The current app store is minimalistic and gives a minimum of functionality, there are in principle two options, a list of recommended apps and the search function. Where the search function is as good as the user is able to come up with search words. The question then is; is it possible to create a third party app that works as an overlay and give a more useful result. In order to make the problem ...

Background: Reduced muscular strength in the old age is strongly related to activity impairment and mortality. However, studies evaluating the gender-specific association between muscularity and mortality among older adults are lacking. Thus, the objective of the present study was to examine gender differences in the association between muscular strength and mortality in a prospective population-based ...

Collecting data via a questionnaire and analyzing them while preserving respondents' privacy may increase the number of respondents and the truthfulness of their responses. It may also reduce the systematic differences between respondents and non-respondents. In this paper, we propose a privacy- preserving method for collecting and analyzing survey responses using secure multi-party computation. The ...

Today, computers commonly have graphics hardware with a processing power far exceeding that of the main processors in the same machines. Modern graphics hardware consists of highly data-parallel processors, which are user programmable. However, software development utilizing these processors directly is reserved for platforms that require a fair bit of intimate knowledge about the underlying hardware ...

File synchronization- and hosting services is not only an integrated service in everyday life, but also a powerful tool to support business and organizational activities. In order to provide users with a transparent experience, the systems relies on sophisticated mechanisms to create a seamless integration. The problem with these systems is that they are designed for stable network connections with ...

In light of recent years’ exploding data generation in life sciences, increasing downstream analysis capabilities is paramount to address the asymmetry of innovation in data creation contra processing capacities. Many contemporaneously used tools are sequential programs, ofttimes including convoluted dependencies leading to workflows crashing due to misconfiguration, detrimental to both development ...

When working with distributed systems, detecting faults can be a difficult task, as abnormalities isn't necessarily immediately evident by warnings or system crashes. This is especially true with subtle faults, such as variations in performance of a running program, it is not necessarily its own fault, but could rather be from a different source, somewhere in the cluster, using a lot of resources ...

The number of personal computers we use every day has increased significantly the last couple of years, where the common model is a setup where each device has its own storage with separate files and applications. This forces the user to think in a certain way about files and applications, where they are to a degree bound to a device unless the user specifically moves the files, or installs/uninstalls ...

What today's browsers offer in customization, personalization and functionality can be improved. In this thesis a application, in the form of a chrome extension that extends a web browser's functionality, and that offers customization and personalization has been designed and implemented. The functions implemented in the extension simplifies the access and availability of information to the user ...