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Ungdom og e-demokrati : hvilke ønsker og forventninger har ungdom til e-demokrati?
2007
Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer 2007 - Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand E-demokrati er et satsningsområde i offentlig sektor. Det har i Norge vært synkende deltagelse i valg både til Storting og kommunevalg ved de siste valgene. Ungdom i aldersgruppen 18 til 21 år har lavere oppslutning rundt valgene enn eldre aldersgrupper. Flere mener at e-demokrati kan bidra til å øke oppslutning rundt demokratiet og valgene. I denne sammenheng er ungdom en viktig målgruppe. Vi har sett nærmere på e-demokrati rettet mot ungdom. Målet for denne masteroppgaven har vært å forstå hvilke ønsker og forventninger ungdom har til informasjonssystemer innen for edemokrati. For å besvare dette spørsmålet har vi…
Which direction should I go? A quest for understanding the effect of TMS stimulus orientation on evoked responses
2023
The orientation of the electric field (E-field) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) plays a significant role in determining the magnitude of motor evoked potentials (MEP) and TMS-evoked potentials (TEP). However, fundamental mechanisms explaining the interaction of the induced E-field and the underlying neuronal populations are still largely unknown. We recently entered a quest to understand and describe neurophysiological and physical factors affecting the effect of the E-field orientation on the MEP and TEP. We developed a dual-coil TMS transducer capable of fast and accurate electronic control of the induced E-field orientation. With this transducer, we could scan the effe…
Political undercurrents of the Ukraine conflict : the reshaping of power relationships in Europe
2016
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tarkastella miten valta näyttäytyy vuoden 2013 lopussa alkaneen Ukrainan konfliktissa ja miten se vaikuttaa Euroopan Unionin toimimiseen ja sen identiteettiin. Tutkin Euroopan Unionin (EU) ja Venäjän muuttuvia valtasuhteita, joka mahdollistaa myös vallan käsitteellisen analyysin. En keskity niinkään policy-tason analyysiin tai Ukrainan tilanteeseen, muuten kuin miten se vaikuttaa EU:hun ja Venäjään. Koska tutkimuksen tarkoitus on esittää erilaisia pinnan alla tapahtuvia poliittisia muutoksia, tutkimuksessa ei ole yhtä ainutta analyysi-menetelmää. Raamitan valtasuhteiden muutosta kolmen eri näkökulman kautta. Ensimmäiseksi tutkin EU:ta pehmeän vallan käsitteen ka…
Is privatization of education beneficial for Morocco? : evaluation of Morocco's privatization policy on the basis of a cross-sectional study of quali…
2016
The aim of this thesis was to evaluate Morocco’s privatization policy based on the opinions of final-year high-school students (n = 103) that were studying in either public or private schools. This was examined using a cross-sectional study design in which a structured, Likert scale questionnaire was administered at a night school in Casablanca, Morocco, where highschool students can take extra classes in preparation for their final year exam. The results were analyzed quantitatively by comparing the group means with an independent samples ttest, using an alpha level of 0.05. The results of the study indicated that socioeconomic status was significantly higher for students studying in priva…
Humanities and Social Sciences. Latvia: Vol. 27, N 1 (Spring-Summer 2019)
2019
The effectiveness of rural versus urban nonprofit organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
2017
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country with high natural resources, but it has suffered from decades of civil wars and social turmoil, being heavily aid-dependent. In the DRC, several Nonprofit Organisations (NPOs) are major players in fighting poverty and enhancing welfare. This research aims to analyse the effectiveness of small NPOs in improving poor peoples’ lives through health, education, and economic activities. Two NPOs working in the DRC, one in a rural and the other in an urban area, are compared by researching the aid sites and surveying 201 households (aid beneficiaries). Our case observations and the survey results facilitate analysing the mission accomplishment, e…
Violent Conflict and Online Segregation: An Analysis of Social Network Communication Across Ukraine's Regions
2016
Does the intensity of a social conflict affect political division? Traditionally, social cleavages are seen as the underlying cause of political conflicts. It is clear, however, that a violent conflict itself can shape partisan, social, and national identities. In this paper, we ask whether social conflicts unite or divide the society by studying the effects of Ukraine's military conflict with Russia on online social ties between Ukrainian provinces (oblasts). In order to do that, we collected original data on the cross-regional structure of politically relevant online communication among users of VKontakte social networking site. We analyze the panel of provinces spanning the most active p…
Democracy, political risks and stock market performance
2015
We study whether the emerging stock markets’ performance is affected by direct and indirect effects of democracy level and political risk. We argue that the relationship between democracy level and the political risk is parabolic instead of a simple linear relation i.e. there exists a limit in democracy after which the political risk begins to decline and this is reflected in stock prices. Using panel data for 38 emerging markets at yearly frequency and controlling for several domestic and international factors, we find a fairly robust evidence that during the period 2000-2010, this relationship is true and after some threshold, the more democratic countries produce higher returns. Similar …
Baltkrievijas un Eiropas Savienības attiecības
2018
Izstrādātā bakalaura darba tēma ir “Baltkrievijas un Eiropas Savienības attiecības”. Tā kā Baltkrievijā pastāv autoritārs režīms un tā robežojas ar Eiropas Savienības valstīm, kur augstu tiek vērtētas demokrātiskās vērtības un ir svarīgi saglabāt reģiona stabilitāti, darba mērķis ir izpētīt, kā Eiropas Savienības izstrādātā un īstenotā kaimiņattiecību politika ietekmē Baltkrievijas valsts attīstību demokrātijas virzienā. Darba teorētiskā analīze tiek balstīta uz demokratizācijas procesa teorijas analīzi, kā arī tika pētīta Eiropas Savienības un Baltkrievijas kaimiņattiecību politika un tās īstenotās programmas. Empīriskās daļas analīze balstās uz Eiropas Savienības un Baltkrievijas veidotās…