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Enabling Mobility for Persons with Major Lower-Limb Amputations: A Model-based Study of the Impact of Digital Prosthetics Service Provision on Mobility Outcomes
(Master thesis, 2022-08-19)The World Health Organization has predicted a doubling in the global population for persons with amputation by 2050 because of steady population growth, ageing populations, and climbing rates chronic conditions such as ... -
Enabling Mobility: A Simulation Model of the Health Care System for Major Lower-Limb Amputees to Assess the Impact of Digital Prosthetics Services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The World Health Organization estimates that 5 to 15% of amputees in any given population have access to a prosthesis. This figure is likely to worsen as the amputee population is expected to double by 2050, straining the ... -
Enabling Posthumous Medical Data Donation: A Plea for the Ethical Utilisation of Personal Health Data
(Philosophical Studies Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article argues that personal medical data should be made available for scientific research, by enabling and encouraging individuals to donate their medical records once deceased, in a way similar to how they can already ... -
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2019)This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ... -
Enchanted place, shifting landscapes. An anthropological study on the tangled transformations within Roșia Montană’s place and landscape
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)This thesis deals with the transformations which have occurred in Roșia Montană, Romania after the late 1990s – early 2000s – when the mining company RMGC arrived at the community with a plan to start an open pit mine in ... -
End of the World vs. End of the Month: A cross-national multilevel study of climate concern
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The aim of this thesis is to assess some of the factors that might influence concern about climate change among people in different countries and over time. As part of this, I have analyzed whether the “finite pool of ... -
The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Controversy over immigration and integration intensified in German news media following Chancellor Merkel’s response to the refugee crisis of 2015. Using multidimensional scaling of word associations in reporting across ... -
Endangered Dracaena ombet Population in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, Recovers After Abrupt Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The endangered and endemic Nubian dragon blood tree, Dracaena ombet, has been feared extirpated from core distribution areas in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, after reported mass death events in the 20th century. Populations ... -
Endemic alpine plant facing local extinction in context of climate and land use change in Hardanger, Norway. - Niche modeling of Artemisia norvegica Fr.
(Master thesis, 2021-11-15)Based on Hutchinson's niche theory, species need to move in space to stay within their climate niche during climate change. This thesis tests whether an upward range shift has occurred for Artemisa norvegica (Fr.) during ... -
Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Being popular makes it easier for dictators to govern. A growing body of scholarship therefore focuses on the factors that influence authoritarian popularity. However, it is possible that the perception of popularity itself ... -
An endogenous relationship between wages, job opportunity, and skilled labor shortage in Norway
(Master thesis, 2010-11-05)Norway's economy has gone through unprecedented growth in the past decade. The strong growth in GDP, employment, labor productivity, real wage, and labor immigration combines with increasing outflows from the labor force, ... -
Endring i merkekravene på fiskeprodukter. En medievridd beslutningsprosess?
(Master thesis, 2011-07-01)En studie av en beslutningsprosess i forvaltningen. Der en har sett på næringsorganisasjonene og medienes påvirkningsmuligheter i denne prosessen. Medienes rolle i å påvirke politikkutvikling er sentral i oppgaven. -
Energieffektivisering og hvite sertifikater - nødvendig energipolitikk eller feilslått klimapolitikk?
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)I denne oppgaven vil følgende problemstilling belyses: Hvorfor skal myndighetene sørge for mer energieffektivisering, og hvordan vil hvite sertifikater påvirke energimiksen? Energisparing og energieffektivisering har vært ... -
Energy Conservation Through Applying an Energy Management System (EnMS) ISO 50001
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)This Thesis a study of how the reduce Co2 emissions and electricity consumption by applying management methodology and adopting energy management systems (EnMS) ISO 50001 in industrial sectors as a way to reduce energy ... -
Energy Crisis in Ukraine and its influence on GDP
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The energy efficiency gap in citizens’ own words
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Understanding drivers of home energy efficiency efforts is important for slowing climate change and managing energy costs. A study now combines open-ended survey questions with natural language processing to find that ... -
Energy Investment pathways for sustainable future: A System Dynamics approach to solving the Electricity shortfall in Ghana
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Ghana has been experiencing electricity supply deficit over the past decade. The annual gap between the electricity demand and supply has been a major concern in the country. Even though the challenges often seem temporary, ... -
Engaged Citizens: A Tale of Status, Satisfaction or Structure? A Study of Citizens’ Willingness to Participate in Mini-Publics
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Based on the reported participatory shift from traditional political channels to non-traditional channels, scholars are emphasising the importance of continuously developing the political channels through which individuals ... -
Engasjement for eget bomiljø – En studie av stedsoppfatninger, innbyggermedvirkning og bilreduksjon på Møhlenpris
(Master thesis, 2019-12-05)Dette studiet har som mål å utforske lokalt engasjement for eget bomiljø på Møhlenpris og hvordan dette er med å forme byrommet. Den empiriske dataen som ble produsert i løpet av feltarbeidet sees i lys av et tredelt ...