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Network-led advocacy for a green shipping transformation: A case study of governance networks in the Norwegian maritime sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate action has until recently been slow in the shipping industry. The sector is notoriously difficult to regulate by individual states, and international governance is moving slowly. In such a context, networks of ... -
Never the strongest: reconciling the four schools of thought in system dynamics in the debate on quality
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A New French Revolution? An integrative approach in the analysis of the Romanian transition
(Master thesis, 2001)This thesis has focued on the Romanian transition. The critical period concerned was from March 1989, with apparent signs of liberalisation, to the 1990 elections. Romania differed from the East and Central European ... -
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that concentrate human and financial resources and needs. ... -
A new platform for quality journalism? A study of four U.S. nonprofit university centers and their attempt to save professional reporting through using classrooms as newsrooms
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-03-09)This is a study of four university-based U.S. nonprofits, and their attempt of saving professional reporting through 1) the production of quality investigative journalism and 2) educating the next generation of investigative ... -
New Policies, Old Attitudes? - Discrimination against Roma in Norway
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)Norway has a long history of discrimination against a group of Roma, namely the Tater/Romani people. In 1998, the Norwegian authorities officially apologised for the way in which the Tater/Romani people had been treated. ... -
News Hunter: a semantic news aggregator
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)This thesis presents a research project where a semantic news aggregator system called News Hunter was developed and evaluated. News Hunter was a collaboration between UiB and Wolftech that aimed at merging semantic web ... -
News Recommendation based on Human Similarity Judgment
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Similar item recommendation is one of the most popular types of recommender systems. As the name implies, the objective is to recommend items that are similar to a reference item. The news domain is one of the many that ... -
NewsPercept: A Simple Data Science Pipeline for Online News Perception Mining
(Master thesis, 2019-11-30)NewsPercept: A Simple Data Science Pipeline for Online News Perception Mining presenterer en forskning hvor man, ved hjelp av sentiment analyse kan trekke ut kunnskap om en bedrift eller organisasjon i en nyhetsartikkel. ... -
NGO perception of poverty in Bangladesh: Do their programmes match the reality?
(Master thesis, 2006)This study is conducted assuming that the NGOs poverty perception and poverty reduction programmes do not match with the real causes of poverty of their beneficiaries. The unrealistic programmes of the NGOs in Bangladesh ... -
NGO relations in development work. A study about people's perceptions of NGO-government relations, NGO-NGO relations and NGO-locals relations in Ethiopia.
(Master thesis, 2017-06-21)Research on relations between development NGOs and actors like government and locals are meaningful for good utilization of knowledge and resources in development work. The legitimacy of NGOs is said to be based on a ... -
Niche News and the Mobile Web: An Alternative Interface
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)The presentation of web content has become increasingly complex as the content is ac- cessed on several different devices. When presenting content on mobile phones there are several options to choose between, such as ... -
Nigerian Criminal Networks; A comparative analysis.
(Master thesis, 2010-11-30)Why is an African federation the home to one of the more dominating criminal networks operating globally? Nigeria is not well known for its high level of Internet-infrastructure. Still, it is in a class of its own when it ... -
”No byggjer vi nye Høyanger” - Ein diskursanalytisk studie av omstillingsprosessen i Høyanger
(Master thesis, 2007)Oppgåva omhandlar omstillingsprosessen i Høyanger kommune. Med utgangspunkt i ei diskursanalytisk tilnærming, har eg fokusert på korleis Høyanger som stad narrativiserast, korleis dette endrar seg gjennom ein omstillingsprosess, ... -
No Compromise - No Democracy. Pacts, Threats and Nested Games as Approaches to the Belarusian and Russian Transitions
(Master thesis, 2007)Belarus and Russia entered simultaneous transitions as the Soviet Union broke down at theend of 1991. As most other former Soviet republics Belarus and Russia did not end up withdemocratic regimes as a result of transition. ... -
No Country for Green Men? A case study of the Green Party of the United States
(Master thesis, 2014-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following question: Why has the Green Party of the United States not been more successful in the political arena?" This question is again related to two broader questions; why ... -
No Finite Model Property for Logics of Quantified Announcements
(Chapter, 2021)Quantification over public announcements shifts the perspective from reasoning strictly about the results of a particular announcement to reasoning about the existence of an announcement that achieves some certain epistemic ... -
Noe i luften: En historisk-kvalitativ studie av den uavhengige journalistikken i Russland og journalistenes erfaring av sin egen situasjon.
(Master thesis, 2012-02-01)Temaet for denne oppgaven er den uavhengige journalistikken i Russland. Russisk media er generelt sett ikke fri, og det eksisterer en stor grad av sensur og selvsensur. Med utgangspunkt i en teoriramme rundt hva uavhengig ... -
«Noe langt borte, og noe høyt oppe». Representasjon i ikke-representative institusjoner: Norges Høyesterett og den geografiske dimensjonen i norsk politikk
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)Eksisterer en forventning om at bare med likemenn i kontorene, vil ens brøl fra bakken bli anerkjent og akseptert? I så fall har beslutninger truffet av dem som avspeiler befolkningen deskriptivt, et legitimerende potensial. ... -
Noen konsekvenser av en sosiologisk undersøkelse om ugifte mødre
(Journal article, 1968)Denne rapport bygger på en sosiologisk undersøkelse om ugifte mødre i Norge. Det som her skal presenteres, er noen av hovedresultatene og noen av de ulike synsmåter og holdninger overfor ugifte mødre som fremkom gjennom ...