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WHOSE DEVELOPMENT COUNTS?: Political Ecology of Displacement of Bulyanhulu Mining Community in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2007)In 1996, an estimated 400,000 people in a gold mining community in rural Tanzania were forcibly evicted from the area to allow for the development of a large-scale gold mine project to take place. The good-intentioned ... -
Whose self-determination? Barriers to access to Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Italy
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Whose voices matter? Use, misuse and non-use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) among severely disabled children living in small group homes.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The article explores whether and how severely disabled children living in small group homes are supported in their communicative efforts to participate and have a voice in their everyday lives. The study, framed within a ... -
Who’s Had Enough? The Effects of Organisational Participation on Post-Resistance Democratisation - A quantitative analysis of the composition of resistance campaigns and subcomponents of democracy in Africa, 1990-2015
(Master thesis, 2020)Hvem deltar i protestbevegelser, og påvirker dette bestanddeler av demokrati forskjellig? Denne studien utforsker hvordan motstandsbevegelser med mål om strukturelle endringer dominert av ulike organisasjoner, her ... -
Why a nation did not fail - A critical case study using German economic and poltical history (1871-1939) to evaluate the effect of extractive and inclusive institutions
(Master thesis, 2018)Å forklare kvifor statar veks og fell har lenge vore eit mål innanfor samfunnsfaga. I si bok, Why Nations Fail (2012), kjem Acemoglu og Robinson med eit forslag til ei mogleg løysing på denne gåta. Deira teori seier at ... -
Why African Childhoods? What Futures?
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Why are Actions but not Emotions Done Intentionally, if both are Reason-Responsive Embodied Processes?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Emotions, like actions, this paper argues, are typically embodied processes that are responsive to reasons, where these reasons connect closely with the agent’s desires, intentions, or projects. If so, why are emotions, ... -
Why are major sports events trapped in the winner's curse? A case study of the 2017 World Road Cycling Championship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose – This paper sought to determine how a major sport event can become trapped in a winner’s curse, in which the fierce competition to host the event forces organisers to spend more on acquiring and hosting it than ... -
Why are neural networks vulnerable to adversarial examples?
(Master thesis, 2020)Nevrale nettverk har det siste tiåret vist seg å ha utmerket ytelse i et bredt spekter av oppgaver, og kan til og med utkonkurrere mennesker på enkelte områder. Imidlertid har de også vist seg å være sårbare for små, ... -
Why are There Different Grading Practices Based on Students’ Choice of Business Major?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)There is a considerable amount of focus on the grading systems applied in higher education, as it is an important tool for ranking undergraduate students’ in terms of their academic success. Several studies have suggested ... -
Why are they so similar? The interplay of linguistic and extra-linguistic variables in monolingual and bilingual learners of English
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study investigates the relationship between (extra)linguistic variables and proficiency in a foreign language. Based on 1,403 secondary school students in Germany (age 12/13 and 14/15), we assess whether proficiency ... -
Why babies die in unplanned out-of-institution births: An enquiry into perinatal deaths in Norway 1999-2013.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction The aims were to describe causes of death associated with unplanned out-of-institution births, and to study whether they could be prevented. Material and methods Retrospective population-based observational ... -
"Why be moral?": Debatten mellom Charles Taylor og Jürgen Habermas
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Why competence in teleworking matters
(Master thesis, 2020)Teleworking (also referred to as remote working) is currently rising in popularity, and based on the recent COVID-19 pandemic this trend appears likely to continue. The existing theoretical literature on teleworking indicates ... -
WHY CONFLICTS OCCUR IN ROADS AND TUNNELS PROJECTS IN NORWAY
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Conflicts within the Norwegian construction industry have reached unacceptable levels. The grievance of these disputes, whether it is the number of conflicts or the expense involved in these conflicts, is under discussion. ... -
Why developing country Nepal should use social media in public offices?
(Master thesis, 2017)Now a day s usefulness of Social Media can be seen in every sphere of the people s life. Peoples are using social media to communicate with each other, to get entertainment, to create, share and exchange information s, ... -
Why do brood parasitic birds lay strong-shelled eggs?
(Journal article, 2012)Brood parasitic birds constitute a model system for the study of coevolution. Such parasites are unique by having evolved unusually thick eggshells for their body size. Thick eggshells have been hypothesized to evolve as ... -
Why do cuckoos lay strong-shelled eggs? Tests of the puncture resistance hypothesis
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2010:156, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Coevolution occurs when two or more interacting species have a reciprocal effect on each other. Avian obligate brood parasites and their hosts represent a classical example of coevolution and studies of such interactions ... -
Why do Incumbent Firms enter into Agreements with Startups? - A case study of how and why three incumbent firms enter into agreements with startups.
(Master thesis, 2017)The aim for this study is to investigate why incumbents enter pilot agreements with startups. This will be done through the development of an overarching model of the initiation process that includes the incumbent's ...