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Continuity of care from hospital to municipal health care. Experiences of older patients, next of kin and nurses
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2017-12)Background: A successful care transition from hospital to municipal health care involves coordination and management of multiple factors tied to the patient’s treatment and care. Due to a fragmented health care system in ... -
Contribution to supply chain management and incentive modeling with application from the upstream oil and gas industry
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The general subject of this thesis is incentive modeling related to inter-organizational relationships and supply chain management in the oil and gas industry. More specifically, it ncludes an embedded multiple case study ... -
Contributions to effective risk management : On the use of safety principles, economic tools and safety climate instruments
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2018-11)For an organization, effective risk management involves supporting informed decision-making for improved allocation of resources, as well as playing an active part in how the organization is governed and, ultimately, ... -
Contributions to improved risk and vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-11)The aim of this thesis is to provide contributions to the assessment of critical infrastructure risk. In particular, the thesis gains insights as to how critical infrastructure is modelled, the role of such models in risk ... -
Contributions to risk management : On the balance between value creation and protection
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-08)The overall objective of this thesis is to contribute to new knowledge in risk management. More concretely, the research relates to one of the main tasks of risk management: to obtain an appropriate balance between value ... -
Contributions to Risk Management in the Public Sector
(PhD thesis UiS;48, Doctoral thesis, 2008)Accidents and threats have always been present in society, but the increasing complexity and interconnectedness within society, including the public sector, contribute to the emergence of new types of risk and more ... -
Contributions to the Research on Risk Attenuation, Risk Amplification, Trust, and Stakeholder Involvement Implications of an uncertainty-based risk perspective
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-01)The overall objective of this thesis is to contribute to the development of new knowledge related to risk perception and communication, particularly emphasising the issues of risk attenuation, risk amplification, trust, ... -
Controller Motifs for Homeostatic Regulation and Their Applications in Biological Systems
(PhD thesis UiS;276, Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-03)Living organisms have over billions of years evolved into highly specific and complex entities. Although the range of organisms that inhabit our planet is strikingly diverse, they are all in some extent able to protect ... -
Controls of basin margin tectonics on the Lower Cretaceous sedimentation in the Norwegian Barents Sea
(PhD thesis UiS;530, Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)Structural styles and stratigraphic patterns along North Atlantic margins display a large spectrum of complexity and variability. An extensive amount of subsurface data from the north-central and south-western Barents Sea ... -
Corporate Governance in Tourist Organizations ; Four Papers on Board Roles, Boardroom Behavior, and Public Sector Influence
(PhD thesis UiS;334, Doctoral thesis, 2017-03-31)The purpose of this thesis is to study corporate governance practice, the roles and behavior of the boards of directors of tourist organizations, and the influence of the contextual characteristics of tourism and tourist ... -
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' ... -
Crack Arresting using Cutout Repair in Tubular Offshore Joints
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Finding efficient repair methods for cracked tubular joints in offshore structures is important, both as a permanent or temporary repair solution. The exploration of such methods and techniques includes the use of hole ... -
Cracking Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Structures Subjected to Service Load: Experimental and Numerical Investigation
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-10)Cracks in reinforced concrete (RC) structures are controlled to enhance the service life, for a better aesthetic appearance, and to avoid leakages in liquid retaining structures. The most widely used crack controlling ... -
Creation of Metacognitive Knowledge and Self-Awareness in the Foreign Language Classroom: a Game-Theoretical Approach
(PhD thesis UiS;324, Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-15)The overall objective of this research has been the quest to increase the understanding of how metacognitive knowledge can be taught in the foreign language classroom. It revolves around the following research questions: 1. ... -
A Critical Look at the Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Question Answering
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-11)The field of information retrieval (IR) is concerned with systems that “make a given stored collection of information items available to a user population” [111]. The way in which information is made available to the user ... -
Critical Visual Literacy and Intercultural Learning in English Foreign Language Classrooms: An exploratory case study
(PhD thesis UiS;609, Doctoral thesis, 2021-11)This doctoral thesis revolves around two significant, ongoing, and in many ways interrelated developments in education, and in society at large: the increased use of multimodal and visual texts as a mode of communication, ... -
DAt-Kon – et verktøy for differensiering av atferds- og konsentrasjonsvansker hos barn
(PhD thesis UiS;204, Doctoral thesis, 2013-10-25)DAt-Kon is a Norwegian assessment tool for behavioral and concentration problems in children as described by parents and close guardians in the home and school setting. The term ‘DAt-Kon’ is an acronym for ‘Differentiation ... -
Decision-Making in Couples: It Takes Two to Tango
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-10)The main aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of collaborative decision-making in primary groups (couples) when approaching complex choice situations. To understand how decisions in couples are made, many ... -
Deep learning for an improved diagnostic pathway of prostate cancer in a small multi-parametric magnetic resonance data regime
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-06)Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men, with an estimated incidence of 1.3 million new cases worldwide in 2018. The current diagnostic pathway of PCa relies on prostate-specific antigen ... -
Deep Learning-Driven Diagnostic and Prognostic Solutions for Histopathological Images of Bladder Cancer
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation into the development and application of advanced computational techniques for the extraction of crucial diagnostic and prognostic information from histological images of ...