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How does the use of social networking sites (SNSs) affect social capital offline and online? The increasing popularity of SNSs such as Facebook (FB) implies a significant change in the way we interact with others. In an extensive longitudinal study (N = 311), carried out in Norway between...

Collaborative AmI technologies have the potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of rescuers during crisis response work. However, few AmI technologies are designed specifically for such scenarios. Our findings from a number of case studies have resulted in a set of requirements. In...

Sosiale medier har skapt endringer i det politiske systemet: terskelen for å ta kontakt med politikere som blogger og twitrer og er på Facebook er litt lavere. Politiske pressgrupper dannes og mobiliseres. Politiske partier forsøker å involvere egne medlemmer og velgere i politiske prosesser. I...

Rapporten fokuserer på årsverksinnsats både i kommuner (psykisk helsearbeid) og i spesialisthelsetjenesten (psykisk helsevern). Tallene viser stor geografisk variasjon. Rapporten ser også på fastlegenes rolle i psykisk helsearbeid. Hovedutfordringer i kommunene utgjør økt etterspørsel, sykere...

Thermal coupling of heat and mass leads to complex configurations and difficult control problems. We study here the dynamic behavior of a high purity, 4-product extended Petlyuk column with nominal operating point close to the analytic minimum energy for sharp seperation and propose and four...

We present quasicontinuum simulations of three-dimensional (3D) edge cracks in single crystal bcc-Fe. Crystals with different thicknesses and crystallographic orientations have been investigated and loaded in modes I, II and III. We study incipient plasticity at the crack tip and the onset of crack...