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Enhanced formation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol in sulfur-rich power plant plumes during Southeast Nexus

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We investigate the effects of anthropogenic sulfate on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from biogenic isoprene through airborne measurements in the southeastern United States as part of the Southeast Nexus (SENEX) field campaign. In a flight over ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Contribution to the study of the vulnerability of critical systems to Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI)

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The progress of high power electromagnetic (HPEM) sources during the late 1990s raised the concern in the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) community that they could be deployed for criminal purposes to interfere with the operation of modern electronic s ...

EPFL2016

Side-Channel Attacks on Threshold Implementations using a Glitch Algebra

Serge Vaudenay

Threshold implementations allow to implement circuits us- ing secret sharing in a way to thwart side-channel attacks based on prob- ing or power analysis. It was proven they resist to attacks based on glitches as well. In this report, we show the limitatio ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Information-based recognition: TED talks and the institutional fabric of valuable innovation

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Information has long been considered a commodity, something that organizations and individuals can trade for financial gain (Chandler, 1993). And, the networks via which information flowed have long had a conflictual relationship with power and control, bu ...

2016

Advanced methods for the evaluation of lightning incidence over large areas, wind turbine parks and tall towers

Aleksandr Smorgonskii

Lightning presents a significant danger to electrical and electronic equipment, buildings and monuments, people and animals. Although our knowledge about lightning has significantly improved over last century, the development of new composite materials and ...

EPFL2016

Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Dumitru Dumcenco, Michael Graf, Ke Liu, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Jiandong Feng

Making use of the osmotic pressure difference between fresh water and seawater is an attractive, renewable and clean way to generate power and is known as 'blue energy'(1-3). Another electrokinetic phenomenon, called the streaming potential, occurs when an ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A method for aggregating external operating conditions in multi-generation system optimization models

Adriano Viana Ensinas, Christoffer Lythcke-Jørgensen

This paper presents a novel, simple method for reducing external operating condition datasets to be used in multi-generation system optimization models. The method, called the Characteristic Operating Pattern (CHOP) method, is a visually-based aggregation ...

2016

Analysis of a Combined Absorption Cycle for Power and Cooling Production Using a Novel Oil-Free Co-Rotating Scroll Expander

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

This paper presents the integration of a novel scroll expander into a combined power and cooling cyclethat can be driven by low grade heat sources such as solar and waste heat. The scroll device used here is based on a co-rotating technology which allows t ...

2016

Engineering & Performance of DuoTurbo: Microturbine with Counter-Rotating Runners

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Considering the nuclear phase-out strategy of several European countries and the future tendency to promote renewable energies, the exploitation of small hydropower sites (

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

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