Living conditions for the disabled 10 years after the HVPU-reform, 2001, living conditions

The project "Living conditions of intellectually disabled people ten years after resettlement in the community" consist of three surveys: 1. A survey of the living conditions for adults with an intellectual disability who live in their own home/shared houses. 2. A survey of their next of kins' opinions on the services the municipality offers, and their experiences with changes after the resettlement reform was carried out. 3. A suvey of initiatives and services available to adults with an intellectual disabilitiy who lives together with their parents/family. The reasons why some mentally impaired people live at home are adressed. The dataset documented here is from the survey of the living conditions for adults with an intellectual disability who live in their own home/shared houses. The project's main goal is tho shed light on the living conditions and services provided for adults with an intellectual disability in Norway. How was the actual situation 10 years after the dismantling of the Health care for mentally imparied (HVPU), both for those coming from an HVPU-institution as well as for those who never received HVPU services? The leader of the project was Professor Jan Tøssebro, Department of Social Work and Health Science, NTNU Trondheim. THe project co-worker Hege Lundeby prepared the notes for the surveys. The project was carried out by Department of Social Work and Health Science, NTNu and financed by the Research Council of Norway

Genomics of Adaptation to Environmental Change in Two Wild Bird Populations, 2012

The purpose of this project was to develop a custom SNP array for genotype-phenotype mapping and also to understand how natural selection influences the genome. The DNA samples are taken from blood samples from house sparrows during field work. The data derives from four different islands on the Helgeland coast of Norway that are a part of a long-term study on house sparrows. The data material consists of genotypes from 1898 individuals and 6318 SNP. Two additional NFR projects have contributed to generating these data: "The Genetic Basis of Response to Selection in Natural Bird Populations - Insight from State-of-the-Art Genomics Analyses" (191847) and "The Effect of Population Size on Short-Term Rates of Evolution in Natural Populations" (221956)

A three-stage stochastic facility routing model for disaster response planning

This paper presents a three-stage mixed-integer stochastic programming model for disas- ter response planning, considering the opening of local distribution facilities, initial alloca- tion of supplies, and last mile distribution of aid. The vehicles available for transportation, the state of the infrastructure and the demand of the potential beneficiaries are considered as stochastic elements. Extensive computational testing performed on realistic instances shows that the solutions produced by the stochastic programming model are significantly better than those produced by a deterministic expected value approach

Learning Environment in Telenor Net Division Region Mid-Norway - A Study of Firms Learning Environment and Connections between Learning Environment and Personality Dimentions, 1996

A dissertation in pedagogy at NTNU. The main aim of the survey: contribute to bringing the informal education in relation to everyday tasks in Telenor NRM up to date. Three main questions are answered: 1) How the employees at Telenor NMR assess the firm's education environment; 2) What pattern of personality types and categories exists among the employees at Telenor NMR and in three selected units within the firm; 3) What connections there are between the Myers-Briggs categories and the employees assessment of the firms learning environment. A quality oriented description of the learning environment in Telenor NRM is offered (pros and cons). Also, representative personality types among the employees (Myers-Briggs) are described. At last, it has been carried through analysis to reveal whether employees personality culture(-type) affects how they assess their learning environment. The data can only be reused by project leader

Genome Mining of Streptomyces sp. YIM 130001 Isolated From Lichen Affords New Thiopeptide Antibiotic

Streptomyces bacteria are recognized as an important source for antibiotics with broad applications in human medicine and animal health. Here, we report the isolation of a new lichen-associating Streptomyces sp. YIM 130001 from the tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna (Yunnan, China), which displayed antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis. The draft genome sequence of this isolate strain revealed 18 putative biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) for secondary metabolites, which is an unusually low number compared to a typical streptomycete. Inactivation of a lantibiotic dehydrogenase-encoding gene from the BGC presumed to govern biosynthesis of a thiopeptide resulted in the loss of bioactivity. Using comparative HPLC analysis, two peaks in the chromatogram were identified in the extract from the wild-type strain, which were missing in the extract from the mutant. The compounds corresponding to the identified peaks were purified, and structure of one compound was elucidated using NMR. The compound, designated geninthiocin B, showed high similarity to several 35-membered macrocyclic thiopeptides geninthiocin, Val-geninthiocin and berninamycin A. Bioinformatics analysis of the geninthiocin B BGC revealed its close homology to that of berninamycins.© 2018 Schneider, Simic, Aachmann, Rückert, Kristiansen, Kalinowski, Jiang, Wang, Jiang, Lale and Zotche

A Lagrangian View on Complete Integrability of the Two-Component Camassa–Holm System

We show how the change from Eulerian to Lagrangian coordinates for the two-component Camassa–Holm system can be understood in terms of certain reparametrizations of the underlying isospectral problem. The respective coordinates correspond to different normalizations of an associated first order system. In particular, we will see that the two-component Camassa–Holm system in Lagrangian variables is completely integrable as well.© The authors 201

Judgments at Gaze Value: Gaze Cuing in Banner Advertisements, Its Effect on Attention Allocation and Product Judgments

Banner advertising is a popular means of promoting products and brands online. Although banner advertisements are often designed to be particularly attention grabbing, they frequently go unnoticed. Applying an eye-tracking procedure, the present research aimed to (a) determine whether presenting human faces (static or animated) in banner advertisements is an adequate tool for capturing consumers’ attention and thus overcoming the frequently observed phenomenon of banner blindness, (b) to examine whether the gaze of a featured face possesses the ability to direct consumers’ attention toward specific elements (i.e., the product) in an advertisement, and (c) to establish whether the gaze direction of an advertised face influences consumers subsequent evaluation of the advertised product. We recorded participants’ eye gaze while they viewed a fictional online shopping page displaying banner advertisements that featured either no human face or a human face that was either static or animated and involved different gaze directions (toward or away from the advertised product). Moreover, we asked participants to subsequently evaluate a set of products, one of which was the product previously featured in the banner advertisement. Results showed that, when advertisements included a human face, participants’ attention was more attracted by and they looked longer at animated compared with static banner advertisements. Moreover, when a face gazed toward the product region, participants’ likelihood of looking at the advertised product increased regardless of whether the face was animated or not. Most important, gaze direction influenced subsequent product evaluations; that is, consumers indicated a higher intention to buy a product when it was previously presented in a banner advertisement that featured a face that gazed toward the product. The results suggest that while animation in banner advertising constitutes a salient feature that captures consumers’ visual attention, gaze cuing can be an effective tool for driving viewers’ attention toward specific elements in the advertisement and even shaping consumers’ intentions to purchase the advertised product.© 2017 Palcu, Sudkamp and Florac

Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media

There is limited knowledge about why political actors are dissatisfied with journalism. This article attempts to answer this question by pointing to individual-level perceptual processes of politicians. We argue that part of politicians’ unease with the media can be explained by the hostile media phenomenon (HMP). Originally developed in audience research, the HMP refers to a process by which highly involved individuals tend to perceive media coverage as biased against their own views. Based on a survey of politicians in three European countries, we demonstrate that the HMP also holds for political actors. More importantly, we show that the HMP makes politicians less likely to contact journalists and more likely to use conflict and drama to gain public attention. Finally, the HMP decreases politicians’ trust in democracy by fostering the belief that the public is not adequately informed about political matters. Theoretical and societal consequences are discussed.© 2017 The Author(s

Zeros of the Wigner distribution and the short-time Fourier transform

We study the question under which conditions the zero set of a (cross-) Wigner distribution W(f, g) or a short-time Fourier transform is empty. This is the case when both f and g are generalized Gaussians, but we will construct less obvious examples consisting of exponential functions and their convolutions. The results require elements from the theory of totally positive functions, Bessel functions, and Hurwitz polynomials. The question of zero-free Wigner distributions is also related to Hudson’s theorem for the positivity of the Wigner distribution and to Hardy’s uncertainty principle. We then construct a class of step functions S so that the Wigner distribution (,1(0,1)) always possesses a zero ∈∩ when <∞, but may be zero-free for ∈∩∞. The examples show that the question of zeros of the Wigner distribution may be quite subtle and relate to several branches of analysis.© The Author(s) 201