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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
What has been the relationship between the cultural power of film and the political power of the state in Mexico and Venezuela between 1980 and 2010? In a context where the legitimacy of the state was faltering, did films ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
List of papers. The papers are removed from the thesis due to publisher restrictions.
Paper I: Jornet, A., Roth, W.-M., & Krange, I. (submitted). A transactional approach to transfer episodes. Journal of the Learning ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Teknologi i ulike former har de siste årene blitt en del av norske barnehagers praksiser. Denne avhandlingens interesseområde er knyttet til hvilke muligheter for handling som ligger i barnehagepraksiser der teknologi ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Johan Svendsen is one of the most influential Scandinavian composers of the nineteenth century. He contributed in particular to the orchestral repertoire in Scandinavia and he was a celebrated conductor throughout Europe. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Avhandlinga skildrar språk i faktisk bruk i samtaler, henta frå talespråkskorpusa NoTa–Oslo og Nordisk dialektkorpus. Eg har gjort kvantitative og kvalitative studium av subjektsbruk, ekspletivkonstruksjonar og spesielt ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
People who experience severe economic hardships sometimes consent to deals that many would not even consider. Examples include deals involving payment for sexual services, pregnancies, and kidney donations. Moreover, they ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Denne studien er en kvantitativ, deskriptiv og eksplorativ tverrsnittsstudie, som forsøker å bidra til en bedre forståelse av de faktorene som er involvert i fremmedspråklæring og -undervisning på ungdomsskolen. Blant disse ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Helicobacter pylori is an ulcer-causing bacterium that evolutionary needs to adapt quickly to changing conditions. Hilde Synnøve Vollan’s bioinformatics studies revealed that H. pylori outer membrane phospholipase A (OMPLA) ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
English is the language of international communication, and the status of English is increasingly characterised by speakers who use it as a second or later language (L2). In Norway there is considerable English language ...
(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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
A major challenge for understanding the brain in health and disease is related to combining information about the brain from many different sources. Spatial analysis and comparison of 2D and 3D brain images with the aim ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease that include abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension. Fish consumption may be a useful component when aiming to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This dissertation is based on a number of unpublished Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts written by the indigenous Karaite Jews of Egypt who lived in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo during the early modern era. These 17th- through ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
All words have inherent properties linked to their form, meaning and usage patterns affecting when they are acquired and how easily they are processed. As languages and cultures differ, words with equivalent meanings may ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been shown to describe, to great precision,
many of the phenomena observed in Nature. With the recent discovery of the Higgs
boson even the last missing piece of the SM is ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2016)
Abdominal wall hernia is a major health burden, especially as secondary to surgical therapy. Incisional hernia occurs in 10- 20 % of laparotomy scars and parastomal hernia occurs in more than 50% of patients with end ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
This thesis investigates practices of how teachers teach and readers read involved in developing reading comprehension in English in Norwegian upper secondary school.
It is an article-based thesis comprising three articles ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARα, PPARβ/δ and PPARγ) are nuclear receptors whose target genes have fundamental roles in human health and disease. The PPAR-regulated expression of these genes influences ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
The construction industry in India is one of the largest sources of employment in the country, but it is weakly regulated by labour legislation. As a consequence, construction workers are hired informally, their employment ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Selective harvesting, where some individuals are actively targeted or possess phenotypes rendering them more vulnerable to capture, is inevitably happening in all commercial and recreational fisheries. Selective harvesting ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This dissertation is a philosophical (conceptual) inquiry into the relation between theory and practice in international politics. The thesis that is explicated and defended is that this relation should be conceptualized ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
The “PoumTchak” pattern is a rhythmic pattern consisting of a continuous alternation between bass drum and hi-hat sounds. It forms the basic rhythmic structure in myriads of dance music tracks. This suggests a connection ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of long-distance reflexives (LDRs), reflexive pronouns with antecedents outside of their minimal clause. The study is based on Latin data, but in also includes cross-linguistic ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The concept of ‘Circular Economy’ (CE) has gained a great deal of attention in the last five years and has become the new all-encompassing notion for sustainable public policies. There is to date no commonly agreed definition ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Mammographic density represents the amount of the epithelium and fibrous tissue in the breast and refers to the radiographic density of the breast visible on mammography. The epithelium and fibrous tissues are radiodense, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This thesis investigates the interaction between perceived rhythm and underlying reference structures in the experience of rhythm in music. The point of departure is that both music performers’ and perceivers’ body motions ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
I PhD-avhandlingen Religiøs læring i sosiale praksiser. En etnografisk studie av mediering, identifisering og forhandlingsprosesser i Den norske kirkes trosopplæring analyserer Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen hvordan barn lærer ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Nyhetene i nettavisene har andre sjangertrekk enn papiravisnyhetene. Det skyldes blant annet at de er tilpasset en annen teknologi, andre produksjonsmønstre, andre lesemåter, andre lesergrupper og andre økonomiske betingelser. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
The climatology map of the GPS phase scintillation at high latitudes identifies two regions of high scintillation occurrences: around magnetic noon and magnetic midnight. The scintillation occurrence rate is higher around ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
T cells are major players in the immune system. These cells can recognize dangerous antigens through their specific receptors. Harnessing the power of T cells would be beneficial for not only fighting numerous infectious ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Seismic signals are generally spread across many data samples of the recorded data. Applying a mathematical transformation to the data can however concentrate them on few samples only of the transform domain. Such ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
This thesis explores how users of minority languages engage in innovative practices in Social Media. They create new opportunities to communicate in their languages. These include designing web-based tools to support ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Using new and unique events data, this thesis examines the evolution of right-wing terrorism and violence in post-WWII Western Europe. Notably, the thesis shows that that the number of deadly events has declined in Western ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Processor architectures have been evolving quickly since the introduction of the central processing unit. For a very long time, one of the important means of increasing per- formance was to increase the clock frequency. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Cardiac ultrasound is a key component in modern cardiology, and is widely used to assess and quantify the heart’s anatomy and function. In the past two decades, real-time 3-dimensional ultrasound has emerged as a promising ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Progressive and serious representations of homosexuality in Western mainstream video games are a recent phenomenon, and the Canadian developer BioWare has been instrumental in diversifying gender and sexuality representations ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Political communication on social media is the topic of this dissertation. The Internet and social media platforms have provided participants in the public sphere with new ways to connect, communicate and distribute ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Climate change can cause decline in crops especially in vulnerable areas. In southern Tanzania maize production is expected to decline due to projected future warming and changes in seasonal rainfall patterns and distribution. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
In this thesis, I investigate into the politics of gendered representation in Norwegian popular music, and how these function in a transcultural context. To this end, I take Norwegian pop artists Marit Larsen and Marion ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Down-scaling of the supply voltage is considered as the most effective means of reducing the power- and energy consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). Reduction in the power- and energy consumption is highly beneficial ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Denne avhandlinga set søkelys på val av minoriserte språk i norsk akademia, nærare bestemt nynorsk og nordsamisk. Ho styrker kunnskapen vår om språkpolitikk som prosess, forholdet mellom aktørskap og struktur og rolla ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Substance use disorders are increasingly being recognized as chronic diseases, with important treatment implications: not only should a finite course of treatment not be expected to be curative, but outcomes of interest ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2017)
ALICE is a general-purpose detector that is designed to study the physics of quark-gluon plasma. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is one of the major sub-detectors of ALICE. The TPC electronics consists of 4356 Front-end ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This study presented in this doctoral thesis addresses the development of the Upper Jurassic Curtis Formation, outcropping in east-central Utah. The study suggests a separation of the Curtis Formation in three geological ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
The main aim of this thesis is to explore how literacy is embedded in six primary school science classrooms during integrated inquiry-based science and literacy instruction. This is investigated by analyzing classroom video ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Background The involvement of the addictive medications, benzodiazepines (BZDs) and prescription opioids, including opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) medications, have increasingly contributed to the high overdose death ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
High-impact systems, notably systems used in health care, public infrastructure, traffic control, and finance, depend on a data management facility that can tolerate many types of failure. In addition, the prevalent adoption ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Excessive and unpredictable end-to-end latency is a major problem for today’s Internet performance, affecting a range of applications from real-time multimedia to web traffic. This is mainly attributed to the interaction ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
The hydrology of glaciers is known to have a significant influence on glacier dynamics. Rapid variations in dynamics can occur due to changes in the glacial and subglacial hydrology. However, our understanding of the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Computational models are an absolutely necessary tool in many engineering disciplines. For example, computational models are used to predict tomorrow’s weather, to optimize the aerodynamics of new aircraft, and to ensure ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
The thesis is written within the field of teacher education research, and examines practice-based teacher education by looking at the extent and characteristics of how teacher education coursework is grounded in practice. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Technological mediation has been imperative to popular music's production throughout its history. In addition to their impact upon the means of producing popular music, new developments in technology have always had an ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Hovedfokuset i avhandlingen har vært å oppdage nye biomarkører som kan si noe om kreftprognose og behandlingsrespons. I Norge får mer enn 30.000 personer kreft hvert år. En av de vanligste kreftformene er brystkreft som ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Denne avhandlingen er en analyse av spørrelisteserien Ord og sed, som ble utgitt som årlige tidsskrift fra 1934 til 1947. Spørrelistene hadde som formål å samle informasjon om norsk folketradisjon og de ord, fortellinger, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Hypothyroidism is a thyroid dysfunction defined by inadequate production of thyroid hormones. This dysfunction is common (3%) in pregnant women and women of reproductive age. When the condition occurs during pregnancy, the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
We investigate two-dimensional quantum turbulence and plasticity from a common mathematical perspective, focusing on topological defects as the most important degrees of freedom. Quantum turbulence features quantized ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
In this thesis, I address people’s experiences of being born with a body that does not meet the normative definitions of male or female. The situation when sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in society's response to the emerging need of caretaking of the oldest citizens. This dissertation presents a design approach that focuses on capabilities rather than ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Betydningen av at lærere utvikler kunnskap og holder seg faglig oppdatert, omtales som særlig viktig når det gjelder å bidra til elevenes læring. Denne avhandlingen søker å bidra med innsikt i og forståelse av hvordan ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2017)
Three key questions guide this thesis. First, how is public communication of science and technology (PCST) organized in different models of expert–public interaction? Second, how do different models of science and technology ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Antimicrobial resistance is a global concern that threatens our ability to treat common infectious diseases. Measures to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance are valuable, but new antimicrobial treatments are also ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2017)
Assertive Community Treatment teams (ACT) were implemented in Norway to improve services for people with severe mental illness who need long-term and comprehensive services, but whose needs are inadequately met by standard ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Formålet med undersøkelsen er å utvikle kunnskap om hva som karakteriserer det
tidlige samspillet i adoptivfamilier. Etablering av samspill i adoptivfamilier har et
annet utgangspunkt enn samspillet i biologiske familier. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
There are currently two paradigm shifts happening in society and scientific computing: (1) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is replacing humans in problem solving, and, (2) AI is replacing the standard algorithms in computational ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
The cryosphere is defined as the areas of the Earth where water is found frozen. The notion of cryospheric processes relates to glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice and permafrost. Cryospheric processes are ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This work has two distinct objectives: the development of software for the integration of the Insertable B-Layer (IBL) in the ATLAS offline software frame- work and the study of the performance of 3D silicon sensors produced ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
My answer to the first question that is posed in the title of this thesis is that colours are homogeneous, which means each and every colour is only one in number. This means that colours are not heterogeneous, that is, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of embodiment in melodic contour perception. In other words, it studies how we move our bodies in response to music. Melodies play an important role in both speech and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Middelalderballadenes villfarne riddere, bleke helgener og forførende naturvetter er med på å forme den modernistiske fantasien. På slutten av 1800-tallet diktes det i balladespråk om kjærlighetens giftige blomster, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Members of the genetically conserved Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) exhibit vast discrepancies in clinical outcome and epidemiological behaviour. Bacterial factors that contribute to these phenotypic variabilities ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This article-based doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the multifaceted debate on economic development, interests and power in China–Africa cooperation, through a qualitative study of Chinese activities in the Mozambican ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Lately, there has been a convergence between open source and software platform approaches in the implementation of health information system solutions for developing countries. Open source software, comprise all software ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
This thesis presents an action research study into the design of generic health information system (HIS) based on District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) for the public health contexts of developing countries. As a ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This thesis aims to improve our understanding of standardization within the domain of health information systems (HISs) by studying how institutions enable, constrain and shape the process. It shifts the focus from actor ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
The thesis has been motivated by the weak and inconsistent feedback practices and strategies in health information systems in developing countries. This affects the quality of reporting by those that gather the data and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
A consequence of globalization has been the increased use of generic software in multiple contexts. Customization is one of the activities adopted to make these systems to fit the local contexts. This activity is a non-trivial ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is increasingly being used as the basis for health information systems (HIS) of choice in health system strengthening efforts in Low and Middle Income Country (LMIC) contexts. However, ...