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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Wave-motion modeling and mathematical optimization have a vast variety of applications in research and industry. Marcus Noack, PhD fellow at Simula Research Laboratory, delved deep into the theoretical and numerical ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Cross-domain information exchange is an increasingly important capability for conducting efficient and secure operations, both within coalitions and within single nations. A data guard is a common cross-domain sharing ...

Power consumption of physical and virtual machines is a major challenge for small to larg-scale cloud computing data centers. Hundreds of thousands of physical and virtual machines run in cloud data center which consume ...

Purpose: Chemotherapy-induced alterations to gene expression are due to transcriptional reprogramming of tumor cells or subclonal adaptations to treatment. The effect on whole-transcriptome mRNA expression was investigated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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) ...

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Most Software Product Lines are built from a set of existing products, that is re-engineered into reusable assets following feature location approaches. Traditional feature location approaches target program code, neglecting ...

Down-scaling of the supply voltage is considered as the most effective means of reducing the power- and energy consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). Reduction in the power- and energy consumption is highly beneficial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

In model-driven engineering approaches, models are considered firstclass entities. The composition of models is a necessity for modelling software systems. Structural composition of models has been studied thoroughly during ...

Refactoring is an essential operation in software engineering, with the purpose of improving the structural qualities of software. An emerging trend in software engineering is the use of model-driven approaches in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background and Objective: For more than a decade, computer-assisted surgical systems have been helping surgeons to plan liver resections. The most widespread strategies to plan liver resections are: drawing traces in ...

Background: The potential of mobile health technology is increasing with the development of smartphones. Realizing the potential for specific user groups is something that has not been the focus of either research or ...

Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI) har sammen med Kongsberg Maritime utviklet det autonome undervannsfarkostet (AUV) HUGIN som ved hjelp av ulike sensorer navigerer ubemannet og kartlegger havbunnen ved bruk av sonar og ...

This thesis investigates the issue of change impact analysis in a special case of health information system: the Cancer Registry of Norway. The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) is an institution dedicated to the population-based ...

Most Health Information Systems (HIS) in developing countries are fragmented and characterized by multiple overlapping and/or duplicate sub-HIS. The fragmentation of HIS is further identified by many researchers as the ...

Samtidig som digitaliseringen av tjenester i samfunnet foregår, øker også viktigheten av at disse tjenestene designes og utvikles med tanke på universell utforming. Diskriminerings- og tilgjengelighetsloven skal bidra til ...

The aim of this thesis is to describe advanced computer network operations, investigate the present status of national defence efforts and suggest measures that may improve that status. In the first part, the traits of ...