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Public service media, universality and personalisation through algorithms: mapping strategies and exploring dilemmas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This contribution compares personalisation strategies of public service media (PSM) and how these are reconciled with PSM’s core values, especially universality. To this end, it combines mapping of a sample of PSM with ... -
Public Support for a Ban on Begging in Norway - A Consequence of Negative Stereotypes about the Roma Minority?
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)This thesis examines whether public support for a ban on begging in Norway is influenced by negative stereotypes about the Roma minority. In 2005, the ban on begging was abolished in Norway by a unanimous vote in Parliament. ... -
Public Trust and Healthcare Institutions: A Quantitative Analysis in Pakistani Healthcare Contexts
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)This paper presents a case for generalizing Seok-Eun Kim’s model of public trust to healthcare institutions. The model consists of five variables that together conceptualize trustworthiness: credible commitment, benevolence, ... -
Publikums forståelse av TV2s nyhetssending - Retorisk analyse av TV2s nyhetssending og empirisk kvalitativ resepsjonstudie av publikums forståelse
(Master thesis, 2011-02-12)Jeg skal i dette prosjektet, gjennom å kombinere analyse av TV2s nyhetsending og empirisk kvalitativ resepsjonsstudie av publikums forståelse av programmet, forsøke å belyse hvordan publikum forstår budskapet i nyhetssendingen. ... -
Punctuation Prediction for Norwegian: Using Established Approaches for Under-Resourced Languages
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Putting decision into action: the Disability Act of Ghana. Six years down the line.
(Master thesis, 2013-05-31)The study was conducted to explore how far implementation of the Ghana Disability Act has gone and some factors affecting its implementation. Using the qualitative method of case study, officials from the secretariat of ... -
Quality of Government Sustains News Media Trust: A Cross-Country Comparative Study on The Effect of Quality of Government and Media Systems on News Media Trust in Europe
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)The news media play important roles in consolidated democracies as a source of information, watchdog over the powerful and curators of the public sphere. In regimes undergoing democratic transition, news media can be ... -
Quality of life and resource use in nursing homes. The effect of the COSMOS-intervention
(Master thesis, 2018-07-06)Dementia is a costly disease. Future projections show a higher share of elderly, which will increase prevalence of dementia and thus health care expenditures consumed by people with dementia. In addition, comes the costs ... -
Quantification and Change Assessment Benjamin Aubrey Robson 2016 Dissertation date: 31st October 2016 of Debris-Covered Glaciers using Remote Sensing
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-31)This thesis investigates how remote sensing data can be used to assess the changing state of debris-covered ice. The principal study areas are the Manaslu Region in Nepal (papers I and III) and the Hohe Tauern National ... -
Quantifying over information change with common knowledge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Public announcement logic (PAL) extends multi-agent epistemic logic with dynamic operators modelling the effects of public communication. Allowing quantification over public announcements lets us reason about the existence ... -
Quelques principes de base dans la méthodologie comparative de la recherche sociale au niveau international
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A Quest for Success in Urban China; a study of "young urban professionals" in Beijing
(Master thesis, 2013-12-16)In this thesis I examine how young urban professionals in Beijing relate to their experience of participating in the modern Chinese capitalist economy. Their experiences are seen along economic and social lines: from ... -
“Quiet is the New Loud”: The Biosociology Debate’s Absent Voices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In 2000, a controversial article about hormones and gender roles was published to stimulate debate about whether and how biological knowledge should be integrated in sociological research. Two decades later, this so-called ... -
Radical policy change in Germany's health system in 2011: The case of patented drug regulation
(Master thesis, 2012-06-02)This present thesis is an analysis of radical policy change in Germany's health system. The pharmaceutical industry was stopped to determine freely the prices of patented drugs in 2011; this is what is defined as radical ... -
Radio i alderdommen - En kvalitativ studie av radioens plass og betydning i eldres hverdag
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RadioWeb. The Design, Development and Formative Evaluation of Web-Based Learning Material for Radiology
(Master thesis, 2003)This dissertation describes the RadioWeb project. The scope of this project was toplan, design, develop and evaluate a prototype for delivering web-based learningmaterial in radiology at the University of Bergen. The ... -
Raising the question of dignity through knowledge about tacit practices and politics: sharing learning from the Norwegian welfare state
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The focus of this special issue is some of the main tacit policies and practices in the Norwegian welfare state. By looking at what is tacit, mute, unarticulated and neglected we will contribute to raising and presenting ... -
Rasjonell spekulasjon i eksperimentelle aksjemarked
(Master thesis, 2010-09-01)Denne oppgaven hadde som formål å undersøke tilstedeværelsen av rasjonell spekulasjon i eksperimentelle aksjemarkeder. For å se på tilstedeværelsen av rasjonell spekulasjon, gjennomføres to eksperimentelle aksjemarkeder ... -
Rasjonelt valg eller skattemoral? - En flermetodisk studie av nordmenns motivasjon til å kjøpe svart arbeid
(Master thesis, 2019-06-13)Taxation is essential for encompassing and universal welfare-states like Norway. However, if citizens opt to free-ride, the result is that someone else loses. In this paper it is applied a multimethod framework to map ...