Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Breakfast and school lunch as pathways for enhancing educational outcomes and promoting public health
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder; 375, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Health and education are closely linked. Healthy students are suggested to be better learners (3). Healthy behaviors, including healthy diets, physical activity, and sufficient sleep, might provide optimal conditions for ... -
Approaches and strategy development towards more sustainable ultra-high-performance concrete
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 410, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The main research objective of this thesis is to investigate how the use of UHPC can contribute to improving the sustainability of the concrete industry by investigating alternative approaches and develop a comprehensive ... -
Developing Practices and Approaches to Electronic Popular Music in Education
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder; no. 398, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The field of electronic popular music education is a relative newcomer compared to most other educational fields within the arts, and the relationships between educational purposes, between the teacher and the students, ... -
Narrating Environmental Citizenship. Norwegian picturebooks and comics in the Anthropocene
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 387, Doctoral thesis, 2023)In my project, I examine how aspects of “environmental citizenship” are discussed in Norwegian picturebooks and comics. The term “environmental citizenship” encompasses several concepts that originate from political sciences ... -
Litteraturundervisning og litterære tekstpraksiser i grunnskoletilbud for voksne innvandrere
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;no. 370, Doctoral thesis, 2022)This study investigates literature didactics issues related to literary practices and literature teaching in a specific type of second language classroom; primary and lower secondary education for adult immigrants. The ... -
Sexual quality of life in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 378, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Background: Research on the impact of health status on sexual activity and sexual quality of life (QOL) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is scarce. Aim: The overall aim of the studies was to examine the ... -
Implications to the Audit Process of Auditing that uses Data Analytics Tools and New Business Models
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 405, Doctoral thesis, 2023)New advances in information technology have created a wave of technological innovations which affect the audit firms. Audit firms are now investing large sums of money to acquire and adopt data analytics tools. Using three ... -
Essays on Crowdfunding Adoption and Behavior
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 409, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The aim of this dissertation is to examine aspects of crowdfunding adoption and behavior. Accordingly, the overarching research question answered by this dissertation is: what influences crowdfunding backers’ contribution ... -
Towards Designing AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning Systems
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 407, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Among the many innovations driven by artificial intelligence (AI) are more advanced learning systems known as AI-enabled adaptive learning systems (AI-ALS). AI-ALS are platforms that adapt to the learning strategies of ... -
Sexual violence and children's rights : A mixed methods study of teachers' and students' perceptions of teaching practice in social science education.
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 404, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The purpose of this doctoral dissertation in social science education is to explore teachers' and students' perceptions of teaching practice related to gender, sexuality, harassment, and abuse in upper secondary school in ... -
Interprofessional simulation-based learning used to prepare perioperative nursing students for acute situations
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 402, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Perioperative nursing focuses on care for patients with life-threatening crisis, illness or injury undergoing planned or acute surgery, treatment and/or examination. Performing care requires advanced knowledge ... -
Reuse of Water and Nutrients in Soilless Plant Culture
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 403, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This dissertation proposes two approaches to mitigating the dependency of soilless culture on scarce mineral fertilisers. The first approach aims to increase the lifetime of the NS used in recirculating hydroponic systems, ... -
«Jeg skaper meg en ny klode». Fiktive verdener og Ellen Einans lyrikk
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 401, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the fictional potential of lyric poetry and demonstrates a fiction-based analysis on writings of the Norwegian poet Ellen Einan. In addition to the theoretical discussion of fictional worlds of lyric ... -
Modeling, Simulation and Prediction of Vehicle Crashworthiness in Full Frontal Impact
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 400, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Vehicle crashworthiness assessment is critical to help reduce road accident fatalities and ensure safer vehicles for road users. Techniques to assess crashworthiness include physical tests and mathematical modeling and ... -
The development of students’ mathematical competencies : The case of biology students
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 396, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This research focuses on the development of mathematical competencies of first-year university students in a Biology department as they engage in nonroutine open-ended mathematical tasks set in the context of biology. The ... -
I randsonen av den norske velferdsstaten. Arbeidsledige polske migranters erfaringer med tilgang til offentlige velferdsytelser og møter med NAV.
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 399, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis seeks to answer two research questions: How do unemployed Polish migrants in Norway experience their access to public welfare benefits and their encounters with NAV? And how are these experiences institutionally ... -
Fostering Productive Entrepreneurship : An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 371, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurs do not emerge in isolation rather in a very integrated and complex system (ecosystem) with multiple actors (Cowell et al., 2018). The magnitude of entrepreneurship’s contribution ... -
Vondt, valdsamt, vedvarande. Teoretiske perspektiv på traume og traumelitteratur, og litterære analysar av Herbjørg Wassmos Huset med den blinde glassveranda, Per Pettersons I kjølvannet og Brit Bildøens Sju dagar i august
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 397, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Painful, violent, insidious. Theoretical perspectives on trauma and trauma literature, and literary analyses of Herbjørg Wassmo’s House with the blind glass windows, Per Petterson’s In the wake and Brit Bildøen’s Seven ... -
Affinity-Based Reinforcement Learning : A New Paradigm for Agent Interpretability
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 395, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The steady increase in complexity of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms is accompanied by a corresponding increase in opacity that obfuscates insights into their devised strategies. Methods in explainable artificial ... -
Development of Motion Control Systems for Hydraulically Actuated Cranes with Hanging Loads
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 394, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Automation has been used in industrial processes for several decades to increase efficiency and safety. Tasks that are either dull, dangerous, or dirty can often be performed by machines in a reliable manner. This may ...