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Human Behaviour Modelling for Welfare Technology
(Doctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;63, Doctoral thesis, 2020-03-31)Elderly populations are increasing in Norway, Scandinavia and other developed countries, in part because people are living longer due to medical advances. This is associated with several societal challenges, including an ... -
Human behaviour modelling for welfare technology using hidden Markov models
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Human behaviour modelling for welfare technology is the task of recognizing a person's behaviour patterns in order to construct a safe environment for that person. It is useful in building environments for older adults or ... -
Human Displacement in Times of Climate Change
(Master thesis, 2021)Today, more and more people are forced to flee from their homes as a result of global warming. Migration scholars, environmentalists and international institutions, have all expressed concern over the increasing social ... -
Human Error and Response to Alarms in Process Safety
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Human operators are required to respond to alarms in normal conditions, and also to find solutions to unexpected situations in real time. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge of human responses to alarms in ... -
Human error in pilotage operations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Pilotage operations require close interaction between human and machines. This complex sociotechnical system is necessary to safely and efficiently maneuver a vessel in constrained waters. A sociotechnical system consists ... -
Human Error: Causality and the Confusion of Normative and Descriptive Accounts of Human Performance
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)That human errors can cause accidents is a core assumption of classical safety management systems, which aims to reduce the occurrence and consequences of human errors. This paper will present two interconnected lines of ... -
Human factors in maritime accidents: a bibliometric review
(Master thesis, 2023)Maritime transport is often associated with high risk. Accidents at sea can have major consequences, it can lead to the loss of ships, loss of cargo, loss of human life and pollution of the oceans. Human factors or human ... -
Human Rights and Gender Justice in Iran: Local Understandings of Women’s Rights and Empowerment through Community Led Projects
(Master thesis, 2022)This study aimed to explore a different context in examining human rights and gender justice in Iran. With this purpose women’s led community projects had been selected in three different regions: Kerman, Kurdistan, and ... -
Human Rights Critique and the Global South: A Hermeneutical Reading of Makau Mutua and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
(Master thesis, 2023)The human rights project has reached an epistemological, legal, and moral crossroad. The multidimensionality of this stalemate invites for critical conversation(s) on the credibility, authority, and moral legitimacy of ... -
Human rights education and multiculturalism in a lower secondary school: students’ perspectives
(Master thesis, 2021)Abstract This thesis examines students’ perceptions of human rights and multiculturalism. It is a small-scale, qualitative study conducted in an urban secondary school in South-East Norway with a diverse cultural and ... -
Human Rights Education in Kurdistan–Iraq: a means towards gender equality?
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis examines education professionals’ perceptions of the potential role of Human Rights Education (HRE) as a means towards gender equality in Iraqi Kurdistan. HRE is understood as a cosmopolitan project. The key ... -
Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies. A Comparative Case Study of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Indigenous Peoples (IPs) of the North in Russia and Norway often meet struggles in their interactions with the oil and gas corporations operating on their lands. Indigenous communities are underrepresented in public discourse ... -
Human-Centric Aggregation via Ordered Weighted Aggregation for Ranked Recommendation in Recommender Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In this paper, we propose an approach to recommender systems that incorporates human-centric aggregation via Ordered Weighted Aggregation (OWA) to prioritize the suggestions of expert rankers over the usual recommendations. ... -
Humanitært arbeid i Kamerun 2009
(Bachelor thesis, 2009)This was the first time optometry students from Buskerud University College participated in a project in Cameroon. The goal of the project was to make an assessment of needs at the eye department. We got an idea of the ... -
Humanoid robots in the care of older persons: A scoping review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The aim was to examine how humanoid robots have been used in the care of older persons and identify possible benefits and challenges associated with such use from older persons’ points of view. The study was a scoping ... -
Hundre hus: En undersøkelse av interaksjonen mellom materiale og kropp i skapende prosesser
(Master thesis, 2014)Bakgrunnen for valg av tema for masteroppgaven er et ønske om å vinne ny innsikt innen fagfeltet Formgiving, kunst og håndverk. Hovedvekten i undersøkelsen er på praktisk skapende arbeidet der interaksjonen mellom materiale ... -
Hunting promotes sexual conflict in brown bears
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The removal of individuals through hunting can destabilize social structure, potentially affecting population dynamics. Although previous studies have shown that hunting can indirectly reduce juvenile survival through ... -
Hunting promotes spatial reorganization and sexually selected infanticide
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Harvest can affect the ecology and evolution of wild species. The removal of key individuals, such as matriarchs or dominant males, can disrupt social structure and exacerbate the impact of hunting on population growth. ... -
Hunting regulation favors slow life histories in a large carnivore
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)As an important extrinsic source of mortality, harvest should select for fast reproduction and accelerated life histories. However, if vulnerability to harvest depends upon female reproductive status, patterns of selectivity ... -
Hurum. Analyse av næringsutvikling og attraktivitet
(Working paper, 2014-02-18)Utviklingen i Hurum er analysert med hensyn til næringsutvikling, demografi, innovasjon i næringslivet og attraktivitet og utdanningsnivå.