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(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, 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, 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, 2020)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among both genders and its incidence rate is continuously increasing. CRC starts from small non-cancerous growths of tissue on the wall of the colon ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Accurate knowledge of the seabed is of vital importance for many human endeavors. Applications range from safe navigation to climate change models. Swath sonars are a key tool for efficient and high-resolution mapping of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
The yoik is a vocal technique practised by the Sámi of Northern Europe. It relies on circular melodies, chanted in everyday life and a cappella, with or without lyrics. Each melody evokes a particular being, usually a ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
This dissertation explores a minority within the Indian diaspora who support the radical right in the West. It highlights the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 as manifestations of the radical right, which ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(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, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
This thesis is concerned with compositional definiteness (CD), a special type of definiteness marking found in Norwegian modified definite phrases. In these phrases, definiteness is marked with both a prenominal determiner ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Most available literature on molecular systems in magnetic fields are limited to special cases: Either small or highly symmetric species of specific orientation to the field, or fields of low intensity - or combinations ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Despite extensive research aimed at facilitating evidence-based practice, it has not been sufficiently integrated into the nursing workplace. Thereby, quality of care, patient safety, and disease outcomes may suffer. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Robots are used in increasingly complex environments and need to be able to adapt to changes and unexpected events. This has traditionally been solved by changing the control of a robot, but having an adjustable body can ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of spontaneous movement responses to music. It attempts to grasp and illustrate the complexity of this behaviour by viewing it from different perspectives. Unlike most previous ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2020)
A central objective of evolutionary biology is to understand how organisms adapt to novel environments, and to what degree this process follows repeatable patterns.
This thesis explores how three Arctic plant species ...
(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, 2019)
(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, 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, 2019)
The thesis was motivated by the underutilisation of GIS in health in developing countries due to lack of long-term maintenance of geodata. Geodata maintenance is recognised as the central component of any operational GIS ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Through an interpretive, social constructivist approach, the research explores the production and use of information in the public health care domain of a low and middle-income country (LMIC). The research shows that taking ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
There is an immense proliferation in mobile health innovations in healthcare, also referred to as mHealth systems. These innovations have taken root in developing countries with ambitions to revamp healthcare service ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Devolution, which is becoming common in developing countries, refers to the creation of subnational governments that are substantially independent of the national level. Devolved entities have a clear legal status, recognized ...
(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, 2019)
(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)
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)
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)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This thesis consists of an object-centred conservation studies approach, focusing on a selection of late-medieval polychrome sculptures as primary source material. The aim has been to combine material investigations with ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
With metaphor as the focus and the unifying element throughout three different articles and their specific questions, this dissertation combines two major intersecting fields of research – metaphor, in both its discursive ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
To understand how the brain learns and performs complex tasks, such as spatial navigation, it needs to be studied on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Data gathered in various formats from different experimental ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Struktur og dynamikk i atomkjernar som vert eksiterte til høg energi, kan skildrast ved hjelp av konsepta nivåtettleik og gamma-styrkefunksjon. Desse storleikane finn bruksområde i mange ulike fagfelt, frå nukleærmedisin ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This thesis examines the interconnections between language practices and ideologies of Brazilian-Norwegian families in Oslo, Norway. Resulting from a three-year ethnographically oriented sociolinguistic project (2017-2019), ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Postpartum depression has been recognized as a serious condition by clinicians and researchers for decades, yet our understanding of the complexities of depressive symptomatology during the perinatal period is still in its ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The thesis titled Challenging Gender: a reconsideration of gender in the Viking Age using the mortuary landscape aims to test the generally accepted belief that gender in the Viking Age was a strictly observed segregation ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Mathematical modelling and simulation tools are an attractive and time- and cost- effective approach to determine optimal therapy for individual cancer patients.
Current models can address pharmacokinetics and ...
(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, 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, 2019)
Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a non-invasive imaging modality. Smaller and cheaper US systems make US imaging available to more people, leading to a democratization of medical US imaging. The improvements of general ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This thesis contributes to the debate regarding the EU’s inconsistent commitment to core values and principles. Whereas the EU has committed to conduct a value-based foreign policy, inter alia by promoting the respect ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2019)
Feedback on student work has become a central research topic in the field of higher education. Many see the use of feedback as a promising pedagogical strategy to foster the students’ skills in making competent judgements ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2019)
Electronic health (eHealth) programs are promising for a variety of health purposes, but there are few eHealth-specific theories describing how such programs work to support change. One possible working mechanism is a ...
(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, 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, 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, 2018)
(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, 2018)
This thesis explores the design and implementation, empirically and theoretically, of health information systems in Vietnam. It contributes to current debates on health information systems and information infrastructures ...
(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, 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, 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, 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)
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 / PublishedVersion, 2018)
The overall aim of this thesis is to explore the monumental remains and the non-literary ostraca and papyri as different layers of situated material-discursive practices. I approach the records seeking both patterns of ...
(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, 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, 2018)
In my article-based PhD thesis, entitled Interests and Arguments: Towards an Analytic Philosophy of Textual Scholarship (Interessen und Argumente. Vorstudien zu einer analytischen Philosophie der Editionsphilologie), I ...
Screening Privilege: Global Injustice and Responsibility in 21st-Century Scandinavian Film and Media
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Denne avhandlinga utforsker hvordan nyere skandinaviske audiovisuelle fortellinger representerer opplevelsen av å være privilegert i en verden preget av global urettferdighet. Avhandlinga analyserer fire eksempler fra en ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
The polar regions are the focus of increased attention due to a combination of environmental, political and economic reasons. In order to help support human activities in the arctic and monitor the state of the ecosystem, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2018)
Background: This study examined the use of physical restraint during medical procedures on newly admitted preschool children in a pediatric hospital unit. The use of physical restraint during medical procedures can be a ...
(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, 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, 2017)
(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, 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, 2017)
(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, 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, 2017)
(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, 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, 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, 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, 2017)
(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, 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)
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)
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, 2017)
(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)
This dissertation treats with partisan organization in the European Parliament (EP) and its impact on members’ (MEPs) career opportunities. National parties organize elections. Parliamentary work is organized around ...
(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, 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, ...
(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, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Å lese og navigere på nettet handler om leseres atferdsmønster når de leser nett-tekster, og forener innsikt fra tekstvitenskap og leseforskning. Det sentrale begrepet navigasjon i nett-tekster innebærer å manøvrere mellom ...
(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 / 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, 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, 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. ...