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 ...

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 ...

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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Digitalization of the health sector is surrounded by major challenges and frequent turbulence also triggered by the collective ownership attached to public sector campaigns. The main reasons for the extensive challenges ...

User participation in company’s innovation processes is an efficient way for companies to receive customer feedback and it is associated with value for customer-company relationship and for company’s innovation. Innovation ...

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 ...

Tingenes internett tegner et bilde hvor et stadig økende antall nye og eksisterende enheter blir tilkoblet og integrert med internett. Å bruke eksisterende internett infrastruktur gir økt tilgjengelighet og mulighet for ...

Background In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces errors for the image processing algorithms (used in image guided surgery), but also ...

Background The current versions of reference genome assemblies still contain gaps represented by stretches of Ns. Since high throughput sequencing reads cannot be mapped to those gap regions, the regions ...

Digitalisering er blitt et moteord, og kan forstås som å implementere gamle prosesser og prosedyrer i digital form. Hvorfor gjenskape stearinlys i ny teknologi? Hvorfor ikke aktivere helt nye prosesser og dermed skape ...

The goal for this thesis is to optimize an SQL Engine called Apache Drill that sits on top of a distributed file system, for more cost-effective big data handling, business intelligence and advanced analytics. To achieve ...

The challenge addressed in this paper consists in offloading packet-based pacing to a hardware Network Interface Card, while retaining the flexibility of software timers. In this direction, we propose, design, implement, ...

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 ...

RoboJam is a machine-learning system for generating music that assists users of a touchscreen music app by performing responses to their short improvisations. This system uses a recurrent artificial neural network to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identity today has become a complex issue. An average user of the Internet has accounts on several services, and several traces of use are gathered by large companies. However, the same companies are using Artificial ...

A maritime simulator is a training and research platform for marine operations. Such simulators are frequently used to prepare marine operators for maritime industries in western Norway. Although maritime simulators were ...

The study argues that state-led development reforms are the preconditions necessary for structural transformation and long-term, large-scale health information systems (HIS) digitalization in developing countries. However, ...

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 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 Chemotherapeutic agents such as anthracyclines and taxanes are commonly used in the neoadjuvant setting. Bevacizumab is an antibody which binds to vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Nowadays there is an increasing amount of technology used to improve businesses. An important aspect of the business is planning on how to use available resource effectively to gain profit. As an example of a business ...

There is implicit trust involved when using computer software. Open-source software attempts to inspire more trust, by giving access to the source code. Nevertheless, malicious compilers or someone with malicious intent ...

Some data transfers on the Internet today don't need to complete their transmission as early as possible, yet they may still benefit from a loose guarantee of timeliness. Examples include online backups, non-critical system ...

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 ...

Medisinsk forskning har behov for deltakere. Uten nok deltakere og et representativt utvalg kan det føre til et seleksjonsbias. Dette vil redusere muligheten for generalisering av resultatene (Agoritsas, Deom, & Perneger, ...

Insider threats constitute a major problem for many organizations. Traditional security mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls, do not represent optimal solutions for insider threat detection and ...

We use dependency triples automatically extracted from a Web-scale corpus to perform unsupervised semantic frame induction. We cast the frame induction problem as a triclustering problem that is a generalization of clustering ...

Recent years have witnessed a surge of publications aimed at tracing temporal changes in lexical semantics using distributional methods, particularly prediction-based word embedding models. However, this vein of research ...

Laparoscopic surgery has a limited field of view. Laser ablation in a laproscopic surgery causes smoke, which inevitably influences the surgeon's visibility. Therefore, it is of vital importance to remove the smoke, such ...

This paper explores the role of design and use of digital feedback mechanisms in domestic autonomous devices. We explore this in relation to elderly’s trust towards robots. Specifically, the paper reflects on a case study ...

In this thesis, we make and evaluate procedures for converting between different lexical semantic representations. We implement three different methods for converting from vector space models to graph models: the threshold ...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common, but severely under- diagnosed sleep disorder characterized by recurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. It is our long-term goal to allow people to perform ...

Evaluation of Distributed Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems is a rather challenging task. To simplify this task, we developed the open simulation framework for Distributed CEP, called DCEP-Sim. The goal of this tutorial ...

Nested virtualization enables a virtual machine, which is a software layer representing an execution environment, to be placed inside another virtual machine. Nested virtual machines form a location hierarchy where virtual ...

In this work I detail the compilation of a unique corpus of Norwegian court decisions. I utilize this corpus to train several different machine learning models to produce dense semantic vectors for both words and documents. ...

This paper presents a novel CMOS-based system-onchip with a 78 × 56 ion-sensitive field-effect transistor array using in-pixel quantization and compensation of sensor nonidealities. The pixel integrates sensing circuitry ...

In ontology-based data access (OBDA), databases are connected to an ontology via mappings from queries over the database to queries over the ontology. In this paper, we define an ASP-based semantics for mappings from ...

This paper gives an example-driven introduction to modelling and analyzing virtualized systems in, e.g., cloud computing, using virtually timed ambients, a process algebra developed to study timing aspects of resource ...

Modern passports—as well as several other ID and travel documents—are so called electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTD). These are documents that conform to Doc 9303, a specification published by the International ...

Concerns have been raised regarding the economical viability for each operator to have a full regional 5G coverage. A possible solution is to have traffic offloaded to competitors. In this work we present a new scheme for ...

This thesis is an exploratory study based on a participatory design project that unfolded at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology during 2017 and early 2018. In this project, four museum researchers engaged with ...

Integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into Smart Homes is currently quite cumbersome. This thesis presents a novel approach on integrating energy devices, e.g. washing machines, heat pumps and other devices into ...

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) mediates the toxic effects of dioxin (2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; TCDD), which includes thymic atrophy, steatohepatitis, and a lethal wasting syndrome in laboratory rodents. ...

Globalization is affecting our daily life more and more every day. In addition to affecting every and each person, it is also affecting businesses around the globe and to cope with it managers and other decision-makers ...

In this paper, we examine the role of IT in process innovations related to patient flow from emergency care admission, through subsequent patient transfers, and discharge. In particular, we explore how digital technology ...

Image guided surgery systems aim to support surgeons by providing reliable pre-operative and intra-operative imaging of the patient combined with the corresponding tracked instrument location. The image guidance is based ...

Energy usage in LTE base stations are driven by spectral efficiency and traffic. To predict the energy usage these parameters must be forecasted. In this work we analyse hourly measurements collected from more than 12000 ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is currently working to eliminate malnutrition and stunting in children less than five years. The backbone of this project has been the development of the Rwandan Fortified Blended Foods ...

The aim of this paper is to elucidate the implications of quantum computing in present cryptography and to introduce the reader to basic post-quantum algorithms. In particular the reader can delve into the following subjects: ...

Gjennom forskning har det blitt vist at modulær smarttelefon er en smarttelefon sammensatt av ulike moduler på en plattform. Modulær smarttelefon er ment for at brukere kan beholde sine smarttelefoner lenger ved å bytte ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the highest rates reported for Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. We provide a global snapshot of the CRC patterns, how screening ...

Stadig flere selskaper tar nå i bruk skytjenester. Det er denne veien markedet beveger seg, noe som tvinger kundene etter. Det er klare forretningsmessige og teknologiske fordeler ved å ta i bruk skytjenester. Dette studiet ...

In recent years, there has been increased attention on the possible impact of future robotics and AI systems. Prominent thinkers have publicly warned about the risk of a dystopian future when the complexity of these systems ...

In this work, we study different types of uncertainty in subjective opinions based on the internal belief mass distribution and the base rate distribution. Subjective opinions which are used as arguments in subjective logic ...

This thesis is an exploratory study of technology use among the elderly. The study is part of the MECS (Multimodal Elderly Care Systems) project. As part of the study, qualitative data has been collected using multiple ...

Background: New data on extracranial carotid atherosclerosis are needed, as improved ultrasound techniques may detect more atherosclerosis, the definition of plaque has changed over the years, and better cardiovascular ...

Secure software development represents a fundamental part of ‘security by design’ which in turn is a prerequisite for ‘privacy by design’ in the terminology of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). To follow and adhere ...

We examine how robot movement can help human-robot interaction in the context of a robot helping people over 60-years old at home. Many people are not familiar with a robot moving in their home. We present four movement ...

Ontologies are a powerful mechanism to structure domains of interest. They have successfully been applied in medical domain, industry and other important areas. Despite the simplicity of ontological vocabularies that consist ...

Individually personalized computational models of heart mechanics can be used to estimate important physiological and clinically‐relevant quantities that are difficult, if not impossible, to directly measure in the beating ...

By offering high sequencing speed and ultra-high-throughput at a low price, Illumina next-generation sequencing platforms have been widely adopted in recent years. However, an experiment with multiplexed library could be ...

In this paper, we empirically evaluate the utility of transfer and multi-task learning on a challenging semantic classification task: semantic interpretation of noun--noun compounds. Through a comprehensive series of ...

KRAS mutation is a well‐known marker for poor response to targeted treatment and patient prognosis in microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC). However, variation in clinical outcomes among patients wild‐type ...

This paper presents the Norwegian Review Corpus (NoReC), created for training and evaluating models for document-level sentiment analysis. The full-text reviews have been collected from major Norwegian news sources and ...

The elderly in the future will use smart house technology, sensors, and robots to stay at home longer. Privacy at home for these elderly is important. In this exploratory paper, we examine different understandings of privacy ...

Background: Molecular indicators of colorectal cancer prognosis have been assessed in several studies, but most analyses have been restricted to a handful of markers. We aimed to identify prognostic biomarkers for colorectal ...

This study examines modalities of generating and providing automated formative feedback to Computer Science undergraduate students ’and their experiences with the system and the received feedback. A software for automated ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common but severely under-diagnosed sleep disorder that affects the natural breathing cycle during sleep with the periods of reduced respiration or no airflow at all. It is our long-term ...

We present ctrlTCP, a method to combine the congestion controls of multiple TCP connections. In contrast to the previous methods such as the Congestion Manager, ctrlTCP can couple all TCP flows that leave one sender, ...

Knowledge Graphs have recently gained a lot of attention and have been successfully applied in both academia and industry. Since KGs may be very large: they may contain millions of entities and triples relating them to ...

With this contribution we present some recent developments made to Rucio, the data management system of the High-Energy Physics Experiment ATLAS. Already managing 300 Petabytes of both official and user data, Rucio has ...