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Skilled migration, transnational cooperation and contributions to development: evidence from the Moldovan scientific diaspora

This chapter examines the scientific diaspora option within the migration and development nexus in the context of skilled migration from the Republic of Moldova. Migration has been a significant component of the transition process in Eastern Europe and Mol ...

Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM)2014

The link with a home country. A comparative analysis of host country environments for diaspora engagement

Jean-Claude Bolay, Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Metka Hercog

The benefits that highly skilled migrants can bring to their home countries are increasingly regarded as being important for development, and consequently, many countries are now looking to take advantage of the experiences of their diasporas. The policies ...

Springer India2014

Climate or migration: what limited European beech post-glacial colonization?

Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis

AimDespite the recent improvements made in species distribution models (SDMs), assessing species' ability to migrate fast enough to track their climate optimum remains a challenge. This study achieves this goal and demonstrates the reliability of a process ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Drivers of Holocene Land Cover Change in Europe

Pamela Collins

The modern vegetation of Europe is a product of its history. Climate change, plant migration, and human activity have all been important drivers of Holocene (11,500 years ago to the present) vegetation dynamics, but it is difficult to disentangle the relat ...

EPFL2013

Boundaries and Urban Worlds. The Contested Ethnoscape of Expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...

2013

Monthly trends and the corresponding altitudinal shift in the snowfall/precipitation day ratio

Martine Rebetez, Gaëlle Serquet

A better understanding of the impact of changing temperatures on snow amounts is very important for the ski industry, but it is difficult to measure, particularly at different times of the snow season and not only on an annual or seasonal basis. Here, we a ...

Springer Wien2013

Highly Skilled Expatriates' Networks in the Cosmopolitan City: Constructing Post-migration Patterns of Belonging in Geneva (forthcoming)

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Within the field of migration studies, the construction of transnational networks and multilocal belongings has been widely described (Beck 2000, Glick-Schiller et al. 1995). However, much of this literature focuses on the construction of networks based on ...

2012

Migration dynamics of breast cancer cells in a tunable 3D interstitial flow chamber

Philippe Renaud, Melody Swartz, Ulrike Haessler, Jeremy Teo

The migration of cells such as leukocytes, tumor cells, and fibroblasts through 3D matrices is critical for regulating homeostasis and immunity and for driving pathogenesis. Interstitial flow through the extracellular matrix, which can substantially increa ...

2012

Modeling Bird Flight Formations Using Diffusion Adaptation

Ali H. Sayed

Flocks of birds self-organize into V-formations when they need to travel long distances. It has been shown that this formation allows the birds to save energy, by taking advantage of the upwash generated by the neighboring birds. In this work we use a mode ...

IEEE2011

Elucidating the Role of Matrix Stiffness in 3D Cell Migration and Remodeling

Matthias Lütolf, Adrian Ranga, Philipp Sebastian Lienemann, Katarzyna Mosiewicz, Martin Ehrbar

Reductionist in vitro model systems which mimic specific extracellular matrix functions in a highly controlled manner, termed artificial extracellular matrices (aECM), have increasingly been used to elucidate the role of cell-ECM interactions in regulating ...

Elsevier2011

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