• Towards Bayesian Estimation of Compartmental Models for COVID-19 

      Bharat Ghimire (Master thesis, 2021)
      This thesis explores concept of compartmental modelling of infectious disease particularly like COVID-19. The world is still under siege by COVID-19. I have discussed two such fundamental mathematical models SIR and SEIR ...
    • Towards Corporate Sustainability? An inquiry into the motivating factors and possibilities for creating increased focus on corporate sustainability in Norway 

      Hillesland, Ida K. (Master thesis, 2022)
      Generating sustainable development is still today a great global challenge, even though the climate change issues are pressing. Business corporations are significant contributors to creating sustainability progress, ...
    • Towards dielectric relaxation at a single molecule scale 

      Stetsovych, V; Feigl, Simon; Vranik, Radovan; Wit, Barelt; Rauls, Eva; Samal, Michal; Stary, Ivo; Muellegger, Stefan; Nejedly, Jindrich (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Dielectric relaxation lies at the heart of well-established techniques of dielectric spectroscopy essential to diverse fields of research and technology. We report an experimental route for increasing the sensitivity of ...
    • Towards lean procurement: Challenges and opportunities 

      Haugland, Jone (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-03)
      Despite a large number of books and publications about how an ideal procurement department should be structured, few of these put much emphasis on the psychological side of such a change process. In this thesis, a drilling ...
    • Towards learning optimized kernels for complex Langevin 

      Alvestad, Daniel; Larsen, Rasmus Normann; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We present a novel strategy aimed at restoring correct convergence in complex Langevin simulations. The central idea is to incorporate system-specific prior knowledge into the simulations, in order to circumvent the NP-hard ...
    • Towards Modeling Road Tunnels: A Petri Nets based Approach 

      Davidrajuh, Reggie; Joseph, Joel Fabiean (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper aims to develop a mathematical model using Petri nets to simulate the traffic flow inside the road tunnel. First, a new modular Petri net theory is used; the modeling approach shown in this paper for modeling a ...
    • Towards modeling the economies of personal relationships in dyadic business exchanges 

      Davidrajuh, Reggie; Jensen, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      This paper proposes modeling the economies of personal relationship so that its impact on the collective economic outcome in dyadic business exchanges can be measured. Firstly, this paper introduces personal relationship ...
    • Towards More Natural Explanations of User Preferences 

      Tan, Renny Octavia (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IDE/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-07-15)
      Explainable recommendations refer to algorithms or methods that enable recommender systems to provide recommendations to the users, as well as to explain the reason why the items or products are being recommended. Recently, ...
    • Towards Posture and Gait Evaluation through Wearable-Based Biofeedback Technologies 

      Cesari, Paola; Cristani, Matteo; Demrozi, Florenc; Pascucci, Francesco; Picotti, Pietro Maria; Pravadelli, Graziano; Tomazzoli, Claudio; Turetta, Cristian; Workneh, Tewabe Chekole; Zenti, Luca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In medicine and sport science, postural evaluation is an essential part of gait and posture correction. There are various instruments for quantifying the postural system’s efficiency and determining postural stability which ...
    • Towards Purpose-Driven Collective Leadership 

      Vetrhus, Lena Sandvand; Fjelland, Marthe (Master thesis, 2021)
      This dissertation aimed to explore leadership through viewing it as a purpose-driven collective process. Traditionally, leadership has been viewed as an influence process where leaders directed followers, which has prevented ...
    • Towards Purpose-Driven Leadership 

      Fjelland, Marthe; Vetrhus, Lena Sandvand (Master thesis, 2021)
      This dissertation aimed to explore leadership through viewing it as a purpose-driven collective process. Traditionally, leadership has been viewed as an influence process where leaders directed followers, which has prevented ...
    • Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Asheim, Bjørn Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-04)
      In this paper, we empirically and theoretically present regenerative regional development in responsible value chains as an alternative to the prevailing traditional, neoliberal economic rationale of globalization. We ...
    • Towards regional responsible research and innovation? Integrating RRI and RIS3 in European innovation policy 

      Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Benneworth, Paul; Asheim, Bjørn Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)
      This article develops a model for a regional responsible research and innovation (RRI) policy, integrating existing European Union policies on RRI, and on research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3). ...
    • Towards Responsible Media Recommendation 

      Elahi, Mehdi; Jannach, Dietmar; Skjærven, Lars; Knudsen, Erik; Sjøvaag, Helle; Tolonen, Kristian; Holmstad, Øyvind; Pipkin, Igor; Throndsen, Eivind; Stenbom, Agnes; Fiskerud, Eivind; Oesch, Adrian; Vredenberg, Loek; Trattner, Christoph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)
      Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ...
    • Towards robust autonomous driving systems through adversarial test set generation 

      Unal, Devrim; Catak, Ferhat Özgur; Houkan, Mohammad Talal; Mudassir, Mohammed; Hammoudeh, Mohammad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Correct environmental perception of objects on the road is vital for the safety of autonomous driving. Making appropriate decisions by the autonomous driving algorithm could be hindered by data perturbations and more ...
    • “Towards S&OP success: an integrated framework for measuring organisational alignment and its impact on sales and operations performance” 

      Karabo Kgole (Master thesis, 2022)
      Abstract Purpose - The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of a novel integrative framework to measure organisational alignment for the purposes of carrying out S&OP and the impact the alignment has on the ...
    • Towards the nucleon hadronic tensor from lattice QCD 

      Liang, Jian; Draper, Terrence; Liu, Keh-Fei; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Yang, Yi-Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)
      We present the first calculation of the hadronic tensor on the lattice for the nucleon. The hadronic tensor can be used to extract structure functions in deep inelastic scatterings and to provide information for neutrino-nucleon ...
    • Towards using Thermal Cameras in Birth Detection 

      Garcia-Torres Fernandez, Jorge; Meinich-Bache, Øyvind; Sara, Brunner; Johannessen, Anders; Rettedal, Siren; Engan, Kjersti (Chapter, 2022)
      In recent years, thermal imaging has been used in numerous applications due to its ability to capture and visualize the thermal radiation emitted by objects. Thermal cameras can be employed as non-invasive systems for ...
    • Toxicity assessment of urban marine sediments from Western Norway using a battery of stress-activated receptors and cell-based bioassays from fish 

      Goksøyr, Siri Øfsthus; Sørensen, Helene; Grøsvik, Bjørn Einar; Pampanin, Daniela Maria; Goksøyr, Anders; Karlsen, Odd André (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      A luciferase reporter gene-based bioassay battery consisting of stress-activated receptors from fish, complemented with traditional fish cell-based bioassays, were used to assess the toxicity of marine sediment samples ...
    • Tracing of PAH concentration in drill cuttings through the TCC process. 

      Kamandi, Bahareh (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-07-14)
      Strict regulations for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) concentrations in discharged water prompts the oil and gas industry to improve treatment for produced water and drilling fluids which are the main sources of ...