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Freedom of movement

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Social Roots of Academc (Un)Freedom

The current war between Russia and Ukraine has raised the question of the possibility of resistance from the academic community. The reduction of academic freedoms in Russia and Belarus in the 21st century is also related to the general social and politica ...

2022

Breaking size segregation waves in experimental bidisperse granular flows.

Tomás Alfredo Trewhela Palacios

In the leading edge of a bidisperse gravity-driven granular flow, two opposing mechanisms coexist: size-segregation and mixing. As a result of shear-induced particle segregation, large particles are displaced to upper layers of the flow where they move fas ...

2018

An origami-inspired cargo drone

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Multicopters stand to revolutionize parcel delivery because of their capability to operate in areas with unsuitable road infrastructure and precisely maneuver in cluttered environments. However, current multicopters for delivery can be dangerous for people ...

2017

Yes, no, maybe: the ambiguous relationship between State-owned Enterprise and the State

Matthias Finger, Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Liberalization and the introduction of sector-specific regulators has caused the position of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis-a-vis their respective States. In response, many SO ...

Wiley_Blackwell2015

Academic Cooperation to Foster Research and Advocacy Competences in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (West Bank)

Martin Schuler, François Golay, Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Béatrice Métaireau

Palestinians living in the West Bank, a territory occupied by the State of Israel according to International Law, face deprived access to land and a limited ability to move freely which pertains to the presence of Israeli settlements and other infrastructu ...

Springer2014

Happiness and Travel Mode Switching: Findings from a Swiss Public Transportation Experiment

Michel Bierlaire, Vincent Kaufmann, Regina Witter

We present results from a recent experiment conducted in Switzerland that studies the effects of a temporary change in the mode of travel to work on travel happiness and mode switching. The primary aim is to study the dynamics in travel satisfaction rating ...

2012

Modelling human movement in cholera spreading along fluvial systems

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

We propose an important extension of a previously studied, spatially explicit and hydrology-driven, model of cholera spreading. Our reformulation concerns the role of different modelizations of human movement on the overall dynamics of the epidemics, which ...

2011

Initiatives in crystallographic education

Gervais Chapuis

The rapid development of the Internet has created new opportunities for teaching in general and it is our aim to show how the current evolution can best be exploited for crystallography education in particular. Currently, we can find a very large selection ...

2011

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