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Prosjektsamarbeid i tilbodskonkurransar
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)Ein tilbodskonkurranse blir gjennomført med den målsettinga å oppnå den beste prisen i marknaden. Når styresmaktene lyser ut prosjekt dei ønskjer å få utført, krev desse ofte stor kapasitet og teknologi. Dette er, mellom ... -
Prospektteori - En eksperimentell studie av forskjeller mellom individer og par
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Prospektteori er en deskriptiv valgteori som utfordrer valgteorien om forventet nytte. Prospektteori baserer seg på psykologiske fenomener som beskriver prosessen individer går gjennom for å ta valg. Jeg er interessert i ... -
Protocol for the SEED-trial: Supported Employment and preventing Early Disability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07-15)Background: Early withdrawal or exclusion from the labor market leads to significant personal and societal costs. In Norway, the increasing numbers of young adults receiving disability pension is a growing problem. While ... -
Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)There is a consensus that climate factors strongly influence species richness along elevation gradients, but which factors are crucial and how they operate are still elusive. Here, we assess the relative importance of ... -
Public accountability: Explaining variation across local governments in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2013-06-02)5 Abstract What makes some local governments thrive while others fall short of answerability? What are the different dimensions/indicators/forms of accountability in local governments? What factors promote or hinder ... -
Public Broadcasters, the Internet, and Democracy. Comparing Policy and Exploring Public Service Media Online
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-02)This thesis is a study of public service broadcasting facing a digital media system. Its focus is on internet services since the mid-1990s. With a comparative design, the thesis discusses how public service broadcasters ... -
Public education in latin america's lowest performing country. The Impact of inequality and violence among children and youth in Lima and Cusco in Peru
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)Measurements of learning outcomes have found that too many children in Peru are graduating from primary school without having achieved competency in literacy or numeracy (Barrett, 2009). Results show that seven out of ten ... -
Public game funding in the Nordic region
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this paper, we explore the policies related to support structures surrounding national game industries, with focus on the three Nordic countries Finland, Norway and Sweden, and investigate what kind of context the Nordic ... -
Public Indebtedness and Fiscal Policy Restructuring for Socio-Economic Development
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-12-03)The flow of finance across national boarders is not an exclusively twentieth century phenomenon(Korner, Maass et al. 1987). In the Middle Ages and later, in the early modern era, when creditoperations and modern banking ... -
Public money, public goods? The Bayh Dole Act and its “manufactured substantially” provision
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 allows private institutions and small businesses to patent the results of federally funded research. One of the goals of the Act is to promote the commercialization and public availability of ... -
Public perceptions of child protection, children's rights, and personal values: An assessment of two states
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Although there is an expansive literature on public attitudes towards the welfare state, we know comparatively little about public attitudes toward child protection. Gauging public opinion about the state’s role in protecting ... -
Public Policy Improvements to Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture Operations – A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2018-06-29)The aquaculture industry is an important food production industry both in Norway and around the world. As a young industry, it is still developing and growing. Industry-wide challenges exist, including but not limited to ... -
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Political initiatives promoting a far-right agenda have gained significant political influence in Western European democracies. This has occurred despite apparent broad-based public rejection of Europe’s Nazi past. This ... -
Public private partnership in the power sector of Ghana: Has it delivered as expected?
(Master thesis, 2015-05-31)The Government of Ghana has made a declaration through the National Energy Policy to attain 5000MW of electricity generation by the end of 2015 in order to meet the 10% annual growth rate of electricity demand. The policy ... -
Public Reasoning in "Post-Truth" Times: Technoscientific Imaginaries of "Smart" Futures
(Chapter, 2021)Our current “post-truth” era seems to some extent to be a moment of competing realities, where future imaginations are no longer shared within society. Among the many optimistic narratives and imaginaries of progress, ... -
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper develops and applies the concept of accountability styles for analyzing and comparing accountability practices in different countries. This is relevant as there is considerable scholarship on public sector ... -
Public service media, universality and personalisation through algorithms: mapping strategies and exploring dilemmas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This contribution compares personalisation strategies of public service media (PSM) and how these are reconciled with PSM’s core values, especially universality. To this end, it combines mapping of a sample of PSM with ... -
Public Support for a Ban on Begging in Norway - A Consequence of Negative Stereotypes about the Roma Minority?
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)This thesis examines whether public support for a ban on begging in Norway is influenced by negative stereotypes about the Roma minority. In 2005, the ban on begging was abolished in Norway by a unanimous vote in Parliament. ... -
Public Trust and Healthcare Institutions: A Quantitative Analysis in Pakistani Healthcare Contexts
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)This paper presents a case for generalizing Seok-Eun Kim’s model of public trust to healthcare institutions. The model consists of five variables that together conceptualize trustworthiness: credible commitment, benevolence, ... -
Publikums forståelse av TV2s nyhetssending - Retorisk analyse av TV2s nyhetssending og empirisk kvalitativ resepsjonstudie av publikums forståelse
(Master thesis, 2011-02-12)Jeg skal i dette prosjektet, gjennom å kombinere analyse av TV2s nyhetsending og empirisk kvalitativ resepsjonsstudie av publikums forståelse av programmet, forsøke å belyse hvordan publikum forstår budskapet i nyhetssendingen. ...