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COVID’s Dynamic Impact on Consumer Behavior in the US: A System Dynamics Approach to Understanding People’s Perception, Cognition, and Reaction to COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)COVID-19 has instigated sweeping and universal changes in how people carry on their day to day lives as they are forced to adjust to a constantly evolving pandemic. This research project investigates how general behavior ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
Cradle to Cradle - Foretaksstrategier som bidrag til det grønne skiftet - En case-studie av foretak i Limburg-regionen i Nederland
(Master thesis, 2016-09-01)This master thesis is about the Cradle-to- Cradle principles and the overall circular economy. I have especially been looking into companies that have chosen to implement the Cradle to Cradle principles into their business. ... -
Crafting Distinctions: Reinventing Work, Desire and Design Among the Petty Bourgeoisie of Paris
(Master thesis, 2015-12-08)The aim of this thesis is not to accurately map out the Bobos as a subculture. I rather seek to unearth this group's practices of aestheticization and commodification as part of their specific ethical values. The Bobos I ... -
Creating a Common Space in a Sectarian Landscape: Social Work andCohesive Action in Post-War Lebanon
(Master thesis, 2005)Through the course of this thesis I will portray and debate the make up, projects andmembers of a small organisation acting within a large context. Aiming to give a thoroughpresentation of Mouvement Social, and to illuminate ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
Creating a sandbox for multi-relation Modal Logic
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Modal Logic is a framework used to reason about relational structures, with these struc- tures being widely used for modelling various types of phenomena in many different disciplines, including but not limited to computer ... -
Creating an Agglomerative Clustering Approach Using GDELT
(Master thesis, 2023-06-01)GDELT is a project with a large scale, continuously updated databank that provides a real-time image of the global news picture by outputting these as files that can be downloaded and used by anyone. However, this data is ... -
Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-04)Mock elections at school have been a part of the political education in Norway since the end of the Second World War, and have become an institution of political education. One of the main objectives of democratic institutions ... -
Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ... -
Creating the "University experience": promotional and multimodal video productions in Scandinavian higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Promotional videos produced by higher education institutions (HEIs) are an important medium for introducing new generations of students to HEIs and communicating their roles and purposes to the outside world. Despite the ... -
Crises to die for: a quantitative study of financial crises, political instability, and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)This thesis emphasizes the multidimensionality of political instability when examining whether financial crises may trigger political instability, and how financial crises and instability affect the growth rate of the ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ... -
Cross-national variation in growth models: Three sources of extra demand
(Chapter, 2021)The chapter presents a new framework for categorizing economic growth models and applies it to twenty-eight OECD countries from 1995 to 2016. The framework draws on three fundamental ways in which economies can benefit ... -
Cross-sector Collaboration in upper secondary School vocational education: experiences from two industrial towns in Sweden and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This study explores industry–education collaboration on vocational education and training (VET) in upper secondary schools in Sweden and Norway, with particular attention to the initiatives, organisation and operational ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Crossing borders: The Case of ethnic Dagestani in Georgia
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)The Anthropology of borders mainly developed from 1990's. As scholars have sought to grasp the changed configuration of borders brought about by the fall of the iron curtain, the enlargement of the European Union (EU), the ... -
Crossing Hands in the Russian Cards Problem
(Master thesis, 2018-12-18)When communicating using an unconditionally secure protocol, a sender and receiver is able to transmit secret information over a public, insecure channel without fear of the secret being intercepted by a third party. The ... -
Crowning moments: Transformative populist use of the media and the case of Carl I. Hagen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents the concept of a “crowning moment” and proposes an explanation for the media-savviness of many populist leaders – an under-theorised ability often referred to in existing research. A crowning moment ...