244 research outputs found
Strong anonymity and infinite streams.
No full textThe extended rank-discounted utilitarian social welfare order introduced and axiomatized by Stéphane Zuber and Geir B. Asheim satisfies strong anonymity (J. Econ. Theory (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jet.2011.08.001). We question the appropriateness of strong anonymity in the context of a countably infinite sequence of subsequent generations. A modified criterion that is incomplete and satisfies finite anonymity is presented.
Nynorsk samtidslitteratur og skriftkultur. Festskrift til Geir Hjorthol
No full textThis issue of Skriftkultur stems from our desire to honor our good colleague Geir Hjorthol with a festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday. As the recipient is a professor of literature and also interested in literary culture studies more generally, we have titled the issue Norwegian Nynorsk contemporary literature and written culture.
Geir Hjorthol is himself responsible for the first article, in which he focuses on the role of music within Jon Fosses' novel, Septologien (2019–2022). This article became no less relevant when, a few weeks prior to completion of the issue, Fosse received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023, the first Norwegian Nynorsk author in the prize’s history.
In the second article, Jan Inge Sørbø questions whether reading literature may be stuck in a critical rut, where one is constantly occupied with revealing something hidden in the text.
The four subsequent articles explore various recent Norwegian Nynorsk novels or authorships. In the first of these, Elin Stengrundet reflects on how Erlend Skjetne's young adult novel Eit anna blikk (2021) connects to modern migration literature and the Norwegian Nynorsk literary tradition, while Nora Simonhjell's article sheds new light on the inner coherence in the authorship of Olaug Nilssen. Marit Brekke and Wenke Mork Rogne present a post-humanistic reading of the Is-slottet (1963) by Tarjei Vesaas, while Beatrice G. Reed examines the precence of nature in Norwegian Nynorsk picture books for children in our time by taking a closer look at 13 prize-winning Norwegian Nynorsk picture books published up until the year 2000.
Non-fiction and the topic of translation are covered by the next two articles. Brage Egil Herlofsen discusses the relationship between Norwegian Nynorsk literary culture and the essay genre, based on two books from the Norsk røyndom-series published by Samlaget (2018), while Marie Nedregotten Sørbø analyzes translations of Jane Austen from English to Norwegian nynorsk in light of literary cultural and hermeneutical perspectives.
In the last article, Stian Hårstad shows how the language culture of our time places emphasis on increased pluralization, not least through the rise of digital technology, which facilitates new forms of interaction via writing, before discussing possible consequences this may have for written culture in general, and for studies of written cultures
Sustainability : ethical foundations and economic properties
No full textThe author interprets development to be sustainable if it involves a nondecreasing quality of life. He introduces a concept of justice, and shows that a development path must be sustainable to prevent injustice. He argues, and illustrates through growth models, that altruism alone does not - even in the context of an economically efficient market economy - ensure sustainability. In particular, technologies with complementarity between manmade and natural capital represent cases where sustainability need not result. Thus, policies aimed at economic efficiency, such as internalizing external effects, need not generate sustainable development. The author argues that a positive interest rate is not inconsistent with sustainable development. He also maintains that, even in a perfect market economy, prices may not convey whether investments in manmade capital are sufficient to compensate for the depletion of natural capital. In particular, a non-negative market value of net investment is not sufficient for the present quality of life to be sustainable. Finally, he emphasizes that public policy aimed at sustainable development should strengthen the mechanisms for redistribution from the present to the future.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness
Competing conventions: The Big Branders’ struggle to incorporate new quality conceptions in the Norwegian food market
No full textThe paper addresses recent changes in the Norwegian agrifood industry from the analytical perspective of quality conventions. Storper and Salais’ “worlds of production” plus Boltanski and Thévenots’ “orders of worth” are used as a basis for the empirical study. First, the paper discusses how the largest Norwegian branders try to strategically adapt to “novel” quality attributes like health-enhancing food, origin/terroir, environmental sustainability and ethics. Second, the paper investigates the companies’ quality signalling strategy: How are these “novel” qualities communicated to consumers? Multiple options are available: Do they attempt to systematically incorporate “novel qualities” into their private brand equity (“conventionalizing qualities”)? Do they prefer a co-labelling scheme with a third party control, or do they use any other measures for quality signalling? The paper thereby discusses how the largest Norwegian branders in the food sector cope with conflicting and competing quality conventions.Food quality, economics of convention., Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Geir Sigurđsson: Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning: A Philosophical Interpretation
No full textEven though the book was published more than three years ago, it is still quite topical and unsurpassed. The Outstanding Book Award, which was presented to it last year by the Society of Professors of Education, was therefore well deserved and not surprising. In this work, Geir Sigurđsson reconstructs the meaning, the role and the manifold significance of the Confucian rituality by considering the spatial and temporal context of the present situation. This does not only mean that he wants to elaborate upon the question of what can Confucian rituality “still” offer to the present humankind, and to select those elements of this rich classical tradition that could prove themselves to be most “useful” and “worthwhile” for such endeavors. It rather means that the author aims to offer the readers his own, often quite topical philosophical insights created upon the inspirational foundations of classical Confucian texts. In this context, he proposes a reconsideration of the notion Li, which belongs to the most controversial concepts in the Confucian thought
Between panther and the angel: Geir Campos Rainer Maria Rilke’s critical reception in Brazil
No full textA geração de 45 caracterizou-se, entre outras questões, pela eleição de grandes nomes da literatura europeia como paradigma da lírica, como T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry e Fernando Pessoa. Entre estes, o poeta de língua alemã Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) passou, a partir do final dos anos 40, a ser lido, traduzido e comentado no Brasil. Ainda que parte da crítica defenda que os poetas da geração de 45 baseavam-se apenas na sua obra tardia, de Sonetos a Orfeu e Elegias de Duíno, a leitura dos poemas mostra-se muito mais assistemática e baseada em uma interpretação biografizante. Entre estes poetas, Geir Campos destaca-se pelo trabalho prematuro de traduzir os poemas de Rilke, ao mesmo tempo em que a escolha destes poemas e modificações no trânsito entre a língua-fonte e a língua-objeto forjam uma determinada imagem do autor traduzido, que encontra reflexos na própria obra poética de Campos.The Brazilian post war poets regarded some European authors, like TS Eliot, Paul Valéry and Fernando Pessoa, as paradigms of lyrics. Around the late 1940s, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), one of those praised writers, began to be read, translated and commented in Brazil. Even though some critics argue that the Brazilian poets at that time where focused solely in Rilke’s late works, Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies, those readings uncloak themselves mainly random and biographical. Amongst these Rilke’s Brazilian readers, the poet Geir Campos stands out for his early translations of Rilke\u27s poems. Through selection and small changes between original and translation, Campos builds an image of the translated author. Such imagery reappears in Campos\u27 own poetic work
Consumer Cohorts and Milk Purchases
No full textFluid milk is the most important product of Norwegian agriculture, and the decline in milk purchase has impact in many rural communities. By decomposing the milk purchase into cohort effects, age effects and year effects we show that the reason for the decline is that older generations purchase more milk than younger generations, and during lifetime consumption decline with age. Consequently, as younger generations replace older generations milk purchase decline. We show that towards 2021 the milk purchase will continue to fall.Milk, Purchases, Cohorts, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Use of cod liver oil during the first year of life is associated with lower risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a large, population-based, case-control study
No full text<Advanced Energy Generation Division>Advanced Energy Research Section
No full text3-1. Research Activities in 2024The author spent one month at Kyoto University, Uji Campus in Prof. Nohira's group. Here is a summary of the study on the microparticle electrodes and single particle microbatteries using electrochemical and in-situ micro-Raman spectroscopic studies [1].The author spent the 2024 academic year (April 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025) as a Visiting Associate Professor, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Energy (IAE) within the Research Unit for the Realization of a Sustainable Society (RURSS), in collaboration with Professor Masato Katahira at his laboratory on the Uji Campus of Kyoto University. In his report, the author presents recent developments in the efficient utilization of woody biomass.The author spent one and half months at Kyoto University, Uji Campus in Prof. Nohira group. A review of the most promising technologies for electrochemical reduction of CO₂ for carbon negative technologies is presented. Recent efforts to convert CO₂ into valuable carbon materials using molten salt electrolysis are summarized and discussed here.Advanced Energy Research Section/ Daniel Alberto Scherson [45]Advanced Energy Research Section/ Sadat Mohamed Rezk Khattab [47]Advanced Energy Research Section/ Geir Martin Haarberg [49
Prediction of autoimmune diabetes and celiac disease in childhood by genes and perinatal environment: Design and initial aims of the PAGE study
No full textType 1 diabetes and celiac disease result from misdirected immune mediated destruction of host cells, and are among the most common chronic diseases in children. Despite changes in incidence over the past 3 decades, little is known about non-genetic risk factors (except for dietary gluten for celiac disease). Norway is among the countries in the world with the highest incidence of these two diseases. We describe here plans and study design for the PAGE study (Prediction of Autoimmune diabetes and celiac disease in childhood by Genes and perinatal Environment). PAGE is a sub-study within the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study, including follow-up of more than 100,000 pregnancies. Children who develop type 1 diabetes or celiac disease are identified via linkage to the Norwegian Patient Register and the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry, with complementing information from questionnaires. The overall aim is to test hypotheses about potential non-genetic risk factors for type 1 diabetes and for celiac disease, with focus on factors operating early in life. In addition to a full cohort analysis of factors registered in questionnaires, we will analyse biomarkers in maternal blood plasma and cord blood plasma. Mothers and children will be genotyped for well-established susceptibility polymorphisms. Biomarkers will be analysed in cases and controls within the cohort. Factors to be tested in the full cohort include infant feeding, diet and dietary supplements in the mother during pregnancy and in the child, and use of antibiotics and non-prescription drugs. Biomarkers to be tested include 25-hydroxyvitamin D, markers of immune activation, and small metabolites (metabolomics). We will also explore the potential role of maternal cells in the fetal circulation (maternal microchimerism) in later risk of celiac disease and type 1 diabetes
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