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Developing and Comparing Similarity Functions for the News Recommender Domain Using Human Judgments
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Developing and Evaluating a University Recommender System
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A challenge for many young adults is to find the right institution to follow higher education. Global university rankings are a commonly used, but inefficient tool, for they do not consider a person's preferences and needs. ... -
The development and evaluation of CrimeSceneAR - An augmented reality application for crime scene investigation and reconstruction.
(Master thesis, 2008-05-26)In a murder case, the key evidence is normally the corpse, which obviously, is removed from the crime scene as soon as possible. This removal can cause difficulties for the investigators, as the corpse is a crucial part ... -
The development and evaluation of the SemanticGeoBrowser - A Semantic Web application for browsing the spatial dimension of the Web of Data
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)The Semantic Web is woven together into a Web of data by statements expressed through the Resource Description Framework (RDF) syntax. This syntax only accepts sentences that are shaped by a subject, predicate and object, ... -
Development cooperation with Norwegian NGOs in Bolivia. How the developent cooperation is affected by a stronger state
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)The Bolivian state evicted USAID and the Danish development organization IBIS for conspiracy against the state and political meddling in 2013, and introduced the same year a new law that involves more restrictions and ... -
Development for whom? Narratives on the impact of Chinese involvement in Angola
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The rise of China challenges the unipolar world dominated by the West and the capitalism seen after the end of the cold war. Africa, in particular, has been dominated by the West during the last decades. The economic ... -
Development of a system dynamics framework for analysing regional economies: The Sunshine coast case
(Master thesis, 2014-07-03)Policy Makers and stakeholders of the Sunshine Coast are aware of the significance of the current juncture, in which the performance of the economy has been deteriorating over the last years. Consequently, the status quo ... -
Development of a systematic method for assessing HIV-indicator data reporting in Kenya
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-08-24)Background: In a bid to eradicate the HIV epidemic, Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have taken strides in strengthening monitoring and evaluation through building capacity in data collection and data use. As such, ... -
Development of organic farming in Europe at the crossroads: Looking for the way forward through system archetype lenses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-15)Over the last several decades, policymakers and stakeholders in the European Union (EU) have put considerable effort into increasing the adoption of organic farming, with the overall objective of its sustainable development. ... -
Development of Smoking Behavior in Adolescence: the Case of North Dakota
(Master thesis, 2015-07-16)This thesis describes a modeling project, performed by Oleksandr Ivanov, a student enrolled in European Master Program in System Dynamics, in cooperation with assistant professor Arielle Selya (University of North Dakota) ... -
Development of standard indicators to assess use of electronic health record systems implemented in low-and medium-income countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-11)Background: Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) are being rolled out nationally in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) yet assessing actual system usage remains a challenge. We employed a nominal group technique ... -
Dialog på bakrommet vs. krasse enkeltuttalelser: En politisk diskursanalyse av dialogstrategien i norsk utenrikspolitikk
(Master thesis, 2020-08-04)Tema for denne oppgaven er argumentasjonen knyttet til dialogstrategien i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Formålet er å skape et grunnlag for diskusjon om strategien i tilfeller hvor norske interesser og verdier kommer i konflikt. ... -
Dialog, Argumentasjon og Følelser. En analyse av deliberative og retoriske aspekter ved likelønnsdebatten i Europaparlamentet fra 1974 til 2008
(Master thesis, 2009-06-02)Denne studien tar form som en analyse av likelønnsdebatten i Europaparlamentet, med bakgrunn i fire debatter i perioden 1974 til 2008. Likelønn har stått sentralt på EUs agenda siden Romatraktaten i 1957, men man har ... -
Diaspora Mobilization for Justice During Conflict : The Case of Syria
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-15)This dissertation asks how diaspora mobilization for transitional justice evolves during conflict. Mobilization for transitional justice typically “deals with the past” and focuses on retrospective attempts to deal with ... -
Diaspora Mobilization in the Wake of the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Anti-Regime Diaspora’s Struggle for Influence in the US and the UK
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)This thesis seeks to analyze the Syrian diaspora's political mobilization emerging in the United States and the United Kingdom after the inception of the 2011 uprising. Despite extensive mobilization, the diaspora has been ... -
"Different strokes for different folks" in egalitarian intentional communities: searching for the good life in practical utopias
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-22)This thesis explores egalitarian social experiments in a section within the Intentional Communities (ICs) movement in the United States of America. The central ethnographic investigation of the thesis concerns an analysis ... -
Differential Information Economies and Incomplete Markets
(Master thesis, 2008-05-26)In a pure exchange economy with differential information, there may be ex-post Pareto-dominant core allocations which are not attainable as Rational Expectations Equilibria because of information verifiability issues. On ... -
Differentiation of rights in the Norwegian welfare state: Hierarchies of belonging and humanitarian exceptionalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-30)Controlling mobility and borders has become a central, defining feature of the state today. Using the Norwegian welfare state as a case study, I argue that the differentiation of rights depending on status categories is ...