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Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Healthcare is complex with multi-professional staff and a variety of patient care pathways. Time pressure and minimal margins for errors, as well as tension between hierarchical power and the power of the ... -
Insights gained from a systematic reanalysis of a successful model-facilitated change process in health care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-20)Health care is a complex system with multiprofessional staff and multiple patient care pathways. Time pressure and minimal margins for error make it challenging to implement new policies or procedures, no matter how ... -
Insights into vaccine hesitancy from systems thinking, Rwanda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: To investigate vaccine hesitancy leading to underimmunization and a measles outbreak in Rwanda and to develop a conceptual, community-level model of behavioural factors. Methods: Local immunization systems ... -
An Integrated Approach to Support Energy Policy Formulation and Evaluation
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-11-27)With the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (UN, 1997) in 1997 and the recentincrease in energy prices, national leaders of industrialized countries have startedinvestigating options for reducing energy consumption and carbon ... -
An Integrated Theory for the Accumulation of Mentally Ill Offenders and the Effect of Realignment in California
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-12)High mental illness prevalence in California state prisons has drawn much attention of scholars and policymakers in the past three decades. Various studies suggest that the mental illness prevalence in prison has increased ... -
Integration of Ghanaians in Bergen's Labour Market
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Migration research in Norway has primarily focused on refugees and larger immigrant groups, and their employment outcomes rather than on small culturally different immigrant groups from countries such as Ghana. Migrants' ... -
Integrering eller moralsk assimilering? Ein studie av ei lokalbefolkning sitt møte med dei Andre
(Master thesis, 2004)Denne oppgåva handlar om relasjonen mellom mennesket og staden, samt om relasjonen mellom Oss og dei Andre. Ho granskar korleis nærmiljøet og lokalsamfunnet blir ilagt meining av menneska som bur der, og korleis det ... -
Interannual variability of monsoon onset and withdrawal in Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This research investigates the interannual variability of monsoon onset and withdrawal in Bangladesh, both of which are major climate features shaping multiple societal activities. There is considerable research on the ... -
Interfuel substitution in OECD-European electricity production
(Journal article, 1990)Fuel substitution in OECD-European electricity production is described by a putty-clay formulation. At the time of investment, fuel shares are determined according to a logit model. These fuel shares are maintained throughout ... -
Intermodal Logistics System Simulation Model and the Empty Container Flows
(Master thesis, 2008-09-04)"The average container is idle or undergoing empty repositioning for over 50 % of its life span..." (CRINKS Paul, 2000) High volume of empty container movements and low container productivity are the main problems of the ... -
International Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin: A Historical-Geographical Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-10)This study reconstructs the evolution of international water management in the Zambezi River Basin in a long-term historical and geographical perspective. The study explores water management by locating it in both a specific ... -
Interpretation-based land cover mapping. Possibilities and challenges for rural land management
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-02-19)Land cover/use maps are often seen as a prerequisite for spatial decision-making processes. Those who have the power to settle land cover categories have an implicit power to imprint certain management regimes on the land. ... -
Investigating Energy Use, Environment Pollution, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-04)Attaining continuous economic growth entails special consideration of energy sector and the environment. Compliance with this purpose may be more intricate in the uncertain milieu of developing countries. The present paper ... -
Investigating Thailand’s Public Nursing Workforce Age Structure Dynamics: A System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2019-08-06)The age structure of Thailand’s public nursing workforce has been evolving in an unfavorable way in the past decades. If the age structure continues to remain in this fashion, the overall healthcare system performance might ... -
An investigation of the innovation performance in the capital goods sector in Colombia: using the System Dynamics approach
(Master thesis, 2006)The innovation performance of a firm within the capital goods sector inColombia is addressed using the System Dynamics method. The problemthat motivated this study can be stated as the lack of a comprehensivetheory that ... -
Investigation on Assessment of the Karnali Employment Program by Using System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2018-02-03)Karnali Employment Program (KEP) is employment led poverty reduction program initiated by the Government of Nepal in 2006 through its budget speech with an initial amount of NRS. 180 million. It aimed to provide safety net ... -
Irregular and incomplete primary schooling in rural Ghana. A case-study of late enrolment and early drop-out in the eastern region
(Master thesis, 2014-11-17)This study takes a closer look at the issue of late enrolment and early drop out in a rural area in Eastern Region in Ghana. Children enrolling in school later than the recommended age of six, is a persistent problem in ... -
Is the "Mother Grain" feeding the world before her own children? An examination of the impact of the global demand for quinoa on the lives and diets of Peruvian quinoa farmers.
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines factors the impact of the increasing global demand for quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) on its production and local consumption in southern Peru through a methodological triangulation of semi-structured ... -
Jungbusch i endring. Byplanlegging som integreringstiltak
(Master thesis, 2007)In Norwegian and West-European urban planning, the tendency can be observed that urban social planning increasingly is seen, and used, as an instrument of social integration measures. This paper examines what happens when ... -
Karstic aquifers – simple or hybrid systems? Thermal stories from Maaras cave, Greece
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Karst systems, such as caves, provide a unique opportunity to study the groundwater from the inside in contrast to spring studies, where hydrographs, chemographs, and thermographs show an integrated signal from the entire ...