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Women's Empowerment and Family Planning: A Quantitative study from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2008
(Master thesis, 2014-05-20)Introduction This study analyses the impact of empowerment on women's health and contraceptive use. Empowerment is a process which enables one to exercise choice. In this study, choice is the present and/or planned use of ... -
Women's experiences when unsure about whether or not to have an abortion in the first trimester
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Abortion during the first trimester is legal in most Western countries. However, deciding to terminate a pregnancy is a challenging process, and some women arrive at the abortion clinic still not absolutely certain. We ... -
Women's Initial Experiences and up to a Year in Retrospect of Their Life Situation With a Confirmed Takotsubo Syndrome Diagnosis: A Single Case Study Literature Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Purpose: To describe women's initial experiences and up to a year in retrospect of their life situation with a confirmed Takotsubo syndrome (TS) diagnosis. Method: A single case study literature review based on nine articles ... -
Women's perspectives on the management and consequences of hyperemesis gravidarum - a descriptive interview study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective: Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) affects 0.3–3% of pregnant women and is a leading cause of hospitalization in early pregnancy. The aim of the study was to investigate women’s treatment and management of HG, as well ... -
Women's prepregnancy lipid levels and number of children: a Norwegian prospective population-based cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Objective. To study prepregnancy serum lipid levels and the association with the number of children. Design. Prospective, population-based cohort. Setting. Linked data from the Cohort of Norway and the Medical Birth Registry ... -
Women's substantive representation in parliament: A comparative analysis of legalising abortion in Argentina and Uruguay
(Master thesis, 2014-11-19)This thesis is a comparative study of substantive representation of women in parliament, focusing on the process of abortion legislation in Argentina and Uruguay. Women's representation in parliament has increased across ... -
Women, work, and wages: How family policies continue to shape the gender wage gap
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Despite a dramatic convergence in the gender wage gap at the end of the 20th century, there has been a puzzling stability ever since. The thesis addresses this puzzling development by asking: How do family policies intended ... -
Women`s Political Participation in Local Government in Ethiopia: The Case of Two Districts in Amhara Regional State.
(Master thesis, 2017-06-24)Ethiopian women have been excluded from public sphere for a long period. Their absence, especially from politics, has affected their life enormously. Since political participation increases gender equality and empowerment ... -
Womens' opinions on antenatal care in developing countries: results of a study in Cuba, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Argentina
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003-05-20)Background: The results of a qualitative study carried out in four developing countries (Cuba, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Argentina) are presented. The study was conducted in the context of a randomised controlled trial ... -
Women’s experiences of maternal and newborn health care services and support systems in Buikwe District, Uganda: A qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Uganda continues to have a high neonatal mortality rate, with 20 deaths per 1000 live births reported in 2018. A measure to reverse this trend is to fully implement the Uganda Clinical Guidelines on care for ... -
Women’s higher likelihood of disability pension: the role of health, family and work. A 5–7 years follow-up of the Hordaland Health Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-08-31)Background: Women’s higher risk of disability pension compared with men is found in countries with high female work participation and universal welfare schemes. The aim of the study was to examine the extent to which ... -
Women’s magazines and their readers. Experiences, identity and everyday life
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-02-24)In this thesis I explore women's magazine reading as a media experience. I ask how regularreaders of women's magazines experience these publications, and how these experiences canbe related to readers’ everyday lives and ... -
Women’s sickness absence in contemporary Norway. The impacts of class, motherhood, and pregnancy
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-02-27)It is well known that in many countries, women have higher levels of sickness absence than men. In spite of several attempts to explain this gender gap in Norway, it is not very well understood. This thesis contributes to ... -
Wood resource exploitation in the Norse North Atlantic: a review of recent research and future directions
(UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;13, Chapter, 2022)The North Atlantic islands have always been relatively wood-poor. Nonetheless, from the Viking Age they were home to Norse settlers who in their homelands relied significantly on wood resources for the production of a huge ... -
Wood-dust exposure and respiratory health among particleboard workers in Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-11-22)Background Work in the wood industry is often associated with exposure to wood dust, endotoxins and formaldehyde, which may cause respiratory health problems. Particleboard is a type of wood product manufactured primarily ... -
Word banks, dictionaries and research results by the roadside
(Chapter, 2022)Many European languages have undergone considerable changes in orthography over the last 150 years. This hampers the application of modern computer-based analysers to older text, and hence computer-based annotation and ... -
Word cloud visualisation of locative information
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-22)This article describes an explorative study of a prototype for visualisation of locative information from Wikipedia. PediaCloud is a smartphone app that uses word clouds for graphical display of links to text and photos ... -
Word order in clauses of purpose and result in Old English translated and non-translated prose
(Master thesis, 2020-12-09)Mange av de overlevende tekstene vi har fra den gammelengelske perioden er tekster som er oversatt fra, eller inspirert av, latinske tekster. Spesielt tekster fra den tidligste gammelengelske perioden (800-950 evt) er ... -
Word order in Old English and Middle English subordinate clauses
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Word order patterns in Old and Middle English. A syntactic and pragmatic study.
(Doctoral thesis, 2001-03-16)