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Exploring Arctic-midlatitude teleconnections using observations and numerical models
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-27)The Arctic is warming at a much faster rate than the rest of the globe, with large declines in sea ice, snow cover and permafrost over the last decades. These profound changes have been proposed to influence the midlatitude ... -
Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations ... -
Exploring avoidance of dental care due to dental fear and economic burden- a cross sectional study in a national sample of younger adults in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim To assess the prevalence of dental avoidance due to dental fear and economic burden and its distribution by utilization of dental care and socio-behavioural characteristics. Method A sample of 9052 Norwegian adults ... -
Exploring balanced harvest patterns in a multispecies small-scale fishery in Zanzibar
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Exploring balanced harvesting by using an Atlantis ecosystem model for the Nordic and Barents seas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)“Balanced Harvesting” (BH) has been suggested as a possible strategy to meet the objectives of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries, ensuring a high sustainable yield while maintaining ecosystem structure and function. BH ... -
Exploring balanced harvesting by using an Atlantis ecosystem model for the Nordic and Barents Seas
(Master thesis, 2018-06-20)To meet the objectives of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries, “Balanced Harvesting” (BH) has been suggested as a possible strategy to ensure a high sustainable yield while maintaining ecosystem structure and function. BH ... -
Exploring Boundaries of Legitimate State Intervention : Adoption as a Child Protection Measure in Norway and the United States
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-30)This thesis asks how states form and justify policy as guardian of children’s right to protection from harm balanced against the rights and responsibilities of parents. To answer this, I have examined how Norway and the ... -
Exploring Capability-based security in software design with Rust
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Access control is one of the most critical aspects of software engineering when designing secure software. In 2021, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)foundation_owasp_nodate released a new Top10 several years ... -
Exploring chemistry teachers' perspectives on questioning and providing a new way of analyzing teacher questions in science classrooms
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-12)The goals of this dissertation were, to examine how chemistry teachers conceptualize the nature of questions used in teaching, as well as how their understanding influences their questioning practice, and to explore a new ... -
Exploring codon adjustment strategies towards Escherichia coli-based production of viral proteins encoded by HTH1, a novel prophage of the marine bacterium Hypnocyclicus thermotrophus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Marine viral sequence space is immense and presents a promising resource for the discovery of new enzymes interesting for research and biotechnology. However, bottlenecks in the functional annotation of viral genes and ... -
Exploring Community Policing as Social Innovation. Democratic Governance, social needs, social change, and implementation challenges The cases of Badalona and Pamplona (Spain)
(Master thesis, 2018-07-06)This thesis reads Community Policing as Social Innovation. Social Innovation is defined as new solutions to cover or meet social needs with the perspective of social change and well being improvement. Applied to the public ... -
Exploring Deep-Sea Minerals : Systems modeling for an emerging industry and unknown futures
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-18)Dyphavsmineraler er et omdiskutert tema. I tilsvar til befolknings- og økonomisk vekst, i tillegg til etterspørselen fra elektrifisering, teknologisk revolusjon og geopolitisk urolighet, er verden forventet å etterspørre ... -
Exploring design principles for self service technologies: The case of a ticket vending machine
(Master thesis, 2014-05-30)The principal goal of this thesis was to research self service technologies used in public spaces, and how they can be improved upon. The main research question posed for this thesis was: "How well do the existing design ... -
Exploring drivers for safe male circumcision: Experiences with health education and understanding of partial HIV protection among newly circumcised men in Wakiso, Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03-31)Introduction: About 2.5 million men have voluntarily been circumcised since Uganda started implementing the WHO recommendation to scale up safe male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission. This study sought to understand ... -
Exploring engagement profiling in MOOCs through Learning Analytics: The Open edX Case
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)The enormous amount of data being generated daily, requires effective and efficient ways of processing and analysing in order to extract useful information and form meaningful conclusions. Learning Analytics is a set of ... -
Exploring Experiences of Pregnant Adolescents and Their Utilization of Reproductive Health Services in Ho West District, Ghana: A Salutogenic Approach
(Master thesis, 2016-05-20)Adolescent pregnancy (AP) is a significant public health problem across Africa. In the Volta Region of Ghana, 32% of adolescents were exposed to unintended pregnancies in 2011 due to lack of knowledge and use of available ... -
Exploring factors influencing nurses’ attitudes towards their role in dental care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background The burden of oral disease requires collaboration between health care professionals. Nurses are frequently exposed to patients and can play a vital role in prevention of oral diseases. This study aimed to ... -
Exploring Glial Marker Activation and Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia: A multimodal Approach
(Master thesis, 2019-06-13)Bakgrunn: Forskningsresultater foreslår ulike typer gliaceller som sentrale i schizofreni patologi. Fremvoksende litteratur indikerer at gliaperspektivet kan bidra til å bedre forståelse og behandling for lidelsen. Denne ... -
Exploring graph parameters similar to tree-width and path-width
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)In a recent paper appearing at IPEC 2015, ”Maximum matching width: new characterization and fast algorithms for dominating set” [12], three similar treelike parameters, tree-width, branch-width and maximum matching-width, ... -
Exploring Hardware Agnostic Multiarrays in Magnolia
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)We present a specification and implementation of a generic multiarray API based on A Mathematics of Arrays in the general purpose research language Magnolia. We show how we can lift the reasoning on arrays to a more abstract ...