Browsing UiS Brage by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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;, 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 ... -
Å lære å kommunisere i det moderne klasserommet : en kvalitativ studie av interaksjonsformer på ungdomstrinnet
(PhD thesis UiS;127, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The study seeks to analyse teaching and learning as communicative institutional practices, and what conditions of learning and socialization that are study also argue that when students are participating in social practices ... -
Å måle og registrere matematikklæreres undervisningskunnskap : En studie av hvordan det er mulig å måle og studere matematikklæreres undervisningskunnskap, og mulige begrensninger og styrker ved måter en måler og studerer kunnskap på
(PhD thesis UiS;249, Doctoral thesis, 2015-04-10)Lærererens undervisningskunnskap i matematikk (UKM) blir i forskningen fremhevet som en faktor med stor betydning for både undervisningskvalitet og elevers læring. Utgangspunktet for denne studien er spørsmålet om hvordan ... -
Barnehagen i en brytningstid : Tradisjoner i spill og praksiser under press i den store barnehagen
(PhD thesis UiS;274, Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-02)De siste tiårene har barnehagen blitt en sentral del av velferdsstaten og fått et sterkere offentlig fokus. Den økte oppmerksomheten på barnehagen åpner for at ulike samfunnsinteresser, kunnskapsfelt og maktområder legger ... -
Basic assumptions of service employees : Influence on employee job outcomes
(PhD thesis UiS;108, Doctoral thesis, 2010-06)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of employee basic assumptions in the service context, to gain a better knowledge of the dimensionality of the construct, its measurement, and its influence ... -
Basic assumptions of service employees : Influence on employee job outcomes
(PhD thesis UiS;108, Doctoral thesis, 2010-06)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of employee basic assumptions in the service context, to gain a better knowledge of the dimensionality of the construct, its measurement, and its influence ... -
Benken – et sted å være? En etnografisk studie i et åpent illegalt rusmiljø.
(PhD thesis UiS;;398, Doctoral thesis, 2018-05)Denne avhandlingen søker å forstå hvorfor noen personer «velger» å oppholde seg på åpne illegale rus-scener. En rus-scene er et sted der det brukes og formidles illegale rusmidler, og der personene er synlige for omgivelsene. ... -
Betydningen av inferens for leseforståelse : effekter av inferenstrening
(PhD thesis UiS;94, Doctoral thesis, 2010-04-09)Denne avhandlingen fokuserer på det å gjøre inferenser under lesing. Det overordnede målet med avhandlingen var å undersøke effekter av inferenstrening blant skolebarn. Avhandlingen hadde både en teoretisk og en pedagogisk ...