cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2311-1-v1
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 3rd quarter

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). The survey is carried out on quarterly basis. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in q3: household, travel with at least one overnight stop, cross-border shopping, smoking habits, attitudes towards immigration and influenza vaccine.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2311-1-v2
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 3rd quarter, Person File

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). The survey is carried out on quarterly basis. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in q3: household, travel with at least one overnight stop, smoking habits, attitudes towards immigration and influenza vaccine.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2311-2-v1
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 3rd quarter

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). The survey is carried out on quarterly basis. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in q3: household, travel with at least one overnight stop, cross-border shopping, smoking habits, attitudes towards immigration and influenza vaccine.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2312-1-v1
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 4th quarter

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). The survey is carried out on quarterly basis. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in q4: travel with at least one overnight stop, cross-border shopping, household, use of fuelwood and smoking habits.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2312-1-v2
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 4th quarter, Person File

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). The survey is carried out on quarterly basis. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in q4: travel with at least one overnight stop, household, use of fuelwood and smoking habits.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2312-2-v1
title: Travel and Holiday Survey 2015, 4th quarter

description: Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). Data has been collected four times per year. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. The themes included in the fourth quarter are: household, travel with at least one overnight stop, cross-border shopping, smoking habits and use of fuelwood.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2313-v1
title: Combined Effects of Ocean Acidification, Climate Change and Oil Related Discharges, 2012

description: The available information concerning the combined effects of climate change and pollution on marine life is scarce. This study conducted a series of laboratory experiments to generate such information. Two relevant anthropogenic stress factors related to climate change were tested; ocean pollution and increased temperatures. Stress relating to pollution was tested by means of two by-products of offshore production of oil and gas; drilling mud and oil. Oil was tested in a concentration consistent with that present some distance from an oil spill. Mud was tested using suspended waterborne  particles, which is consistent with levels some distance from where mud has been released. The responses of various animals exposed to one or more of these stress factors have been studied. The primary objective of the project was to study effects of ocean acidification (OA) in combination with other types of anthropogenic stress on fitness and physiology of adults and early life stages of key organisms in the marine ecosystem. The study combined effects of OA, increased ocean temperature and oil on the adult and early life stages of shrimps in long term experiments. In addition, the study looked at the effects of OA and increased ocean temperature on the early life stages of krill, the combined effects of OA and oil on early life stages of sea urchins, and the combined effects of OA and drilling mud on cold water corals. The data consists of five experiments: Experiment 1 - 4 were part of Maj Arnberg's PhD thesis, in addition to experiment 5, data from experiments with corals.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2314-v4
title: To What Extent do User Fees Affect Hepatitis B Vaccine Coverage Rates in China? 2012

description: The project “To what extent can user fees affect hepatitis B vaccination coverage rates in China?” was based on a household survey about knowledge and demand for Hepatitis B vaccination in rural villages in China. The data were collected using paper based questionnaires, and then inputted into a database. Data was extracted from the database into file formats suitable for statistical analysis. The survey was conducted in three periods or “waves”. Wave 1 was conducted in Henan province, wave 2 was conducted in the provinces Hainan, Hebei, Heilongiang, Jiangsu and Shandong, while wave 3 was conducted in Beijing and Ningxia. Based on our field experience the questionnaires were adjusted between waves. Most of the changes were made between waves 1 and 2. For wave 3 some further adjustments were made, partly based on experience and partly because the Beijing sample targeted migrant workers without Beijing Hokou. The datamaterial consists of three files.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2315-v2
title: Women in Local Politics, 2014

description: The research project "Women in Local Politics" was initiated as a means of putting political recruitment, and especially women's representation in local politics on the agenda. The project aimed to study factors that influence variation in representation in local politics, especially in connection to nominations of candidates on list proposals ahead of the municipal council election in 2015. A large part of the project included, for the involved researchers, to visit the municipalities that agreed to participate in the project. Altogether 72 municipalities were in January 2014 invited by the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation to participate - all municipalities with a share of women at less than 30 percent in their municipal councils. 46 municipalities agreed to participate. In the municipalities that participated in the project, one of the researchers held a presentation for the municipal council where research based knowledge on the representation of women in local politics was presented. In this way, the presentation could shed light on opportunities and obstacles for women in local politics, and what might contribute to a more even gender balance. Following the presentation there was a discussion between the political parties on how to promote gender equality in local politics. A survey was also conducted among local parties who attended the council meetings where researchers had presented. The study shed light on how the local parties and lists relate to and work with "the gender issue" at the local level. The project was funded by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, and carried out by the Institute for Social Research and Uni Rokkan Centre.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2317-v2
title: Two Ways to Increase Student Interest for Mathematics and Science in Education, 2015

description: The project examines two recently developed teaching methods to increase interest: Example choice and relevance intervention. Example choice makes learning of formal principles interesting by providing students with different contents they can choose from and then connecting these contents to the principle to be learned. Relevance intervention makes learning of principles interesting by relating them to goals relevant for students' everyday life. This study examines the combined effects of example choice with both  active and passive relevance intervention. This study comprises three datasets.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2320-v1
title: Strategic Research Initiative - Road Safety, 2015

description: The purpose of this project was basic research and accumulation of knowledge on traffic safety. The project was a so-called SIS that lasted from 2011 to 2015. 

The project proposes research in three main areas: 
1) Basic questions and methodological issues, which include accident reporting and accident modelling, the valuation of road safety and the evaluation of road safety measures. 
2) Interactions between road users, system elements, and technology, in which the main areas include the high risk faced by young and inexperienced drivers, elderly road users, observation of road user behaviour in natural settings, intelligent transport systems and behavioural adaptation and effects of promoting non-motorized transport. 
3) Factors influencing road safety and road safety policy, which comprises public acceptance of safety levels and safety measures, safety management and organization and cross fertilization of safety theories between different modes of transport.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2321-v1
title: Preoperative Pain, Symptoms, and Psychological Factors Related to Higher Acute Pain Trajectories during Hospitalization for Total Knee Arthroplasty, 2013

description: Total knee arthroplasty is a painful operation. This study examines in what degree pre-operative pain, symptoms and psychological factors can influence the pain lapse from before the surgery to the fourth post-operative day among patients that have got implanted a knee prosthesis.  

Data are freely available for downloading.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2322-v2
title: zIPS Cells for Biomedicine: Zebrafish Pluripotent Stem Cells for Disease Modeling, 2015

description: Despite the pre-eminence of mouse and human models of human disease through the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, several aspects of murine and human biology limit their use in high-throughput in vivo genetic screening. For these reasons, Zebrafish has become an attractive organism for developmentally and genetically tractable disease modeling. This project aimed to generate zebrafish embryo-derived cells suitable for biomedical applications and drug discovery. Specific aims were: 
1 - To generate pluripotent zebrafish ziPS cells by genetic and chemical reprogramming 
2 - To functionally characterize ziPS cells in vivo 
3 - To establish a proof-of-concept of the biomedical use of ziPS cells 
Strategy relies on expression of pluripotency factors into embryo-derived cells (zEDCs), and treatment with modifiers of the epigenome and of signaling pathways.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2323-v1
title: The Global in the Local and the Local in the Global – Constitusion, Human Rights and Conflict of Interest, 2013

description: The twentieth century has been called the "age of rights". Norway has helped to create the international human rights system. Here at home, human rights have gained an ever-increasing position in the political debate and in Norwegian law. How strong positions should such international agreements and jurisprudence have? The question raises a number of fundamental issues that have been reviewed by Stortinget, which in May 2014 considered proposals for amendments to the Constitution to strengthen human rights in Norwegian law. "The Global in the Local and the Local in the Global – Constitusion, Human Rights and Conflict of Interest, 2013" aimed at investigating the significance of different constitutional conditions for the emergence and importance of the human rights system. In part, this had an idea side to it: National constitutions inspired those who developed the drafts of international agreements and declarations; and international documents have inspired those who have prepared new or revised national constitutions. It also had a procedural side - Constitutions often have provisions on how a state can join (ratify) a final agreement. In addition, constitutions want to create a framework for the impact of a ratified agreement in individual countries. Both of the last elements will affect the role of individual countries in international negotiations on human rights agreements and the subsequent domestic assessment of whether to ratify them. The project had a main emphasis on Norway, but it also contained comparative elements. The one subproject looked at Norway's and the US' contribution to creating an international human rights system, with a main emphasis on the years of 1940-1954. The second subproject was an archive and interview study of Norway's contribution to the negotiation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention  No. 169 on Indigenous Rights (1989) and on the subsequent ratification process. This last project included a comprehensive oral interview with Ole Henrik Magga, which will be made available to the public on the National Archives of Norway's website
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2324-v2
title: Early Childhood Teacher Education: Students Trajectories of Learning About Children's Literacy, 2015

description: The purpose of the project was to gain insight into the development of students' knowledge and understanding of early childhood literacy; what were their traejctories of learning in this field? We wanted to elaborate theoretical and practical knowledge about how ECE teacher education prepared students to assist young children's languauge acqusition. 
The project was partly a comparative study of ECE education and teacher practice in Norway and Sweden. It had a mixed method design. Data was collected through a document analysis of curricular plans in order to study the intentions and contents of the curricula of the different university colleges. A survey based on this document analysis was sent to all Norwegian early childhood education students. 
The survey data provided insights into the relationships between the intentional and experienced curriculum, as well as information about students' knowledge and understandings of early literacy. We arranged a conference with selcted ECE teachers and educators. Data from the conference enabled us to link the findings of our document and survey analyses with the needs and discourses of the vocational arena. This data also provided important information for the interviews and observations we conducted in selcted preschools. 
The project aimed at studying how the Norwegian and Swedish governments' initiatives to focus on early literacy were understood and realized in curricula and ECE teacher training. Since both countries share a holistic view of children's preschool learning, knowledge of the different ways in which we operationalized this overall view enabled us to learn from each other. We gained knowledge about how newly educated teachers work and their rationales for the practical work they do in facilitating the development of early literacy.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2325-v1
title: Substituted Furans: A Novel Group of Food Processing Contaminants and Their Influence on Intestinal Cancer Development and Human Health Risk, 2015

description: Colorectal cancer is among the most prevalent types of cancers in Norway and current data show that the risk of developing colorectal cancer is diet associated. Most foods are processed before consumed, and this leads to formation of new compounds some of which can be hazardous to humans. The substituted furans are a novel class of such food processing contaminants; some have already been shown to induce tumours in mice. However, little or no information on the hazard, human intake and occurrence in food are available for most members of this broad group of food processing contaminants. This project gave more relevant characterisation of the hazards from substituted furans. The aim was to evaluate the human health risk of dietary exposure to substituted furans. Humans do more efficiently bioactivate substituted furans than rodents, it is thereby imperative to use appropriate models. In this study in vitro and in vivo models with bioactivating systems more similar to humans were used. Human intake studies along with analyses of substituted furan concentrations in food and their biomarkers in human urine gave together with the hazard characterisation information to an evaluation of the human health risk. The results are useful for scientists, authorities and industry.

Articles and associated data files:
- "Genotoxicity of three food processing contaminants in transgenic mice expressing human sulphotransferases 1A1 and 1A2 as assessed by the in vivo alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis assay". Data set: Rapportering av rådata Comet.
- "Formation of DNA adducts in wild type and transgenic mice expressing human sulphotransferase 1A1 and 1A2 after oral exposure to furfuryl alcohol". Data set: Rapportering av rådata FFA addukter, figure 3 - UPLC-MSMSchromatograms DNA sample of FFA exposed SULT mice.
- "Intestinal Tumour Development in C57BL/6J-ApcMin/+ Mice Expressing Human Sulphotransferases 1A1 and 1A2 After Oral Exposure to 2,5-Dimethylfuran". Data set: Rapportering av rådata DMF og kreftutvikling.
- "DNA adducts induced by food mutagen PhIP in a mouse model expressing human sulfotransferases 1A1 and 1A2". Data set: Rapportering av rådata PhIP addukter, figure 1.
- "An in vitro study on the genotoxic effect of substituted furans in cells transfected with human metabolizing enzymes: 2,5-Dimethylfuran and furfuryl alcohol". Data set: Rapportering av rådata DMF in vitro Komet, rådata furfuryl alcohol in vitro Komet.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2326-v1
title: Ancient DNA of NW Europe Reveals Repsonses to Climate Change, 2015

description: Andøya (69 °N) is a key area for data on terrestrial flora and vegetation in Norway during the Late Weichselian (25,000 to 10,000 years (uncalibrated) B.P.). Cores covering most of this time interval has been retrieved from several lakes, confirming the existence of an ice-free area potentially serving as a 'cryptic' refugium at a time when almost all of Scandinavia was covered by ice. The sediments contain small quantities of pollen of tree species (Betula, Picea, Pinus); so far interpreted as deriving from long distance dispersal. A recent study of ancient sediment DNA in one of the lakes yielded DNA of pine (Pinus) and spruce (Picea) dated at c. 22,000 and 17,500 cal years BP, respectively, indicating that these species possibly survived in northern in situ refugia. If the source of this DNA is confirmed as locally growing trees, this means that pine and spruce were present in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years earlier than previously assumed. 
Similarly, recent findings of ancient DNA of thermophilic t axa in the geographically isolated arctic archipelago Svalbard indicate that species had a more northern distribution in the Holocene hypsithermal (4000 - 8000 years BP) than today. 
We proposed to investigate the late glacial flora of Andøya and Svalbard by: 1) Using recently developed high throughput sequencing technologies to analyse ancient sediment DNA in four new sediment cores from each of Andøya and Svalbard, 2) Analysing modern lake sediments and current vegetation from the two sites to evaluate the correlation between species frequency in the vegetation, and likelihood of representation in the sediment DNA samples, and 3) Assess if the methods used for extraction and amplification of ancient sediment DNA were likely to yield DNA from pollen grains within the sediments. The aim of this study was to increase our understanding of how species responded to climate change in the past, which is essential to forecast effects of current global warming.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2327-v1
title: Chronic Disease Management- Implementation and Coordination of Health Care Systems for Depressed Elderly People, 2013

description: One of the greatest challenges faced by health care systems is the increasing burden of chronic diseases. Chronic disease management is a systematic approach to the coordination of health care interventions and communication at individual, organizational, regional and national level. Primary health care and community care are important settings for the prevention of mental health problems among elderly persons living in the community. An innovative approach to user involvement and evidenced-based care for depressed elderly persons was employed in this project. Phase 1 of the project was based on a qualitative approach, phase 2 consisted of implementation of the CCM in interdisciplinary teams working in mental health clinics and community health care; and phase 3 was to evaluate the outcomes of the implemented model as well as the patients' and family members' experiences of the care provided as well as those of the interdisciplinary teams. The research questions were: 1. What are the patient's subjective experiences of his/her mental health problems? 2. What are the patient's and family members' subjective experience of health care services? 3. How can chronic disease management for persons with depression be improved?  4. How can strategies to support patients' self-management of illness be improved? 5. What do the patients' pathways through the health care system look like? Five senior researchers and one postdoctoral student from four academic disciplines (public health, nursing, social science and education) collaborated in this research.

For further information about “Chronic Disease Management- Implementation and Coordination of Health Care Systems for Depressed Elderly People, 2013”, please contact the principal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2327-v2
title: Chronic Disease Management- Implementation and Coordination of Health Care Systems for Depressed Elderly People, 2013

description: One of the greatest challenges faced by health care systems is the increasing burden of chronic diseases. Chronic disease management is a systematic approach to the coordination of health care interventions and communication at individual, organizational, regional and national level. Primary health care and community care are important settings for the prevention of mental health problems among elderly persons living in the community. An innovative approach to user involvement and evidenced-based care for depressed elderly persons was employed in this project. Phase 1 of the project was based on a qualitative approach, phase 2 consisted of implementation of the CCM in interdisciplinary teams working in mental health clinics and community health care; and phase 3 was to evaluate the outcomes of the implemented model as well as the patients' and family members' experiences of the care provided as well as those of the interdisciplinary teams. The research questions were: 1. What are the patient's subjective experiences of his/her mental health problems? 2. What are the patient's and family members' subjective experience of health care services? 3. How can chronic disease management for persons with depression be improved?  4. How can strategies to support patients' self-management of illness be improved? 5. What do the patients' pathways through the health care system look like? Five senior researchers and one postdoctoral student from four academic disciplines (public health, nursing, social science and education) collaborated in this research.

For further information about “Chronic Disease Management- Implementation and Coordination of Health Care Systems for Depressed Elderly People, 2013”, please contact the principal investigator.