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The impacts of decarbonization pathways on Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union

Climate action to achieve the Paris Agreement should respect the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we use an integrated assessment modelling framework comprising nine climate policy models and quantify the impacts of decarbonisation pathw ...

2024

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Organoids as tools for fundamental discovery and translation-A Keystone Symposia report

Matthias Lütolf

Complex three-dimensional in vitro organ-like models, or organoids, offer a unique biological tool with distinct advantages over two-dimensional cell culture systems, which can be too simplistic, and animal models, which can be too complex and may fail to ...

WILEY2022

Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

All organisms have a stress response system to cope with environmental threats, yet its precise form varies hugely within and across individuals, populations, and species. While the physiological mechanisms are increasingly understood, how stress responses ...

2021

Dynamic spatiotemporal patterns of brain connectivity reorganize across development

Alessandra Griffa, Patric Hagmann, Marie Schaer, Emeline Mullier

Late human development is characterized by the maturation of high-level functional processes, which rely on reshaping of white matter connections, as well as synaptic density. However, the relationship between the whole-brain dynamics and the underlying wh ...

MIT PRESS2020

SGAN: An Alternative Training of Generative Adversarial Networks

François Fleuret, Tatjana Chavdarova

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to train, what results ...

IEEE2018

Hypertypes: From social bridges to an urbanism of aspirations, affordances and capabilities

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Using multilayered individual massive data and geo-localization tracking, Computational Social Science and Social Physics attest the importance of face-to-face and place-to-place interactions in shaping human agency. The research suggests that collective a ...

2018

The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research

François Richard Vuille

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple objectives on water, food and energy. This calls for responses that are coordinated and scaled appropriately. Learning from water-energy-food nexus ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Numerical study on the suitability of centrifuge testing for capturing the thermal-induced mechanical behavior of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Alice Di Donna

Currently, the suitability of centrifuge testing for capturing the thermal-induced mechanical behavior of full-scale energy piles has not been established, yet, despite their increasing worldwide development. Looking at this challenge, this paper investiga ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2015

Urban District Energy Futures: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...

EPFL2007

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