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Empirical Essays on Health and Aging
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-05-29)This thesis is composed of four chapters: One introductory chapter and three chapters that each include one of the three essays that make up the main body of the thesis. Common features of the essays are empirical assessments ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of Explanations for Political System Support
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The literature that examines cross-national satisfaction with democracy seeks to discover a set of predictors that are associated with evaluations of regime performance. The most common way of examining the determinants ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Depression Symptoms: Norms, Psychometric Characteristics and Factor Structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-II
(Master thesis, 2001)The present study provides normative data and investigated the psychometric characteristics and factor structure of a Norwegian version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) in a general population sample (N=875) ... -
An empirical real-world study of losses disguisedas wins in electronic gaming machines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Losses disguised as wins (LDWs) appear to reinforce gambling persistence. However, little research has examined this phenomenon with real gamblers in natural gambling settings. We aimed to examine the relationship between ... -
Empirical Relationship between Nightside Reconnection Rate and Solar Wind / Geomagnetic Measurements
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)According to the expanding-contracting polar cap paradigm (ECPC), dayside and nightside reconnection control magnetosphere-ionosphere dynamics at high latitudes by increasing and decreasing the open magnetic flux content, ... -
Empirical Support for Optimal Virulence in a Castrating Parasite
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-05-30)The trade-off hypothesis for the evolution of virulence predicts that parasite transmission stage production and host exploitation are balanced such that lifetime transmission success (LTS) is maximised. However, the ... -
Empirisk testing av ein evolusjonær porteføljestrategi
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne oppgåva skal med utgangspunkt i "Portfolio managment without probability or statistics" (Flåm 2008) testa ut ein evolusjonær porteføljestrategi empirisk. Kan ein matematisk formel som ikkje blir oppdatert på bakgrunn ... -
Employee safety perception following workplace terrorism: a longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-28)Terrorism at the workplace represents an extreme form of workplace violence potentially affecting large numbers of individuals. Evidence suggests that workplace violence adversely affects employees’ health and work functioning ... -
Employees' Perception on the Impact of Work Environment on Job Performance: A Case of Bugiri Hospital in Uganda
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Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence. The reform increased ... -
Employing Deep Learning for Fish Recognition
(Master thesis, 2018-08-21)Underwater imagery processing is in high demand, but the unrestricted environment makes it difficult to develop methods for analyzing it. Not only is obtaining a dataset for a single species difficult, but there are reported ... -
Employment among patients with multiple sclerosis - A population study
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Employment as a tool of integration and empowerment? Experiences of female African migrants living and working in Norway
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)This research study designed to explore female migrants from Africa experiences of employment as a tool for integration and empowerment into Norwegian society. It explores different social and economic effects of employment ... -
Employment Opportunity and Women's Empowerment. A Study with Special Reference to Immigrant Women in Bergen
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)Gender injustice towards women in societies is the basic reason for deprivation of women from expanding their abilities to make strategic life choices. Even today, we can find female oppression in many societies ranging ... -
Employment status and perceived health in the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-08-29)Background: Most western countries have disability benefit schemes ostensibly based upon requiring (1) a work inhibiting functional limitation that (2) can be attributed to a diagnosable condition, injury or disease. The ... -
Employment Trends During Preschool Years Among Mothers of Term Singletons Born with Low Birth Weight
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11)Children born at term with low birth weight (LBW) are regarded growth restricted and are at particular risk of adverse health outcomes requiring a high degree of parental participation in the day-to-day care. This study ... -
Empowering locals through school governance: A case of secondary school boards in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This study has been an attempt to address to what extent school boards as one of the user committees in education system are empowered and effective in accomplishing their responsibilities. The study had four specific ... -
Empowering the Other: balancing on the boundaries of genre conventions in Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)The placing of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights into one specific genre is difficult. In this thesis I examine the elements in these novels that make them hover on the boundaries of the generic frameworks, I especially focus ... -
Empowerment and effectiveness of school committees in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2010-05-31)Empowerment of local communities and establishment of appropriate local level institutional frameworks have recently become important tenets for education management in the developing countries. Tanzania is also sailing ...