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This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart ...

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Data set for control of Ge island coalescence for the formation of nanowires on silicon

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This document contains all the data and the details of the analysis used in the manuscript titled " Control of Ge island coalescence for the formation of nanowires on silicon." https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NH00573A ...

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From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the "Accordi dei Garzoni"

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If automatic document processing techniques have achieved a certain maturity for present time documents, the transformation of hand-written documents into well-represented, structured and connected data which can satisfactorily be used for historical study ...

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Interpretable Representation Learning and Evaluation for Abstractive Summarization

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Abstractive summarization has seen big improvements in recent years, mostly due to advances in neural language modeling, language model pretraining, and scaling models and datasets. While large language models generate summaries that are fluent, coherent, ...

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Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

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This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

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Coherent Hole Transport in Selective Area Grown Ge Nanowire Networks

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Exploring Heterogeneous Feature Representation for Document Layout Understanding

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There are increasing interests in document layout representation learning and understanding. Transformer, with its great power, has become the mainstream model architecture and achieved promising results in this area. As elements in a document layout consi ...

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QUAREP-LiMi: A community-driven initiative to establish guidelines for quality assessment and reproducibility for instruments and images in light microscopy

Arne Seitz, Antje Keppler, Andrea Bassi

A modern day light microscope has evolved from a tool devoted to making primarily empirical observations to what is now a sophisticated , quantitative device that is an integral part of both physical and life science research. Nowadays, microscopes are fou ...

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Machine learning based detection of digital documents maliciously recaptured from displays

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik

We used to say “seeing is believing": this is no longer true. The digitization is changing all aspects of life and business. One of the more noticeable impacts is in how business documents are being authored, exchanged and processed. Many documents such as ...

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Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

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In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

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Quantifying Collaboration in Synchronous Document Editing

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Collaborative synchronous writing tools like Google Docs and Etherpad let multiple users edit the same document and see each others edits in near real-time to simplify collaboration and avoid merge-conflicts. These tools are used extensively across many do ...

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Mapping affinities: visualizing academic practice through collaboration

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From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

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Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

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Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

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Elsevier2016

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A Method for Record Linkage with Sparse Historical Data

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza, Yannick Rochat

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GMM-based Handwriting Style Identification System for Historical Documents

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Ensuring Asset Optimization through Ontology-based Modelling of Technical Documentation

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The physical or engineering assets within modern industries have consistently been considered as the core elements of significant value that constitute the backbone for success and overall growth. Ensuring the optimal performance of an asset is a crucial a ...

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