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The Biopolitics of Habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the Industrial Cities and Their Productive Habitats

Company towns are cities founded during the Industrial Revolution by single enterprises operating as employers and landlords, enforcers of security, promoters of social harmony, and providers of services and goods for workers to enhance the living and heal ...

2022

Optimal control of the spatial allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: Italy as a case study

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Damiano Pasetto, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre, Mario Zanon, Marino Gatto

While campaigns of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 are underway across the world, communities face the challenge of a fair and effective distribution of a limited supply of doses. Current vaccine allocation strategies are based on criteria such as age or ri ...

2022

Using an antenna as a tool for studying microturbulence and zonal structures in tokamaks with a global gyrokinetic GPU-enabled particle-in-cell code

Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

In order to get a better understanding of the interaction of plasma microinstabilities and associated turbulence with specific modes, an antenna is implemented in the global gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5. It consists in applying an external ...

EPFL2020

A case-study evaluating river rehabilitation alternatives and habitat heterogeneity using the hydromorphological index of diversity

Anton Schleiss, Walter Gostner

Concurrent rehabilitation alternatives were evaluated for a 1900 m reach of the River Etsch in northern Italy using a recently developed Hydro Morphological Index of Diversity (HMID) model. HMID is a new tool enabling quantitative assessments of river rest ...

2019

Empirical validation of MesoHABSIM models developed with different habitat suitability criteria for bullhead cottus gobio L. as an indicator species

Giovanni De Cesare, Mikolaj Stanislaw Adamczyk, Piotr Parasiewicz

Application of instream habitat models such as the Mesohabitat Simulation Model (MesoHABSIM) is becoming increasingly popular. Such models can predict alteration to a river physical habitat caused by hydropower operation or river training. They are a tool ...

2019

Ecohydrological and Metacommunity Studies of Proliferative Kidney Disease Spread in Freshwater Salmonid Fish

Luca Carraro

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) is a high-mortality pathology affecting freshwater salmonid populations in Europe and North America. Its causative agent, the myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, has a complex life-cycle exploiting freshwater bryozoan ...

EPFL2018

Spatial variability of multi-annual seasonal surface heat flux patterns of Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Andrea Cimatoribus, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

The dynamics of the spatiotemporal surface heat flux (SurHF) of Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France) was estimated for a 7-y period. Data sources included hourly maps of over-the-lake assimilated meteorological data from a numerical weather model and Lake Surf ...

2018

Integrated field, laboratory, and theoretical study of PKD spread in a Swiss prealpine river

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Luca Carraro, Marino Gatto

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) is a major threat to wild and farmed salmonid populations because of its lethal effect at high water temperatures. Its causative agent, the myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, has a complex lifecycle exploiting freshw ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

Internet advertising to recruit respondents for a web-based survey on the mobility of teenagers. Effectiveness in five European countries

Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Antoine Lohou

To study mobility behaviours and images of transport modes of teenagers in Europe, we organized a web-based survey in 2016. The population concerned is composed of teenagers (14-17 years old) living in five European countries (France, Germany, Great-Britai ...

2017

A Framework for Measuring Urban Sprawl from Crowd-Sourced Data

Martí Bosch Padrós

The amount of people living in cities by 1800 was roughly around 3 percent of the world population. This number has increased dramatically during the last centuries, and currently it is estimated that one out of two people lives in cities. Furthermore, acc ...

2016

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