Vi undersøker om PRAM-modellen fra 1978 egner seg for å analysere kjøretiden til parallelle algoritmer på en generell, flerkjernet datamaskin med en tradisjonell arkitektur. Vi utfører teoretisk analyse av en håndfull ...

Designing to support diabetes self-management in Mitchells Plain, South Africa

Functional genomics assays produce sets of genomic regions as one of their main outputs. To biologically interpret such region-sets, researchers often use colocalization analysis, where the statistical significance of ...

This thesis investigates which technical and organizational factors that enable or constrain user participation in design when implementing a generic health information software. More specifically, it focuses on user ...

Sleep apnea is a very common, yet severely under-diagnosed disorder characterized by reoccurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. If a breathing disruption causes the oxygen saturation in the blood to ...

The District Health Information systems 2 (DHIS2) is a highly flexible and customizable platform for building health management information systems, for many developing countries. The DHIS2, by being a platform, supports ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

Det er et stort fokus på velferdsteknologi i helse- og omsorgssektoren som gjør at vi stiller stadig høyere krav til løsningene og deres omfang. Rapporter publisert av Helsedirektoratet (2015b, 2016) viser at brukerne av ...

Software design patterns are elaborate ways to deal with specific recurring issues in software development. They are re-usable templates, plans that can be applied in multiple situations to help, not only create more ...

This Master’s thesis describes two case studies of mobile delivery robots operating in hospitals by moving equipment and goods between depart- ments where human employees work. Through contextual interviews with employees ...

In this master thesis, I explore how the creation of music can be facilitated to encourage curiosity and exploration through tangible interaction. The objective was to see how we can create new and rich musical experiences ...

Matching a segment of an environment with a virtual 3D representation of the environment can help with inspecting buildings and constructions without manual measurements. This thesis focuses on the research and design of ...

In a move to fight undernutrition, Rwanda's Ministry of Health has requested software for child growth follow-up over time. Improving the health status of the population is a priority, as undernutrition can cause permanent ...

Co-channel interference is the most significant degrader of quality of service in 802.11 Wi-Fi in dense residential areas. The number of observed neighbouring networks can grow as large as 20-30 networks in a modern apartment ...

Virtual reality technology has recently had a revival with new VR-hardware being introduced to the consumer market. This can be considered a turning point in the field as it has now become more accessible and affordable ...

Musicians often use tools such as loop-pedals and multitrack recorders to assist in improvisation and songwriting. While these devices are useful in creating new compositions from scratch, they do not contribute to the ...

Mental health is a growing concern in today's society. Mental disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression affects one in four adults at some point in their life, and is one of the leading causes of disability. This ...

When it comes to the analysis of biological sequences, alignment based methods have long been in the forefront for finding similarities between sequences, and in the classification of genetic sequences. Many of these methods ...

This master thesis explores how to make and use research products to mediate the state of the phenomenal body and generate new knowledge about their meaning for people with health challenges. Specifically, the thesis ...

Background: Teams in large-scale agile programs need to achieve collaborative software development. A proposed guide to collaboration is effective coordination. Large-scale agile software development is well accepted in ...

Solar energy is one of the most influenceable renewable resources. Photovoltaic(PV) system is widely used in converting solar energy into electricity. Therefore, monitoring the working state of PV systems in real-time to ...

Reinventing journalism by using the capabilities of the computer as the medium is called for to increasingly reach audiences both online and in mobile contexts. Based on several case studies, this thesis investigates ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the highest rates reported for Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. We provide a global snapshot of the CRC patterns, how screening ...

One of the actual problems that health workers in Malawi experience now is lack of unified information system which would handle all medical records management in points of care. Instead medical staff has to rely on obsolete ...

Under health reforms for establishing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in developing countries, it becomes imperative that health care should be made accessible to each and every citizen of the population at affordable ...

The filtered delay multiply and sum (F-DMAS) beamformer has recently been presented in the context of medical ultrasound image formation. This nonlinear beamformer produces images with improved contrast resolution and noise ...

In this work, we create and make available two benchmark data sets for evaluating models of semantic word similarity for Norwegian. While such resources are available for English, they did not exist for Norwegian prior to ...

Computer networks research has been notoriously bad at reproducibility – a key aspect of making research results credible and convincing. This has been attributed to a lack of incentive for researchers to share the data ...

This thesis contains the description of the design and implementation of a basic framework for research on how plants behave in controlled environments. The framework is capable of controlling lighting with a pair of ...

Objective: A major goal in systems neuroscience is to determine the causal relationship between neural activity and behavior. To this end, methods that combine monitoring neural activity, behavioral tracking, and targeted ...

Machine-learning based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems provide significant value to organizations because they can efficiently detect previously unseen variations of known threats, new threats related to known ...

For robots to handle the numerous factors that can afect them in the real world, they must adapt to changes and unexpected events. Evolutionary robotics tries to solve some of these issues by automatically optimizing a ...

Recent strategic design and management discourse has identified gaps in the current framing of design for organisations, specifically highlighting a lack of discussions related to emergent design cultures and calling for ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan man kan inkludere barn i en deltakende designprosess. Forskningsspørsmålet er formulert slik: «Hva skal til for at barn kan være med å designe?» Prosjektet sitt formål har vært å gi en ...

Sequencing projects are using paired-end reads to compensate for the relatively short length of the reads obtained by some sequencing technologies such as Illumina. To take advantage of the resulting paired-end reads, we ...

A multitude of weak memory models exists supporting various types of relaxations and different synchronization primitives. On one hand, they must be lax enough to allow for hardware and compiler optimizations; on the other, ...

Containerization has become an issue of increased importance to scientific computing and software engineering. The use of scientific software is increasing to advance science and technology. This software is developed by ...

This thesis presents the findings from the experiments on statistical machine translation (SMT) between Norwegian and English. First of all, we have extracted a parallel corpus for the language pair of Norwegian and English ...

This paper focuses on the process of translating insights from a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)-based study, conducted on a vessel at sea, into a model that can assist systems developers working with simulators, ...

Stadig flere selskaper tar nå i bruk skytjenester. Det er denne veien markedet beveger seg, noe som tvinger kundene etter. Det er klare forretningsmessige og teknologiske fordeler ved å ta i bruk skytjenester. Dette studiet ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is currently working to eliminate malnutrition and stunting in children less than five years. The backbone of this project has been the development of the Rwandan Fortified Blended Foods ...

This paper presents a novel CMOS-based system-onchip with a 78 × 56 ion-sensitive field-effect transistor array using in-pixel quantization and compensation of sensor nonidealities. The pixel integrates sensing circuitry ...

Globalization is affecting our daily life more and more every day. In addition to affecting every and each person, it is also affecting businesses around the globe and to cope with it managers and other decision-makers ...

In ontology-based data access (OBDA), databases are connected to an ontology via mappings from queries over the database to queries over the ontology. In this paper, we define an ASP-based semantics for mappings from ...

This paper gives an example-driven introduction to modelling and analyzing virtualized systems in, e.g., cloud computing, using virtually timed ambients, a process algebra developed to study timing aspects of resource ...

In recent years, there has been increased attention on the possible impact of future robotics and AI systems. Prominent thinkers have publicly warned about the risk of a dystopian future when the complexity of these systems ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm of distributed computing in which users share resources by storing data and executing processes in common data centers. A key factor for the success of this paradigm is virtualization technology, ...

Virtual Reality (VR) have experienced a resurgence in recent years with the introduction of the Oculus Rift, and this new market have made the technology widely available for consumers. With this renewed popular interest ...

In the last decade, the number of Internet-users have increased exponentially, and the amount of service and systems data they create have also increased accordingly. Users are often using different devices which generate ...

This thesis asks: “How can health information platforms handle heterogeneity by distributing flexibility among multiple actors?” and uses material from both developing countries and a developed nation to answer this question. ...

The One Versus Rest (OVR) method of building classifiers has fallen out of favor with machine learning researchers in recent years. When used, it is mostly only with older binary linear classifiers such as Support Vector ...

Cloud computing is one of the fastest emerging technology. Increase in demands of cloud computing leads to increase in data centers. These data center consists of a huge number of interconnected Physical Machines (PMs). ...

There is a growth in the number of solar panel installations in residential homes in Norway, and the process of installing has become effortless with the assistance of various actors. However, the experience of having solar ...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common, but severely under- diagnosed sleep disorder characterized by recurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. It is our long-term goal to allow people to perform ...

Evaluation of Distributed Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems is a rather challenging task. To simplify this task, we developed the open simulation framework for Distributed CEP, called DCEP-Sim. The goal of this tutorial ...

Modern passports—as well as several other ID and travel documents—are so called electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTD). These are documents that conform to Doc 9303, a specification published by the International ...

This thesis is an exploratory study based on a participatory design project that unfolded at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology during 2017 and early 2018. In this project, four museum researchers engaged with ...

This thesis is an exploratory study of technology use among the elderly. The study is part of the MECS (Multimodal Elderly Care Systems) project. As part of the study, qualitative data has been collected using multiple ...

In this thesis, we make and evaluate procedures for converting between different lexical semantic representations. We implement three different methods for converting from vector space models to graph models: the threshold ...

Integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into Smart Homes is currently quite cumbersome. This thesis presents a novel approach on integrating energy devices, e.g. washing machines, heat pumps and other devices into ...

Gjennom forskning har det blitt vist at modulær smarttelefon er en smarttelefon sammensatt av ulike moduler på en plattform. Modulær smarttelefon er ment for at brukere kan beholde sine smarttelefoner lenger ved å bytte ...

In this work I detail the compilation of a unique corpus of Norwegian court decisions. I utilize this corpus to train several different machine learning models to produce dense semantic vectors for both words and documents. ...

Nested virtualization enables a virtual machine, which is a software layer representing an execution environment, to be placed inside another virtual machine. Nested virtual machines form a location hierarchy where virtual ...

Background: Molecular indicators of colorectal cancer prognosis have been assessed in several studies, but most analyses have been restricted to a handful of markers. We aimed to identify prognostic biomarkers for colorectal ...

Fragmentation in heterogenous and widely distributed HISs (Health Information System) is a global problem and is still challenging to make them interoperable. One of the key factors includes the lack of standardization ...

Background: Digital innovations have evolved over the last 15 years to support health activities, and their introduction in low- and middle-income countries has shown the potential to catalyze gains in health systems and ...