Background The genetic mechanisms for families who meet the clinical criteria for Lynch syndrome (LS) but do not carry pathogenic variants in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes are still undetermined. We aimed ...

Background Although chemo-immunotherapy has led to an improved overall survival for most B-cell lymphoma types, relapsed and refractory disease remains a challenge. The malaria drug artesunate has previously ...

Thanks to the popularity of mobile devices a large number of location-based services (LBS) have emerged. While a large number of privacy-preserving solutions for LBS have been proposed, most of these solutions do not ...

Background In kindreds carrying path_BRCA1/2 variants, some women in these families will develop cancer despite testing negative for the family’s pathogenic variant. These families may have additional ...

Background The consequences of lifestyle-related disease represent a major burden for the individual as well as for society at large. Individual preventive health checks to the general population have been ...

Background Pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases can be tracked by studying the causality relationships among the factors contributing to its development. We could, for instance, hypothesize on the connections ...

Background Mammography screening is used to detect breast cancer at an early treatable stage, reducing breast cancer mortality. Traditionally, breast cancer has been seen as a disease with only progressive ...

Background The ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) belongs to a large teleost family containing more than 600 species showing several unique evolutionary traits such as lack of stomach and hermaphroditism. ...

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

This thesis develops document-level sentiment analysis for Norwegian. First we present the Norwegian Review Corpus (NoReC) -- the first publicly available sentiment dataset for Norwegian, consisting of over 35,000 reviews ...

This thesis describes, discusses, and critically examines how Research through Design was used in an Interaction Design research project to produce design-relevant knowledge. The project focused on exploring and understanding ...

Background Increased availability of genome assemblies for non-model organisms has resulted in invaluable biological and genomic insight into numerous vertebrates, including teleosts. Sequencing of the ...

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The recent surge in research towards general artificial intelligence has produced a wealth of promising techniques, which when utilized for traditional robotics tasks can give rise to new and interesting algorithms. This ...

PHP is a leading server-side scripting language for developing dynamic web sites. Given the prevalence, PHP applications have become the common targets of attacks. One cannot rely on the programmers alone to deliver a ...

The research into extrinsic calibration of LiDAR with a stereo rig has been relatively dormant. Meanwhile, the sensor combination has seen a surge in popularity due to their strengths in usage on autonomous vehicles. In ...

With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), there is growing number of interconnected devices being developed with concerning security vulnerabilities. Consequently we are ex- periencing attacks and breaches that are ...

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 ...

Wind turbines are increasing in popularity as a power source around the world, and are among the cheapest sources of energy. They introduce problems related to the volatile nature of the wind, and the uncertainty of the ...

All software development today is engineered by some form of delivery pipeline regardless of there nature. Within this paradigm of release engineering which may or may not be continuously integrated, there within lies the ...

The GI Working Group“Programming Languages and Computing Concepts” arranges since 1984 each spring a workshop in the the “Physikzentrum Bad Honnef” (a convention centre of the German Physical Society). The meeting serves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In this thesis, we aim to find suitable automatic evaluation metrics for evaluating topic models in the Aftenposten news domain. We review and experiment with six evaluation metrics from previous research which are potentially ...

In today's digital world cloud computing is key and it is growing. At the same time we are trying to maximize resource utilization. Running big, old general-purpose operating systems on virtual machines in the cloud is not ...

By default, the Linux network stack is not configured for high-speed large file transfer. The reason behind this is to merely save memory resources. We may tune the Linux network stack by increasing network buffers size ...

Existing bicycle locks do not meet current security requirements. A bicycle is for many people a big investment that very often ends up like an inventory in the entrance, storage room, bedroom or living room. However, the ...

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 ...

Mental health is an important part of how we perceive our state of well-being. It is this state that help us tackle the positive and negative obstacles that life bring. When bad mental health becomes a problem, it can ...

This thesis addresses the topic of how an information system can be used in another domain than that of its origin. Previous research has emphasized how some software packages are designed to work across different organizations ...

Reinforcement learning is a research field concerned with automatically solving problems by trial and error. With each trial, a reinforcement learning agent extracts information about the problem. The agent can choose to ...

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

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

With the ever growing server density and infrastructures encompassed in data centers, heat generation and power dissipation has increased drastically. This has brought a serious impact on system performance and reliability. ...

Post translational modifications (PTMs) are chemical modifications to proteins that regulate many protein functions. Recently, PTMs found on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) bound epitopes specific to cancer cells have become ...

One LBE to rule them all and to the deadline bind them

The field of medicine has a history of adopting new technology. Video equipment and sensors are used to visualize areas of interest in the human allowing for doctors to make diagnoses based on imagery observations. However, ...

Denne oppgaven handler om Universell Utforming av IKT og drøfter om simuleringer av funksjonsnedsettelser kan være en nyttig måte å oppdage tilgjengelighetsproblemer på og å skape empati. Jeg har intervjuet front-end ...

For å forhindre smitte på et sykehus er det viktig med gode hygieneforhold og dermed er det også viktig med gode rutiner på renholdet. For å minke sannsynligheten for smitte er det nødvendig å holde ulike områder så rene ...

In this thesis we have explored the possibility that mutations occurring at DNA-level might coincide and even be the cause of particular gene fusions at the RNA-level, and have created methods of analysis, integrating both ...

Emerging infrastructure-less network architectures such as WSNs consist of devices that perform packet processing in software. General-purpose network simulators do currently not possess models to simulate the intra-node ...

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 ...