Smart Houses are a prominent field of research referring to environments adapted to assist people in their everyday life. Older people and people with disabilities would benefit the most from the use of Smart Houses because they provide the opportunity for them to stay in their home for as long as possible. In this review, the developments achieved in the field of Smart Houses for the last 16 y...

In a multi-disciplinary effort, we investigate the level of speckle that can be tolerated in a laser cinema projector based on a quality of experience experiment with movie clips shown to a test audience in a real-life movie theatre setting. We identify a speckle disturbance threshold by statistically analyzing the observers' responses for different values of the amount of speckle, which was mo...

This paper distils the experience from seven years of knowledge management at sd&m, a German software company with more than 900 employees. For sd&m, knowledge management is a strategic investment with the goal to acquire the right knowledge, to make it accessible to all employees, and to increase their proficiency. Effective knowledge management depends on the right combination of the key elem...

Selecting the appropriate acquisition mode for a required technology, is one of the critical strategic decisions in formulating a technology strategy. Although a number of factorswere found to be influential in the choice of technology acquisitionmode, it still remains a void in the literature how tomake a strategic decision, based on a huge set of those factorswith the help of a systematic app...

In a large software company in Denmark, much effort was expended capturing metrics about the company’s software operation. The purpose of the metrics program was to change and improve the software operation. Writing software can be understood as a socially constructed practice, which can be analyzed using structuration theory. This structurational analysis showed that the company’s software ope...

Commercially used per- and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been widely detected in humans, but the sources of human exposure are not fully characterized. The objectives of this study were to assess the relative importance of different exposure pathways of PFCs in a group of Norwegians and compare estimated intakes with internal doses obtained through biomonitoring. Individual PFC intakes ...

We used a large panel of pedigreed, genetically admixed house mice to study patterns of recombination rate variation in a leading mammalian model system. We found considerable inter-individual differences in genomic recombination rates and documented a significant heritable component to this variation. These findings point to clear variation in recombination rate among common laboratory strains...

Keeping Watch of Time: The Temporal Impact of the Digital in Cinema Humans are fundamentally analog creatures...Being in digital time differs from analog time in that events in digital time exist without an event horizon. Digital time occurs in sharp breaks and contrasts from one state to another without the flow of analog time, such as the slow procession of a sunset or the transition from a w...

The house mouse is probably the most widespread invasive mammalian species, being ubiquitous worldwide. In commensal situations, they are known mainly for property damage, for consumption and contamination of stored foods, as a noise/sanitation/odor nuisance, and as a vector of some diseases. In some field settings, they also cause considerable damage to field crops and to natural resources, su...