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Barns matmot 2.0 : Diet, development, and food neophobia in early years. How to promote healthy diets in a kindergarten setting
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 332, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Early diet has a profound impact on a child’s development, growth, and future health. A varied diet with a high intake of vegetables is positive in several domains of health. In Norway, as in many other countries, the ... -
Information Quality in Secondary Use of EHR Data : A Case Study of Quality Management in a Norwegian Hospital
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 245, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The motivation for undertaking this study relates to my experiences from practice in a public hospital, where I have observed variations in reaching organizational goals of quality management informed by electronic health ... -
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) among Norwegian male athletes. Energy availability, health, and performance among male athletes at different age and performance levels
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 346, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a syndrome where low energy availability (LEA) has a negative impact on health [e.g., endocrine and metabolic alterations, reproductive dysfunction, impaired bone mineral ... -
Learning with Mobiles. A Developing Country Perspective on Mobile Technologies use in Learning for Livelihood Support
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 344, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This doctoral thesis focuses on understanding the role of mobile technologies as tools to enhance learning for livelihood support. To date, the body of knowledge on the use of mobile technologies for development is growing, ... -
Institutionalized Resistance? Public School Responses to Contradictory Institutional Logics
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 343, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This doctoral thesis is an organizational study that explores the institutional and organizational issues behind education inequality in Indonesia that has been perceived as taken-for-granted. By examining a case in which ... -
Ungdoms inngang til og møte med barnevernet
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 342, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The topic of this dissertation is reports of concern to the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (CWS). Reports of concern is the most common way children and families get in contact with the CWS. Whether a report of concern ... -
Multilevel Inverters with Reduced Component Count for Energy Systems
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 339, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Multilevel inverters (MLIs) have gained increasing interest for advanced energy-conversion systems with a wide range of voltage levels, due to their attractive features of low harmonic contents, low dv/dt stress, low ... -
Essays on Cultural Intelligence
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 338, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This dissertation consists of three essays/papers on cultural intelligence. The first essay/paper is a systematic review using bibliometric methods that explored the CQ literature in international business, including the ... -
The Impact of Internationalization on Performance in Hybrid Organizations
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; nr. 336, Doctoral thesis, 2021)With the growing demand for socially and environmentally conscious products and services, hybrid organizations that address social and environmental issues with a market-based solution are gaining widespread significance ... -
Innovating examinations in teacher education
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 337, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Lærerutdanning er en av de mest betydningsfulle utdanningene i verden. Det legges mye ressurser i utvikling og innovasjon for at denne skal fungere best mulig, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Likevel er det noen ... -
The learning way to production performance : An evolutionary perspective on company-specific production systems (XPS)
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 331, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Manufacturing companies (MCs) implement “best-practice” concepts such as Lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) for enhanced production improvement. However, 30 years of research have shown that very few succeed in ... -
Essays on the performance of savings groups
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 334, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis consists of three chapters that each address a different factor that influences the performance of SGs. Chapter 1 investigates the effect of financial linkages on the performance of savings groups. Financial ... -
Food4toddlers. Fostering healthy dietary habits through targeting toddlers' food and eating environment : The Food4toddlers study
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 324, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Aims and objectives: 1) to develop, implement, and evaluate an eHealth intervention, aiming to promote healthy dietary habits in toddlers by targeting parents’ awareness of their child’s food and eating environments, and ... -
The big slice phenomenon in Banach spaces. Diameter 2 properties, Daugavet- and delta-points
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 335, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Preliminary theory will be presented prior to each result. We begin, in Subsection 1.2.1, by discussing Müntz spaces, which is the focus of the two first papers, “Two properties of Müntz spaces” and “Octahedrality and ... -
Synthetic Micro-Doppler Signatures of Non-Stationary Channels for the Design of Human Activity Recognition Systems
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 333, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The main aim of this dissertation is to generate synthetic micro-Doppler signatures and TV-MDSs to train the HACs. This is achieved by developing non-stationary fixed-tofixed (F2F) indoor channel models. Such models provide ... -
Music in International Development : The Experience of Concerts Norway (2000–2018)
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 323, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This article-based doctoral thesis contributes to the multifaceted debate concerning the role of music in “development.” By development, I refer to the international aid sector and the deliberate actions of states and/or ... -
Morskap, migrasjon og digitale medier : En institusjonell etnografi av den digitaliserte hverdagen til mødre med migrasjonsbakgrunn
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 325, Doctoral thesis, 2021)In the dissertation, I explore how mothers who have migrated to Norway as adults experience mothering in today’s digitalised Norwegian society. Unique to my project is that I study how practices and ideals related to both ... -
Fantasy and Desire in the construction of Sustainable Urban Development : A Discourse Theoretical Analysis of Sustainable Urban Development in Southern Norway
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 330, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis details a discourse analysis of the discourse on sustainable urban development, amongst participants of a co-creative arena called Southern City Network. For over four years, participants of this arena have ... -
Essays on the Implications of Accounting and Audit Regulations
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 328, Doctoral thesis, 2021)In this dissertation, some questions relating to the implications of these developments, particularly regarding audit pricing, accounting quality, and auditors’ use of experts are examined. In the first essay, a bibliometric ... -
An exploration of how social science students utilise an opportunity to learn about simulation-based research methods : A design-based study
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 326, Doctoral thesis, 2021)At the core of this thesis lies an exploration of how social science students utilise an opportunity to learn about Modeling and Simulation (M&S)-based research methods. The study is framed within the Cultural Historical ...