• Decentralisation, quality of government and economic growth 

      Muringani, Jonathan; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The effect of decentralisation on regional economic growth is a hotly debated topic. In theory, decentralisation should entail welfare benefits by bringing government closer to the people. In practice, the benefits of ...
    • Deciphering the inflection points to achieve proficiency for each procedure step during training in laparoscopic appendicectomy 

      Skjold-Ødegaard, B.; Hamid, S.; Lindeman, Robbert-Jan; Ersdal, H.L.; Søreide, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)
      Background Laparoscopic appendicectomy is a common procedure early in surgical training. A minimum number is usually required for certification in general surgery. However, data on proficiency are scarce. This study aimed ...
    • Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Rapid roll-out of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is a key component of decarbonising energy systems. Yet clear risks are involved, including footprints from land use and infrastructure as well as socio-economic inequalities. ...
    • Decision-Making under Risk: Conditions Affecting the Risk Preferences of Politicians in Digitalization 

      Rodrigues Ferreira, Jean Roisse (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      Public officials are constantly facing decisions under risk, particularly in digitalization policies, the consequences of which are hard to predict given their multiple dimensional nature. Since scholarly research has not ...
    • Decisions of Persons, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Donors in Disease Contraction and Recovery Assuming Virus Mutation 

      Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)
      Background The article develops an eight-period game between N persons and a pharmaceutical company. The choices of a donor and Nature are parametric. Methods Persons choose between safe and risky behavior, and whether ...
    • The decline of mussel aquaculture in the European Union: causes, economic impacts and opportunities 

      Avdelas, Lamprakis; Avdic-Mravlje, Edo; Borges Marques, Ana Cristina; Cano, Suzana; Capelle, Jacob J.; Carvalho, Natacha; Cozzolino, Maria; Dennis, John; Ellis, Tim; Fernández Polanco, José M.; Guillen, Jordi; Lasner, Tobias; Le Bihan, Véronique; Llorente, Ignacio; Mol, Arie; Nicheva, Simona; Nielsen, Rasmus; van Oostenbrugge, Hans; Villasante, Sebastian; Visnic, Svjetlana; Zhelev, Kolyo; Asche, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)
      In contrast to the increasing aquaculture production of mussels worldwide, production in the European Union (EU) has shown a decreasing trend over the last two decades. Aquaculture production of mussels in the EU peaked ...
    • “Decolonizing academia” in Norway after #RhodesMustFall 

      Hansen, Ketil Fred (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Compared with the student initiated #RhodesMustFall in South Africa, the public debate on “decolonizing academia” in Norway was mainly a debate among faculty. Most voices opposed the need of such a movement in an anti-colonial ...
    • Decolonizing Higher Education: Rationales and Implementations from the Subject of Music History 

      Meling, Lise Karin; Fadnes, Petter Frost; Mittner, Lilli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Abstract: In addition to ongoing territorial and material re-organization of power as a result of 19th-century European colonialism, there has been an increasing focus on decolonializing knowledge practices in higher ...
    • Deconstruction of the Discourse of Femininity: A Case of Thai Girls’ Schools 

      Satienchayakorn, Natakorn; Zilli, Pattamawan Jimarkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The study investigates the construction of femininity ideologies of girls-only school websites in Thailand and deconstructs them for analysis at the lexical level. Ideological beliefs underlying the custom of upbringing ...
    • Deconvolution approach for floating wind turbines 

      Liu, Zirui; Gaidai, Oleg; Sun, Jiayao; Xing, Yihan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05)
      Green renewable energy is produced by floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT), a crucial component of the modern offshore wind energy industry. It is a safety concern to accurately evaluate excessive weights while the FOWT ...
    • Deep learning in radiology: ethics of data and on the value of algorithm transparency, interpretability and explainability 

      Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      AI systems are quickly being adopted in radiology and, in general, in healthcare. A myriad of systems is being proposed and developed on a daily basis for high-stake decisions that can lead to unwelcome and negative ...
    • Deep time rock art in SW-Norway 

      Kjeldsen, Gitte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Rogaland in SW Norway has a large number of rock art sites within relatively limited geographical areas. I wish to present a longlived rock art tradition that marked places within the landscape using five examples of ...
    • Defective mitochondrial DNA homeostasis in the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease 

      Dölle, Christian; Flønes, Irene Hana; Sanchez Nido, Gonzalo; Miletic, Hrvoje; Osuagwu, Nelson; Kristoffersen, Stine; Lilleng, Peer Kåre; Larsen, Jan Petter; Tysnes, Ole-Bjørn; Haugarvoll, Kristoffer; Bindoff, Laurence; Tzoulis, Charalampos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11)
      Increased somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutagenesis causes premature aging in mice, and mtDNA damage accumulates in the human brain with aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD). Here, we ...
    • Defective mitochondrial DNA homeostasis in the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease 

      Dölle, Christian; Flønes, Irene Hana; Sanchez Nido, Gonzalo; Miletic, Hrvoje; Osuagwu, Nelson; Kristoffersen, Stine; Lilleng, Peer Kåre; Larsen, Jan Petter; Tysnes, Ole-Bjørn; Haugarvoll, Kristoffer; Bindoff, Laurence; Tzoulis, Charalampos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11)
      Increased somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutagenesis causes premature aging in mice, and mtDNA damage accumulates in the human brain with aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD). Here, we ...
    • Defense Strategies for Asymmetric Networked Systems with Discrete Components 

      Rao, Nageswara S. V.; Ma, Chris Y.T.; Hausken, Kjell; He, Fei; Yau, David K.Y.; Zhuang, Jun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      We consider infrastructures consisting of a network of systems, each composed of discrete components. The network provides the vital connectivity between the systems and hence plays a critical, asymmetric role in the ...
    • Defensive Distillation-based Adversarial Attack Mitigation Method for Channel Estimation using Deep Learning Models in Next-Generation Wireless Networks 

      Catak, Ferhat Özgur; Kuzlu, Murat; Catak, Evren; Cali, Umit; Guler, Ozgur (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09)
      Future wireless networks (5G and beyond), also known as Next Generation or NextG, are the vision of forthcoming cellular systems, connecting billions of devices and people together. In the last decades, cellular networks ...
    • Defining adaptive capacity in healthcare: A new framework for researching resilient performance 

      Anderson, Janet; Ross, Alister; Macrae, Carl; Wiig, Siri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Resilience principles show promise for improving the quality of healthcare, but there is a need for further theoretical development to include all levels and scales of activity across the whole healthcare system. Many ...
    • Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program 

      Wiig, Siri; Aase, Karina; Billett, Stephen; Canfield, Carolyn; Røise, Olav; Njå, Ove; Guise, Veslemøy; Haraldseid-Driftland, Cecilie; Ree, Eline; Anderson, Janet; Macrae, Carl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)
      Background Understanding the resilience of healthcare is critically important. A resilient healthcare system might be expected to consistently deliver high quality care, withstand disruptive events and continually adapt, ...
    • Defining the work situation in organization theory: bringing Goffman back in 

      Klemsdal, Lars; Clegg, Stewart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The organization is traditionally assumed as the principal context of work. This assumption no longer holds in post-industrial and post-bureaucratic settings. Conducting meetings from home while juggling household ...
    • Definition of reliability and maintenance concepts in oil and gas - validity aspects 

      Selvik, Jon Tømmerås; Abrahamsen, Eirik Bjorheim; Kurt J, Engemann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      International standards have a key role in establishing consistent terminology. Amongst these is the recently published and revised ISO standard on reliability and maintenance data collection and exchange, i.e. ISO 14224:2016. ...