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Water as More than Commons or Commodity: Understanding Water Management Practices in Yanque, Peru
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019): Global warming, shrinking glaciers and water scarcity pose challenges to the governance of fresh water in Peru. On the one hand, Peruʼs water management regime and its legal framework allow for increased private involvement ... -
Water Quality Monitoring with Ubiquitous Computing
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)Traditionally, data collected from water quality monitoring systems are typically stored in closed repositories that are not shared with the public. Due to the cost and environmental limitations traditional water quality ... -
Water, Life, and Loss: Aguasociality and Environmental Change in the Peruvian Andes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Colca Valley community Yanque, this article investigates how small-scale farmers in the Southern Peruvian Andes relate to water and environmental change in intimate ways. ... -
Wave functions associated with time-dependent, complex-scaled Hamiltonians evaluated on a complex time grid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-30)We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with themethod of uniform complex scaling and investigate the possibility to evaluate the solution on a complex time grid. With this approach it is possible to calculate ... -
Ways to gain influence for residents in two gentrifying neighbourhoods: a comparison between Tøyen in Oslo and Lavapiés in Madrid
(Journal article, 2021)In gentrifying cities, entrepreneurial strategies often conflict with the interests of citizens. Cities deal with this differently. Participatory democracy is one method to avoid conflict through increased responsiveness ... -
“We are at the bottom of the society” A qualitative study of dignity related experiences in non-standardized activation policies implemented towards social assistance recipients in Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)Active labor market policies have a long tradition in Norway, and since early the 1990s, conditional activation policies have increasingly become a core component in the provision of social assistance. The primary aim of ... -
“We can always return to the forest” Narratives of European labour migrants navigating the informal rental market in Oslo
(Master thesis, 2020)The focus of this study is the housing careers, housing strategies and experiences of five European labour migrants who are currently living, or who have at some point, lived informally in Oslo. There has been little focus ... -
“We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics
(American Journal of Human Biology;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-17)Objectives: Especially in traditional, rural, and low-income areas, children attend school irregularly. School-based interventions are common mitigation strategies for infectious disease epidemics, but if daily attendance ... -
We exchange data all the time - A case study on data conceptualisation and data sharing by researchers in the context of open data policies
(OsloMet Avhandling 2022;Nr 38, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2022)This dissertation places itself within the area of Scholarly communication research of Library and Information Science. It investigates the relationship between researcher and research data and researcher and data sharing ... -
“We feel included”: education and inclusion of health care staff with minority language in elder care
(Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare;Volume 2019:12, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-20)Background: In Norwegian elder care, an increasing percentage of the health care staff has a migrant background. “The aging and nursing care ABC” educational program offers multicomponent training for municipal care staff ... -
“We just click!” : ICT from preschool children’s perspectives.
(Master thesis, 2009)“We just click! ICT from preschool children‟s perspectives” is the title I chose for this master thesis in Early Childhood Education and Care. The first part of the title “We just click!” is a quote from a child interview ... -
“We Must All Be Ready for Major Changes”: Visiting Climate for Change at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
(Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society;Volume 14, Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-01)This article analyzes a current exhibition, Climate for Change, which opened at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in 2019. By engaging with the way in which the exhibition constructs a “we,” the article proceeds to examine ... -
Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment
(Journal of Environmental Psychology;Volume 69, 101415, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-11)Ecologically-friendly lifestyles such as Minimalism—living with less—are gaining attention in popular media outlets. However, it is unclear whether ecological concern is driving the popularity of these lifestyles, and how ... -
Wearable computer: what's in it for schools? Opportunities and risks
(ICERI2016 Proceedings;9th, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In this paper I present and discuss preliminary findings from an on-going experimental study on the use of wearable technologies (FitBit Surge) in two secondary schools in Norway. The Horizon report lists wearable computers ... -
Wearable Technologies in the K-12 Classroom — Cross-disciplinary Possibilities and Privacy Pitfalls
(The Journal of Interactive Learning Research;Volume 29, Number 3, July 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07)This qualitative study explored the opportunities and challenges of wearable computers for supporting learning activities. Specifically, we address the following: 1) whether, and if so how, wearable technologies can be ... -
Web 2.0 technologies for library internal communications : a case study of Loughborough University Library, UK
(Master thesis, 2010)The aim of the thesis is to find out whether current Web 2.0 applications function well, and the possibilities to implement more similar tools in the future in Loughborough University Library. The purpose is to examine ... -
Web accessibility and technology protection measures: Harmonizing the rights of persons with cognitive disabilities and copyright protections on the web
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) obligates State Parties to ensure full and equal access to the web for persons with disabilities. However, copyright law and policy sometimes ... -
Web Accessibility and Web Developer Attitudes Towards Accessibility in Mozambique
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 12768, Conference object, 2021-07-03)People with disabilities are found to be severely affected by barriers in websites and other web services. This paper aims to study the web accessibility issues in Mozambique and to review the factors that contribute to ... -
Web Accessibility for Visually Impaired People: Requirements and Design Issues
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Access to web content continues to be a challenge for the visually impaired, primarily because the needs of such community are very diverse. The access is further hindered by the fact that web designers continue to build ... -
The web as a site of intractable governance
(Assistive Technology Research Series;(35), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)To what extent does the demand and development of online anonymity interact with efforts to achieve universal design and preserve copyright protections? Based on original research, currently in progress, this article ...