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Barriers to effective diabetes management – a survey of people with severe me...
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Supporting self-employment and small-scale entrepreneurship: potential progra...
Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are likely to be subsistence entrepreneurs. These... -
Compliance with water advisories after water outages in Norway
Background: Water advisories, especially those concerning boiling drinking water, are widely used to reduce risks of infection from contaminants in the water supply. Since the... -
Bicycling participation in people with a lower limb amputation: a scoping review
Abstract Background To review literature on bicycling participation, as well as facilitators and barriers for bicycling in people with a lower limb amputation (LLA). Methods... -
Evaluation of the national surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in Norway, 2...
Abstract Background In Norway, Legionnaires’ disease is reportable upon clinical suspicion to public health authorities and mandatorily notifiable through the Norwegian... -
Comparing four diagnostic tests for Giardia duodenalis in dogs using latent c...
Abstract Background To accurately diagnose giardiosis in dogs, knowledge of diagnostic test characteristics and expected prevalence are required. The aim of this work was to... -
Saliva cortisol in relation to aircraft noise exposure: pooled-analysis resul...
Abstract Background Many studies have demonstrated adverse effects of exposure to aircraft noise on health. Possible biological pathways for these effects include hormonal... -
Activation of chloramphenicol biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10...
Abstract Background Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712 produces antibiotics chloramphenicol (Cml) and jadomycin (Jad) in response to nutrient limitation and ethanol shock (ES),... -
Long-term colonisation with donor bacteriophages following successful faecal ...
Abstract Background Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is used in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.... -
The gradient test and its finite sample size properties in a conditional maxi...
In asymptotic theory, the gradient test proposed by Terrell is a recent likelihood-based hypothesis testing approach which can be considered as an alternative to the... -
Immune responses upon Campylobacter jejuni infection of secondary abiotic mic...
Abstract Background Campylobacter jejuni infections are of rising importance worldwide. Given that innate immune receptors including nucleotide-oligomerization-domain-2 (Nod2)... -
A specific synbiotic-containing amino acid-based formula in dietary managemen...
Here we report follow-up data from a double-blind, randomized, controlled multicenter trial, which investigated fecal microbiota changes with a new amino acid-based formula... -
How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review
Background: The loss of carbon (C) from agricultural soils has been, in part, attributed to tillage, a common prac‑ tice providing a number of benefits to farmers. The promotion... -
Specificity versus redundancy in the RAP2.4 transcription factor family of Ar...
Abstract Background The Arabidopsis ERFIb / RAP2.4 transcription factor family consists of eight members with highly conserved DNA binding domains. Selected members have been... -
Benefits and harm of systemic steroids for short- And long-term use in rhinit...
Abstract Because of the inflammatory mechanisms of most chronic upper airway diseases such as rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, systemic steroids have been used for their... -
Assessment of fatigability in patients with spinal muscular atrophy: developm...
Background: Fatigability has emerged as an important dimension of physical impairment in patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). At present reliable and valid outcome... -
Associations between complex multimorbidity, activities of daily living and m...
Abstract Background With increasing age, having multiple chronic conditions is the norm. It is of importance to study how co-existence of diseases affects functioning and... -
Migrant integration policies and health inequalities in Europe
Abstract Background Research on socio-economic determinants of migrant health inequalities has produced a large body of evidence. There is lack of evidence on the influence of... -
Immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects of probiotics in multiple scle...
Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and autoimmune neurological disorder which leads to demyelination. Although the etiology of MS is yet to be known, it appears... -
Antimicrobial prophylaxis is considered sufficient to preserve an acceptable ...
Abstract Background Surgical site infections (SSI) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. To lower the incidence...
