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Entropy (statistical thermodynamics)

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Configurational entropy of hard spheres

We numerically calculate the configurational entropy Sconf of a binary mixture of hard spheres, by using a perturbed Hamiltonian method trapping the system inside a given state, which requires fewer assumptions than the previous methods (Speedy 1998 Mol.Ph ...

2007

Rational Tuning of Melting Entropies for Designing Luminescent Lanthanide-Containing Thermotropic Liquid Crystals at Room Temperature

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Annina Aebischer

The connection of twelve peripheral and divergent dodecyloxy chains to a central tridentate aromatic binding unit provides the dodecacatenar ligand L11, for which room- temperature mesomorphism is detected. An enthalpically unbalanced large melting entropy ...

2007

Quo vadis thermodynamics and the city: a critical review of applications of thermodynamic methods to urban systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

Cities are complex dynamic entities. From a thermodynamic perspective, they represent open systems, constantly importing and exporting energy and matter across their boundaries; the output invariably being less ordered due to irreversible internal processe ...

2007

Conformational dynamics of bistable RNAs studied by time-resolved NMR spectroscopy

Luc Reymond, Philipp Wenter

The structural transition between two alternate conformations of bistable RNAs has been characterized by time-resolved NMR spectroscopy. The mechanism, kinetics, and thermodynamics underlying the global structural transition of bistable RNAs were delineate ...

2007

Simplifying complex networks

David Gfeller

The framework of complex networks has been shown to describe adequately a wide class of complex systems made up of a large number of interacting units. In this framework, a node is associated to each unit and two nodes are connected by an edge if the two u ...

EPFL2007

Learning Multi-Modal Dictionaries: Application to Audiovisual Data

Pierre Vandergheynst, Rémi Gribonval, Gianluca Monaci, Philippe Jost

This paper presents a methodology for extracting meaningful synchronous structures from multi-modal signals. Simultaneous processing of multi-modal data can reveal information that is unavailable when handling the sources separately. However, in natural hi ...

2006

Multi-stream ASR: An Oracle Perspective

Hervé Bourlard, Hemant Misra

Multi-stream based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems outperform their single stream counterparts, specially in case of noisy speech. The main issues in multi-stream systems are: a) Find the feature streams carrying complementary information, and b ...

2006

Why Are Ionic Liquids Liquid? A Simple Explanation Based on Lattice and Solvation Energies

Paul Joseph Dyson, Corinne Daguenet

We have developed a simple and quant. explanation for the relatively low melting temps. of ionic liqs. (ILs). The basic concept was to assess the Gibbs free energy of fusion (ΔfusG) for the process IL(s) -> IL(l), which relates to the m.p. ...

2006

Diffusivity and configurational entropy maxima in short range attractive colloids

Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Sciortino

We study tagged particle diffusion at large packing fractions, for a model of particles interacting with a generalized Lennard-Jones 2n-n potential, with large n. The resulting short range potential mimics interactions in colloidal systems. In agreement wi ...

2005

Multi-resolution Spectral Entropy Based Feature for Robust ASR

Hervé Bourlard, Hemant Misra, Shajith Ikbal

Recently, entropy measures at different stages of recognition have been used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) task. In a recent paper, we proposed that formant positions of a spectrum can be captured by multi-resolution spectral entropy feature. In th ...

2005

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