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Machine learning vs logistic regression in credit scoring: A trade-off between accuracy and interpretability?
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)In this thesis, I compare logistic regression to the machine learning models k-nearest neighbor, decision trees, random forest, and gradient booster by creating different credit models. By using data from an anonymous ... -
Macroeconomy and macropartisanship: Economic conditions and party identification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)“It's the economy stupid”—is the phrase that captures the ubiquity of economics in determining election outcomes. Nevertheless, while several studies support the premise of economic voting, a constant critique of valence ... -
Mahishi's rage: Communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India lifted the ban on females of menstrual age entering the sacred site to Lord Ayyappan at Sabarimala in the Indian state of Kerala. Violent protests, for and against, engulfed ... -
Maize Losses During Storage: A System Dynamics approach to the Food Reserve Agency Case in Zambia
(Master thesis, 2015-06-26)Agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa is seen as the key pathway towards economic development. Among sub-Saharan countries, Zambia stands out for its agricultural production potential, and has in the past decade, ... -
The Maize Value Chain in Zambia: Dynamics and Resilience Towards Production Shocks
(Master thesis, 2015-07-03)Zambia is a country whose food security largely depends on maize. In the light of expected structural maize deficits and the likely occurrence of shock events, the aim of this thesis is to test the resilience of the Zambian ... -
Making and breaking alliances: on valuation in hegemonic projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In public discourse, the polarizations that accompany the success of authoritarian populisms in recent years are often portrayed as the result of “culture wars” rooted in incompatible values. This article approaches the ... -
Making and managing femaleness, fertility and motherhood within an urban Gambian area
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The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad : Development and Transformations Below Sea Level
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in Keralam, India and the rest of the world. By ... -
The Making and Unmaking of the Politics of Exceptionality. Studying Processes of Securitisation and Desecuritisation in the Orange and Okavango River Basins
(Master thesis, 2006)This study acknowledges the shortcomings of, on the one side, keeping the concept ofsecurity in international relations limited and confined to state protection by military meansfrom perceived internal and/or external ... -
Making citizen's charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
(Master thesis, 2011-06-20)Citizen's Charter (CC), as a means of improving public service delivery has become popular around the world since the 1990s. In order to change administrative rigidity and enhance responsiveness of public organizations to ... -
The making of a performative pathology. Stress and the self at work
(Bergen Studies in Sociology; 10/2019, Doctoral thesis, 2019-03-29) -
Making sense of nonsense : Integrated gradient-based input reduction to improve recall for check-worthy claim detection
(Chapter, 2023)Analysing long text documents of political discourse to identify check-worthy claims (claim detection) is known to be an important task in automated fact-checking systems, as it saves the precious time of fact-checkers, ... -
Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective ... -
Making the government accountable: rethinking immigration as an issue in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the last decades, European countries have experienced two relevant waves of immigration. These ‘immigration shocks’ have contributed to increase dramatically public attention on immigration issues but also to structure ... -
Makroøkonomisk undersøkelse i verdensmarkedet for fersk oppdrettslaks Har avstand og valutakurs en innvirkning på Loven om én pris?
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)De siste tiårene har det vært en enorm vekst i oppdrettsnæringen for laks, da produksjonen har økt og mer laks omsettes globalt. Dette har skapt større svingninger i eksportpriser. Global handel av laks har ført til mer ... -
Makt mot klassesolidaritet. Om streiken på Torp Bruk i 1954 og hvordan støtte til den ble forhindret
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 1985) -
Makt og innflytelse eller resultat av symbolpolitikk? En studie av kommunale ungdomsråd og deres følelse av innflytelse
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Sammendrag I 2019 trådte store deler av den nye kommuneloven i kraft. Dette innebar blant annet at det ble lovpålagt for alle norske kommuner å ha et ungdomsråd, for å sikre unges medvirkning i saker som angår dem. I denne ... -
Makt og motstand. En studie av bedriftsorganisasjon og fagorganisasjon ved Eidanger Salpeterfabriker (Hydro Porsgrunn) 1945 – 1970
(Bergen Studies in Sociology;14/2021, Doctoral thesis, 1984) -
Maktkamp i åpent landskap? En studie av VGs mediering av partilederstriden i Arbeiderpartiet
(Master thesis, 2005) -
Mama, I wont't go to school. Conflictual relations between education and fishing among the children of Anomabo in the central region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-06-20)It is on records that the Central region along the coastal stretch of Ghana was the first to have received formal education during the colonial period as early as the 18th century. This is evident by the fact that the ...