Bakgrunn: Synkope er definert som et forbigående tap av bevissthet, som følge av global cerebral hypoperfusjon, og karakterisert av rask start, kort varighet og spontan full tilfriskning. Synkope er et symptom som pasienten presenterer, men er ikke i seg selv en diagnose. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å kartlegge de vanligste årsakene til synkope som utskrivelsesdiagnose, hvilken utredning, behandling ...

According to Paul Boghossian, some truths are knowable a priori because they are expressed by epistemically analytic sentences. In such cases, understanding the sentence is meant to suffice for justified belief in the proposition it expresses. One alleged route from understanding to justification goes via what Boghossian calls 'the synonymy model'. This article presents a dilemma for this model and ...

Noam Chomsky is justly famous for his revolutionary contributions to linguistics, psychology and philosophy. He is presently in his 92nd year, and we thought it high time to provide an overview of the major achievements of his now more than sixty-year-old research program and its prospects for the future. This is particularly pressing in the light of persistent rumors, encouraged by a number of ...

A root is a fundamental minimal unit in words. Some languages do not allow their roots to appear on their own, as in the Semitic languages where roots consist of consonant clusters that become stems or words by virtue of vowel insertion. Other languages appear to allow roots to surface without any additional morphology, as in English car. Roots are typically distinguished from affixes in that affixes ...

This thesis takes the position that head movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints thereby forcing certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh to undergo movement. The basic proposal explored in the thesis dates back to Chomsky (1986) where the movement of a verb is proposed to be able to affect and alter a barrier. This idea is translated into ...

In this thesis I investigate how syntactic forms are represented and accessed in the mind of bilingual children. In particular, I explore the role of executive control and pragmatics in the selection and use of these representations. To do so, I tested a group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and a group of Norwegian age-matched monolinguals in a priming paradigm and in a cognitive task (the ...

This article provides an overview of the main facts and theories regarding nominal modifiers, with attention to the internal division of the low DP-structure (gender, number and N). The article presents first the notion of modification seen from the perspectives of semantics and syntax (§1); adjective classes are discussed in §2. §3 discusses the contrasts between prenominal and postnominal adjectives; ...

In research on heritage speakers, it is often observed that areas of core syntax tend to be resilient and resemble the relevant baseline. This paper discusses this generalization and provides examples of areas that tend to be resilient and areas that are vulnerable. Research into the syntax of heritage speakers has tended to focus on certain areas, such as argument structure and the representation ...

Mettede C-16 og C-18 klorerte fettsyrer ble syntetisert til bruk som miljøstandarder. De mettede klorerte fettsyrene hører sammen med en ny type miljøgift nemlig klorerte fettsyrer (ClFA). Dette er en type miljøgift som man per dags dato ikke har så mye kunnskap om, men som er blitt påvist i en rekke forskjellige fiskearter. Hvilken effekt de vil ha på mennesker eller andre pattedyr på toppen av ...

The adenosine A_2A receptor (A_2AR) has emerged as a potential non-dopaminergic target for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and, thus, the non-invasive imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is of utmost importance to monitor the receptor expression and occupancy during an A_2AR-tailored therapy. Aiming at the development of a PET radiotracer, we herein ...