This article discusses the medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich’s autobiographical text <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> and the significance of physical pain in Julian’s holy visions. Applying Anne H. Hawkins’ idea of the ‘myth of rebirth’, the article argues that although Julian’s work is not a narrative about illness as such, it may nevertheless be read as a medieval pathography or as a ...

Collision-free path finding is crucial for multi-agent traversing environments like gaming systems. An efficient and accurate technique is proposed for avoiding collisions with potential obstacles in virtual and real time environments. Potential field is a coherent technique but it eventuates with various problems like static map usage and pre-calculated potential field map of the environment. It ...

The long-lasting Norwegian history of official biliteracy with two equal written standards has attracted the interest of many scholars, both nationally and internationally. The present paper gives an overview of the historical development more or less similar to what is found in most Norwegian language histories, though with a different perspective. The paper discusses and seeks to answer the following ...

Hensikt: Hensikten med studien er å frembringe ny kunnskap om hvordan personer med inkomplett ryggmargsskade opplever det å gå med høy intensitet umiddelbart etter utskrivelse fra primærrehabiliteringen og hva slags betydning intervensjonen har for den enkelte. Materiale og metode: Studien har en fenomenologisk og hermeneutisk vitenskapsteoretisk forankring. Fire informanter ble strategisk valgt ut ...

Kriminalisering av forberedelseshandlinger til terror. Rettsstatsprinsipper under press?

I 2006 skjedde det endringer i anvendelsesområdet for samfunnsstraff etter at lovgiver ønsket å åpne for økt bruk av straff ute i det fri. Avhandlingen undersøker hvordan domstolene, etter at denne endringen trådte i kraft, har anvendt samfunnsstraff og om anvendelsesområdet i praksis har blitt større enn det var tidligere. Gjennom en behandling av et utvalg dommer, illustreres vurderingsmetodene ...

Avhandlingen kartlegger den rettslige betydningen av sekkekategoriene i LDL § 1 jf. § 6 og EMK art. 14. Dette for å avklare rekkevidden av diskrimineringsvernet. Videre belyser avhandlingen kort forholdet mellom sekkekategoriene i de nevnte regelverk.

China's increasing participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations reached a milestone in 2013 when Beijing agreed to send a large detachment of personnel, including combat forces for the first time, to support UN peacekeeping operations in Mali after that country fell into civil war. This commitment was also distinct in that unlike other African countries where Beijing has supplied peacekeepers, ...

In spring 1926 the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture in Norway appointed Fridtjof Nansen as project leader of a scientific expedition to the Kola Peninsula for comparative study of its indigenous population. Nansen himself worked out the plan of the expedition. According to the plan, it was a Norwegian expedition with international participants: Four Norwegians, two Finns, two ...