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    • Man`s Best Friend and Therapist`s Best Assistant? Exploring the Potential of Dog-Assisted Interventions in Norwegian Institutions 

      Wiik, Ida Kristina Gule (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-02)
      Humans and dogs have a long history together. The dog’s purpose has changed from being a practical tool to being a “co-therapist”. Today, animal-assisted therapy is a common phenomenon internationally. However, the evidence for animal-assisted interventions is not very recognised in Norway. The present study aimed to investigate dogs’ ability as a form of emotional support for people in therapy in ...
    • Lunch Break Environments and Their Effect on Psychological Detachment and Well-Being 

      Borge, Lars Nordby (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-02)
      With increasing attention to the importance of recovery experiences, particularly in mitigating workplace stress and promoting well-being, the present research seeks to contribute to the understanding of how environmental factors influence psychological detachment and emotional exhaustion during lunch breaks. Drawing upon theories from both environmental psychology and work and occupational psychology, ...
    • Exploring the Link between Mind Wandering and Reinforcement Learning through Behavioral Analysis and Pupillometry 

      Karayel, Ceylin Yagmur (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-02)
      Many studies have shown the negative effects of mind wandering (MW) on performance in sustained attention tasks, however, its effects on reinforcement learning (RL), a process based on reward- and loss-based learning, is an unexplored field. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between MW and RL by employing a novel RL task to observe how MW influences performance. In ...
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Positive Mind? A Qualitative Study Investigating Laypeople’s Diverse Definition of Positive Thinking 

      Primdahl, Marie Seberg (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      We often receive advice to think positively when faced with difficulties as it is believed to be helpful by increasing motivation to solve tasks or even to treat illness. Despite its prevalence, positivity as cognition has not been sufficiently defined. Thus, this thesis investigates folk theories about positive thinking through two qualitative studies; focus group interviews (n=18) and an online ...
    • The Sky is the Limit: Breaking the Glass Ceiling as an Ethnic Minority in Organizations 

      Babiker, Samy (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      People with an ethnic minority background are becoming more prevalent in Western societies, and are more represented in the workforce as a consequence. Negative stereotypes and attitudes towards ethnic minorities persist in terms of lack of skill and knowledge that leads to discrimination and negative outcomes in their career progression. These obstacles make a glass ceiling that limit the potential ...
    • Elementary Children’s Well-Being and The Effect of Siblings During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Four European Countries 

      Ingen, Kornelia van (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      Late in 2019, the world changed due to the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus. As a consequence of this virus, governments decided to implement lockdowns and school closures, as a measure to reduce the spreading of the deadly virus. In the present work, we aimed to investigate the impact these lockdowns and school closures had on children’s well-being. We used a cross-country approach with ...
    • Are There Gender Differences in Children’s Understanding of Hidden Emotions? 

      Kolve, Nora (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      This study investigated whether there are gender differences in children's understanding of hidden emotions. Additionally, it explored whether there are gender differences in hidden emotion understanding in different social contexts (peer vs. family) and for different emotion categories (submissive emotions vs. disharmonious emotions). Our sample included 27 children aged four to six years and 17 ...
    • The Use of Situational Cues When Thinking About Future Action: The Relevance of Visual Imagery and Relationship With Conscientiousness 

      Bjørkhaug Johansen, Kristin (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      Previous research has found a relationship between the habitual inclusion of situational cues in thoughts about future action, self-regulation success, and the personality trait conscientiousness. The present research aimed to replicate previous correlational findings from Martiny-Huenger et al., (2022) as well as presenting a new aspect that might influence the effectiveness of situational cue-thought ...
    • Adjusting the Instruction-Based Congruency Effect to an Explicit cue Requires Practise 

      Aasen, Steffen Rygg (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-01)
      Humans display an ability to rapidly adapt behaviour to novelly instructed relations. Instructions typically bind known stimuli and responses in novel ways that must be retained for future implementation, which can induce unintentional effects on a secondary task. This effect can be adjusted based on the degree of preparation for the retained instruction. Cues can be used to explicitly signal upcoming ...
    • Guorrat - The Research and Development of a Real-Time System for Generation of Ball Positions in Football 

      Nylund, Fredrik Stenvoll (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-22)
      In contemporary football, advanced analysis techniques are increasingly important, enhancing clubs’ capabilities to make strategic in-game adjustments. Central to this advancement is the availability of real-time analytics, which relies heavily on accurate player and ball tracking technologies. While real-time player tracking has become more accessible, automatic and reliable real-time ball ...
    • Enhancing Investigative Journalism: Leveraging Large Language Models and Vector Databases 

      Ali, Muhammad Nauman (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)
      The advancement in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought revolution in almost every field of life, and Journalism is also one of them. Which includes prospective use in Investigating reports and uncovering information. This project explores the avenue of integrating technologies such as Large Language Model (LLM) with the Vector Databases. At the same time, the motive is to address ...
    • “There's an art to it” - Exploring Sami Health Culture and Empowering Communication through an E-health Application 

      Aho, Karianne (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)
      Studies have shown that the Sami culture of communicating about health can often be indirect and reliant on implications and hints rather than clear unambiguous statements. The style is described as “roundabout”, circling around a topic before closing in on it. Modern medicine typically values directness and unambiguousness in its mission of effective anamnesis and diagnosis. Due to these differing ...
    • Sadji - Real-Time Soccer Player Localization and Tracking 

      Stimpson-Karlsson, William Alexander (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)
      Advanced analysis tools leveraging invasive tracking technologies such as gps and manual event tagging has become a global staple in top-tier soccer clubs for enhancing their strategical decision making and insight. These tools rely on precise coordinate data, with their effectiveness significantly enhanced when this data is produced in real-time. With the rapid advancement in computer vision and ...
    • Isolation and Biological Evaluation of Phomenins from the Marine Fungus Parafenestella sp. 

      Lesjø, Julie Marie (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)
      Background: Marine fungi are prolific producers of secondary metabolites. Phomenin A (2) and B (3) are secondary metabolites produced by Parafenestella sp. Previous studies have described them as bioactive, but due to the limited availability of pure compounds, their bioactivity has yet to be extensively characterised. These compounds were identified and isolated at Marbio, but the quantities obtained ...
    • The Role of Clouds in Arctic Climate 

      Sundermann, Hannah (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)
      Anthropogenic climate change is causing the Arctic to warm faster than any other region on Earth, a phenomenon also known as Arctic amplification. The warming and its consequences induce, amongst other things, a change in clouds, impacting their role in the Arctic climate by introducing a feedback. Clouds play an important role in the global radiation budget. They cool the surface by reflecting ...
    • A distinctive rare earth element signature for pyrite oxidation and glacial weathering 

      Jang, Kwangchul; Bayon, Germain; Pourret, Olivier; Joe, Young Jin; Kim, Jung-Hyun; Byun, Eunji; Forwick, Matthias; León, Rafael; Nam, Seung-Il (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-15)
      The application of rare earth elements (REE) and neodymium (Nd) isotopes to authigenic Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide phases leached from marine sediments can be used for reconstructing past ocean circulation and chemical weathering patterns on nearby continental landmasses. To explore the behaviour of REE during chemical weathering in glacial environments, we analyzed the authigenic fraction of glacimarine ...
    • Towards seamless environmental prediction–development of Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) modelling platform 

      Mahura, Alexander; Baklanov, Alexander; Makkonen, Risto; Boy, Michael; Petäjä, Tuukka; Lappalainen, Hanna K.; Nuterman, Roman; Kerminen, Veli-Matti; Arnold, Stephen R.; Jochum, Markus; Shvidenko, Anatoly; Esau, Igor; Sofiev, Mikhail; Stohl, Andreas; Aalto, Tuula; Bai, Jianhui; Chen, Chuchu; Cheng, Yafang; Drofa, Oxana; Huang, Mei; Järvi, Leena; Kokkola, Harri; Kouznetsov, Rostislav; Li, Tingting; Malguzzi, Piero; Monks, Sarah; Poulsen, Mads Bruun; Noe, Steffen M.; Palamarchuk, Yuliia; Foreback, Benjamin; Clusius, Petri; Rasmussen, Till Andreas Soya; She, Jun; Sørensen, Jens Havskov; Spracklen, Dominick; Su, Hang; Tonttila, Juha; Wang, Siwen; Wang, Jiandong; Wolf, Tobias; Yu, Yongqiang; Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Wei; Zhang, Wen; Zheng, Xunhua; Li, Siqi; Li, Yong; Zhou, Putian; Kulmala, Markku (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-09)
      The Pan-Eurasian Experiment Modelling Platform (PEEX-MP) is one of the key blocks of the PEEX Research Programme. The PEEX MP has more than 30 models and is directed towards seamless environmental prediction. The main focus area is the Arctic-boreal regions and China. The models used in PEEX-MP cover several main components of the Earth’s system, such as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere and ...
    • Life starts with plastic: High occurrence of plastic pieces in fledglings of northern fulmars 

      Collard, France; Benjaminsen, Stine Charlotte; Herzke, Dorte; Husabø, Eirin; Sagerup, Kjetil; Tulatz, Felix; Gabrielsen, Geir W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-11)
      Plastic pollution threatens many organisms around the world. In particular, the northern fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis, is known to ingest high quantities of plastics. Since data are sparse in the Eurasian Arctic, we investigated plastic burdens in the stomachs of fulmar fledglings from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Fifteen birds were collected and only particles larger than 1 mm were extracted, characterised ...
    • Combined Contaminant Levels from Local Harvested Food Items in the Norwegian–Finnish–Russian Border Region 

      Nalbandyan-Schwarz, Anna; Pedersen, Kristine Bondo; Evenset, Anita; Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Sandanger, Torkjel Manning; Myllynen, Päivi; Rautio, Arja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-08)
      This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary study with the aim of assessing the potential combined risk from consuming locally harvested food products in the Euro-Arctic region of Norway, Finland, and Russia. The three important contaminant groups—radioactive substances, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—were measured in food samples such as berries, mushrooms, fish, ...
    • A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Post-stroke Fatigue. The Nor-COAST study 

      Luzum, Geske; Thrane, Gyrd; Aam, Stina; Eldholm, Rannveig Sakshaug; Grambaite, Ramune; Munthe-Kaas, Ragnhild; Thingstad, Anne Pernille Mæhle; Saltvedt, Ingvild; Askim, Torunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-01-17)
      Objective - This study aimed to predict fatigue 18 months post-stroke by utilizing comprehensive data from the acute and sub-acute phases after stroke in a machine-learning set-up.<p> <p>Design - A prospective multicenter cohort-study with 18-month follow-up.<p> <p>Setting - Outpatient clinics at 3 university hospitals and 2 local hospitals.<p> <p>Participants - 474 participants with the ...