Cyril Botteron is leading, managing, and coaching the research and project activities of the GNSS and UWB research subgroups at EPFL, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne in Switzerland. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Calgary in Canada in 2003 and has authored or co-authored over 40 international papers and 3 patents in the field of positioning systems, ultra low po...

In order to facilitate and improve collaboration among co-authors, working in the Web environment, documents must be made seamlessly available to them. Web documents may contain multimedia resources, whose management raises important issues due to the constraints and limits imposed by Web technology. This paper proposes an adaptive support for distributing shared Web documents and multimedia re...

Studies the growth and proportion of different types of co-authored publications in theoretical population genetics. Explores the applicability of appropriate statistical model to the decline in the proportion of single-authored publication with time. Studies the applicability of selected statistical models to the distribution of authorship in publications of theoretical population genetics wit...

This six part book is edited by Catherine Tipaldy from the Centre of Animal Welfare and Ethics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has also authored most of the chapters and co-authored others. Other contributors include highly respected authorities such as Phil Arkow (the coordinator of the National Link Coalition) and Michael Byrne, QC (Barrister-at-law, Queensland Bar).

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Abstract The paper investigates the increasing number of international co-authored publications, comparing countries that accessed European Union (EU) in 2004 (EU04) against other Central-Eastern Countries (othEast-ERA), adopting a scientometric approach. This comparison looks at whether to be part EU is different from being Research Area (ERA) – given both entities aim fostering more collabora...

This paper investigates the factors that made international co-authorship between scientists in Iran and elsewhere possible. A questionnaire was sent out to Iranian scientists in fields of physics, chemistry, and biology who had co-authored an internationally published journal article during 2003. The main foreign co-author in each of the articles was identified and questions regarding this co-...

The stereotype of the multi-authored Digital Humanities paper is well known but has not, until now, been empirically investigated. Here we present the results of a statistical analysis of collaborative publishing patterns in Computers and the Humanities (CHum) (1966–2004); Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) (1986–2011); and, as a control, the Annals of the Association of American Geographe...

This article is co-authored by the mother of a child with obesity and insulin resistance, who gives her perspective. It is also co-authored by the treating Obesity Medicine clinician and an investigator in obesity clinical research (both certified in Obesity Medicine), who give their perspectives. The discussion focuses upon the potential clinical use of metformin in managing young patients wit...