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This repository contains the input data for the paper 'Modelling human activities in a system of cities'. The input data is used to run the DAVE model for Cantons Vaud and Geneva in Switzerland at 500m grid. DAVE (Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions) is a multi-scale agent-based modelling system. It uses a bottom-up approach to model the interactions and feedback between urban form (e.g., building morphology, materials), urban function determined by human activities

Scripting languages like Python, Ruby, or PHP are integral to modern software development. Despite security measures like memory safety and sandboxing, vulnerabilities within these engines can lead to critical issues such as remote code execution or sandbox escapes. A particularly pervasive class of vulnerabilities is callback bugs , which occur when user-defined callbacks violate runtime invariants, such as freeing an object still in use (can be reached through live pointers) or modifying a data structure

The recent emergence of highly pathogenic H5N1- especially clade 2.3.4.4b has led to widespread mortality in poultry and wild birds and has raised significant concerns for the dairy industry and human health. Migratory waterfowl are considered the main source of infection, and we used publicly available surveillance data and bird observation data from continental North America to show clear seasonal signals correlated with waterfowl movement, both on the continental scale and in three of the four flyways. I

Summary During fear learning, animals learn to associate sensory cues (conditioned stimulus, CS) with aversive outcomes, and neurons in several brain areas become entrained to the CS. The posterior insular cortex (pInsCx) contains representations of internal states and sensory cues, amongst them auditory stimuli. Nevertheless, the possibility of plastic encoding of auditory responses in the pInsCx during fear learning, and its underlying synaptic mechanisms have not been addressed. Using single-unit recordi

Movement is not enough considered in architectural design. Whether at the scale of a stage in the Theoretical Statement or at the scale of a river in the Master’s Project, this project counters the control of bodies as the only way of relating to movement, and therefore to life, in urban space; instead, it questions how to stage it. The project proposes to revitalise the Veveyse torrent by giving back to water the unbuilt spaces it used to flow through before industrialisation; this by redesigning the branc

Sequence modeling for signs and gestures is an open research problem. In thatdirection, there is a sustained effort towards modeling signs and gestures as a se-quence of subunits. In this paper, we develop a novel approach to infer movementsubunits in a data-driven manner to model signs and gestures in the frameworkof hidden Markov models (HMM) given the skeleton information. This approachinvolves: (a) representation of position and movement information with measure-ment of hand positions relative to body p

Collaborative “crowd” based open innovation and design as well as funding activities, websites, platforms and projects are becoming increasingly popular. These combine the creativity of people with new enabling technologies like online platforms, rapid prototyping machines, simple Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to design and produce individualised products and services. However, very often these methods and tools are used to produce fun but unsustainable "stuff". How these new Internet and crowd based

In conventional wisdom on crowdsourcing, the number of people define the crowd and maximizing this number is often assumed to be the goal of any crowdsourcing exercise. However, we propose that there are structural characteristics of the crowd that might be more important than the sheer number of participants. These characteristics include (1) growth rate and its attractiveness to the members, (2) the equality among members, (3) the density within provisional boundaries, (4) the goal orientation of the crow

Therapeutic engineered nanoparticles (NPs), including ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) NPs, may accumulate in the lower digestive tract following ingestion or injection. In order to evaluate the reaction of human colon cells to USPIO NPs, th ...

Our approach is based on the multi-sensory integration of the standard theory of neuroscience, where signals of a single object coming from distinct sensory systems are combined. The acquisition steps of signals, filtering, selection and simplification intervening before proprioception, active and predictive perception are integrated into virtual sensors and a virtual environment. We will focus on two aspects: 1) the assignment problem: determining which sensory stimuli belong to the same virtual object and

Accessing and organizing home videos present technical challenges due to their unrestricted content and lack of storyline. In this paper, we propose a spectral method to group video shots into scenes based on their visual similarity and temporal relations. Spectral methods have been shown to be effective in capturing perceptual organization features. In particular, we investigate the problem of automatic model selection, which is currently an open research issue for spectral methods, and propose measures to

Accepted to the International Conference on Engineering Education 18-22 August 2002, Manchester, UK Introducing Flexibility in Traditional Engineering Education by Providing Dedicated Online Experimentation and Tutoring Resources Sylvie Ursulet and Denis Gillet Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) School of Enginerring, ME – Ecublens, CH – 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel: +41 21 693-5168, FAX: +41 21 693-2574 Email: denis.gillet@epfl.ch Abstract The clear distinction we had in the past betw

Accessing and organizing home videos present technical challenges due to their unrestricted content and lack of storyline. In this paper, we propose a spectral method to group video shots into scenes based on their visual similarity and temporal relations. Spectral methods exploit the eigenvector decomposition of a pair-wise similarity matrix and can be effective in capturing perceptual organization features. In particular, we investigate the automatic selection of the number of clusters, which is currently

We propose a system and method for providing a throughput versus delay differentiated service for IP packets. We distinguish two types of traffic: type A and type B. It is expected that type A traffic receives less throughput per flow than type B. On the other hand, type A packets experience considerably smaller delay. The method is intended to be implemented in Internet routers. No bandwidth or buffer reservation is assumed in this system. The service remains a Best Effort service, thus supporting flat

We propose a system and method for providing a ``throughput versus delay'' differentiated service for IP packets. We distinguish two types of traffic: type A and type B. It is expected that type A traffic receives less throughput per flow than type B. On the other hand, type A packets experience considerably smaller delay. The method is intended to be implemented in Internet routers. No bandwidth or buffer reservation is assumed in this system. The service remains a Best Effort service, thus supporting flat

Computer animation may be defined as a technique in which the illusion of movement is created by displaying on a screen or recording on a device a series of individual states of a dynamic scene. The key issue of computer animation is defining motion, commonly known as motion control methods (MCMs). MCMs may be classified according to the nature of the information that is directly manipulated: geometric, physical, or behavioral

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Dataset: Modelling human activities in a system of cities

CrossFit: Demystifying VM Callback Bugs in Interpreters

The spatial and temporal spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in North America: Newton's Cradle hypothesis

CS - plasticity and behavioral-state integration in the posterior insula during auditory fear learning

Staging Movement From Veveyse Territory to Urban Theatres

Data-Driven Movement Subunit Extraction from Skeleton Information for Modeling Signs and Gestures

Radical crowd based open innovation and design for sustainability

DISTINGUISHING “CROWDED” ORGANIZATIONS FROM GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES: IS THREE A CROWD?

Differential stress reaction of human colon cells to oleic-acid-stabilized and unstabilized ultrasmall iron oxide nanoparticles

An artificial life environment for autonomous virtual agents with multi-sensorial and multi-perceptive features

Spectral Structuring of Home Videos

Introducing Flexibility in Traditional Engineering Education by Providing Dedicated on-line Experimentation and Tutoring Resources

On Spectral Methods and the Structuring of Home Videos

Asymmetric Best Effort Service for Packet Networks

Asymmetric Best Effort Service for Packet Networks

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