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Holosene brevariasjoner i Geisdalen. En rekonstruksjon basert på kvartærgeologisk kartlegging, lichenometri og innsjøsedimenter
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)The purpose of this master thesis has been to reconstruct Holocene glacier fluctuations in Geisdalen. Spørteggbreen which is located in the north eastern part of the valley is a 28 km2 plateau glacier. The reconstruction ... -
Homofili og Politikk. En komparativ analyse av verdiendringer og meningskoalisjoner bak vedtaket av partnerskapsloven i Danmark og Norge
(Master thesis, 2000)Oppgaven stiller spørsmålstegn ved hvilke faktorer som lå til grunn for den politiske viljen til å vedta partnerskapslovgivning i Danmark og Norge. Fokus ligger særlig på å avdekke hvilke verdier som lå til grunn for ... -
Horizontal and vertical spill-over in multilevel electoral systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A multilevel electoral system perspective reveals several ways in which electoral spill-over may occur. Vertical spill-over may be top-down from the national to the regional level or can be bottom-up from the regional to ... -
Horizontal Reciprocal Radicalization. A comparative analysis of two cases in a Norwegian context
(Master thesis, 2017-12-13)In 2006, Roger Eatwell introduced the concept of “Cumulative Extremism”, after he observed violent clashes between radical right- and radical Islamist groups in Britain. In 2012, their sister groups, Profetens Ummah and ... -
Horror genren i dataspill - Brukeropplevelser av horror dataspill
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)Along with the melodrama and the porn genre the horror genre iswhat Linda Williams calls bodily genres. With this she believes thatgenres are designed to influence their audience physically; themelodrama brings tears, porn ... -
Hospital Competition in a National Health Service: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a patient choice reform in Norway in 2001. The reform facilitates a difference-in-difference approach due ... -
Hospitering i TV 2 Sport og Krigsjournalistikk: Roller og medmenneskelighet i krigsområder
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Praktisk del: Før århundreskiftet vil gradene i verden gå opp, og snøfallet bli stadig mindre. I Norge vil det komme en del nedbør, og i praksis være kaldere siden vi bor lengre nord. I kystnære strøk vil det bli varmere ... -
Household Vulnerability to Flood Disasters among Tharu Community, Western Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Monsoon floods are frequent in the Tarai region of Nepal and claim thousands of lives and substantial numbers of properties every year. Certain human activities are more affected than others in the case of the same hazard. ... -
Hovudstaden som terrormål: Kva faktorar bidreg til angrep mot statens hjerte?
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)Problemstillinga i denne oppgåva er: I kva grad har terrorangrepa i perioden 1998-2011 vore retta mot ein stats hovudstad, og kva variablar forklarer hovudstadsangrep? Hovudhypotesen i oppgåva er at fleirtalet av angrepa ... -
How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While scholars have already identified and discussed some of the most urgent problems in content moderation in the Global North, fewer scholars have paid attention to content regulation in the Global South, and notably ... -
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline: The Case of the SPD and the CDU
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article ... -
How are we evaluating the cost-effectiveness of companion biomarkers for targeted cancer therapies? A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Despite the increasing economic assessment of biomarker-guided therapies, no clear agreement exists whether existing methods are sufficient or whether different methods might produce different cost-effectiveness ... -
How can Big Data from Social Media be used in Emergency Management? A case study of Twitter during the Paris attacks
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)Over the past years, social media have impacted emergency management and disaster response in numerous ways. The access to live, continuous updates from the public brings new opportunities when it comes to detecing, ... -
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Some empirical insights from Bangladesh and Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-06)Motivation Most studies of the normative roots of political trust argue that they stem from policy performance rather than from cultural orientation. That sits at odds with the observation that institutional trust—that ... -
How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Meeting international climate targets will require deep and rapid shifts in urban demand patterns. While the literature has emphasized the role played by cities in the response to climate change, it remains unclear whether ... -
How do Global Capital Flows Affect Economic Growth? Unlocking the Puzzle via a Meta-Regression Analysis of Existing Studies
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Due to the various empirical and theoretical perspectives of capital flows and management techniques’ effects on economic growth, the thesis asks: “How do Global Capital Flows Affect Economic Growth?”. The relationship ... -
How do oil prices and investments impact the dynamics of firm value?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to analyze the impact of investment policy decision on the firm value given the uncertain oil and gas prices and (ii) to propose policies that enhance firm value. The study develops ... -
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Recent democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe challenges the optimism of two decades of scholarship on post-communist democratization. The most severe form of backsliding—state capture by ruling parties—has occurred in ... -
How do trade unions contribute to democratisation?
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)The Tunisian General Labour Union was one of the members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The quartet was awarded the prize for its contribution to the democratic process ... -
How do Zambian smallholder farmers allocate their budget? Evidence of dynamic decision-making based on a Cournot field experiment
(Conference lecture, 2017)Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa repeatedly face situations of complex and dynamic decision trade-offs, which include allocating money across short-term and long-term production activities. Short-term activities ...