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Exploring Klebsiella pneumoniae in Healthy Poultry Reveals High Genetic Diversity, Good Biofilm-Forming Abilities and Higher Prevalence in Turkeys Than Broilers
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-07)Klebsiella pneumoniae is a well-studied human pathogen for which antimicrobial resistant and hypervirulent clones have emerged globally. K. pneumoniae is also present in a variety of environmental niches, but currently there is a lack of knowledge on the occurrence and characteristics of K. pneumoniae from non-human sources. Certain environmental niches, e.g., animals, may be associated with high ... -
Public Consultation on Proposed Revisions to Norway's Gene Technology Act: An Analysis of the Consultation Framing, Stakeholder Concerns, and the Integration of Non-Safety Considerations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-08)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 ... -
Hva påvirker og forklarer individers vaner og fysisk aktivitet: mulige endringer underveis i Covid-19 perioden
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-07)Formålet med denne studien har vært å undersøke hva som påvirker fysisk aktivitet blant voksne. Som underordnet problemstilling har vi også kartlagt mulige endringer etter utbruddet av Covid-19. Situasjonen er slik at kun en av tre nordmenn oppfyller minimumskravet om fysisk aktivitet og forskning har antydet at Covid-19 har ført til en reduksjon i fysisk aktivitet. Dette koster samfunnet mye i form ... -
Individual-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Vaccine Strategies
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-01)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 ... -
Geographical Variation of the Impact by the Covid-19 Pandemic in Norway. How much has the covid-19 pandemic affected excess mortality and excess decline in employment in Norway on a geographical level in 2020?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)This thesis investigates the geographical variation of excess mortality and excess decline in employment, during the covid-19 pandemic in Norway. The data were collected from Statistics Norway and The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. The method tells you how much the present value are greater or lesser, compared to previous years. Excess mortality and decline in employment were ... -
Seeking causal effects from a rule change. How did changing the “roughing the passer rule” in 2018 affect salaries for quarterbacks in the NFL?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)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 ... -
Hvordan kontroversiell merkeaktivisme påvirker forbrukeratferd
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-30)Denne studien tar for seg sammenhengen mellom graden av kontrovers og forbrukeratferd innenfor en praksis som stadig øker i popularitet: Merkeaktivisme. Etter hvert som forbrukere forventer at bedrifter og merker tar mer samfunnsansvar, blir det enda viktigere å se på hvordan praksiser som merkeaktivisme gir utslag på forbrukeratferd. “Hvordan påvirker merkeaktivismens grad av kontrovers forbrukerens ... -
Intensjon til å feriere i Norge - Betydningen holdninger, sosiale normer, ressurser og barrierer har for forbrukeren under en pandemi
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-28)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 ... -
The impact of Electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium size enterprises-The case of Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-28)Electricity is an important resource for an economy and its demand for the last decade have witness a significant increase. This work has as aim to study the impact of electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium scale businesses in Cameroon within the period of 1980 to 2018. The study made use of time series data within the period of the study and uses two methodological approaches; ... -
Relasjonskvaliteten i B2B relasjoner - effekten av kunders digitale kommunikasjonskompetanse
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)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 ... -
Literary Contact Zones in the Upper Secondary Classroom: Using Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age to build health and life skills
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)This thesis utilizes Kiley Reid’s novel Such A Fun Age with its realistic characters and themes as a method to teach students about the interdisciplinary topic of health and life skills in the new national curricula, LK20. Because the LK20 began its implementation in Norwegian schools the year prior to this thesis, there is a need for more in-depth knowledge about the interdisciplinary topics as ... -
Soil Buffering Capacity Can Be Used To Optimize Biostimulation of Psychrotrophic Hydrocarbon Remediation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-25)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 ... -
Grammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-28)In this paper, we investigate an ongoing change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian. Previous research has shown that the feminine form of the indefinite article is quickly disappearing from several dialects, which has led to claims that the feminine gender is being lost from the language. We have carried out a study of the status of the feminine in possessives across five age groups of ... -
Expecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processing
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-11)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 ... -
The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian: A reaction time study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: the case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-15)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 ... -
Short-Term Load Forecasting with Missing Data using Dilated Recurrent Attention Networks
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-06)Forecasting the dynamics of time-varying systems is essential to maintaining the sustainability of the systems. Recent studies have discovered that Recurrent Neural Networks(RNN) applied in the forecasting tasks outperform conventional models that include AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average(ARIMA). However, due to the structural limitation of vanilla RNN which holds unit-length internal ... -
Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2020-08-17)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 ... -
Some highlights from the PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-30)This an overview of the PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference that took place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) on November 20–22, 2019. -
Gaming in Second Language Acquisition: A literature review and discussion on gaming as a resource in the English classroom
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-18)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 ...