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Practicing Local Data Journalism
Andreas Veglis
Jul 01, 2024
The use of local data journalism has the power to fundamentally change local news. Local journalists can find vital insights, spot trends, and shed light on significant issues that have an impact on their communities by...
A Template for Defining Enterprise Modelling Constructs
The paper explains the need for a standard way of defining modelling constructs from different enterprise modelling languages and proposes a template for defining enterprise modelling constructs in a way that facilitates...
Combined Assessment of Software Safety and Security Requirements
Safety is a fundamental concern in modern society, and security is a precondition for safety. Ensuring safety and security of complex integrated systems requires a coordinated approach that involve different stakeholder groups...
Which Democratic Way to Go?
There are concerns amongst researchers and the general public that social media platforms threaten democratic values. Social media corporations and their engineers have responded to these concerns with various design solutions....
A Participatory Design and Formal Study Investigation into Mobile Text Entry for Older Adults
Text entry remains key to many tasks on touchscreen smartphones and is an important factor in the usability of such devices. The known problems of text entry can be particularly acute for older adults due to physical and...
Applying the Computational Intelligence Paradigm to Nuclear Power Plant Operation
In the guise of artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic/evolutionary computation algorithms (GAs/ECAs), fuzzy logic (FL) inference systems (FLIS) and their variants as well as combinations, the computational intelligence (CI)...
Addressing Sustainability of Sanitation Systems
Recently, a technical draft of the international standard ISO/DIS 30500 for non-sewered sanitation systems has been developed (publication expected for 2018). Its innovative feature is the inclusion of sustainable aspects. This...
Vesalius' fabrica
D Margócsy, M Somos, SN Joffe
Jan 20, 2017
This article provides a listing of known copies of the first two folio editions of Andreas Vesalius’ $\textit{De humani corporis fabrica}$ (1543 and 1555), revising earlier estimates. It shows that the $\textit{Fabrica}$...
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Technological change, population dynamics, and natural resource depletion
Andreas Schaefer
Sep 01, 2014
In this paper, we integrate fertility and educational choices into a scale-invariant model of directed technological change with non-renewable natural resources, in order to reveal the interaction between population dynamics...
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The U-shape of income inequality over the 20th century
Andreas Schaefer
Apr 30, 2021
We propose an overlapping generations model with three social classes to investigate the effects of higher education on the evolution of inequality. Initially, no social class invests in higher education and inequality is driven...
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Utilizing traditional Chinese for the discovery of efficacious new drugs
Andreas Bender
Oct 17, 2012
RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display...
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Learning and herding using case-based decisions with local interactions
Andreas Krause
May 01, 2009
We evaluate repeated decisions of individuals using a variant of the case-based decision theory (CBDT), where individuals base their decisions on their own past experience and the experience of neighboring individuals. Looking...
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Technological change, population dynamics, and natural resource depletion
Andreas Schaefer
Sep 01, 2014
In this paper, we integrate fertility and educational choices into a scale-invariant model of directed technological change with non-renewable natural resources, in order to reveal the interaction between population dynamics...
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The U-shape of income inequality over the 20th century
Andreas Schaefer
Apr 30, 2021
We propose an overlapping generations model with three social classes to investigate the effects of higher education on the evolution of inequality. Initially, no social class invests in higher education and inequality is driven...
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The Interaction between Endogenous Fertility and Inequality in the Political Economy
Andreas Schaefer
Jan 01, 0001
We simulate a two-period overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents. Parents receive utility from the quantity and quality of their offspring. An increase in the wage rate leads to higher opportunity costs of...
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Stable Lévy processes in a cone
Andreas Kyprianou
Nov 30, 2021

Bañuelos and Bogdan (Potential Anal. 21 (3) (2004) 263–288) and Bogdan et al. (Electron. J. Probab. 23 (2018) 11) analyse the asymptotic tail distribution of the first time a stable (Lévy) process in dimension d ≥ 2 exits a...

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