143 research outputs found
Social integration of Nepalese immigrants into Norwegian society: Enabling and challenging factors
No full textThis research is about social integration of Nepalese immigrant in Norway. It aims to examine the enabling and challenging factor in the social integration of Nepalese immigrants in Norway. The research used qualitative methods to analyse the perspectives of Nepal immigrants based on their own life experiences and perceptions while integrating into Norwegian society. The empirical data were collected through life history interviews with sixteen immigrants and two focus group discussions. The first focus group consisted of three participants and another was composed of four new participants. To get a wider prospect, their integration was analysed within four dimensions of social integration as structural, cultural, interactive, and identification. These dimensions were examined with the help of the following indicators: employment, Norwegian language proficiency, social connection and sense of belongingness.
This study found that the Nepalese immigrants face more challenges while there are few enabling factors in their path to social integration in Norway. Lack of Norwegian Language skills, educational background incompatible to the demands of Norwegian labour market, hidden discrimination at the workplace, weak social interaction with the host population are major hindrances for their integration. In contrast, when one overcomes these challenges, they become enabling factors of integration. Thus, Nepalese immigrants who wished to stay longer have enhanced their Norwegian language proficiency acquired education/skills according to the demands in the Norwegian market. However, in terms of social interaction, on the one hand, Nepalese immigrants are confined within their own community and social networks and on the other hand, their social interaction with Norwegians is very formal and nominal. Young immigrants, immigrants with a refugee background and the immigrants who have already stayed in Norway for at least a decade showed their attachment to the place and the Norwegian society. However, they pointed that the immense cultural differences exist between Nepalese and Norwegian society. Despite these challenges, these fractions of Nepalese immigrants wish to stay longer in the country, while the recent immigrants wish to return as soon as they accomplished their mission in Norway. In the perspectives of recent immigrants, Norway is one of the challenging countries to integrate for Nepalese immigrants.Masteroppgaven er åpen tilgjengelig fra 2019-05-28
The use of IgG(T) as a diagnostic tool in foals with naturally acquired Rhodococcus equi pneumonia.
No full textWhile rhodococcal pneumonia is among the leading causes of foal mortality, its diagnosis remains a challenge. Antibodies specific to VapA (virulence-associated protein A) were previously evaluated as a diagnostic tool using foals that had been challenged with R. equi. With the exception of IgG(T), VapA-specific IgG subclasses were poor predictors of disease. The objective of this study was to further investigate the use of IgG(T) as a diagnostic tool under field conditions. Healthy foals on a farm with a history of endemic R. equi infections were enrolled in the study (n=46). A serum sample from each foal was collected monthly at ultrasound screening times or when a trans-tracheal wash was performed. Sample collection was discontinued when antibiotic therapy for rhodococcal pneumonia was begun. Additional positive control serum samples were obtained from confirmed cases of rhodococcal pneumonia admitted to a local hospital (n=3). All samples were analyzed utilizing a previously validated ELISA for VapA-specific IgG and its subclasses (IgGa, IgGb, and IgG(T)). Foal’s were classified into one of the four groups: no respiratory abnormalities, subclinical disease, rhodococcal pneumonia, non-rhodococcal pneumonia. One-way ANOVA was used to compare the concentrations of VapA-specific IgG and its subclasses amongst the four different groups at each time point with significance level stablished at α=0.05. No statistical differences were identified and only 2/5 foals with rhodococcal pneumonia had elevated IgG(T) at four months of age. No foals without respiratory abnormalities (32), or with non-rhodococcal pneumonia (1) had high IgG(T) concentrations. Thus, IgG(T) was a poor indicator of rhodococcal pneumonia within the studied population. One factor that may have contributed to these results is the high number of subclinical foals that were started on treatment based solely on ultrasonographic abnormalities or on unspecific clinical signs. Therefore, it is possible that the early removal of these foals precluded our detection of a significant IgG(T) response
Social integration of Nepalese immigrants into Norwegian society: Enabling and challenging factors
No full textThis research is about social integration of Nepalese immigrant in Norway. It aims to examine the enabling and challenging factor in the social integration of Nepalese immigrants in Norway. The research used qualitative methods to analyse the perspectives of Nepal immigrants based on their own life experiences and perceptions while integrating into Norwegian society. The empirical data were collected through life history interviews with sixteen immigrants and two focus group discussions. The first focus group consisted of three participants and another was composed of four new participants. To get a wider prospect, their integration was analysed within four dimensions of social integration as structural, cultural, interactive, and identification. These dimensions were examined with the help of the following indicators: employment, Norwegian language proficiency, social connection and sense of belongingness.
This study found that the Nepalese immigrants face more challenges while there are few enabling factors in their path to social integration in Norway. Lack of Norwegian Language skills, educational background incompatible to the demands of Norwegian labour market, hidden discrimination at the workplace, weak social interaction with the host population are major hindrances for their integration. In contrast, when one overcomes these challenges, they become enabling factors of integration. Thus, Nepalese immigrants who wished to stay longer have enhanced their Norwegian language proficiency acquired education/skills according to the demands in the Norwegian market. However, in terms of social interaction, on the one hand, Nepalese immigrants are confined within their own community and social networks and on the other hand, their social interaction with Norwegians is very formal and nominal. Young immigrants, immigrants with a refugee background and the immigrants who have already stayed in Norway for at least a decade showed their attachment to the place and the Norwegian society. However, they pointed that the immense cultural differences exist between Nepalese and Norwegian society. Despite these challenges, these fractions of Nepalese immigrants wish to stay longer in the country, while the recent immigrants wish to return as soon as they accomplished their mission in Norway. In the perspectives of recent immigrants, Norway is one of the challenging countries to integrate for Nepalese immigrants
VULNERABLE WEB APPLICATIONS AND HOW TO AUDIT THEM : Use of OWASP Zed Attack Proxy effectively to find the vulnerabilities of web applications
No full textOulu University of Applied Sciences
Degree programme in Information Technology
Author: Samir Kumar Paudel
Title of the bachelor’s thesis: Vulnerable Web Applications and How to Audit Them
Supervisor: Lauri Pirttiaho
Term and year of completion: Spring 2016 Number of pages: 59
This thesis work was done as a private project for completing a Bachelor’s De-gree in Information Technology. The main objective of this work was to find out the effectiveness of OWASP Zed Attack Proxy, an open source and free inte-grated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. Besides that, the secondary objectives were to learn how to make web applica-tions and try to find out the security loopholes of them.
For this project, Notepad++, Localhost, and OWASP Zed Attack Proxy were used as tools, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as languages, and MySQL Database for making a prototype web application. Notepad++ is a text editor and it supports various programming languages for writing programs or edit files. Localhost was used as a web host. And OWASP Zed Attack Proxy was used as a testing tool. The reason for using OWASP ZAP is that it is an open source and free application and it is a very popular tool among all available web application penetration testing tools either commercial or open source.
Some vulnerabilities were successfully found by the application (OWASP Zed Attack Proxy). Besides that, the developed prototype web application is a simple one. To test the effectiveness of OWASP Zed Attack Proxy in more detail, the web application should be more complex with various features. Being a prototype, it has limitations regarding its full intended features. As only few features were implemented in the prototype, there is a possibility to add more features to the web application as well as testing it in the future
A tiny island and a giant beetle: A fight to save coconut palms in Vanuatu
No full textVanuatu, a picturesque island nation in the South Pacific, is facing a dire threat to its beloved coconut palms—the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB), Oryctes rhinoceros (L.) (Fig. 1). Since its arrival in 2019, this invasive pest has wreaked havoc on the coconut plantations and coastline landscape on the island of Efate (Fig. 2), a small yet significant landmass spanning approximately 900 km2. This pest is posing a significant ecological and economic crisis (Paudel et al. 2023); therefore, the island nation has taken determined actions, from the immediate declaration of an emergency to an ongoing initiative, the Cash for Beetle program. The stakes are high because coconut palms are not just an economic mainstay but also hold deep cultural significance for the island nation.This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Entomologist following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmae004</p
Effects of vegetation on gravel-bed river channel formation
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Environmental Fluid MechanicsWater Resource
Lambretta: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
No full textTo curb the problem of false information, social media platforms like Twitter started adding warning labels to content discussing debunked narratives, with the goal of providing more context to their audiences. Unfortunately, these labels are not applied uniformly and leave large amounts of false content unmoderated. This paper presents LAMBRETTA, a system that automatically identifies tweets that are candidates for soft moderation using Learning To Rank (LTR). We run Lambretta on Twitter data to moderate false claims related to the 2020 US Election and find that it flags over 20 times more tweets than Twitter, with only 3.93% false positives and 18.81% false negatives, outperforming alternative state-of-the-art methods based on keyword extraction and semantic search. Overall, LAMBRETTA assists human moderators in identifying and flagging false information on social media.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Organisation & Governanc
Genotype and nitrogen effects on grain yield and yield-related traits of maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids
No full textSaabunud / Received 01.11.2021 ; Aktsepteeritud / Accepted 17.12.2021 ; Avaldatud veebis / Published online 18.12.2021 ; Vastutav autor / Corresponding author: Ganga Paudel [email protected] and nitrogen application are important determinants of grain yield in maize. This experiment was carried out in split-plot design with two factors (maize hybrids as the main factor and nitrogen rates as the sub factor) arranged in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The maize hybrids including Rampur Hybrid-2, Rampur Hybrid-4 and Rampur Hybrid-6 were main plots, and four nitrogen rates of 0, 140,160, and 180 kg N ha–1 were sub-plot. Results revealed that hybrids had significant effects on the days to 50% tasselling, cob circumference, number of kernel rows per cob and grain yield. Similarly, nitrogen rates had significant effects on all parameters except on the days to 50% tasselling and silking. The highest values of cob length (18.31 cm), no of kernel rows per cob (13.22), no of kernels per cob (33.36), cob circumference (13.90 cm) was recorded from the plot fertilized with 180 kg N ha–1. Rampur Hybrid-2 produced the highest yield (6.19 t ha–1), whereas the lowest yield was found in Rampur Hybrid-6. Similarly, 180 kg N ha–1 produced a significantly higher yield (7.06 t ha–1) which was followed by 160 kg ha–1 (6.71 t ha–1), 140 kg ha–1 (6.30 t ha–1) and the lowest yield (3.93 t ha–1) with 0 kg N ha–1. Therefore, among the hybrids evaluated, Rampur Hybrid-2 could be an appropriate hybrid variety for the cultivation at Dang district and similar conditions in Nepal. This study suggests that maize production can be maximized by cultivating Rampur Hybrid-2 with the use of 180 kg N ha–1 in the inner Terai region of Nepal
Replication data for: Nepal (2007): Malaria TRaC and Net Coverage Survey in Five Districts of Nepal - Phase II of the Malaria Prevention Program
No full textThe purpose of the TRaC Malaria Phase II was to answer the question: Among the target population living in the malaria affected districts of Nepal, what determines the use of LLINs in terms of opportunity, ability and motivation? Specifically, the research objectives were to identify and describe one or more target groups in terms of: a. Risk; b. Behavior (Use of LLINs); c. Behavioral determinants (opportunity, ability and motivational(OAM) characteristics); and d. Population characteristics, including media habits; TRaC Malaria Phase II was conducted in July-September 2007 with a total of 2,200 respondents in five malaria prone districts in Nepal, via a structured questionnaire interview process. A multi-stage cluster sampling approach was used to draw a sample of households with children under five years of age living in the program area of five malaria affected districts. The five districts include: Jhapa, Kanchanpur, Kavre, Mahottari, and Sindhuli. PSI/Nepal used the PSI TRaC methodology, which is designed to provide actionable evidence for decision making. The TRaC survey systematically and repeatedly measures levels and trends of indicators such as behaviors, behavioral determinants and population characteristics. The framework for development and construction of the variables for the behavioral determinants is based on the PSI Behavi
or Change Framework (Annex 2)
Effects of initial and boundary conditions on gravel-bed river morphology
No full textAssuming that the equilibrium geometry of river channels does not depend on their initial state but solely on boundary conditions, several formulas have been derived that relate the channel depth and width to the river bankfull discharge and bed material. However, due to the existence of a threshold for sediment motion and the strong non-linearity between sediment transport and flow rate, this assumption might not be generally valid for gravel-bed rivers. This research clarifies the role of the initial conditions, more specifically the initial channel width, on the geometry of gravel-bed rivers considering a variety of boundary conditions. The approach includes laboratory experiments and two-dimensional modeling, reproducing the evolution of alluvial channels with different starting widths, discharge regimes and sediment input rates. The experiments represent the Arc River (France). Thus, the characteristics of this river were used in the numerical model to obtain a realistic virtual case complementing the experiments. Different boundary and starting conditions resulted in either braided or single-thread channels. We found that the initial width strongly influences the evolution process and leaves a footprint on the river braid-belt extension. The active width of braided systems and the width of single-thread channels do not depend on the starting condition. They depend on sediment input rather than on discharge variability. Different initial widths result in different final bed levels. This indicates that the initial channel width may affect the degree of channel incision or aggradation. The results of this study justify the use of equilibrium formulas for single-thread rivers.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Environmental Fluid MechanicsRivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
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