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Object identity determines trans-saccadic integration

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer

Humans make two to four rapid eye movements (saccades) per second, which, surprisingly, does not lead to abrupt changes in vision. To the contrary, we perceive a stable world. Hence, an important question is how information is integrated across saccades. T ...

2020

Implications of the 1.5-Degree Target for Lifestyles

At current emission level, humanity would have used up their remaining carbon footprint budget from now to eternity within four years or less, when compared to the emissions compatible with keeping global warming within a limit of 1.5°C. Therefore, zero ne ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Feature integration within discrete time windows

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer

Sensory information must be integrated over time to perceive, for example, motion and melodies. Here, to study temporal integration, we used the sequential metacontrast paradigm in which two expanding streams of lines are presented. When a line in one stre ...

2019

De Smart à Responsive, les enjeux de la planification urbaine à l'ère du numérique: Les expériences de Genève et Singapour

Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Rapid urbanization, climate change, sustainable development, resource depletion, the widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones, and the big data phenomenon all pose great challenges to urban planning. By facilitating data exchange, collection, and a ...

EPFL2019

Evaporation from cultivated and semi-wild Sudanian Savanna in west Africa

Marc Parlange, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

Rain-fed farming is the primary livelihood of semi-arid west Africa. Changes in land cover have the potential to affect precipitation, the critical resource for production. Turbulent flux measurements from two eddy-covariance towers and additional observat ...

European Geosciences Union2017

The information platform energyscope.ch on the energy transition scenarios

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, François Richard Vuille, Victor Codina Gironès

Switzerland like many countries plans to undertake an energy transition and the government proposes different paths for 2035 and 2050 to achieve it. However the authors of this paper felt the need for a better information of the public on the energy matter ...

2016

Climate change in Switzerland: A review of physical, institutional and political aspects

Philippe Thalmann

Climate change is clearly discernible in observed climate records in Switzerland. It impacts on natural systems, ecosystems, and economic sectors such as agriculture, tourism, and energy, and it affects Swiss livelihood in various ways. The observed and pr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Linking the Swiss Emissions Trading System with the EU ETS: Economic Effects of Regulatory Design Alternatives

Frank Vöhringer

The Swiss government intends to link the Swiss Emissions Trading System to the EU ETS after 2012. Employing GENESwIS, a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Swiss economy, we investigate the macroeconomic and sectoral effects of a post ...

2012

Three steps toward modeling Swiss post-2012 climate policies

André Sceia

This thesis presents three steps toward a more precise modeling of climate policies using hybrid models. Specific hybrid models have been devised and used to analyze different post-Kyoto Swiss climate policies. Chapter 1 presents a rather simple hybrid mod ...

EPFL2010

Business interest in Swiss climate policy

Alexandra Quandt

Business interest associations play an important role in the decision making process of climate policy. In 2009, the revision of the Swiss CO2 law for designing post-2012 climate policy is at stake. This paper analyzes the positions and arguments of the Sw ...

NCCR Climate2010

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