Publications related to Geographical distance

C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams

Mark Pauly, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Quentin Christian Becker, Yingying Ren, Francis Julian Panetta, Davide Pellis

We introduce a computational pipeline for simulating and designing C-shells, a new class of planar-to-spatial deployable linkage structures. A C-shell is composed of curved flexible beams connected at rotational joints that can be assembled in a stress-fre ...

2023

Verification of selective laser melting heat source models with operando X-ray diffraction data

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Samy Hocine

The output obtained from operando X-ray diffraction experiments on Ti-6Al-4V is used to verify the accuracy of four FEM models in predicting the temperature evolution of the solidified domain, the cooling rates of the alpha and beta phases, and the influen ...

ELSEVIER2021

Geocoding of worldwide patent data

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The dataset provides geographic coordinates for inventor and applicant locations in 18.8 million patent documents spanning over more than 30 years. The geocoded data are further allocated to the corresponding countries, regions and cities. When the address ...

2019

A statistical shape model to predict the premorbid glenoid cavity

Alexandre Terrier, Alain Farron, Steve Michel Berger, Daniel Abler, Philippe Büchler

Background: This study proposes a method for inferring the premorbid glenoid shape and orientation of scapulae affected by glenohumeral osteoarthritis (OA) to inform restorative surgery. ...

MOSBY-ELSEVIER2018

Toward an Internally Consistent Astronomical Distance Scale

Frédéric Courbin

Accurate astronomical distance determination is crucial for all fields in astrophysics, from Galactic to cosmological scales. Despite, or perhaps because of, significant efforts to determine accurate distances, using a wide range of methods, tracers, and t ...

Springer2017

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Constructing reparameterization invariant metrics on spaces of plane curves

Martins Bruveris, Martin Bauer

Metrics on shape spaces are used to describe deformations that take one shape to another, and to define a distance between shapes. We study a family of metrics on the space of curves, which includes several recently proposed metrics, for which the metrics ...

Elsevier2014

Overview of the Geometries of Shape Spaces and Diffeomorphism Groups

Martins Bruveris, Martin Bauer

This article provides an overview of various notions of shape spaces, including the space of parametrized and unparametrized curves, the space of immersions, the diffeomorphism group and the space of Riemannian metrics. We discuss the Riemannian metrics th ...

Springer Verlag2014

Small distances in convex polygons

Filip Moric

Let d(1) < d(2) < ... denote the set of all distances between two vertices of a convex n-gon. We show that the number of pairs of vertices at distance d(2) from one another is at most n + O(1). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ...

Elsevier2013

Geodesic distance for right invariant Sobolev metrics of fractional order on the diffeomorphism group

Martins Bruveris, Martin Bauer

We study Sobolev-type metrics of fractional order s a parts per thousand yen 0 on the group Diff (c) (M) of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold M. We show that for the important special case M = S (1), the geodesic distance on Diff (c) (S (1) ...

Springer Verlag2013

Geomorphic signatures of deltaic processes and vegetation: The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Jamuna case study

Andrea Rinaldo

Deltas are complex ecogeomorphic systems where features such as channels and interchannel islands are present over a wide range of spatial scales. A quantitative description of the morphology of deltas is fundamental to address how they react to changes in ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

Geodesic distance for right invariant Sobolev metrics of fractional order on the diffeomorphism group. II

Martins Bruveris, Martin Bauer

The geodesic distance vanishes on the group of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry, for the right invariant weak Riemannian metric which is induced by the Sobolev metric of order on the Lie algebra of vector fie ...

Springer Verlag2013

Modeling Route Choice Behavior Using Smartphone Data

Jingmin Chen

In this thesis, we develop methods for modeling route choice behavior using smartphone data. The developing global positioning system (GPS) technology and the popularity of smartphones have revolutionized the revealed preference route choice data collectio ...

EPFL2013

Ecology and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities Associated with Chloroethene-Contaminated Aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Massive usage, along with careless handling, storage, spills, and leakages made chloroethenes (CEs) one of the most abundant classes of groundwater contaminants. Anaerobic organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) can couple reductive dechlorination of CEs wi ...

Frontiers Media SA2012

First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgements

John Christian Thoresen

Personality trait attribution can underpin important social decisions and yet requires little effort; even a brief exposure to a photograph can generate lasting impressions. Body movement is a channel readily available to observers and allows judgements to ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

SeMiTri: A Framework for Semantic Annotation of Heterogeneous Trajectories

Karl Aberer, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty

GPS devices allow recording the movement track of the moving object they are attached to. This data typically consists of a stream of spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points. For application purposes the stream is transformed into finite subsequences called {\em tr ...

ACM2011

Inductive Power Link for a Wireless Cortical Implant With Two-Body Packaging

Catherine Dehollain, Michel Declercq, Kanber Mithat Silay

This paper presents an inductive power link for remote powering of a wireless cortical implant. The link includes a Class-E power amplifier, a gate driver, an inductive link, and an integrated rectifier. The coils of the inductive link are designed and opt ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Distance Bounding with IEEE 802.15.4a: Attacks and Countermeasures

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski, Manuel Flury

Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband, in particular the recent standard IEEE 802.15.4a, is a primary candidate for implementing distance bounding protocols, thanks to its ability to perform accurate indoor ranging. Distance bounding protocols allow two wireless de ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Integrating geo-referenced multiscale and multidisciplinary data for the management of biodiversity in livestock genetic resources

Stéphane Joost

In livestock genetic resource conservation, decision making about conservation priorities is based on the simultaneous analysis of several different criteria that may contribute to long-term sustainable breeding conditions, such as genetic and demographic ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Derivatives with respect to metrics and applications: subgradient marching algorithm

This paper introduces a subgradient descent algorithm to compute a Riemannian metric that minimizes an energy involving geodesic distances. The heart of the method is the Subgradient Marching Algorithm to compute the derivative of the geodesic distance wit ...

Springer2010