The impact factor (IF) of scientific journals has acquired a major role in the evaluations of the output of scholars, departments and whole institutions. Typically papers appearing in journals with large values of the IF receive a high weight in such evaluations. However, at the end of the day one is interested in assessing the impact of individuals, rather than papers. Here we introduce Author...

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to sincerely thank Robert M. DeConto for guiding me through my research project and having the patience while I learn and enhance my knowledge of MATLAB and using climate models. I would also like to thank Julie Brigham-Grette for having the patience as I learned the specific tools to carry out my research. She has instilled an immense amount of interest in the ...

Slash 21 or /21 is the name for a whole new kind of school in the Netherlands, a school as a quest for knowledge where students learn how to study individually as well as together with age peers. That means: problem solving, finding solutions quickly and seeing connections between subjects from different disciplines, hence being able to work more easily and more effectively. To realise this goa...

In building practical two-way speech-to-speech translation systems the end user will always wish to use the system in an environment different from the original training data. As with all speech systems, it is important to allow the system to adapt to the actual usage situations. This paper investigates how a speech-to-speech translation system can adapt day-to-day from collected data on day on...

ASSOCIATED EVENT OF THE UK PRESIDENCY OF THE EU HEALTH PROGRAMME 7-8 NOVEMBER 2005 The UK has experienced several waves of migration over the last 50 years, Professor Patel pointed out. One of these, in the late 50s and early 60s, included people from black and ethnic communities who were responding to a call for labour after the World War. A second significant wave is the more recent arrival o...

Coordination and awareness have been topics in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) starting from day one. Effortless coordination has been a major goal ever since. However, while awareness research became quite popular, coordination got increasingly out of focus. Its concepts stayed rather theoretical lacking concrete steps towards the original goal due to the absence of appr...