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Crime, Punishment, and Understanding Justice through Injustice
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-24)The thesis discusses the justice of state punishment in response to criminal wrongs. The introductory chapter explores the logic of the concept of justice itself, proposing that we understand justice as the function of ... -
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article raises the question of the prospect of a common approach to mentally ill offenders in Europe, through a comparative discussion of the criminal insanity rules and systems in Norway and Bulgaria. The underlying ... -
Criminal Insanity, Psychosis and Impaired Reality Testing in Norwegian Law
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)How mental disorder relates to criminal insanity is a contested matter. Norway has a tradition of using a ‘medical model’ for the definition of criminal insanity that is unique in an international perspective. According ... -
Criminal justice and detention
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)This chapter evaluates the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles Art. 37 and 40) in the policy and practice of detention of children within the Norwegian criminal justice system. It covers ... -
Crises to die for: a quantitative study of financial crises, political instability, and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)This thesis emphasizes the multidimensionality of political instability when examining whether financial crises may trigger political instability, and how financial crises and instability affect the growth rate of the ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
Crisis leadership in COVID-19: A qualitative study of Norwegian business leaders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. The crisis that follows presented significant adverse challenges for organizations and business leaders ... -
CRISPR Genome Editing Made Easy Through the CHOPCHOP Website
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The design of optimal guide RNA (gRNA) sequences for CRISPR systems is challenged by the need to achieve highly efficient editing at the desired location (on-target editing) with minimal editing at unintended locations ... -
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated epigenetic repression of an enhancer linked to visceral obesity
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Projects like the Human Genome Project, ENCODE, and RoadMap Epigenomics have enabled genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to map associations between genetic variants and human disease. However, most variants detected ... -
Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive ... -
Critical appraisal and meta-analysis of biological variation estimates for kidney related analytes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective: Kidney markers are some of the most frequently used laboratory tests in patient care, and correct clinical decision making depends upon knowledge and correct application of biological variation (BV) data. The ... -
A critical appraisal of the evidence for using cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis for fetal surveillance in labor. Part I: The randomized controlled trials
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)We reappraised the five randomized controlled trials that compared cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis (CTG+ST) vs. cardiotocography. The numbers enrolled ranged from 5681 (Dutch randomized controlled trial) to ... -
A critical appraisal of the evidence for using cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis for fetal surveillance in labor. Part II: The meta-analyses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)We appraised the methodology, execution and quality of the five published meta-analyses that are based on the five randomized controlled trials which compared cardiotocography (CTG)+ST analysis to cardiotocography. The ... -
A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-12-22)Background: Health, fair financing and responsiveness to the user's needs and expectations are seen as the essential objectives of health systems. Efforts have been made to conceptualise and measure responsiveness as a ... -
A critical discussion of the subduction-collision model for the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Congo represents a branch of the Brasiliano/Pan-African orogenic system that is considered to terminate northward into a confined cratonic environment defined by ... -
Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Paint technology, namely paint preparation and application procedures, is an important aspect of painting traditions. With the expansion of archaeometric studies and in situ non-destructive analytical methods, a renewal ... -
Critical evaluation of the appetite test for children with severe acute malnutrition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)OBJECTIVES: The appetite test is used to risk-stratify for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in in-patient or out-patient care. The test is recommended in guidelines despite lack of evidence. We evaluated its ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ... -
Critical Measures and Parameter Space of Jenkins-Strebel Quadratic Differentials
(Master thesis, 2012-05-07)The thesis is devoted to applications of the theory of quadratic differentials to the problems of construction of critical measures, that provide critical values of the logarithmic energy of a charge system on the complex ...