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Niche News and the Mobile Web: An Alternative Interface
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)The presentation of web content has become increasingly complex as the content is ac- cessed on several different devices. When presenting content on mobile phones there are several options to choose between, such as ... -
Nigerian Criminal Networks; A comparative analysis.
(Master thesis, 2010-11-30)Why is an African federation the home to one of the more dominating criminal networks operating globally? Nigeria is not well known for its high level of Internet-infrastructure. Still, it is in a class of its own when it ... -
”No byggjer vi nye Høyanger” - Ein diskursanalytisk studie av omstillingsprosessen i Høyanger
(Master thesis, 2007)Oppgåva omhandlar omstillingsprosessen i Høyanger kommune. Med utgangspunkt i ei diskursanalytisk tilnærming, har eg fokusert på korleis Høyanger som stad narrativiserast, korleis dette endrar seg gjennom ein omstillingsprosess, ... -
No Compromise - No Democracy. Pacts, Threats and Nested Games as Approaches to the Belarusian and Russian Transitions
(Master thesis, 2007)Belarus and Russia entered simultaneous transitions as the Soviet Union broke down at theend of 1991. As most other former Soviet republics Belarus and Russia did not end up withdemocratic regimes as a result of transition. ... -
No Country for Green Men? A case study of the Green Party of the United States
(Master thesis, 2014-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following question: Why has the Green Party of the United States not been more successful in the political arena?" This question is again related to two broader questions; why ... -
No Finite Model Property for Logics of Quantified Announcements
(Chapter, 2021)Quantification over public announcements shifts the perspective from reasoning strictly about the results of a particular announcement to reasoning about the existence of an announcement that achieves some certain epistemic ... -
Noe i luften: En historisk-kvalitativ studie av den uavhengige journalistikken i Russland og journalistenes erfaring av sin egen situasjon.
(Master thesis, 2012-02-01)Temaet for denne oppgaven er den uavhengige journalistikken i Russland. Russisk media er generelt sett ikke fri, og det eksisterer en stor grad av sensur og selvsensur. Med utgangspunkt i en teoriramme rundt hva uavhengig ... -
«Noe langt borte, og noe høyt oppe». Representasjon i ikke-representative institusjoner: Norges Høyesterett og den geografiske dimensjonen i norsk politikk
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)Eksisterer en forventning om at bare med likemenn i kontorene, vil ens brøl fra bakken bli anerkjent og akseptert? I så fall har beslutninger truffet av dem som avspeiler befolkningen deskriptivt, et legitimerende potensial. ... -
Noen konsekvenser av en sosiologisk undersøkelse om ugifte mødre
(Journal article, 1968)Denne rapport bygger på en sosiologisk undersøkelse om ugifte mødre i Norge. Det som her skal presenteres, er noen av hovedresultatene og noen av de ulike synsmåter og holdninger overfor ugifte mødre som fremkom gjennom ... -
Nok er nok - En kvalitativ dokumentanalyse av akuttvedtak i den norske barneverntjenesten
(Master thesis, 2016-05-31)Barnevernsarbeidere tar viktige beslutninger med store konsekvenser for de involverte, basert på observasjoner og prediksjoner om fremtidige konsekvenser for barnet og dets familie. Konsekvensene for et barn som lever under ... -
Non-domain specific and translated sentiment analysis - Local lexical analyzer
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)There is an ever-growing amount of opinionated data available on the Web, in form of reviews, discussions and blogs. This data can potentially provide a lot of information through sentiment analysis and data mining in ... -
Non-Revenue Water Reduction Programs in Colombia: Methodology Analysis using a System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2008-08-19)All across the world there are concerns about water availability that inviteutilities to perform better as water stewards. One of the ways to get a betterperformance, both operational and financial, is to reduce water ... -
Nonverbal communication as argumentation: the case of political television debates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper demonstrates how nonverbal communication may per-form argumentative functions in television debates by acclaiming and defending the debater’s own ethos and in attacking the oppo-nent’s ethos. We argue that studies ... -
NorDiaChange: Diachronic Semantic Change Dataset for Norwegian
(Chapter, 2022)We describe NorDiaChange: the first diachronic semantic change dataset for Norwegian. NorDiaChange comprises two novel subsets, covering about 80 Norwegian nouns manually annotated with graded semantic change over time. ... -
Nordic Administrative Collaboration: Scope, Predictors and Effects on Policy Design and Administrative Reform Measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-03)This article examines whether Nordic administrative collaboration is still ‘alive and kicking,’ or whether it has been marginalized by increased integration into Europe and strong international reform trajectories. We ... -
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Nordic states—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates the extent to which crisis policymaking ... -
Nordic journalists’ conceptual roles and perceived influences. A European and inter-Nordic comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this article, we comparatively explore Nordic journalists’ perceived roles and influences on their work using survey data from the Worlds of Journalism project (2012–2016). In a European context, a principal component ... -
The Nordic Model: Assessing its robustness and the effects of the global financial crisis
(Master thesis, 2013-11-20)It is sometimes said the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have found a magic way of combining high taxes and lavish welfare systems with fast growth and unemployment. Some credit this to the triumph ... -
Nordnorsk skredovervåking. Et nettverk for samfunnssikkerhet.
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Denne casestudien søker å skape en helhetsforståelse av fenomenet Nordnorsk skredovervåking (NNSO). NNSO er et interkommunalt samarbeid bestående av et mangfold av aktører i ulike sektorer og forvaltningsnivåer. Samarbeidet ...