Bakgrunnen for temaet i masteroppgaven ble bestemt ut fra hvilken problemstilling som først ble utarbeidet. Denne problemstillingen var: “Hvor stort er kompetansegapet fra nyutdannet sivilingeniør til fungerende prosjektleder?”. ...

Ever since its accession to the EU in 1986 Spain has been considered to be the main driver of the EU Latin America policy, regardless of government. This particular domain of EU foreign policy has for a long time been ...

Today many people move on their own initiative to foreign countries to work as a result of increased globalization and human mobility. At arrival in the new culture the self-initiated expatriate m meet a culture that might ...

Background: During the last couple of years, the government has increased their attention on quality indicators and measures that can contribute towards improving cancer- diagnosis and treatment. Quality indicators were ...

Demokratisk ledelse og interkulturell kompetanse, er en kvalitativ studie av hvordan syv lærere praktiserer demokratisk ledelse og interkulturell kompetanse på en flerkulturell skole. Vitenskapsteoretisk plasserer jeg meg ...

The purpose of this master thesis is to assess the potential direct association between the assessed correlates and weight status, to assess the consumption of soft drinks as a mediator of these relationships, of children ...

Background: The subject of this study is talent development in soccer, with a focus on Norwegian Premier League players sporting background. The theory of deliberate practice (Ericsson et al., 1993) and “Developmental Model ...

In this paper we investigate the performance of the market timing strategy basedon Simple Moving Average (SMA), looking at its performance when tested both inand out-of-sample. We examine whether or not its popularity is ...

The thesis’ objective is to assess the impact of Chinese illegal miners in the Amansie West District in Ghana. The illegal mining sector is seen as having several negative effects, environmentally as well as socially and ...

There is a growing body of literature shedding light on processes of strategy making within public universities. Yet, to date, only a handful of studies have analysed the role that organizational identity plays in such ...

This paper investigates the problem of L1 observer design for positive switched systems. Firstly, a new kind of positive L1 observer is proposed for positive switched linear delay-free systems with observable and unobservable ...

The performance index of a suspension system is a function of the maximum and minimum values over the parameter interval. Thus metamodel-based techniques can be used for designing suspension system hardpoints locations. ...

Background: In spite of a national strategy for reducing coercion in the mental health services, Norwaystill has a high rate of involuntary treatment compared to other European countries. It is therefore crucial tostudy ...

Dette er en masteroppgave hvor vi har sett på problemstillingen «Stiller samhandlingsreformen slik det erfares, nye og endrede krav til organisasjon og til mellomlederne i den daglige drift i kommunehelsetjenesten i ...

Terroraksjonen 22. juli 2011 har vekket vår oppmerksomhet rundt bruk om sosiale medier i krisesituasjoner. I ettertid har vi sett at sosiale medier i økende grad har blitt tatt i bruk av enheter innen den norske ...

Preceding research is inconclusive on the empirical performance of optimized portfolios. In this thesis I evaluate the out-of-sample performance of a minimum-variance portfolio, a meanvariance portfolio, an equally-weighted ...

We analyze the oscillatory behavior of solutions to a class of second-order nonlinear neutral delay differential equations. Our theorems improve a number of related results reported in the literature.

We extend a recently developed generalized local polynomial estimator into a semiparametric smooth coefficient framework to estimate a generalized cost function. The advantage of the generalized local polynomial approach ...

Denne masteroppgaven presenterer ulike forklaringer på hvorfor dagens Europa har lav fertilitet, og hvorfor fertiliteten varierer mellom europeiske land. De fleste er enige i at foreldrenes, og spesielt kvinnenes, mulighet ...

The necessary and sufficient condition of convex function is significant in nonlinear convex programming. This paper presents the identification of convex function on Riemannian manifold by use of Penot generalized directional ...

Microfinance has been recognized internationally as a great strategy in promoting women’s empowerment. Currently development practitioners, international donors, policy makers, Governments, and Non-governmental organizations ...

The global dissipative and multipeakon dissipative behavior of the two-component Camassa-Holm shallow water system after wave breaking was studied in this paper. The underlying approach is based on a skillfully defined ...

The article contributes to the ongoing discussion on relating information and communication technology (ICT) to development (D). The quest to relate ICT to D is a topic of open deliberation and critical scrutiny in ICT4D ...

Bakgrunnen for denne studien har vært ønsket om å finne ut hvilke variabler som er av betydning når det gjelder implementering av nye guidelines i basal Hjerte-Lungeredning i sykehus. Det er tanken om eventuelt å kunne ...

Awareness that maternal diet may influence the outcome of pregnancy as well as the long-term health of mother and child has increased in recent years. A new food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was developed and validated ...

The adsorption properties of water molecules on oligo and polysaccharides are attributed to the OH groups of the glucose rings in the molecules. The water molecules are adsorbed onto OH groups by hydrogen bond formation. ...

Stadig flere organisasjoner ser at det er viktig å forvalte kunnskapen på en god måte. Som et resultat av dette velger flere og flere organisasjoner å implementere et intranett. Et intranett inneholder funksjonalitet som ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate the accuracy of self-reported (SR) training duration and intensity distribution in elite endurance athletes. Methods: Twenty-four elite XC skiers (25 ± 4 yr, 67.9 ± 9.88 ...

Focus on this issue of disturbance and fault value is inevitable in data collection about analog circuit. A novel strategy is developed for analog circuit online performance evaluation based on fuzzy learning and double ...

A simplified model predictive control algorithm is designed for discrete-time Markov jump systems with mixed uncertainties. The mixed uncertainties include model polytope uncertainty and partly unknown transition probability. ...

This paper proposes an observer-based robust guaranteed cost control method for thrust-limited rendezvous in near-circular orbits. Treating the noncircularity of the target orbit as a parametric uncertainty, a linearized ...

This paper is a product of mathematics teaching developmental research projects based on establishing communities of inquiry comprising schoolteachers working at all grades and university-based teacher educator/researchers ...

This paper investigates the continuation of solutions to the modified coupled two-component Camassa-Holm system after wave breaking. The underlying problem is rather challenging due to the mutual coupling effect between ...

In the story of Norwegian economics, and of Norwegian economic policy and performance during the postwar years, a central place must be given to Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973). In 1969 he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in ...

A robust control allocation scheme is developed for rigid spacecraft attitude stabilization in the presence of actuator partial loss fault, actuator failure, and actuator misalignment. First, a neural network fault detection ...

This master‟s thesis seeks to investigate whether motivations for business start-up between persons with and without disabilities differ. The motivation for this study is that, disabled entrepreneurs may have unique reasons ...

As a step toward being more e_ective and to improve test procedures, GE Oil & Gas wants to develop a workshoptool to automate the testing of Choke Valves. The Choke Valve Workshop Tool (CVWT) main functionis to operate the ...

Innføring av elektroniske legemiddelkurver i helsesektoren er prioritert både politisk og av ledelsen på sykehusene. Det er store forventninger til at slike systemer skal øke arbeidskapasiteten til de ansatte, forbedre ...

Professor Olav Bjerkholt has provided a spirited critique of our 2014 article titled “Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy.” Here we reply briefly, noting that many of the quotations he provides actually support ...

Background: Experiences from practice in surgical units led us to question what makes teamwork effective and elegant, and also reflect upon the causes of situations where the teamwork is less than optimal and team members ...

I oppgave min har jeg hatt som hensikt å analysere og forklare betydningen av krisekommunikasjon- og beredskap i videregående skoler. For å belyse teorien i praksis har jeg anvendt et lokalt case som utgangspunkt for ...