On meetings that matter

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Meetings that flatter, but may not deliver.

76 The e-mails come from Amber, Rainy, Dora, and Arlene. “How are you doing now?” some begin. “Hope this e-mail fi nds all the best on you.” Flattering and solicitous and written in bewitchingly mangled English, the e-mails have the hallmarks of spam offering carnal pleasure—except they are actually far tamer. They are invitations to attend scientifi c meetings in China organized by a company t...

Focusing Attention on Visual Features that Matter

An indoor navigating agent needs to efficiently understand the geometric structure of its local environment in order to act. A common scene understanding approach is to generate a set of hypotheses about the geometric structure of the indoor environment and then test the hypotheses to select the one with the highest rank, from a single image [1, 4, 5, 6] or from a continuous stream of images (e...

Patterns that matter

Pattern mining is one of the best-known concepts in Data Mining. A bigproblem in pattern mining is that humongous amounts of patterns can be minedeven from small datasets. This makes it hard for domain experts to discoverknowledge using pattern mining, for example in the field of Bioinformatics. Inthis thesis we address the pattern explosion using compression.We argue that t...

Showing that Neighborhoods Matter

A long-standing contradiction has posed a critical puzzle to urban sociologists: On the one hand, a wealth of ethnographic studies make the point that the kinds of neighborhoods people inhabit profoundly shape their fortunes; on the other hand, statistical analyses of “neighborhood effects” have often failed to confirm that claim. From the earliest studies of the Chicago School, through classic...