In Norway, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are regulated through the Gene Technology Act of 1993, which has received international attention for its inclusion of non-safety considerations. In 2017, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board triggered a process to revise the Act that included a public consultation and resulted in the “Proposal for relaxation.” Using poststructuralist discourse ...

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease with influenza-like symptoms originating from Wuhan, China, towards the end of 2019. There has been developed multiple vaccines to contain the virus and to protect the most vulnerable people in society. In this thesis we look at two different vaccination strategies to prevent most deaths and years of life lost. We conclude that the safest and most consistent strategy ...

Following concerns for players safety, the National Football League (NFL) chose to protect the quarterbacks (QB) further by changing the “roughing the passer rule” in 2018. This paper studies the effect this rule change had on QB salaries. This is done by applying a Difference-in-Differences approach on salary data stretching from 2013 to 2021. Our estimate show how the salary increase following the ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hva som påvirker intensjonen til å feriere i Norge. Dette gjøres ved å undersøke holdninger, sosiale normer og oppfattet atferdskontroll som inngår i det teoretiske rammeverket Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991). Rammeverket er videre utvidet med variabler som kan bidra ytterligere til å forklare bakenforliggende aspekter ved holdning og oppfattet ...

Oppgavens formål er å undersøke hvordan relasjonskvaliteten i B2B relasjoner påvirkes av kunders digitale kommunikasjonskompetanse. Oppgaven skrives i det samme tidsrommet som COVID-19 pandemien pågår, og tar utgangspunkt i økt bruk av digital kommunikasjon som følge av pandemien. Det teoretiske rammeverket bygger på teorier fra tidligere studier av relasjonskvalitet, og inneholder dimensjoner av ...

Effective bioremediation of hydrocarbons requires innovative approaches to minimize phosphate precipitation in soils of different buffering capacities. Understanding the mechanisms underlying sustained stimulation of bacterial activity remains a key challenge for optimizing bioremediation—particularly in northern regions. Positron emission tomography (PET) can trace microbial activity within the ...

Despite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch processing costs (e.g., Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus on the code-switch itself instead of its potential subsequent benefits. Motivated by corpus studies on CS patterns and sociopragmatic functions of CS, we asked whether bilinguals use code-switches as a cue to the lexical ...

Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 living in Canada (n = 56) and the Netherlands (n = 47). Our goal was to establish the impact of the first language (L1 = Syrian Arabic) skills on L2 (English, Dutch) outcomes and whether ...

The rapidly evolving ocean economy, driven by human needs for food, energy, transportation and recreation, has led to unprecedented pressures on the ocean that are further amplified by climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution. The need for better governance of human activities in the ocean space has been widely recognized for years, and is now also incorporated in the United Nations ...

This thesis has looked at research relating to the effects of gaming on English language acquisition and discuss the findings in context of the Norwegian lower secondary school. Relevant research in the field was identified by using relevant search strings, recommendations from my supervisor, and by looking at the references from the research I discovered via search strings. The research reviewed ...