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How the Catholic Church Influences Italian Politics
(Master thesis, 2017-12-12)The Catholic Church has a unique relationship with Italy, with the location of the Vatican in the heart of Rome. From the time of the Italian unification in 1861, the Catholic Church has used different strategies to influence ... -
"How the hell can you tell?" Norske statsministres ettermæle fra Stang til Stoltenberg
(Master thesis, 2011-05-29)Abstrakt. Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å forklare hva som avgjør norske statsministres ettermæle. Ettermælet er definert fra en undersøkelse besvart av 54 statsvitere, mediafolk og historikere. De har gitt alle statsministrene ... -
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens ... -
How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)How do Norwegian government officials perceive the dilemma between liberty and security after the 2011 terrorist attacks? A survey from 2016 shows that the central government officials’ attitudes are rather similar to the ... -
How to communicate effectively to combat corruption. An analysis of the language used the fight against corruption in Italy.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-30)In spite of the difficulties related to measuring corruption, both international surveys and national statistics indicate that corruption remains a serious problem in Italy, resilient to time as well as political changes. ... -
How to correct misperceptions of delays: an interactive learning environment to reduce binge drinking
(Master thesis, 2010-11-06)Background: People misperceive accumulation processes. Take for example the case of people becoming more drunk than intended. Such misperceptions can lead to high costs that in some cases may be fatal. We ask: Could ... -
How to sit on Two Sides of the Table? Swedish and Norwegian Unions’ Approaches to Representative Worker Participation during the 20th Century
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)To this day, participation rights in Sweden have been reserved for union members both on the company level and on the board level, while all employees in companies, which are covered by respective agreements and laws, have ... -
How virtual meetings stimulate process innovations in organisations: mixed-methods evidence from emergency response providers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although meetings are an omnipresent organisational practice for interactive idea generation, we know little about how the switch to digital forms affects innovation-oriented behaviours in meetings. This sequential ... -
How wearing a mask and practicing physical ( social ) distancing is changing the shape of Covid-19 pandemics spread curve in Serbia? System Dynamics analysis
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, emerged in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in early December 2019. During the time of writing these lines, numbers of infected ... -
(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)How do voters evaluate women candidates in places where traditional gender norms are strong? We conduct a survey experiment in Malawi to assess both whether citizens discriminate against women candidates and how other ... -
Human computer interaction design for data mining in cancer registries
(Master thesis, 2014-06-01)Cancer registries are created, managed and data mined to gain knowledge about long-term outcomes, effects of the medication and clinical factors influencing the patient well-being. Such clinical registries have been a good ... -
A human rights-based approach to poverty eradication: strategies and experiences from the field
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The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Ensuring sustainable management and an adequate supply of freshwater resources is a growing challenge around the world. Even in historically water abundant regions climate change together with population growth and economic ... -
Humanitarian Diplomacy at the United Nations
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-09)I en verden preget av kriser, langvarige væpnede konflikter og hyppigere naturkatastrofer på grunn av klimaendringer, forventes humanitære behov på tvers av landegrenser og kontinenter å øke. Dette tvinger humanitære aktører ... -
Humankapital og grunnskolen
(Master thesis, 2018-06-23)Denne oppgaven har som mål å se nærmere på utviklingen av humankapital fra grunnskolen i perioden 1739-1935. Dette har blitt gjort ved å estimere denne kapitalbeholdningens verdi ved å bruke den retrospektive kostnadsmetoden ... -
Humble Bumble - Using gamification as a motivator to create environmentally friendly habits
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Humble Bumble – Creating a mobile application to promote environmentally friendly acts
(Master thesis, 2019-09-28)This thesis presents research involving the design and evaluation of a high-fidelity smartphone prototype, called Humble Bumble. Humble Bumble has been designed to motivate people to do environmentally friendly acts in ... -
Humus-rich topsoils in SW Norway – Molecular and isotopic signatures of soil organic matter as indicators for anthropo-pedogenesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)Some previous studies showed that the formation of several deep dark humus-rich topsoils in Northern Europe was strongly influenced by the application of different organic materials by anthropogenic activities in former ...