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Quality of the Analysis Step in EnKF
(The University of Bergen, 2011-06-15)In many physical applications we want to characterize the parameters of a system based on indirect observations or measurements. In a reservoir simulator setting, the goal is to simulate the production of hydrocarbons ...Master thesis -
Quantity in Old Norse and modern peninsular North Germanic
(Springer, 2011-02-08)This article discusses the transition from a system with contrastive, segmental quantity in Old Norse into the present day system characterizing most Norwegian and Swedish dialects, where stressed syllables are obligatorily ...Peer reviewedJournal article -
Quomodo scit litteras, cum non didicerit? - uskolet lærdom i middelalderen
(Museum Tusculanums Forlag , Københavns Universitet, 1996)Chapter -
Randomized clinical trial of lumbar instrumented fusion and cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic low back pain and disc degeneration
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2003)Study Design: Single blind randomized study. Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of lumbar instrumented fusion with cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic low back pain and disc ...Journal article -
Recent and future changes of the Arctic sea-ice cover
(American Geophysical Union, 2008)The present and future state of the Arctic sea ice cover is explored using new observations and a coupled one dimensional air–sea–ice model. Updated satellite observations of Fram Strait ice-area export show an increase ...Journal articlePeer reviewed -
Reconstruction of former glacier equilibrium-line altitudes based on proglacial sites: an evaluation of approaches and selection of sites
(Elsevier, 2003)Various approaches are used to record variations in glacier activity and equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) based on proglacial sites (lacustrine and terrestrial). These approaches are based on a conceptual model of ...Journal article -
Reduction in sick leave by a workplace educational low back pain intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial
(Sage, 2016-06-15)Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a workplace educational low back pain intervention had an effect on sick leave at the individual level and to identify possible predictors of the effect of intervention. ...Journal article -
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
