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Where Are the Newly Diagnosed HIV Positives in Kenya? Time to Consider Geo-Spatially Guided Targeting at a Finer Scale to Reach the “First 90”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The UNAIDS 90-90-90 Fast-Track targets provide a framework for assessing coverage of HIV testing services (HTS) and awareness of HIV status – the “first 90.” In Kenya, the bulk of HIV testing targets are aligned ... -
Where are urban energy transitions governed? Conceptualizing the complex governance arrangements for low-carbon mobility in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)This article addresses the question of where urban low-carbon energy transitions are governed. A challenge is that urban governance is not simply urban, but a complex assemblage of institutions, networks and socio-technical ... -
Where blessing and curse merge with life and death: Local beliefs in contemporary Lower Kuttanad
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The principal rationale behind the present research was to explore the relationship between the people and key resources, the land and the water, in the agrarian region known as Lower Kuttanad in the state of Kerala. In ... -
Where have all the heathers gone?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Heathers have been cultivated for several centuries, both the hardy heaths (Calluna, Daboecia and Erica) from the northern hemisphere and the more frost-tender species of Erica from southern Africa known as Cape heaths. ... -
Where ordinary laws fall short: ‘riverine rights’ and constitutionalism
(Journal article, 2021)Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and ... -
Where was Providence? Religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg tematikken rundt religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys roman, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Gjennom en nærstudie av romanens hovedperson, Tess, sin ferd gjennom narrativet, vil jeg peke på hennes ... -
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research by examining the educational (mis)match of elected officials and the citizens they ... -
Which community for cooperatives? Peasant mobilizations, the Mafia, and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The literature on cooperatives often conceptualizes cooperativism as an organized effort to embrace community participation. Through the analysis of agrarian cooperatives in Sicily that were formally established to counter ... -
Which factors increase informal care hours and societal costs among caregivers of people with dementia? A systematic review of Resource Utilization in Dementia (RUD)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Nearly 19 million people across OECD countries are living with dementia, and millions of family caregivers are affected by the disease. The costs of informal care are estimated to represent 40–75% of the total ... -
Whistleblowing in local government: an empirical study of contact patterns and whistleblowing in 20 Norwegian municipalities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)Whistleblowing by administrative employees in local governments can bring critical knowledge about misconduct and failed policy outcomes and priorities to the attention of politicians. This article examines whether (1) ... -
White Matter Hyperintensities and the Course of Depressive Symptoms in Elderly People with Mild Dementia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)Objectives: To explore the relationship between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and the prevalence and course of depressive symptoms in mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Lewy body dementia. Design: This is a prospective ... -
White matter microstructural differences between hallucinating and non-hallucinating schizophrenia spectrum patients
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The relation between auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) and white matter has been studied, but results are still inconsistent. This inconsistency may be related to having only a single time-point of AVH assessment in ... -
The Whitham Equation as a model for surface water waves
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08)The Whitham equation was proposed as an alternate model equation for the simplified description of uni-directional wave motion at the surface of an inviscid fluid. As the Whitham equation incorporates the full linear ... -
Whitman on TweetDeck: Community and Self Through Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Blogging
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne avhandlinga tek for seg dikt-eposet Leaves of Grass (Gresstrå på norsk) av Walt Whitman og tradisjonen han etablerte gjennom verket, i relasjon til blogging. Leaves kom først ut i 1855 og er eit verk som ikkje har ... -
Who Are the Students of MOOCs? Experience from Learning Analytics Clustering Techniques
(Chapter, 2021)Clustering in education is important in identifying groups of objects in order to find linked patterns of correlations in educational datasets. As such, MOOCs provide a rich source of educational datasets which enable a ... -
Who benefits from increased service utilisation? Examining the distributional effects of payment for performance in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01-29)Background: Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance targets, can improve healthcare utilisation and quality. P4P ... -
Who benefits from postponement in multi-period supply channel optimization?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Duopolistic price-setting supply channels competing in a bilevel framework have been extensively studied in single-period (static) settings. However, such supply channels typically face uncertain and time-varying demand; ... -
Who benefits from sustainable mobility transitions? Social inclusion, populist resistance and elite capture in Bergen, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Transitioning to sustainable mobility systems is generally thought to require three approaches: avoid, shift and improve. We examine a combination of these in a city at the forefront of implementing transition policies, ... -
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and ...