cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2079-v1
title: Music, Motion, and Emotion Theoretical and Psychological Implications of Musical Embodiment, 2010

description: This project aims to throw light upon both aesthetic and therapeutic/prophylactic dimensions of musical meaning; the primary objective being to increase our awareness and understanding of the positive powers of music in everyday life, as well as in crisis. A selection of CD recordings (programs) that have been developed within the music-therapeutical method Bonny Method of Guided Imagery in Music (BMGIM), will serve as point of departure for the theoretical discussions, which will investigate possible relations between structural features of the musical selections, as evidenced by a combination of score-based and auditory analyses, and the imagery that may arise during BMGIM sessions, as reported by anonymous clients and transcribed by the BMGIM therapist Svein Fuglestad at Aksept, a Norwegian support organization for people affected by HIV. In addition to increasing our awareness of music´s potential as an affect regulator in situations of crisis as well as in everyday life, the project also has two main theoretical aims: to gain insight into the cognitive and psychological processes underlying music's rich array of affordances; and to further develop a listener-oriented music-analytical approach that seeks to reflect the cross-modality of musical experience. The theoretical discussions will be interdisciplinary, drawing upon relevant work both within musicology and a number of other fields, most importantly: music therapy, cognitive semantics, music psychology, infant research, neuropsychology, body-oriented contributions within philosophy and literary theory, and research within psychosomatics.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2081-v2
title: Culturally Grounded Tourism and Local Food in Rural Development, 2008

description: Cultural activities and heritage, rural tourism and small-scale food production (CULT OURFOOD) are three fragmented sectors or industries with many actors and little coordination. In spite of increasing economic and social importance and political awareness, those industries have separate sector authorities, business service and R&D institutions. Cultural leisure activities and tourism experience uneven growth in many areas, and it appears to be a large and undeveloped market potential for knowledge-based rural development. 

This study investigates some basic variables related to tourists' consumption of local food, through a empirical, quantitative survey among summer tourists in the Southern part of Norway.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2082-v3
title: Knowledge, Information, and Retirement: Survey Experiments on How Information Influences Retirement Plans, 2012

description: The aim of this research project is to gain new knowledge on how the pension reform will affect individual decisons on retirement by conducting a survey experiment where respondents are randomized into groups which are given different information on the new pension system. This research design makes it possible to evaluate how information and framing of information can affect individual choices regarding retirement and perceptions of the pension reform. The project is organized along two main issues: First, how the perceived choice about when to retire is affected by information on the cost of retirement, and second, how perceived choice about working after retirement is affected by information on the consequences of this choice. The empirical basis for the project is a survey experiment. Using a survey experiment we will be able to draw sound conclusions regarding the causal effect of information on retirement plans. We will also be able to assess whether effects of information varies between relevant subgroups. In particular, we will examine whether there are gender differences in response to information. An ambition of the project is to inform policies that will support equal access to, fair consequences of, and a fair distribution of resources so that all citizens can make informed choices about their retirement.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2083-v1
title: TVERS - From Waste to Material Resources in a Grave to Cradle Perspective: A Stakeholder Approach Within the Textile Value Chain, 2011

description: In the reverse life-cycle approach our point of departure is the two last phases in the production/consumption process: 1) the user-phase and 2) the recycling phase where waste is potentially transformed into resources. 

Quantitative information of consumers' experiences, habits and opinions concerning clothing maintenance was collected through a survey and qualitative in-depth interviews of a strategic sample of households.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2083-v2
title: TVERS - From Waste to Material Resources in a Grave to Cradle Perspective: A Stakeholder Approach Within the Textile Value Chain, 2011

description: In the reverse life-cycle approach our point of departure is the two last phases in the production/consumption process: 1) the user-phase and 2) the recycling phase where waste is potentially transformed into resources. 

Quantitative information of consumers' experiences, habits and opinions concerning clothing maintenance was collected through a survey and qualitative in-depth interviews of a strategic sample of households.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2084-v1
title: NOKUT National Student Survey, 2013

description: This survey is a national student survey on students perceptions of the quality of study programs in Norway, on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research. The purpose of the survey is to strengthen work with the quality of higher education in Norway, and contribute to public confidence in Norwegian higher education. The results of the survey will be made public in a new web portal, with the purpose of giving information on quality of different study programs. The survey will be done each october/november, first time autumn 2013.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2084-v2
title: NOKUT National Student Survey, 2013

description: This survey is a national student survey on students perceptions of the quality of study programs in Norway, on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research. The purpose of the survey is to strengthen work with the quality of higher education in Norway, and contribute to public confidence in Norwegian higher education. The results of the survey will be made public in a new web portal, with the purpose of giving information on quality of different study programs. The survey will be done each october/november, first time autumn 2013.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2085-v2
title: Landscape Change - Driving Forces Behind Land Use Changes in the Agricultural Landscape, 2008

description: Landscapes are a valuable but also limited and vulnerable natural resource, which currently are changing at unprecedented rates in many locations. Increasing our understanding of landscape change, including driving forces, policy tools (focusing on the agricultural landscape) and how different options of landscape change can be illuminated and communicated is the topic of this project. Knowledge of what the landscape resource consists of, its characteristics as well its geographic distribution and variation are prerequisites for a sustainable management and development as outlined e.g. in the European Landscape Convention. While the need for information may seem obvious, we still lack this for Norwegian landscapes and thus have an urgent need for new landscape management tools. Also, to achieve environmentally friendly and innovative landscape-based commercial developments we require improved knowledge. An unfortunate but frequent consequence of the current lack of information, or undervaluing of landscape resources, is irreversible change, reducing future options for financially, socially and environmentally sustainable development. Our approach to this challenging task is to develop a landscape model and use this, in conjunction with data on landscape change and information from stakeholders, to analyse driving forces of landscape change, options for landscape change and consequences of current and historic policy tools. This will make original and significant advances that strengthen Norway's research in this field and develop an important tool to secure sustainable landscape management. This programme will be an essential component in fulfilling the strategic objectives of the newly established Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2086-v2
title: Learning from Different Experiences: Multilevel Governance of Health and Care Services in Denmark and Norway, 2012

description: A study focusing on the multilevel coordination of policy-making and governance between national, regional and local levels of government. Consists of five surveys.

Survey 1: Danish municipal politicians who were members of the health committee/ the committee in charge of health care in all Danish municipalities. The survey was conducted from February to April 2012. 198 of a total of 599 Dansih health policy makers (33 percent) completed all or part of the questionnaire. 

Survey 2: Norwegian municipal politicians who until the local elections in 2011 were members of the health care committee/ the committee in charge of health care in the Norwegian municipalities falling within Helse Vest RHF (the Western Norway Regional Health Authority). I.e. the three counties Rogaland, Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. The survey was conducted during January-March 2012. 238 of a total of 643 health policy makers (37 percent) completed all or parts of the questionnaire. 

Survey 3: Norwegian health managers/ administrators responsible for health care in the municipalities falling within Helse Vest RHF. This was completed in the period December 2011 - February 2012. 67 of a total of 87 health managers (77 percent) completed all or part of the questionnaire.

Survey 4: Members of collaboration / coordination committees at the local Norwegian health authorities within Helse Vest RHF. The sample has representatives from the local authorities and health trusts. The survey was conducted in January - March 2012 95 of a total of 136 committee members (70 percent) completed all or part of the questionnaire.

Survey 5: Directors of all local Norwegian health authorities (except pharmacy enterprises). This survey was carried out in the period February-March 2012. 167 of a total of 253 Norwegian directors (66 percent) completed all or part of the questionnaire.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2088-v1
title: Rental Market Survey 2013

description: The purpose of the rent statistics is to determine the rental value of the leased properties in Norway stratified on various segments of the rental market. The Rental Market Survey originates in an external assignment and in the need for better and more detailed rent statistics on the rental market (Report No. 23, 2003-2004). The Rental Market Survey was conducted for the first time in 2005, see Report 2005/32 and further established as an official statistic in 2006. The Rental Market Survey is from 2012 expanded with the publication of more detailed rental figures.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2088-v2
title: Rental Market Survey 2013

description: The purpose of the rent statistics is to determine the rental value of the leased properties in Norway stratified on various segments of the rental market. The Rental Market Survey originates in an external assignment and in the need for better and more detailed rent statistics on the rental market (Report No. 23, 2003-2004). The Rental Market Survey was conducted for the first time in 2005, see Report 2005/32 and further established as an official statistic in 2006. The Rental Market Survey is from 2012 expanded with the publication of more detailed rental figures.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2088-v3
title: Rental Market Survey, 2013

description: The purpose of the rent statistics is to determine the rental value of the leased properties in Norway stratified on various segments of the rental market. The Rental Market Survey originates in an external assignment and in the need for better and more detailed rent statistics on the rental market (Report No. 23, 2003-2004). The Rental Market Survey was conducted for the first time in 2005, see Report 2005/32 and further established as an official statistic in 2006. The Rental Market Survey is from 2012 expanded with the publication of more detailed rental figures.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2091-v1
title: Carbon Capture in Molten Salts, 2013

description: The project addresses an alternative way to selectively capture CO2 from com bustion exhaust gases for subsequent separate, controlled release. The method may be used in conjunction with sequestration and storage of CO2 from combustion of fossil fuels. Theoretical considerations based on fundamental chemical reaction kinetics, thermodynamics and thermodynamic data have been used for computer modelling the process es involved. Results from the modelling indicates that the method may be used for capture of CO2 from combustion of fossil fuels as in thermoelectric power generation.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2092-v2
title: Standards of Digital Journalism - New User Patterns and Challenges in the Journalist Role? 2009

description: New digital media sets prevailing journalistic norms and conventions in front of major challenges and affects relationships with users. A media development characterized by increased monopolization and concentration of ownership makes digitalization an important tool in the development of shared services and rationalization within the groups. The conditions within the newsrooms will change, and new editorial procedures will occur as a result of a much closer relationship with users. At the same time the danger is that journalism's integrity is threatened by the Internet technology and hypertext weakens the traditional distinctions between the editorial board and the marketing department. We can already see that young media users have new user habits, where the interactive component of media use plays a major role in the form of SMS, email and interactive television. This has also become an important commercial market where consumer technology has become a part of modern mass media market.

The project aims to generate new knowledge and theory of the new editorial standards in the digital media development. It should be assessed how work practices, use of sources and to the readers changing role of the journalist. One project will study how youth from multicultural backgrounds use the Internet as a link between their country of origin and new Norwegian reality. Another subproject will see the change of foreign journalism.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2093-v1
title: Study of Non-linear Phenomena in the Polar Ionosphere Induced by the SPEAR Heating Facility, 2010-2012

description: This proposal seeks to build up a close collaboration in Svalbard in upper atmosphere physics between the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) from St. Petersburg, Russia. The focus of this project is to study non-linear phenomena in the upper polar atmosphere above Svalbard using available Norwegian and Russian radio instrumentation in Longyearbyen and Barentsburg. The UNIS operated SPEAR heating facility will be used for ionospheric modification experiments to generate ionospheric irregularities, and the EISCAT Svalbard Radar will be used to monitor the behaviour of plasma parameters. Russian radio equipment operated by AARI in Barentsburg will be used for studies of intensive stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE) phenomenology in the HF modified polar ionosphere. Remote diagnostics will be performed with use of the long-distance diagnostics radio equipment at the AARI observatory in St. Petersburg.
The project research focus was to utilize a high power atmospheric radar to induced small scale changes in the atmosphere.
These changes were then monitored by other instruments. In several cases the other instruments have ownership rights to them, such as the data collected during the experiments by the
EISCAT Svalbard Radar. The summary data is generally available to browse through from several data servers.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2094-v1
title: Mass Media Survey, 2013

description: SSB has since 1967 conducted surveys on the use of mass media. From 1991, Statistics Norway annually conducted quarterly surveys of media use. The objective of the survey is to map out the extent of people's usage of mass media, give an image of seasonal varieties in this usage, find out what kinds of media and channels different demographic groups utilizes, as well as measuring what sorts of media channels different demographic groups have access to. The surveys are published annually in Norwegian Media Barometer.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2094-v2
title: Mass Media Survey, 2013

description: SSB has since 1967 conducted surveys on the use of mass media. From 1991, Statistics Norway annually conducted quarterly surveys of media use. The objective of the survey is to map out the extent of people's usage of mass media, give an image of seasonal varieties in this usage, find out what kinds of media and channels different demographic groups utilizes, as well as measuring what sorts of media channels different demographic groups have access to. The surveys are published annually in Norwegian Media Barometer.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2095-v1
title: Adult Education Survey (AES), 2012

description: "Adult Education Survey (AES), 2012" is conducted by Statistics Norway, and financed by Eurostat and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. The survey is part of the Eurostat-survey "Adult Education Survey (AES)". The first survey was carried out in 2007. The purpose of the AES is to provide information about e.g. the scope and content of various forms of adult learning, motivation and obstacles to participation in education and training, job related learning, financing and patterns of adults' participation in learning activities.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2097-v3
title: Reputation Survey among International Students in Norway, 2008

description: In order to develop a strong, long term branding strategy at both a national and institutional level it is necessary to acquire knowledge about why international students choose to study in a particular country, what expectations they have and how their experience coincides with those expectations. It is both interesting and necessary to form a picture of the reputation of Norway and institutions of higher educations in Norway. The aim of this survey is to increase knowledge about how Norway as a country is perceived abroad when it comes to study and research work and why international students choose Norway and institutions of higher education as a destination. The result of the this survey will be used in the work to develop further the brand Study in Norway to increase the communication with the target group. Insight into international students' motivations, experiences and expectations will have a huge benefit to the institutions of their own work on reputation management and recruitment of students. Through a national reputation survey among foreign students in Norway, SIU and the Norwegian universities and colleges will get access to valuable information.

Data are freely accessible for downloading.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2098-v3
title: Reputation Survey among International Students in Norway, 2010

description: This survey is a national survey among international students in Norway done by SIU, on the reputation of studying in Norway. The survey aims to get knowledge about the reputation and image Norway has as a country for studying, in addition to map out the motivation for international students to choose Norway and Norwegian education insititutions. Regular surveys will contribute to find changes in students expectations to and experiences of studying in Norway. This is the second time that SIU carries out a reputation survey among international students in Norway. First time 2008. Data are freely accessible for downloading.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2099-v3
title: Reputation Survey among International Students in Norway, 2012

description: This survey is a national survey among international students in Norway done by SIU, on the reputation of studying in Norway. The survey aims to get knowledge about the reputation and image Norway has as a country for studying, in addition to map out the motivation for international students to choose Norway and Norwegian education insititutions. Regular surveys will contribute to find changes in students expectations to and experiences of studying in Norway. This is the third time that SIU carries out a reputation survey among international students in Norway. First time 2008. Data are freely accessible for downloading.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2100-v1
title: CMT: Statistical Analysis and Revision of Genetic Diagnostics in a Population, Identification of the Disease Locus in a Family with CMT2, 2010

description: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT); Statistical analysis and revision of molecular genetic diagnostics in a patient populations and identification of the disease locus in a large Norwegian family with CMT.

CMT is the largest group of inherited polyneuropathies and a large number of genes are associated with the condition. The Department of Medical Genetics at the University Hospital of North-Norway is a part of the National Neuromuscular Centre. Patients with CMT constitute a significant fraction of the patients at the Centre. The diagnostics poses significant challenges due to clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Our research project consists of two parts that both will contribute increased knowledge about CMT and to improved diagnostic services for patients with CMT. Part 1:"Six years experience of molecular genetic testing for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease at the Department of Medical Genetics in Tromsø". We will revise all CMT requisitions from the period 2004-2009 and evaluate if all patients have been offered adequate and optimal genetic testing. We will document the findings in our patient population, identify factors that predict probability of mutation detection and revise our inclusion criteria and procedures for testing. Part 1 will be of benefit to health services as well as patients and professional users of the laboratory as we expect an increase in conclusive test results, a decrease in false positive results, and a more efficient use of resources for this common neuromuscular disorder. Part 2: "Whole genome linkage analysis in a family with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2".We have investigated a large Norwegian family with CMT2 in which the mutation remained undetected after genetic testing for the most common causes of CMT. Likely a novel disease locus is involved and, hence, we will proceed with a genome wide linkage analysis and subsequent testing of candidate genes in order to identify the disease causing mutation. Part 2 of the project aim at identifying a new, common, cause of CMT2 in Norway. This will create a new important diagnostic tool and will also expand our understanding of the molecular basis of CMT.


For more information about the dataset we kindly refer to the project's Principal Investigator.