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Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

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EPFL2017

Impacts of global warming on energy use for heating and cooling with full rebound effects in Switzerland

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Global warming is expected to lower the energy demand for heating, which would contribute to a decline in CO2 emissions. This effect may be offset by energy needs for additional cooling and by the impacts of households that reinvest the money they save on ...

Elsevier2017

On toxic effects of scientific journals

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

The advent of online publishing greatly facilitates the dissemination of scientific results. This revolution might have led to the untimely death of many traditional publishing companies, since today's scientists are perfectly capable of writing, formattin ...

Indian Academy of Science2013

The impact of fiscal-monetary policy interactions on government size and macroeconomic performance

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Towards more efficient structures with composite UHPFRC-concrete construction

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié

The extremely low permeability of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC) associated to their outstanding mechanical properties make them especially suitable to locally "harden" reinforced concrete structures in critical zones subjected ...

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