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Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

The interest in Piano Key weirs (PKW) was increasing over the past years, both in terms of application and hydraulic research. Several systematic model test series were per-formed and published so far, originating from different hydraulic laboratories arou ...

Erpicum et al., CRC Press, Boca Raton2013

Liquid, fluids, l’architecture du Léman

Isabella Maria Pasqualini

liquids, fluids - les architectures fluviales du Léman is the first urban jam proposal, which implies the extension of experimental design notions into a more scientific frame and vice versa. The central question points at how contiguous environments have ...

2013

Corporate Science and Voluntary Disclosure

Markus Simeth

The dissertation investigates the phenomenon of firms that make voluntary contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge. Such a firm behaviour appears counterintuitive from a traditional viewpoint, since no direct financial returns can be expected whi ...

EPFL2013

Quality- and cost-driven assembly technique selection and geometrical tolerance allocation for mechanical structure assembly

Loïc Andolfatto

Abstract The assembly process planning has been the subject of extensive scientific work, mainly due to the multiple aspects involved from geometrical matters to operational research concerns. However, very few issues about assembly technique selection are ...

2013

Corporate Science, Innovation, and Firm Value

Markus Simeth

Many firms actively disclose research findings in scientific peer-reviewed journals. The literature highlights several potential benefits of such scientific boundary-spanning activities, including privileged access to academic information networks. However ...

EPFL Working Paper Series2013

Identifying Influential Scholars in Academic Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Na Li

The emergence of social media has created new ways to publish scientific work, foster collaboration, and build professional connections in the research community. The rich data collected in social media platforms has provided new opportunities for assessin ...

2013

Advances in Janus Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Javier Reguera Gomez

The design and synthesis of Janus nanoparticles has attracted great scientific interest in recent years. Novel optical, electronic, magnetic, and superficial properties emerge from their dimensions and unique morphology at the nanoscale. Additional propert ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2013

Dynamics Modeling and Control Architecture for Efficient, Manoeuvrable and Robust Monoped Hopping over Rough Terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji, Soha Pouya, Rico Möckel

Leg dynamics and control have been widely studied using mass-spring systems such as the Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) model [1]. The SLIP model is commonly accepted as the simplest model that resembles leg dynamics. While simplicity facilitates th ...

2013

Exploring the therapeutic space around NAD+

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper

NAD(+) is a central metabolite in the cell. Changes in NAD(+) abundance and the activity of NAD(+)-dependent enzymes, such as the sirtuins, are at the core of metabolic/mitochondrial diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, and of cancer and neurodegenerati ...

Rockefeller University Press2012

Collaborative Web-GIS platform for systematic exploration of Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, Yosef Akhtman, Lorenzo Martelletti, Olga Grandjean

We have developed and deployed a Web-based GIS data management framework, which facilitates an effective and highly structured search, retrieval and visualisation of multi-modal scientific data, as well as its subsequent dissemination in multiple and stand ...

ISPRS2012

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