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Gen(d)eralized Trust: An Experimental Approach to Interpersonal Trust and Gender Sensitivity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this research note, the authors examine the extent to which one gender is more trusted than the other, relying on between-subjects survey experiments fielded in Germany, Norway and the United States. The authors’ findings ... -
Gender and Ecological Dimensions of Oil in the L.Albert Region.
(Master thesis, 2012-08-10)Abstract The oil industry is extractive as well as capital intensive, and it often seeks to serve the interests of those controlling the means of production at the expense of other players/stakeholders. The activities of ... -
Gender and Informality in the Construction. Industry in Ghana’s Oil City Takoradi
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Gender and Political Seniority: Three Measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article offers an innovative way of understanding gender balance in parliaments. Motivated by research documenting how newcomers are disadvantaged during their first term in office, while senior members enjoy certain ... -
The Gender Cleavage: Updating Rokkanian Theory for the Twenty-First Century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article develops Stein Rokkan’s cleavage theory to include the gender cleavage. It discusses the gender cleavage’s structural, cultural, and organizational dimensions. The extent to which the gender cleavage becomes ... -
Gender Differences in Climate-Friendly Investments in Norwegian Agriculture and the Effect of Norm-Nudging
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The Norwegian Farmers Union and The Norwegian Farmers and Smallholder Union have signed an intentional agreement with the Norwegian government to reduce GHG emissions from the sector with 5 million tons of CO2-equivalents ... -
Gender Dimensions in the family reunification and integration process: Eritrean immigrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020-06-16)This thesis presents a feminist approach towards understanding gender in the migration and integration process. It examines the dynamics involved in Eritrean families’ gender relations after they migrate to Norway and how ... -
Gender in the Supreme Court of Norway - Judicial behaviour in child custody cases, 1968 - 2011
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)This thesis explores how gender affects the votes of Norwegian Supreme Court judges in cases of disputed child custody in the period from 1968 to 2011. A typology of four common approaches to the study of gendered behaviour ... -
Gender Parity and the Symbolic Representation of Women in Senegal
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)In 2010, Senegal adopted a 50/50 gender quota law called the “Law on Parity”, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of women elected to the National Assembly in the following legislative election from 22,7% to ... -
Gender relations and household livelihood security in Lake Kariba fishing communities, Zambia
(Master thesis, 2007)The focus of this study is the livelihoods of men and women involved in fishery relatedactivities in the Lake Kariba and in the Zambezi River, Southern Province of Zambia.The main questions concerns how norms and rules for ... -
Gendered Strategies Among Migrants From Nothern Ghana in Accra: A Case Study of Madina
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)The high level of migration of people from Northern to Southern Ghana is rooted in historical antecedents. The general objective of this study is to explore the gendered strategies of migrants from Northern to Southern ... -
Gendered transition structures: life course patterns after completion of gender-segregated vocational education in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we present the results from a sequence analysis of two cohorts of young people skilled in gender-segregated vocational education in Norway. By using administrative data on monthly statuses in education, ... -
The Gendering of a Farming System. A study of the relationship between gender and agricultural production in Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Gender issues have increasingly been given attention to in research on agriculture and farming systems. Prior to the 1970s, gender was rarely addressed, as economic activities and more technical descriptions were prioritized ... -
Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness ... -
Generating Semantic Descriptions of Arbitrary Sentences with Large Language Models
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)The exponential improvement in Artificial Intelligence performing language-related tasks has reached the point of closely simulating the abilities to that of a human. The nature of language is extremely complex, built up ... -
Generative språkmodeller for automatisert tekstforenkling: Tilpasning av nyhetsartikler for lesbarhet hos personer med dysleksi
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)I denne masteroppgaven utforskes utviklingen av en prototype for automatisert tekstforenkling med fokus på tilpasning av nyhetsartikler for personer med dysleksi. Prosjektet involverer flere iterasjoner for å finne den ... -
The Genre of the Royal Crisis Address: Six European Monarchs’ Rhetorical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article offers a rhetorical analysis of the addresses delivered by six Northern European monarchs in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. The analysis establishes a new genre with distinctive traits and ... -
GenSupport. A generic guideline-based clinical decision support system
(Master thesis, 2008-05-14)Clinicians treating congenital clubfoot use paper forms to register and monitor the treatment progress. Routines for registration and archiving are scarce, and the guideline for treating clubfoot is not always followed ... -
Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust ...