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The Zenodo communities: visibility and FAIRness of your dataset. Example at the EPFL
Communities are shared areas on the Zenodo platform where projects, institutions, domains, and conferences can curate and manage their research outputs. An EPFL community https://zenodo.org/communities/epfl was created in 2013, mainly as a light-weight sol ...
2024Migration distance from birthplace and its association with relative income and employment share among heterosexual couples in Switzerland
Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse
Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...
2024Geospatial Tools and Remote Sensing Strategies for Timely Humanitarian Response: A Case Study on Drought Monitoring in Eswatini
This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...
Basel2024Energy Management of Price-Maker Community Energy Storage by Stochastic Dynamic Programming
In this paper, we propose an analytical stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) algorithm to address the optimal management problem of price-maker community energy storage. As a price-maker, energy storage smooths price differences, thus decreasing energy arb ...
China Electric Power Research Inst2024BSL Circular Economy 2024 Conference - BSL Blog
Our world is highly unsustainable, and urgent action is needed. Is the Circular Economy a possible major improvement, or a dangerous distraction? Does it depend on how we think about the world? In which way? ...
Business School Lausanne (BSL)2024Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.
Something that is not much discussed when talking about Dalmine is the impact of its production as a supply chain sustaining extractive operations that also serve as a dominance and land exploitation mechanism. For instance, Dalmine supplied various oil an ...
2023City, State, Transnational Space
This chapter takes stock of contemporary migration by breaking with a few myths and by distinguishing between interregional and international migration. It shows how new research paradigms have relativized the importance of the state as the preferred frame ...
ISTE Wiley2023Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making
This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...
EPFL2023Universal Singular : Public space design of the early 21st century
The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same ...
Birkhäuser2023Pour en finir avec la vitesse: plaidoyer pour la vie en proximité
Un panorama des questions relatives à la transformation des mobilités, des crises sociales qu'elle soulève, avec notamment le mouvement des gilets jaunes et l'immobilisation forcée due à la pandémie de Covid-19, jusqu'à ses effets négatifs (fatigue, inégal ...
Editions de l'Aube, collection poche Mikros2023