• Approaching mean-variance efficiency for large portfolios 

      Svendsen, Carl Henrik; Paulsen, Espen Kristiansen (Master thesis, 2020)
      Denne masteroppgaven replikerer metoden til for å sette sammen optimal mean-variance porteføljer på det Norske aksjemarkedet. Deres modell, kalt maximum-Sharpe-ratio estimated and sparse regression (MAXSER), avhenger av ...
    • Approaching mean-variance efficiency for large portfolios 

      Svendsen, Carl Henrik; Paulsen, Espen Kristiansen (Master thesis, 2020)
      Denne masteroppgaven replikerer metoden til for å sette sammen optimal mean-variance porteføljer på det Norske aksjemarkedet. Deres modell, kalt maximum-Sharpe-ratio estimated and sparse regression (MAXSER), avhenger av ...
    • Approaching multinational IT development projects 

      Johansen, Knut-Øyvind; Kolstad, Thorkil (Master thesis, 2012-08-28)
      In an overall setting this can be viewed as the beginning of a major change operation which can lead to a more transparent transport and logistics industry. Through the EU-project called Finest, one seeks to improve the ...
    • Approaching Policies for Handling Social Inequality in Nordic Education 

      Smeplass, Eli; Leiulfsrud, Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      One of the main features of the Nordic Welfare Model is the strong emphasis on social equality with ambitious public welfare arrangements, including family policies, public health and the educational system. Despite of ...
    • Approaching Quantization in Macroscopic Quantum Spin Hall Devices through Gate Training 

      Lunczer, Lukas; Leubner, Philipp; Endres, Martin; Muller, Valentin L; Brüne, Christoph; Buhmann, Hartmut; Molenkamp, Laurens W (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Quantum spin Hall edge channels hold great promise as dissipationless one-dimensional conductors.However, the ideal quantized conductance of2e2=his only found in very short channels-in contradictionwith the expected ...
    • Approaching the BYOD trend securely 

      Hansen, Henrik (Master thesis, 2017)
      Employees are increasingly bringing their personal devices into the work environment, and they often use these devices to access company data. This trend is commonly referred to as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). I have in ...
    • Approaching the Limits of Aspect Ratio in Free-Standing Al2O3 3D Shell Structures 

      Burgmann, Stephanie; Lid, Markus Joakim; Chaikasetsin, Settasit; Bjørdal, Dag Skjerven; Prinz, Fritz; Provine, John; Berto, Filippo; Van Helvoort, Antonius; Torgersen, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Nanoscale free-standing membranes are used for a variety of sensors and other micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems devices. To tune performance, it is indispensable to understand the limits of aspect ratios achievable. ...
    • Appropriating the Novel: Pietro Chiari's La filosofessa italiana 

      Haugen, Marius Warholm (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-27)
      This article argues that Pietro Chiari's La filosofessa italiana (1753), regarded as the first modern Italian novel, constitutes a project of appropriation of French and British novelistic models. Pietro Chiari is seen ...
    • Approved claims for compensation from gynecological patients in Norway?What characterizes the cases? A 14-year nationwide study 

      Ravlo, Merethe; Lieng, Marit; Bukholm, Ida Rashida Khan; Moen, Mette Haase; Vanky, Eszter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Introduction: The Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation (NPE) evalu-ates all patient‐reported claims in Norway. Our aim was to study the cases from gy-necological patients approved by NPE in order to identify the ...
    • Approximate analysis concerning wave-power absorption by hydrodynamically interacting buoys 

      Kyllingstad, Åge (Doktor ingeniøravhandling (Trondheim);234, Doctoral thesis, 1982)
    • Approximate Bayesian Inference Based on Expected Evaluations 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Riegler, Michael; Tjelmeland, Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Approximate Bayesian computing (ABC) and Bayesian Synthetic likelihood (BSL) are two popular families of methods to evaluate the posterior distribution when the likelihood function is not available or tractable. For existing ...
    • Approximate Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models 

      Martino, Sara (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2007:214, Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      This thesis consists of five papers, presented in chronological order. Their content is summarised in this section. Paper I introduces the approximation tool for latent GMRF models and discusses, in particular, the ...
    • Approximate Bayesian inference for spatial econometrics models 

      Bivand, Roger; Gómez-Rubio, Virgilio; Rue, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      In this paper we explore the use of the Integrated Laplace Approximation (INLA) for Bayesian inference in some widely used models in Spatial Econometrics. Bayesian inference often relies on computationally intensive ...
    • Approximate Bayesian inference for survival analysis 

      Akerkar, Rupali (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:145, Doctoral thesis, 2012)
    • Approximate Filtering Approaches for Switching Linear Dynamical Systems 

      Simonsen, Mads Adrian (Master thesis, 2022)
      «State-observation model» er et dynamisk Bayesiansk nettverk (DBN) som inneholder to mengder stokastiske variabler som utvikler seg over tid; en skjult mengde og en observert mengde. De mest kjente «state-observation» ...
    • Approximate marginal inference in binary Markov random fields using a mean squared error energy approximation and the junction tree algorithm 

      Wiig, Trygve Bertelsen (Master thesis, 2016)
      In this thesis, we use a mean squared error energy approximation for edge deletion in order to make performing inference in Markov random fields using the junction tree algorithm tractable, and by that develop an approximate ...
    • Approximate query processing over static sets and sliding windows 

      Basat, Ran Ben; Jo, Seungbum; Satti, Srinivasa Rao; Ugare, Shubham (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Indexing of static and dynamic sets is fundamental to a large set of applications such as information retrieval and caching. Denoting the characteristic vector of the set by B, we consider the problem of encoding sets and ...
    • Approximate recursive algorithm for finding MAP of binary Markov random fields 

      Altaye, Endale Berhane (Master thesis, 2010)
      The purpose of this study was to develop a recursive algorithm for computing a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of a binary Markov random field (MRF) by using the MAP-MRF framework. We also discuss how to include an ...
    • Approximate recursive calculations of discrete Markov random fields 

      Arnesen, Petter (Master thesis, 2010)
      In this thesis we present an approximate recursive algorithm for calculations of discrete Markov random fields defined on graphs. We write the probability distribution of a Markov random field as a function of interaction ...
    • Approximate reflection coefficients for a thin VTI layer 

      Hao, Qi; Stovas, Alexey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We have developed an approximate method to derive simple expressions for the reflection coefficients of P- and SV-waves for a thin transversely isotropic layer with a vertical symmetry axis (VTI) embedded in a homogeneous ...