Mobile devices have become an important platform for understanding social dynamics and influence, because of their pervasiveness, sensing capabilities and computational powers. The convergence of mobile and cloud computing is forming the breeding ground for real world applications in a research field known as reality mining. This is undoubtedly an interesting field, which is gaining new momentu...

We study the space of biinvariants and zonal spherical functions associated to quantum symmetric pairs in the maximally split case. Under the obvious restriction map, the space of biinvariants is proved isomorphic to the Weyl group invariants of the character group ring associated to the restricted roots. As a consequence, there is either a unique set, or an (almost) unique two-parameter set of...

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...

The paper is interesting because it explores a relatively new aspect of the study of radon signals. The site chosen is undoubtedly suitable for monitoring radon emission avoiding many of the environmental influences that usually affect geogas emissions and soil radon in particular. The data shown have been carefully acquired and the techniques used are sound and well known. Data have been analy...