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Things that Talk: On a new perspective for engaging with scientific instruments
Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu
Our contribution will propose a new approach for engaging with scientific instruments inspired by a recent exhibition which we have designed and organized. Inverting the current trope of presenting history through many objects, the exhibition weaved togeth ...
2023Surfactant Treatment for Efficient Gene Detection of Enteric Viruses and Indicators in Surface Water Concentrated by Ultrafiltration
The hollow fiber ultrafiltration (HFUF)-based microbial concentration method is widely applied for monitoring pathogenic viruses and microbial indicators in environmental water samples. However, the HFUF-based method can co-concentrate substances that inte ...
SPRINGER2023Hanoï métr-eau-pole. Expansion territoriale en plaine inondable
Hanoï, qui signifie en vietnamien “entre les fleuves”, a toujours été en perpétuel développement entre les eaux. La ville se situe à l’extrémité du delta du fleuve Rouge, territoire remodelé par l’homme depuis des millénaires afin de pouvoir l’habiter. Auj ...
2018Cedrus libani: A promising tree species for Central European forestry facing climate change?
Considering climate change, the discussion intensifies whether and to what extent exotic tree species should be taken into account for forest cultivation, especially when indigenous species are no longer able to fulfill essential forest functions. In this ...
Springer Verlag2015Influencing REDD+. Stakeholder participation in Ghana's REDD+ process
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is designed to curb the 12%-17% of global greenhouse emissions from forests. Though the mechanism emanated from international UN climate platform, the implementation is realized locally. T ...
Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers
The evolutionary history of the human pygmy phenotype (small body size), a characteristic of African and Southeast Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers, is largely unknown. Here we use a genome-wide admixture mapping analysis to identify 16 genomic regions th ...
Natl Acad Sciences2014Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique
Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...
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