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The directors of urban transformation: The case of Oslo
(Local Economy;Vol 35, Issue 7, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-01)We investigate the urban transformation strategies of major developers and other key actors in the context of neoliberalism and its influence on politics, including urban development governance. Drawing primarily on ... -
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice
(Social Policy and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-04)This article examines why employers struggle to include disability as part of their active diversity approach. Drawing on cross-national interview data from Norway and the USA, we point to the common finding of employers ... -
Disability Disadvantage: Experimental Evidence of Hiring Discrimination against Wheelchair Users
(European Sociological Review;Volume 37, Issue 5, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-27)Disability is associated with persistent labour market disadvantages. What is not clear is the extent to which these disadvantages result from employers’ discriminatory hiring decisions. Although observational research and ... -
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker
(Work, Employment and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-21)Labour market stratification and discrimination of disabled people remains a less researched topic compared to other minorities despite being a notably disadvantaged group. This article explores the employer side of ... -
Disability retirement and public sector reorganization: Hospital mergers in Norway
(Acta Sociologica;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-17)This paper analyses the effect of hospital mergers on the probability of employee disability retirement, focussing on whether the effect on disability retirement differs with employee educational attainment. It uses register ... -
Disabled and immigrant, a double minority challenge: A qualitative study about the experiences of immigrant parents of children with disabilities navigating health and rehabilitation services in Norway
(BMC Health Services Research;20, Article number: 134 (2020), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02-22)Background: Immigrants and their Norwegian-born children make up approximately 18% of the total population in Norway. While several studies have been conducted on immigrants’ utilization of healthcare services, immigrant ... -
Disabled education? : a study concerning young adults with physical disabilities and their experiences with school in Livingstone, Zambia
(Master thesis, 2013)There are about one billion people living with a disability in the world today. In Zambia, this number might be closer to two million. People with disabilities in the global South are almost always less likely to be in ... -
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in post conflict South Sudan: A study of challenges facing reintegration of ex-combatants (XCs) in selected areas of South Sudan. Master
(Master thesis, 2011)This study critically examines the strategy and the challenges of the reintegration of excombatantsin South Sudan. This study was conducted in Juba and Unity State. Data for the study were collected and analyzed using ... -
Disaster Risk Reduction for All? Understanding Intersectionality in Disaster Situations
(IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology;Volume 622, Conference object, 2021-07-31)When designing digital services for citizens in a disaster situation, the diversity of its audience and their particular needs are not always sufficiently taken into account. Variables like digital equipment available, ... -
DISCIT - European Policy Brief
(Andre dokumenter;, Working paper, 2016)Against the background of the Europe 2020 strategy, the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, DISCIT has examined the conditions for the full and effective ... -
DISCIT Final Report - Executive Summary
(Andre dokumenter;, Working paper, 2016)The FP7 project DISCIT provides new knowledge about the diversity in disability policy in European countries and emerging possibilities for policy learning and innovation across Europe. This knowledge shows what steps ... -
Disclosing the Interviewer: Ethnopoetics and the Researcher's Place in Transcribed Interviews
(Ethnologia Europaea;Volume 50 • Issue 2 • Special issue: Brexit Matters, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-14)The transcription of oral interviews into textual data is a complex process. Translating spoken language with all its extralinguistic features into some sort of written text presentation – through transcribing it – is ... -
Discourse and Knowledge culture as a barrier to integrated policy initiatives
(Journal of Social Policy;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-04)Integrated government initiatives have become a common approach following the institutional fragmentation of New Public Management reforms. Complex societal issues require equally complex solutions, which sectorial units ... -
Discovering dignity through experience: How nursing students discover the expression of dignity
(Nursing Ethics;Volume: 29, issue: 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-15)Introduction: Dignity is a core value in nursing. Nursing education shall prepare students for ethical professional practice and facilitate insight into the phenomenon of dignity and its significance. There is limited ... -
Discovering Fuzzy Association Rules from Patient's Daily Text Messages to Diagnose Melancholia
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)With the constant stress from work load and daily life people may show symptoms of melancholia. However, most people are reluctant to describe it or may not know that they already have it. In this paper a novel system ... -
The Discovery and Characterization of Conserved and Novel miRNAs in the Different Developmental Stages and Organs of Pikeperch (Sander lucioperca)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that act as post-transcriptional gene expression regulators. Genes regulated in vertebrates include those affecting growth and development or stress and immune response. ... -
Discovery and characterization of miRNA genes in atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) by use of a deep sequencing approach
(BMC genomics;14 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-07-12)Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of endogenous small RNA molecules that downregulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. They play important roles in multiple biological processes by ... -
Discovery of microRNAs associated with the antiviral immune response of Atlantic cod macrophages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play important immunoregulatory roles in teleosts, although miRNAs involved in the antiviral immune response of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were previously uncharacterised. Using deep ... -
Discovery of miRNAs and Their Corresponding miRNA Genes in Atlantic Cod(Gadus morhua): Use of Stable miRNAs as Reference Genes Reveals Subgroups of miRNAs That Are Highly Expressed in Particular Organs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article; Journal article, 2016-04-29)Background Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is among the economically most important species in the northern Atlantic Ocean and a model species for studying development of the immune system in vertebrates. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) ... -
The discovery of the expansion of the universe
(Galaxies;Volume 6, Issue 4, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-03)Alexander Friedmann, Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, Vesto Slipher, Knut E. Lundmark, Willem de Sitter, Georges H. Lemaître, and Edwin Hubble all contributed to the discovery of the expansion of the universe. If only two persons are ...