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Publications associées (19)

United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities

John Richard Walker, Taylor Howard Newton, Francesco Casalegno

Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021

The perceptual relevance of balance, evenness, and entropy in musical rhythms

Steffen Alexander Herff

There is an uncountable number of different ways of characterizing almost any given real-world stimulus. This necessitates finding stimulus features that are perceptually relevant - that is, they have distinct and independent effects on the perception and ...

ELSEVIER2020

Language Independent Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Dhananjay Ram

Language independent query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) is the problem of retrieving audio documents from an archive, which contain a spoken query provided by a user. This is usually casted as a hypothesis testing and pattern matching problem ...

EPFL2019

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Combine and Conquer

Vincent Etter

In this thesis, we explore the application of data mining and machine learning techniques to several practical problems. These problems have roots in various fields such as social science, economics, and political science. We show that computer science tec ...

EPFL2015

Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state

Maxime Carl Felder

Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 ...

2015

Preclinical combination therapy of the investigational drug NAMI-A(+) with doxorubicin for mammary cancer

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel, Gianni Sava

Aim of the study The tumor metastases targeting ruthenium complex NAMI-A synergistically improves the activity of gemcitabine in combination therapies. High-throughput screening was used to identify other potential drug combinations from a library of FDA a ...

Springer2015

Litter- and ecosystem-driven decomposition under elevated CO2 and enhanced N deposition in a Sphagnum peatland

Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell, Luca Bragazza, Jean-Michel Gobat, Andy Siegenthaler

Peatlands represent massive global C pools and sinks. Carbon accumulation depends on the ratio between net primary production and decomposition, both of which can change under projected increases of atmospheric CO2 and N deposition. The decomposition of li ...

Elsevier2010

Plate for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry for, e.g. analyzing peptide, has substrate that is covered with light sensitive matrix with light absorber, charge carrier, probe molecule and photo-sensitizer

Hubert Girault, Niels Erik Lion, Christophe Roussel, Liang Qiao

NOVELTY - The plate has electrically conductive substrate (1) that is covered with light sensitive matrix (2). The matrix comprises light absorber, charge carrier, probe molecule and photo-sensitizer (3) arranged to oxidize probe molecule by irradiation of ...

2008

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