The American Cancer Society estimated that 39,610 new cases of rectal cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 2015. Surgery is the primary treatment for rectal cancer, with the majority of patients undergoing sphincter-preserving surgery with low anterior resection. Although low anterior resection can prevent patients from having a permanent colostomy, bowel dysfunction may occur in 60% t...

As ever-larger knowledge bases (KBs) are being built, knowledge sharing becomes an aspect of paramount importance in Knowledge Base Management Systems (KBMSs). In this paper, we propose a way of controlling knowledge sharing by means of the LARS (Locks using Abstraction Relationships’ Semantics) approach for concurrency control in KBs. LARS synchronizes transactions through many different granu...

Professor Lars Mehlum er tildelt Schizofrenidagenes ærespris for sin forskning og sitt arbeid mot stigma.