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“Palestine is everything: my homeland, my religion, my tradition. Without it I am a refugee” Drømmen om retur blant palestinske flyktninger i Rashediyeh, Sør-Libanon
(Master thesis, 2010)Etter "den store katastrofen" (al-nakbah) i 1948, har Palestinere spredt seg utover hele verden, flesteparten i Syria, Jordan og Libanon. I Libanon har det nye hjemmet blitt skapt innenfor flyktningleirer, hvor de har blitt ... -
Panamanian Museums: History, Contexts and Contemporary Debates
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-05-15)This study provides an in-depth analysis of the political and economic contexts inwhich dominant representations of nationhood and identity have formed in museumsin Panama.A focus on museums stems from the long history ... -
The Pandemic as a Rupture that Follows Rules: Comparing Governance Responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ... -
The paradox of control: An ethnographic analysis of opiate maintenance treatment in a Norwegian prison
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08)Background: Opiate maintenance treatment (OMT) is increasingly being offered in prisons throughout Europe. The benefits of OMT in prison have been found to be similar to those produced by OMT in community settings. However, ... -
The Paradox of Poverty Research: Why is Extreme Poverty not in Focus?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Relevant and reliable knowledge based on research is indispensable if extreme poverty is to be combatted. It is a paradox that three of the most significant paradigms in poverty research fail to focus directly on extreme ... -
Paradoxes of a Modern Viking. A Study of a Living History Museum and Reenactment
(Master thesis, 2016-05-27)This thesis thematises the role of the museum and how it, through hundreds of years, has changed from not only being concerned with material things, but also how immaterial heritage, that which is intangible, emerged in ... -
Parameter calibration of a system dynamics model. A comparison of three evolutionary algorithms
(Master thesis, 2013-07-31)This research seeks to improve the parameter calibration process of a System Dynamics model. A movie release strategies" model has been developed in 2012 using a gradient-based optimization algorithm to estimate all the ... -
Parapatric subspecies of Macaca assamensis show a marginal overlap in their predicted potential distribution: Some elaborations for modern conservation management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-04)Phylogenetic niche conservatism implies that sister taxa will have similar niches, although the niches of disjunct subspecies may evolve differently. This study uses Macaca assamensis, subspecies assamensis and pelops, to ... -
Parapatric subspecies of Macaca assamensis show a marginal overlap in their predicted potential distribution: Some elaborations for modern conservation management
(Data set, 2017)Phylogenetic niche conservatism implies that sister taxa will have similar niches, although the niches of disjunct subspecies may evolve differently. This study uses Macaca assamensis, subspecies assamensis and pelops, to ... -
Parasosiale relasjoner på YouTube - en studie av forholdet mellom YouTube-kjendisen Zoe "Zoella" Sugg og hennes publikum
(Master thesis, 2016-09-01)Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å studere den nye utviklingen innenfor kjendiskulturen og fokuserer på en ny type kjendis som har vokst frem ved hjelp av Internett og sosiale medier. Jeg har utforsket mikrokjendisbegrepet til ... -
Parental age and birth defects: a sibling study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Higher parental age at childbearing has generated much attention as a potential risk factor for birth disorders; however, previous research findings are mixed. Existing studies have exploited variation in parental age ... -
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Child protection is considered an appropriate government responsibility, but interventions into the family are also some of the most consequential for states. This study examines the normative basis for limiting parents’ ... -
Parenthood in the (Child) Welfare State : Legitimation of care orders and care rights in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-11-04)Denne avhandlingen utforsker et spesifikt ‘svart hull’ i det norske velferdsdemokratiet, nemlig alvorlige inngrep i familien for å beskytte barn. Legitimering av slike inngrep studeres gjennom argumentene til de to partene ... -
Parents' involvement in care order decisions: a cross-country study of front-line practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article examines parents' involvement in care order decision-making in four countries at one particular point in the care order process, namely, when the child protection worker discusses with the parents his or her ... -
Parlamentets natur. Utviklingen av norsk miljø- og petroleumspolitikk (1945–2013)
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2017)Sociology as a discipline is concerned with relationships. The relationship addressed in this book, is the one between society and nature. More specifically, the process of making pollution and the environmental condition ... -
Parlamentets natur: Produksjonen av en legitim miljø- og petroleumspolitikk (1945–2013)
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-20)Sociology as a discipline is concerned with relationships. The relationship addressed in this thesis, is the one between society and nature. More specifically, the process of making pollution and the environmental condition ... -
Parralel Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Abnormal Heart Sound Classification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper presents the results of a study performed on Parallel Convolutional Neural Network (PCNN) toward detecting heart abnormalities from the heart sound signals. The PCNN preserves dynamic contents of the signal in ... -
Parti, velgere, media og politikk. Innflytelse på Stortingets dagsorden gjennom representasjon og agendasetting 1985-2001
(Master thesis, 2004)I denne oppgaven analyseres partienes, velgernes og medienes innflytelse på Stortingets dagsorden i perioden 1985-2001. To ulike prosesser for innflytelse på offentlig politikk, politisk representasjon og politisk ... -
Partially Organised, Partially Successful? - A Case Study of the Partial Organisation of the COVAX Initiative
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Participation in forestry: A study of people`s participation on the social forestry policy in Bangladesh: Myth or reality?
(Master thesis, 2004)This study is an attempt to study and explore the extent of people’s participation in theSF policy of Bangladesh and what are the roles of the main stakeholders: bureaucrats,Union Parishad and NGOs in ensuring the expected ...