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EPFL2023

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Through the years, mineralogical studies have produced a tremendous amount of data on the atomic arrangement and mineral properties. Quite often, structural analysis has led to elucidate the role played by minor components, giving interesting insights into ...

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Taylor & Francis Inc2017

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Ieee Computer Soc2017

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Assoc Computing Machinery2016

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Institute of Physics2012

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Conversations: an Approach Based on Turn Organization, Prosody and Conditional Random Fields

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2012

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American Geophysical Union2011

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Artefactum2010

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings: Using Social Affiliation Networks for Feature Extraction

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2009

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2009

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Border cities have to cope with divergent interests more than other cities, because in the same place protection of national sovereignty clashes with local practices and international cross-border movements. The question of how economic, political, and soc ...

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We have developed a learning platform to simplify and improve teaching and practice of computer graphics for beginners and advanced students. Our goal is to offer a set of tools to help students having a better mental vision of the abstract notions introdu ...

2006

Role of cement in improving concrete durability

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The role of cement in improving concrete durability is complex. Generally the role played by cement is secondary to the role of concrete mix design and curing. Some of these interacting effects are illustrated by discussing the roles of calcium hydroxide, ...

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