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Accelerating the transition towards zero-emission long and heavy duty transport through identifying the highest potential locations for hydrogen filling stations
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis provides an overview over what traffic distances proved the largest potential for hydrogen filling station location. It also gives insights to the level of CO2 emissions the traffic volume at given points equate ... -
Accountability and sustainability transitions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)What constitutes a sustainability transition? We identify sustainability transitions as premised on shifts in accountability relations – assessments of conformance with institutional controls coupled with application of ... -
Accountability implications for intermediaries in upscaling: Energy community rollouts in Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)With the increasing diffusion of solar energy, its conditioning by intermediaries merits attention. Depending on the accountability relations between stakeholders, intermediaries can influence the speed of diffusion. We ... -
Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ... -
Accounting Method Choice and Market Valuation in the Extractive Industries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)For more than 40 years, oil and gas companies have been able to choose between two competing methods for accounting for exploration activities. The implication is that two otherwise identical companies can report substantially ... -
Achieving carbon neutrality in Germany by 2050 - Leveraging an explorative system dynamics modelling approach to determine suitable policy options for the German energy transition in the sectors housing and personal transportation
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)Following the question whether the German energy transition in housing and personal transportation has a chance. An explorative system dynamics modelling approach is chosen to evaluate policy levers over a range of uncertainty ... -
Activating youth in voluntary work: Effects, expectations and possibilities for using sports in reducing social problems
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-13)As the capital Oslo grows and develops there also brings social problems for the city. On this study the analysis will consist of finding effects, expectations and possibilities by using a non-profit organization that uses ... -
Active vs. passive defense against a strategic attacker
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The article analyzes how a defender determines a balance between protecting an object (passive defense) and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object (active defense). The attacker analogously ... -
Activist leadership in the Caribbean : The case of the University of the West Indies
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter investigates how a cross-national university (the University of the West Indies), in a transitional region such as the Caribbean, implements its third mission. We employ a broad understanding of the third ... -
Adaptation and Conformity-Immigrant parents’ reflections about parenting in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-07)The main aim of this study was to discover how immigrant mothers experience parenting in relation to their perception of a Norwegian standard of ‘doing parenting’. Taking the point of departure from an ethnic plural sample ... -
Adaptive personlighetstester i seleksjonsprosesser og potensielle effekter på testresultatenes troverdighet
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)Denne undersøkelsen har sitt utgangspunkt i en interesse for bruk av personlighetstester i seleksjonsprosesser. Prosjektet søker å beskrive kandidatenes opplevelse av en adaptiv personlighetstest. Undersøkelsen er rettet ... -
Addressing the construct validity of the “individual problems and strengths” scale
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) systems have been used to monitor how a client’s life changes over the course of therapy. However, if a ROM system is to be used, the system should have sufficient construct ... -
Adferdsøkonomi og astrologi - en studie om stjernetegn kan predikere risikopreferanser
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)I denne masteroppgaven har det blitt undersøkt om stjernetegnet du er født i har en innvirkning på dine risikopreferanser - altså hvor stor sjanse et enkeltindivid eller gruppe er villig til å ta. Problemstillingen er delt ... -
ADHD eller utviklingstraume?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Dei siste ti åra har Noreg fått massiv kritikk frå blant anna FN grunna stor auke i diagnostiseringa av ADHD. Samtidig har omgrepet utviklingstraume vakse fram. Utviklingstraume har fått auka fokus ettersom vi har fått ny ... -
ADHD i skolen - tilrettelegging for et individuelt tilpasset læringsmiljø.
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ADHD og omsorgssvikt
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Adolescents’ Sources of Sexual Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
(Master thesis, 2023)Aim and Objectives: To determine the scope of research on Sub-Saharan adolescents’ preferences for accessing sexual health knowledge and information. Background: Despite recent increases in positive sexual health outcomes ... -
Adoption Policies in Canada and Norway: A comparative study of the Adoption Act in British Columbia, Canada and the Adoption Act in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)In my research, I studied social work policies on adoption in British Columbia, Canada and in Norway. I focused on British Columbia (BC) because Canada has provincial as opposed to federal legislation on adoption. It is ... -
Adventure regime of tourism experiences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12)This article contributes to the debate about how to conceptually understand adventure tourism experiences. Whilst previous literature is dominated by an agentic psychological view and to some extent a structuralist view, ... -
Adverse events related to coordination between primary and secondary health care services in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IH/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-11-15)At present, nearly 25 percent of all patients experience some variety of adverse event during the life cycle of their patient experience in a hospital admission (Kable, et al. 2008). It is critical to effectively gain a ...