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How Did People with Prediabetes Who Attended the Diabetes Prevention Education Program (DiPEP) Experience Making Lifestyle Changes? A Qualitative Study in Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Diabetes can be prevented through lifestyle modification in the prediabetic phase. A group-based lifestyle intervention called ‘Diabetes Prevention Education Program’ (DiPEP) was tested recently in Nepal. The present study ... -
How do economies of density in container handling operations affect ships’ time and emissions in port? Evidence from Norwegian container terminals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Efficient port services are prerequisites for competitive and sustainable maritime transports. This paper makes advances in studying the determinants of the time that ships spend in port and the associated emissions to ... -
How do managers encounter fashionable management concepts? A study of balanced scorecard adopters in Scandinavia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The adoption of management concepts has attracted much attention in organisation studies. However, there is still a lack of research on the pre-adoption phase, where managers become aware of and develop interest in management ... -
How do medical specialists value their own intercultural communication behaviour? A reflective practice study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates ... -
How do Mexican women in Scandinavia use Cultural and Economic Capital to negotiate their transnational identities as immigrants or expats?
(Master thesis, 2022)The international growing Mexican female migration to Norway and Sweden has given rise to a different perspective to the negotiation of transnational identities. The dominant discourse on female immigrants often has no ... -
How do older persons understand the purpose and relevance of preventive home visits? A study of experiences after a first visit
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The aim of this study was to explore and describe older persons’ experiences of their first Preventive Home Visit. Preventive Home Visits (PHV) are health services that aim to promote older persons' health, prevent functional ... -
How do the core curriculum and the English subject curriculum in LK20 enhance a plurilingual approach to language learning?
(Master thesis, 2021)The premise of this thesis is that the core curriculum and the English subject curriculum in Læreplanverket for Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (LK20) contain a form of plurilingualism (see this thesis ch. 1.1). This thesis is a ... -
How do vision problems corrected by optometric intervention, affect headache and quality of life?
(Master thesis, 2023)Bakgrunn: Hodepinelidelser har oppstått som en stor bekymring i det globale offentlige helsesystemet. I daglig praksis møter optikere pasienter som søker behandling for sine hodepinesymptomer gjennom optometrisk intervensjon. ... -
How Does a Communicated Vision and Shared Values Affect the General Level of Interpersonal Trust in a Company?
(Master thesis, 2018)Vision and values can be organizational factors that affects the general level of interpersonal trust in a company, and this paper asks: How does a communicated vision and shared values, as organizational factors, affect ... -
How Does Being Solo in Nature Affect Well-Being? Evidence from Norway, Germany and New Zealand
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Solo—being intentionally solitary in nature—is receiving growing attention as a valuable outdoor education program component. Its practice and history have been researched in the context of experiential learning, ... -
How does COVID-19 effect Afghan migrant workers’ rights in Iran?
(Master thesis, 2021)Afghanistan has endured over 40 years of conflict, resulting in a complex humanitarian crisis and the protracted displacement of its population. Millions of Afghans fled to neighboring Iran and Pakistan, some as refugees ... -
How does organizational culture influence organizational learning in a shipping company?
(Master thesis, 2016)This project targets on organizational culture and organizational learning, aiming to reveal how organizational culture influences on organizational learning within the shipping industry. The main research question is: ... -
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter- and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)1. Arctic and alpine ecosystems are strongly affected by rapidly changing environmental conditions, resulting in profound vegetation shifts, which are highly heterogeneous and hard to predict, yet have strong global impacts. ... -
How extreme environments can impact the training of industrial operators
(Journal article, 2016)Extreme environments, either natural or artificial, can greatly affect the effectiveness and safety of operators. Scope of the paper is to provide a rather detailed list of extreme working environments and the effects ... -
How has social media been affecting problem-solving in organizations undergoing Lean Production implementation? A multi-case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper investigates the impact of social media utilization on problem-solving routines in organizations undergoing Lean Production (LP) implementation. A multi-case study was conducted in three firms from different ... -
How is Physical Education taught in Norwegian lower secondary schools today? A qualitative study among PE teachers.
(Master thesis, 2016-11-05)The present study is about motivation in Physical Education (PE). The purpose of this research paper is to gain better knowledge of strategies that teachers of lower secondary schools use to motivate their pupils in PE. ... -
How microblogging affords conditions for realising student voices about the body and sexuality in a science education lesson
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Empowering students to express their own voices is an important educational aim; yet, the exploration of sensitive topics in discussion-based activities poses particular challenges concerning the realisation of student ... -
How old is a tune?
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How Philosophizing the Dialogos Way Can Promote Education for Sustainable Development
(Chapter, 2021)This paper is an inquiry into an action research process in which staff from a combined vocational and academic upper secondary school philosophized “The Dialogos Way” together, as part of ongoing curriculum reforms in ... -
How police investigators seek to secure that suspects speaking a second language understand their rights in investigative interviews
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study presents an empirical investigation of 54 police interviews in Norway conducted with suspects speaking Norwegian as a second language. Using Conversation Analysis as our method, we examine how investigators seek ...