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Precise Yet Uncertain: Broadening Understandings of Uncertainty and Policy in the BPA Controversy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most studied and most controversial chemicals used by the food packaging industry, because of its endocrine disruptive properties. Part of the controversy is due to the uncertainty that ... -
Predatory/exploitative Monetization in Modern Video Games: A critical analysis of FIFA 23 and Diablo: Immortal
(Master thesis, 2023-05-16)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker de pågående problemene knyttet til utnyttende metoder som brukes til å tjene penger av spillere i moderne dataspill. Videre i oppgaven så undersøkes og sammenlignes to spill, og hvordan de ... -
Preferanser og smak -Publikums ønsker og Teaterets svar
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Skuspiller og publikum er det viktigste forholdet i teateret, men hvem er publikum? Hva liker de å se på? Og hvordan møter vært teater deres behov? Dette er spørsmålene jeg kommer til å prøve å svare på i denne masteroppgaven. ... -
The Prehistory of Frá Fornjóti ok hans ættmönnum: Connections with the Chronicon Lethrense and their Consequences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Old Norse origin myth known as Frá Fornjóti ok hans ættmönnum, which claims that Norway was founded by a pair of brothers named Nórr and Górr, is preserved in two distinct variants in the late fourteenth-century Icelandic ... -
Preliminary analysis of the Howiesons Poort lithics at Klipdrift Shelter: A chaîne opératoire approach
(Master thesis, 2012-07-03)I denne avhandlingen tar jeg for meg steinredskapene og avslagsmaterialet fra ett utvalgt stratigrafisk lag ved Klipdrift Shelter, Sør-Afrika. Jeg har benyttet meg av en chaîne opératoire metode for å best mulig dokumentere ... -
The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Russian Prose Fiction:A Comparative Reading of Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article studies the poetics of historical reimagination in works by Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev, two contemporary Russian prose writers. The main tendencies in Russian official history politics and memory culture ... -
Present pasts in the archaeology of genetics, identity and migration in Europe: a critical essay
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this essay, we interrogate how aDNA analyses have been blended with the study of migrations in European prehistory. Genetic research into ancient populations has given archaeologists and geneticists a new and rich ... -
Presentasjon av skeive kjønnsidentiteter i scenekunsten– Forestillingsanalyser i queerteoretisk perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2020-12-11)Representasjon er viktig for aksept og normalisering av skeive kjønn i samfunnet, derfor er det viktig å fokusere på og utforske hvordan teater håndterer skeive kjønnsidentiteter og deres uttrykk. Kjønnsuttrykk, identitet ... -
Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn’t take both classes (EXCLUSIVITY) and that the speaker doesn’t know which of the two classes she took (IGNORANCE). The corresponding sentence ... -
Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise ... -
Préstamos en la prensa colombiana: 1913 y 2013
(Master thesis, 2015-07-13)Esta tesina es un estudio sobre préstamo en el periódico colombiano El Tiempo en los años 1913 y 2013. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo fueron encontrar si existe un cambio en el predominio de préstamos de un ... -
Priming adult beginner learners: A study of cross-linguistic lexical priming in German and Spanish learners of Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)In a previous experiment, Stremme, Troland, and Johansson (2014) found that beginner learners of Norwegian also experience an effect of meaning related words in a primed lexical decision task. The study tested the effect ... -
Priority setting in health care: Lessons from the experiences of eight countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-01-21)All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues are the same in all systems, the ... -
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since 2018, has introduced design-based approaches to data protection and the governance of privacy. In this article we describe the emergence of the ... -
Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This special issue collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas. The articles are meant to serve as a counseling stations ... -
Problematizing the transgender phenomenon: sexual geopolitics and Europeanization in contemporary Ukraine
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-22)This dissertation explores the emergence of the transgender phenomenon within professionalized transgender and LGB activism in contemporary Ukraine. I explore how the transgender phenomenon has been formed within ... -
The process‑disruption hypothesis: how spelling and typing skill affects written composition process and product
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to the substance (content and structure) of the resulting text. 101 children ... -
Production and comprehension deficit in Broca's Aphasia: A test in Bengali
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)This thesis aims to examine the nature of language production and comprehension deficits of Bengali speaking Broca’s aphasics. Two grammatical aspects have been the focus of the present research: postpositions and word ... -
Profetens tale - Kristofer Uppdals Kulten og kritikkens møte med fjellet.
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg Kristofer Uppdals dikt-trilogi Kulten (1947) og dens resepsjon. Kulten består av en 1200 siders lang fremstilling av profeten Kultens liv og virke, og har status som et svært utilgjengelig ...