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Going ‘Home’ for the sake of a nation? The challenges facing Southern Sudanese women in post-secession Khartoum
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-29)After two civil wars and almost 50 years of struggle that led to the largest amount of internally displaced persons in the world, in January 9, 2005, Sudan reached a Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ostensibly ended ... -
Gone with the wind? The Norwegian licencing process for wind power: does it support investments and the realisation of political goals?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MoPE) manages the licencing system for Norwegian wind power. Balancing relevant concerns in this process could be considered as Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) in practical ... -
Good mathematics teaching as constructed in Norwegian teachers’ discourses
(Chapter, 2018)This paper explores the notion of good mathematics teaching as constructed in the discourses of practicing Norwegian mathematics teachers. Analyses of data from group interviews show that the teachers tend to conceptualize ... -
“The Good, The Bad, and the Minimum Tolerable”: Exploring Expectations of Institutional Food
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)There is a tendency towards greater expectations of consumer goods and services in society—what was once judged as ideal may now be a bare minimum. This presents a challenge for food providers in the upcoming decades. As ... -
Goodwill Impairment, Earnings Management, and Law System. The influence of earnings management and law system on goodwill impairment
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HH/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06)This study is conducted in order to investigate the impact that the quality of a national legal system has on accounting/business decisions and to better understand the management’s opportunistic behaviors. The research ... -
Google and Financial Markets: Can Google Trends describe and predict the dynamics of Norwegian stock market?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)We investigate whether Google search volume index (SVI) can explain and predict trading activity at the Norwegian stock market (OSE). Our sample focuses on the companies listed on OSE’s tradeable index OBX. We use abnormal ... -
Google Translate: A helpful aide? A mixed method sequential explanatory study on the usage and effects of Google Translate in three Norwegian EFL classes
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates how learners in Norway use Google Translate to aid them in EFL writing as well as how the usage of Google Translate affects the quality of the texts they write. A mixed method study was used in ... -
Googling politics: Parties, sources, and issue ownerships on Google in the 2017 German Federal Election campaign
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)Democratic election campaigns require informed citizens. Yet, while the Internet allows for broader information through greater media choices, algorithmic filters, such as search engines, threaten to unobtrusively shape ... -
Governance in the Urban Growth Agreement for Nord-Jæren: how increased Multi-Level Governance could help achieve the zero-growth goal in the region
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06)Urban transport policy has been lifted by the Norwegian government as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector in recent years. This has happened at the same time as reports by the Intergovernmental ... -
Governing the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism at higher educational institutions: A comparison of the official policy documents of Norway and the UK through a wicked problem lens
(Master thesis, 2022)The increasing attention accorded to radicalization and violent extremism (RVE) has resulted in higher educational institutions finding themselves at the forefront of counterterrorism strategies. In recent years, both ... -
Government Protection against Terrorists Funded by Benefactors and Crime: An Economic Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We model a game involving a terrorist, the terrorist’s benefactor, and a government protecting against terrorism. The terrorist generates terrorism effort using its own resources, funding from a benefactor, and crime. Crime ... -
Governmental Combat of Migration Between Competing Terrorist Organisations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Each terrorist organisation is modelled with four coupled differential time equations for the evolution of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, captive participants, and capital sponsoring. Emigration of ideologues may cause ... -
Governmental Taxation of Households Choosing Between a National Currency and a Cryptocurrency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)A game between a representative household and a government was analyzed. The household chose which fractions of two currencies to hold, e.g., a national currency such as a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and a global ... -
Governments' and terrorists' defense and attack in a T-period game
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01)We analyze how a government allocates its resources between attacking to downgrade a terrorist’s resources and defending against a terrorist attack. Analogously, the terrorist allocates its resources between attacking a ... -
Goxos Reliable Datagram Protocol
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IDE/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)Multiple computers working together as a single distributed system is becoming increasingly common. State machine replication is an approach used to ensure fault tolerance in such distributed systems. Goxos is a framework, ... -
GPensim: a new petri net simulator
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Graced Response: John Owen on Faith and Reason
(Journal article, 2011-01)The issue of faith and reason arises from the claim that there are two kinds of truths: some truths are discoverable to human understanding and some are not. This paper argues that the epistemology of the prominent orthodox ... -
Grad av symptomer på muskeldysmorfi hos kvinner og menn som trener styrke, forskjeller i opplevd symptomer, og sammenhengene mellom muskeldysmorfi, spisevaner og dopingbruk
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Bakgrunn: Symptomer på muskeldysmorfi er til stede i flere ulike populasjoner, og menn og kvinner som trener på treningssenter er en spesiell risikogruppe. Muskeldysmorfi kan føre til flere psykiske og fysiske bivirkninger, ... -
Grade correspondence between internal and external examiners of occupational therapy students’ bachelor theses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Karakterene som studenter får er vesentlige for fremtidige ansettelser. Derfor er det viktig at vurderingen av studentenes bacheloroppgave i siste studieår blir gitt på en rettferdig måte. Hensikten med denne studien var ... -
Grafisk fremvisning av væske data
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)I denne Bacheloroppgaven jobber vi sammen med Intelligent Mud Solutions for å utforske visualisering av væske data. Vi gir en introduksjon om IMS og Rheologi. Vi lager et utviklingsmiljø som imiterer den eksisterende ...