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Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland.

Denise Bertschi

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

L'école dans tous ses espaces

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Sonia Monique Curnier

Planifier le développement de l’école secondaire dans le canton de Genève à l’horizon 2050 : tel fut le thème d’une conséquente et récente recherche menée par un groupe de chercheur·euse·s de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Cette étude a ...

2024

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flow and Hydrochemistry in Drainage Networks

Izabela Bujak-Ozga

Despite their high ecological value, non-perennial streams have received less attention than their perennial counterparts. This doctoral thesis addresses this disparity by advancing knowledge on the dynamics of the drainage density and hydrologic processes ...

EPFL2024

Multi-year time series of daily solute and isotope measurements from three Swiss pre-Alpine catchments

Jana Freiin von Freyberg

Time series analyses of solute concentrations in streamwater and precipitation are powerful tools for unraveling the interplay of hydrological and biogeochemical processes at the catchment scale. While such datasets are available for many sites around the ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Teaching Not To

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

Genome sequences of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in the DRC between 2009 and 2012

Melanie Blokesch, Sandrine Stutzmann, Alexandre Lemopoulos, Natalia Carolina Drebes Dorr

Vibrio cholerae has caused seven cholera pandemics in the past two centuries. The seventh and ongoing pandemic has been particularly severe on the African continent. Here, we report long read-based genome sequences of six V. cholerae strains isolated in th ...

2024

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Et si l'on pensait la Suisse urbaine non pas à partir de ses métropoles, mais de ces villes comme le pays en compte des dizaines ? Celles-ci représentent davantage la norme que l'exception dans le paysage helvétique contemporaine. Pourtant, en Suisse, comm ...

EPFL Press2024

Invasive palms have more efficient and prolonged CO2 assimilation compared to native sub-Mediterranean vegetation

Charlotte Grossiord, Christoph Bachofen, Thibaut Michel Georges Juillard, Janisse Deluigi, Marco Conedera

In sub-Mediterranean ecosystems, shade-tolerant broadleaf evergreens, especially the invasive Trachycarpus fortunei, are spreading uncontrollably in the forest understorey, impeding the regeneration of the native deciduous woody vegetation. Most invasive s ...

Amsterdam2024

Politique du logement à Genève. Revenu des ménages, loyers et prix des logements

Philippe Thalmann, Philippe Favarger

L'étude "Politique du logement à Genève : revenu des ménages, loyers et prix des logements" vise à déterminer l’adéquation entre les loyers et les prix des logements contrôlés et les capacités financières des ménages. Elle donne des intervalles de loyers e ...

Office cantonal du logement et de la planification foncière2024

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Most lacustrine deltas are nowadays highly anthropized systems. River training works during past centuries considered rivers mainly as vectors of water and sediments from a point source to a sink. However, numerous problems have been identified by resident ...

2024