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A collective sigh of relief : Local reactions to the establishment of new asylum centers in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-25)This article investigates a mood change in local communities where new asylum seeker facilities were established in the wake of the “refugee crisis” in 2015. Whereas opinions in flux are often studied using quantitative ... -
Colonizing the demos? Settler rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and the contested ‘structure of governance’ in Canada’s North
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Settler-colonialism can consist of a struggle over the pre-political ‘structure of governance’ – over who composes the demos and how decisions should be made. This article examines two lawsuits where settlers contested the ... -
Combining several thermal indices to generate a unique heat comfort assessment methodology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Purpose: The proposed methodology hopes to provide a systematic multi-disciplinary approach to assess the thermal environment while minimizing unneeded efforts. Design/methodology/approach: Different factors affect the ... -
Commercial Services, Enclosure and Legitimacy: Comparing Contexts and Strategies for Public Service Media Funding and Development
(Chapter, 2008)European public broadcasters have long since ceased to be solely publicly financed. But the inherently controversial licence fee on television sets has remained a key source of funding. Facing an increasingly complex digital ... -
The commitment curve: Global regulation of business and human rights
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07)The divide between hard law and soft law approaches to global regulation of corporations in relation to human rights is partly based on empirical assumptions. Taking a step back, we assess the claims concerning the current ... -
Common dreams and individual goals - Negotiating identity across the Thai-Burma border
(Master thesis, 2013-09-27)Abstract Within a socio-historical framework of how modern nation-states and ethnic labels came to be in the Southeast Asian Mainland, this thesis sets out to explore how young individuals, currently engaging as cross-border ... -
Commonalities and Differences in Methods and Patterns of Torture and Ill-treatment of Political Prisoners in Iran and Why Torturing?!
(Master thesis, 2018-07-13)This thesis aims to explore how political prisoners are treated in the places of detention and prisons in Iran. In doing so, it targets to specifically find answers to three main questions: 1) What are those common methods ... -
Community participation in school development: Understanding participation in basic school performance in the Nanumba district of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2005)This study has been an attempt to look at the impact of community participation on the performance of basic schools in Ghana, specifically the Nanumba District of the Northern Region. As a government policy under the ... -
Community Participation in Solid Waste Management, Kathmandu
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)Waste management in Nepal is one of the important topics discussed today. Participation of the community is thus,being encouraged to manage solid waste. My study area is Kathmandu (Buddhajyoti, Chamati and Milijuli, Ganesh ... -
Community Policing in South Africa - Mission impossible? A qualitative case study of police reform failure in South Africa after the 1994-transition to democracy
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Since the 1990s community policing has been promoted as an ideal and pursued though policing reforms in large parts of the developing world, especially in post-transitional societies faced with the twin problem of high ... -
‘The Community’ as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas’ Informal Neighbourhoods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept ‘the community’ as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of ... -
Commuting, a choice or a necessity? A system dynamic simulation model for intra urban migration
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)The number of commuters is one of the main determinants of traffic and pollution problems. In a growing city like Bergen, the number of commuters has been increasing dramatically. A simulation model has been built to explain ... -
A comparative analysis of the Child Protection Systems in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania and Russia
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A Comparative analysis of the relationship between gaming controllers and game mechanics
(Master thesis, 2013-06-08)In this thesis I have presented the issue of not exploiting the possibilities different technologies offer us in video games. The research questions were how can input-technologies affect the enjoyment of video games?", ... -
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty: International Social Science Council
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A comparative, simulation supported study on the diffusion of battery electric vehicles in Norway and Sweden
(Master thesis, 2017-08-29)We are living at a point in history where global cost dynamics and specific political choices may lead to an integral transformation of the mobility system as we know it. After a century where the internal combustion engine ... -
Comparing approaches to interactive lifelog search at the lifelog search challenge (LSC2018)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is an international content retrieval competition that evaluates search for personal lifelog data. At the LSC, content-based search is performed over a multi-modal dataset, continuously ... -
Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper introduces a new software interface to elicit belief distributions of any shape: Click-and-Drag. The interface was tested against the state of the art in the experimental literature—a text-based interface and ... -
Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article is concerned with how different agencies play out in shaping public debate online and, for this purpose, employs an approach that acknowledges the role not just of algorithms seen in isolation, but in context ...