1,331 Works
Automatic Detection of Checkerboards on Blurred and Distorted Images
Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Yves Siegwart & Martin RufliPerformance Evaluation of a Vertical Line Descriptor for Omnidirectional Images
Cédric Pradalier, Davide Scaramuzza & Roland Yves Siegwart<> New Method and Toolbox for Easily Calibrating Omnidirectional Cameras
Roland Yves Siegwart & Davide ScaramuzzaEnvironmental experience effects in life cycle assessment
Maria L. CaduffNiche market strategies for the electrification of road transportation
Stephan Georg WalterTechnology start-ups in the context of entrepreneurship, universities and investors
Alexander Josef SchickerNovel functions of the Nrf3 transcription factor in keratinocytes
Claudia Defila FlükigerOn the global supply of basic research
Hans Gersbach & Maik T. Schneider
In this paper we study the incentives for basic-research investments by governments in a globalized world. For this purpose, we develop a two-country Schumpeterian growth model in which each country chooses its basic-research investments. We find that a country’s basic-research investments increase with the country’s level of human capital and decline with its ownmarket size. This may explain the large basic-research investments by small open economies. Compared with the optimal investments achievable when countries coordinate...
Transdisciplinary development of agroforestry systems
Firesenai SerekeOn-machine wire electrical discharge dressing of metal bonded grinding wheels
Eduardo WeingärtnerEthnic minority parties in political competition
Edina SzöcsikDiscovery of the missing sequence-controlled relay calculator Zuse M9
Herbert Bruderer
In 2010 Germany and Switzerland celebrated the 100th birthday of the great computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, inventor of world’s first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic (Zuse Z3, 1941). In this connection we discovered a sequence-controlled relay calcula-tor, a calculating punch called M9, which has been missing for almost fifty years. This historical machine had been forgotten and was completely unknown even to historians of computing. How-ever, it is mentioned in Zuse’s memoir, but...