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Can bryophyte groups increase functional resolution in tundra ecosystems?
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Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?
(CLTS Working paper;03/23, Working paper, 2023-01)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ... -
Can commodities dominate stock and bond portfolios?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this article we discuss whether commodities should be included as an asset class when establishing portfolios. By investigating second order stochastic dominance relations, we find that the stock and bond indices tend ... -
Can concentrations of steroid hormones in brown bear hair reveal age class?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Although combining genetic and endocrine data from non-invasively collected hair samples has potential to improve the conservation of threatened mammals, few studies have evaluated this opportunity. In this study, we ... -
Can cultural ecosystem services contribute to satisfying basic human needs? A case study from the Lofoten archipelago, northern Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)There is gradual recognition that cultural ecosystem services are critical building blocks for human well-being. Cultural and provisioning services are often intertwined, difficult to separate, and play salient roles in ... -
Can drought tolerance be a preadaptation to frost tolerance? : evolution of responses to drought and sudden frost within the grass subfamily Pooideae
(Master thesis, 2019)The grass family (Poaceae) is one of the most economical and ecological important plant family on earth. The largest of the Poaceae grass subfamilies is Pooideae. This subfamily contains many of our crop and forage grasses ... -
Can fish grow on trees? Nutritional and functional properties of yeasts in diets for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
(Phd Thesis;2022:11, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Yeasts are gaining attention as alternative ingredients in fish feeds. The nutritional and health potentials of non-saccharomyces yeasts in fish are scarce in literature. Three non-saccharomyces yeasts; Cyberlindnera jadinii ... -
Can Hong Kong become independent from China?
(Master thesis, 2017)In the past two years, the independence movement in Hong Kong had gained a lot of attentions from the mainstream media. Various politicians as well as the president of China had commented on the movement via newspaper and ... -
Can markets protect biodiversity? An evaluation of different financial mechanisms
(Noragric Report;60, Report, 2011-06) -
Can master students’ experience and learning outcome, be improved?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Can national parks deliver in a modern world? : cases from Mikumi National Park in Tanzania and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2011-12-01)Tanzania and Uganda are two countries in Africa with an outstanding abundance of biodiversity. This biodiversity is usually conserved in Protected Areas such as national parks. Mikumi National Park (MINAPA) and Bwindi ... -
Can only poorer European countries afford large carnivores?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
Can oral administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exaggerate metabolic effects and inflammation imposed by a Western diet in mice?
(Master thesis, 2019)A Western diet is an energy dense and nutrient poor diet associated with low-grade inflammatory consequences and is implicated in causing a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including obesity and diabetes type 2 ... -
Can Private Equity Enhance Value Creation by Integrating ESG Considerations Throughout the Investment Life Cycle?
(Master thesis, 2023)Despite the increasing recognition of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in public market investments, little is known about their impact on value creation in the private equity (PE) industry. This study ... -
Can Proteinskimmers improve water quality in recirculation systems so
(Master thesis, 2012-05-30)In 2011 an experiment was done with juvenile Atlantic Halibut at the on-growing facility of Aga Halibut. Since 2004 the company recorded high mortalities and a low growth rate among the new delivered fish. The cause for ... -
Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;05/20, Working paper, 2020)This study investigates whether and to what extent rainfall shocks recurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have been associated with distress land rentals, enhance short-term and medium-term access to rented land by tenant ... -
Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta-analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Can shipping freight rate risk be reduced using forward freight agreements?
(Master thesis, 2013-08-30)This thesis investigates the forecasting performance and hedge efficiency of 50 Forward Freight Agreements (FFA) in bulk shipping from 2005 to 2012. We find that the hedge ratios estimated with the conventional method ... -
Can simple technical trading rules be successful in the Norwegian stock market?
(Master thesis, 2014-08-15)In this analysis, two simple technical trading rules, moving average and trading-range breakout, are tested by utilizing OBX and OSESX from Oslo Stock Exchange in 1997-2013. To assess if the rules are successful, the ... -
Can Tabular Generative Models generate realistic synthetic Near Infrared spectroscopic data?
(Master thesis, 2023)In this thesis, we evaluated the performance of two generative models, Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN) and Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE), from the open-source library Synthetic Data Vault ...