Google Scholar is likely the most useful application for scientists provided by the guys from Mountain View. First of all, it is free. Similar services like the Web of Knowledge are only accessible if your institute pays for that. One…
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Online LaTex formula generator
I happens quite often that I need to insert an equation in one of my presentation slides or posters. Although either OpenOffice or Powerpoint have some way to present formulas or equations, their quality and appeal is quite poor. For…
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Karhunen-Loève Transform – an interesting alternative to FFT and wavelets
Today I stumbled over this interesting paper which describes the usage of the Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) for (weak) signal detection in time-series. Although there are many similarities with wavelet analysis, the KLT seems to be less computationally demanding (but its…
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Scientific conferences ….
Here’s a funny draft for making an announcement from PhD comics for a scientific conference
Tracking changes with LaTex
I was always wondering how it is possible to track changes in a LaTex document which is handed to different contributors. Today I found out that a nice Perl script named latexdiff exists, which just compares the old and the…
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Paper statistics
Today I had some time and I did some update on my scientific publications and I also generated this histogram showing the peer-reviewed papers of the last years. 2008 has been a really productive year, but also last year was…
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EPS award ceremony
The EPS award for the year 2009 was presented to me yesterday at the beginning of the banquet of the annual JPGU meeting. Two colleagues from my institute joined the ceremony and took some pictures which can be found here.…
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The magic of publications
Every scientists is expected to do it and many of us produce several of them every year … scientific (and other) papers. Here’s an interesting and somewhat funny statistic which I found on PhD comics: Most of it is not…
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Kile for LaTex
In the last days I had to prepare several abstracts for a meeting using a given LaTex template. Usually, I do all the texting and formatting in Gedit, but for some reasons I noticed that with my latest Fedora 12…
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Peer review times
As scientists we are expected to publish paper in so-called peer-reviewed journals which is supposed to ensure the quality of publication. Most of the journals are quite well organized and for nearly all my papers I had results from the…
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