Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på tittel
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Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting female associate professors
(Chapter, 2022)The Norwegian Research Council has, via the research programme Balanse Programmet, funded research as well as practice-oriented initiatives for increasing the representation of women in research leadership positions (Lund, ... -
Universities and regions : New insights and emerging developments
(Chapter, 2022)In this concluding chapter, the editors take stock of the empirical findings across the cases and levels of analysis and link the empirical evidence to the analytical framework presented in Chapter 2. In so doing, we revisit ... -
Universities' mundaneness and regional engagement : Setting the stage
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter introduces the main logic of this volume, which starts from the grassroots level of universities’ “everyday” engagements, looking at the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections ... -
Universities’ responses to crises : the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees
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Unpacking Mundaneness : A novel conceptual framework for universities and regional engagement
(Chapter, 2022)In this chapter, we debate the current view on university-regional engagements and suggest a renewed theoretical framework based on four main elements – macro, meso, micro dimensions, as well as a meta-dimension of temporality ... -
Unpacking social innovation by nonstate service providers in the challenging social work practice
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Unveiling barriers and enablers of risk management in interoperability efforts : a study from the Norwegian public sector
(Master thesis, 2013)All projects have uncertainty and Risk. Projects under a high risk have a high probability of failing to meet its targets like time, cost, quality and content. It is therefore important to manage it and try to reduce the ... -
Urban dyrkning i Kristiansand
(Master thesis, 2023)Hovet, Martin (2023). Urban dyrkning som middel for å gjøre Kristiansand mer bærekraftig. En kvalitativ studie om hvordan ulike aktører i Kristiansand mener urban dyrkning kan bidra til en mer bærekraftig by. (Masteroppgave). ... -
Urban Flooding in Informal Settlements: A case study of women in Bwaise III, Kampala and their experiences with urban flooding
(Master thesis, 2024)Rapid urbanisation and population growth are currently shaping the cities in Eastern Africa, bringing up various challenges to the infrastructure and the urban population. These cities are not equipped to handle the growing ... -
An Urban Governance Framework for Including Environmental Migrants in Sustainable Cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article proposes an urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. It outlines the links among environmental migration, vulnerability, and sustainability, showing how vulnerability ... -
Urban management and sustainable development : the case of the squatting and street trading population of Kumasi
(Master thesis, 2009)The single most important tool for dealing with the challenges that urbanisation presents, especially for cities in developing countries, is management or governance. Urbanisation presents towns and cities and the people ... -
Urban poor living with risk : exploring the dimensions of urban poverty: a case study on risk management capacities among the urban poor in Colombo, Sri Lanka
(Master thesis, 2012)The complex nature of urban poverty cannot be grasped by numbers and graphs. Urban poor survival strategies are subject to a number of challenges, derived from internal and external risks. Domestic illness or global economic ... -
The use of experts panels in ERP cost estimation research
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panel (EP) as a mean of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts as an exploratory research. The development of a cost ... -
Use of welfare technology to increase employment of individuals with intellectual disabilities
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User Evaluation of the Smartphone Screen Reader VoiceOver with Visually Disabled Participants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Touchscreen assistive technology is designed to support speech interaction between visually disabled people and mobile devices, allowing hand gestures to interact with a touch user interface. In a global perspective, the ... -
User Experiences on the Implementation of Exoskeletons in Care Work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article describes the results of a field test of an exoskeleton in care work. Qualitative data about the implementation and use of exoskeletons, with the help of interviews and user diaries, were collected both from ... -
User grouping and power allocation in NOMA systems: a novel semi-supervised reinforcement learning-based solution
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this paper, we present a pioneering solution to the problem of user grouping and power allocation in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. The problem is highly pertinent because NOMA is a well-recognized ... -
User testing tool : towards a tool for crowdsource-enabled accessibility evaluation of websites
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis describes the first open source tool to combine user testing and automated testing to check accessibility of websites. User Testing Tool (UTT) integrates with an existing automated checker for testing websites ... -
A User-centered system with blockchain in the Norwegian healthcare: From a security and privacy perspective
(Master thesis, 2021)With the current Covid-19 pandemic roaming the world, the IT attacks on the healthcare sector has increased five folds from 2019 to 2020. The Norwegian healthcare system is divided into different regions with their own ...