Mo i Rana er en nordnorsk industriby som spesielt på 1900-tallet gikk gjennom store samfunnsmessige endringer og dermed også en stor økning i folketallet, noe som igjen har påvirket talemålet. I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg hvilke dialektendringstendenser som kan spores i Mo i Rana-dialekten fra 1960-tallet og fram til i dag. For å besvare problemstillingen har jeg analysert korpusdata fra ...

Violence is not outside the limits of representation; it remains intertwined in its very textual fabric. This thesis investigates the inherent violence of representation in Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Hand Poems by Michael Ondaatje. The thesis’ main objective is to compare the thematic violence in the text to ...

Based on the premise that climate change litigation is a useful tool to bring States to intensify their efforts to mitigate climate change, the thesis follows the question whether the UNCLOS offers a useful tool in addition to the traditional fora for climate change litigation. The thesis looks at both the climate related obligations under the UNCLOS and the potential of the obligations to be used ...

This thesis aims at answering the following legal question: to what extent can due diligence legislation be used in climate governance to fill in the corporate climate accountability gap through climate change litigation? The objective of this research is to critically assess the legal potential of due diligence legislation within corporate climate litigation cases. In other words, the research ...

Aims - The aims of this study were to assess quality of life after hip fractures, to characterize respondents to patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and to describe the recovery trajectory of hip fracture patients.<p> <p>Methods - Data on 35,206 hip fractures (2014 to 2018; 67.2% female) in the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register were linked to data from the Norwegian Patient Registry and ...

Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias (ADD) challenge Western economies, in which biomedical human-centric understandings of ADD as deficit dominates. To imagine lives with ADD differently, we have facilitated and researched co-creative art sessions rooted in feminist posthumanities in residential care homes in Northern Norway. We have experimented with Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology, ...

This thesis has begun its text by introducing the general importance of the Area and then explaining the general legal framework in international law. In particular, environmental obligations that have already existed in international law are introduced. These obligations have been considered between states and the ISA, aware of the fact that the prospective contractors are supposed to conduct ...

Based upon the topicality of GHG emissions and the IMO’s involvement, my thesis will investigate and examine the regulatory and policy framework of the IMO for reducing GHG emissions and its alignment with the international legal framework to provide a better understanding of where we currently stand in the mitigation of the climate crisis.

The master thesis examines to what extent the use of underwater surveillance equipment for security and military purposes is in conformity with the Law of the Sea.

Im Jahr 2023 jährte sich zum 250. Mal der Geburtstag des dänisch-norwegischen Naturwissenschaftlers, Philosophen, Schriftstellers und Universitätsreformers Henrik Steffens (1773–1845),1 der sein gesamtes Berufsleben in dem seinerzeit politisch noch nicht existierenden Deutschland verbrachte – als Freund Schel-lings und Schleiermachers, als Professor, als Literat und als aktiver ...