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The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations

Robert West, Michele Catasta, Tiziano Piccardi

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a hard task for human ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Assessing Stakeholders’ Interests in Postal Security

Matthias Finger, Toni Antero Männistö

The events of October 2010, where terrorists managed to get explosive devices onboard of three passenger aircrafts and two air freighters, demonstrated weaknesses of the international air cargo and airmail security. Ever since, postal security has gained i ...

2013

Early detection, warnings, weak signals and seeds of change: A turbulent domain of futures studies

Pierre Rossel

This paper marks a milestone in a six year research cycle on weak signal analysis and early detection issues in futures studies. While providing a broad view and discussing a variety of contributions on this topic, the aim of this article is to offer a mor ...

2012

Comment on An additional challenge of Lake Kivu in Central Africa - upward movement of the chemoclines by Finn Hirslund

Alfred Johny Wüest

In a paper published earlier this year, Finn Hirslund suggested to release degassed deepwater from methane harvesting to the surface layer of Lake Kiwi in order to counteract an observed slow rising of the chemoclines in the lake. In this comment, we prese ...

Pagepress Publ2012

Discovering Routines from Large-Scale Human Locations using Probabilistic Topic Models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Katayoun Farrahi

In this work we discover the daily location-driven routines which are contained in a massive real-life human dataset collected by mobile phones. Our goal is the discovery and analysis of human routines which characterize both individual and group behaviors ...

2011

Measuring the T Wave of the Electrocardiogram; The How and Why

The genesis of the T wave of the electrocardiogram is discussed on the basis of a biophysical model, derived from the underlying electrophysiology. This model is used to scrutinize the commonly-assumed significance of the individual features of this wavefo ...

2009

Controlled One- and Multidimensional Modulations Using Chaotic Maps

Martin Hasler, Thomas Schimming, Slobodan Kozic

Recently, several approaches for communications using chaos have been presented, often showing less than acceptable performance. In this paper, a short introduction to the topic is given, and it is shown that such methods can be efficient—if the informatio ...

2006