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Decoding Cognitive States under Varying Difficulty Levels
Understanding cognitive states of human under different difficulty levels is useful in improving human-human and human-machine interactions. For example, a crucial factor in designing games is maintaining the engagement of players. An ideal scenario would ...
EPFL2020Hirability in the wild: Analysis of online conversational video resumes
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen
Online social media is changing the personnel recruitment process. Until now, resumes were among the most widely used tools for the screening of job applicants. The advent of inexpensive sensors combined with the success of online video platforms has enabl ...
2016Online Detection of Selenium and Its Retention in Reducing Gasification Atmosphere
Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino, Mohamed Tarik, Adrian Hess
The emission of selenium from coal gasification processes can cause harm to the environment and downstream equipment. With upcoming legislation, reliable detection as well as control of such gas species become crucial. This study therefore addresses the de ...
American Chemical Society2016A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes
Fabiana Visentin, Annamaria Conti
We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs’ preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on whether pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards are sticky or not, increments in the PhDs’ c ...
Elsevier2015Let Your Body Speak: Communicative Cue Extraction on Natural Interaction Using RGBD Data
Employment interviews are relevant scenarios for the study of social interaction. In this setting, social skills play an important role, even though the interactions between potential employers and candidates are often limited. One fundamental aspect of so ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015Energy Challenges in the Global South
Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...
Springer International Publishing2015Analysis of walking in five Swiss cities: a quantitative and spatial approach
Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Sébastien Munafò
Many European cities are experiencing an apparent shift in mobility patterns. Walking and cycling are becoming increasingly popular, while many households are deciding not to have a car. These trends feed into a new concept of urban proximity, within which ...
2014Cerebral Glucose Transport and Homeostasis
Cerebral glucose homeostasis is maintained by the equilibrium between glucose transport across the blood-brain-barrier (BBB), which occurs through facilitative carriers, and glucose consumption mainly initiated by hexokinase phosphorylation. Glucose concen ...
Springer2012A Mechanism that Provides Incentives for Truthful Feedback in Peer-to-Peer Systems
We propose a mechanism for providing the incentives for reporting truthful feedback in a peer-to-peer system for exchanging services (or content). This mechanism is to complement reputation mechanisms that employ ratings' feedback on the various transactio ...
2010Tools to evaluate future actions on the traffic in Lausanne
Lausanne-Morges agglomeration will experiment strong increases in the number of inhabitants and jobs until 2020. The additional trips generated by these increases will have to be carried out in a larger proportion by soft mobility and transit. There are ma ...
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