Whole-genome duplication (WGD) has been a major evolutionary driver of increased genomic complexity in vertebrates. One such event occurred in the salmonid family ∼80 Ma (Ss4R) giving rise to a plethora of structural and ...

Elderly care at home is a matter of great concern if the elderly live alone, since unforeseen circumstances might occur that affect their well-being. Technologies that assist the elderly in independent living are essential ...

This article presents the results of observations and analyses of students’ learning model-driven system development from two related courses taught at a university in Norway and at a university in the United States in ...

I denne forsøksstudien har vi gjennomført hverandrevurdering på et førsteårsemne i informatikk. Hverandrevurdering fremheves i forskningen som en metode for å aktivisere studentene, og å styrke deres læring og metakognisjon. ...

Reasonable Ontology Templates ( Open image in new window ) is a language for representing ontology modelling patterns in the form of parameterised ontologies. Ontology templates are simple and powerful abstractions useful ...

This paper investigates the relation between digitalisation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Digitalisation is often presented as a transformative power, changing the way we live and work. The SDGs describe ...

Natural seepage of methane into the oceans is considerable, and plays a role in the global carbon cycle. Estimating the amount of this greenhouse gas entering the water column is important in order to understand their ...

Time domain analysis of the intracranial pressure (ICP) waveform provides important information about the intracranial pressure-volume reserve capacity. The aim here was to explore whether the tympanic membrane pressure ...

Nye og bedre Augmented Reality (AR) og Virtual Reality (VR) applikasjoner utvikles helle tiden og brukes mer og mer i handel. Utvikling i AR and VR i løpet av de siste årene satt i gang mange innovasjoner i måten handelen ...

Denne studien er gjennomført i forbindelse med eksamen i et førsteårs programmeringsemne ved et universitet. Vi har undersøkt hvordan vi ved bruk av et egenutviklet verktøy for sensurering som består av kvantitativ vekting ...

Software startups are typically under extreme pressure to get to market quickly with limited resources and high uncertainty. This pressure and uncertainty is likely to cause startups to accumulate technical debt as they ...

Clouds offer flexible and economically attractive compute and storage solutions for enterprises. However, the effectiveness of cloud computing for high-performance computing (HPC) systems still remains questionable. When ...

Workflow oriented use of IT in hospitals can increase resource utilization, patient satisfaction and patient throughput, by integrating and aligning work processes. However, the role of hospital support staff, such as ...

We identify a number of decidable and undecidable fragments of first-order concatenation theory. We also give a purely universal axiomatization which is complete for the fragments we identify. Furthermore, we prove some ...

The Medico: Multimedia for Medicine Task, running for the second time as part of MediaEval 2018, focuses on detecting abnormalities, diseases, anatomical landmarks and other findings in images captured by medical devices ...

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 ...

The geometric model, Higher-dimensional automata (HDA), is a useful and general model for non-interleaving concurrency. In a non-interleaving approach to concurrency, more than one event may happen concurrently and one ...

Wireless multicast suffers from severe packet loss due to interference and lack of link layer retransmission. In this work, we investigate wether the most recent Forward Error Correction (FEC) draft is suitable for real-time ...

Threat modelling is a component in security risk analysis, and it is commonly conducted by applying a specific approach for discovering and modelling threats. The three main approaches for threat modelling are asset-centric, ...

To understand a robot's intent and behavior, a robot engineer must analyze data at the input and output, but also at all intermediary steps. This might require looking at a specific subset of the system, or a single data ...

This thesis demonstrates how metaheuristic algorithms can be used to find valid configurations for context-aware software. To represent families of context-aware software, the thesis describes and uses Context-dependent ...

Cloud Computing has seen a tremendous popularity in last several years. A scalable and efficient data center network is essential for a performance capable cloud computing infrastructure. This thesis provides practical ...

This paper addresses the basic implementation and possible competitiveness of an ontology-based ranking method, that for a SPARQL query under construction, generates a ranking of likely extensions, based on a set of past ...

The advent of the Internet of Things, sensor and social networks, to mention just a few examples, all contribute towards the solid establishment of the Big Data era. High Performance Computing (HPC) becomes necessary for ...

Background: Recent large-scale undertakings such as ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics have generated experimental data mapped to the human reference genome (as genomic tracks) representing a variety of functional elements ...

Today, there exists a wide range of services and applications across several platforms that are prone to attacks. Attackers find new ways to exploit malfunctions and vulnerabilities within these systems every day. There ...

Small, low cost, radar systems have exciting applications in monitoring and imaging for the industrial, healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. We here explore, and show the feasibility of, several single bit ...

We report on our experience in ontology-based data access to the Slegge database at Statoil and share the resources employed in this use case: end-user information needs (in natural language), their translations into SPARQL, ...

Nowadays, the global market offers an enormous variety of external sensors and measuring instruments. In combination with increasingly more powerful mobile devices, it is possible to create new tools which expand their ...

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a new technology introduced in recent generations of Intel processors. SGX is supposed to be able to create a trusted execution environment for user-space software that is protected ...

Purpose: Circulating chromogranin B (CgB) levels are increased in situations characterized by systemic and myocardial stress, but whether CgB provides prognostic information in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) ...

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Computational models of cardiac mechanics, personalized to a patient, offer access to mechanical information above and beyond direct medical imaging. Additionally, such models can be used to optimize and plan therapies ...

Objective: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often have abnormal ECGs. Our aim was to separate the effects on ECG by airway obstruction, emphysema and right ventricular (RV) afterload in patients ...

Cardiac computational models, individually personalized, can provide clinicians with useful diagnosticinformation and aid in treatment planning. A major bottleneck in this process can be determining modelparameters to fit ...

Genomic locations are represented as coordinates on a specific genome build version, but the build information is frequently missing when coordinates are provided. We show that this information is essential to correctly ...

Optimisation is a basic principle of nature and has a vast variety of applications in research and industry. There is a plurality of different optimisation procedures which exhibit different strengths and weaknesses in ...

Acoustic waves propagating in anisotropic media are important for various applications. Even though these wave phenomena do not generally occur in nature, they can be used to approximate wave motion in various physical ...

There has been a trend in city development for a little under a decade for cities to become “smart cities”, where recent innovations in technology such as big data processing, IoT, and AI are intended to transform the way ...

In this master thesis, I explore how the field of Interaction Design might contribute in creating new platforms for engagement and expression, by involving a participatory culture of skateboarders in a Do It Yourself (DIY) ...

This thesis presents an in-depth contrastive error analysis of a set of semantic dependency parsing systems. Based on the empirical results of our analysis we found semantic frame classification to be an interesting case ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed for men and the second most for women. Today’s main methods of examination are expensive, time consuming and intrusive for the patient. Recent technologies, ...

This volume contains the papers presented at the workshops associated with the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2017. The workshops were held in Oslo, Norway, on 27th September 2017. ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed for men and the second most for women. Today's main methods of examination are expensive, time consuming and intrusive for the patient. Recent technologies, ...

In this paper we extend previous work on using bintrees as an efficient representation for qualitative information about spatial objects. Our approach represents each spatial object as a bintree satisfying the exact same ...

Distributional semantic models learn vector representations of words through the contexts they occur in. Although the choice of context (which often takes the form of a sliding window) has a direct influence on the resulting ...

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Live media streaming applications are increasingly popular, with services such as Twitch.tv and YouNow being used by millions of people. Deploying such services on the cloud can be very expensive, as the cost is proportional ...

In this paper we study the evolution of ontologybased data access (OBDA) specifications, and focus on the case in which the ontology and/or the data source schema change, which may require a modification to the mapping ...

This thesis is an interpretive qualitative research study exploring the use of welfare technology in elderly care. In Norway, health care and social services for elderly people are important parts of the welfare policy. A ...

The book aims to be a resource for those interested in planning and implementing large-scale information infrastructures for novel electronic services in health care. The focus of this book is on the pivotal role of the ...

Background Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical and molecular level. In this study we integrate classifications extracted from five different molecular levels in order to identify ...

Analysis of large amounts of data, so called Big Data, is changing the way we think about science and society. One of the most promising rich Big Data sources is mobile phone data, which has the potential to deliver near ...

In this research report we propose a self-organizing media streaming solution that supports multiple interacting participants as well as a large number of observers. This solution is aimed at a number of emerging multimedia ...

Over the last decade gamification has been emerging as an engaging technology to promote learning. However, the majority of research on game inspired learning has focused on children and adolescents. In this project I am ...

Background The disease and phenotype track was designed to evaluate the relative performance of ontology matching systems that generate mappings between source ontologies. Disease and phenotype ontologies ...

Dette studiet analyserer forholdet mellom pengekompensasjon og motivasjon i den norske virksomheten av et IT- infrastrukturselskap.. Økonomiske og psykologiske teorier spår at design og implementering av prestasjonsmåling ...

Reliable CCS monitoring is vital in order to confirm that injected CO2 stays in the reservoir as intended, and that any occurring leakage is promptly detected allowing corrective actions to be initiated. Motivations for ...

Today, virtualization technology plays an important role in the computer industry. Virtual Machines (VMs) are deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet the requirements of a market that expects service delivery ...

This paper describes an emerging shared repository of large-text resources for creating word vectors, including pre-processed corpora and pre-trained vectors for a range of frameworks and configurations. This will facilitate ...

Noise. It is around us, everywhere, all the time. It is hard to control, hard to shut out. It affects our health, sometimes even without us noticing it. Noise is one form of pollution, and is causing annoyance and other ...

We present a representation of spatial data that supports answering of qualitative queries (involving e.g. containment and overlap), using less time than numerical computations on coordinates, and less space than explicitly ...

In this paper, we present results from a research through design inquiry into the design space of second-hand use of consumer goods and their potential for creating more sustainable and less consumerism-oriented lifestyles. ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg integrering av elever med ME og skolevegring i ordinært opplæringstilbud i skolen. Formålet med studien er å eksplorere tekniske muligheter som foreligger for å bedre inkludering av segregerte ...

Recent developments in wireless sensors to measure physiological parameters and environmental parameters enable a new generation of applications for health monitoring. However, the complexity of many physiological signals ...

Protection against many cyber security threats can be implemented by existing software on the system, with no need for security software. Some operating systems or program parameters can increase the security level and ...

One important class of applications for the Internet of Things is related to the need to gain timely and continuous situational awareness, like smart cities, automated traffic control, or emergency and rescue operations. ...

The two-dimensional quick response (QR) codes can be misleading due to the difficulty in differentiating a genuine QR code from a malicious one. Since the vulnerability is practically part of their design, scanning a ...

Threat intelligence is the provision of evidence-based knowledge about existing or potential threats. Benefits of threat intelligence include improved efficiency and effectiveness in security operations in terms of detective ...

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in society's response to the emerging need of caretaking of the oldest citizens. This dissertation presents a design approach that focuses on capabilities rather than ...

In this paper, we present the results of preliminary experiments on finding the link between the surface forms of Russian nouns (as represented by their graphic forms) and their meanings (as represented by vectors in a ...

Falls in homes of the elderly, in residential care facilities and in hospitals commonly occur in close proximity to the bed. Most approaches for recognizing falls use cameras, which challenge privacy, or sensor devices ...

This thesis presents the results of observations and analysis of students’ learning of model based system development from two related courses taught in the University of Oslo Norway and Florida Atlantic University USA. ...

In the current HPC landscape multi-GPGPU computation has established it self as a highly performant hardware choice for many workloads. A challenge is to ease the programming burden. In this thesis we present a library ...

I denne oppgaven utforsker jeg konseptet nysgjerrighet ved å se på om det er mulig å designe digitale grensesnitt som kan fremkaller nysgjerrighet. For å forske på dette har jeg valgt å fokusere på science ...

Previously, we have worked on verification of railway regulations against CAD designs, and integrated a verification engine into the tool chain of railway engineers. This tool was used successfully in a pilot project at ...

The concrete problem this paper addresses is the following: Given a set of objects with a spatial interpretation and a set of qualitative relations, construct a bintree representation that returns the same answers to queries ...

Fast and efficient communication is crucial for workers that are required to collaborate. Instant messaging has been found to be more efficient than email and other asynchronous messaging systems when used for asking quick ...