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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 ... -
Ghana Petroleum Fund Experiment. ´Can a Petroleum Fund help Ghana manage its petroleum revenue (wealth)? An Experimental Inquiry´
(Master thesis, 2010)Ghana starts petroleum production and export business in the third quarter of2010. The management of the petroleum tax revenue is seen as timely fiscalpolicy decisions by the government and its partners. These policy ... -
Ghana's emerging oil and gas industry. Livelihood impacts of Ghana gas processing plant at Atuabo in western region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)The discovery and subsequent production of oil at Ghana's Jubilee fields came with euphoria and heightened expectations of the oil and gas sector to provide quality jobs, revenue for investment in infrastructure, education ... -
Ghana's mental health act 2012- A study of the actors and strategies in setting the public policy agenda.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)The mental health bill was drafted in 2004 but was eventually passed in 2012 after some pressure was put on government to pass the law in order to improve access to mental health care. This study attempted to investigate ... -
Gikk alt på skinner? Et casestudie av beslutningsprosessen rundt Bybanen i Bergen 1989-2010
(Master thesis, 2011-12-08)22.juni 2010 åpnet Bybanen i Bergen. Dette var et resultat av at diskusjonen rundt en bane igjen kom på dagsorden i 1989, og at det ble vedtatt på Stortinget 28.februar 2006. Hele beslutningsprosessen, og frem til bybanen ... -
Gikk anbudet på skinner? En kvalitativ studie av prosessen knyttet til konkurranseutsetting av Sørlandsbanen
(Master thesis, 2020-12-01)Temaet for denne masteroppgaven er prosessen knyttet til konkurranseutsetting av Sørlandsbanen, med stortingsmelding 27 «På rett spor – Reform av jernbanesektoren» (Innst. 386 S, 2014–2015) som bakteppe. Studiens problemstilling ... -
"Gimme Shelter": How Can States and the World Community Protect "Climate Refugees"?
(Master thesis, 2012-08-02)The aim of this paper is to look at how the world community can offer protection to climate refugees". Although migration in the face of natural or human made disasters is not a new trend, there are signs of increases in ...