Electricity load modeling plays a critical role to conduct load forecasting or other applications such as non-intrusive load monitoring. For such a reason, this paper investigates a comparison study of two common artificial neural network methods (Multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function neural network (RBF-NN) for home load modeling application. The accuracy of load modeling using ...

From 2009 to 2013 writing blog posts, and commenting on each other’s blog posts, was a mandatory course requirement for the students of the subject ØMF101 Administrative Informasjonssystemer (Management Information Systems) at the former Bergen University College (now Western Norway University of Applied Sciences). We have data from the students’ activity on the blog network, combined with grades ...

In this chapter, we present a self-study project (Zeichner, 2007) about student-centered education for student teachers. The aim was to explore in what way student-centered education might increase students’ engagement and learning in adapted education. We used social-cultural theory and a dialogical framework (Dysthe, 1996) both as the basis for planning education and analysis of the data. We built ...

There is an increased focus in teacher education on research-based teaching as a means to develop a more research-based professional knowledge. However, research from several Western countries shows that neither school-based nor university-based teachers are familiar with how to integrate research-based knowledge in professional teacher practice. This ALAR-study focuses on how a research and development ...

In this chapter, we focus on how action research can help to improve learning in nationally initiated school development processes. The empirical material in this study is derived from the implementation of the national project “Ungdomstrinn i utvikling” (UiU). Through UiU, we have worked with school development in six municipalities, where we have facilitated future stories or scenarios in the ...

While there is a number of frameworks and protocols in Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) that support the documentation of different aspects of a simulation study, it is surprising to find only a small number dealing with the handling of data. Here we present the results of discussions we had on the topic at the Lorentz Center workshop on Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence using Social ...

In the UNHCR data base on refugees, Northern Europe consists of eight countries, the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, and the Baltic countries: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a total population of 33,121,044. At the end of year 2017, the total number of refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons in Northern Europe was 788,717 (UNHCR, 2019, table 1).

This study aims to investigate the impact of country of ownership on Norwegian consumers' brand attitudes, perceived quality, brand value, and loyalty. As companies increasingly internationalize, it becomes crucial to examine how this may influence brand equity and identify strategies to mitigate any potential negative effects. This knowledge would be beneficial for both national and international ...

Regjeringspartiene ble betydelig svekket i de største oppdrettskommunene ved kommunevalget, samtidig som Høyre og Frp styrket seg. Men endringene var i stor grad de samme som i kommuner som ikke hadde en stor oppdrettsnæring.

Detecting and analyzing nanoscale motion patterns of vesicles, smaller than the microscope resolution (~250 nm), inside living biological cells is a challenging problem. State-of-the-art CV approaches based on detection, tracking, optical flow or deep learning perform poorly for this problem. We propose an integrative approach, built upon physics based simulations, nanoscopy algorithms, and shallow ...