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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)While access to HE is considered to have major impact on countries farther development, outline fair and equity friendly access policy to Higher Education is important issue for any country. This master thesis analyses the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Over the past decades, financial markets have been fundamentally transformed by technological advances in combination with regulatory and institutional change. This has produced highly competitive and fragmented financial ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper investigates the empirical relationship between countries’ expressed concerns with fairness and the ambition levels in their pledged contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, asking the following questions: ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Psychopathic offenders have a high propensity to violate social norms, as indicated for instance by their widespread lying and cheating behaviour. The reasons for their norm violations are not well understood, though, as ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis investigates negotiation processes during strategic alliance formations between venture capital firms and start-up companies by empirically assessing previous literature on negotiation theory and further ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Fairtrade means among other things that farmers from poor countries receive a guaranteed minimum price for their produce, or that workers receive a minimum wage, that they have good working conditions, and that production ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis explores fairy tale elements in a selection of Oscar Wilde’s works, to a large extent based on a list of thirty-one fairy tale functions introduced by the Formalist Vladimir Propp. The works studied are the ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / SubmittedVersion, 2019)Eventyrsjangeren har lenge blitt forbundet med enkle plott rensket for skurrende elementer og med konservative budskap som har en moralsk oppdragende funksjon. De fleste oppfatter dessuten eventyret som utelukkende ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)When major waterfalls in Norway became possible to develop around 1900, a major step was achieved. The step was a major international technological leap paralleled with changes of established attitudes towards grand, and ...
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Faith and feminism : evangelicalism, feminism, and the culture wars in the USA, 1970s to the present (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Given the influence of the evangelical population in American society and politics, understanding the forces that have shaped the evangelical movement is vital to enriching our knowledge of American politics and culture. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis explores the effects of religious discrimination on bilateral trade. Religion has permeated most societies throughout time, and this is not the first research to suggest that religious factors might have an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)For most Colombians, coffee culture refers to the traditions surrounding the cultivation and processing of the crop. When we look beyond coffee’s physical form as an end-product in a global value chain, we understand that ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The all-inclusive issue in studies of memorial websites on the internet concerns how mourners express their emotions and concepts of belief regarding a deceased person’s afterlife. The living believe that their ultimate ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This paper is about religious faith, and how philosophy should approach the topic. As a starting point, I will assume that religious faith is a good thing, and that philosophy can help enlighten how religious faith ought ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The objective of the study is threefold: first, to describe in what ways, if any, the Catholic community of Sant’ Egidio contributed to the conflict resolution of the Mozambican civil war and the negotiation for the Algerian ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Fake news and alternative facts have become commonplace in these so-called “post-factual times.” What about medical research - are scientific facts fake as well? Many recent disclosures have ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2021)
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)The world around us seems concrete and apparent. However, it is in fact governed by what goes on at the sub-atomic level, hidden from immediate experience. We describe this microscopic world by a theory we call the Standard ...