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Assessing Citizens’ Trust in Public Healthcare: a Study of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2018-06-23)What explains trust in healthcare and how do public health facilities ensure they are trusted by citizens. This research explores how institutional factors as well as individual dispositions, affect the trust reposed in ... -
Assessing Contradictions: Methodological Challenges when Mapping Symbolic Boundaries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this article, we address the methodological question of making sense of contradictions in sociological analysis. Focusing on the scholarly debate about generating and interpreting data on symbolic boundaries – the ways ... -
Assessing Landscape Change in a Mining Area of the Peruvian Andes. A Case Study in The Yanacocha Mine, Cajamarca
(Master thesis, 2006)This study examines physical and perceived landscape change in a mining area innorthern Peru. Mining conflicts between companies and local people have intensified;this highlights the necessity of a better understanding of ... -
Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the inquiry reports from the commissions charged with investigating government crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden. Such postcrises commissions have been a common feature ... -
Assessing the implementation of the Ghanaschool feeding program (GSFP): A comparative case study of some selected schools in the Atwima Nwbiagya district and Atwima Mponua district of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis sought to assess the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) in both the Atwima Mponua District (AMD) and Atwima Nwabiagya District of Ghana (AND). Two beneficiary basic schools – Adupri Basic ... -
Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Biological invasions are a major global threat to biodiversity and often affect ecosystem services negatively. They are particularly problematic on oceanic islands where there are many narrow-ranged endemic species, and ... -
Assessment of HIV Data Reporting Performance by Facilities During EMR Systems Implementations in Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)There is little evidence that implementations of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMRs) are associated with better reporting completeness and timeliness of HIV routine data to the national aggregate system. We analyzed ... -
Associations between social media, adolescent mental health, and diet: A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Social media use is integral to many adolescents' lives. It brings benefits but can also have detrimental effects on both physical and mental health. We conducted a systematic review examining associations between social ... -
Associations online: Barriers for Using Web-based Communication in Voluntary Organizations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Despite the high adoption level of Facebook and other social network sites (SNSs) in Norway, local level voluntary associations have not embraced SNSs to the same degree. Regular websites are the main web representation, ... -
Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors ... -
Asylpolitikken i media: Konstruksjonen av asylsøkere som et nasjonalt problem
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Asylum recognition rates in the EU - Do procedural differences matter?
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Asylum seekers in the machinery of the state: administrative capacity vs. preferences. Recognition rates in EU member states
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Studies have sought to explain variation in protection recognition rates between EU member states with, however, limited explanatory power. Surprisingly, few have contemplated the role of the administration, despite it ... -
At the crossroads of logics: Automating newswork with artificial intelligence—(Re)defining journalistic logics from the perspective of technologists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more ubiquitous for streamlining and optimizing work, they are entering fields representing organizational logics at odds with the efficiency logic of automation. One ... -
“At the end of the day, these are just regular people talking about political things.” - YouTube as a platform for politics.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This thesis explores how and why young adults in Norway use YouTube as a platform to engage with political content, and studies how this content and its producers impact their political identity. A lot has been written and ... -
Attached or Detached? Subjective Methods in War Journalism
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Attain and sustain competitive advantage: A system dynamics model of customer-based brand equity
(Master thesis, 2012-06-27)Using Vensim® I developed a simulation model of customer based brand equity based on the theoretical framework of Aaker (1991) incorporating the two way linkages of the elements of brand equity and market performance of ... -
Attitudes to Open Source Software in Bergen Kommune
(Master thesis, 2012-01-30)This work describes key elements of Open Source Software, computer history and the attitudes found in the municipal of Bergen to Open Source Software. It tries to describe the use of the software, which attitudes that can ... -
Attitudes to public spending on environmental risk reduction: the role of temporal and spatial distance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change is often perceived as a distant threat affecting people in distant places and the far future. Such perceptions could dampen public willingness to spend on climate change mitigation. We contribute to the ... -
Attitudes towards Immigration and National Identity. A Comparative Study of Italy and Norway
(Master thesis, 2001)