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In recent years, due to warmer snow cover, there has been a significant increase in the number of cases of damage caused by gliding snowpacks and glide avalanches. On most occasions, these have been full-depth, wet-snow avalanches, and this led some people ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Low density polyethylene (LDPE) passive samplers for the investigation of PCB point sources in rivers

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Nicolas Estoppey, Julien Omlin, Adrien Schopfer

This study aims to provide a passive sampling approach which can be routinely used to investigate polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) sources in rivers. The approach consists of deploying low density polyeth- ylene (LDPE) strips downstream and upstream of poten ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes

Ivan Dokmanic

A central theme of this thesis is using echoes to achieve useful, interesting, and sometimes surprising results. One should have no doubts about the echoes' constructive potential; it is, after all, demonstrated masterfully by Nature. Just think about the ...

EPFL2015

Discourse-level features for statistical machine translation

Thomas Meyer

Machine Translation (MT) has progressed tremendously in the past two decades. The rule-based and interlingua approaches have been superseded by statistical models, which learn the most likely translations from large parallel corpora. System design does not ...

EPFL2015

The mechanisms of spatial and temporal patterning of cell-edge dynamics

Adherent cells migrate and change their shape by means of protrusion and retraction at their edges. When and where these activities occur defines the shape of the cell and the way it moves. Despite a great deal of knowledge about the structural organizatio ...

Elsevier2015

Sources of noise in Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

This paper presents a thorough study of the different sources of noise affecting Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA), providing a deep insight into the understanding of the fundamental limitations of this kind of sensors. Analytical and experim ...

SPIE2015

Relax and Unfold: Microphone Localization with Euclidean Distance Matrices

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Juri Ranieri

Recent methods for localization of microphones in a microphone array exploit sound sources at a priori unknown locations. This is convenient for ad-hoc arrays, as it requires little additional infrastructure. We propose a flexible localization algorithm by ...

2015

Cold and Controlled Molecular Beams: Production and Applications

Andreas Osterwalder, Justinas Jankunas

The field of cold molecules has become an important source of new insight in fundamental chemistry and molecular physics. High-resolution spectroscopy benefits from translationally and internally cold molecules by increased interaction times and reduced sp ...

Annual Reviews2015

Providing and Optimizing a Robotic Construction Plan for Rescue Operations

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

After a terrible disaster such as an earthquake or a nuclear accident, finding victims and isolating them from hazards are usually the first priorities for rescuers. As the security of rescuers and the stabilization of the environment are critical componen ...

2015

Adaptive noise cancelling systems for acoustic wearable device

Mohamed Ben Arbia

Acoustic noise is present in many environments. Such noise is undesirable and provides a poor listening experience. Active noise cancellation refers to the fact of reducing undesired noise using a cancelling signal emitted trough a secondary source. Many m ...

2015

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