Browsing UiS Brage by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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3D in vitro cancer models for drug screening: A study of glucose metabolism and drug response in 2D and 3D culture models
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-03)Current drug screening protocols use in vitro cancer cell panels grown in 2D to evaluate drug response and select the most promising candidates for further in vivo testing. Most drug candidates fail at this stage, not ... -
6- og 7-åringers muntlige fortellinger basert på ei ordløs bildebok : Fortelling, barn, bildebok
(PhD thesis UiS;227, Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-26)Arbeidet med avhandlingen er basert på muntlige fortellinger fra 35 barn. Fortellingene er fortalt med utgangspunkt i den ordløse bildeboka Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). Alle barna har fortalt to ganger: første ... -
A novel approach to surfactant flooding under mixed-wet conditions
(PhD thesis UiS;202, Doctoral thesis, 2013-09-13)In early days, a large number of research studies have been done based on the assumption that most of the sandstone reservoirs are strongly water-wet. Now it is widely accepted that most of sandstone reservoirs are at ... -
Activity-based life-cycle cost analysis : design, operation and maintenance in Arctic environment
(PhD thesis UiS;134, Doctoral thesis, 2011-08-25)Currently the oil and gas exploration and production is moving north towards the Barents Sea on the northern coast of Norway, north of the Arctic Circle. This unfamiliar operational environment of the Arctic poses new ... -
Adherence to treatment with antipsychotics in patients with first-episode psychosis: A Multi-Method Approach
(PhD thesis UiS;431, Doctoral thesis, 2019-02)Adherence to treatment recommendations is a crucial aspect of health care in general, and especially in mental health care. However, it has been given less concern in everyday clinical practice than needed. In inpatients ... -
Adjoint-state method for seismic AVO inversion and time-lapse monitoring
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This dissertation presents seismic amplitude versus offset (AVO) inversion methods to estimate water saturation and effective pressure quantitatively in elastic and viscoelastic media. Quantitative knowledge of the saturation ... -
Adult-Child Caregivers’ Motivations when Caring for Home-Dwelling Parents with Dementia
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-06)Background It is often seen as demanding to be an informal caregiver of a home-dwelling relative or friend with a long-term illness. Adult-child caregivers are important resources for both their ill parents and their ... -
Aerodynamic loads on a wind turbine rotor in axial motion
(PhD thesis UiS;245, Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-13)This study investigates the unsteady aerodynamics of attached flow on a two-dimensional airfoil. The unsteady aerodynamics introduces aerodynamic damping of the offshore wind turbine structure and is thus important for ... -
Agglomeration and performance in Norwegian tourism
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-10)Natural-based attractions are central for Norwegian tourism. Northern lights, rugged arctic landscapes, fjords and mountains, rural areas with culture landscapes are all part of the Norwegian experience. However, Norwegian ... -
Akuttsaker i barnevernet: En kvalitativ studie av barneverntjenestens praksis i akutte tvangssaker
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Hensikt og problemstilling: Akutt tvangsvedtak med hjemmel i § 4–6, annet ledd i lov om barneverntjenester er et av de mest inngripende tiltak barneverntjenesten kan benytte. Vedtaket medfører at barnet umiddel-bart flytter ... -
Alcohol-related Problems and Sick Leave. Do Attitudes towards Drinking matter?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-05)Background: Drinking alcohol is integrated into people’s social- and work lives. Drinking attitudes and norms stand out as significant predictors of drinking alcohol but few studies have been focused on working populations. ... -
An eHealth intervention based on the Guided Self-determination program for adults with type 2 diabetes in general practice.
(PhD thesis;415, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Background: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic, progressive condition, requiring each person to manage their symptoms, treatment and physical and psychosocial consequences of the condition, as well as to engage in healthy ... -
Analysis and Management of Bottlenecks in Supply Networks : Towards a Structured Approach to Stabilization of Inbound Material Flow
(PhD thesis UiS;256, Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-11)Any organization whose business model is based on production relies, and is dependent, on providers of raw material which it transforms into products. Customers’ demand for products, and thus the producing firm’s demand ... -
An analysis of commodity price dynamics with focus on the price of salmon
(PhD thesis UiS; 99, Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-04)This thesis is concerned with studying the short run dynamics of commodity prices. The industry of interest and primary study is Norwegian Aquaculture, with the price of farmed salmon as the main data-set. Even though ... -
An Analysis of Temporal and Spectral Connectedness and Spillover in Commodity Markets
(PhD thesis UiS;457, Doctoral thesis, 2020-05)This thesis is concerned with evaluating the temporal and spectral connectedness and spillover dynamics of commodity prices. The industries of interest are crude oil, agricultural commodities, aquaculture, and Norwegian ... -
Approaches to English as a foreign language (EFL) reading instruction in Norwegian primary schools
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2016-06)This thesis is based on multi-perspective study of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading instructions in Norwegian fourth and fifth grades. The research focuses on the teaching of reading and investigates the use of ... -
Assessment in child protection : A comparative study Norway - England
(PhD thesis UiS;280, Doctoral thesis, 2016-01-12)Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the phenomenon of assessment in child protection by comparing two different assessment practices, the Norwegian and the English. Additional aims have been to generate ... -
Assessment of foetal heart rate monitoring devices in referral hospitals in Tanzania: Towards improved quality of intrapartum care
(PhD thesis;482, Doctoral thesis, 2019-11)Background: There are 2.5 million neonatal deaths that occur globally each year: 25% of them secondary to labour complications (intrapartum related). In addition, 2.6 million stillbirths occur globally each year, 40% of ... -
Asset Integrity Management : Challenges, planning and implementations
(PhD thesis UiS;306, Doctoral thesis, 2016-08-23)The emergence of asset integrity management (ATM) in the petroleum industry has been encouraged by the demand for a safer and more sustainable workplace with respect to health, safety, environment, value generation and ... -
Automated Grading of Bladder Cancer using Deep Learning
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-02)Urothelial carcinoma is the most common type of bladder cancer and is among the cancer types with the highest recurrence rate and lifetime treatment cost per patient. Diagnosed patients are stratified into risk groups, ...