My work of cultural analysis is a labyrinth for cultural understanding and mediation. At work are the disciplines and trends of analysis - cultural, historical and legal-, the minotaurs. ''Cultural Mediation. A Case Study of Sami Research'' is the nest of a magpie with bits and pieces gathered in a mixed style, interdisciplinary, translating the oral tradition of the academic lectures in the ...

Knowledge held by people who have been involved in intimate and direct engagement with their land is often valuable for our understanding of past land use. This study has through an interdisciplinary approach explored the possible benefits of emphasizing local knowledge, local participation and the increasing possibilities within digital media, seen from an archaeological viewpoint. The study areas ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg demokratiseringen i området under Kurdisk selvstyre i Nord-Irak, og betrakter prosessen ut fra de teoretiske perspektivene for statsbygging og demokratisering som har blitt presentert av Francis Fukuyama. Et sentralt tema er framveksten av KRG, og etableringen av et selvstyre under et føderalt Irak i perioden 1991-2003, og den videre sameksistensen med det nye Irakiske ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the current status of grammar teaching in the English subject in Norwegian schools, through English teachers' points of view. A mixed methods study was conducted by gathering data from English teachers all over Norway through interviews and an online questionnaire. The foundation of the research study is two research questions, each of which includes complementary ...

This paper shows new contributions in the detection of skin cancer, where we present the use of a customized hyperspectral system that captures images in the spectral range from 450 to 950 nm. By choosing a 7 × 7 sub-image of each channel in the hyperspectral image (HSI) and then taking the mean and standard deviation of these sub-images, we were able to make fits of the resulting curves. These ...

This paper presents and analyses data about women challenging customary land tenure arrangements as they strive to gain access to the farming land they need. The research was conducted in the Mambay community located in northern Cameroon on the border with Chad. The thesis examines just how rural women manage to get access to land despite the obstacles that customary land tenure system put in their ...

Internett har gitt enkeltaktører og interessegrupper et internasjonalt talerør og nye måter å rekruttere, organisere og mobilisere aktører over hele verden. Dette har ført til fremveksten av en ny type aktivisme; "cyberaktivisme" I oppgaven har jeg særlig sett nærmere på cyberaktivismeformene "cypherpunking" og "hacktivisme", representert ved varslernettstedet WikiLeaks og hacktivistnettverket ...

Cyberdomenet er grenseløst og bidrar til at hele verden deler kontaktflate, avstandene er korte og teknologien er allment tilgjengelig i store deler av verden. Cyberangrep oppfattes i dag som en av de fremste truslene mot norsk sikkerhet, og feltet muliggjør nye former for angrep med lavere kostnad og enklere midler. Norge er et av verdens mest digitaliserte land, og et storskala angrep mot kritisk ...

Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems typically attempt to automatically diagnose learner errors in order to provide individualized feedback. One common approach is the use of mal-rules to extend normative grammars by licensing specific types of learner errors. In finite-state morphologies, mal-rules can be implemented as two-level rules or replace rules. However, unlike the phonological rules of ...