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Exploring policies to enhance the diffusion of conservation agriculture in Zambia through understanding dynamic behavior
(Master thesis, 2014-07-04)The state of food security depends on the ratio of food supply and demand. In Zambia, the constant arable land and the effect of climate change threaten the continuity of food supply in Zambia while at the same time ... -
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This explorative study examines citizens' views on restricting parental freedom to protect children's rights in England, Norway, Poland and Romania. Are there differences in popular views in these four welfare states with ... -
Exploring Sustainability in E-commerce
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)The textile and clothing industry is one of the largest polluters of our time, being responsible for 10 % of all yearly emissions. During all stages of production, there is environmental impact, from the production of ... -
Exploring the Concepts of Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy - A case study of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Suleimaniyah
(Master thesis, 2009-06-12)This thesis aimed to explore the concepts of academic freedom and institutional autonomy at the Faculty of Political Science (FPS) at the University of Suleimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. The main research problem was; how ... -
Exploring the decline in fertility rates with system dynamics: The case of Thailand
(Master thesis, 2014-05-31)Since 1950, the changes in fertility behavior in the Thai population have proved to be very interesting. Between the years of 1950 to 1957, the government invoked a pro-natalist policy and created the Married organization ... -
EXPLORING THE HIGH MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN UGANDA A SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATION APPROACH
(Master thesis, 2022-08-19)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the maternal mortality rate in Uganda, especially that they never decrease till now yet there have been efforts initiated by government and its partners, generally maternal ... -
Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth: Why do we know so little?"
(Master thesis, 2008-05)This thesis investigates the contention that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability. This hypothesised causal pattern has been subject to academic interest ... -
Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Stable water isotopes from polar ice cores are invaluable high-resolution climate proxy records. Recent studies have aimed to improve our understanding of how the climate signal is stored in the stable water isotope record ... -
Exploring the text free interface for illiterate users : designing an icon-based prototype for mobile phones
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)This study explores the topic of interfaces for illiterate users, and more specifically how an icon-based interface for a mobile phone can be implemented to support such users. The thesis will introduce previous research ... -
Exploring the use of System Dynamics in Teaching Civic Education: An Experiment with High School Students in Colombia
(Master thesis, 2008-05-30)The need of empowering citizens to become active in civic and political issues is an important element towards development in Colombia. The reality of the country in terms of inequality, armed civil conflict and a negative ... -
Exploring User Experience and Flow Indications in Mixed Reality
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This thesis investigates a user-centered approach to developing a Virtual Reality (VR) application and exploring Mixed Reality (MR). The intention of the VR application is to encourage cooperation and effective work, as ... -
Export processing zones in Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenya and Lesotho
(Master thesis, 2013-11-30)This thesis examines two cases of Export Processing Zone (EPZ) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), specifically in Kenya and Lesotho. Using data from the respective countries' EPZ programme authorities, central banks, ... -
Expressions of governance, risk, and responsibility: Public campaigns in the crisis and risk management of Covid-19 in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)During the Covid-19 pandemic, public campaigns were an important part of the Scandinavian health authorities’ strategies to combat the spread of the virus. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden had different strategies to manage the ... -
Expressive Creative Overview System (ECHO): a Creativity Support Tool
(Master thesis, 2017-12-19)A creativity support tool called the Expressive Creative Overview (ECHO) system has been developed in this thesis. It has two main functionalities; one which supports artists to organize their creative processes and the ... -
The Expressivity of Quantified Group Announcements
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Group announcement logic (GAL) and coalition announcement logic (CAL) allow us to reason about whether it is possible for groups and coalitions of agents to achieve their desired epistemic goals through truthful public ... -
Extending the cooperative phenotype: Assessing the stability of cooperation across countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11-15)This paper studies whether individual cooperation is stable across settings and over time. Involving more than 7,000 subjects on two different continents, this study documents positive correlation in cooperative behavior ... -
Extending the household sector of MacroLab to improve the explanation of trend in personal saving rate in the U.S.
(Master thesis, 2012-05-31)MacroLab (Wheat 2007 a) is a system dynamics model of the U.S. economy. It was developed to improve understanding of macroeconomics. In particular, it helps students to learn about the dynamics of an economy. This study ... -
Extracting geographical semantics from online news articles
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)Several news articles on the web contain geographical locations as significant elements. For the most part, these locations are not available in a format that is machine interpretable. The machine can read in the text of ... -
Extremely Randomized Trees With Privacy Preservation for Distributed Structured Health Data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Artificial intelligence and machine learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the healthcare domain. The data used by machine learning algorithms in healthcare applications is often distributed over multiple ...