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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. ... -
Punctuation Prediction for Norwegian: Using Established Approaches for Under-Resourced Languages
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Putting decision into action: the Disability Act of Ghana. Six years down the line.
(Master thesis, 2013-05-31)The study was conducted to explore how far implementation of the Ghana Disability Act has gone and some factors affecting its implementation. Using the qualitative method of case study, officials from the secretariat of ... -
Quality of Government Sustains News Media Trust: A Cross-Country Comparative Study on The Effect of Quality of Government and Media Systems on News Media Trust in Europe
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)The news media play important roles in consolidated democracies as a source of information, watchdog over the powerful and curators of the public sphere. In regimes undergoing democratic transition, news media can be ... -
Quality of life and resource use in nursing homes. The effect of the COSMOS-intervention
(Master thesis, 2018-07-06)Dementia is a costly disease. Future projections show a higher share of elderly, which will increase prevalence of dementia and thus health care expenditures consumed by people with dementia. In addition, comes the costs ... -
Quantification and Change Assessment Benjamin Aubrey Robson 2016 Dissertation date: 31st October 2016 of Debris-Covered Glaciers using Remote Sensing
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-31)This thesis investigates how remote sensing data can be used to assess the changing state of debris-covered ice. The principal study areas are the Manaslu Region in Nepal (papers I and III) and the Hohe Tauern National ... -
Quantifying over information change with common knowledge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Public announcement logic (PAL) extends multi-agent epistemic logic with dynamic operators modelling the effects of public communication. Allowing quantification over public announcements lets us reason about the existence ... -
Quelques principes de base dans la méthodologie comparative de la recherche sociale au niveau international
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A Quest for Success in Urban China; a study of "young urban professionals" in Beijing
(Master thesis, 2013-12-16)In this thesis I examine how young urban professionals in Beijing relate to their experience of participating in the modern Chinese capitalist economy. Their experiences are seen along economic and social lines: from ... -
“Quiet is the New Loud”: The Biosociology Debate’s Absent Voices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In 2000, a controversial article about hormones and gender roles was published to stimulate debate about whether and how biological knowledge should be integrated in sociological research. Two decades later, this so-called ...