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A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
(CLTS Working paper;7/18, Working paper, 2018)The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle ... -
Comments from the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) on various position documents related to risk assessment of parabens in cosmetic Products. Opinion of the Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids, Materials in Contact with Food and Cosmetics of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety
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Comments on proposed maximum levels for dioxin-like PCBs in Food. Panel on Contaminants Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety
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Commodity market investments and behavioral finance : the case of coffee
(Master thesis, 2015-11-06)In this thesis I test for whether strategies that are constructed to exploit possible price patterns that are created by cognitive biases described by behavioral finance are able to earn excess returns in the Arabica futures ... -
Commodity market risk from 1995 to 2013: an extreme value theory approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
Commodity markets : an updated study of the "timed momentum" trading strategy
(Master thesis, 2016-08-25)This thesis provides the reader with an updated study of the “timed momentum” strategy proposed by Miffre and Basu (2008). Their article shows that this commodity trading strategy is able to achieve significant mean returns, ... -
Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ... -
Commodity value-at-risk modeling: comparing RiskMetrics, historic simulation and quantile regression
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Commodities constitute a nonhomogeneous asset class. Return distributions differ widely across different commodities, both in terms of tail fatness and skewness. These are features that we need to take into account when ... -
A common mechanism for efficient N2O reduction in diverse isolates of nodule-forming bradyrhizobia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Bradyrhizobia are abundant soil bacteria, which can formnitrogen-fixing symbioses with leguminous plants, including important crops such as soybean, cowpea and peanut. Many bradyrhizobia can denitrify, but studies have ... -
Common scab resistance in potato
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)Common scab disease of potato is distributed worldwide and not easily controlled. It is caused by Streptomyces species. The virulence mechanism of Streptomyces species is the production of thaxtomin A. Although the disease ... -
Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
Communal pellet deposition sites of himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) and associated vegetation composition
(Master thesis, 2012-05-21)The Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster), found in the sub-alpine and alpine vegetation of the Himalayan region, is one of the endangered deer species of Nepal. This study conducted in the Langtang National Park, ... -
Communicating Intelligence : a case study of intelligence as a device in political communication, based on US - Russian discourse over the Syrian civil war
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)This thesis examines how intelligence works as an element in international politics and diplomacy, and how it affects outcomes in state-actor conflicts in the international system. By looking at the discourse between Russia ... -
Communicating Sustainable Business Models to Consumers: A Translation Theory Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Firms can embed sustainability efforts in business model elements such as key resources, key activities, or key partners. To capitalize on their sustainability efforts, firms must present these efforts in a way that is ... -
Communitarianism vs Cosmopolitanism? Refugee and asylum policy of the Conservative "blue-blue" government
(Master thesis, 2015-07-28)This master thesis explores the national and international influence in formulation of refugee and asylum policy of the Conservative government that gained political power in 2013, by giving attention to the policies of ... -
Communities and conservation in West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania : participation, costs and benefits
(PhD Thesis;2015:45, Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-11)This thesis contributes to the current debate on how to balance conservation and development objectives. The extent of land under protection globally has increased enormously over the last 30 years, and there are still ... -
Community based ecological restoration of Changa Manga forest, Punjab, Pakistan
(Master thesis, 2017-01-02)Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology, and recently gained substantial attention due to global environmental changes and increased anthropogenic activities. The present research highlights the importance ...