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Large variations in global irrigation withdrawals caused by uncertain irrigation efficiencies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)An assessment of the human impact on the global water cycle requires estimating the volume of water withdrawn for irrigated agriculture. A key parameter in this calculation is the irrigation efficiency, which corrects for ... -
"Ved Christendommens, ved Frelsens Tærskel". Om fortvilelse, lengsel etter Gud, dekadanse og ironi i Arne Garborgs Trætte Mænd
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I Trætte Mænd er Garborg særlig opptatt av «tidsånden», slik den mer spesifikt kommer til uttrykk i Frankrike på 1880-tallet. Den har blitt «ny-idealistisk,» sier han i et essay fra 1890; den har beveget seg vekk fra ... -
Kollokasjonar - språkets R2-D2 og C-3PO
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I revisjonen av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka treng leksikografane reiskapar som effektivt og etterretteleg finn ordsekvensar som seier noko om typisk bruk og kva frekvente uttrykk ord inngår i. Artikkelen tek føre seg ... -
«En kvinne skal straffes for alle forbrytelser som en mann». Kjønnsspesifikke straffer i nordisk middelalderlovgivning ca. 1100–ca. 1300
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I artikkelen sammenlignes kjønnsspesifikke straffer i nordiske middelalderlover innenfor temaene vold og drap, seksualmoral og tyveri. Her undersøkes spesielt egne straffer for kvinnelige lovbrytere, og prinsippene bak ... -
Recognising the social functions of climate services in Bergen, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Climate services’ main function has been to provide technical scientific evidence for decision-making in formal institutions. This article makes a case for recognising the diverse functions and meanings of climate services ... -
Snikstigmatisering. Metonymisk representasjon av muslimar i kronikkar om islamofobi og snikislamisering
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Kategorien MUSLIM og hans eigenskapar er, og har lenge vore, gjenstand for politisk debatt i Vesten. I kjølvatnet av eit terrorangrep mot ein norsk moské i 2019 deltok leiande norske politikarar i ein debatt om islamofobi ... -
‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article discusses the practice of weeping in Pachomian monasticism as a performance of absolute devotion. Theories about radical religion and approaches to emotions are used as a theoretical lens. Pachomian sources ... -
Playing posthumanism : A study of machine vision and tensions of human-machine relations in digital games
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-01-13)Denne artikkelbaserte avhandlingen utforsker maskinsynteknologiers rolle i dataspill og deres relasjoner til andre agenter. Maskinsyn i spill medieres dobbelt: i fiksjonen på et diegetisk nivå og i møtet mellom spiller og ... -
Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article introduces American Swedish (AmSw) into the discussion of the C-domain in heritage Scandinavian. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the Swedish part of the Corpus of American Nordic Speech ... -
«Forvandlingens lov» - Ibsens Lille Eyolf (1894) i lys av samtidig kontekst med særleg vekt på utviklingslæra
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)I avhandlinga prøver eg forstå korfor familien Allmers får besøk av ei rottejomfru idet Allmers bestemmer seg for å bli ein sann far for den ni år gamle sonen sin, eit prosjekt som samstundes inneber ei pedagogisk-biologisk ... -
FluentSigners-50: A signer independent benchmark dataset for sign language processing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-12)This paper presents a new large-scale signer independent dataset for Kazakh-Russian Sign Language (KRSL) for the purposes of Sign Language Processing. We envision it to serve as a new benchmark dataset for performance ... -
Eastward and northward: a geographical conception of ‘Norðmannaland’ in Ohthere’s Voyage and its analogues in old Norse/Icelandic literature
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Old English account known as Ohthere’s Voyage preserves a ninth-century description of ‘Norðmannaland’ (the land of the Northmen) given by Ohthere, a sailor from northern Norway, at the court of Alfred the Great. In a ... -
Painting, interpretation, education: Tables of knowledge in the imagines of Philostratus the Athenian
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article shows how the descriptions of paintings (Imagines) by the ancient Greek author Philostratus (third century AD) can be viewed as pedagogical tools in the introduction to higher education. Philostratus presented ... -
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Personal ornaments are widely viewed as indicators of social identity and personhood. Ornaments are ubiquitous from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene, but they are most often found as isolated objects within archaeological ... -
Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Dumped deposits are a valuable source of information for inferring past behaviour. They provide insights into site maintenance, social organization and settlement dynamics. Hohle Fels Cave in SW Germany offers a unique ... -
Algorithmic failure as a humanities methodology: Machine learning’s mispredictions identify rich cases for qualitative analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This commentary tests a methodology proposed by Munk et al. (2022) for using failed predictions in machine learning as a method to identify ambiguous and rich cases for qualitative analysis. Using a dataset describing ... -
Nude heritage selfies as a visual practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In the mid-2010s, the media reported a series of disturbances at heritage sites caused by visitors taking nude self-photographs or selfies. In this article, nude selfies are analysed as a visual practice, and it is discussed ... -
Mellom håpet og katastrofen. En kulturvitenskapelig analyse av ungdommers fremtidsforestillinger
(Master thesis, 2022-09-01)This thesis looks at how eight 17 and 18 year old Norwegian high school pupils imagine their future in a climate-changed future, and how their visions are told as narratives. This is done through qualitative interviews ... -
Jakt og fangst på Hardangervidda og Nordfjella 4000–1500 f.Kr. : Regionalitet, kulturell variasjon og sosiale endringsprosesser i neolitikum og eldre bronsealder
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-18)Reindeer have been hunted in the mountains of South Norway since shortly after the last ice age. In that time they have served as a meeting place for groups from East and West Norway. In the Neolithic, ca. 4000–2350 BC, ... -
Tax Havens of the British Empire : Development, Policy Responses, and Decolonization, 1961-1979
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-12-16)Despite the centrality of tax havens to the global political economy, up to this point historians have largely neglected in-depth research on the origin of the global phenomenon. Literature within an International Political ...