For new drugs or vaccines, the evidence from one or more Phase III trials, taken together with the results of the Phase I and II trials, will be presented to licensing authorities to register the product for clinical or public health use. However, the total number of participants included in Phase I to III trials of a new product will often be no more than a few thousand, and there are usual…
This study shows some generic characteristics from sports that are of relevance to samhandling structures under risk. The findings are based on a case study of the concept of “Total Football” and the Rosenborg Football Club (RBK) in Norway. Football is a dynamic sport with several factors that come into play and where flexible solutions are demanded.
Our use of the term perspective here is shaped by mid-20th century symbolic interactionism. In this theorization of the social world, all people have a perspective. These perspectives are somewhat shared and malleable, are constructed through interaction, and shape the way the social world is perceived. This means the same objects, while they may have similar meanings for some social actors,…
The idea of improvisation, broadly defined, has been integral to our imagination of the medieval musical past. It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and amplification of notated materials; to our observance of rigid rules and formulae; or to spontaneous freedom
Is international climate change law softening? Our analysis of this question takes place against the backdrop of commentaries on the 2015 Paris Agreement as a hallmark of a new era whereby the legally binding structures of the top-down Kyoto Protocol are replaced by a softer, bottom-up framework for global climate governance
The most important feature of our transdisciplinary research practice is the active and continuous collaboration between researchers, farmers, local administration (Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, ELY), and the Ministry of the Environment.
According to one school of thought, reflected by some (but not all) United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) bodies, substitute decision-making and treatment without consent should cease.
his new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion; domestic law and jurisprudence; sexuality and gender studies; memory studies; international relations; psychology; decision-theory; and colonial history.
It discusses strategies we can adopt to demonstrate our expertise and relevance to our academic colleagues including: speaking to their concerns; making the most of funding opportunities; preparing to contribute to School meetings; and volunteering to join university wide working groups.
Just looking at the first line, the setting is a place that’s threatening to tip over into the unnatural. The uncanny atmosphere is eerily present, like something terrible you can’t look away from, and in fact, want to read more of. Here’s how the description achieves this: The juxtaposition of a tourist-like welcome and the death imagery that follows Very physical descriptions of “unea…