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Exploratory Analysis of Demand Interaction in the Planning of Passenger Railway Service

With the new EU legislature, the track management and the Train Operating Companies (TOCs) have to be separated subjects and hence allowing the private sector to enter the market (also called as liberalization of railways). Up to this point, the market was ...

2013

Logiques de synchorisation, lieux réticulaires et lieux de savoir

Boris Beaude

Du point de vue des savoirs, Internet est peut-être ce que pouvait être une «ville phare» telle qu’Alexandrie, Bagdad, Paris ou Rome. Ces villes furent autant de lieux qui incarnaient différentes expériences historiques des savoirs, chacune étant emblémati ...

2013

The importance of drainage system in railway tunnels and possibilities to reduce the LCC

Federica Sandrone

This paper will present the current state of drainage systems in new and existing SBB-railway tunnels. The fundamental drainage concepts, their limits as well as the LCC will be considered. The problems linked with the water pressure, its quantity and chem ...

2013

Accessibility Futures

Paul Richard Anderson

This study uses accessibility as a performance measure to evaluate a matrix of future land use and network scenarios for planning purposes. The concept of accessibility dates to the 1950s, but this type of application to transportation planning is new. Pre ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Brain-Actuated Assistive Mobility For Disabled End-User

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have been successfully used to control assistive mobility devices (like a telepresence robot or an electric wheelchair) using only motor imagery. Importantly, disabled end-users are able to achieve similar performances as h ...

De Gruyter2013

Nanocrystal-based active layers with tailored interfaces and architectures for advanced energy applications

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Llordes Gil

The properties of tasked nanocrystals in energy-related devices are strongly dependent on the presence and chem. nature of ligands at their surface, and the architectures they assume in electroactive layers. Here we will describe an exceptionally versatile ...

American Chemical Society2012

Optimal use of conservation and accessibility filters in microRNA target prediction

Jiri Vanicek, Ray Marcel Marin Florez

It is generally accepted that filtering microRNA (miRNA) target predictions by conservation or by accessibility can reduce the false discovery rate. However, these two strategies are usually not exploited in a combined and flexible manner. Here, we introdu ...

Public Library of Science2012

Commuting Scales. Dynamic Mapping of Time Accessibility

Boris Beaude, Luc Guillemot

Visualization tools can facilitate access to complex spatial phenomenon. This access is what the application to be presented aims at. As a case study to such a complex phenomenon, the addressed question is that of the commuters' space of the Swiss federal ...

2012

Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER)-tools for the discovery and exploitation of environmental data

Karl Aberer, Michael Lehning, Alexis Berne, Anthony Christopher Davison, Marc Parlange, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo, Robert Gwadera

The Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER) has been launched to take forward key data management components developed under the Swiss Experiment platform project to achieve improved usability and a wider scope. With this project, we aim t ...

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2012

Localization of point sources of PCBs pollution in rivers using LDPE passive samplers, a Swiss case study

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Nicolas Estoppey, Julien Omlin, Nancy El Ghorayeb

Due to its situation of “Europe’s water reservoir”, Switzerland has a particular responsibility towards downstream countries. It must ensure an optimal quality of its surface waters, following thus the example of the EU members which have to reach by 2015 ...

2012

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