This thesis builds on an exploratory, interpretive case study conducted in a developing country context. It was undertaken to discover how computers and data analysis software at facility level of the health system could ...

Annotation of genomes is an important process which increases the usefulness of genomic data immensely. However, there are many annotation tools in use, and they can all give different results. This master project is about ...

It is widely recognized that the Internet transport layer has become ossified, where further evolution has become hard or even impossible. This is a direct consequence of the ubiquitous deployment of middleboxes that hamper ...

Two mathematical models are part of the foundation of Computational neurophysiology; (a) the Cable equation is used to compute the membrane potential of neurons, and, (b) volume-conductor theory describes the extracellular ...

Our cities, landscapes, institutions, and homes are increasingly being equipped with sensors that glean information that is being processed by algorithms and visualized to serve as a basis for decision making. Such Internet ...

I denne artikkelen viser vi et nytt system for å kunne gi delvis automatisk og formativ tilbakemelding til studenter på skriftlig eksamen. Vi vil belyse en ny måte å gi individuell tilbakemelding rettet mot hver enkelt ...

Communication between two Internet hosts using parallel connections may result in unwanted interference between the connections. In this dissertation, we propose a sender-side solution to address this problem by letting ...

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The daily stand-up meeting is a widely used practice. However, what is more uncertain is how valuable the practice is to team members. We invited professional developers of a programming forum to a survey and obtained 221 ...

Objective Through the conduct of an individual-based intervention study, the main purpose of this project was to build and evaluate the required infrastructure that may enable routine practice of precision cancer medicine ...

This thesis discusses and explores how we can connect humans to nature through technology, by measuring variables in trees and plants in a cheap, easy and controlled manner. A framework for connecting sensors and sensor ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death, and the past years’ improved insight into underlying molecular events has significantly improved outcome for specific subsets of patients. In particular, several ...

Both a DNA lesion and an intermediate for antibody maturation, uracil is primarily processed by base excision repair (BER), either initiated by uracil-DNA glycosylase (UNG) or by single-strand selective monofunctional ...

We present the UltraSound ToolBox (USTB), a processing framework for ultrasound signals. USTB aims to facilitate the comparison of imaging techniques and the dissemination of research results. It fills the void of tools ...

This paper describes the process of automatically adding synsets and hypernymy relations to an existing wordnet based on word embeddings computed for POStagged lemmas in a large news corpus, achieving exact match attachment ...

This paper investigates interactions in parser performance for the two official standards for written Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk. We demonstrate that while applying models across standards yields poor performance, ...

This thesis is an empirical study of the affects that Language Features, provided by Programming Languages on Design Pattern implementa- tions. The set of Design Patterns is mostly based on the ones described by first book ...

This paper is concerned with the design of a system that handles published research literature evaluation related to clinical DNA sequencing and analysis of genetic variants. The literature handling system is part of a ...

Voting has traditionally been performed by casting paper ballots in public polling places. However, advancements in computer technology in the latest decades have enabled voters to cast their votes electronically. By 2016, ...

As mobile technology becomes ever more ubiquitous, making the choice to travel by public transport has never been easier. Still, the car is the preferred mode of transport, even within the large cities. This thesis looks ...

Ensuring the functional quality of database applications is a very important problem in software testing, yet few innovative solutions and empirical studies are reported on the subject. Database applications are widely ...

There is a deluge of unstructured data flowing out from numerous sources, including the devices which make up the Internet-of-Things. This data flow is characterized by sheer volume, variety and velocity, and is expected ...

In the last few decades, the number of people suffering from chronic diseases that require continuous treatment and monitoring has been on the rise. To achieve a more cost-efficient health care system, and to offer better ...

This thesis addresses how dyslexia affects information search, a topic which has received little attention in previous research. A total of 42 students (21 dyslexics and 21 controls) completed three experiments; one visual ...

Go is a new language especially known for its speed, simplicity, and concurrency approach. The language has gained some promising momentum as a newcomer, several big projects like Docker is implemented in the language. As ...

Background The mucosal changes associated with female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) encompass abnormal blood vessels. These have been described as circular, reticular, branched, convoluted and having uneven calibre. ...

Denne studien omhandler endringer og endringsledelse ved innføring av et nytt IT-verktøy i Arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningen (NAV). Moderne organisasjoner kan sies å være kjennetegnet av endring fremfor stabilitet. Dette ...

The european higher education area (EHEA) aims to create a more comparable, compatible and coherent space of Higher Education in Europe. After a decade of reforms, most of the required instruments are already in place, so ...

Capsule endoscopy is used to examine the gastrointestinal tract, primarily the small intestines. The transformation of endoscopic capsules from passive to active systems, will save resources and make capsule endoscopy more ...

This thesis investigates theoretical aspects of 1-bit signal processing and contains published papers describing many different CMOS implementations that utilize such processing. So-called Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance ...

The goal of this master thesis is to discover how Bluetooth beacons affect user experience in a museum setting, specifically for museum visitors and staff. Two applications were developed; one of which was highly automatic ...

The goal of this master thesis is to discover how Bluetooth beacons affect user experience in a museum setting, specifically for museum visitors and staff. Two applications were developed; one of which was highly automatic ...

Many of the most interesting complex media are non-Newtonian and exhibit time-dependent behavior of thixotropy and rheopecty. They may also have temporal responses described by power laws. The material behavior is represented ...

The rapidly increasing pervasiveness and integration of computers in human and animal society calls for a broad discipline under which this development can be studied. We argue that to design and use technology one needs ...

Few could have imagined the vast developments made in the field of fractional calculus which was first merely mentioned in the year 1695 in a correspondence between the pioneers of calculus, Leibniz and L’Hôpital. However, ...

In this paper, we discuss the phenomenon of aging in relation to Hofmann’s three perspectives on disease including disease, illness and sickness role. We further discuss how the introduction of technology supported elderly ...

The volume of data being published on the Web and made available as Open Data has significantly increased over the last several years. However, data published by independent publishers are sliced and fragmented. Creating ...

Oppgaven belyser hvorvidt det er mulig å nyttiggjøre seg av smarthus- og velferdsteknologi for å bidra til økt forutsigbarhet og trygghet hos brukergruppene, samt øke kvaliteten og effektiviteten i hjemmetjenestens tjenester. ...

Background. VSEARCH is an open source and free of charge multithreaded 64-bit tool for processing and preparing metagenomics, genomics and population genomics nucleotide sequence data. It is designed as an alternative to ...

For synshemmede individer er mesteparten av visuell informasjon utilgjengelig, da disse ikke har mulighet til å hente den ut direkte med sitt begrensede sanseapparat. Mennesker er avhengige av synet sitt for å kunne danne ...

Parallel Programming has been thrown upon us by the industry which can't deliver what we really want - ever faster CPUs. Instead they give us more computing cores at a steadily decreasing cost. Programmers are now forced ...

Denne oppgaven handler om å undersøke atferden til Langtons maur og hvordan vi kan bruke maurens atferd til å konstruere logiske porter. Videre skal vi bruke de logiske portene til å utføre beregninger. Senere skal vi se ...

Railway systems designs deal with complex and large-scale, safety-critical infrastructures, where formal methods play an important role, especially in verifying the safety of so-called interlockings through model checking. ...

This thesis presents research and experiments on the task of threat detection in online discussions, using natural language processing in a machine learning approach. We use an existing data set of manually annotated YouTube ...

As we create increasingly complex software systems, we need better tools and concepts to analyze and understand them. On the practical level, we need instrumentation tools that give insights into running systems in a safe ...

The continuous increase of sophisticated cyber security risks exposed to the public, industry, and government through the web, mobile devices, social media, as well as targeted attacks via state-sponsored cyberespionage, ...

In Norway, about one out of 2000 babies born is deaf, which means up to 20–30 children are born deaf every year. Some become deaf later due to diseases like meningitis or because of disease during pregnancy. In recent ...

This research provides an investigation of the phenomenon of mutual shaping between technologies and law, its ontological explanation in the interconnected transdisciplinary abstractions of complex systems (“design work”, ...

We provide a non-interleaving operational semantics for the pi-calculus as asynchronous transition systems, which generalizes the standard interleaving structural operational semantics and unfolds to standard, stable prime ...

This thesis investigates the problem of efficiently determining the shortest distance from a point to a spline curve, and the location of the nearest point on the spline. Splines are versatile and popular approximation ...

Governmental and private funding for research in many fields has resulted in a significant body of scientific evidence. Scientific evidence is made available in the form of thousands of peer-reviewed articles in online ...

We apply the framework of tempered fractional calculus to investigate the spatial dispersion of elastic waves in a one-dimensional elastic bar characterized by range-dependent nonlocal interactions. The measure of the ...

Bruken av mobil informasjonsteknologi har økt betraktelig de siste årene. Teknologien utvikler seg og tas i bruk i stadig nye sammenhenger. Bruken av mobil informasjonsteknologi har også nådd mer aktive yrkesgrupper. ...

Temaet for oppgaven er IT-arkitektur og organisasjonsmessig endringsevne (agilitet), og problemstillingen er å vurdere i hvilken grad ny integrasjonsarkitektur ved Universitetet i Oslo påvirker universitetets endringsevne. ...

Based on OffPAD project, I have researched and implemented a data authentication principle that can be implemented in the OffPAD project. This is based on the principle of authenticating data for online transactions using hash.

Servers have substantially increased their workload capacity over the years as an effect of a more digitalized way of living. With server capacity growing, so does the corresponding heat accumulation in data centers and ...

InfiniBand is becoming a leading interconnect technology used in many of world’s most powerful supercomputers. To guarantee the high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements of HPCs and modern data centers, the Infini- Band ...

This thesis recalls the desirability of being able to apply congestion control coupling to concurrent TCP connections between the same end hosts. We identify challenges that must be overcome to provide practically deployable ...

Microservices in the cloud has become an increasingly popular platform to run services on. However, general purpose operating systems found within most VMs in the cloud use more resources than necessary. The proposed ...

In the past couple of decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a widely used approach for investigating the underlying genetic architecture of complex human diseases. Each particular GWAS will highlight ...

Mobile devices become increasingly more powerful, and can now connect to a variety of external sensors. However, different external sensors might use different communication channels and data protocols, which makes the use ...

Software design patterns are formalized best practices, which provide reusable solutions to commonly occurring design problems in a given context in software engineering. The aim of this study was to investigate how software ...

Background The limited availability of maternal and child health data has limited progress in reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and children. Global health agencies, leaders, and funders ...

Large real-life scenes can be captured in 3D efficiently by current capturing devices. The captured 3D data can be transmitted over the internet to a remote viewer, who can experience the captured scene with a display ...

Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the Navier Stokes equations is an invaluable research tool in fluid dynamics. Still, there are few publicly available research codes and, due to the heavy number crunching implied, ...

Linked open data provides a powerful way to publish data on the Web. However, most publishers still choose to publish their data in tabular formats. Whereas tools for transforming tabular data to linked data are useful, ...

Semantic Enrichment, a lower-case approach to the Semantic Web, can be defined as adding contextual information to existing content in order to enable classification, disambiguation, indexing and data repurposing. Direct ...

Using MAP-Elites and Intelligent Trial and Error to search for adjusted features that can adapt the robot to changes in the environment

Denne masteren er et eksempel på hvordan å designe en fysisk gjenstand for et individ med psykisk utviklingshemning, som bruker intrinsic motisvasjon igjennom dets fysiske design, for å gjøre kommunikasjon mellom brukeren ...

We present a new major release of the OpenSubtitles collection of parallel corpora. The release is compiled from a large database of movie and TV subtitles and includes a total of 1689 bitexts spanning 2.6 billion sentences ...

Multiobjective pathfinding is an extremely computationally expensive problem, yet it is important for many applications. Classical algorithms fail as the complexity of the environment increases, and we must look to other ...

In this paper, we argue that the technology design needs to take a more holistic perspective, well beyond opportunities offered by the technology development alone. This is especially important when developing technologies ...

The public space is often offset for young people, where bold and complex routines usually may result in more or less functional solutions, sometimes even in unpleasant design. More than ever the future depends on the ...

The use of robots in health care has increased dramatically over the last decade. One area of research has been to use robots to conduct ultrasound examinations, either controlled by a physician or autonomously. This paper ...

Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful business in the mass market. However, the environment is under immense strain to sustain hyper-consumption driven lifestyles fuelled ...

Cardiac ultrasound is a key component in modern cardiology, and is widely used to assess and quantify the heart’s anatomy and function. In the past two decades, real-time 3-dimensional ultrasound has emerged as a promising ...

Identity and authentication solutions often lack usability and scalability, or do not provide high enough authentication assurance. The concept of Lucidman (Local User-Centric Identity Management) is an approach to providing ...

With the emergence of the Web of Data, there is a need of tools for searching and exploring the growing amount of semantic data. Unfortunately, such tools are scarce and typically require knowledge of SPARQL/RDF. We propose ...