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QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article traces the history of machine-readable data encoding standards and argues that the QR code has become an infrastructural gateway. Through the analysis of patents, corporate documents and advertising, ethnographic ... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive ... -
Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is ... -
Quantification: theoretical perspectives
(Chapter, 2021)The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are ... -
Quantifying Devotion : A Mixed-Methods Study of Pious Donation in the Nidaros Province, c. 1160–1540
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-11-15)‘Slik tida glepp unna og forsvinn, falmar òg handlingar frå manns minne, om dei ikkje blir styrkte av skriftlege vitnesbyrd. Derfor, i framsynets kloke skikk, vernar ein seg mot dødens usikre time og uføresette hendingar ... -
Quantifying the quality of configurational causal models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)There is a growing number of studies benchmarking the performance of configurational comparative methods (CCMs) of causal data analysis. A core benchmark criterion used in these studies is a dichotomous (i.e., non-quantitative) ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The reasons for and against composite indicators are briefly reviewed, as well as the available theories for their construction. After noting the strong normative dimension of these measures—which ultimately aim to ‘tell ... -
Quantity in Old Norse and modern peninsular North Germanic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-02-08)This article discusses the transition from a system with contrastive, segmental quantity in Old Norse into the present day system characterizing most Norwegian and Swedish dialects, where stressed syllables are obligatorily ... -
"Que misterio esta vida...Que misterio esta muerte..." El espiritismo en la literatura porfiriana a través de “Un viaje celeste” (1872) de Pedro Castera y “El dictado del muerto” (1901) de Rubén M. Campos
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)El objeto principal en este trabajo fue investigar el tema del espiritismo de Allan Kardec durante el período llamado el porfiriato en México (1876-1911), a través de un análisis literario de los cuentos “Un viaje celeste” ... -
“Que vengan los problemas, que vengan las lluvias, que venga el frío, pero la música siempre tiene que estar allí” Inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la comunidad musical latinoamericana en Bergen: Identidad cultural e integración social y cultural a través de la música
(Master thesis, 2019-12-21)La presente tesis de maestría es un estudio de caso de la comunidad musical latinoamericana en Bergen, Noruega. Explorando esta comunidad a través de entrevistas con ocho inmigrantes latinoamericanos que son o han sido ... -
Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)This essay takes a new approach to the well-known meeting between two late-medieval English visionary women, Margery Kempe and the anchoress Julian of Norwich, as described in The Book of Margery Kempe. In this analysis ... -
Queering Cultural Memory Through Technology: Transitional Spaces in AR and VR
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While cinema boasts of a long history that has placed the representation and aesthetics of memory at its centre, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are only starting to shape their own aesthetic and narrative ... -
“Queering the Genre” Experimental Writing and Queer Representation in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne oppgaven sammenlikner romanene Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) av Jeanette Winterson og Tipping the Velvet (1998) av Sarah Waters, som begge er eksempler på den lesbiske eller skeive Bildungsromanen. Oppgavens ... -
Quelle est la place de la variation sociolinguistique dans la classe de FLE en Norvège? Une étude qualitative de la prise en compte de la variation diamésique
(Master thesis, 2018-09-28)Denne masteroppgaven stiller spørsmålet ” Hva er sosiolingvistisk variasjon sin plass i franskklasserommet i Norge?”. Med sosiolingvistisk variasjon menes språklige variasjoner som endrer seg etter ulike forhold som ... -
Quelques thèmes fondamentaux de "La vie mode d'emploi" de Georges Perec
(Master thesis, 2011-11-18)Dette arbeidet tar for seg romanen La vie mode d'emploi av Georges Perec (på norsk Livet bruksanvisning) . Oppgaven har en tematisk tilnærming til Perecs tekst, og konsentrerer seg særlig om to sentrale temaer som går igjen ... -
The Quest for Identity Through Bodily Pain. Female Abjection in the literary work of Igiaba Scego
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article addresses how (cultural) identity in Igiaba Scego’s literary works is achieved through a struggle of bodily pain. Narrating from a female point of view, Scego explores in depth the female migrant condition ... -
The Question of origin - Placing the book of jubilees within a mosaic, qumratic, or enochian context
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)In this thesis I attempt to place the Book of Jubilees in its original context. I do this by the means of historical criticism, and compare texts from the second temple period. The thesis is divided into three parts, 1) ... -
Question-answer pairs in Russian Sign Language: A corpus study
(Journal article, 2021)We describe basic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of question-answer pairs (QAPs) collected from the online corpus of Russian Sign Language (RSL). We identified two classes of QAPs: classical and discourse QAPs, ... -
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 ...