News tagged with statistical processes

Workforce from the digital cloud

By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is used when non-automated tasks are ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state

The system created by these researchers can be used to automatically adapt the dialogue to the user's situation, so that the machine's response is adequate to the person's emotional state. "Thanks to this ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Labor or conservative? It's all in the eye of the beholder

Scientists have uncovered specific facial characteristics which make MPs look like they belong to one of the two major political parties in Britain.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Best Team Not Guaranteed World Cup Success

The World Cup offers fans of the globe's most popular sport the chance to thrill and agonize over the ups and downs of their nations' teams. For scientists, whether or not they are fans, it's another chance ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers to study how the brain 'rewires itself'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from UCL is part of a US-led team investigating how the brain and its microcircuitry react to physiological changes and what could be done to encourage its recovery from injury. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Photons led astray: Experiment to investigate random motion of quantum particles developed

Life would sometimes be so much easier if we were quantum particles. For example, if we were trying to find our way out of a strange town allowing chance telling us which way to go at every intersection. As ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New human movement model can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public planning

Researchers have developed a new statistical model that simulates human mobility patterns, mimicking the way people move over the course of a day, a month or longer. The model, developed by scientists at North Carolina State ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0