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“A manager once said that management and employees are equally important in a company. This is definitely a misunderstanding. Nothing is produced unless the employees do their work,” says Fredrik Hertel, one of the editors behind the book Debating Leaderless Management. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Can we do without a boss?

We take it for granted that companies need leadership. But is that true? The editors behind a new book on the subject strongly disagree.

“Working with the literature of memories teaches us how difficult it is to put words to injustice and abuse, but also how important it is for individuals that there is a collective memory about events in one's life,” says Professor Unni Langås. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Today's writers are still influenced by World War II

The literature written today about the Nazi occupation is written by people who did not experience the war. How does that affect the stories?

Researchers have found strong links between the nutrition children receive from the time they are in their mother’s womb and their personality at the age of eight. (Credit: iStockphoto)

How diet affects your personality

Children who have a healthy diet throughout their childhood have better mental health when they are eight years old. This is shown by one of the largest surveys of its kind.

Kevin Roy has developed an algorithm that can detect causal relationships in complex systems where several sensors are involved, and where several tasks are performed simultaneously.

He finds hidden connections with artificial intelligence

Kevin Roy received a best paper award for his work presented at the IEEE International Seminar on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (ISMODE) held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2022.

Associate Professors Mikaela Vasstrøm and Laura Tolnov Clausen at the University of Agder have previously researched the establishment of wind farms in Norway, Denmark and Scotland.

“For offshore wind to succeed, new policies must be developed.”

What happens on land if offshore wind is established? That is the question social scientists at UiA want to find an answer to.

“For offshore wind to succeed, new policies must be developed.”

What happens on land if offshore wind is established? That is the question social scientists at UiA want to find an answer to.

UiA collaborates with multiple actors to develop the offshore wind industry. The team includes the Agder region initiative, Fremtidens Havvind; Future Materials Norwegian Catapult Centre; NORCE; and Mechatronics Innovation Lab at UiA.

Researchers hunt new solutions for Norwegian offshore wind

Offshore wind has tremendous potential, but how great can it actually get? Unanswered questions trigger researchers.

Researchers hunt new solutions for Norwegian offshore wind

Offshore wind has tremendous potential, but how great can it actually get? Unanswered questions trigger researchers.

“People who have had children and started a family score higher on religious traits. The survey was carried out in Great Britain, but the situation is most likely the same in Scandinavia,” says Professor Morten Blekesaune. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Forming a family makes us more religious

People who marry and have children become more religious. Cohabitation does not have the same effect, research shows.

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