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Local responses to hostility to new asylum seeker centres in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates disagreement over how to respond to the establishment of asylum seeker centres in local communities. Building on interviews with individuals in one rural and one urban community in Norway, we ... -
Locally-Procured Fish Is Essential in School Feeding Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Fish make an important contribution to micronutrient intake, long-chained polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFAS), and animal protein, as well as ensuring food and nutrition security and livelihoods for fishing ... -
Logging and Visualizing Affect to Facilitate Communication in a Therapeutic Context
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)In recent years there has been an increasing focus on monitoring health and wellbeing with the intent to prevent and manage different illnesses. Advancements in mobile and wearable technology are making data logging easier ... -
The Logic of Fast and Slow Thinking
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-01)We present a framework for epistemic logic, modeling the logical aspects of System 1 (“fast”) and System 2 (“slow”) cognitive processes, as per dual process theories of reasoning. The framework combines non-normal worlds ... -
Logic of Justified Beliefs Based on Argumentation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This manuscript presents a topological argumentation framework for modelling notions of evidence-based (i.e., justified) belief. Our framework relies on so-called topological evidence models to represent the pieces of ... -
The logic of secrets and the interpolation rule
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article we formalise the notion of knowing a secret as a modality, by combining standard notions of knowledge and ignorance from modal epistemic logic. Roughly speaking, Ann knows a secreet if and only if she knows ... -
Logics with Group Announcements and Distributed Knowledge: Completeness and Expressive Power
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Public announcement logic (PAL) is an extension of epistemic logic with dynamic operators that model the effects of all agents simultaneously and publicly acquiring the same piece of information. One of the extensions of ... -
The logistics of a city's human resources: A simulation model of Bergen's transportation system for strategic management of peak hour congestion
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)Traffic congestion is a problem of increasing magnitude in Bergen that inflicts costs on the commuters and social costs on the whole city of Bergen. Estimations of the peak hour traffic indicates that traffic on many roads ... -
Lojalitet og ytringsfrihet. En sekvensiell studie av ansatte på distriktsnivå i politiet sin oppfatning av egen arbeidsplass.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-29)Formålet med denne masteroppgaven har vært å undersøke politiansatte på distriktsnivå sin oppfatning av egen arbeidsplass, i henhold til den interne ytringsfriheten, lojaliteten og oppfatning av godt politiarbeid. I tillegg ... -
Lojalitetsprogram og deres innvirkning på konkurransen i drivstoffmarkedet
(Master thesis, 2019-07-09)Masteroppgaven min har en todelt problemstilling. Jeg ønsker først og fremst å undersøke hvordan lojalitetsprogram påvirker konkurransen i drivstoffmarkedet. Samtidig lurer jeg på om disse lojalitetsprogrammene er gunstige ... -
Lokal variasjon i regulering av forstyrrende teknologi - Casen el-sparkesykle i Bergen og Trondheim
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Lokalavisens betydning for lokaldemokratiet
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvilken betydning de minste lokalavisene i Norge har for lokaldemokratiet i kommunene de dekker. Spørsmålet jeg ønsket å besvare i oppgaven er: «Er det forskjell i kvaliteten på demokratiet ... -
Lokaleser - Brukersentrertdesign av en lokasjonssensitiv mobilapplikasjon
(Master thesis, 2009-06-01)Oppgaven presenterer en prototype (Lokaleser) og forslag til videre utvikling. Prototypen er en applikasjon for mobiltelefon med et grafisk brukergrensesnitt. Lokaleser bruker Python for Symbian 60 platformen, kombinert ... -
Lokalpolitisk forskjellsbehandling av elsparkesykler og bysykler i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Fremvekst av elsparkesykler og bysykler har gitt nye innovative transportalternativer, men det har også utfordret lokalmyndigheter i utforming av reguleringssystemer. Denne masteroppgaven er en teoretisk undersøkelse av ... -
Long-Term Dynamics of Electricity Generation Expansion Optimal Investments for the Next 50 Years
(Master thesis, 2015-05-25)Sustainable development has become the foundation in planning for the future. Nowhere is it more evident than in the energy sector. Re-Conceptualization of the electricity market is currently underway. The latter being ... -
Longitudinal relationship between adolescents' mental health, energy balance-related behavior, and anthropometric changes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs) are considered the immediate causes of adolescents' body weight increases, but adolescents have identified mental health as a contributor. Cross-sectional studies have reported ... -
Long‐term impact of the proglacial lake Jökulsárlón on the flow velocity and stability of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Proglacial lakes are becoming ubiquitous at the termini of many glaciers worldwide due to continued climate warming and glacier retreat, and such lakes have important consequences for the dynamics and future stability of ... -
A look into the future of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: an expert consultation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How will the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic develop in the coming months and years? Based on an expert survey, we examine key aspects that are likely to influence the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The challenges ...