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Implementation of the Right to Children's Participation:The Case of Two Selected Public Primary Schools in Kampala District in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)The right to children’s participation in Uganda, recently got attention in 2008 when the Uganda National Child Participation Guide (UNCPG) was published. This resulted from Uganda ratifying the United Nations Convention ... -
Implementering av ny teknologi - en samfunnsøkonomisk tilnærming
(Master thesis, 2014-12-01)Dette studiet har som formål å belyse de potensielle gevinstene ved implementering av MPD, samt studere hvordan nye teknologier kan implementeres på en mest mulig effektiv måte. Implementering av boreteknikken trykkstyrt ... -
Implementing Digital Transformations in Higher Education Following COVID-19: A Norwegian Case Study
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)Drawing on the theory and conceptualizations of organizational readiness for change and taking a more critical approach to organizational readiness that takes seriously actors’ different and sometimes conflicting understandings ... -
Implementing the UNDP global programme on poverty eradication and sustainable livelihood
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Implementing Web Accessibility Policy. Case Studies of the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-25)The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has had the unintended effect of producing inequalities between people with disabilities, who experience barriers using ICT, and others. Despite the efforts ... -
Implications of large hydro dams for decarbonising Ghana's energy consistent with Paris climate objectives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Hydropower is a renewable source of electricity generation that is a common feature of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), especially in developing countries. However, far from benign, research shows that significant ... -
Implikasjoner av overlappende eierskap: En teoretisk analyse
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)I denne masteroppgaven har jeg tatt for meg de konkurranseøkonomiske implikasjonene av overlappende eierskap, herunder krysseierskap. Målet har vært å undersøke om krysseierskap fører til økt grad av stilltiende samarbeid ... -
Importance of Financing for Nepalese Agriculture and Economic Development
(Master thesis, 2015-05-25)The agriculture sector in Nepal has not been growing as expected over the last decade. To understand the ongoing dynamics in the Nepalese agriculture sector, the study states a hypothesis that lack of effective and efficient ... -
Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Multilevel regression with post-stratification (MrP) has quickly become the gold standard for small area estimation. While the first MrP models did not include context-level information, current applications almost always ... -
Improved survival of non-small cell lung cancer patients after introducing patient navigation: A retrospective cohort study with propensity score weighted historic control
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)OnkoNetwork is a patient navigation program established in the Moritz Kaposi General Hospital to improve the timeliness and completeness of cancer investigations and treatment. The H2020 SELFIE consortium selected OnkoNetwork ... -
Improving image retrieval with a thesaurus for shapes. The VORTEX prototyp.
(Master thesis, 2004)Successful retrieval of relevant images from large-scale image collections is one of the current problems in the field of data management. In this paper, I propose a system which combines techniques from Computer Vision, ... -
Improving Judgment Reliability in Social Networks via Jury Theorems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Opinion aggregators—such as ‘like’ or ‘retweet’ counters—are ubiquitous on social media platforms and often treated as implicit quality evaluations of the entry liked or retweeted, with higher counts indicating higher ... -
Improving Potable Water Accessibility And Sustainability Through Efficient Management Of Pipe Water Supply System
(Master thesis, 2015-06-03)This paper discusses how to improve potable water accessibility and sustainability through efficient management of pipe water supply system a case study of Uganda, Kampala region. Kampala the capital city of Uganda still ... -
Improving usefulness and ease of use for a prototype tool for journalists
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)This thesis presents the work done on making a prototype tool for journalists more useful and easier to use through continuous improvements and evaluations. The work builds on the thesis News Hunter: a semantic news ... -
Improving user experience in StateCraft
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)User experience is an important aspect of game development, and techniques in Artificial Intelligence have been proved to increase the agent performance and have the potential to affect user experience in games. In this ... -
In peace and war: Birth control and population policies in Norway (1930-1945)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)While Norway in the 1930s had relatively liberal policies with regard to access to contraceptives, and an increasing number of legal abortions were carried out, the regime that was installed after occupation in 1940 reined ... -
In Science We Trust, Through Ideology We Look: Explaining Climate Change Attitudes in Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This thesis explores climate change attitudes among the Norwegian public. While previous research on public opinion on climate change to a large degree has focused on scepticism, this thesis focuses on climate change ... -
In Search of Solutions: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Norwegian GP Crisis
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In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court ... -
In the eyes of the people. An analysis of the impact of EU membership on new member states
(Master thesis, 2008)This study analyzes the impact of EU membership on new member states. The focus is on thecitizens’ perceptions of the benefits of EU membership taking the eastwards expansion in 2004as a point of departure. Considering the ...