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From Homeland to Home; Using Soapstone to Map Migration and Settlement in the North Atlantic
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)One of the most characteristic features of Viking material culture is the use of soapstone (steatite) to make vessels, lamps and other artefacts. As soapstone was a readily available material in the Viking homelands, the ... -
From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-16)Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming a widely recognized approach to urban sustainability. Most of the literature and policy handbooks on the topic emphasize the importance of participation in some form but interpretations ... -
From jhum to broom: Agricultural land-use change and food security implications on the Meghalaya Plateau, India
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02)Human population growth in the developing world drives land-use changes, impacting food security. In India, the dramatic change in demographic dynamics over the past century has reduced traditional agricultural land-use ... -
From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-09)Introduction: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance ... -
From Liminal to Liminoid: Eminem's Trickstering
(Master thesis, 2012-11-19)Eminem's work has been examined under a multitude of academic lenses, often cross-disciplinary. In this thesis I draw heavily on social- and cultural-anthropological theory in reading Eminem's work as modern-day enactments ... -
From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-27)Ghana started commercial oil production in 2010 and as part of strategies to facilitate linkages between the oil and gas industry and the Ghanaian economy, a local content law was passed in 2013. This PhD thesis examines ... -
From Marikana to London. The Anti-Blackness of Mining Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)On the 16th of August 2012, thirty-four striking mineworkers were shot dead by police forces in Marikana in South Africa during a strike against Lonmin, a British mining company. The massacre was reminiscent of the days ... -
From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and 'entangled documents' along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts ... -
From Molecules to the Masses : Visual Exploration, Analysis, and Communication of Human Physiology
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-16)Det overordnede målet med denne avhandlingen er tverrfaglig anvendelse av medisinske illustrasjons- og visualiseringsteknikker for å utforske, analysere og formidle aspekter ved fysiologi til publikum med ulik faglig nivå ... -
From mountains to basins: geochronological case studies from southwestern Norway, Western Australia and East Antarctica
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From mountains to towns: DNA from ancient reindeer antlers as proxy for domestic procurement networks in medieval Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08)In medieval archaeology there are long traditions for studying foreign, exotic material culture as proxy for procurement networks of international reach. A paradox is that domestic networks, which brought products to ... -
From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Karpe Diem in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Musical communication is widely understood to be too elusive and abstract to have any discernible significance for political public discourse. However, in the aftermath of the Utøya-massacre there have been several instances ... -
From Mystery to Manners : A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers
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From notochord to vertebral column: studies on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-11)The notochord initially form a single-cell file stage of chordoblasts covered by a three layered sheath comprising a basal lamina, a main collagenous layer and an external elastic membrane. During early ontogeny, the ... -
From Numeric Data to Cultural History - A Typological and Chronological Analysis of Soapstone Vessels from the Medieval Bryggen Wharf in Bergen, Norway
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)This paper’s task is to establish a typology and a finer chronology of medieval Norwegian soapstone vessels used primarily as cooking pots. The case study includes 806 soapstone vessels from BRM 0 the Bryggen site located ... -
From Oatmeal to Oranges: A Commodity History of When and How Oranges Became More Common for the Average Swede Between 1865 – 1930
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Den här avhandlingen redogör för hur apelsins roll inom svensk konsumtion förändrades från att vara en lyxprodukt till att bli en vanligare vara i svenska hem mellan 1865 – 1930. Den huvudsakliga forskningsfrågan för ... -
From observed laterality to latent hemispheric differences: Revisiting the inference problem
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Researchers interested in hemispheric dominance frequently aim to infer latent functional differences between the hemispheres from observed lateral behavioural or brain-activation differences. To be valid, these inferences ... -
From Open Data to Data-intensive Science through CERIF
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)OGD (Open Government Data) is provided from government departments for transparency and to stimulate a market in ICT services for industry and citizens. Research datasets from publicly funded research commonly are associated ... -
From outcrop to Ground Penetrating Radar images with Point-Spread Function based convolution modelling
(Master thesis, 2021-01-15)