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Warm inflation
(Universe;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)I show here that there are some interesting differences between the predictions of warm and cold inflation models focusing in particular upon the scalar spectral index ns and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. The first thing ... -
Waste is a resource: A study on the opportunities in a new solid waste management in Iringa municipality
(MAPD;2012, Master thesis, 2012)Municipal solid waste refers to waste in a solid form, produced in the daily day life of a society such as packaging, food scrapes, grass clippings, clothing, furniture, paper, electronics and so on. It is called municipal ... -
Water Quality Monitoring with Ubiquitous Computing
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)Traditionally, data collected from water quality monitoring systems are typically stored in closed repositories that are not shared with the public. Due to the cost and environmental limitations traditional water quality ... -
Wave functions associated with time-dependent, complex-scaled Hamiltonians evaluated on a complex time grid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-30)We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with themethod of uniform complex scaling and investigate the possibility to evaluate the solution on a complex time grid. With this approach it is possible to calculate ... -
Web accessibility and technology protection measures: Harmonizing the rights of persons with cognitive disabilities and copyright protections on the web
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) obligates State Parties to ensure full and equal access to the web for persons with disabilities. However, copyright law and policy sometimes ... -
Web Accessibility and Web Developer Attitudes Towards Accessibility in Mozambique
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 12768, Conference object, 2021-07-03)People with disabilities are found to be severely affected by barriers in websites and other web services. This paper aims to study the web accessibility issues in Mozambique and to review the factors that contribute to ... -
Web Accessibility for Visually Impaired People: Requirements and Design Issues
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Access to web content continues to be a challenge for the visually impaired, primarily because the needs of such community are very diverse. The access is further hindered by the fact that web designers continue to build ... -
Web-Based Automatic Feedback on Assignments in Statistics : How Can it Help Students Learn Statistics and Universities Reduce Costs?
(International Journal of Engineering Education;26 (3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)A non-experimental study in 2005 suggested that immediate, automatic feedback on assignments helped to increase study motivation as well as pass rate among engineering students attending an introductory course in statistics ... -
A web-based tool to calculate the health profile during the innovation process of new food products
(ACIT;2022, Master thesis, 2022)Food is a basic need in our daily life, and this is why we need to consume healthy foods. Fremtidsmat is a Norwegian food cluster for food and beverage producers, research institutes, and knowledge companies to develop ... -
What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis?
(Sustainability;Volume 14 / Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-13)The irreversible transition towards urban living entails complex challenges and vulnerabilities for citizens, civic authorities, and the management of global commons. Many cities remain beset by political, infrastructural, ... -
What do faculty members know about universal design and digital accessibility? A qualitative study in computer science and engineering disciplines
(Universal Access in the Information Society;Volume 21, issue 2; Special Issue : UAIS 20th Anniversary Issue, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-29)Purpose: Students in higher education are a diverse group comprising people with different backgrounds and abilities. Regulations require that digital learning materials and platforms employed in higher education accommodate ... -
What do low-vision users really want from smart glasses? Faces, text and perhaps no glasses at all?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07-06)Recent advances in low cost wearable computers opens up new possi- bilities for the development of innovative visual aids. A head - mounted display with cameras that capture view s of the physical wor ld, ... -
What do quantum computing students need to know about quantum physics?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Quantum computing is a rapidly developing technology, and we are experiencing an urgent need for experts in the field. However, there is a lack of traditions, research, and development on to what extent, and how, information ... -
What should the Minimum Ventilation Rate Be in a Demand-Controlled Ventilation Strategy?
(Springer Proceedings in Energy;CCC 2018: Cold Climate HVAC 2018, Conference object, 2019)Demand-Controlled Ventilation is emerging as a dominant ventilation strategy in non-residential buildings in Norway. The ventilation airflow rate is controlled between pre-set minimum (Vmin) and maximum (Vmax) values, based ... -
When 2 + 2 should be 5: The summation fallacy in time prediction
(Journal of Behavioral Decision Making;Volume 35, Issue 3, e2265, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)Predictions of time (e.g., work hours) are often based on the aggregation of estimatesof elements (e.g., activities and subtasks). The only types of estimates that can besafely aggregated by summation are those reflecting ... -
When Terms of Service are Longer Than a Shakespeare’s Play: Easing The Understanding of Legal Documents Through a User Experience Design Method
(E&PDE;DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), VIA Design, VIA University in Herning, Denmark. 9th -10th September 2021, Conference object, 2021)Whenever users use an internet service, they agree to its terms of service and privacy policy describing how their personal data will be managed. The complexity of managing this process is often overlooked, and users rarely ... -
Where are the students? A study of Norwegian technology students’ perceptions of emerging trends in higher education
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS);Volume 12555, Conference object, 2020-11-18)Teachers in higher education in Norway have over the last decade reported reduced physical attendance in lectures, students not using the textbooks, and low academic performance. Also, there is an intensified institutional ... -
Where the Gaps Lie: Ten Years of Research into Collaboration on BIM-Enabled Construction Projects
(Construction Economics and Building;Vol. 17, No. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)A BIM-enabled Construction Project (BIMCP) refers to a project involving relevant BIM tools to generate, exchange and manage project data between project participants. Success in delivering BIMCPs largely relies on how ... -
Where was that photo taken? : deriving geographical information from image collections based on temporal exposure attributes
(Multimedia Systems;16 (4-5), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-05-14)This paper demonstrates a novel strategy for inferring approximate geographical information from the exposure information and temporal patterns of outdoor images in image collections. Image exposure is reliant on light ... -
White-box Fuzzing RPC-based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a communication protocol to support client-server interactions among services over a network. RPC is widely applied in industry for building large-scale distributed systems, such as Microservices. ...