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Archives of the Disappeared: Conceptualizing the Personal Collections of Families of Disappeared Persons
(Journal of Human Rights Practice;Volume 14, Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-16)In the search for their loved ones, the families of the disappeared create, gather, and share records. The Colombian 2016 peace agreement opened spaces for memory practices that help promote a record-keeping culture at the ... -
Archives, libraries and museums in the Nordic model of the public sphere
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of ALM organizations within a Nordic model of the public sphere. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper discussing the role of archives, ... -
Are action researchers mixed up? Reviewing and revising basic assumptions, concepts, and terminology in and by means of action research
(International Journal of Action Research;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The article explores and discusses whether we as action researchers are undermining or subverting our own intuitions and intentions, or at least not doing justice to it, when mixing a) learning and exploration through ... -
Are assessments responding to a dynamic environment? Evidence from four emerging techno-scientific domains
(Science and Public Policy;41(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-23)Assessments of emerging science and technologies can assist actors to anticipate and influence techno-scientific development. Although the importance of contextual factors in techno-scientific development has been stressed, ... -
Are cultured human myotubes far from home?
(Cell and tissue research;354(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12)Satellite cells can be isolated from skeletal muscle biopsies, activated to proliferating myoblasts and differentiated into multinuclear myotubes in culture. These cell cultures represent a model system for intact human ... -
Are Demanding Job Situations Associated with Alcohol-Related Presenteeism? WIRUS-Screening Study
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;volume 18, issue 11, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-07)Alcohol-related presenteeism (impaired work performance caused by alcohol use) is an important but under-researched topic. The aim of this study was to explore whether psychosocial work environment factors were associated ... -
Are electronic white canes better than traditional canes? A comparative study with blind and blindfolded participants
(Universal Access in the Information Society;20 (2021), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-17)Visually impaired individuals often rely on assistive technologies such as white canes for independent navigation. Many electronic enhancements to the traditional white cane have been proposed. However, only a few of these ... -
Are European Renewable Energy Equities Experiencing an Asset Price Bubble, and When Should Monetary Policy Respond? An empirical study of European equity markets.
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to identify whether European renewable energy equities are experiencing an asset price bubble, and when monetary policy should respond. Dillian (2020) speculated in the possibility of a stock ... -
Are green investors fooled? The effect of issuer signaling on investors' decision to invest into sustainability-linked bonds.
(Master thesis, 2023)Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can be used by companies seeking to demonstrate their commitment to environmental improvement (Pears et al., 2023, p.1). However, can investors be confident that issuers signaling their ... -
Are green investors fooled? The effect of issuer signaling on investors' decision to invest into sustainability-linked bonds.
(Master thesis, 2023)Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can be used by companies seeking to demonstrate their commitment to environmental improvement (Pears et al., 2023, p.1). However, can investors be confident that issuers signaling their ... -
Are immigrant youth involved in voluntary organizations more likely than their non-immigrant peers to be engaged in politics? Survey evidence from Norway
(Acta Sociologic;Volume: 63 issue: 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-06)The aim of this paper is to examine the link between associational involvement and political participation among youth in Norway and how this link varies between boys and girls of an immigrant or non-immigrant background. ... -
Are immigrants and descendants with ill health more prone to unemployment? Evidence from 18 European countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-10-21)Objective: Previous research has established that both ill health and minority status are associated with unemployment. Less is known, however, about the interplay between having ill health and being from minority ... -
Are individual student characteristics and -performance associated with group-level functioning in educational groups? An exploratory study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background : The recently developed Social Profile assessment allows for classifying a group’s interaction behaviors within five levels. However, empirical associations between the levels, and factors related to an ... -
Are Norwegian academic librarians ready to share usage data for learning analytics?
(Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, NORIL;10(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)University libraries offer services that generate data about how students and faculty use knowledge sources and engage with teaching and learning. In an era of Big Data there is mounting pressure ... -
Are ovo-lacto-pesco-vegetarians and vegans risk groups for suboptimal iodine intake? Iodine intake and status in a group of Norwegian vegetarians
(MAEH;2016, Master thesis, 2016)BACKGROUND: Iodine is a trace mineral of vital importance for brain development and function. Vegetarians generally avoid or limit their consumption of animal foods. Salt iodization in Norway is exceptionally low, and ... -
Are physical measures good indicators of image quality at low dose levels? A pilot study
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)Purpose: To evaluate if physical measures of noise predict image quality at high and low noise levels. Method: Twenty-four images were acquired on a DR system using a Pehamed DIGRAD phantom ... -
Are Short Food Supply Chains More Environmentally Sustainable than Long Chains? A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the Eco-Efficiency of Food Chains in Selected EU Countries
(Energies;Volume 13, Issue 18, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-16)Improving the eco-efficiency of food systems is one of the major global challenges faced by the modern world. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are commonly regarded to be less harmful to the environment, among various ... -
Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?
(Energy Policy;Volume 129, June 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-01)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ... -
Are Split Tablet Keyboards Better? A Study of Soft Keyboard Layout and Hand Posture
(Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019;volume 11748, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Soft Qwerty keyboards are widely used on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Research into physical keyboards have found split keyboards to be ergonomically better than ordinary physical keyboards. Consequently, ... -
Are teachers increasingly leaving the profession? :
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Changes in teachers’ work, often labelled intensification, have raised concerns that teachers are leaving the profession at an increasing rate. The present paper uses high-quality data from Norwegian administrative registers ...