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Creating a sandbox for multi-relation Modal Logic
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Modal Logic is a framework used to reason about relational structures, with these struc- tures being widely used for modelling various types of phenomena in many different disciplines, including but not limited to computer ... -
Creating a Virtual Reality Orchestral Concert Experience With 3D Audio
(Master thesis, 2020-06-16)With the emergence of Virtual Reality (VR) and recent advancements on both the hardware and software side, VR is now available to the masses and a plethora of new experiences can be made and explored by people and researchers. ... -
Creating agency: A qualitative study of how women of Okurase in Ghana deal with their challenges through their everyday lives
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis aims to explore how women living under constraining life conditions deal with their challenges through their everyday life. In order to obtain this knowledge, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight ... -
Creating an Agglomerative Clustering Approach Using GDELT
(Master thesis, 2023-06-01)GDELT is a project with a large scale, continuously updated databank that provides a real-time image of the global news picture by outputting these as files that can be downloaded and used by anyone. However, this data is ... -
Creating Capture-the-Flag Challenges Inspired by Common Crypto Mistakes
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Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-04)Mock elections at school have been a part of the political education in Norway since the end of the Second World War, and have become an institution of political education. One of the main objectives of democratic institutions ... -
Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ... -
Creating Spaces for Formative Feedback in Lectures : Understanding how use of educational technology can support formative assessment in lectures in higher education
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-03-06)In this thesis, I examine how the use of educational technology has the potential to create moments of contingency and, through those moments, to transform the premises for formative assessment in lectures. The main research ... -
Creating the "University experience": promotional and multimodal video productions in Scandinavian higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Promotional videos produced by higher education institutions (HEIs) are an important medium for introducing new generations of students to HEIs and communicating their roles and purposes to the outside world. Despite the ... -
Creating the Simulated Patient Through Dialogue: An Approach Based on Bakhtin’s Dialogical Thinking
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)Simulated patients (SP) are being used in medical communication training worldwide. The character of an SP will be trained in advance. However, the dialogue with the student is never fully predictable. The aim of this study ... -
Creatinine, total cysteine and uric acid are associated with serum retinol in patients with cardiovascular disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-09)Purpose: We hypothesized that biomarkers and dietary factors related to cardiovascular disease risk were associated with serum retinol and evaluated these potential associations in patients with suspected coronary artery ... -
The creation of meaning : intensive care nurses’ experiences of conducting nurse-led follow-up on intensive care units
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08)Objective: To explore and describe the experiences of Norwegian intensive care unit nurses providing nurse-led follow-up to patients and their families. Design and methods: The study had a qualitative design with a ... -
CREB family transcription factors are major mediators of BDNF transcriptional autoregulation in cortical neurons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)BDNF signaling via its transmembrane receptor TrkB has an important role in neuronal survival, differentiation, and synaptic plasticity. Remarkably, BDNF is capable of modulating its own expression levels in neurons, forming ... -
Creencias Sobre el Aprendizaje de Idiomas: Un estudio exploratorio sobre las creencias de los estudiantes de secundaria inferior en Noruega en relación con el aprendizaje de español como tercera lengua.
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)In the field of foreign and third language learning, beliefs, as one of the determining factors in the learning of lower secondary students in Norway, remain relatively unexplored. This study investigates the beliefs about ... -
Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas acerca de las formas de tratamiento en Nicaragua
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-01)The aim of this study is to describe and interpret the attitudes of Nicaraguans towards the use of the pronouns of address, based on a mentalist theory of language attitudes study. To reveal the attitudes, I present a ... -
CREST (Climate REconstruction SofTware): A probability density function (PDF)-based quantitative climate reconstruction method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-28)Several methods currently exist to quantitatively reconstruct palaeoclimatic variables from fossil botanical data. Of these, probability density function (PDF)-based methods have proven valuable as they can be applied to ... -
CREST – Classification Resources for Environmental Sequence Tags
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-11-08)Sequencing of taxonomic or phylogenetic markers is becoming a fast and efficient method for studying environmental microbial communities. This has resulted in a steadily growing collection of marker sequences, most notably ... -
Crevasses on Svalbard Glaciers: Distribution and Dynamic Controls
(Master thesis, 2015-05-31)Crevasses play a key role in understanding a wide range of glaciological processes, but the current understanding is mainly based on a few key studies. Recent years, studies on crevasse formation have been motivated by the ... -
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, 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 ...