This paper empirically explores the importance of social capital for the integration of Health Information Systems (HISs) by drawing a case study from Gujarat state of India HIS integration initiative. In light of the main ...

Inspired by animals ability to learn and adapt to changes in their environment during life, hybrid evolutionary algorithms which include local optimization between generations have been developed and successfully applied ...

It is not a hidden fact that, in today s wireless and cellular networks, businesses and end users have clearly become dependent on mobility and the freedom of being always online. Smart phones, tablets and other devices ...

We present an in-depth analysis of Curriculum Vitae documents consisting of unstructured text. We present a collection of Curriculum Vitae Topics with description. We introduce an ontology that gives a formal description ...

This thesis is about the relations between humans and machines, or more precisely, between humans and automation by way of ICTs. Automation can increase both human autonomy as well as human dependence on automation. While ...

PSNR is to this day the most common metric used to measure video quality, despite having been shown for decades to do so with very limited accuracy. Better metrics have been standardised, but their implementations are ...

This dissertation is organized as a collection of papers, where each paper represents original research contributions relating to the design and analysis of ultra low power CMOS, with a particular emphasis on ultra low ...

In this thesis, we propose a new method for finding Topologically Associating Domains, which are contiguous segments of chromatin, ranging in size from thousands to millions of base pairs. These domains, which are apparent ...

IncludeOS is developed as a minimal, specialized operating system for running in a cloud platform. Through this Thesis we focus on utilizing this lightweight operating system to simulate live migration. It helps us to ...

Forsvaret skal gjennom et materiellprosjekt ta frem en kommunikasjonsløsning, Taktisk kommunikasjonsnode, som har behov for et bredt spekter av kommunikasjonstjenester, blant annet en løsning for styring og overvåking. ...

Today, industrial and service robots are used all over the world to handle sim- ple repetitive tasks as well as more complex tasks. Many warehouses use robots for their logistical tasks, while warehouse employees only need ...

The six transmembrane protein of prostate 2 (STAMP2) is an androgen‐regulated gene whose mRNA expression is increased in prostate cancer (PCa). Here, we show that STAMP2 protein expression is increased in human PCa compared ...

This master thesis overviews the fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and their role in future transport. It describes the key challenges in security with a focus on ...

Background Copy number aberrations frequently occur during the development of many cancers. Such events affect dosage of involved genes and may cause further genomic instability and progression of cancer. In this survey, ...

Learning how to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts, and this study addresses the need for sustainable and effective training solutions, and an approach to nurture local users ...

Individuals are nowadays surrounded by several personal multimedia capable devices. On the other hand, the popularity of the multimedia applications is increasing and new application domains are constantly emerging. In ...

The main concern of this thesis is finding optimal ways of obtaining information from software users with a special focus on long-term studies on momentary opinion, meaning the short-term opinion that people have at the ...

We have developed a proof of concept for allowing a PCI Express device attached to one computer to be used by another computer without any software intermediate on the data path. The device driver runs on a physically ...

For at dagens ungdom og fremtidens voksne skal kunne benytte seg av sitt fullstendige helse- og omsorgstilbud, forutsettes det at de kjenner sin helserett. Dette er et komplisert fagfelt som kan være vanskelig og tungt å ...

Fragmentation of health information systems is a common issue in the world today. Aid agencies and other organizations that seek to resolve a problem in developing countries often introduce their own vertical systems which ...

Learning how to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts, and this study addresses the need for sustainable and effective training solutions, and an approach to nurture local users ...

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from ...

How to improve the learning methods for beginners and students in the earlier stages of learning programming is a matter debated among students, lecturers and developers. This master thesis investigates whether visualisation ...

More and more devices connect to the internet, this means that a lot sensitive information will be stored in various networks. In order to secure this information and manage the large amount of inevitable network traffic ...

Hybrid cloud technology is becoming increasingly popular as it merges private and public cloud to bring the best of two worlds together. However, due to the heterogeneous cloud installation, facilitating a hybrid cloud ...

We have implemented and evaluated an independent implementation of the CAIA Delay-Gradient congestion control in the Linux operating system. We made several adjustments or improvements to the design of CDG in our implementation. ...

Cloud computing is one of the most discussed areas in computer science in the last years. Although there is an extensive amount of research covering this field, the field of bio-inspired cloud computing is underinvestigated ...

Today, large and complex solutions are needed to provide the services that users require, where cloud-based solutions have been the panacea to help solve this problem. However, these solutions, are complex in the nature ...

As cloud computing and the use of virtual machines (VMs) have become a widespread phenomenon, a wide variety of optimization techniques have been invented for this field. One of them is live migration, which enables ...

This paper is concerned with how two design processes that are seemingly very similar, human-computer interaction design and design thinking, affect innovation in the context of an academic library. Twenty different ...

A comparison against dirty checking and KVO. This thesis explores the use of virtual DOM to render application content to the DOM.The method will be compared against the main rendering alternatives of today, dirty checking ...

The paper describes the philosophy, design, functionality, and usage of the Python software toolbox Chaospy for performing uncertainty quantification via polynomial chaos expansions and Monte Carlo simulation. The paper ...

Non-sterile pathogen-induced sepsis and sterile inflammation like in trauma or ischemia–reperfusion injury may both coincide with the life threatening systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multi-organ failure. ...

The amount of data in today's digital world is growing day by day. Visualization is considered as the best form of communication because the human brain perceives it much faster than the text data that comprises with ...

Network troubleshooting is a field where automation is sorely needed. While the network has grown in many other ways since 1960s, the tools we use to troubleshoot and manage it have stayed very much the same. Could we use ...

Object recognition and segmentation of objects is a complex task. Our goal is to develop an algorithm that can recognize and segment wound objects in images. We attempt to solve the object recognition and segmentation ...

This master thesis report from a project where I have been doing Participatory Design in four different classes. The background area is taxes as many youths have problems understanding why this is relevant for them. I have ...

This thesis presents a prototype of a dynamic load balancing algorithm designed for compilation servers. The algorithm takes a user ID and finds the optimal compilation server for the user based on the historical CPU and ...

Creating a chunk structure for Norwegian using the Norwegian Dependency Treebank, and evaluating a genetic algorithm for predicting a chunk structure on sentences

Cloud computing is growing fast and becoming more and more popular. The computing resources such as CPU and memory are becoming cheaper and the servers grow more and more powerful by the time. This enables clouds to host ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg feilanalyse i open-domain spørsmål-svar-systemer. Vi konstruerer et system, analyserer dette for feil og forsøker å automatisere feilanalyseprosessen.

Exploring the Design of Authentication With Teenage Patients

This work suggests a method to study mutual shaping between technologies and law drawing on empirical evidence from two different and simultaneously developing patient-oriented information systems in e-health. The approach ...

When you re using your mobile device, you can connect to several wireless networks at the same time, such as 3G (HSPA) / 4G (LTE) and WiFi. These links could be used at the same time to increase the download speed or make ...

This thesis presents a design companion created by taking key concepts from such games and combining them with state of the art gamification frameworks, the purpose of which is to create collaborative user experiences. The ...

Schistosoma haematobium causes female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which is a poverty-related disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, it is co-endemic with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and biopsies from genital ...

Modern operating systems are increasingly complex and require a large number of individual subsystems and procedures; operators also must cooperate to make them function. In this paper the authors consider usability from ...

Denne oppgaven handler om utfordringer ved å innføre IT-system i organisasjoner. For å forstå slike hendelsesforløp er det ut fra tidligere forskning viktig å studere endring i både teknologi og organisasjon. Videre viser ...

Flerkjerne-prosessorer som grafikkprosessorer (GPUer) og Xeon Phi leverer enorm beregningskraft med et lavt effektforbruk. Denne egenskapen har ført til at slike prosesseringsenheter på kort tid har blitt svært populære ...

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly ...

In this study, we analyzed the prevalence and clone size of BRAF V600E mutation in 209 patients with multiple myeloma and related the results to clinical phenotype, response and survival. Biopsies were screened for BRAF ...

Health Information System (HIS) plays an important role in a country s health system. Within HIS hierarchy, the data is collected from the lowest level and aggregated to the upper levels. Subsequently, the data is expected ...

Introduction Renal cell carcinoma with the distinct type of t(6;11)(p21;q12) translocation (transcription factor EB) is a rare neoplasm. In the present case study, we show for the first time an autophagy ...

Many computing related tasks today require a lot of hardware infrastructure to fulfill requirements and expectations of its users. Physical infrastructure used to serve systems are often organized in several geographically ...

Norsk Denne master oppgaven utforsker mulighetene til en av de mest moderne 3D printerne til dags dato. Ved å lage en hån med dens ligamenter, sener og bein system viser den hvor langt det er mulig å presse teknologien ...

The Bagadus system is a largely automated tool designed to improve athlete performance by combining subsystems for sports analytics, player tracking and video capture, and is currently installed in several Norwegian soccer ...

The primary goals of this thesis was to design and implement a hardware friendly Zynq-based CGP algorithm and investigate the acceleration potential. It was made several attempts to find out if it was possible to increase ...

Systemic inflammation like in sepsis is still lacking specific diagnostic markers and effective therapeutics. The first line of defense against intruding pathogens and endogenous damage signals is pattern recognition by ...

Clustering is a popular technique for explorative analysis of data, as it can reveal subgroupings and similarities between data in an unsupervised manner. While clustering is routinely applied to gene expression data, there ...

Comparative genomics is useful for finding the evolutionary relationships between different organisms. Regions of parallel evolution can be identified, and we can gain a better understanding of evolution and the development ...

In this thesis we will examine how we can make use of Semantic Web technologies, such as RDF, to create an application based on the Representational State Transfer architectural style, with a client that is both generic ...

The paper discusses the use of visual methodologies in the sense-making phases of HCI design processes. The discussion is illustrated through development of a card set, a visual tool, to explore context specific issues ...

In this paper, we explore the possibility of using games as a way of engaging youth in environmentally-oriented participatory art or other cooperative urban projects. Our approach was design-led, and youth participated in ...

This thesis presents new optimisation methods for daily planning in hospitals. Implemented in software, these methods can contribute to shorter waiting times for urgently ill patients, such as cancer patients, as well a ...

This work has been carried out within Optique, a European research project that aims to provide non-IT end users an access to information in large and complex data stores. A prototypical query formulation interface OptiqueVQS ...

The DHIS 2 Academy program provides on-site courses where they train DHIS2 implementers, users and administrators in different locations of the world several times a year. There is a rapid growth for more academies to be ...

Skilled developers are important to the software industry. In empirical studies in software engineering, knowing the skill level of the participants is also important for correct interpretation of results. The current ...

In this paper we tackle the problem of answering SPARQL queries over virtually integrated databases. We assume that the entity resolution problem has already been solved and explicit information is available about which ...

Node selecting tree automata (NSTAs) constitute a general formalism defining unary queries over trees. Basically, a node is selected by an NSTA when it is visited in a selecting state during an accepting run. We consider ...

Sport analytic systems have had an increasing interest in the past few years, with advancements automatizing otherwise tedious and time consuming tasks. However, these systems are still not able to perform semantic analysis ...

The paper presents a qualitative, interview-based study that seeks to describe participants’ perceptions and experiences with information and communication technology. The participants in the study were active people, aged ...

I denne tesen jobber vi med å forbedre BVR og dets verktøy. For å identifisere områder for forbedring har vi gjennomført en analyse av BVR som grafisk språk, i tillegg til å gjennomføre et eksperiment som ser på ...

The main objective of this study was to map global geneexpression in order to provide information about the populations of mRNA species participating in murine tooth development at 24 h intervals, starting at the eleventh ...

Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) is a prominent approach to query databases which uses an ontology to expose data in a conceptually clear manner by abstracting away from the technical schema-level details of the underlying ...

In this thesis the differences between sediment rock and salt diapir textures are discussed, and texture features are used to classify the seismic image pixels into one of two classes. Gray level co-occurrence matrices ...

This paper describes a semi-supervised approach to improving statistical dependency parsing using dependency-based word clusters. After applying a baseline parser to unlabeled text, clusters are induced using K-means with ...

Improving the overall computational time is one of the challenges in scientific computing today. Mathematical models and quantitative analysis techniques are used to solve a big specter of scientific problems. Numerical ...

This thesis discusses on air quality in Oslo and how it has been changed during the time from 2003 to 2013. It also goes through the existing and upcoming technologies for the collection of air quality data. The trend is ...

Strict control of tissue-specific gene expression plays a pivotal role during lineage commit- ment. The transcription factor c-Myb has an essential role in adult haematopoiesis and func- tions as an oncogene when rearranged ...

The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a homeostatic mechanism to maintain endoplasmic reticulum (ER) function. The UPR is activated by various physiological conditions as well as in disease states, such as cancer. As ...