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China in Africa: New colonialism or sustainable development?
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This paper examines the criticisms China has received over its involvement in Africa over the past decade. By utilising case studies of two sub- Saharan African countries, empirical data, and economic development theory ... -
Chinese colonialism or south-south cooperation? The case of chinese resources for infrastructure contracts in Angola
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)This thesis examines the use of Chinese resources for infrastructure contracts in Angola. China has engaged in this mechanism that trades African natural resources for Chinese infrastructure construction with several African ... -
The Cholesterol Factor: Balancing Accuracy and Health in Recipe Recommendation Through a Nutrient-Specific Metric
(Chapter, 2021)Whereas many food recommender systems optimize for users’ preferences, health is another but often overlooked objective. This paper aims to recommend relevant recipes that avoid nutrients that contribute to high levels of ... -
Choosing a cellmate in the prisoner's dilemma. An experimental study
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)This thesis investigates cooperative behavior in a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma using experimental methods. In the experiment, we allow subjects to form voluntary partnerships by mutual choice, and to communicate through a ... -
Christian Charity Work in the Contemporary United States -Volunteering as a practice in Houston, Texas
(Master thesis, 2009-06-19)In my thesis I have looked at the challenges and dilemmas facing volunteers at a Christian charity organizations located in Houston, Texas. Philanthropy and volunteerism, or the non-profit sector, are often used as an ... -
Cinema in Ghana. History, Ideology and Popular Culture
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-09)In spite of many years of research, theorizing, debate and contestation, there is always freshness about discourses on national cinema because of its contextual transformations. More importantly, apart from several European ... -
CIRCULATION AT THE TOP: ELITES, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CAPITAL CONVERSION
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Despite calls for bridging the gap between the sociology of social class and the sociology of elites, there are few examples where this actually has been done. This article seeks to do so by applying approaches and ... -
ciTIzen-centric DatA pLatform (TIDAL): Sharing Distributed Personal Data in a Privacy-Preserving Manner for Health Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Developing personal data sharing tools and standards in conformity with data protection regulations is essential to empower citizens to control and share their health data with authorized parties for any purpose they ... -
Citizens Trust in Political institutions in Ghana: Do Legitimacy and Social Capital matter?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-01)The study adopts cultural and institutional or performance-based theories to examine the impact of social capital and legitimacy variables on citizens’ trust in their political institutions. The dependent variable was ... -
Citizens' Trust in Local Government: An Empirical Study of Two Municipalities in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Institutional trust is an essential indicator in the governance mechanism involving the level of confidence which citizens’ have towards the public institutions. The present study focuses to find out the level of citizens’ ... -
Citizens’ Attitudes toward a System of Responsibility Sharing for Asylum Seekers in Europe: A Replication Study
(Master thesis, 2020-06-24)Four years after the unprecedented influx of refugees to Europe in 2015/2016, Europe still only has temporary solutions for refugee protection. The current regulations of the Common European Asylum System are not capable ... -
Citizens’ news use during Covid-19 Concerns about misinformation and reliance on local news in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter analyses how citizens in four Nordic countries navigated the complex information environment during the Covid-19 pandemic, where news from various sources mixed with abundant information across digital platforms. ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Civilization IV i den videregående skolen: mellom fortrolighet og fremmedgjøring
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Studien tar for seg et 3-ukers undervisningsopplegg med strategispillet Civilization IV i samfunnsfag i videregående skole. Spillet krever en systemorientert håndtering av komplekse samfunnsforhold, noe som er utfordrende ... -
Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this article, we consider how contemporary media use is structured by social class, following the theoretical and methodical framework derived from Bourdieu's book Distinction, published in 1984, with a detailed study ... -
Class conflicts and planning. A case study of contemporary development at King`s Cross in London
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis will research the urban development that will take place through the next decades atKing’s Cross in London. King’s Cross is located on the “edge” of City of London, and is 67 acresof ‘brownfield’ land close to ... -
Class, Status, Closure. The Petropolis and Cultural Life
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This thesis concerns the correspondence between relations of social class and relations of social status. Dating back to the early days of the social sciences, the debate about class and status has been revitalised in the ... -
Classification: Assumptions and Implications for Conceptual Modeling
(Doctoral thesis, 2005-05-13)Classification is generally held to be of fundamental importance to the analysis and design of software applications. This is clearly reflected in data modelling terminology, in which terms like classification, concept, ... -
Cleavage structures and school politics: a Rokkanian comparative-historical analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic andContinental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree ofcomprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary schoolsystems. It analyses how school ... -
Cleavages and Coalitions. Comprehensive School Reforms in Norway and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (1954-1979)
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This study examines comprehensive school reforms in Norway and the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the period from around 1954 to 1979 from a comparative-historical perspective. In both cases, great ...