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Received: 26 May 2006 Revised: 16 May 2007 Accepted: 30 July 2007 Online publication date: 29 May 2008 Abstract Because of the strategic importance of organizational learning in a global economy, the knowledge that repatriates acquire during international assignments is a valuable resource. Few multinational enterprises, however, actively harvest this knowledge, and little quantitative empirica...

A fundamental task is machine learning is modeling the relationship between different observation spaces. Dimensionality reduction is the task reducing the number of dimensions in a parameterization of a data-set. In this thesis we are interested in the cross-road between these two tasks: shared dimensionality reduction. Shared dimensionality reduction aims to represent multiple observation spa...

The conceptual complexity of problems was manipulated to probe the limits of human information processing capacity. Participants were asked to interpret graphically displayed statistical interactions. In such problems, all independent variables need to be considered together, so that decomposition into smaller subtasks is constrained, and thus the order of the interaction directly determines co...

Disturbances in chemical processes spreading through plants affect a number of process variables. The operator or the monitoring scheme in place often detects the disturbance at a variable critical to the process. This variable might not be close to the actual cause and isolation of the root cause becomes therefore a task for the control engineer. The aim of this study is to find ways of identi...

Electrical recording from small twigs of nerve in a tortoise showed that olfactory, vomeronasal, and trigeminal receptors in the nose are responsive to various odorants. No one kind of receptor was most sensitive to all odorants. For controlled stimulation, odorant was caused to appear in a stream of gas already flowing through the nose. Of the parameters definable at the naris, temperature, re...