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Cost predictive model to support decision making regarding equipment replacement, using system analysis and system dynamics: A case study in Hydro Aluminium Karmøy.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMBM/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)Hydro is a fully integrated aluminium company with employees in countries worldwide. Maintaining equipment that is being used in the production of aluminium is an important and complex task. There are many critical operations ... -
Cost-benefit analysis of road safety measures - a blind alley?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-ISØP/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06-15)As the Norwegian public road industry is characterized as a "low uncertainty" industry, especially in comparison to the Norwegian oil and gas industry, it has been common to give more weight to the economic perspective in ... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Transition From Traditional On-Site Training to Interactive VR-training
(Master thesis, 2023)Virtual Reality (VR) is increasing in popularity as a training tool. The recent development of head-mounted displays (HMDs) that have become affordable and more companies starting to use VR, have made VR a popular research ... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Transtion to Cloud Services
(Master thesis, 2023)This master’s thesis delves into the comprehensive assessment of transitioning from on- premises infrastructure to cloud services, focusing on the impact on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). With the rapidly evolving ... -
Cost-cutting actions, employment relations and workplace grievances: Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Periods of economic recession are typically accompanied by the use of cost-cutting actions, such as wage cuts or freezes, increased workloads and reduced training expenditures. While such actions are expected to boost ... -
Cost-effective Data Upkeep in Decentralized Storage Systems
(Conference object; Journal article, 2023)Decentralized storage systems split files into chunks and distribute the chunks across a network of peers. Each peer may only store a few chunks per file. To later reconstruct a file, all its chunks must be downloaded. ... -
Cost-effective model for self-assessment of maintenance management: An update to the “Maintenance Baseline Study” early developed by Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)The self-assessment method is used to improve the maintenance management system and its related operations. It has the advantage over the maintenance auditing method, as it is a self-driven improvement method, less required ... -
Cost-efficiency analyses of offshore 3D seismic survey
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06)The main objective of this project is to analyses the factors that affect the cost and efficiency during the offshore 3D seismic survey. Four parts will be discussed to support the main objective--the equipment, environment, ... -
Cost-Efficient Low-Volume Production Through Additive Manufacturing
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)Additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D Printing, is a production method of rising popularity. The method works by adding layers of material, in contrast to subtracting, which is the dominating method today. ... -
Costs of not Following Common Standards; A Case Study of Cost Implications of Using Customer Specific Requirements Instead of Industry Standards
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)In recent years, costs of subsea production systems on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has escalated. In combination with a plunging oil price, this has led to reduced margins for the companies. In order to survive the ... -
The COTUR project: remote sensing of offshore turbulence for wind energy application
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)The paper presents the measurement strategy and data set collected during the COTUR (COherence of TURbulence with lidars) campaign. This field experiment took place from February 2019 to April 2020 on the southwestern coast ... -
Could Bitcoin Provide Portfolio Benefits for Long-Term Investors?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this paper we aim to identify how the volatility from the major U.S. markets affect the volatility of Bitcoin and its diversification potential. To do this we have calculated GARCH volatilities derived into the Generalized ... -
Could Bitcoin Provide Portfolio Benefits for Long-Term Investors?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this paper we aim to identify how the volatility from the major U.S. markets affect the volatility of Bitcoin and its diversification potential. To do this we have calculated GARCH volatilities derived into the Generalized ... -
Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article engages with recent shifts in public healthcare policy in Norway through a psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care, which evokes the hope of cure and reparation in the psychosocial imaginary. With ... -
Counterterrorism as Risk Management Strategies
(PhD thesis UiS;178, Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-26)After the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001 (9/11), most Western countries, including Norway, implemented a multiplicity of counterterrorism measures. 9/11 seems to have lowered Western governments' ... -
Country differences in numeracy skills: how do they vary by job characteristics and education levels?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12)To what extent do favourable job characteristics contribute to the variation in numeracy skills between countries? Based on theory of maintenance and further development of pre-existing skills, this is explored by applying ... -
Coupled dynamic analysis of cylindrical FPSO, moorings and riser based on numerical simulation
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The hostile environments are presently one of the challenges that should to be deal with in offshore floating system design where the hydrodynamic interaction effects and dynamic responses dominate the major consideration ... -
Coupling of trishear fault-propagation folding and ground process modelling.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)This thesis couples two processes, tectonics and sedimentation, by simulating the kinematics of fault-propagation folding with sedimentary processes in the form of erosion, transport, and deposition, in a 3D numerical ... -
The course of depressive symptoms in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Depressive symptoms frequently affect patients with neurocognitive disorders. In cross-sectional studies, patients with Lewy body dementia (DLB) showed higher levels of depressive symptoms than those with ... -
Covariate order tests for covariate effect
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002)A new approach for constructing tests for association between a random right censored life time variable and a covariate is proposed. The basic idea is to first arrange the observations in increasing order of the covariate ...