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Teachers’ professional development and an open classroom climate:A comparative study of Norway, Sweden, South Korea, and Taiwan
(OsloMet University Library, 2019-04-04)This article examines teachers’ professional development (PD) in terms of content knowledge and teaching methods, their sense of preparedness in teaching, and their teaching practice of civic and citizenship education (CCE) ... -
Technological Care. Health Professionals’ Discourses on Technology in Home-Based Services Seen Through a Capability Approach
(Springer, 2020-07-10)This article is a contribution to the reflection upon what forms of assistive technologies societies should provide to users of home-based services. The material is collected from five focus group interviews conducted in ... -
Testing the empirical relevance of the "saving for a rainy day" hypothesis in US metro areas
(Wiley, 2019)The joint implication of the consumption Euler equation and cointegration between income and consumption is that savings predict future income declines, the ‘saving for a rainy day’ hypothesis. The empirical relevance of ... -
The role of ethics in reducing and improving the quality of coercion in mental health care
(2016)Coercion in mental health care gives rise to many ethical challenges. Many countries have recently implemented state policy programs or development projects aiming to reduce coercive practices and improve their quality. ... -
The strength and vulnerability of school-age children
(Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2017)BACKGROUND Children between the ages of 5 and 14 appear to have a lower risk of dying than both younger and older individuals. OBJECTIVE We looked for possible factors influencing the mortality rates ... -
Theorizing musical politics: How music express feminist critiques during political protests against the Temer Government in today’s Brazil
(The Open University, 2017)Inspired by Karen Barad’s theoretical developments within the field of “posthumanist performativity” and Martha Nussbaum’s work on “political emotions” alongside Herder’s notion of “empirical aesthetics” this article ... -
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: 'Problemorientert empirisme' gjennom 60 år
(Universitetsforlaget, 2020)Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning vil prøve å gi et norsk publikum vitenskapelig orientering om samfunnsforhold og mellommenneskelige spørsmål. […] Vår oppgave er å legge fram resultater av forskning, ikke å fremme sosiale ... -
Tillit og forbrukerforhold i EU28 og Norge – Resultater fra EU-kommisjonenes Consumer Conditions Scoreboard.
(Forbruksforskningsinstituttet (SIFO), OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, 2020-04-06)I EU-kommisjonens siste måling av forbrukerforholdene i tretti europeiske land rangeres forbrukerforholdene i Norge som nr.2. Norske forbrukere har høyere tillit til forbrukermyndighetene enn til tilbyderne i markedet, ... -
"To be, or not to be": Experiencing deterioration among people with young-onset dementia living alone
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-07-05)Having dementia before the age of 65 (YOD) represents a radical break from an agenormative and expected life course. The disease afflicts the person’s identity, threatens the self-image and self-confidence, and erodes the ... -
Tobacco use among Norwegian adolescents: from cigarettes to snus
(Wiley, 2014-03-16)Aims To: (i) investigate the development of smoking and snus use among Norwegian adolescents, and (ii) describe the users in each group. Design Two population-based surveys with identical procedures in 2002 (response ... -
Too Cute for Words: Cuteness Evokes the Heartwarming Emotion of Kama Muta
(Frontiers Media, 2019-03-01)A configuration of infantile attributes including a large head, large eyes, with a small nose and mouth low on the head comprise the visual baby schema or Kindchenschema that English speakers call “cute.” In contrast to the ... -
Tord Larsen, Emil A. Røyrvik (Red.): Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis
(Universitetsforlaget, 2019-06-12)«Den overordnete ambisjonen med denne boka er å undersøke objektivering, måling og standardisering i vår tid, og vise hvordan disse praksisene utgjør en kulturell logikk som former de fine hoveddimensjonene i sosialt liv: ... -
Towards a low CO2 emission building material employing bacterial metabolism (1/2): The bacterial system and prototype production
(Public Library of Science, 2019-04-16)The production of concrete for construction purposes is a major source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. One promising avenue towards a more sustainable construction industry is to make use of naturally occurring mineral-microbe ... -
Towards a low CO2 emission building material employing bacterial metabolism (2/2): Prospects for global warming potential reduction in the concrete industry
(Public Library of Science, 2019-04-16)The production of concrete is one of the most significant contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. This work focuses on bio-cementation-based products and their potential to reduce global warming potential (GWP). ... -
Towards the integration and development of a cross-European research network and infrastructure: the DEterminants of DIet and Physical ACtivity (DEDIPAC) Knowledge Hub
(BioMed Central, 2014)To address major societal challenges and enhance cooperation in research across Europe, the European Commission has initiated and facilitated `joint programming’. Joint programming is a process by which Member States engage ... -
Trans-disciplinarily required in understanding, predicting and dealing with water eutrophication
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Eutrophication remains a challenge for water quality, and leaching of phosphorus (P) from agriculture remains usually the determining factor as point source emissions of sewage are mainly under control. The Morsa watershed, ... -
Transition from school-based training in VET
(Emerald, 2017)Purpose – This paper assesses the drop-out rate among disadvantaged students within vocational education and training. The purpose of this paper is to examine the probability of dropping out after school-based training ... -
Translating knowing that into knowing how: The case of trust in regional network building
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2014)By asking: Can action research help transmit ordinary, conventional, descriptive-analytic knowledge?, we set out to explore the complementarity between the descriptive-analytic "knowing that" and the practical "knowing ... -
Transnational practices and local lives. Quran courses via Skype in Norwegian-Pakistani families
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-03-30)With the emergence of an adult generation of descendants of migrants who are entering the labour market, marrying and having children, questions of transnationalism are made current in new ways. This article engages in the ... -
Trust and the don't-want-to-complain bias in peer-to-peer platform markets
(Wiley, 2020-01-04)This paper addresses peer‐to‐peer (P2P) digital platform markets, often associated with the “sharing economy” or the “collaborative economy”. Such digital platforms, facilitating new purchasing channels for consumers by ...
