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A wild animal inside my house: An analysis of the children´s picture book Sven the Otter and the Magic Rock by Espen Villseth and Anita Sletten
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Svenn, a wild otter, has become an Instagram celebrity with over 140,000 followers around the world. Svenn has his own YouTube channel and Facebook page. Moreover, in December 2020, NRK, an influential Norwegian TV channel, ... -
Wildfire Probability Mapping: Bivariate vs. Multivariate Statistics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Wildfires are one of the most common natural hazards worldwide. Here, we compared the capability of bivariate and multivariate models for the prediction of spatially explicit wildfire probability across a fire-prone landscape ... -
Will They Stay or Will They Go? Motivational Profiles, Retirement-Related Correlates, and Retirement Intentions Among 58–72-Year-Old Workers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Demographic changes indicate that the number of people aged 60 years and above will double in the next 30 years, and politicians around the world have an interest in delaying retirement in order to benefit national economies ... -
Will Trespassers Be Prosecuted or Assessed According to Their Merits? A Consilient Interpretation of Territoriality in a Group-Living Carnivore, the European Badger (Meles meles)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-06)Socio-spatial interactions of Carnivores have traditionally been described using the vocabulary of territoriality and aggression, with scent marks interpreted as ‘scent fences’. Here, we investigate the role of olfactory ... -
Willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19 among health professionals in a low income country
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has prompted rapid restructuring of the health-care system in an effort to stop the spread of the pandemic. Thus, telemedicine is more preferable in order to prevent the ... -
Wind energy; CFD simulation of wakes and wind turbine forces
(Master thesis, 2015-09-18)Wind power is a clean and renewable energy source, which plays an important role in the world's energy landscape. When developing a wind farm it is beneficial to analyze the flow pattern in order to maximize the total ... -
Wisdom and the art of living in 8th grade teachers` experiences of philosophizing the dialogos way
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper discusses teachers` self-reported experiences from participating in a Dialogos philosophizing project over five months, from the perspective of wisdom development. The project involved teachers from 13 upper ... -
With Nature in Recovery: A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences With Nature and Friluftsliv in Everyday Life for Persons With Eating Disorders
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis explores and discusses persons with eating disorders’ experiences with nature and friluftsliv, etymologically translated as a free or open-air-life, as part of everyday life recovery. Recent research has ... -
Women's experience with receiving advice on diet and Self-Monitoring of blood glucose for gestational diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: We aimed to explore how women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) experience advice about diet and self-monitoring of blood glucose received in primary health care (PHC) and secondary health care (SHC) with ... -
Women's rights - Between competing laws in Kosovo : a study about gender based violence in rural areas
(Master thesis, 2018)Women´s rights in Kosovo has undergone drastic changes during the last decade. After the civil war in 1999, the international community settled down to rebuild Kosovo, based on the universal human rights. The national law ... -
Women's satisfaction with midwife-led continuity of care: An observational study in Palestine
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Abstract Objectives A midwife-led continuity model of care had been implemented in the Palestinian governmental health system to improve maternal services in several rural areas. This study investigated if the model ... -
Women, Leadership, and Change – Navigating between Contradictory Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article explores how women in top leader positions navigate between the two contradictory cultures of masculinity and femininity and, in particular, if and how these positionings and negotiations develop over time. ... -
Work and mental complaints: are response outcome expectancies more important than work conditions and number of subjective health complaints?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Purpose Investigate the relative effect of response outcome expectancies, work conditions, and number of subjective health complaints (SHC) on anxiety and depression in Norwegian employees. Learned response outcome ... -
Work and Subjective Health Complaints: Exploring the role of knowledge, expectancies and social support
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Subjective health complaints (SHC) are common in the working population, with prevalence rates as high as 90 % during the past month. The intensity of SHC ranges from normal and tolerable complaints to more severe complaints ... -
Work Experience Placements in Lower Secondary Education in Nordic Countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse work experience placements in lower secondary education in Nordic countries. The article focuses on how and to what extent work experience placements in career education ... -
Work Experiences During and After Treatment Among Self-Employed People with Cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose The proportion of self-employed people in the workforce is growing. However, most research on work participation among cancer survivors has focused on salaried workers. We aimed to explore how self-employed people ... -
Work inclusion: self-perceived change in work ability among persons in occupational rehabilitation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-27)Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore self-perceived change in work ability among persons attending occupational rehabilitation programs. Method: We interviewed 17 persons 6 months after they had attended an ... -
Work Placement in Higher Education – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)During the engineering education, the focus is on theoretical knowledge and less on the practical competence to be a professional engineer. To lead higher education into the future, it is critical to develop models and ... -
Workforce experience of the implementation of an advanced clinical practice framework in England: a mixed methods evaluation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: This study aims to understand how the implementation of the advanced clinical practice framework in England (2017) was experienced by the workforce to check assumptions for a national workforce modelling project. ... -
Working with feedback on written texts in the English classroom: students’ motivation, perceptions and response
(Master thesis, 2022)This study is about teachers’ feedback on lower secondary school students’ writing and how students respond to it. More specific, it investigates how students’ motivation influences how they treat feedback, what the students ...