Browsing HVL Open by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning and Data Sharing in Healthcare Applications
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making have the potential to improve accuracy and efficiency in healthcare applications. In particular, AI is proved to outperform human experts in certain domains. ... -
Production of strange particles in lead-lead interactions at 158 A GeV/c
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Professional Understanding and Assessment When Children Are Living with Parental High Conflict
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Introduction: This thesis explores how professionals at family counsellor services and child welfare services in Norway understand and assess children at potential risk of care failure when involved in parental high conflict. ... -
Quantifying human performance for simulation of passenger ship evacuation in polar climate
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)The evacuation of passenger ships is always a difficult process, and the availability of time to evacuate is the most critical factor for a safe evacuation of the passengers. Indeed, the cold environment of the polar regions ... -
Returning disability pensioners with back pain to work
(Doctoral thesis, 2007)The main purpose of this thesis was to investigate whether a group of disability pensioners with back pain would have a potential for a successful return to work. Perceived barriers against work, physical and mental ... -
Rytmisk musikkundervisning som estetisk praksis : en casestudie
(NMH-publikasjoner;2009:2, Doctoral thesis, 2009)The subject of this dissertation is rhythmic music teaching. "Rhythmic music" is synonymous with "popular music". Rhythmic music teaching is, in short, an oral approach to teaching, where rhythm, participation, movement, ... -
Safety of Autonomous Navigation: A Study on Safety Challenges for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships, Safe Speed, and Work as Done by Navigators
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Throughout human history, technological innovation has been an important driver for enhancing human living standards. In the maritime industry, one such technological innovation is the maritime autonomous surface ship ... -
Sociocultural influences on parents’ views about mathematics education for young children
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates parents’ views on mathematics education for young children at home and in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions in Sweden and Norway. The curricula documents for ECEC highlight the ... -
A software framework for adaptive and interoperable internet-delivered psychological treatments
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)BACKGROUND Statistics unveil the predominance of mental and neurological disorders globally. Handling these mental and neurological disorders is economically, physically and emotionally challenging. Proper healthcare ... -
Space against the machine: Understanding spatial relationships through geocomputation
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Achieving sustainable development requires better evidence-based support for how cities work and how people could use existing data to better plan cities. This dissertation proposes novel approaches for the identification ... -
The “special grief” of parents bereaved by drug-related death. Mixed methods research - a qualitative driven concurrent design
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)Introduction: This doctoral project was carried out between 2018 and 2021 at the Department of Welfare and Participation, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. A sociological perspective is incorporated when ... -
Språkskifte og språkbevaring på norsk: Elevar sine val av skriftspråk på ungdomstrinnet
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Denne avhandlinga handlar om språkbevaring og språkskifte i ein norsk kontekst. Nærare bestemt utforskar ho skriftspråksvala til eit utval 10.klassingar, med eit særleg blikk på dei elevane som har nynorsk som opplæringsspråk. ... -
Stjerneopplevelser eller gymsalsestetikk? En studie av kvalitetsoppfatninger i skolekonsertpraksiser
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Sustainability transition in a developing country context: Drivers and barriers to renewable energy technologies in Sri Lanka
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Developing countries are evidently moving slowly in utilising emergent and matured renewable energy technologies (RET) to address the global call to bring about effective global decarbonisation and net zero emissions of ... -
Sustainable and Circular Business Model Innovation: Tools, Techniques and Strategies for Firms
(Doctoral thesis, 2024)Firms are increasingly aware of the need to transition to more sustainable and circular ways of doing business. This can arguably be best achieved through innovation not at the level of technology, product, or service, but ... -
The internationalization of small firms: a cognitive perspective: An empirical assessment of the relationship between decision makers' global mindset and Norwegian small firms' internationalization behaviors
(Doctoral thesis, 2006)Internationalization of firms has been studied from perspectives ranging from resources, entrepreneurship, networking, marketing and strategy to learning. Although the literature does cover small firms (which the EU defines ... -
Towards an engaged university in the periphery: Innovation, regional development and institutional change
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)The increasing visibility of the impact of various societal challenges, such as climate change, territorial disparity, income inequality and demographic change, has brought the role of innovation to the fore of academic ... -
Ulikhet, likhet og mangfold. Pedagogisk ledelse og foreldreskap i kulturelt mangfoldige barnehager
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Målet med denne studien var å få innsikt i pedagogiske lederes forståelser og konstruksjoner av kulturelt mangfold, deres rolleutøvelse som pedagogiske ledere, og hvordan minoritetsforeldre erfarer samarbeidet og møtet med ... -
Ungdom og utdanningsval: Om elevar sine opplevingar av val og overgangsprosessar
(Doctoral thesis, 2014)Kva ligg til grunn for elevane sine yrkesfaglege utdanningsval og korleis opplever elevane valprosessane dei går gjennom frå 10. klasse og gjennom det første året i den vidaregåande skulen? Med desse spørsmåla som ... -
Unveiling teachers’ reasons for choosing practical activities in mathematics teaching
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)The use of practical activities in mathematics teaching has been advocated for some time, and reports from mathematics classrooms show that teachers include a multitude of activities in the teaching of mathematics. However, ...