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Discriminating physiological from non‐physiological interfaces in structures of protein complexes: A community‐wide study

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Anthony Marchand, Emmanuel Doram Levy, Xiao Wang

Reliably scoring and ranking candidate models of protein complexes and assigning their oligomeric state from the structure of the crystal lattice represent outstanding challenges. A community-wide effort was launched to tackle these challenges. The latest ...

2023

Impact of Digital and Non-Digital Urban Participatory Approaches on Public Access Conditions: An Evaluation Framework

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The gradual institutionalization of public participation increasingly compels local authorities to partially share their power over the transformation of urban areas. The smooth running of a participatory session is based on selecting the appropriate type ...

MDPI2021

Barriers to the implementation of international agreements on the ground: Climate change and resilience building in the Araucanía Region of Chile

Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler

Implementing disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA/M), and sustainable development are key to increasing community resilience to pressing climate change risks. Barriers to grassroots implementation of national and int ...

2020

Grassroots Urbanism: Community involvement and Participation towards the Making of the City. Innovative research processes in India and Canada

Yves Pedrazzini

This innovative project addresses the issue of users’ participation towards urban development and policies. It is through a transdisciplinary action research that we plan to investigate this issue. Our intention is to develop a community-based methodology ...

CODEV EPFL2019

On the Design of a Youth-Led, Issue-Based, Crowdsourced Global Monitoring Framework for the SDGs

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Rajiv Ramaswamy

In this paper, we propose a novel methodology and design to contribute towards the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by member states of the United Nations for a better and more sustainable future for all. We particularly f ...

2019

The Significance of Corporate Social Disclosure for High-Tech Manufacturing Companies: Focus on Employee and Community Aspects of Sustainable Development

Gökan May

Addressing a global key sector area - the high technology manufacturing sector - we examine if there is truly a benefit of corporate social disclosure to the bottom line of organizations within this sector and if stakeholders should devote more attention t ...

Wiley2017

SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

This work describes SenseCityVity, an approach to engage and support youth in a city in Mexico as they investigate, document, and reflect upon urban problems through mobile crowdsourcing. SenseCityVity focused on the development of a mobile crowdsourcing p ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

Delineating policies: governing spaces with no coextensive institutions

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Many policies are spatially targeted: they attempt to foster or incent policy actions in areas meeting specific criteria. The identification and delineation of the spatial reality of interest is a major challenge to spatially targeted policies. In many cas ...

EPFL2017

Guide to Local Planning for Communities Affected by Migration, Based on Human Rights and Gender Equality

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The Mainstreaming Migration into Local Development project (MiDL) was launched in 2015 by UNDP Moldova in collaboration with the State Chancellery of the Government of Moldova, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (S ...

UNDP, UN Women2016

An Action Research Inquiry into Professional Training and Development for Addressing Complex Urban Problems

Mohamad Razaghi

The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Municipal, metropolitan, regional and national governments, companies, international organizations, financiers, technology developers and civil society across the globe are faced with increasingly complex probl ...

EPFL2016

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