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Gender Dimensions in the family reunification and integration process: Eritrean immigrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020-06-16)This thesis presents a feminist approach towards understanding gender in the migration and integration process. It examines the dynamics involved in Eritrean families’ gender relations after they migrate to Norway and how ... -
Gender in the Supreme Court of Norway - Judicial behaviour in child custody cases, 1968 - 2011
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)This thesis explores how gender affects the votes of Norwegian Supreme Court judges in cases of disputed child custody in the period from 1968 to 2011. A typology of four common approaches to the study of gendered behaviour ... -
Gender Parity and the Symbolic Representation of Women in Senegal
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)In 2010, Senegal adopted a 50/50 gender quota law called the “Law on Parity”, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of women elected to the National Assembly in the following legislative election from 22,7% to ... -
Gender relations and household livelihood security in Lake Kariba fishing communities, Zambia
(Master thesis, 2007)The focus of this study is the livelihoods of men and women involved in fishery relatedactivities in the Lake Kariba and in the Zambezi River, Southern Province of Zambia.The main questions concerns how norms and rules for ... -
Gendered Strategies Among Migrants From Nothern Ghana in Accra: A Case Study of Madina
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)The high level of migration of people from Northern to Southern Ghana is rooted in historical antecedents. The general objective of this study is to explore the gendered strategies of migrants from Northern to Southern ... -
Gendered transition structures: life course patterns after completion of gender-segregated vocational education in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we present the results from a sequence analysis of two cohorts of young people skilled in gender-segregated vocational education in Norway. By using administrative data on monthly statuses in education, ... -
The Gendering of a Farming System. A study of the relationship between gender and agricultural production in Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Gender issues have increasingly been given attention to in research on agriculture and farming systems. Prior to the 1970s, gender was rarely addressed, as economic activities and more technical descriptions were prioritized ... -
Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness ... -
Generative språkmodeller for automatisert tekstforenkling: Tilpasning av nyhetsartikler for lesbarhet hos personer med dysleksi
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)I denne masteroppgaven utforskes utviklingen av en prototype for automatisert tekstforenkling med fokus på tilpasning av nyhetsartikler for personer med dysleksi. Prosjektet involverer flere iterasjoner for å finne den ... -
The Genre of the Royal Crisis Address: Six European Monarchs’ Rhetorical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article offers a rhetorical analysis of the addresses delivered by six Northern European monarchs in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. The analysis establishes a new genre with distinctive traits and ... -
GenSupport. A generic guideline-based clinical decision support system
(Master thesis, 2008-05-14)Clinicians treating congenital clubfoot use paper forms to register and monitor the treatment progress. Routines for registration and archiving are scarce, and the guideline for treating clubfoot is not always followed ... -
Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust ... -
Geografisk bevissthet hos velgere, lokalpolitikere og forvaltningsansatte
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Geografiske skillelinjer ble igjen sentrale for norske velgere under Solberg-regjeringen. Slike politiske spenninger kan komme til uttrykk gjennom det vi kaller en geografisk bevissthet – et syn på geografisk fordeling av ... -
Geografisk konflikt i det politiske landskapet: En fortelling om to dimensjoner
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I denne artikkelen undersøker vi geografiske og territorielle skiller i dagens norske politiske landskap der innbyggerne i bygd og by, i sentrum og periferi har kommet nærmere hverandre på grunn av teknologisk og ... -
Geographical information system to support location critical vaccine trials
(Master thesis, 2010-06-11)OpenXdata is an open-source project for collecting of data digitally. In this thesis we look at the posibilites using GIS as a support system for OpenXdata. -
The Geography of Participation: The case of Pluspetrol in Pisco, Peru
(Master thesis, 2012-05-08)This study analyses how public participation is shaped geographically in the extractive industry in Peru. Focusing on a special sector of the Camisea Gas Project, I take into analysis the different formal and informal ... -
A geography of repoliticisation: Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The question of the political has gained renewed relevance in recent years. New movements are challenging what has been called ‘the post-political consensus’ and have facilitated the repoliticisation of a wide range of ... -
Gerrymandering v. The Constitution: The case of Gill v. Whitford
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)In this case study I analyze partisan gerrymandering in the United States with the research question: Does partisan gerrymandering violate the Constitution of the United States of America? With this as a starting point I ... -
Getting profitable CCU off the ground: Contingent pathways and Bergen Carbon Solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)As carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) gains policy traction and pilot project funding, CCS usually gets the limelight, whereas CCU is often overlooked. CCU, if feasible, has two potential advantages: it obviates ...