This article presents a postcolonial and feminist analysis of 44 newspaper articles published between 1965 and 2022 about “the coil campaign” in Greenland, which fitted Greenlandic Inuit women with the IUD in the 1960s and 1970s, at times without their knowledge or consent. Using a media archive search and conducting a discursive analysis, we explore how journalistic reporting and debates ...

Counting growth layers in dentine and/or secondary cementum is widely used for age determination in wild mammals but the underlying seasonal changes in the structure and degree of mineralisation of dental tissue have not been well characterised. We embedded first (m1) and second (m2) mandibular permanent molar teeth from a 12-year-old female Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) in ...

Affordable housing has been a challenging policy issue since the entrance of colonial policy to the region that is now called Canada. Providing affordable and culturally appropriate housing in Northern Saskatchewan has complex and layered challenges, many of which urban regions and even other rural regions do not face. These challenges include a lack of infrastructure, extreme climates, a low capacity ...

This thesis maps the raw material trends of early and middle Mesolithic Nordland and southern Troms County, northern Norway. The lithics which were procured, used, and discarded makes up substantial parts of the archaeological empirical material. During the last few decades, commercial and infrastructural excavations has increased in numbers in these regions. The findings of these excavations have ...

This research explores the motivations behind code-switching behavior, particularly focusing on its occurrence within the context of group discussions among English undergraduate students. Twenty participants, consisting of seven females and thirteen males, were observed during group discussions and subsequently interviewed individually to elucidate the reasons underlying their code-switching ...

Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the languagelearning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions used in interaction with prelinguistic infants aged ...

Oppgaven tar for seg motstandsbevegelsen mot lock-down og vaksiner som vokste frem under koronapandemien. Fokuset er rettet mot forhold som fant sted i Norge, men satt sammen i en overnasjonal kontekst. Ved bruk av blant annet Colin Campbells begrep Cultic milieu og Anthony Giddens modernitetsteorier, har prosjektet som mål å identifisere noen viktige sammenhenger for fremveksten av denne bevegelsen; ...

In line with emerging trends examining sentence processing in heritage language (HL) bilingualism and adopting an individual differences approach, the present study investigated the role of prediction and lexical interference in 68 Russian HL bilinguals in North America. The former was investigated by examining how Russian HL bilinguals processed sentences with semantically constraining verbs, whereas ...

Formålet med denne studien er å belyse om og hvordan unge somaliske menn opplever eksklusjon i det norske samfunnet, særlig med fokus på utdanningssystemet, arbeidsmarkedet og ulike fritidsarenaer. Problemstillingen for studien er: om og hvordan unge somaliske menn opplever eksklusjon i Norge. Studien setter søkelys på menn i alderen 18-25 år og deres erfaring knyttet til opplevelse av eksklusjon i ...

Denne masteroppgaven forsker på kunnskapsoverføring gjennom å studere prosessen da Hærens etterretningskonsept av 2019 skulle realiseres i Etterretningsbataljon i tidsperioden 2019-2023. Formålet med studien er å identifisere læringsmomenter fra denne prosessen som kan benyttes i avdelingens utvikling mot et regiment i tråd med ny langtidsplan for Forsvaret. Det teoretiske rammeverket baserer ...