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Big Five Personality Profiles in the Norwegian Special Operations Forces
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study is the first to report on Big Five personality traits of employees in the Norwegian military Special Operations Forces (NORSOF). Three research questions were formulated for this study, aiming to investigate (1) ... -
Big Words and Small Things: The Contradictory Nature of Hope
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective: Hope is central to recovery in mental health and substance use problems. People experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use problems often have to settle for inadequate services that do not meet ... -
Bilberry as an important resource for bumblebees within the forest-tundra ecotone
(Master thesis, 2019)Bumblebees are important pollinators for many plant species in high altitude environments. However, bumblebee populations currently show trends of decline as a result of several interacting drivers. Among these drivers, ... -
Bildeboken Grevlingdager (2019) i det tverrfaglige temaet folkehelse og livsmestring: en klasseromssamtale om følelser, mestring og tilhørighet
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan Gro Dahle og Kaia Dahle Nyhus sin bildebok Grevlingdager belyser tematikker som kan knyttes til det tverrfaglige temaet folkehelse og livsmestring. Studien undersøker også hvordan ... -
Bildebøker i multimodale og digitale lese- og skriveprosesser : Elevers skapende arbeid med skriving, bilde, lyd og stemme
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;, Doctoral thesis, 2018) -
Bildebøker og emosjonelle leserreaksjoner. Om kunst og etikk.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Kunst henvender seg ofte til publikums emosjoner. I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan visse bildebøker vekker affektive responser. Dette gjør jeg ved å støtte meg til Knud Ejler Løgstrups (1905–81) kunstfilosofi og ... -
Bildebøker, lese-engasjement og tolkningsfellesskap
(Journal article, 2022)Denne artikkelen presenterer et møte mellom to femåringer i barnehagen og ei bildebok. Boka ser ut til å vekke engasjement gjennom tekst og bilder, men lesesituasjonen ser også ut til å underbygge barnas lese-engasjement. ... -
Billedskapende arbeid og fagdidaktiske utfordringer: En undersøkelse i eget billedskapende arbeid som utgangspunkt for undervisning i ungdomsskolen
(Master thesis, 2014)Tema for masteroppgaven er billedskapende arbeid og fagdidaktiske utfordringer. Masteroppgaven er delt opp i to undersøkelser. Del 1, starter med Aksjon 1, som er en studie i eget billedskapende arbeid med utgangspunkt i ... -
Billedspråklig dialog mellom inspirasjonsbilde og billedskaperen
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Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study compares three recent theories of expressive microtiming in music. While each theory was originally designed to engage a particular musical genre—Anne Danielsen’s beat bins for funk, Neo-Soul, and other contemporary ... -
Bio-electro chemical process for power to gas application
(Master thesis, 2023)Fossil fuels are non-renewable resources, so their scarcity will increase day by day. Extracting and using fossil fuels also have an impact on the environment. This challenge needs to be solved by developing sustainable ... -
Biochar effects on soil microbiota
(Master thesis, 2021)Biochar can help in soil remediation from pesticides effects -
Biochar in green roofs to increase water uptake and retention
(Master thesis, 2021)Global warming has increased the precipitation in Northern Europe. For cities, this has led to increased stormwater runoff and flooding, due to undersized sewage systems and lack of natural water sinks. Green roofs have ... -
Biodegradation of plastic and potential impact of microorganism on Biodegradation
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Biodegradation of waste amines under anaerobic, micro-aerobic and aerobic conditions
(Master thesis, 2008)Monoethanolamines (MEA) are commonly used as adsorbent in CO2 capture plants. MEA are degraded when used and become a waste product. 3 series of BOD test as well as 9 cases of syringe batch experiments under anaerobic, ... -
Biodiesel Production through the Transesterification of Waste Cooking Oil over Typical Heterogeneous Base or Acid Catalysts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)For the production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil with an acid value of 1.86 mg KOH/g, five heterogeneous catalysts—Ba(OH)2, CaO, MgO, ZnO, and AlCl3—were employed. To optimize the reaction parameters of each catalyst, ... -
Bioelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to Methane: MES Integration in Biogas Production Processes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widely used technique to treat organic waste and produce biogas. This article presents a practical approach to increase biogas yield of an AD system using a microbial electrosynthesis system ... -
Bioelectrochemical Reactions at the Surface of Bioelectrodes for Biofuels Production
(Master thesis, 2022)In most countries, the major energy source is fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are cost-effective and reliable. But it faces the issue of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, new renewable energy sources must be developed. ... -
Biofilm in Moving Bed Biofilm Process for Wastewater Treatment
(Chapter, 2019)A brief introduction of the long history of biofilm-based wastewater treatment is given together with basics of biofilm behavior and mechanisms in removal and transformation of pollutants. Moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) ... -
Biogas feed analysis
(Master thesis, 2008)Biogas production is regarded as the best energy recovery process from wet organic solid wastes (WOSW). Feed composition, storage conditions and time will influence the compositions of feed to biogas processes. In this ...