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    • Petrifilm TM som alternativt medium for dyrking av bakterier i vann 

      Rosef, Olav; Odland, Arvid; Bjerketvedt, Dag (Journal article, 2002)
      Metoden NS-EN ISO 6222 er sammenlignet med Petrifilm for påvisning og telling av mikroorganismer i overflatevann (råvann) og i drikkevann (behandlet vann). De dyrkingstemperaturene som gjeldende drikkevannsforskrift angir ...

    • Petroleum dependence in developing countries with an emphasis on Nepal and potential keys 

      Sharma, Binod; Shrestha, Ashish (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The use of petroleum as a leading source across the globe accounts for overall energy demand. However, despite what may appear to be a declining contribution of petroleum to the world's energy supply, overall consumption ...

    • Petroleum Sector-Driven Roadmap for Future Hydrogen Economy 

      Safari, Amir; Joyashree, Roy; Assadi, Mohsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In the climate change mitigation context based on the blue hydrogen concept, a narrative frame is presented in this paper to build the argument for solving the energy trilemma, which is the possibility of job loss and ...

    • PFGE og spatyping av meticillin resistente Staphylococcus aureus 

      Ambjørnsen, Inger Karine (Master thesis, 2007)
      Pulsfeltgelelektroforese (PFGE) er den mest vanlige typingsmetoden ved epidemiologiske undersøkelser av meticillin resistente Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Pulsfelttyping er også benyttet i denne studien som innbefattet ...

    • Phase Transition in Rapid Depressurization of Liquefied Gases 

      Das, Ujjal Chandra (Master thesis, 2023)
      This thesis investigates the phase transition during rapid depressurization of liquefied gases, a crucial research field for industries like LPG storage and transportation, gas separation processes, and oil and gas production. ...

    • PhD revisited: Formative assessment of writing in English: A school- based study of perceptions, practices and transformations 

      Burner, Tony (Chapter, 2019)
      This chapter reports from a doctoral study (Burner, 2016a) that explored teacher and student perceptions and practices of formative assessment (FA) in English writing classes. Four English teachers and their students (N=100) ...

    • Phenomenological pedagogy in higher education of mental health workers: an example from Norway 

      Bongaardt, Rob; Frøyen, Gro; Tangvald-Pedersen, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This article describes the use of phenomenological pedagogy in the higher education of mental health workers. The mental health field is an immensely complex professional field. To create access, the conventional education ...

    • A phenomenology of intra-play for sustainability research within heritage landscapes 

      Richards, Benjamin; Haukeland, Per Ingvar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In this article, we explore a phenomenology of intra-play for sustainability research, integral to the processes of transforming both cultural and natural heritage landscapes. Such processes are studied as active - always ...

    • Philosophical Practice as Didactical Framework for Conferences 

      Weiss, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In this article a didactical framework for conferences is presented, which is based on methodological key-concepts of philosophical practice. This framework is outlined in a more manual-like style and illustrated in terms ...

    • Philosophising towards Wisdom as Nurturing the Tree of life in us 

      Helskog, Guro Hansen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this essay the author poses the hypothesis that the metaphor “to philosophise is to nurture the Tree of life in us” is a better metaphor than “to philosophise is to cease living” when it comes to conceptualizing what ...

    • Photoactive decontamination and reuse of face masks 

      You, Dingzhang; Liu, Qingyuan; Wang, Lin; Wang, Kaiying; Liu, Guohua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to global shortages in disposable respirators. Increasing the recycling rate of masks is a direct, low-cost strategy to mitigate COVID-19 transmission. Photoactive ...

    • Photocatalytic degradation of biochar modified nano composites 

      Kharel, Prabin (Master thesis, 2023)
      Contamination of surface water and groundwater from industrial discharges is a persistent environmental issue. In recent years, the development of solar photochemical approaches utilizing catalysts such as TiO2, ZnO, and ...

    • Photodynamic therapy review: Principles, photosensitizers, applications, and future directions 

      Correia, José H.; Rodrigues, José A.; Pimenta, Sara; Dong, Tao; Yang, Zhaochu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive therapeutic modality that has gained great attention in the past years as a new therapy for cancer treatment. PDT uses photosensitizers that, after being excited by light ...

    • Photon Absorption Enhancement of TiO2 Nanotube Arrays Decorated with Aluminum Nanoparticles 

      Shuai, Zhang (Master thesis, 2017)
      In this thesis, well-aligned TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) decorated with aluminum nanoparticles have been fabricated by electrochemical anodization and subsequently magnetron sputtering technique. UV-vis spectroscopy analysis ...

    • Photoproduction of heavy vector mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions 

      Acharya, Shreyasi; Adam, Jaroslav; Adamová, Dagmar; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Nikita; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahmad, Nazeer; Ahn, Sang Un; Alme, Johan; Altenkaemper, Lucas; Arsene, Ionut Christian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Djuvsland, Øystein; Dordic, Olja; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Langøy, Rune; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier; Lien, Jørgen; Lindal, Svein; Lønne, Per-Ivar; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Milosevic, Jovan; Nesbø, Simon Voigt; Nystrand, Joakim; Rehman, Attiq ur; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Røhrich, Dieter; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Wagner, Boris; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhang, Hui; Zhao, Chengxin; Zhou, Zhuo; Zhu, Hongsheng; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Alam, Sk Noor; Alba, José Luis Bazo; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; Allesandro, B.; ALICE, Collaboration (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions, in which the two nuclei pass close to each other, but at an impact parameter greater than the sum of their radii, provide information about the initial state of nuclei. In particular, ...

    • Phylogenetic relationships of the Amblyomma cajennense complex (Acari: Ixodidae) at mitogenomic resolution 

      Perdomo, Andrea Paola Cotes; Nava, Santiago; Castro, Lyda R.; Rivera-Paéz, Fredy A.; Cortés-Vecino, Jesús A.; Uribe, Juan E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The genus Amblyomma is the third most diverse in the number of species within the Ixodidae, with practically half of its species distributed in the Americas, though there are also species occurring in Africa, Asia, and ...

    • Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and connectivity of brown bear populations in Central Asia 

      Tumendemberel, Odbayar; Zedrosser, Andreas; Proctor, Michael F.; Reynolds, Harry V.; Adams, Jennifer R.; Sullivan, Jack M.; Jacobs, Sarah J.; Khorloojav, Tumennasan; Tserenbataa, Tuya; Batmunkh, Mijiddorj; Swenson, Jon; Waits, Lisette P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Knowledge of genetic diversity and population structure is critical for conservation and management planning at the population level within a species’ range. Many brown bear populations in Central Asia are small and ...

    • Physical Activity Levels and Perceived Changes in the Context of Intra-EEA Migration: A Study on Italian Immigrants in Norway 

      Calogiuri, Giovanna; Rossi, Alessio; Terragni, Laura (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      As mobility within the European Economic Area (EEA) is on the rise, it is important to understand migrants' health-related behaviors (such as physical activity [PA]) within this context. This study investigated i) the ...

    • Physical activity pattern and cardiorespiratory fitness in individuals with schizophrenia compared with a population-based sample 

      Andersen, Eivind; Holmen, Tom Langerud; Egeland, Jens; Martinsen, Egil Wilhelm; Bigseth, Therese Torgersen; Bang-Kittilsen, Gry; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Hansen, Bjørge Hermann; Engh, John Abel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objective: Thorough description of objectively assessed physical activity (PA) and sedentary time in people with schizophrenia is lacking, and previous studies comparing PA and cardiorespiratory fitness levels with healthy ...

    • Physical Interpretation of Noncommutative Algebraic Varieties 

      Siqveland, Arvid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      The theory of algebraic varieties gives an algebraic interpretation of differential geometry, thus of our physical world. To treat, among other physical properties, the theory of entanglement, we need to generalize the ...