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Reform of the Employment and Welfare Administrations - the Challenges of Co-ordinating Diverse Public Organisations
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2006-12)This paper addresses one of the most comprehensive structural reforms in recent Norwegian administrative history: a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations, combined with more formal collaboration ...Working paper -
Regulating Regulatory Organizations: Controlling Norwegian Civil Service Organizations
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2005-09)This paper describes the regulatory agencies in Norway as part of the population of Norwegian state agencies by focusing on who controls and on what is controlled and how. We analyze whether regulatory agencies are ...Working paper -
Regulation of Nematostella neural progenitors by SoxB, Notch and bHLH genes
(The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2015-10-06)Notch signalling, SoxB and Group A bHLH ‘proneural’ genes are conserved regulators of the neurogenic program in many bilaterians. However, the ancestry of their functions and interactions is not well understood. We address ...Journal article -
Regulatory Agencies – the Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2004-12)In this paper we focus on the dynamic interplay between increase in autonomy of regulatory agencies and political control of those agencies. The general research issues are the weak empirical foundations of regulatory ...Working paper -
The Regulatory Orthodoxy in Practice
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2007-11)This paper examines whether the OECD regulatory model corresponds with regulatory practice in Norway. It describes and analyzes whether civil servants in central agencies working with regulatory tasks differ from other ...Working paper -
Regulatory Reforms and Agencification
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2005-11)Over the last two decades the classical model of hierarchical and integrated government has been gradually replaced by a more horizontally structured and fragmented arrangement. A central aspect of this development in ...Working paper -
Regulatory RNA at the root of animals: dynamic expression of developmental lincRNAs in the calcisponge Sycon ciliatum
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2015-12-23)Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important regulatory roles during animal development, and it has been hypothesized that an RNA-based gene regulation was important for the evolution of developmental complexity in ...Journal article -
Relation between the wind stress curl in the North Atlantic and the Atlantic inflow to the Nordic Seas
(American Geophysical Union, 2008-06-27)In this study an isopycnic coordinate ocean model has been used to investigate the relationships between the North Atlantic wind stress curl (WSC) and the inflow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas. For the period ...Journal article -
The relationship between socioeconomic status and waiting time among elderly men in Norway
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2012-12)We investigate whether socioeconomic status affects hospital waiting times for elderly men when controls for severity and supply/choice variables are included. Socioeconomic status is measured by small area level education. ...Working paper -
Religionsskifteprosesser - et skifte av plausibilitetsstruktur?
(Egede-instituttet, 1995)Journal article -
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Reorganizing the Modern State in Comparative Perspective: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2010-12)Administrative systems have historically always been confronted with issues of integration and coordination on the one hand and autonomy and fragmentation on the other hand. The main topic of this paper is the challenge ...Working paper -
Reorganizing the Welfare State Administration: Partnership, networks and accountability
(Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2008-05)This paper addresses the big welfare administration reform in Norway. The reform is a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations into a new employment and welfare administration, combined with more ...Working paper -
Resistance and heat-transfer laws for stable and neutral planetary boundary layers: old theory advanced and re-evaluated
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2005-07)The planetary boundary layer (PBL) resistance and heat-transfer laws express the surface fluxes of momentum and heat through the PBL governing parameters. Since the late sixties, the dimensionless coefficients (A, B and ...Journal article -
Resolving the upper-ocean warm layer improves the simulation of the Madden-Julian oscillation
(Springer, 2014-09)Here we show that coupling a high-resolution one-column ocean model to an atmospheric general circulation model dramatically improves simulation of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) to have realistic strength, period, ...Journal article -
Resource-oriented music therapy for psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation : protocol for a randomised controlled trial [NCT00137189]
(BioMed Central, 2005-10)Background: Previous research has shown positive effects of music therapy for people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders. In clinical practice, music therapy is often offered to psychiatric patients with low ...Journal article -
Retention of Coastal Cod Eggs in a Fjord Caused by Interactions between Egg Buoyancy and Circulation Pattern
(American Fisheries Society, 2011-08-01)Norwegian coastal cod form a stationary population of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua consisting of several genetically separated subpopulations. A small-scale differentiation in marine populations with pelagic eggs and larvae ...Peer reviewedJournal article -
Retroviral enhancer detection insertions in zebrafish combined with comparative genomics reveal genomic regulatory blocks - a fundamental feature of vertebrate genomes
(BioMed Central, 2007-10-31)A large-scale enhancer detection screen was performed in the zebrafish using a retroviral vector carrying a basal promoter and a fluorescent protein reporter cassette. Analysis of insertional hotspots uncovered areas around ...Journal article -
Rettferdige ord. Humanistisk rettstenkning mellom rett og retorikk, lov og litteratur
(The University of Bergen, 2009-10-16)Doctoral thesis -
'The revolt of the medievalists'. Directions in recent research on the twelfth-century renaissance
(Routledge, 2006)This historiographical article contains two basic parts. First, it discusses recent approaches to the twelfth-century renaissance in the last two decades by focusing on some selected themes. These themes basically derive ...Journal article
