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Early detection, warnings, weak signals and seeds of change: A turbulent domain of futures studies

This paper marks a milestone in a six year research cycle on weak signal analysis and early detection issues in futures studies. While providing a broad view and discussing a variety of contributions on this topic, the aim of this article is to offer a mor ...

2012

Diffusive-type of double diffusion in lakes - a review

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid

This chapter is a contribution in honour of Gerhard H Jirka, who has been fascinated by the amazing variety of small-scale structures that nature surprises us with, particularly in stratified natural waters. Here, we focus on the diffusive regime of double ...

CRC Press2012

An Agent-Based Focused Crawling Framework for Topic- and Genre-Related Web Document Discovery

Nikolaos Pappas

The discovery of web documents about certain topics is an important task for web-based applications including web document retrieval, opinion mining and knowledge extraction. In this paper, we propose an agent-based focused crawling framework able to retri ...

IEEE2012

Long-Distance Indirect Excitation of Nanoplasmonic Resonances

Klaus Kern, Moritz Esslinger, Alexandre Dmitriev

In nanoscopic systems, size, geometry, and arrangement are the crucial determinants of the light-matter interaction and resulting nanoparticles excitation. At optical frequencies, one of the most prominent examples is the excitation of localized surface pl ...

2011

Discovering Routines from Large-Scale Human Locations using Probabilistic Topic Models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Katayoun Farrahi

In this work we discover the daily location-driven routines which are contained in a massive real-life human dataset collected by mobile phones. Our goal is the discovery and analysis of human routines which characterize both individual and group behaviors ...

2011

Educational innovation: an Economist’s perspective

Dominique Foray

In the report, prominent researchers from Scandinavia, the US and Switzerland draw on a variety of perspectives and experiences to discuss the challenges in the field of educational research. The report is based on material from the programme’s conference ...

The Research Council of Norway2011

Generation Typeface Representations: Revisiting Parametric Fonts

Roger Hersch

Outline font technology has long been established as the standard way to represent typefaces, allowing characters to be represented independently of print size and resolution. Although outline font technologies are mature and produce results of sufficient ...

2010

On the reproducibility and anatomical correspondence of DSI tractography

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Reto Meuli, Patric Hagmann, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Leila Cammoun, Xavier Gigandet

Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) is increasingly explored in clinical research. The quantitative value of the DSI technique, however, has still to be established. In this context, a better understanding of the reproducibility and the anatomical corresponde ...

2010

XuvTools: free, fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets

Alessandra Griffa

Current biomedical research increasingly requires imaging large and thick 3D structures at high resolution. Prominent examples are the tracking of fine filaments over long distances in brain slices, or the localization of gene expression or cell migration ...

2009

Measuring the T Wave of the Electrocardiogram; The How and Why

The genesis of the T wave of the electrocardiogram is discussed on the basis of a biophysical model, derived from the underlying electrophysiology. This model is used to scrutinize the commonly-assumed significance of the individual features of this wavefo ...

2009

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