Digital child protection faces numerous challenges in ensuring the safety and well-being of children in the digital age. This chapter highlights key strategies for handling these challenges and discusses Norway's digital strategy, which focuses on leveraging digitalization for societal development and public services, including child protection. The strategy encompasses initiatives related to digital ...

In an earlier reflection, we drew on our experiences, especially in Indigenous contexts, to consider how detachment connects with abstraction (Huru, Andersson & Wagner, 2023). We described abstraction as a process that attaches an idea to an experience—e.g., the realization that a line carved into a bone can represent a real thing, or five such lines, or the symbol 5 referring to the five lines. But ...

I løpet av de siste årene har tjenestedesign vokst frem som en populær og ofte foretrukket oppskrift for endring og forbedring av organisatoriske praksiser (Pettersen m.fl., 2021; Risvand Mo, 2021; Moldenæs, Pettersen & Røvik, 2024). Et søk i mediearkivet Atekst på søkeordet «tjenestedesign» viser blant annet en jevn økning i redaksjonelle omtaler av konseptet. Søket viste ett treff i 2001, ni treff ...

Metaphors are ubiquitous in education. In this paper an attempt is made to explore two questions that are thus pertinent: Why – and is this an unhappy state of affairs? Using the interaction-view of metaphor as analytical frame (Black 1954/55), a possible mechanism behind metaphor-generation in education is identified. According to the interaction view, metaphors function by a mechanism of ...

This chapter discusses how an industry–university collaboration between ferrosilicon producer Finnfjord AS in northern Norway and UiT The Arctic University of Norway contributes to the mission of operationalising the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The core of the project is to capture CO2 by means of microalgae cultivation on an industrial scale. The microalgae, rich in omega-3 ...

“What is history? What is love? What is justice? Sanity? Reason? Do the gods really exist, and does it matter?” Professor of law Yxta Maya Murray (2015, 137) certainly asks the grand questions in “Punishment and the Costs of Knowledge,” many of which will be recognized in Shakespeare’s drama, in French philosophy, and by people who appreciate the “good literature” that “summons powerful emotions” ...

Introduction: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are abundant and influential elements of the tumor microenvironment (TME), giving support to tumor development in multiple ways. Among other mechanisms, CAFs are important regulators of immunological processes occurring in tumors. However, CAF-mediated tumor immunomodulation in the context of radiotherapy remains poorly understood. In this study, ...

Allelopathic encroachment of <i>Empetrum nigrum</i> (crowberry) is impacting the Norwegian reindeer husbandry. This thesis first explores both the negative and positive impacts of crowberry, and then analyses the effect of its encroachment on the husbandry under climate change. The thesis consists of four papers, one qualitative study conducting systematic literature review of <i>Empetrum nigrum</i>, ...

Replicating existing agent-based models poses significant challenges, particularly for those new to the field. This article presents an all-encompassing guide to re-implementing agent-based models, encompassing vital concepts such as comprehending the original model, utilizing agent-based modeling frameworks, simulation design, model validation, and more. By embracing the proposed guide, researchers ...

We are a group of three women: an artist, a researcher, and a museum professional, who at the same time struggle to be defined as “something”. Each of us has a different relationship to wool, yet, as we have come to see, wool dissolves the type of difference that would prevent us from finding our connection. For some of us, wool is a material to work with and create with— and more. For others of us, ...