This paper discusses issues about content management in mobile multimedia art guides elaborating on experiences made in three exhibitions held at Ca’ Foscari University since Spring 2009. A family of mobile art guides on Apple iPod touch devices have been designed, featuring rich multimedia content and simple interaction styles. The guides are based on the Webkit run-time system wrapped by an i...

Our example demonstrates parameter inference for a DDE model of population growth in the environmentally sensitive fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis (Rosenblum et al. 2010; Voyles et al. 2012). This model has been used to further our understanding of pathogen responses to changing environmental conditions. Further details ab...

GUNNAR PETTER* , † , MARKUS WEITERE, OTTO RICHTER* AND SYLVIA MOENICKES* , § *Institute of Geoecology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of G€ottingen, G€ottingen, Germany Department of River Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany Faculty of Life Sciences, Environmental Systems An...

Several methods have recently been developed for joint structure learning of multiple (related) graphical models or networks. These methods treat individual networks as exchangeable, such that each pair of networks are equally encouraged to have similar structures. However, in many practical applications, exchangeability in this sense may not hold, as some pairs of networks may be more closely ...

Predictive maintenance is closely connected to condition monitoring, health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS), prognostic modeling and condition-based maintenance (CBM). It is concerned with identifying what maintenance actions should be chosen and when, based on the predicted state of the item of interest over time. It can be viewed as a logical development of CBM. The authors of this paper ...

The majority of celiac disease affected patients are undiagnosed. Since the epidemiology and phenotype of CD is constantly changing towards latent, hyposymptomatic or asymptomatic behavior and since there is an increased risk of complications, early diagnosis and subsequent adherence to gluten-free diet is highly recommended. Multiple serological tests are on the market and the most frequently ...

Climate change generally requires species to migrate northward or to higher elevation to maintain constant climate conditions, but migration requirement and migration capacity of individual species can vary greatly. Individual populations of species occupy different positions in the landscape that determine their required range shift to maintain similar climate, and likewise the migration capac...

This paper reports three adaptations to DynDE, an approach to using Differential Evolution to solve dynamic optimization problems. The first approach, Competitive Population Evaluation (CPE), is a multi-population DE strategy aimed at locating optima faster in the dynamic environment. This approach is based on allowing populations to compete for function evaluations based on their performance. ...

Collective action taking place on Internet platforms leaves a digital imprint which may be harvested to better understand the dynamics of mobilization. This ‘big data’ offers social science researchers the potential for new forms of analysis, using real-time transactional data based on entire populations, rather than sample-based surveys of what people think they did or might do. This paper use...