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Trophic ecology of peripheral fauna at the Fåvne hydrothermal vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Fåvne vent field is one of the most recently discovered vents on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) and consists of both active and inactive vents. It was discovered in 2018, and there are only a few published papers on the ... -
Troverdighet, detaljer og latter: Svetlana Aleksijevitsjs Krigen har intet kvinnelig ansikt som traumebearbeidelse
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)In this Master’s thesis in Russian literature, I explore Svetlana Alexievich’s first book The Unwomanly Face of War. The main aim of this thesis is to examine war literature that challenges totalitarian official narratives ... -
Trump-administrasjonens politikk overfor Iran, Saudi Arabia og Tyrkia
(Master thesis, 2018-10-04)The administration of Donald J. Trump appears to have made extensive changes to Washington´s policies towards many of the conflicts and issues plaguing the Middle East, and particularly those connected to Iran and the ... -
Trust in the Doctor–Patient Relationship in Chinese Public Hospitals: Evidence for Hope
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Purpose: Trust is an essential component in a successful health care relationship. Doctor–patient trust involves the subjects of both sides, including the direction of patients’ trust in physicians (patients’ perception) ... -
Truth above the clouds. Narrative truth and competitive writing
(Master thesis, 2016-05-16)This thesis explores competitive writing in Mount Everest literature, and how different mountaineers attempt to convince the reader of their narrative truth. A comparison of Sir Edmund Hillary's High Adventure (1955) and ... -
Truth and Horror: Lovecraftian horror and the Role Truth Plays Within It.
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)I denne oppgaven vil jeg utforske temaene i Howard Phillips Lovecrafts historier, spesielt hvordan jakten på sannhet fører til galskap for hans karakterer. Lovecraft skildrer sannheten om menneskets plass i universet som ... -
Truth and the 'Transunto': a copy of the Holy Shroud in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)'Truth and the transunto' investigates the use of a hand-painted copy of the Holy Shroud which found its way to Bologna in the late sixteenth century. Used by the archbishop of Bologna, Alfonso Paleotti (1531-1610), this ... -
Truth Be Told: Problematizing Historical Truth Through Narration in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis attempt to prove how William Faulkner problematizes the idea of historical truth through the narration of Absalom, Absalom! (referred to as AA). The focus revolves around Faulkner's use of mythical narration ... -
Truths from Morocco: Knowledge Production and Danish-Moroccan Encounters in the Eighteenth Century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the 1750s the Danish kingdom and the Moroccan Empire came into contact, and concluded a bilateral treaty. As part of the accord, a Danish chartered company was established. The company was short-lived and the “special ... -
Tunisians’ attitudes towards English and its use in the Tunisian context. A sociolinguistic attitudinal study
(Master thesis, 2018-12-13)Etant donné l’essor grandissant de l’anglais à l’échelle mondiale et son statut unique de langue internationale, de « Lingua Franca », les tunisiens d’aujourd’hui ont de nouvelles aspirations. En effet, les interactions ... -
Turn-timing in Norwegian Sign Language: A study of transition durations
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Turn-taking requires collaboration between interlocutors, and previous research has found that there is a desire for minimal overlap and gap in informal conversations. Because there is limited research on this topic in ... -
"Turning, Turning, Turning" – Om Bevegelse, Stillstand og Diktets Ende i Lyrikken til Frank O'Hara
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Abstract: This thesis revolves around figures of movement and immobility in the poetry of Frank O’Hara, and explores such figures in terms of poetic form and structure. Regularly presented as as a quintessentially restless ... -
Turun myöhäiskeskiaikaisten piispojen nimitys Rooman kuuriassa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Turun piispan virka oli korkein kirkollinen virka keskiaikaisen Suomen alueella, joten oli tärkeää, että virkaan tulisi nimitetyksi sopiva henkilö. Kanonisen oikeuden mukaan uuden piispan valinta edellisen kuoltua oli ... -
Tutti Frutti - Best said in an Inverness accent: A sociolinguistic variationist study of phonological variation and change in Inverness
(Master thesis, 2018-06-01)I denne masteroppgaven har det blitt forsket på språkendring og -variasjon i Inverness, en liten by i det skotske høylandet. Denne sosiolingvistiske studien har særlig fokusert på å avdekke lingvistiske mønstre som korrelerer ... -
Tvang til tro er dårers tale Kristendom og politikk i norsk etterkrigshistorie
(Master thesis, 2009-05-14)Den norske grunnskolen er en av de mest sentrale samfunnsinstitusjonene vi har her i Norge og kristendommen har vært en del av skolens verdigrunnlag. Debattene om verdigrunnlaget har vært debatter om hvilket verdigrunnlag ... -
Two fragments and an epigram (Pind. fr. 52A, Eur. fr. 898 K., AP 7.77)
(Journal article, 2008)In Pind. fr. 52a 1 read στένεα; Eur. fr. 898 is mostly spurious; in AP 7.77.2 read ζῆν. -
Two Narratives of Islamic Revival: Television Preaching in Egypt
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-06-17)Since the turn of the millennium, the interplay between Islamic revivalism, economic liberalization, and new media has created a new form of popular Islamic preaching framed as television programs. From the pulpit of the ... -
Two-valued and Multi-valued Orientation in the American Press" : A contrastive linguistic study of American quality newspapers and tabloids
(Master thesis, 2015-05-12)This thesis focuses on two-valued and multi-valued orientation in the language of tabloid and quality newspapers in the U.S. This paper aims at answering the following research questions: Does the language of American ... -
A Typology of the Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Writing of Text Alternatives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The paper describes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writing of text alternatives as it manifests itself in his manuscripts. Decided, undecided and cancelled alternatives are distinguished. Moreover, Wittgensteinian ...