a INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Energy Materials Group, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany b IMS Lab., Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia c General Energy Research Department, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland d Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia e Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institut...

The paper addresses the experience of Estonia in strengthening democracy through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to bring decision-making closer to the citizen. The presentation focuses on e-Voting and enhanced use of ICT in democratic practices as key elements in achieving independence for everyone, disabled persons included. This paper draws on the analysis of seco...

This Chapter provides a legal assessment and opinion of adjustments to the Estonian framework in Estonia, which might be required foster consolidation water utilities. It was prepared analyse give an overview regulatory provisions support cooperation between municipalities WSS sector Estonia.

Each expanding and developing system requires some feedback to evaluate the normal trends of the system and also the unsystematic steps. In this paper two lexicalsemantic databases – Princeton WordNet (PrWN) and Estonian Wordnet (EstWN)are being examined from the visualization point of view. The visualization method is described and the aim is to find and to point to possible problems of synset...

Variations in illumination can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an object in an image. In this paper, we propose how to deal with illumination variations in eigenspace methods. We demonstrate that the eigenimages obtained by a training set under a single illumination condition (ambient light) can be used for recognition of objects taken under different illumination conditions. The ma...

State Machines Margus Veanes and Ando Saabas 1 Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA [email protected] 2 Institute of Cybernetics Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

BACKGROUND On-going climate change is predicted to result in a growing number of extreme weather events-such as heat waves-throughout Europe. The effect of high temperatures and heat waves are already having an important impact on public health in terms of increased mortality, but studies from an Estonian setting are almost entirely missing. We investigated mortality in relation to high summer ...