On 30 September 2020, the United Kingdom and Norway signed the Framework Agreement on Fisheries that will provide the basis for future cooperation in the sustainable management of their fisheries. The Agreement is the first such agreement adopted by the UK following its decision to the leave the European Union. This note provides some background to the Agreement and examines its key features. Whilst ...

The vast amount of spectral information provided by hyperspectral images can be useful for different applications. However, the presence of redundant bands will negatively affect application performance. Therefore, it is crucial to select a relevant subset that preserves the information of the original set. In this paper, we present an automatic and accurate band selection method based on Graph ...

Developments in business analytics as well as an increased availability of data has allowed digital marketers to better understand and capitalize on consumer behavior to maximize the engagement with marketing materials. However, because most previous studies in this field have focused on consumer behavior theory, they have been largely limited in scope due to small datasets and reliance on human-labeled ...

Oppgavens formål er å undersøke forbrukeres oppfatning av merkevareverdien til turklær fra et bærekraftig perspektiv. Tematikken for studien ble valgt på bakgrunn av klesindustriens miljøskadelige og sosiale påvirkning på dagens samfunn, samt en økende interesse blant forbrukere om å eie nye og trendy turklær (Arrigo, 2020; Jacobs, 2018). Oppgaven har stor relevans, da det i dagens ...

I det 21. århundre vil kunnskapsarbeidere være organisasjoners viktigste ressurs. På samme tid har mennesket som en kunnskapskilde fått mindre oppmerksomhet i forskningslitteraturen. For å bidra til litteraturen på kunnskapsledelse, setter vi søkelyset på kunnskapsutvikling i hverdagen ved å følge en nedenfra-opp-tilnærming til ledelse. Formålet med masteroppgaven er å studere hvordan en ...

Beyond Budgeting er et forholdsvis nytt begrep innen ledelse og økonomi og hadde sitt utspring på 70-tallet i Sverige. Ledelses- og styringsfilosofien har til hensikt å bedre virksomhetsstyring gjennom blant annet desentralisering av beslutningsmyndighet, autonomi, mer fokus på tillit og åpenhet for å skape bedre lønnsomhet og resultater. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å presentere forskningen som ...

Restrictions and regulations became the reality for most Europeans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments handled the pandemic differently and would need their population to follow the instructions sent out to handle the pandemic. This paper supposes that trust is a key to get the population to follow regulations even if the regulations are strict or to just live as before the pandemic. By running ...

In March 2020, the Norwegian authorities decided to shut down the country to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The lockdown of society resulted in many healthcare workers having to close their practice or comply with a requirement of two meters distance between patients and providers, and consultations of a maximum of 15 minutes. This also applied to the CAM providers. In collaboration with ...

<p>Liposomes are spherical vesicles that form spontaneously when phospholipids are dispersed in an aqueous medium. However, to get liposomes with a more unimodal size distribution, liposomes are usually processed further to reduced size and lammellarity, typically by extrusion, sonication or homogenization. <p>Liposome formulations for topical application needs a vehicle to assure the desirable ...