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Target, shaper, implementor : Regional Administrative Behaviour in the Rescaling of Norway’s Subnational Government Architecture
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-21)The Norwegian 2014-2020 Local Government Reform, and the 2015-2020 Regional Government Reform reduced the number of municipalities from 428 to 356, the number of counties from 19 to 11, and transferred some political and ... -
Task Uncertainty and Mission Command in a Naval Context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Mission command is a leadership philosophy that was designed to ensure that military organizations could operate effectively in uncertain situations. It has become the exemplar of military leadership. This study explores ... -
Tatoveringspraksiser og meningsskaping. Tatoveringsmotivenes rolle i identitetshåndtering
(Master thesis, 2011-05-23)Abstract Hva har radiovertinnen Henriette Lien, presten Einar Gelius, tidligere LO leder Gerd Liv Valla og mange andre til felles? De har alle valgt å tatovere seg. Tidligere har tatoveringer stort sett vært brukt av sjømenn ... -
Taushetspliktens sosiale funksjon
(Chapter, 1980)Et samfunns regler for taushetsplikt sier mye om samfunnet. Reglene sier noe om hvor åpent det er, om hvilke interesser som har krav på beskyttelse og om hvilke grupper som har makt til å beskytte sine interesser gjennom ... -
Tax and social policy reforms to support developing retail market in Ukraine
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The main objective of the research is to assess the tax, economic, behavioral, and social factors affecting informal employment in retail in Ukraine. Key behavioral factors are reputational risks for citizens, the level ... -
Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Recent studies suggest that public policy in established democracies mainly caters to the interests of the rich and ignores the average citizen when their preferences diverge. I argue that high-income taxation has become ... -
Teacher Inquiry into Student Learning: The TISL Heart Model and Method for use in Teachers’ Professional Development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Researchers have recently been calling for new models of teacher education and professional development for the 21st century. Teacher inquiry, where the teacher’s own practice is under investigation, can be seen both as a ... -
Teachers' voices on the unspoken oracy construct: "Oracy-the taken-for-granted competence"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study explores what teachers understand as good oracy (speaking and listening competence as well as body language) in and across subjects, and their perceptions of their own prerequisites in the work of cultivating ... -
Teaching AI Ethics: Observations and Challenges
(Chapter, 2020)This report summarises the experience in teaching Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics as an elective masters level course at the University of Bergen. The goal of the summary is twofold: 1) to draw lessons for teaching ... -
Teaching mathematics to deaf and hard of hearing students: an experimental system dynamics approach
(Master thesis, 2010-12-01)Abstract Studies over thirty years show that many deaf and hard of hearing students are under performers in the field of mathematics as compared to their hearing counterparts. This study explored the contribution of system ... -
Technology-enhanced activity spaces in the hotel Industry: An ethnographic study of intrinsic practice transformation and system implementation in Norway and Brazil
(Master thesis, 2012-05-30)Computer technologies now surround us at a daily basis, not only in work-related matters, but also other areas of our daily lives. The tools that we employ constitute to advanced interactive habitats, and one needs to study ... -
Tekstreklame på nett. En analyse av VG.no og Dagbladet.no
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)En innholdsanalyse av VG.no og Dagbladet.no på bakgrunn av aspekter i moderne tekstreklamedebatt. En gjennomgang av tekstreklamens historie og relevans for pressens samfunnsoppdrag. Et øyeblikksbilde av Dagbladet og VGs ... -
Television, Digitalisation and Flow: Questioning the Promises of Viewer Control
(Working paper, 2005)The hype surrounding the marketing of and writing about digital television has, since its advent in the 1990s, focused extensively on freedom and control for the viewer: new technology will render channels superfluous, ... -
“Tell Me Why”: using natural language justifications in a recipe recommender system to support healthier food choices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Users of online recipe websites tend to prefer unhealthy foods. Their popularity under- mines the healthiness of traditional food recommender systems, as many users lack nutritional knowledge to make informed food decisions. ... -
Tempo: design of an app that depicts Time as a visual concept for people with Down Syndrome
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)People with Down Syndrome struggle with mathematics and abstract concepts, and as such, are unable to use digital and analog clocks. The result of such difficulty is that most people with DS need someone to remind and ... -
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences ... -
Temporale og romlige sedimentasjonstrender i en distal-glasial innsjø, gjennom Den Lille Istid
(Master thesis, 2011-09-01)The sedimentation processes in an arctic distal-glacier fed lake Jægervatn (3 m. a.s.l.), located in northern Norway, has been studied by means of core analysis in addition to quaternary mapping of the catchment area of ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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The temporality of humanitarianism: Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While recognizing that ‘volunteering for refugees’ is entangled in ethical and political power dimensions, this article will discuss how we can ethnographically explore the everyday humanitarian practices of volunteers as ... -
Temporary Disability and Economic Incentives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08)We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi‐experiment taking place in Norway, involving a complete ...