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Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Automobility, including the infrastructures, technologies and institutions that created high dependence on private car use, has led to significant environmental and climate problems and notably high carbon emissions. Now ... -
Beyond autonomy and care: Experiences of ambivalent abortion seekers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background While being prepared for abortions, some women experience decisional ambivalence during their encounters with health personnel at the hospital. Women’s experiences with these encounters have rarely been examined. ... -
Beyond cuts in small signal scenarios: Enhanced sneutrino detectability using machine learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We investigate enhancing the sensitivity of new physics searches at the LHC by machine learning in the case of background dominance and a high degree of overlap between the observables for signal and background. We use two ... -
Beyond diet and exercise: A system dynamics approach to understanding the relationships between weight and well-being.
(Master thesis, 2015-06-18)Over the past decade, the province of British Columbia has experienced undesirable rates of overweight and obesity among its residents. These rates result in challenges for both overweight and obese individuals, as well ... -
Beyond parity: Understanding the construction of gender identity and gender relations in two secondary schools in Dhading district, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)A majority of academic and non-academic studies and debates on gender and education at international and national level centers around gender parity in education. Thus this study is an attempt to move beyond this vantage ... -
Beyond Proximity: Consequentialist Ethics and System Dynamics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Consequentialism is a moral philosophy that maintains that the moral worth of an action is determined by the consequences it has for the welfare of a society. Consequences of model design are a part of the model lifecycle ... -
Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Entertainment programming is an important means for public service media (PSM) to address minority audiences, and to fulfill their social mission vis-à-vis these groups. We argue that these efforts are plagued by a thin ... -
Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention ... -
Beyond sleep duration: Sleep timing as a risk factor for childhood obesity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Ample evidence attests to the relationship between short sleep duration, sleep problems and childhood obesity. However, few studies have examined the association between sleep timing and obesity in children. ... -
‘Beyond the border is where food is’ - COVID-19, cross-border fish traders and food security around the Ghana-Togo border
(Master thesis, 2022-05-16)COVID-19 containment measures have had documented worldwide social and economic consequences. In Ghana, restrictions included a lockdown and border closures, limiting movement of people and goods therefore hindering ... -
Beyond the English Classroom: A Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Extramural English in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Formålet med dette studiet har vore å undersøka norske elevar sin bruk av extramural English (EE) (engelsk utanfor klasserommet), til å identifisera ulikskapar mellom kjønn og for å sjå samanhengen mellom elevar sin EE og ... -
Beyond the farmstead: the role of dispersed dwellings in the settlement of Iceland
(UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;13, Chapter, 2022)Norse farms of the Viking Age were organised in diverse ways, and adaptable to the variety of geographic, social, and ecological circumstances throughout Scandinavia and the Norse diaspora. Scandinavian farms show a range ... -
Beyond the glass ceiling: an exploration of the experiences of female corporate organizational leaders in Ghana
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although an increase in the inclusion of women in the global labor market has been reported in recent times, existing literature show that women are still heavily underrepresented in organizational leadership positions. ... -
Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)Every year, as many as 25 million women are estimated to resort to unsafe abortion worldwide. Many of these abortions lead to severe complications and death. Nevertheless, abortion remains a contentious issue that is ... -
Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Misoprostol has during the past few years become an important obstetric drug used for different purposes both within and outside hospitals in Tanzania. In this paper, we analyze how misoprostol is perceived, accessed and ... -
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-13)This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects ... -
Beyond the question of fixed-parameter tractability
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-01-06)Multivariate complexity is a prominent field that over the last decades has developed a rich toolbox, not only to tackle seemingly intractable problems, but also to describe the boundaries of tractability in a richer and ... -
Beyond the tip of the seamount: Distinct megabenthic communities found beyond the charismatic summit sponge ground on an arctic seamount (Schulz Bank, Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Our understanding of the benthic communities on arctic seamounts and descriptions of such communities in habitat classification systems are limited. In recent years, Schulz Bank (73°52′N 7°30′E), a seamount on the Arctic ...