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Learning to use novel objects: A training study on the acquisition of novel action representations

Michiel van Elk, Christian Pfeiffer

Many studies have suggested that the motor system is organized in a hierarchical fashion, around the prototypical end location associated with using objects. However, most studies supporting the hierarchical view have used well-known actions and objects th ...

2011

Efficient use of accessibility in microRNA target prediction

Jiri Vanicek, Ray Marcel Marin Florez

Considering accessibility of the 3'UTR is believed to increase the precision of microRNA target predictions. We show that, contrary to common belief, ranking by the hybridization energy or by the sum of the opening and hybridization energies, used in curre ...

Oxford University Press2011

Realistic Modeling of 3D Plasmonic Systems

Andreas Kern

Interest in plasmonic nanostructures has recently multiplied due to their extraordinary optical properties. When resonantly excited, these tiny metallic systems exhibit a strong and localized optical field enhancement. Applications exploiting this effect e ...

EPFL2011

What have fruits to do with technology? The case of Orange, Blackberry and Apple.

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

Twitter is a micro-blogging service on the Web, where people can enter short messages, which then become visible to other users of the service. While the topics of these messages varies, there are a lot of messages where the users express their opinions ab ...

ACM2011

OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation

Ali Sengül

We demonstrate five-degree-of-freedom (5-DOF) wireless magnetic control of a fully untethered microrobot (3-DOF position and 2-DOF pointing orientation). The microrobot can move through a large workspace and is completely unrestrained in the rotation DOF. ...

2010

Fair Welfare Maximization

Thomas Alois Weber, Ashish Goel

We consider the general problem of finding fair constrained resource allocations. As a criterion for fairness we propose an inequality index, termed “fairness ratio,” the maximization of which produces Lorenz-undominated, Pareto-optimal allocations. The fa ...

Springer Verlag2009

Representation of Radon Shape Diffusions via Hyperspherical Brownian Motion

Victor Panaretos

A framework is introduced for the study of general Radon shape diffusions, that is, shape diffusions induced by projections of randomly rotating shapes. This is done via a convenient representation of unoriented Radon shape diffusions in (unoriented) D.G. ...

2008

Collaboration in a Video Game : Impacts of Location Awareness

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

This paper presents an experimental research that focuses on collaboration in a multi-player game. The aim of the project is to study the cognitive impacts of awareness tools, i.e. artifacts that allow users of a collaborative system to be aware of what is ...

2007

On canonical representation of convex polyhedra

Stefano Picozzi

Convex polyhedra are important objects in various areas of mathematics and other disciplines. A fundamental result, known as Minkowski-Weyl theorem, states that every polyhedron admits two types of representations, either as the solution set to a finite sy ...

EPFL2005

Toward a Multilevel Cognitive Probabilistic Representation of Space

Roland Siegwart, Adriana Tapus

This paper addresses the problem of perception and representation of space for a mobile agent. A probabilistic hierarchical framework is suggested as a solution to this problem. The method proposed is a combination of probabilistic belief with Object Grap ...

2005