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Under hammermerket. Hvordan utvikler norsk arbeiderbevegelse en retorisk instruksjonslitteratur på 1930-tallet?
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-04-17)Under the Hammer Flag: The Norwegian labor movement’s development of rhetorical literature in the 1930s. This thesis has six chapters: Chapter 1 is an analysis of two contextual issues that define Arbeiderpartiets, The ... -
Under veiledning av en kjærlighetsfull og ekte moderhånd - En analyse av forholdet mellom makt og viten i helse- og sosialfaglig arbeids historie
(Master thesis, 2007)Helse- og sosialfaglig arbeid er en samling kunnskap, teknikker og bedømningssystemer som har som siktemål å hjelpe ”utsatte grupper” til å ”mestre” eller ”styre egne liv”. Denne hovedfagsoppgaven belyser sosialt arbeids ... -
Underholdning eller Propaganda? En analyse av film som myk makt.
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Oppgavens ambisjon er å undersøke/belyse hvordan stormakter bruker underholdningsfilm som et politisk verktøy for myk makt og geopolitiske ambisjoner. Jeg har tatt utgangspunkt i tre av verdens største stormakter, USA, ... -
Underholdningens gunst: Leif Juster og filmkomedien
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006)Artikkelen belyser karrieren til komikeren Leif Juster med særlig henblikk på endringer i komisk stil i hans filmkomedier. I tillegg til å sette hans filmkomikk inn i en filmisk og scenisk tradisjon, belyses det ambivalente ... -
Underholdskravet: En ulv i fåreklær? En komparativ analyse av motivene bak endringene av underholdskravet ved familiegjenforening.
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The aim of this study has been to investigate motives behind three changes in the Norwegian Immigration Act (Utlendingsloven). The subject in focus has been the rules regarding family migration, and especially the rule ... -
Understanding adult blood glucose homeostasis.
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Understanding APPropriation: A study of everyday use of smartphones in two age groups
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)This thesis examines the use of smartphones within two different age groups and makes an attempt to understand how people appropriate smartphones and integrate them into their everyday life. The thesis also tries to ... -
Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway
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Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional ... -
Understanding Collaboration in Virtual Labs: A Learning Analytics Framework
(Master thesis, 2022-05-31)Online education is increasing and progress within technology has inspired the development of virtual laboratories, which allow students to conduct experiments online. One of the main challenges of virtual laboratory ... -
Understanding Credit Crunch of 2018: A System Dynamics Study of Nepalese Banking Sector
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Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Digital disconnection or ‘digital detox’ has become a key reference point for media scholars interested in how media technology increasingly gains influence on our everyday lives. Digital disconnection from intrusive media ... -
Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms ... -
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses the purposes and drivers of handouts in party primaries in Malawi. We argue that existing explanations of handouts are incomplete because they are developed to identify dynamics in presidential or ... -
Understanding Hydrologic, Human, and Climate System Feedback Loops: Results of a Participatory Modeling Workshop
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Groundwater depletion threatens global freshwater resources, necessitating urgent water management and policies to meet current and future needs. However, existing data-intensive approaches to assessments do not fully ... -
Understanding maternal mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda. A system dynamics approach for policy development
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Understanding Maternal Mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda: A System Dynamics Approach for Policy Development. Nuwagira Cranmer Abstract. Despite all efforts initiated by government and its partners , maternal ... -
Understanding model behavior using the Loops that Matter method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-19)The relationship between structure and behavior is central to system dynamics, but effective tools required to understand that relationship still elude us. The current state of the art in the field of loop dominance analysis ... -
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European ... -
Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Farming systems in Europe are facing economic, social, environmental and institutional challenges. Highly intensive, climate-exposed, arable farming systems like the Veenkoloniën in the north of the Netherlands are ... -
Understanding the Audience Turn in Journalism: From Quality Discourse to Innovation Discourse as Anchoring Practices 1995–2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Paying close attention to news users has become fully integrated in professional journalism. Even though this practice may still meet with resistance, becoming more audience responsive is no longer automatically condemned ...