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Jobbspesialister i NAV : En institusjonell etnografi av jobbspesialister i NAV sitt arbeid med arbeidsinkludering
2021
Master's thesis in Sociology and social work (ME522) The thesis research how work inclusion is created, organized and maintained from the job specialists point of view. More precisely, the aim is to show what kind of work it entails to be a job specialist in NAV. The thesis investigate how job specialists’ organize follow-up activities and coordinate with other actors in the follow-up regime by concentrating on what they do as a result of Supported Employment and NAV standards. The purpose of this research is to show how job specialists work and how job specialist operations are linked to broader types of institutional management. Additionally, the thesis investigates how the job specialist…
Boards' involvement in firm strategy : how can a board be effectively involved in strategy formulation and contribute to firm's successfulness
2006
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon 2006 - Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has been subject of debate for a long time. Many researches have been done from different perspectives particularly on this issue. The purpose of this thesis is to study the role of the board of directors in firm strategy. This study will further investigate on how the board of directors can be effectively involved in strategy formulation for the firms and through this to contribute to the firms' successfulness. Board of directors is a group of individuals who are elected by the shareholders of a corporation and assigned to carry out certain tasks on behalf of…
Abitare il confine. Spazio, territorialità e dilemmi dello sviluppo
2013
L'articolo esplora criticamente la vicenda dell’isola di Lampedusa, oggetto negli ultimi anni di ingenti flussi di immigrati, da una prospettiva che guarda allo sviluppo locale e alle forme di territorialità come espressione di processi generativi complessi e peculiari. Tali processi, infatti, mettono in gioco nel tempo le relazioni tra popolazioni e risorse, sullo sfondo di scenari geopolitici e condizioni contestuali quali il Mediterraneo, con il suo carico di ambiguità, la condizione di insularità e di confine, il tempo quale fonte generatrice di eventi inattesi e sviluppi imprevedibili.
Le trasformazioni del territorio in mezzo secolo di scempi.
2013
Valorizzare il patrimonio paesaggistico e territoriale, fermare il consumo di suolo, coinvolgere i cittadini nel processo di partecipazione nelle procedure di formazione dei piani urbanistici, puntare ad uno sviluppo regionale sostenibile e durevole, sono i temi dell'attuale e acceso dibattito sulla riduzione del consumo di suolo in cui si inserisce il Disegno di legge "Contenimento del consumo del suolo e riuso del suolo edificato", approvato recentemente dal Consiglio dei Ministri.Le risorse sono limitate e il suolo libero non è riproducibile ma va preservato e tutelato nelle sue funzioni produttive e paesaggistico ambientali nella consapevolezza che prima di trasformarlo occorrono soluzi…
Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values
2021
Attachment theory has recently been recognized as a potentially fruitful avenue for studying consumer behavior. However, few studies have examined the relationship between attachment styles and consumer preferences. Based on literature suggesting that individuals with an anxious attachment style have a particularly strong need for attention, we conducted two studies with a total sample of over 2,000 participants, which tested and found that anxiously attached consumers displayed a higher propensity to purchase status-signaling goods than their counterparts with secure attachment styles. This effect was mediated by materialistic values, such that participants with an anxious attachment style…
Green apparel buying behaviour : A Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) perspective on sustainability-oriented consumption in Japan
2021
The green apparel literature has previously examined the disparity between consumers' positive purchase intentions and their actual purchase behaviour. This dichotomous behaviour represents the critical ‘intention–behaviour gap’, which marketers must seek to reduce to increase sales of their products. The current study thus seeks to identify the drivers of green apparel purchase behaviour that may potentially mitigate this gap. The proposed conceptual model is grounded in the Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) paradigm and is tested through an analysis of cross-sectional data collected from 387 green apparel product consumers in Japan who were sourced through Macromill Inc. The …
Populated Places and Conspicuous Consumption: High Population Density Cues Predict Consumers’ Luxury-Linked Brand Attitudes
2021
Population density has been identified as an ecological factor with considerable behavioral implications. The present research aimed to examine whether the mere perception of more (vs. less) populated places can change consumers’ luxury-linked brand attitudes. To this end, we experimentally manipulated consumers’ perceptions of population density using pictorial exposure to high (vs. low) population density cues. The results revealed a significant interaction between manipulated population density and perceived brand luxury on brand attitudes. Specifically, exposure to high rather than low population density cues resulted in more positive (negative) attitudes toward brands deemed to be more…
Samtidskunst i skolen : En studie som inviterer elever til en konseptuell workshopspraksis
2019
Masteroppgave kunstfag KF500 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 Both from the elementary school education and the professional life, I have gained insight and an experience basis for commenting on the subject of arts and crafts. There are often techniques and crafts that are in focus. I miss howthe subject to a greater extentcanchallengestudent`s in critical thinking, playful exploration and reflection, especially with regards to visual art. This master thesis focuses on theseperspectives for teaching in the subject arts and crafts, and discuss contemporary art's place intheschool. The thesis can be viewed as a post in the discourse about the new curriculumforarts and crafts, scheduledtobe comple…
Task Contexts in Dutch Mathematics Education
2020
This chapter offers a description of task contexts in mathematics education in the Netherlands. International comparative studies show that the Dutch average percentage of mathematics tasks with real-life connections per lesson exceeds any other country by far. This tradition goes back more than 500 years, when the earliest mathematics textbooks in the Dutch language consisted entirely of tasks, in which mathematics was put to use in commercial contexts. In this chapter characteristics of contexts in mathematics tasks in the Netherlands are studied. Underlying frame is the notion of usefulness, which is a perception by students on future practices outside school. A distinction is made betwe…
RMS Based Health Indicators for Remaining Useful Lifetime Estimation of Bearings
2022
Estimating the remaining useful life (RUL) of bearings from healthy to faulty is important for predictive maintenance. The bearing fault severity can be estimated based on the energy or root mean square (RMS) of vibration signals, and a stopping criterion can be set based on a threshold given by an ISO standard. However, the vibration RMS is often not monotonically increasing with damage, which renders a challenge for predicting the RUL. This study proposes a novel method for splitting the vibration signal into multiple frequency bands before RMS calculations to generate multiple health indicators. Monotonic health indicators are identified using the Spearman coefficient, and the RUL is aft…