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How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures? How to use systems thinking tools to understand the world, and the place of your new venture in it? Why most corporate sustainability initiatives are of marginal impact, and sometimes ...
2023Effect of specific non-pharmaceutical intervention policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the counties of the United States
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) remain the only widely available tool for controlling the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We estimated weekly values of the effective basic reproductive number (R-eff) using a mechanistic metapopulation model and associ ...
NATURE RESEARCH2021Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity
As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pr ...
EPFL2021Demography of galactic technosignatures
Probabilistic arguments about the existence of technological life beyond Earth traditionally refer to the Drake equation to draw possible estimates of the number of technologically advanced civilizations releasing, either intentionally or not, electromagne ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021The Emergence and Diffusion of Birth Limitation in Urban Areas of Developing Countries
The rising heterogeneity of women in terms of family size over the course of the fertilitytransition challenges the classic hypothesis about the diffusion of birth limiting behaviors acrossparities, known as family limitation. We evaluate whether birth lim ...
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research2020Establishment of a Therapeutic Ratio for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of Trigeminal Neuralgia: The Critical Importance of Biologically Effective Dose Versus Physical Dose
OBJECTIVE: How variations of treatment time affect the safety and efficacy of Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery is a matter of considerable debate. With the relative simplicity of treatment planning for trigeminal neuralgia (TN), this question has been address ...
2020Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...
EPFL2020From technocrats to laymen: Community planning and self-help housing for workers in Marshall Plan countries
With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...
2020Mapping informal settlements: an experience in São Paulo (Brazil)
Informal settlements pose great challenges to urban planners, as very often the data available on those locations is insufficient to inform planning decisions. For instance, demographic estimates are often approximate at best, what makes it difficult to di ...
2019Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation
Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut
In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...
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