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Matpolitikk i Norge- fremdelses norsk? : en studie av norsk forvaltnings arbeid med politikkutvikling innenfor EØS

2014

Masteroppgave offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 Norge overtar hvert år overtar mellom 10-15 prosent av alle nye direktiver og forordninger som vedtas i EU som en del EØS-avtalen. Innenfor matfeltet, som er studiens nedslagsfelt, er ca. 90 prosent av de mange forskriftene som gis nasjonalt, ren EU/EØS-rett (NOU, 2012, s. 793). Formålet med studien er å se nærmere på hvilke aktører som påvirker politikkutformingen av det EØS-lovverket Norge implementerer og hva slags betingelser som ligger til grunn for denne påvirkningen. I problemstillingen søkes det belyst i hvilken grad politikkutformingsfasen knyttet til biproduktforordningen innenfor matfeltet er flernivåadminis…

Role perception of representatives on management boards inEU-level agencies

2009

Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder 2009 This study tries to explain what role perception different representatives on management boards in EU-level agencies adopt when they are attending board meetings and what influences the representatives to adopt the role they do. Do the representatives adopt a supranational role, an intergovernmental role or an expert role on the management board? I have chosen organizational theory and institutional theory to try to explain the different roles representatives adopt on the management board. Empirically, I observed that the representatives adopt an ambiguous role perception where they have to balance the three roles. Th…

Mot en felles europeisk forsvarsadministrasjon? : forsvarsadministrasjonens handlingsrom, og iverksettingsmyndighet, i EUs flernivåadministrasjon

2013

Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse - Universitetet i Agder 2013 EØS-avtalen preger norsk rolle i EUs flernivåadministrasjon. Tidligere forskning viser at direktorater og etater har fått en økt rolle i EUs administrasjon. I denne studien er ønsket å se om de tendensene og betingelsene er tilstede i Forsvarsadministrasjonen, som ikke direkte preges av EØS-avtalen. Problemstillingen er som følger: “I hvilken grad, og hvordan, inngår norsk Forsvarsadministrasjon i EUs flernivåadministrasjon?” Utgangspunktet for datainnsamlingen er norske og europeiske offentlige dokumenter (NOU’er, stortingsmeldinger og traktater). For å supplere og utdype analysen gjort av disse, er det brukt delvis…

Autonomy of International Bureaucracies: On the Actor-Level Autonomy in the WTO Secretariat

2014

Masteroppgave offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 The research question in this study addresses actor-level autonomy as enacted by civil servants within an international bureaucracy, namely the WTO Secretariat. The objective is to identify underlying mechanisms arguably responsible for inciting patterns of behaviour among civil servants. This study is premised on the assumption that autonomy may be studied by examining behavioural patterns of the incumbents and that such behavioural patterns largely are a consequence of mechanisms of pre-socialization, re-socialization and organizational affiliation. The study consists of two main parts. The first part is descriptive …

A rs4374383 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of MERTK gene is linked to a higher likelihood of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with HCV cirrhosis

2013

Modulation of the hepatic fatty acid pool in peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase B-null mice exposed to the selective PPARalpha agonist Wy14,643

2009

10 pages; International audience; The peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase B (Thb) gene was previously identified as a direct target gene of PPARalpha, a nuclear hormone receptor activated by hypolipidemic fibrate drugs. To better understand the role of ThB in hepatic lipid metabolism in mice, Sv129 wild-type and Thb null mice were fed or not the selective PPARalpha agonist Wy14,643 (Wy). Here, it is shown that in contrast to some other mouse models deficient for peroxisomal enzymes, the hepatic PPARalpha signaling cascade in Thb null mice was normal under regular conditions. It is of interest that the hypotriglyceridemic action of Wy was reduced in Thb null mice underlining the conclusion t…

Structural reforms in a debt overhang

2014

We assess the effects of reforms in product and labor markets in a model economy featuring credit restrictions and pre-existing long-term debt. Both elements, which are core features of the current scenario faced by some euro area countries, combine to produce a slow and protracted deleveraging of the private sector and a persistent recession following a negative financial shock. In this environment, we show that product and labor market reforms may stimulate output and employment even in the short run, despite their defl ationary effects. Furthermore, by favoring a faster recovery of investment and collateral values, product market reforms bring forward the end of deleveraging and the exit…

Trade Openness and Income: A Tale of Two Regions

2015

In this article we present evidence of the long-run effect of trade openness on income per worker for two regions that have followed different liberalization strategies, namely Asia and Latin America. A model that re-examines these questions is estimated for two panels of Asian and Latin American countries over the 1980-2008 period using a novel empirical approach that accounts for endogeneity as well as for the time series properties of the variables involved. From an econometric point of view, we apply recent panel cointegration techniques based on factor models that account for two additional elements usually neglected in previous empirical literature: cross-dependence and structural bre…

Comparative performances of machine learning methods for classifying Crohn Disease patients using genome-wide genotyping data

2019

Crohn Disease (CD) is a complex genetic disorder for which more than 140 genes have been identified using genome wide association studies (GWAS). However, the genetic architecture of the trait remains largely unknown. The recent development of machine learning (ML) approaches incited us to apply them to classify healthy and diseased people according to their genomic information. The Immunochip dataset containing 18,227 CD patients and 34,050 healthy controls enrolled and genotyped by the international Inflammatory Bowel Disease genetic consortium (IIBDGC) has been re-analyzed using a set of ML methods: penalized logistic regression (LR), gradient boosted trees (GBT) and artificial neural ne…

Associations of overweight and metabolic health with successful aging: 32-year follow-up of the Helsinki Businessmen Study

2020

Background & aims: Prognostic significance of metabolically healthy overweight and obesity (MHO) is under debate. However the relationship between MHO and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is less studied. We compared successful aging (longevity plus HRQoL) in men with MHO, metabolically healthy normal weight (MHN) and metabolically unhealthy overweight and obesity (MUO). Methods: In the Helsinki Businessmen Study longitudinal cohort, consisting of men born 1919 to 1934. In 1985/86, overweight (BMI >= 25 kg/m(2)) and metabolic health were determined in 1309 men (median age 60 years). HRQoL was assessed using RAND-36/SF-36 in 2000 and 2007, and all-cause mortality retrieved from registe…