Doctoral Dissertations
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The resource decisions and documents of undergraduate engineering students in mathematics courses
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 307, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis concerns a multiple case study, carried out at three Norwegian universities. The goal was to find similarities and differences between how engineering students from different university contexts used resources ... -
Advances in Deep Learning Towards Fire Emergency Application : Novel Architectures, Techniques and Applications of Neural Networks
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 308, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Deep Learning has been successfully used in various applications, and recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying deep learning in emergency management. However, there are still many significant challenges ... -
Supporting Humanitarian Relief Distribution Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty : A System Design Approach
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 306, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Disasters threaten society with widespread destruction of infrastructure and livelihood. For their survival, affected inhabitants depend on immediate humanitarian assistance from diverse organizations. During quick responses, ... -
Medvirkning i møter om individuell opplæringsplan fra elever med lærevansker : En kvalitativ intervjustudie
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 304, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This research examines the following question: What can students’, parents’ and form teachers’ experiences of communication in individual subject curriculum (ISC) meetings tell us about student opportunities for participating ... -
Arbeidskrav i lærerutdanninger. En studie av muntlige arbeidskrav som didaktisk vurderingspraksis
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 301, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Arbeidskrav er ulike oppgaver eller prøver underveis i et emne som studenter må bestå for å kunne gå opp til eksamen. Slike krav har fått mer oppmerksomhet i undervisningen ved høyere utdanning, særlig etter Kvalitetsreformen ... -
Public Procurement of Information Systems – A Dialectical Analysis
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 114, Doctoral thesis, 2015)In this thesis I identify dialectics in public procurement of Information Systems (IS), and for some of the dialectics I identify synthesis. My study is based on a research gap, revealed through a literature review that I ... -
iCanCope with PainTM Norway : Cultural translation and feasibility testing of the Norwegian iCanCope with PainTM app aimed at reducing pain and improving health-related quality of life in a school-based population of adolescents with persistent pain
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 288, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Persistent pain has a high prevalence among adolescents. Pain has been shown to reduce all aspects of the adolescent’s health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Available pain-coping applications (apps) are rarely scientifically ... -
Shakespeare and Metatheatrical Representation
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 303, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Forholdet mellom scenisk representasjon og metateater hos Shakespeare har tradisjonelt blitt oppfattet antagonistisk: publikum ses enten som fanget inn av scenens skinn av virkelighet, eller som fremmedgjort og skeptisk ... -
Meaningful lines : Social semiotic investigations of the graphical line, used as a connector in digital data visualizations
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 302, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The dissertation investigates the graphical line, used as a connector in digital data visualizations (DVs), from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the semiotic functions of connecting lines in digital DVs, building ... -
Motion Control of Hydraulic Winch Using Variable Displacement Motors
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 305, Doctoral thesis, 2020)To compete in the open market of the offshore crane industry, it is imperative for the manufacturer to continuously improve crane operability. In this context, the crane operability is expressed by means of a so-called ... -
Temperature coefficients and crystal defects in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 300, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The conversion efficiency of a photovoltaic device is strongly dependent on the operating temperature. For most devices, the efficiency, and hence the power production, decreases with increasing temperature due to fundamental, ... -
Teaching and learning for mathematical literacy
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 299, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This dissertation reports from research that investigates the nature of teaching and learning for mathematical literacy in three lower secondary schools in Norway. Mathematical literacy is a notion used to denote the ... -
Machine Learning Tools for Radio Map Estimation in Fading-Impaired Channels
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 297, Doctoral thesis, 2020)In spectrum cartography, also known as radio map estimation, one constructs maps that provide the value of a given channel metric such as as the received power, power spectral density (PSD), electromagnetic absorption, or ... -
Dynamics of undergraduate engineering students’ learning activities in mathematics in an online and in a blended environment
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 291, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis reports from a research study which investigates the role of technology rich environments in undergraduate engineering students’ processes of learning mathematics. The research is founded within a naturalistic ... -
Enhancing the Benefits Management Model for Complex eHealth Efforts
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 290, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis suggests five ways to improve BM in complex eHealth efforts. First, the concept of BR was defined to clarify the existing conflation of the BR and BM concepts. Second, an extended and enhanced BMM was developed ... -
Online Machine Learning for Graph Topology Identification from Multiple Time Series
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 298, Doctoral thesis, 2020)High dimensional time series data are observed in many complex systems. In networked data, some of the time series are influenced by other time series. Identifying these relations encoded in a graph structure or topology ... -
The expletive passive and beyond : A comparative analysis of passives in English and Norwegian
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 296, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis argues that passives in English and Norwegian can be explained by a casetheoretic approach inspired by Chomsky (1981, 1995, 2000 and 2001). I argue that the passive morpheme originates in little v and blocks ... -
Supporting Effective Online Learning Groups for eLearning Systems
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 286, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Learning in groups has been advocated to increase learning based on the social constructivist learning theory. ICT has been preferred to bridge the gap between distance learning students for possibilities to enhance the ... -
Managing Collaborative Arrangements : Challenges associated with managing secondary structures
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 292, Doctoral thesis, 2020)There is a widespread consensus that collaborative arrangements do not replace but instead add one or more layers of structural complexity to traditional organizations. In response to the challenges confronting contemporary ... -
Non-convex Optimization for Resource Allocation in Wireless Device-to-Device Communications
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 293, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Device-to-device (D2D) communication is considered one of the key frameworks to provide suitable solutions for the exponentially increasing data tra c in mobile telecommunications. In this PhD Thesis, we focus on the ...
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