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Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In this contribution, we put the spotlight on the interlinkages between participatory knowledge production and sustainabili ty transformations by proposing an empirical enquiry into transdisciplinary (TD) research projects. With regard to (un)sustainab le ...

2017

Workshop on Mapping with drones for natural and built environments

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Simone Sayuri Sato

The workshop on mapping with drones for natural and built environments has been organised in the framework of the Brazilian-Swiss Joint Research Programme (BSJRP), which supports research activity and academic cooperation. The Ecole polytechnique fédérale ...

2016

Two lectures about representing scientific communities by data visualization

Dario Rodighiero

These lectures present a research that investigates the representation of communities, and the way to foster their understanding by different audiences. Communities are complex multidimensional entities intrinsically difficult to represent synthetically ...

2016

Atomistic simulation of the absorption of calcium and hydroxyl ions onto portlandite surfaces - towards crystal growth mechanisms

Paul Bowen, Sandra Caroline Galmarini

Portlandite is an important constituent of cementitious materials. Consequently the growth of portlandite is of great interest to fully understand the hydration of cement, a process still posing many scientific challenges. In this paper the growth of portl ...

Elsevier2016

JET diagnostic enhancements in preparation for DT operations

Patrick Blanchard

In order to complete the exploitation of the JET ITER-like Wall and to take full benefit from deuterium-tritium experiments on JET, a set of diagnostic system refurbishments or upgrades is in progress. These diagnostic enhancements focus mainly on neutron, ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies of chemical systems: New perspectives

Majed Chergui

The past 3-5 years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic studies, mainly driven by novel technical and methodological developments. The latter include (i) the high repetition rate optical pump/X-ray probe stu ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Air entrainment and pressure development in skimming flow on an abrupt slope change on stepped spillways

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Mohammad Javad Ostad Mirza

Numerous stepped spillways were built to date, namely on RCC gravity dams or on valley flanks besides embankment or rockfill dams, while some others are currently under design or construction. In some cases, slope changes may be required on stepped chutes, ...

2015

CAMEA ESS - The continuous angle multi-energy analysis indirect geometry spectrometer for the European Spallation Source

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Paul Gregory Freeman

The CAMEA ESS neutron spectrometer is designed to achieve a high detection efficiency in the horizontal scattering plane, and to maximize the use of the long pulse European Spallation Source. It is an indirect geometry time-of-flight spectrometer that uses ...

E D P Sciences2015

Overview of Piano Key weir prototypes and scientific model investigations

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

The interest in Piano Key weirs (PKW) was increasing over the past years, both in terms of application and hydraulic research. Several systematic model test series were per-formed and published so far, originating from different hydraulic laboratories arou ...

Erpicum et al., CRC Press, Boca Raton2013

Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases

Anastasia Ailamaki, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco, Thomas Heinis, Ioannis Alagiannis, Farhan Tauheed

Advances in observation instruments and abundance of computational power for simulations encourage scientists to gather and produce unprecedented amounts of increasingly complex data. Organizing data automatically to enable efficient and unobstructed acces ...

2011

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