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1968 and its other worlds: Global events and (anti-)state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu

Rio, Knut; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)

This article de-centres the moment, event and impact of 1968 and expands it temporally and spatially. Taking a longue durée approach charting a trajectory from the 1960s into the 1980s, we analyse statist and anti-statist ...

The 2010 Football World Cup and the Rainbow Nation. A critical discourse analysis of the upcoming football World Cup 2010 in South Africa

Rannstad, Linn (Master thesis, 2010-02-01)

A critical discourse analysis of the upcoming Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Is the coming event used as a part of the nation- building process?

The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway: The periphery strikes again

Stein, Jonas; Folkestad, Bjarte; Christensen, Dag Arne; Aars, Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway took place against the backdrop of a historical local and regional amalgamation reform initiated by the Conservative-led government in 2014. We find six key outcomes from ...

20th century Betula pubescens subsp. czerepanovii tree- and forest lines in Norway

Bryn, Anders; Potthoff, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11-23)

Background: Georeferenced tree- and forest line data has a wide range of applications and are increasingly used for e.g. monitoring of climate change impacts and range shift modelling. As part of a research project, ...

A case study on The Vicious Cycle of Food Insecurity in Small-scale Farmer Households in Zambia

Nasrin, Farhana (Master thesis, 2020-09-01)

A comparative usability study of how novices and experts see the balance between the need for advanced features and ease of use in a web-based video editing tool

Karlsen, Sebastian (Master thesis, 2019-06-15)

A different way of eating ¨Beef vs Chicken¨

Medina Pereyra, Carlos Sixto (Master thesis, 2020-07-14)

"A Director's Medium" En analyse av Michel Gondry og Chris Cunninghams virke som musikkvideoregissører sett i lys av kanonbegrepet og historisk auteur-tankegang.

Onsager, Even (Master thesis, 2007)

Tre DVD-utgivelser fra 2003, Palm Pictures' The Work of Director Spike Jonze, ...Chris Cunningham og ...Michel Gondry, snudde på det tradisjonelle hierarkiet mellom artist og musikkvideoregissør og satte regissøren som ...

A Geoecological History of Høgtuvbreen: Vegetation succession on the foreland of a retreating glacier in northern Norway

Young, George Edward (Master thesis, 2022-08-01)

Norway is facing massive glacial ablation, with projections of 98% loss of glacial cover by the close of the 21st century, releasing thousands of square kilometres to the progression of primary succession. Alongside this, ...

A Hypothetical Model of Food Loss Generation from Grocery Store to Customer

Cole, Nathan Waldner (Master thesis, 2021-12-20)

A mood tracking interface for mobile application -to help assess well being in students.

Hamre-Os, Astrid (Master thesis, 2021-02-12)

Many students struggle with mental health issues, however, research show that few of them seek help for their problems (Knapstad et al., 2018). In this study, a mobile mood tracking interface is developed with the objective ...

A multimodal approach for event detection from lifelogs

Wiik, Espen Holst (Master thesis, 2020-07-07)

This paper analyzes how personal lifelog data which contains biometric, visual, activity data, can be leveraged to detect points in time where the individual is partaking in an eating activity. To answer this question, ...

A Reaffirmed Call for Responsibility-Sharing: Determinants of Responsibility-Sharing after the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees

Kristoffersen, Eva Marit (Master thesis, 2021-07-02)

This thesis investigates what can explain states’ contributions to responsibility-sharing in the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees. Refugees and the responsibilities of refugee protection continue to be ...

A social cooperative fitness application promoting an active lifestyle

Marthinsen, Kristoffer Torkildsen (Master thesis, 2020-07-03)

A study of decadal scale glacier changes of the Lunana glacier system in Bhutan, Himalaya, with considerations to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs)

Skjolddal, Ole-Gunnar Turøy (Master thesis, 2020-06-24)

This study assesses changes in glacier area, velocity, and geodetic mass balance for a selection of glaciers in the Lunana glacier system of Bhutan, Himalaya. It takes considerations to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) ...