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Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change

Using Iran's unexpected flood in April 2019 as a natural experiment, we show that local branches bridge the time gap between the disaster and governmental aids by immediately increasing their lending for two months following the flood. Analyzing proprietar ...

Elsevier2024

Reversible photo-electrochemical device for solar hydrogen and power generation

Sophia Haussener, Saurabh Yuvraj Tembhurne, Alexandre Dominique M. Cattry, Matthieu Jonin, Mahendra Patel

A reversible photo-electrochemical device operating under concentrated irradiation could offer a stand-alone solution for producing solar fuel (in photo-driven electrolysis mode) and power (in fuel cell mode). This strategy would present the advantage of h ...

2024

A FEM modelling workflow to simulate THM effects in the rock around nuclear waste packages

Matthias Timothee Stanislas Wojnarowicz

High-level waste, stemming from nuclear electricity generation poses significant environmental and safety concerns. Currently, high-level wastes are stored in interim facilities needing constant monitoring and waiting for a definitive solution. Deep geolog ...

EPFL2024

Non-intrusive physiological parameters sensing for personalized human thermal comfort prediction

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohamed Ossama Ahmed Abdelfattah, Mohamad Rida

Sensing and projecting an individual’s human thermal comfort in buildings is a complex but crucial task for transitioning toward human-centered indoor climate control. Non-intrusive collection of physiological and personal information from the human body, ...

2023

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

The recent rise in both popularity and performance of large language models has garnered considerable interest regarding their applicability to education. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can engage in human-like dialog, have already disrupted educational ...

Springer2023

Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Adrian Christian Holzer

In recent years, the use of chatbots in education has been driven by advances in natural language processing and the increasing availability of digital education platforms. Although the added value of educational chatbots appears promising, researchers hav ...

2023

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap

Paul Robert Guhennec, Valentine Bernasconi, Ludovica Schaerf

This article explores the conception, design, and implementation of a hypertextual map that we call hypermap. Using Giovanni Nolli's 1748 map of the city of Rome as a backbone, we conducted an experiment based on one of the routes defined by Giuseppe Vasi' ...

New York2023

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Natural experiment

Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change

Reversible photo-electrochemical device for solar hydrogen and power generation

A FEM modelling workflow to simulate THM effects in the rock around nuclear waste packages

Distributed Predictive Formation Control of Autonomous Rotary-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles

Non-intrusive physiological parameters sensing for personalized human thermal comfort prediction

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices

Modeling local thermal responses of individuals: Validation of advanced human thermo-physiology models

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap

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Reversible photo-electrochemical device for solar hydrogen and power generation

Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change

A FEM modelling workflow to simulate THM effects in the rock around nuclear waste packages

Distributed Predictive Formation Control of Autonomous Rotary-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Non-intrusive physiological parameters sensing for personalized human thermal comfort prediction

Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices

Modeling local thermal responses of individuals: Validation of advanced human thermo-physiology models

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap