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On the durability of surgical masks after simulated handling and wear

Jian Wang, Véronique Michaud, Vincent Marc Varanges, Baris Çaglar, Yann Albert Gérard Lebaupin, René M. Rossi

After the spread of COVID-19, surgical masks became highly recommended to the public. They tend to be handled and used multiple times, which may impact their performance. To evaluate this risk, surgical masks of Type IIR were submitted to four simulated tr ...

2022

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou

Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...

2020

Imaging the aerobic granular sludge microbial community using light-sheet fluorescence micros

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Karen Gemayel

One of the aims of wastewater treatment is the removal of phosphorus before the water is discharged into the environment. Since phosphorus concentrations in wastewater exceed the requirement of bacterial growth, biological phosphorus removal is based on th ...

2019

A Comprehensive Framework for Rendering Layered Materials

Wenzel Alban Jakob

We present a general and practical method for computing BSDFs of layered materials. Its ingredients are transport-theoretical models of isotropic or anisotropic scattering layers and smooth or rough boundaries of conductors and dielectrics. Following expan ...

ACM2014

Influence of Residual Water and Carbon Containing Molecules in Focused Electron Beam Induced Processes

Bamdad Afra

Focused Electron Beam Induced Processing (FEBIP) is a technique used for etching and deposition of micro- and nano-structures using a focused electron beam. FEBIP is commonly carried out in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with a Gas Injection System ( ...

EPFL2011

A DSS to Optimize Facings on the Shelf of a Retail Store

Prem Kumar

This paper aims to maximize the profitability of a set of brand SKUs stocked at a particular retailer by optimizing the number of facings for each product. Based on the past data, a set of variables such as retail price of different SKUs, linear footage th ...

2010

A network‐based approach to predict commercial activities optimal location and infer urban centrality indices

Jan Stauffer

The goal of this master thesis is to analyze the structure of the commercial activities in the cities of Geneva and Barcelona. This study implemented a network‐based approach to predict the location of commercial activities, on the basis of which a tentati ...

2009

METHOD FOR SEGMENTATION OF AN MRI IMAGE OF A TISSUE IN PRESENCE OF PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD

A method and computer program for segmentation of an MRI image of tissue in presence of partial volume effects, include storing the MRI image in K-space representation as raw dataset, reconstructing N images, each represented by N sets of voxels and N sets ...

2008

Optimistic Algorithms for Partial Database Replication

Nicolas Schiper, Rodrigo Malta Schmidt, Fernando Pedone

In this paper, we study the problem of partial database replication. Numerous previous works have investigated database replication, however, most of them focus on full replication. We are here interested in genuine partial replication protocols, which req ...

2006

Integrating Direct and Indirect Sales Channels Under Decentralized Decision Making

Ralf Seifert

Many manufacturers have started to use virtual stores as a direct distribution channel in addition to their existing indirect retail channels. These companies must now decide how to integrate these channels. The alternatives are to operate dedicated distri ...

2006

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