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Geometrical description and Structural analysis of a Modular Timber Structure

The ambitious goal of the ongoing research at IBOIS, the Laboratory of timber constructions at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is to develop a next generation of timber constructions made out of innovative timber-derived products, throu ...

2011

Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education

Roland John Tormey

Emotion is now been granted a more prominent position in areas such as the study of moral or pro-social behaviour (Hoffman, 2001). Its importance is also increasingly being recognised in development education (Tormey, 2005). This research looks at the role ...

2010

Policy Adaptation through Tactile Correction

Aude Billard, Eric Sauser, Brenna Dee Argall

Demonstration learning is a powerful and practical technique to develop robot behaviors. Even so, development remains a challenge and possible demonstration limitations, for example correspondence issues between the robot and demonstrator, can degrade poli ...

2010

Tactile Guidance for Policy Adaptation

Aude Billard, Eric Sauser, Brenna Dee Argall

2010

Efficient Processing of Ranking Queries in Novel Applications

Parisa Haghani

Ranking queries, which return only a subset of results matching a user query, have been studied extensively in the past decade due to their importance in a wide range of applications. In this thesis, we study ranking queries in novel environments and setti ...

EPFL2010

Wound repair and regeneration

Yann Barrandon

The repair of wounds is one of the most complex biological processes that occur during human life. After an injury, multiple biological pathways immediately become activated and are synchronized to respond. In human adults, the wound repair process commonl ...

2008

Urban District Energy Futures: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...

EPFL2007

Optical coherence tomography - high resolution imaging of structure and function

Rainer Leitgeb

There is no doubt that optical coherence tomography has become an important biomedical imaging tool today especially due to recent improvements in detection as well as fight source technology. OCT achieves resolution in tissue of a few micrometers and can ...

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Towards an evolutionary model of city sustainability

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Adil Rasheed, Nataliya Filchakova

In part stimulated by the computer game industry, reasonable progress has been made in the dynamic modelling of urban growth and land use change. However, sustainability considerations in this work remain to be addressed. Yet the environmental impact of ci ...

2007

Making Globalization Work for Sustainable Human Development The Global Programme Paradigm : A Synthesis Approach Between the Visions of Davos and Porto Alegre

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

This preliminary study contributes to describing the innovative nature of the conceptual framework of the UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development (GP). It explains clearly its dimension as a means of ...

UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Sustainable Human Development2005

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