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Challenges and effects of administrative reform - Reorganizing the Norwegian welfare administration
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-08)This paper addresses the effects and implications of one of the largest public-sector reforms in recent Norwegian administrative history. The reform is a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations in ... -
Challenges and possible solutions in cross-disciplinary and cross-sectorial research teams within the domain of e-mental health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose Mental illness presents a huge individual, societal and economic challenges, currently accounting for 20% of the worldwide burden of disease. There is a gap between the need for and access to services. Digital ... -
Challenges for transgene detection in landraces and wild relatives: learning from 15 years of debate over GM maize in Mexico
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Maize is one of the world’s five staple cereals and its traditional varieties constitute a global resource critical to future agricultural development. Fifteen years ago, claims that transgenes had spread into traditional ... -
Challenging the ethnic pyramid: Golden rules and organisational measures towards a more inclusive work environment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aim: To contribute to knowledge of how healthcare managers can promote connection and ethnic equality among staff in multicultural organisations. Background: The increase in migrant care workers often leads to deskilling, ... -
Change and Stability in Public Beliefs About Same-Sex Family Rights in Norway in 2008, 2013, and 2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Introduction In Norway, legal measures securing equal marriage and parenting rights for same- and different-sex couples took effect on January 1, 2009. The aim of this study was to assess Norwegian public beliefs about ... -
Changes in Onset of Vegetation Growth on Svalbard, 2000–2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The global temperature is increasing, and this is affecting the vegetation phenology in many parts of the world. The most prominent changes occur at northern latitudes such as our study area, which is Svalbard, located ... -
Changes in sea ice travel conditions in Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland (1985–2019) assessed through remote sensing and transportation accessibility modeling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Shorefast sea ice provides an important platform for winter and spring travel between coastal Arctic communities unconnected by road networks. In the past two decades, local Arctic residents have reported thinning and ... -
Changing accountability relations - the forgotten side of public sector reforms
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-06)In this paper we investigate how a major reform in the civil service changed accountability relationships. We seek to explain these changes using a transformative approach that combines structural, cultural and environmental ... -
Changing accountability relations in a welfare state – an assessment based on a study of welfare reforms
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-11)In this paper we investigate how two major reforms in the Norwegian welfare sector changed accountability relationships. The reforms in question were the NAV reform of the welfare administration that Norway passed in 2005 ... -
Changing accountability relations in welfare state reforms: Lessons from Norway
(Research report, 2012)In this report we investigate how three major reforms in the Norwegian welfare sector changed accountability relationships. The reforms in question were the NAV reform of the welfare administration that Norway passed in ... -
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically lexical change. This paper ... -
Changing Government Control in Norway: High Civil Service, Universities and Prisons
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-03)The topic of this paper is the changing relations of control between the legislative and executive bodies, within executive and within public administration. We outline the traditional way of controlling public sector ... -
Changing Salty Food Preferences with Visual and Textual Explanations in a Search Interface
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Salt is consumed at too high levels in the general population, causing high blood pressure and related health problems. In this paper, we present results of ongoing research that tries to reduce salt intake via technology ... -
Characterisation of the cuttings piles at the Beryl A and Ekofisk 2/4 A platform - UKOOA Phase II, task 1
(Research report, 2001)The cuttings piles at Beryl A and Ekofisk 2/4 A have been characterised according to the recommendations in the OLF Guidelines. The characterisation parameters selected from these Guidelines were the most feasible ones ... -
Characteristics of hospitalized patients during a large waterborne outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Very few reports describe all hospitalized patients with campylobacteriosis in the setting of a single waterborne outbreak. This study describes the demographics, comorbidities, clinical features, microbiology, treatment ... -
Characteristics of precipitation extremes over the Nordic region: added value of convection-permitting modeling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)It is well established that using kilometer scale grid resolution for simulations of weather systems in weather and climate models enhances their realism. This study explores heavy- and extreme-precipitation characteristics ... -
Characterization of a novel cold-adapted intracellular serine protease from the extremophile Planococcus halocryophilus Or1
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The enzymes of microorganisms that live in cold environments must be able to function at ambient temperatures. Cold-adapted enzymes generally have less ordered structures that convey a higher catalytic rate, but at the ... -
Characterization of conductivity fields through iterative ensemble smoother and improved correlation-based adaptive localization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Localization is critical to the effective use of an (iterative) ensemble Kalman filter or ensemble smoother to estimate uncertain quantities of interest. Here, we propose a novel, fully adaptive, correlation-based localization ... -
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper considers how Family Support is conceptualised in the European context with respect to its primary beneficiaries. The central question considers the focus of concern in a child welfare system and what it means ... -
Childhood maltreatment and sleep in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Childhood maltreatment is a global problem with the risk of serious health consequences for children and adolescents, including sleep problems. Former systematic reviews have examined the association between childhood ...