This paper explores women’s entrepreneurship policy and practice in three different countries: Canada, Ireland and the U.S. We focus specifically on policies relating to access to financial capital, and ask: How are ‘access to financial capital’ policies and practices operationalized at national and regional level? We draw on institutional theory to identify gaps in policy and practice, and to ...

We used event‑related potentials to investigate how markedness impacts person agreement in English‑speaking learners of L2‑Spanish. Markedness was examined by probing agreement with both first‑person (marked) and third‑person (unmarked) subjects. Agreement was manipulated by crossing first‑person subjects with third‑person verbs and vice versa. Native speakers showed a P600 for both errors, ...

Hensikten med denne studien er å belyse Marinens operative offiserer på fregatt sin opplevelse av jobb-hjem-konflikt og målet er å anbefale effektive tiltak for å bedre situasjonen. Tjenesten krever lange perioder til sjøs samt perioder på vakt og beredskap, er dette forenelig med å ha omsorg for barn? I studien har vi benyttet empirisk kvalitativ metode, hvor offiserer i forskjellige faser av ...

A naval mine drifting away from where it was moored or deployed can easily cause a significant impediment of States’ navigational rights and can in the worst case pose a serious threat to sailors’ and civilians’ lives. The same may be said about mines that remain active after the cessation of an armed conflict. For this reason, the topic of this dissertation is the regulation of naval mines, focusing ...

This thesis deals with the commitments of coastal States towards Indigenous peoples when planning offshore renewable energy. Their international obligations at regarding human rights (especially Indigenous ones), environmental law and the law of the sea are particularly examined in this work.

Low serum Apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) and high Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) are risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease. Studies have found tracking of lipid and lipoprotein levels form childhood and youth, into adult life. In order to identify an unfavorable lipid profile in young ages, knowledge about the distribution of these biomarkers in the general population is a prerequisite. ...

Temaet for denne masteroppgaven er muntlighet i undervisningen. Bakgrunnen for studien er forskning som forteller at elevmuntligheten i norske førsteklasserom er lav og at høytlesing uten planlagt samtale knyttet til er en aktivitet som forekommer ofte. Med utgangspunkt i dette ønsket jeg å undersøke hvordan høytlesingens sentrale plass i førsteklasserom kan utnyttes for å øke elevmuntligheten. ...

Problemstillingen som reises er hva som er vilkårene for å avlive en hund som har angrepet et menneske eller et barn, og/eller påført disse en skade. Før dagens hundelov ble vedtatt fant mennesker det problematisk at farlige hunder ikke ble avlivet eller at det skulle mye til for at de skulle bli avlivet. Nå derimot synes mange at hunder blir avlivet for lett. Så hvordan er det egentlig? Er hundeloven ...

Purpose - This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - The authors studied how the position of police contact, a cornerstone of the recent Norwegian police reform, was interpreted and practised. The authors interviewed ...

Background: Post-COVID-19 condition is frequently comprised of persistent cognitive sequela, including deficits in attention and executive functions (EFs), which can act as a barrier for regaining pre-illness functional levels. Goal Management Training (GMT) is a cognitive rehabilitation (CR) intervention for improving attention and EFs that has received empirical support in studies of other ...