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Periodic and aperiodic NiFe nanomagnet/ferrimagnet hybrid structures for 2D magnon steering and interferometry with high extinction ratio

Dirk Grundler, Vinayak Shantaram Bhat, Sho Watanabe, Andrea Mucchietto, Shixuan Shan, Elif Nur Dayi

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Zenodo2023

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

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Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

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Les Cahiers de l'Ibois 3 / Ibois Notebook 3

Sandra Vuilleumier, Petras Vestartas

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SmartSwim: A novel approach to swimming analysis and coaching assistance based on wearable inertial sensors

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As one of the three most popular sports in the Summer Olympics, competitive swimming has always been an attractive subject of study for sports scientists. The intricate nature of the swimmer's movements and the variety of techniques have led coaches to req ...

EPFL2022

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Technical evaluation of swimming performance is an essential factor in preparing elite swimmers for their competitions. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have attracted much attention recently because they can provide coaches with a detailed analysis of sw ...

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Review of health and well-being aspects in Green Certification Protocols

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Over the past decades, the world-leading Green Certification Protocols have been paid increasing attention to health-related aspects of buildings. However, the way and the extent to which green certifications currently account for these aspects vary largel ...

TU Delft2022

Multiagent Fully Decentralized Value Function Learning With Linear Convergence Rates

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This article develops a fully decentralized multiagent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered by following different behav ...

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Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

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Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control

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Laser-induced liquid micro-jets for drug delivery

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EPFL2021

Exploring policy change through agent-based simulation

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Policymaking is a complex process that has been studied using policy process theories almost exclusively. These theories have been built using a large number of qualitative cases. Such methods are useful for theory building but remain limited for theory ex ...

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Evaluation and robotic simulation of the glenohumeral joint

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Association for Computing Machinery2020

Distributed Value-Function Learning with Linear Convergence Rates

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BenchIoT: A Security Benchmark for the Internet of Things

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Evaluation of Deep Learning Strategies for Nucleus Segmentation in Fluorescence Images

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Adaptive Design of Experiments for Conservative Estimation of Excursion Sets

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A Performance Evaluation of Local Features for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction

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Compression and visual quality assessment for light field contents

Irene Viola

Since its invention in the 19th century, photography has allowed to create durable images of the world around us by capturing the intensity of light that flows through a scene, first analogically by using light-sensitive material, and then, with the advent ...

EPFL2019