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Work orientations in contemporary advanced societies : Three comparative studies based on large-scale cross-national survey data
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-11)This thesis investigates work orientations among workers in contemporary capitalist societies from a comparative cross-national perspective. It consists of three individual studies. Each applies a different conceptual and ... -
Work, Pension and Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Norway and Denmark in light of OECD Recommendations
(Master thesis, 2003)The thesis addresses the subject of ageing societies resulting from demographic trends of population, individual and active ageing. Societies are aging across the world, but the focus of this study is the OECD area in ... -
Workflow Partitioning for Offline Distributed Execution on Mobile Devices
(CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 855, Chapter, 2012)Traditionally, workflow systems are built on the client/server architecture, in which a single workflow server takes the responsibility for the operation of the whole process, thereby requiring connections each time a task ... -
The Workflow synchronizer
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)Workflow Synchronizer was developed in order to support Workflow Management in openXdata which is an open source solution for surveys and studies. The Workflow Synchronizer takes an event log and matches it with the planned ... -
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Examining the Politics of In-Work Conditionality in the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The intensification of behavioural requirements and punitive measures in unemployment benefits by UK governments has been popular and instrumental to the politics of welfare reform. Yet there is scant research into the ... -
The World Bank and Climate Change Mitigation - Integrating Considerations for Climate Change Mitigation in the Energy Portfolio 2008-2011
(Master thesis, 2012)Projections reveal that developing countries’ emissions of GHG will rise tremendously in the decades to come. The UNFCCC has identified the World Bank as having an important role to play in assisting client countries develop ... -
The World Model Controversy
(Working Papers in System Dynamics, Working paper, 2005)In 1971 Jay Forrester published his book World Dynamics, where he presented a high-levelsimulation model of the socio-economic-environmental world system. The main purpose ofthe model and the accompanying book was to ... -
Worlds apart. On class structuration of citizens’ political and public attention and engagement in an egalitarian society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology for a statistical study of the complex interrelationship between Norwegian citizens’ attention and engagement in the world of politics and broader public debate, ... -
Worlds of Journalism, Norway 2013. Methodology, questionnaire and selected tables
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Worried sick? Worker responses to a financial shock
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04)Excessive sickness absence may hurt productivity and put a strain on public finances. One explanation put forward for increasing absence rates is that a tougher labour market represents a health hazard. A competing hypothesis ... -
Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-02-26)Background The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, with a small and inequitably distributed health workforce. Rural areas and ... -
X-erne
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XAI Text: A Domain-Specific Language for Developing an AI Pipeline
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)XAI Text: A Domain-Specific Language for Developing an AI Pipeline -
Yak Tovil. Between health and entertainment
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The 'Yam' that dropped. An ethnographic study of the digital life of urban, Ghanaian youth.
(Master thesis, 2018-08-16)Smartphones are becoming ever more popular, and common, in Ghana, especially among urban youth. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the spring of 2015, this thesis analyses the digital life of young adults in ... -
Yard Work and Worker Memories. An Analysis of Fields and Practices of Remembering from a Relationist’ Standpoint
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Yemeni Families in the Early History of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ca. 1900-1950 : A Revisionist Approach in Diasporic Historiography
(Journal article, 2011)This article aims to bring into attention the hitherto undocumented history of Yemeni migration to Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Taking in to account a period which amount to half a century the article describes ... -
You can eat rice but, but you can't eat money. Commercial agriculture and the value of rice in an upland Karen village
(Master thesis, 2010-06-04)My thesis is based on a seven month fieldwork in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. During these months I held the position as a volunteer in a local Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) while at the same time conducting research ... -
"You're really just in a big bubble, with lots of stuff inside". En kvalitativ studie om internasjonalisering av høyere utdanning og utbyttet av utvekslingsopphold
(Master thesis, 2011-05-09)Denne masteroppgaven omhandler internasjonalisering av høyere utdanning og mer spesifikt hvilket utbytte studenter får av å reise på utvekslingsopphold. Oppgaven tar for seg utveksling som en direkte effekt av internasjonalisering ... -
Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Young people are under-represented in formal politics. While this may be a mere projection of their lack among voters and party members, the article investigates whether being young is a disadvantage in election processes, ...