but was a mythical figure who may have served many roles and purposes. Ethnoarchaeological research has brought to our attention the many functions the prehistoric blacksmith may have filled and his many roles in society. Gender and ethnicity are additional issues. This article explores the north Norwegian blacksmith, his craft and his social status. A complete inventory of the Late Iron Age finds of blacksmith's tools is presented and a detailed study of three main types of blacksmith's tools – hammers, anvils and forging tongs – is conducted to better understand the nature of the work of the blacksmith. Except for a few forging tongs, most tools are quite small, indicating they had been used by an all-purpose blacksmith who mainly worked small iron objects and soft metals. A recurring question is how to understand graves with blacksmith's tools. Do these graves represent blacksmiths, or was blacksmithing such a high-status craft that blacksmith's tools were deposited in graves to add to the deceased's status? The blacksmith's tools studied here show signs of wear and tear indicating that these tools had been used for their intended purpose. It is thus likely that those buried with high-status objects as well as blacksmith's tools at least partly mastered blacksmithing. Also, blacksmith's tools in graves are often found together with objects indicating high status, such as weapons and hunting and riding equipment. This strongly suggests that the craft of blacksmithing was related to high status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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31. Historical Vernacular Gardens Beyond Norway's Arctic Circle.
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Hage, Ingebjørg
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HISTORY of gardens ,GARDEN design ,RENAISSANCE gardens ,VERNACULAR gardens ,COTTAGE gardens - Abstract
This study examines the historical vernacular gardens of North Norway, and is mainly based on a survey done in the county of Troms in the 1980s. The study shows that traditions for the design of gardens and the use of garden plants reflect climatic conditions, geographical location and current fashions. It is a general feature that main trends in the gardens of the affluent work as models for more simple vernacular gardens, and this is also the case with the surveyed gardens of Troms. We find here the proto-garden, a simple garden with beds and plantings controlled by a straight line. This is influenced hardly at all by style, trends or availability on the market. It may have been established during the last century or it could be older. Yet we also find the vernacular cottage garden influenced by a style developed from the Renaissance gardens of southern Europe. In the most carefully made gardens the proto-garden and the impulses from the Renaissance garden are fused together – it makes a type of garden which is genuinely northern. The fenced garden located by the wall of the dwelling house was most common. With the house situated on sloping ground, a stone-built retaining wall was constructed and the ground filled up in order to make the garden as level as possible and to create a terrace. It was mainly native trees fetched from the woods, as well as old “exchange and give away perennials” and flowers and vegetable annuals, all locally available, which characterized the plant material of the historic farm and cottage gardens of the north. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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32. Geochemistry and tectonic setting of a lamproite dyke in Kvaløya, North Norway
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Kullerud, Kåre, Zozulya, Dmitry, Bergh, Steffen G., Hansen, Harald, and Ravna, Erling J.K.
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GEOCHEMISTRY , *STRUCTURAL geology , *LAMPROITE , *DIKES (Geology) , *CARBONIFEROUS stratigraphic geology , *EARTH'S mantle , *EARTH (Planet) - Abstract
Abstract: A new lamproite occurrence of inferred Carboniferous age intruded into an extensive, more than 5km long rectilinear fracture zone in a granite of the West Troms Basement Complex, North Norway. This 30cm wide dyke, which shows well developed chilled margins, is characterized by up to 3mm long phenocrysts of phlogopite in a fine-grained gray matrix of K-feldspar and K-magnesioarfvedsonite with minor amounts of apatite, Ba-titanates (baotite) and rutile. Based on its mineralogy, whole rock chemistry (e.g., SiO2 =54.4–57.3wt.%, K/Na=2.02–7.03, K/Al=0.86–1.22, Mg#=76–84 and Kagp =1.0–1.7), and specific mineral compositions (e.g. tetrahedral coordination of Fe3+ in phlogopite, high Fe, but negligible Na in K-feldspar, and high Ti in K-magnesioarfvedsonite and phlogopite) the rock can be classified as a high-Si phlogopite lamproite. Concentrations and element ratios of a number of trace elements (e.g. high LILE and HFSE, except of Nb and Ta, high La/Ybn and low Th/Nb) in addition to isotope data (moderately radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr and extremely non-radiogenic 143Nd/144Nd; εNd(T) varies from −19.9 to −22.4) indicate an anorogenic, i. e., within-plate setting for the Kvaløya lamproite, similar to the anorogenic types of lamproite from Leucite Hills (Wyoming) and Smoky Butte (Montana). The Kvaløya lamproite shows high Nb/Ta and simultaneous high Zr, suggesting a multistage enrichment history of its mantle source. It is suggested that in addition to an ancient stage of enrichment (2.1–2.3Ga, based on Nd model ages), parts of the mantle enrichment possibly resulted from the involvement of subducted materials during metasomatism of the mantle during the Caledonian Orogeny. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2011
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33. Helseinstitusjoner i Nord-Norge -- arkitektur og struktur.
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Hage, Lngebjörg
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MEDICAL care ,UNIVERSITY hospitals ,SURGERY ,NURSING ,NONPROFIT organizations - Abstract
Great changes took place in health care and its appurtenant institutions in North Norway between 1800 and 2000. The present-day North Norway University Hospital is a far cry from the small cottage hospitals that were opened in Bodø and Tromsø in about 1800. The first hospitals were rudimentary havens for sick people who could not be accommodated at home, but from the mid-19th century onwards greater importance came to be attached to nursing the patients. The advent of surgery towards the end of the 19th century spelt a breakthrough for the hospital as a venue for treatment and the end of its function as a repository for paupers. Throughout the 20th century, the bounds of possibility concerning treatment of the sick were steadily moved forward. In the 19th century large institutions were built among the coast where the big fisheries had led the way and where the greater part of the population lived. This gave a structure of localisation which was to last for a long time. Health restitutions in the first half of the 19th century were built and run by the county with the aid of funding based above all on a few on fish. During the first half of the 20th century, private initiatives entered medical care with full force, comprising women's associations, voluntary organisations and missionary bodies. Now for the first time, institutions were built specially for the Same population in the fjord regions and the Finland of Finnmark.. From the mid-20th century onwards, the lead was again taken by the public sector, represented by municipalities, counties and the state. Nineteenth century hospitals were housed in what were generally small, unspecialised buildings. As medical care became more differentiated so the buildings became more specialised, and a host of different D'pes of restitutions came into being. Tuberculosis hospitals with large out-door wards were an early specially, such as Vensmoon in Saltdal, dating from 1916. Institutions were also opened for the mentally ill, such as Ronvik in Bodø (1903) and Åsgård in Tromsø, a pavilion complex dating from the end of the 1900s. Care of the mentally deficient expanded following the end of the Second World War, and the first pavilions at Trastad, near Harstad, were ready for occupation in 1954. The second half of the 20th century can be said to be characterised by a general network of health centres in the municipalities and a centralisation of medical specialities, as witness the North Norway University Hospital in Tromsø. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
34. La gestion interne de la diversité: La relation de l'État avec les Sames et les Norvégiens.
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Thuen, Trond
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POLITICS & ethnic relations ,SAMI (European people) ,NORWEGIAN politics & government ,ETHNICITY & politics - Abstract
The article focuses on the evolution of the interethnic relations between Norwegians and the Sami people, one of the indigenous people of northern Europe. Topics include the ecological context when Norwegians and Sami met, in the 15th century, the assimilation policy of the Norwegian State from the middle of the 19th century, and the idea of cultural authenticity in Norway.
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- 2009
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35. Rethinking the Creation of North Norway as a Region.
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Zachariassen, Ketil
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NATIONALISM ,REGIONALISM ,NATION building ,HEGEMONY - Abstract
The subject of this article is the creation of North Norway from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Some initial remarks about the relationship between nations and regions are followed by a number of interpretations of recent national and nationalism debates. The former synthesis of the creation of North Norway as a region is analysed, using approaches that on the one hand could be described as an actor stage theory, and on the other as structurally modernistic. As an alternative, a new theoretical approach inspired by cultural hegemonic theories is presented. This cultural hegemonic approach uses the works of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) as a point of departure and is related to the concepts he developed, such as “hegemony”, “counter-hegemony”, “historic bloc”, “civil society” and “organic intellectuals”. A new synthesis of the historical regional formation process, based on a cultural hegemonic approach, is then presented, showing that North Norway as a region is the result of a long-lasting, contradictory and continuous process. Six periods are identified in the creation of the region: the period from the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century up to the second decade of the twentieth century emerges as a time-frame for a counter-hegemonic nation-building project. Since then, North Norway as a region has developed through hegemonic struggle between different kinds of region- and nation-building projects within and outside the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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36. 7500 yr of mire-pool development and the history of Pinus sylvestris (L.) in Sub-Arctic coastal Norway
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Elverland, Ellen and Vorren, Karl-Dag
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SCOTS pine , *POLLINATION , *RADIOACTIVE substances in rivers, lakes, etc. - Abstract
Abstract: In coastal North Norway, mire areas and mire pools frequently exist, but their development and time of origin are poorly known. In order to investigate the development of a coastal mire pool and relate its changes to known climatic changes, a sediment sequence from the mire-pool Lillevardhaugvatnet (c. 0.05 ha large), was 14C-dated, investigated for loss on ignition and analysed for pollen and botanical macrofossils. The bottom of the sequence dates c. 7500 cal. BP. The site gradually developed from a swamp forest c. 6200 cal. BP via a more open dwarf-shrub phase to a pool c. 5000 cal. BP. The pool grew in depth as the result of continuous peat growth damming the water body. The water level of the pool was probably lowered by erosional drain c. 2700 cal. BP. Redeposited peat in the sequence occurred c. 2100 cal. BP and c. 1100 cal. BP. 14C-dates and pollen indicate that erosion and redeposition of the peat surrounding the mire pool is a normal process, connected with the expansion of the water body. The combination of macrofossils and pollen accumulation rates (PAR) of P. sylvestris indicates that in small lakes in coastal areas of North Norway, a PAR of 200–400 cm−2 yr−1 is sufficient for indicating local presence of P. sylvestris. P. sylvestris is represented with abundant macrofossils between 4800 and 2100 cal. BP. It is suggested that a marked P. sylvestris decrease about 2100 cal. BP may be a combined effect of human impact and climatic deterioration. A possible final termination of the P. sylvestris population about 1600 cal. BP may be considered human-made. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2008
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37. The Choodes' Text in Norwegian and Russian Folklore Discourse.
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Дранникова, Наталья
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ETHNOLOGICAL names ,LEGENDS ,MYTHOLOGY ,POWER (Social sciences) - Abstract
The ethnonim "Choode" is known in Russian and Norway traditional cultures for a long time. The Russians interpret it as the generalized name of Finno-Ugric nations. People used to speak about military conflicts with them, about Choodes who buried themselves, about Choodes' treasures in folk legends. In the north of Norway, especially in the folklore of Saams, Choodes avoke associations with robbers (Russians, Karelians, Swedes) who used to come from the East or from the West. The composition and details of Norway "sagns" and Russian legends are similar; the narratives of both nations belong to the same types. The real historical and mythological features are presented in the Choodes' pictures; they are frequently interpreted as "black power." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
38. Reconstruction Housing in North Norway: Gender and the Reception of the Modern Era.
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Hage, Ingebjørg
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WORLD War II ,HOUSING ,RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877) ,HOUSING laws - Abstract
At the end of the Second World War, large areas of North Norway had to be rebuilt as a result of war damage. It is estimated that 12,000 dwellings housing 60,000 people were ruined. The limited funds available necessitated a low-budget form of housing when the area was rebuilt. The government perceived in this situation the possibility of house modernization, for which standardized, pre-approved drawings were a solution. This paper focuses on the reconstruction houses and the discussion about what kind of house was most suited to the area. It refers to the housing involvement of one of the female architects, and to the architects in general as mediators between the central authorities in the south and the people/local government in the north. It also sheds some light on the decisions made at a family level concerning the question of housing. Gender differences in the acceptance of, or resistance to, the modernization of these dwellings during the reconstruction period (1945-1960) in North Norway form the main topic of this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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39. Recruitment of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis L., on suspended collectors in Finnmark, North Norway (70–71°N).
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Frantzen, Sylvia
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MYTILUS edulis , *BIVALVES , *MYTILIDAE , *FJORDS , *FALL foliage - Abstract
In order to investigate Mytilus edulis settlement in two North Norwegian fjords (70–71°N), short-term collectors were suspended at six different stations at intervals of 2–4 weeks during spring–autumn of 2002 and 2003. At the same stations, long-term collectors were deployed monthly from May to August 2002 and sampled the following autumn. Settlement occurred between early July and late October and peaked between mid-July and mid-September. Settlement peaked in inner Porsangerfjord, with the average mean daily settlement (MDS) up to 1408 m-1 day-1, and decreased towards the coast, where the maximum MDS was 3.8 m-1 day-1. In Altafjord, maximal mean MDS were between 47 and 168 m-1 day-1. Fjords apparently function as retention areas for larvae, whereas at the coast larvae are effectively dispersed. Eighty-nine per cent of the mussels recruited in October/November were <2 mm. Long-term collectors deployed in inner Porsangerfjord had the highest recruitment (mean density 47,537 m-1). Inner Altafjord had very low recruitment (mean density 46 m-1), perhaps due to freshwater discharge. Collectors deployed in late August had lower recruitment than those deployed earlier, but there was no evidence of recruitment differences between collectors deployed earlier. At densities above ca. 5000 m-1, intraspecific competition controlled the level of recruitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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40. Future forest distribution on Finnmarksvidda, North Norway
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Hans Tømmervik, Jan Åge Riseth, Stein Rune Karlsen, and Bernt Johansen
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0106 biological sciences ,Atmospheric Science ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Distribution (economics) ,Climate change ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Treeline ,Climate warming ,Reindeer herding ,Vegetation types ,Basic biosciences: 470 [VDP] ,Environmental Chemistry ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,Bioclimatic model ,North norway ,business.industry ,Ecology ,Forestry ,Basale biofag: 470 [VDP] ,Vegetation ,Geography ,Future forest ,Temperature driver ,business - Abstract
Finnmarksvidda is Norway’s largest mountain plateau, located in the Arctic/alpineboreal transition area. The area is also a central winter grazing area for the reindeer herds of the indigenous Sámi people. This study develops a bioclimatic-based model to simulate future potential vegetation, with a focus on forest types. The model utilizes a bioclimatic study in the region, where vegetation types have been grouped according to minimum summer temperature demands. This is then used as a base for modelling of future vegetation. Due to the flat landscape of Finnmarksvidda, the model shows that a 1°C increase in summer temperatures will potentially lead to an increase of forested areas by 4485 km2, which is a 70% increase from the current 6900 km2 to a simulated 11 706 km2. This in turn will lead to a reduction of Arctic-alpine heaths from 4440 km2 today to potentially only 670 km2. Such changes will have consequences for the reindeer grazing system, as the predicted changes will lead to a decrease in the vegetation types that have high winter grazing accessibility for reindeer, from 2386 km2 today to potentially only 377 km2. On the other hand, vegetation types with medium accessibility will experience an increase, from 2857 to 3366 km2.
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- 2017
41. Temperatures of north Norwegian fjords and coastal waters: Variability, significance of local processes and air–sea heat exchange
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Eilertsen, Hans Chr. and Skarðhamar, Jofrid
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COASTAL ecology , *HEAT flux , *TEMPERATURE - Abstract
Abstract: Sea and air temperature data from the period 1980–2003, representing fjord–outer coast transects at three locations in north Norway (Balsfjord, Altafjord and Porsangerfjord), have been examined. Air and sea surface temperatures were well inter-correlated between all stations, indicating that the coastline in question is a coherent climatic region. This conclusion is strengthened since no correlations were found between the transect data and the northern Fugløya–Bjørnøya transect. Neither did our data sets bear any clear resemblance to the variation in the NAO index. Generally there was a delay of four months before the surface temperature signals reached the deepest bottom waters. The cooling period (heat loss from sea to air) lasts longer than further south, leading to a prolonged period with unstratified waters in the north. This strengthens the effect of sea temperatures to follow the air temperatures, i.e. sea temperatures in the region are controlled by local climatic processes. The mean annual heat loss for the measured stations was 31Wm−2. The largest mean surface heat loss was in Porsangerfjord, that has no sill (45Wm−2). Balsfjord, the only fjord with a sill, had the lowest annual heat loss (21Wm−2). This difference can be explained by transport of inflowing coastal water being restricted by the sills in Balsfjord. No clear heating or cooling trends could be detected for the period 1980–2003, and comparison with data from the period 1930–1979 revealed anomalies well within the ones observed by us for 1980–2003. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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42. Usefulness of videoconferencing in psychiatric emergencies -- a qualitative study
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Marianne Trondsen, Stein Roald Bolle, Geir Øyvind Stensland, and Aksel Tjora
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Tele-psychiatry ,020205 medical informatics ,Biomedical Engineering ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,computer.software_genre ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Health services ,Health personnel ,0302 clinical medicine ,Videoconferencing ,Psychiatric emergencies ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Analysis software ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychiatry ,Original Paper ,North norway ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,University hospital ,Emergency care ,Medical emergency ,Qualitative study ,business ,computer ,Biotechnology ,Qualitative research - Abstract
High quality health services for psychiatric emergencies are difficult to maintain 24 h a day in sparsely populated areas, where the availability of specialists are limited. To overcome this challenge, the University Hospital of North Norway implemented an on-call system in psychiatric emergencies, by which psychiatrists are accessible 24/7 for telephone and videoconferencing consultations with patients and nurses at three regional psychiatric centers. The purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of videoconferencing consultations in psychiatric emergencies. The on-call psychiatrists and nurses at the regional psychiatric centers who participated in at least one videoconferencing consultation were recruited for semi-structured interviews: 5 psychiatrists and 19 nurses for a total of 24 participants. The interviews were performed from July of 2012 to June of 2013. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using a stepwise-deductive-inductive approach supported by the HyperRESEARCH analysis software. After the introduction of the videoconferencing system, telephone consultations were still used for straightforward situations when further treatment or admission decisions were obvious. Videoconferencing consultations, during which patients were present, were useful for challenging situations when there was 1) uncertainty regarding the degree of illness or the level of treatment, 2) a need to clarify the severity of the patient condition, 3) a need to build an alliance with the patient, and 4) disagreement either between health personnel or between the patient and health personnel. Videoconferencing is useful for challenging and complex psychiatric emergencies and is a suitable tool for building high quality, decentralized psychiatric services.
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43. Reconstruction of North Norway after the Second World War – New Opportunities for Female Architects?
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Hage, Ingebjørg
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RECONSTRUCTION (1939-1951) ,WORLD War II ,WOMEN architects ,ARCHITECTURAL practice ,PRESERVATION of architecture ,20TH century history - Abstract
Female architects took part in the reconstruction of North Norway after the Second World War, rebuilding the scorched-earth area as well as the bombed towns. For the first time in Norway they were visible both as individual architects and as a group, and the aim of this paper is to uncover evidence of their contribution, which has been somewhat overlooked until now. The female architects can be related to different forms of architectural practice – some designed buildings, e.g. small and large schools for the public sector – but more important was their contribution to work in the public reconstruction offices, especially in the housing debate and the modernization of housing. These women made an architectural impact on the everyday environment and landscape of the north. Even though the female architects of the 1950s had a marginalized experience as practitioners in the north, they paved the way for generations of female architects to come and the latter's struggle for access to professional status in Norway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Price Links between Auction and Direct Sales of Fresh and Frozen Fish in North Norway (1997-2003).
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Helstad, Kjetil, Vassdal, Terje, Trondsen, Torbjørn, and Young, James A.
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FISH prices , *DIRECT selling , *AUCTIONS , *FROZEN fish , *HADDOCK , *CODFISH - Abstract
In North Norway the dominant method of exchange for fresh and frozen fish at the ex-vessel level is by direct (contract) sale, whereby price is negotiated between fish processors and the fishermen. More recently, an auction for frozen fish has been introduced. In this paper we investigate the relationship of prices between these methods of exchange and, in particular, whether the prices develop in a stable pattern between auction and direct sale by means of a cointegration analysis. Monthly prices of size-graded cod and haddock landed in the period 1997-2003 are analysed. For most months, frozen fish sold through auctions realised the highest price, followed by direct sales of fresh and frozen, respectively. Fish sold by auction exhibits a larger monthly variation in price than fish sold directly. Prices for cod were cointegrated to a larger degree than for haddock, and the cointegration was strongest for frozen cod. The analysis also demonstrates that the auction prices for frozen cod and haddock drive the direct sale prices of similar fish, both frozen and fresh, even though the quantity sold via direct sales is greater than that of auctions. Law of one price (LOP) and weak exogeneity were present for cod and haddock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. A continuous marine record 8000–1600 cal. yr BP from the Malangenfjord, north Norway: foraminiferal and isotopic evidence.
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Husum, Katrine and Hald, Morten
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HOLOCENE paleoceanography , *MARINE sediments , *FJORDS , *FORAMINIFERA , *STABLE isotopes , *CLIMATE change - Abstract
Holocene oceanography and climate were studied in the continuous marine sediment sequence in a piston core from the high-latitude Malangenfjord, north Norway, using benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the investigated sequence covers the period from c. 8000 to 1600 cal. BP and has a sedimentation rate of 0.3–12.7 m/1000 years. Bottom-water temperatures reconstructed from benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes in the Malangenfjord show a cooling of c. 3°C ranging from c. 10°C and reaching c. 7°C at 1600 cal. yr BP which is similar to present bottom-water temperature at the core location. A planktic foraminiferal δ18O record was established from c. 6400 to 1600 cal. yr BP generally following the same pattern as the benthic record. This long-term cooling correlates to the decreasing insolation at 70°N following the orbital forcing. The long-term cooling also corresponds well with atmospheric proxy records implying a close ocean-atmosphere coupling. It is also indicated both by marine and atmospheric temperature and precipitation proxy records that the climate was more oceanic during the early Holocene. Several cold events are interpreted as decreased influence of Atlantic Water in the fjord. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Depth-related benthic macrofaunal biodiversity patterns in three undisturbed north Norwegian fjords.
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Holte, Børge, Oug, Eivind, and Cochrane, Sabine
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Soft-bottom macrofauna were sampled quantitatively in August 1994 in three undisturbed north Norwegian fjords. Samples were taken at 10, 25, 50 and 90 m depth in each fjord. The total number of taxa recorded was 399 and the number of specimens 22,017, inclusive of ten juvenile taxa with 1265 specimens, collected from a total sampling area of 4.8 m 2 . The number of taxa per station varied from 75 to 171, the density from 1790 to 8723 individuals m -2 , and the faunal diversity (Shannon-Wiener H′) from 4.4 to 6.4. In general, the number of taxa increased with depth, whereas the highest densities were recorded at 10 and 25 m. The species richness was generally high at both small (alpha diversity) and larger (gamma diversity) spatial scales compared with other northern and off-shore shelf areas. Species turnover (beta diversity) was greater across depths within fjords than within depths across fjords. Species community patterns were related to depth and sediment grain size. Statistical analyses undertaken indicated that the juveniles did not affect community structure very much. Among the polychaetes and molluscs the proportion of surface deposit feeders - inclusive of the both surface-feeding and suspensivorous Spionidae and Oweniidae - and the deep subsurface deposit feeders (Maldanidae and the capitellid Heteromastus filiformis ) largely increased with depth. The lowest proportion of other subsurface deposit feeders and the suspensivores occurred at the deepest stations. The study may provide useful reference data for sub-Arctic fjord environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Landscape history and heathland development over the last 4000 years in the Bodø area, northern Norway.
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Moe, Dagfinn
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A palaeoecological investigation in the Bodø area (Salten, Nordland) records a shift from Betula -dominated forest to mostly treeless vegetation during the last 4000 years. Corylus avellana , now at its northern limits in this region, was previously more abundant within the area. Deforestation started c. 3500-3000 BP, most likely connected to human activity during the early Bronze Age. After the onset of anthropogenic disturbance, heathland was established, initially with a dominance of Calluna vulgaris and Empetrum . Later on, c. 900 BP, Calluna was dominant. The heathland was probably subject to management, including burning. It should be viewed as a part of a northern extension of the western European heathland vegetation of the coast of SW Norway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Cod in fjords and coastal waters of North Norway: distribution and variation in length and maturity at age
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Berg, Erik and Albert, Ole Thomas
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The distribution of cod along the Norwegian coast and in fjords from 62°N north to the Russian border was examined using data from annual trawl surveys carried out between 1995 and 2001. Based on differences in growth zones of the otoliths, cod are traditionally classified into two types: Northeast Arctic cod and coastal cod. Both types were found throughout the area investigated. The catch rate of both increased northwards and from offshore to inshore. In a statistical model of length at age, abiotic factors such as area and year of capture explained more of the variance than biotic factors such as sex, stage of maturity, and type of cod. Length at age increased in a southward direction and was higher for cod captured offshore than for those captured inshore. In a statistical model of the proportion mature at age, area, type, and year of capture explained more of the variance than sex and depth of capture. On average, coastal cod attained 50% maturity (M50) more than a year younger than a year younger than Northeast Arctic cod attained maturity. Although there were relatively large differences in age at maturity between neighbouring areas, age at maturity was lowest in the south and inshore, and in general, lower inshore than offshore. As genetic analysis clearly indicates that cod in the study area consist of at least two genetically separated stocks, it is likely that the differences found here in age at M50 might have a genetic component. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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49. Regional distribution of PCBs and presence of technical PCB mixtures in sediments from Norwegian and Russian Arctic Lakes
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Skotvold, Trond and Savinov, Vladimir
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The results of measurement of polychlorinated biphenyls (10 PCB congeners recommended by AMAP) in surface bottom sediments collected from 26 remote lakes in Northern Norway and 11 lakes in North Russia in 1994 and 1995 are presented. Cores were collected from the deepest part of each lake with a gravity corer. The north Russian lakes were shallow ponds less than 1 m deep, while the north Norwegian lakes and the lakes on the Svalbard Archipelago were usually 10–30 m deep. The sediment samples were analyzed by GC-high resolution MS analyses. The range of concentrations was wide. In sediment from the tundra ponds, ∑PCB were generally low, ranging from 0.2 to 1.4 ng/g dry weight (dw), with one exception (19.3 ng/g dw). In sediments from the north Norwegian lakes and the lakes on Svalbard Archipelago, the concentration was ranging from 0.7 to 35.4 ng/g dw. The geographical distribution and possibility of geographic gradients of the ∑PCB is discussed. The PCB composition is further analyzed by statistical methods to indicate possible presence and contribution of 10 various technical PCB mixtures (Chlorphens, Kanechlors, Arochlors, Sovols) in the samples. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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50. Management of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) in a rural part of North Norway with a scattered population: does living near the department of oncology translate into a different pattern of care and survival?
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Ellinor Haukland, Jan Norum, Carsten Nieder, and Astrid Dalhaug
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Male ,Rural Population ,Oncology ,Health (social science) ,Epidemiology ,Patient characteristics ,chemotherapy ,Systemic therapy ,Health Services Accessibility ,systemic therapy ,Prostate cancer ,0302 clinical medicine ,distant metastases ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Neoplasm Metastasis ,Aged, 80 and over ,education.field_of_study ,North norway ,Arctic Regions ,Norway ,pattern of care ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant ,language ,0305 other medical science ,Research Article ,medicine.medical_specialty ,lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine ,lcsh:RC955-962 ,Population ,Norwegian ,survival ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,education ,radiotherapy ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Patterns of care ,030505 public health ,business.industry ,VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Oncology: 762 ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Prostatic Neoplasms ,medicine.disease ,language.human_language ,VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Onkologi: 762 ,Socioeconomic Factors ,business - Abstract
Source at https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1620086. The goal of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is to offer an equal health-care service with the same outcomes wherever people are living within the country. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether this was true for patients diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) and living in Nordland County, a region with a challenging geography and climate and having, several small and remote communities and only 1 department of oncology. The latter is located in the main city, Bodø. We also compared a subgroup living in communities having lower average annual income (less than NOK 240,000 (equivalent to USD 28,600)) with patients living in Bodø (NOK 285,000 (USD 33,900)). Overall 288 patients were included and stratified into 3 subgroups (favourable distance and income, unfavourable distance and income, and unfavourable distance and favourable income). No statistically significant differences were observed regarding patient characteristics. There was no indication towards under-treatment among patients from the distant regions or the lower income region. Given that disparities were not observed, it was not surprising to see comparable survival outcomes (p=0.35). In conclusion, these results suggest that the health-care system in Nordland County successfully delivers state-of-the-art oncology care to patients with mPC.
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