Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie om hvordan aktiv elevmedvirkning i design og bruk av en lesekrok kan påvirke elevenes leselyst. Målet med studien er å undersøke om leselysten til en 3.klasse ble påvirket ved at de aktivt fikk delta i design og bruk av en lesekrok under lesestunden. Problemstillingen stiller følgende spørsmål: På hvilken måte kan aktiv elevmedvirkning i design av ...

Language, words, and concepts are not static and instead are transferable and flexible in their use and meaning. The development of a concept is influenced by many factors including the social, political, and regional origin of the concept as well as the application of concepts to social justice movement and scholarly use. Two analytical concepts ‘Sacrifice Zones’ and ‘Wastelanding’ are examples of ...

Acknowledgements First of all, a big gracias to the participants who shared so openly their personal stories, giving unique insight to an important topic. Thank you to my supervisor Marcela Douglas for enthusiasm and much needed guidance. Thank you to the Center for Peace Studies for giving me the opportunity to meet and get to know so many beautiful people from all over the world, always ...

Despite an extensive body of research on job crafting, our understanding of how bottom-up job crafting behaviors interact with top-down job design in influencing employee effectiveness remains limited. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we developed and tested a theoretical framework to examine the implications of daily promotion- versus prevention-oriented relational job crafting on ...

This thesis explores the complex interplay of historical tensions, socio-political dynamics, and the role of social media platforms in shaping intergroup relations in Sri Lanka, particularly focusing on the hostility directed towards Muslims by the majority Buddhist population. Examining a range of data sources, including interviews with three organizations, discourse analysis, and socio-economic ...

Introduction: Associations between psychiatric disorders and mortality have been extensively studied, but limited evidence exists regarding influence of clinical characteristics on mortality risk, at the time of acute psychiatric hospitalization.<p> <p>Methods: A prospective total-cohort study included all patients consecutively admitted to Haukeland University Hospital's psychiatric acute ward ...

Background: Enuresis is a common disorder in the school-age period, and is often associated with a variety of behavioral, psychological, and social problems. While early studies suggested an association between enuresis and delinquent behavior, there has been no recent research assessing the prevalence of enuresis and its comorbid psychopathology in young offenders. The aim of this study was to ...

Previous studies on the use of morphosyntactic gender cues for linguistic prediction show that non-native speakers’ use of grammatical gender information is influenced by various factors. In the present study, we examined the influence of differential cross-linguistic influence (DCLI), knowledge of L2 lexical gender, gender congruency, and L2 fluency. To this end, we investigated L1 Oromo ...

Introduction: estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin/creatinine ratio (acR)are insensitive biomarkers for early detection of hypertension-mediated organ damage (hMOD).in this nationwide cross-sectional study, we assessed potential biomarkers for early hMOD inhealthy persons and patients with hypertension. We hypothesised that plasma levels of biomarkers:(1) are different between ...

Research on heritage language grammars to date provides overwhelming support for the general stability of their syntactic systems, while the status of their morphology can vary considerably. In this chapter we offer remarks on the morphological complexity of agglutinating heritage languages, taking a closer look at a number of phenomena in Labrador Inuttitut, Cherokee, and American Hungarian. Four ...