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2011

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Smart specialisation is a policy concept that has enjoyed a short but very exciting life! Elaborated by a group of academic “experts” in 2008, it very quickly made a significant impact on the policy audience, particularly in Europe. Such a success story in ...

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The Bounded Confidence Model Of Opinion Dynamics

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Javier Gomez Serrano

The bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics, introduced by Deffuant et al, is a stochastic model for the evolution of continuous-valued opinions within a finite group of peers. We prove that, as time goes to infinity, the opinions evolve globally into ...

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Probabilistic risk assessment of urban stormwater discharge

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Nathalie Chèvre Rossi

Urban stormwater is an important source of detrimental impacts for receiving waters. Discharges from separated or combined sewer systems are recognized as a major contamination input to the environment. Moreover, these discharges may impact the morphologic ...

2010

Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information

We analyze theoretically and empirically the implications of information asymmetry for equilibrium asset pricing and portfolio choice. In our partially revealing dynamic rational expectations equilibrium, portfolio separation fails, and indexing is not opt ...

2010

Fisher Kernels and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Models

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Tasks that rely on semantic content of documents, notably Information Retrieval and Document Classification, can benefit from a good account of document context, i.e. the semantic association between documents. To this effect, the scheme of latent semantic ...

EPFL2010

On the Limits of Perceptually Optimized JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Lutz Goldmann, Denis Filimonov

The study presented in this paper aims at quantifying the empirical limits of JPEG optimization, when the compressed stream is standard compliant and only the quantization tables are optimized. Image-dependent quantization tables, which minimize the bitrat ...

2010

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Spatial mobility has often been considered a detrimental factor for families for various reasons, stemming from increasing stress, unpredictability of daily life, increasing gender inequalities, and decreasing investment in parenting and partnerships due t ...

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