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Achieving Intelligent Traffic-aware Consolidation of Virtual Machines in a Data Center Using Learning Automata
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming increasingly pertinent and popular. A natural consequence of this is that many modern-day data centers experience very high internal traffic within the data centers themselves. The ... -
Achieving Quality and Equity in Ghana’s Secondary Education: Strategies, Opportunities, and Constraints
(Master thesis, 2022)The increasing completion rate of primary education has led to an increase in demand for secondary education (SE) worldwide. This phenomenon has been necessitated by the pressure of modern economies seeking young people ... -
Achieving zero-energy building performance with thermal and visual comfort enhancement through optimization of fenestration, envelope, shading device, and energy supply system
(Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments;Volume 44, April 2021, 101020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-01)Building retrofitting towards nearly zero energy building (nZEB) with comfortable visual and thermal conditions, requires a comprehensive parametric analysis of building retrofit measures. This paper presented an optimization ... -
ACORDAR: A Test Collection for Ad Hoc Content-Based (RDF) Dataset Retrieval
(IR: Research and Development in Information Retrieval;SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Conference object, 2022)Ad hoc dataset retrieval is a trending topic in IR research. Methods and systems are evolving from metadata-based to content-based ones which exploit the data itself for improving retrieval accuracy but thus far lack a ... -
Acoustic metamaterials with controllable bandgap gates based on magnetorheological elastomers
(International Journal of Mechanical Sciences;Volume 238, 15 January 2023, 107829, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Acoustic metamaterials allow for creating selective pass- and stop-bands on the frequency spectrum. We demonstrate the possibility of designing acoustic metamaterials as core-shell 2D-phononic media with an extremely simple ... -
Acoustic Performance of Sound Absorbing Materials Produced from Wool of Local Mountain Sheep
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract: Wool of mountain sheep, treated nowadays as a waste or troublesome byproduct of sheep husbandry, was used for the production of sound-absorbing materials. Felts of two different thicknesses were produced from ... -
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish
(Journal of Child Language;Volume 49 , Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four-to-eleven year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking ... -
Acquisition of the majority language in Norwegian ECEC: Relating language-learning environment in ECEC to expressive vocabulary
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Developing proficiency in the language(s) spoken in any given society is crucial for the inclusion and attainment of children in that society. With an enrolment rate in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) ... -
ACT og FACT : hva er ACT-team og hva er FACT-team og på hvilken måte kommer dette pasienten til gode?
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)Hensikt: Per 1. mai 2018 (Nasjonalt kompetansetjeneste, ROP) finnes 17 FACT-team og 8 ACT-team i Norge. Flere team er under etablering, og det er et ønske fra helsemyndighetene om at flere team opprettes. Assertive Community ... -
Action Recognition in Real Homes using Low Resolution Depth Video Data
(Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems;2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Conference object, 2019-08-05)We report work in progress from interdisciplinary research on Assisted Living Technology in smart homes for older adults with mild cognitive impairments or dementia. We present our field trial, the set-up for collecting ... -
Action research for democracy - A Scandinavian approach
(International Journal of Action Research;10(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Many proponents of action research for democracy seem to presuppose that to anchor action research in democratic ideals is a sufficient base for action researchers to legitimate their democratic purposes and intentions. ... -
Action Research: Applied Research, Intervention Research, Collaborative Research, Practitioner Research, or Praxis Research?
(International Journal of Action Research;8 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This article relates common ways of conceptualising action research as “intervention”, “collaboration”, “interactive research”, “applied research”, and “practitioner research” to a number of different ways of knowing, ... -
Activated prothrombin complex concentrate to reverse the factor Xa inhibitor (apixaban) effect before emergency surgery: A case series
(Journal of Medical Case Reports;12(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-16)Background The lack of an antidote against factor Xa inhibitors in case of major bleeding or need for urgent surgery is a concern to clinicians. Guidelines on managing major bleeding in patients under anticoagulation with ... -
Activating the person in the changing situation: A dynamic analytical approach to labour activation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)For several decades, the turn towards labour activation has dominated European social work and social work institutions. While social work research and practice focused on labour activation have long considered “the person ... -
Active Play in After-school Programmes: development of an intervention and description of a matched-pair cluster-randomised trial assessing physical activity play in after-school programmes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction Interventions delivered in after-school programmes (ASPs) have the potential to become a means of ensuring adequate physical activity among schoolchildren. This requires a motivational climate, allowing for ... -
Active play in ASP –a matched-pair cluster-randomized trial investigating the effectiveness of an intervention in after-school programs for supporting children’s physical activity
(BMC Public Health;20, Article number: 500 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-15)Background: Interventions directed at after school programs (ASPs) have the potential to support physical activity (PA) in young children. Research has indicated that interventions that emphasize competence building among ... -
Active versus passive investing in sustainable and conventional funds: A comparison of U.S. sustainable and conventional equity funds in terms of active and passive management
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines whether it is possible to create an excess return in equity funds by following an active management strategy rather than a passive strategy. In addition, we compare sustainable and conventional funds ... -
Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media
(Journal of African Media Studies;Volume 12, Number 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-01)The article discusses political activism in Uganda and the role of social media. It focuses on two specific cases, the 2011 ‘Walk-to-Work’ and the 2017 ‘Pads4Girls’ campaigns in order to contribute to better understanding ... -
Activistic citizenship in nursing homes: co-ownership in the mundane
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The traditional narrative of dementia, focused on cognition as constructive of personhood, has been challenged by person-centred care as well as a rights-based citizenship lens. However, reports of everyday discrimination ... -
Activity dependent delay learning in spiking neural networks
(ACIT;2022, Master thesis, 2022)Several observations indicate activity dependent changes in the propagation velocity of action potentials in biological neural networks. These changes are believed to be deliberate mechanisms in the brain used to mediate ...