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Starting a cultural collective for mothers of children with disabilities : a case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Caring for children with disabilities in Tanzania involves significant challenges, including stigma, limited support and mental health risks. A cultural collective for caretakers of children with disabilities ... -
Collaboration with clients to create journal notes : a mixed methods evaluation of a pilot intervention study in a municipality mental health services team
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an intervention designed to encourage therapists in a municipality mental health services team to collaborate with their clients when writing journal notes. The team ... -
Surviving the COVID-19 pandemic : European and African SMEs and domestic public policies compared
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Purpose The paper investigates factors that contribute to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) surviving major exogenous shocks. Global crises such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have increasingly heightened ... -
Optimizing a Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Analyzing State-Space Components
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: The dynamic vehicle routing problem (DVRP) is a complex optimization problem that is crucial for applications such as last-mile delivery. Our goal is to develop an application that can make real-time decisions ... -
The association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and psoriasis in a large population-based cohort: a cross-sectional analysis of The Tromsø Study 2015–16
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background Case–control studies indicate an association between lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and psoriasis. Data from larger population-based cohorts including mild cases are sparse. Objectives To ... -
Spatial aggregation error and agglomeration benefits from transport improvements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aggregating data to other spatial resolutions can result in spatial aggregation errors, which can affect the data and subsequent analyses. This paper investigates the nature of spatial aggregation errors in the calculation ... -
The impact of infrastructure investment on migration from rural islands
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores the impact of infrastructure investment on migration from rural areas, where the population size in many cases is falling. To explore this, we examine eight rural islands where bridges and tunnels (fixed ... -
A literature review of the perishable inventory routing problem
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The inventory routing problem arises when inventory management and vehicle routing decisions are integrated instead of treated as separate problems. The technique of combining such decisions could lead to solutions that ... -
Uncovering dimensions of the impact of blockchain technology in supply chain management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Supply chains around the globe are faced with difficulties and disruptions due to the worldwide pandemic situation and digital solutions are needed. There is significant research interest in the implementation of blockchain ... -
A novel hybrid machine learning based system to classify shoulder implant manufacturers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)It is necessary to know the manufacturer and model of a previously implanted shoulder prosthesis before performing Total Shoulder Arthroplasty operations, which may need to be performed repeatedly in accordance with the ... -
Child–display interaction : lessons learned on touchless avatar-based large display interfaces
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)During the last decade, touchless gestural interfaces have been widely studied as one of the most promising interaction paradigms in the context of pervasive displays. In particular, avatars and silhouettes have proved to ... -
How do different health record systems affect home health care? : a cross-sectional study of electronic- versus manual documentation system
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective: To investigate electronic health record (EHR) systems compared to manual systems (MS) in home health care and how documentation and reporting activities are impacted regarding time use, variation, and accuracy. ... -
The role of incumbents in energy transitions : investigating the perceptions and strategies of the oil and gas industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The study focuses on sustainability transitions in the oil and gas industry, particularly its strategies and perceptions towards mitigating climate change. The paper offers a quantitative analysis of survey data collected ... -
The facilitation of user-involvement for people with dementia as experienced by health care professionals : a qualitative study using focus groups
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective The main objective of this study was to explore how health care professionals experience adaptation of user-involvement for people with dementia receiving health and social care. Method A qualitative explorative ... -
Examining COVID-19-triggered changes in spatial connectivity patterns in the European air transport network up to June 2021
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The integrity of international supply chain operations heavily relies on air transport services to facilitate the movement of goods and enable human interactions between its stakeholders. With the outbreak of COVID-19 in ... -
Navigating the early stages of a large sustainability-oriented rural tourism development project : lessons from Træna, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper draws on data collected through multiple approaches and presents an exploration of the early stages of a large sustainability-oriented rural tourism development project. Through a streamlined qualitative analysis, ... -
Weighted iterated local branching for mathematical programming problems with binary variables
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Local search algorithms are frequently used to handle complex optimization problems involving binary decision variables. One way of implementing a local search procedure is by using a mixed-integer programming solver to ... -
Decision support for allocating farmed fish to customer orders using a bi-objective optimization model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Aquaculture is an important industry in certain coastal areas. Focusing on farming of salmon and trout, an operational planning problem arises with the goal of allocating supply of fish to demand expressed through customer ... -
Employee scheduling and maintenance planning for safety systems at the remotely located oil and gas industrial facilities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The safety of operations is vital in any process in the oil and gas sector, especially given that increasingly more hydrocarbon reserves are discovered in non-conventional remote and Arctic locations. Safety systems are ... -
Attributes impacting cybersecurity policy development : an evidence from seven nations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Cyber threats have risen as a result of the growing usage of the Internet. Organizations must have effective cybersecurity policies in place to respond to escalating cyber threats. Individual users and corporations are not ...
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