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Bilingual Sentence Production Effects of Language Structure, Bilingual Profile, and Cognitive Load
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder; 447, Doctoral thesis, 2023)When producing sentences, speakers plan up to a certain point prior to the onset of speech and plan the rest of the sentence incrementally while speaking. The amount planned prior to speech onset is called the planning ... -
Intellectual disability and participation in digital technology design activities: A catalyst for social inclusion
(Doctoral dissertations at the University of Agder; 446, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Social inclusion is a central goal in welfare policies and an essential determinant of people's health and well-being. This doctoral thesis aims to investigate how participation in the design of digital technology can ... -
Spoken word production in Norwegian-English bilinguals Investigating effects of bilingual profile and articulatory divergence
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;443, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the effects of individual differences in bilingual profile and articulatory divergence on bilingual spoken word production. During bilingual word production both languages are to some degree active, ... -
Creativity in Remote and Hybrid Work Environments
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 442, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Workplace creativity is crucial for innovation and navigation in a dynamic technology-driven world. This dissertation sheds light on individual and group creativity within flexible work arrangements (FWA), an expanding yet ... -
Fylkeskommunen i et flernivåsystem : Effekter av europeisk integrasjon på sub-nasjonal beslutningsadferd i et tett integrert ikke-medlemsland
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 445, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Public administrations play a crucial role in formulating, initiating, implementing, and developing public policies. To comprehend the development and practice of public policy, it is important to analyze the effects of ... -
Optimization of Multivariate Hawkes Processes via Decentralized Learning Automata: Towards Learning How to Boost Factual Information on Social Networks
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 439, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The increasing amount of misleading information on Social Media (SM) platforms is problematic. The reason is that these platforms have become one of the primary sources of information due to their ease-of-use and cheap ... -
Synchronising Wisdom and Implementation: A Formal ODD Approach to Expressing Insights on Bullying
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 441, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The Social Simulation methodology, a mix of traditionally unassociated fields, utilises computer models to describe, understand, predict, and reflect on social phenomena. The model creation process typically requires the ... -
Alt på stell. En studie i hvordan bruk av kunstig intelligens kan hemme eller fremme Sparebanken Sør sine verdier
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 437, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This study investigates the impact of AI-technology on the immaterial values of Sparebanken Sør, a Norwegian financial institution that prides itself on its long historical tradition, its customer-oriented approach, and ... -
Partnerskap i lærerutdanningene En studie av praksislærere som lærerutdannere på universitetet
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 438, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Den overordnede hensikten med avhandlingen var å undersøke hvordan lærerutdanningene kan styrkes i et partnerskap mellom lærerutdannere på universitetet og i skolen. En sentral aktør i lærerutdanningene er praksislærerne ... -
Force velocity profiling for athletes
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder; no. 436, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The concept of force-velocity (FV) profiling is inspired by the fundamental properties of skeletal muscles, where there is an inverse relationship between force and velocity. The measurement of force and the corresponding ... -
Advanced Warehouse Energy Storage System Control Using Deep Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 435, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The world is undergoing a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources due to the threat of global warming, which has led to a substantial increase in complex buildingintegrated energy systems. These systems ... -
Revisiting Theory Y: Exploring the impact of positive leader assumptions on leadership for intrinsic motivation in followers
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 434, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Intrinsic motivation is a powerful but often underutilised resource in today’s workplace. Organisations may therefore miss out on a key contributor to creativity, productivity, and profitability, while employees miss out ... -
Communication in elite team sports
(Doctoral dissertations at the University of Agder;nr. 430, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Prestasjoner i eliteidrett inneholder en rekke sammenkoblede faktorer, der teammedlemmer må koordinere innsats i treningsarbeid og i kampsituasjon, mot kollektive mål. Kommunikasjon er en sentral faktor som er relatert til ... -
Numerical and Experimental Study of Shared Mooring Systems for Prototype Floating Wind Farms
(Doctoral dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 431, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Conventional mooring systems represent a substantial portion of the cost of a floating offshore wind farm (FOWF). The concept of shared mooring was initially proposed to reduce the overall usage of mooring lines and the ... -
3D Sensor Placement and Embedded Processing for People Detection in an Industrial Environment
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 433, Doctoral thesis, 2023)At a time when autonomy is being introduced in more and more areas, computer vision plays a very important role. In an industrial environment, the ability to create a real-time virtual version of a volume of interest ... -
Improving the technical properties of recycled aggregates for road construction
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 428, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Sustainable construction, operation and maintenance of road infrastructure are currently of high priority in Norway. The development of the highway standards and specifications (e.g., N200) plays an important role, so that ... -
Modeling asteroid binary systems with the full two-body problem using surface integrals
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 432, Doctoral thesis, 2023)An asteroid binary system, where two asteroids are in mutual orbit, is important to study as it can provide knowledge of the history of the asteroid population. The most important mechanism to form asteroid binaries in the ... -
Online Machine Learning for Inference from Multivariate Time-series
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no: 429, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Inference and data analysis over networks have become significant areas of research due to the increasing prevalence of interconnected systems and the growing volume of data they produce. Many of these systems generate ... -
Environmental and economic assessments of electric vehicle battery end-of-life business models
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 426, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The number of electric vehicles is rapidly and continuously increasing due to the transport sector’s electrification to reduce emissions such as greenhouse gases. Each electric vehicle is powered by a battery that can ... -
Being White in Pluralist Proximity: Concerning postcolonial art, education and research in Scandinavia
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 427, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This combined doctoral thesis comprises 50% theory and 50% art practice. It emerges through the intersections of art, education and research. I share my evolving understanding of working processes in those fields as the ...