A blockchain is a distributed ledger comprised of practically unchange- able, digital recorded data in packages called blocks. Each block in the chain contains data and is cryptographically hashed. The blocks of hashed ...

Recently, personal privacy has increasingly started coming to people's attention, as we are digitally more connected to each other. The development of new mobile products connected to the Internet are starting to take a ...

Introduction: In liver surgery, medical images from pre-operative computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are the basis for the decision-making process. These images are used in surgery planning and guidance, ...

In this thesis, swarm airports are introduced as a way of obtaining continuous operation in an autonomous drone swarm. An airport acts as a service station where the drones can replenish their energy autonomously. When ...

In the oil and gas industry, during exploration prospect assessment, explorationists rely on ad hoc manual work practices and tools for developing and communicating multiple hypothetical geological scenarios of the prospect. ...

The user experience of smartphones heavily rely upon functional internet connectivity, but, even though smartphones have multiple network links for accessing the internet, they are rarely able to utilize more than one link ...

This thesis examines the use of neural network methods for classifying parliamentary speeches by textual content. It introduces previous work in the field using traditional methods, and discusses aspects of the Talk of ...

Suksesskriterier for fremtidens elektroniske pasientjournal (EPJ) ligger i strukturerte data, delte data, mulighet for kommunikasjon på tvers av helseforetak og pasientens mulighet for involvering i eget sykdombildet. I ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en fortolkende studie av digitale læringsmiljøer i høyere utdanning. Studien er en del av det pedagogiske kvalitative prosjektet UDFeed. Studien fulgte et emne ved Institutt for Informatikk ved ...

In recent years, research in machine intelligence has gained increased momentum, where neural network models have made significant contributions in various fields, like image classification and language understanding. ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

Mobile robots operating in seniors' homes can serve as social companions and assist with daily tasks, thus enhancing the seniors' quality of life. In order for robots to assist seniors, it is crucial that they are equipped ...

Algorithm-based, automated solutions allow designers and engineers to support the tasks of human operators, or transfer parts of their work to a system. However, pushing the limits of automation might make the tasks left ...

With the rise of packages sent to customers and online shopping becoming more popular, the user experience of package tracking is becoming more important. This thesis addresses the lack of theory in Service Design, and ...

Medical ultrasound is a non-invasive low-cost image modality used in diagnostic applications. It has become the preferred modality in cardiology. Motion estimation techniques may be applied to the echocardiographic images ...

Precise wind power output predictions is of great importance for a successful integration of wind power into the power grid and market operations. A popular approach to short-term wind power prediction is to use machine ...

Background We previously reported that in pathogenic mismatch repair (path_MMR) variant carriers, the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) was not reduced when colonoscopy was undertaken more frequently ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

In this project, an image sensor designed to receive modulated light was designed and produced. Earlier, an image sensor consisting of alternating pixel topologies has been produced and tested. However, using a single pixel ...

While coordination is assumed to contribute to distributed self-managing work team performance, our knowledge about the factors influencing coordination in such team settings is limited. In the present study, we investigate ...

The school health service is an important service working with health preventive measures for youth. However, challenges exist, for example in terms of resources. Chatbots represent new opportunities for strengthening the ...

This thesis describes the design of a domain map prototype, which serves as a means of tackling wicked problems from the perspective of knowledge federation. This is to cre-ate a new way of problem-solving in a time of ...

Managing requirements are an integral part in any type of software development. In generic open source software projects, this process is increasingly difficult. Designing generic requirements and balancing the needs of ...

DHIS2 is a web application originally designed for collecting and aggregating statistical health data. DHIS2 is used in 60 different countries, each with its own implementation. In recent years there has been a shift towards ...

This thesis addresses the problem of finding a robust test suite for software testing by the use of mutation testing and machine learning. The goal is to find out a test suite that is immune to most of the mutants that can ...

This paper explores and conceptualises a phenomenon called platformization. The background is that the growing complexity of IT solutions is in many organizations costly and virtually impossible to adapt to changing ...

Monoplant is a prototype of an educational construction kit that provides teachers and secondary school students with hands-on experience on plant biology. We present the design rationale of Monoplant and report on its ...

The Internet of Things is rising in popularity across many different domains, such as build automation, healthcare, electrical smart metering and physical security. Many prominent IT experts and companies like Gartner ...

I denne oppgaven studerte jeg en bedrift som hadde gjennomført et innføringsprogram (onboarding) der portugisiske utviklere skulle innlemmes i to eksisterende norske team. Det blir bare vanligere og vanligere innenfor ...

Since the introduction of Electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs) the gap in security between eMRTDs and Machine-Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) has been a cause for concern. In 2016, the International Civil ...

Equality is a fundamental concept in first-order reasoning, yet for connection based proof methods a notoriously challenging one to handle efficiently. While paramodulation is a popular technique for resolution and related ...

This work is part of the SUPRE (SUbcutaneous PREssure sensor system) research project with the goal of developing health services for patients with dysfunctional urinary bladders. The NANO group at UiO has previously ...

Data preprocessing is a crucial step in data analysis. For preparing data for analysis, different actions may need to be performed on a given dataset including formatting, modification, extraction and enrichment. Data ...

Ultrasound imaging for medical applications is considered a cost-effective and non-invasive method of studying the internal structures of the body. One application is to study muscles and muscle architecture. Muscle ...

Ontologies are a field within semantic technologies concerned with modeling knowledge of a domain through the use of well-defined concepts and relationships. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is a field within the domain of ...

The Norwegian Welfare Administration (NAV) annually posts a large dataset of job announcements. Each announcement is classified with an occupation code, and today NAV performs this classification of announcements manually ...

Abstract—Network Utility Maximization (NUM) is a well accepted theoretical concept that describes how congestion controls could cooperate to achieve an ideal sending rate allocation, for given utility functions of senders ...

Empirical studies of information and communication technology (ICT) is often done by researchers who work closely with practitioners. Acquiring a role as an insider researcher gives the researcher performative knowledge ...

Single cell RNA-sequencing is an increasingly popular tool for investigating the variability in gene expression between individual cells. Compared to the previously wide spread methods such as bulk RNA-sequencing, the ...

Background Cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CBCT) is part of standard treatment of several cancers. In testicular cancer (TC) survivors, an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS) is observed. ...

With all the data available today the need to label and categorise data is more important than ever. There are many machine learning and deep learning models well equipped to classify data. However, to find the best model ...

The complexity of the nervous system has made computational science an invaluable tool in order to understand how the nervous system functions. The overarching goal of this thesis has been to develop software tools to ...

DDoS and DoS attacks have been growing in size and number over the last decade. Existing solutions employed to mitigate these attacks have proven to be inefficient in combating the problem. Compared to other types of malicious ...

Smart technologies take different, constantly changing, and complex forms – from personal objects we act and perceive with to environments and infrastructures within which everyday practices and experiences take shape. As ...

This thesis is about the analysis of capacity levels around health information use based on a district-level case study from Nepal. Well capacitated workforce can make better use of Health Information System (HIS) and ...

In traditional networks, a dedicated piece of hardware is configured and installed for every single network function. A network function represents any hardware appliance in the network that has network-level functionality, ...

This paper is about creating digital musical instruments where a predictive neural network model is integrated into the interactive system. Rather than predicting symbolic music (e.g., MIDI notes), we suggest that predicting ...

The latest technical and interaction advancements within the virtual reality (VR) field have marked a new era, not only for VR, but also for VR locomotion. In this era, well-established, prevalent VR locomotion techniques ...

The drum-like virtual reality (VR) keyboard is a contemporary, controller-based interface for text input in VR that uses a drum set metaphor. The controllers are used as sticks which, through downward movements, “press” ...

The adaptive immune system is a natural defense mechanism that is able to detect and neutralize pathogens. The key molecules involved in this are the immune receptors expressed by B and T cells, collectively named immune ...

The use of technology to address mental health among youth in Norway is gaining traction, with many measures being implemented from the public sphere. Literature claims that peer-support can help alleviate some of the ...

Background: Stroke and coronary heart disease share the same risk factors, and a multifactorial intervention after stroke may potentially result in the same reduction in cardiovascular mortality as seen after coronary ...

In recent years, deep learning algorithms have become increasingly more prominent for their unparalleled ability to automatically learn discriminant features from large amounts of data. However, within the field of ...

This thesis explores strength exercising and learning of bodily skills as a field that can be augmented through introducing digital sensory artefacts, that aim to alter the way the performance is perceived. Using feedback ...

A rich case study on the process of implementing generic software in the public health sector in India, which seeks to address the following research question: What constitutes the implementation-level design of generic ...

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a non-invasive imaging modality. Smaller and cheaper US systems make US imaging available to more people, leading to a democratization of medical US imaging. The improvements of general ...

Managing dependencies between teams and within teams is critical when running large-scale agile projects. In large-scale software development, work is carried out simultaneously by many developers and development teams. ...

The Unified Parallel C (UPC) programming language offers parallelism via logically partitioned shared memory, which typically spans physically disjoint memory subsystems. One convenient feature of UPC is its ability to ...

Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (InSAS) produce bathymetric maps with large amounts of data. This introduces challenges in how the data should be stored and represented. The bathymetric maps are in raster format ...

The impact of the tumor immune microenvironment on overall survival in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been studied, but there is little information on its relevance for risk of relapse after surgery. Understanding ...

Breakdown-oriented thinking: On accommodating for repair, attachment and longevity through design

Deep learning based systems are on the rise as they have shown tremendous potential to extract concealed patterns through the data. Today Deep learning systems are surpassing human-level vision capabilities, which leads ...

Accessibility has become an important focus in software development; the goal is to allow as many people as possible, regardless of their capabilities, to use software. We have investigated the methods that software teams ...

Composing and playing music generally requires knowledge of music theory and exercise in instrument training. While traditional musical instruments often require years of arduous practice to master, intelligent musical ...

Collaborative robots are becoming more common on factory floors as well as regular environments, however, their safety still is not a fully solved issue. Collision detection does not always perform as expected and collision ...