Professor Dr. Cordian Beyer was born in 1960 in Germany. He is currently the director of the Institute of Neuroanatomy at the UKA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, since 2005. Before, his scientific stations were the University of Ulm, Germany, where he studied Biology and the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Germany, where he obtained in 1991 his PhD and in 1996 his ha...

In January 2001, I accepted a longterm lectureship offered by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; Bonn, Germany), which, with further support from CAS, allowed me to create my own research group within the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS). During the next five years, 32 German and seven Chinese students worked in my laboratory, including three PhD students—two Chinese,...

Applicability of PGAA on pottery archaeometry has been proved in investigations of pre-Columbian figurines from Venezuela. PGAA is a non-destructive bulk analytical method, capable to determine concentration of majorand some trace components. We take part in the MÖB-DAAD project aimed to investigate Hungarian Neolithic pottery, and also in an IAEA CRP with more methodological objectives. Within...

The report introduces some notions relevant to multilingual resources for Natural Language Processing and summarizes the model of FrameNet, a lexical resource for English. As the development of FrameNet resources for languages other than English advances, theoretical and practical issues related to multilingual representation and the processing of such resources become apparent. The aim of this...

In this article we present a method to speed up agglomerative clustering used in speaker diarization by using long-term prosodic features. A set of these features is used to decide which clusters should be merged. This strategy reduces the number of decisions that have to be performed using the more calculation-intensive method based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). We show a speedu...

We consider the one-particle sector of the spinless Yukawa model, which describes the interaction of a nucleon with a real field of scalar massive bosons (neutral mesons). The nucleon as well as the mesons have relativistic dispersion relations. In this model we study the dependence of the nucleon mass shell on the ultraviolet cut-off Λ. For any finite ultraviolet cut-off the nucleon one-partic...

The electric polarizability of the nucleon is calculated in the soliton approach to the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. We analyze the leading-Nc contributions, as well as the effects of rotational 1/Nc corrections and ∆-N mass splitting. Our model prediction is substantially reduced compared to other soliton calculations, and is closer to the experimental value. PACS: 12.40.Aa, 11.15.Pg, 11.40.Ha Ty...