Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common, but severely under-diagnosed sleep disorder characterized by repeated periods of reduced or paused breathing during sleep. Polysomnography (PSG) is the gold standard for the ...

Continuity of health care has in recent years received increased attention. To achieve ‘seamless’ care over time and across service providers, and to reducing redundancy related to duplicated information in parallel systems, ...

With more and more people getting older and needing extra medical attention, robots may be a way of helping them live independently at home longer. Robots in the home, however, can gather lots of personal information about ...

Background There is a need for validated clinical risk scores to identify patients at risk of severe disease and to guide decision-making during the covid-19 pandemic. The National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely ...

Sixty years have passed since neurosurgeon Nils Lundberg presented his thesis about intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, which represents a milestone for its clinical introduction. Monitoring of ICP has since become a ...

With a global decline in fish stocks and a growing demand for seafood, there is a need for non-intrusive technological systems that can improve automatic data collection for conservation efforts and economic efficiency in ...

Background Targeted client communication (TCC) using text messages can inform, motivate and remind pregnant and postpartum women of timely utilization of care. The mixed results of the effectiveness of TCC interventions ...

Design thinking has recently emerged as a powerful approach to innovation. Its ability to transform products, services, and organizations has been broadly discussed in the literature. However, how to implement the approach ...

Background Graph-based reference genomes have become popular as they allow read mapping and follow-up analyses in settings where the exact haplotypes underlying a high-throughput sequencing experiment are ...

In today’s hypercompetitive market, companies are forced to be creative and innovate in order to survive. Digital technology has brought new possibilities for organisations as well as enabled thousands of start-ups to enter ...

Ontology-based visual query systems enable users to construct ad-hoc queries in a way that is intuitive, and which allows them to receive feedback directly from the system interface. In this query construction setting, ...

Background Advances in whole genome sequencing strategies have provided the opportunity for genomic and comparative genomic analysis of a vast variety of organisms. The analysis results are highly dependent on the quality ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology that is driving the connection of billions of devices around the world. Because these devices are often resource‐constrained and very heterogeneous, this presents unique challenges. ...

Following the highly pervasive and effective use of agile methods for software development, attention has now turned to the much more difficult challenge of applying these methods in large scale, organization-wide development. ...

The structure and performance of neural networks are intimately connected, and by use of evolutionary algorithms, neural network structures optimally adapted to a given task can be explored. Guiding such neuroevolution ...

Refactoring is the practice of changing code without altering its behavior. Rust is a language with an ownership model where lifetimes are statically resolved and it has macro support. In this thesis we develop algorithms ...

How do configurations of humans and algorithms evolve as firms adopt artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and what are the implications for work and organization? We explored these questions through a two-year long ...

Predicting the future using deep learning is a research field of increasing interest. The majority of contributions concern architectural designs for predictive models, however, there is a lack of established evaluation ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user-centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg digital ledelse i digitaliseringen av en offentlig helseinformasjonsinfrastruktur. Litteraturen om informasjonsinfrastrukturer brukes som grunnlag for å forstå casen i studien. Det trekkes frem ...

This thesis investigates the application of the User Centered Design (UCD) methodology into the existing work practices of an organization that specializes in implementing generic software. Specifically, it focuses on the ...

It is almost impossible to visit a website today that does not have tracking tools implemented. Either for the purpose of analytics or for advertising, data is being collected about us on virtually every website. This ...

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a data transmission technology featuring high bandwidth, low latency, and low computational overhead. RDMA can be used to transmit data between applications running on interconnected ...

This master thesis is an empirical investigation of learning with technology in an introductory design course at the University of Oslo and its students. The overarching goal of the thesis is to make design considerations ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan personer velger et digitalt verktøy, og hvordan design kan bidra til å forenkle denne valgprosessen. Oppgaven ser på eksisterende litteratur innenfor interaksjonsdesign, valgmønstre og ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically include thousands of resource-constrained sensors to monitor their surroundings, collect data, and transfer it to remote servers for further processing. Although WSNs are considered ...

Designing robots by hand is often both costly and time consuming. In order to create robots automatically, without the need for human intervention, it is necessary to optimise both the behaviour and the body design of the ...

Nettsteder blir en stadig viktigere forretningskanal for kommersielle selskap, og antall nettbrukere er sterkt økende. Med denne bakgrunnen har jeg undersøkt to problemstillinger: Hvilke krav bør stilles til IT-styringen ...

Software design patterns are high-level design solutions to common occurring problems within software development. The topic of this study is the relationship between design patterns and modern programming languages, and ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan personer velger et digitalt verktøy, og hvordan design kan bidra til å forenkle denne valgprosessen. Oppgaven ser på eksisterende litteratur innenfor interaksjonsdesign, valgmønstre og ...

I denne masteroppgaven blir det presentert en beskrivelse av hvordan Kjernejournal systemet har blitt utviklet, implementert og tatt i bruk og hvordan komplekse nettverk med menneskelige og ikke-menneskelig aktører former ...

THIS STUDY REPORTS ON AN EXPERIMENT THAT tested whether drummers systematically manipulated not only onset but also duration and/or intensity of strokes in order to achieve different timing styles. Twenty-two professional ...

Background: As the industry of software engineering often requires the employees to work in a team setting using agile methods, it is important to teach bachelor students of software engineering these skills. Courses that ...

Automated essay scoring (AES) of student essays aims to train an AES model by applying machine learning (ML) techniques to predict grades on essays written by students in, i.e. a primary school setting. There are many ...

This thesis analysis the effects of software coding errors on cybersecurity by using static code analysis tools. Software coding errors can have different types of effect ́s on cybersecurity. The research is done from a ...

With the advent of high-density multi-electrode arrays we are now able to measure the activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously, even at the sub-cellular level. However, next-generation devices introduce novel grand ...

Data is underdetermined when there are variables whose values are unknown and the legal instantiations of these variables depend on given factors and the corresponding domain knowledge. The problem of instantiating the ...

Quality information on vulnerable children is intrinsic for making evidence-based decisions at the macro, meso and micro level, impacting millions of children’s personal development. However, a contemporary lack of information ...

Automated essay scoring (AES) of student essays aims to train an AES model by applying machine learning (ML) techniques to predict grades on essays written by students in, i.e. a primary school setting. There are many ...

Design patterns in software engineering is a useful concept for developers to solve a software design problem in a specific context. With the advent of mobile devices and mobile application development, the demand for ...

With the number of devices connected to the internet increasing rapidly, we have entered an immense computerized uprising of the Internet of Things (IoT) era. The popularity of IoT systems and devices makes the security ...

Background: Coordination is a crucial aspect of agile software development. Managing dependencies is important for efficient coordination. Understanding what activities and artifacts manage different dependencies can help ...

A large amount of health data is gathered through various health institutions all over the world. The District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) is a Health Management Information System (HMIS) used in over 100 countries. ...

Smartphones are personal, handheld, mobile devices that are Internet-enabled and intended to be “always-on”. Unfortunately, the possibilities of a smartphone are limited when compared to a desktop/laptop computer. The web ...

The number of services that connect to the Internet is steadily increasing. Applications integrate with each other more than ever before. As such, the possible attack surface of a given entity is ever increasing as well. ...

Background The human microbiota contributes to health and well-being. Antimicrobials (AM) have an immediate effect on microbial diversity and composition in the gut, but next to nothing is known about their long-term ...

Background The dementia subtype idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) has unknown etiology, but one characteristic is elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) wave amplitudes in those individuals who respond with ...

The aim of this study was the analysis of the risk associated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients undergoing non-elective operations on the proximal aorta due to aortic disease.Methods and resultsData from ...

The study focuses on fragmented information awareness as a result of the cross-use of Digital Learning Environments (DLEs), rather than focusing on the use of individual Learning Management Systems (LMSs). This study goes ...

This paper analyzes work activity in the home, e.g., cleaning, performed by two actors, a human and a robot. Nowadays, there are attempts to automate this activity through the use of robots. However, the activity of cleaning, ...

Machine Learning (ML) models have proven to perform well in a broad range of prediction challenges. However, ML models require discriminating data to learn patterns and be capable of performing predictions. In this master ...

The objective of this thesis is to examine how the information security is managed surrounding a District Health Information System, version 2 (DHIS2) in the health service of an anonymous developing country. The developing ...

The heavy workload at highly busy health facilities in the rural and semi-rural areas in Malawi makes the regular work routines extra hard for the health workers. Many of those areas use fully paper-based systems that ...

While mobile technology has massive potential in improving health-related data collection and management in developing countries, failure rates of such projects are high, and many projects fail to materialize beyond ...

Autoantibodies to transglutaminase 2 (TG2) are hallmarks of celiac disease. To address B cell tolerance and autoantibody formation to TG2, we generated immunoglobulin knock-in (Ig KI) mice that express a prototypical celiac ...

Colorectal cancercolorectal cancer (CRC) is a widespread disease which is a threat to public health. Abnormalities in the colon, like polyps, can become cancerous. It is important to detect polyps early, in order to prevent ...

Background: In precision cancer medicine, the challenge is to prioritize DNA driver events, account for resistance markers, and procure sufficient information for treatment that maintains patient safety. The MetAction ...

EVA er hovedstøttesystemet for valggjennomføring for kommunene og fylkeskommunene i Norge. Som sådan er det kritisk for samfunnet at systemet oppfører seg som forventet. Ved å bruke formelle metoder kan det påvises at ...

A software ecosystem consists of a shared software platform, where internal and external developers interact to deliver software to customers. Software ecosystems are reliant on external developers creating innovation for ...

Contactless methods for measurement of physiological functions are highly sought after in industry and medicine. Electromagnetic based monitoring systems have shown to be a promising contactless technique for measurements ...

Accurate knowledge of the seabed is of vital importance for many human endeavors. Applications range from safe navigation to climate change models. Swath sonars are a key tool for efficient and high-resolution mapping of ...

Reinforcement learning is a field within machine learning which trains agents to solve problems by trial and error. A reinforcement learning agent interacts with the environment through actions. Depending on the outcome ...

Given the relevance of coordination in the field of global software engineering, this work was carried out to further understand coordination mechanisms. Specifically, we investigated meetings and the collaboration tool ...