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Det viktigste vi har er ord. Sikkerhet, disiplinering og tillit i det offentlige rom: Vektere på Bybanen i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2014-05-22)Det viktigste vi har er ord Sikkerhet, disiplinering og tillit i det offentlige rom: Vektere på Bybanen i Bergen Denne oppgavens fokuserer på sikkerhet og jeg hevder at sikkerhet som antropologisk forskningsobjekt kan være ... -
Detecting bots with temporal logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Social bots are computer programs that act like human users on social media platforms. Social bot detection is a rapidly growing field dominated by machine learning approaches. In this paper, we propose a complementary ... -
Detecting Out-of-Context Image-Caption Pair in News: A Counter-Intuitive Method
(Chapter, 2023)The growth of misinformation and re-contextualized media in social media and news leads to an increasing need for fact-checking methods. Concurrently, the advancement in generative models makes cheapfakes and deepfakes ... -
Detecting Out-of-Context Image-Caption Pairs in News: A Counter-Intuitive Method
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The growth of misinformation and re-contextualized media in social media and news along leads to an increasing need for fact-checking methods. Concurrently, the recent advancement in generative models enables a new method ... -
Determinants of active labor market policy: A spatial and multilevel analysis of ALMP expenditures in 29 OECD countries between 1985 and 2010
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)In recent years, a growing field of research, known as policy diffusion, has investigated the idea that policy choices affect each other across geographic units. However, the distinction between direct and indirect diffusion ... -
Determinants of child mortality in Angola: An econometric analysis
(Master thesis, 2011-11-30)The aim of this thesis is to investigate determinants of child mortality in the regions of Luanda and Uíge in Angola. The country has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. The literature on the subject has ... -
Determinants of Chinese FDI in Africa: An econometric analysis
(Master thesis, 2014-02-03)The aim of this thesis is to examine the determinants of Chinese FDI in Africa over the period from 2003 to 2011. The investigation is based on a sample of panel data from 49 African countries, using aggregate Chinese ... -
Determinants of consumer acceptance and use of personalized dietary advice: A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background There has been growing attention towards personalizing dietary advice to the specific lifestyle, phenotypic and genotypic properties of consumers. Consumer acceptance and advice adherence is critical for the ... -
Determinants of Health and Labor Market Outcomes : Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-04-24)This thesis consist of four chapters: One introductory chapter and three chapters that each includes the three papers that are the main part of this thesis. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the determinants ... -
Developing a conceptual framework for sentiment analysis using LLMs
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Developing a Software Reference Architecture for Journalistic Knowledge Platforms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)For news organizations to survive and thrive in today’s media landscape, they must utilize big data and artificial intelligence technologies effectively. News organizations that want to exploit techniques like machine ... -
Developing an ASD Macroeconomic Model of the Stock Approach - With Emphasis on Bank Lending and Interest Rates -
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)The financial crisis in 2008 evidenced an over-simplification of the role of banks made in the majority of macroeconomic models. Based on Accounting System Dynamics (ASD) modeling approach, the current research presents a ... -
Developing and Comparing Similarity Functions for the News Recommender Domain Using Human Judgments
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Developing and Evaluating a University Recommender System
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A challenge for many young adults is to find the right institution to follow higher education. Global university rankings are a commonly used, but inefficient tool, for they do not consider a person's preferences and needs. ... -
Developing Conceptual Designs for Digital Twins in Arthroplasty
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This research has been dedicated to finding visualizations for the novel and rather abstract concept of the digital twin, which is often presented either as a flashy color figure or as some kind of model or results from ... -
Developing Digital Twins for Predictive Outcome Analysis in Arthroplasty
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This work introduces a new concept, namely a digital twin, to understand how clinical data relates to the outcomes and as a next step how it can be put to good beneficial use in clinical decision making. Undergoing surgery is ... -
The development and evaluation of CrimeSceneAR - An augmented reality application for crime scene investigation and reconstruction.
(Master thesis, 2008-05-26)In a murder case, the key evidence is normally the corpse, which obviously, is removed from the crime scene as soon as possible. This removal can cause difficulties for the investigators, as the corpse is a crucial part ... -
The development and evaluation of the SemanticGeoBrowser - A Semantic Web application for browsing the spatial dimension of the Web of Data
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)The Semantic Web is woven together into a Web of data by statements expressed through the Resource Description Framework (RDF) syntax. This syntax only accepts sentences that are shaped by a subject, predicate and object, ... -
Development cooperation with Norwegian NGOs in Bolivia. How the developent cooperation is affected by a stronger state
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)The Bolivian state evicted USAID and the Danish development organization IBIS for conspiracy against the state and political meddling in 2013, and introduced the same year a new law that involves more restrictions and ...