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Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making
Davide Scaramuzza, Christian Pfeiffer, Leyla Loued-Khenissi
Does gravity affect decision-making? This question comes into sharp focus as plans for interplanetary human space missions solidify. In the framework of Bayesian brain theories, gravity encapsulates a strong prior, anchoring agents to a reference frame via ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Biomechanics at the workplace under hypogravity conditions
The main goal of my research is to establish guidelines for workplace design based on human biomechanics: specifically sitting workplaces and handling areas in 1/6G-1/3G (Moon, Mars) conditions. Such a workplace could be used in long-term space missions in ...
EPFL2022Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field
General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief overview of various versions of GR, we focus on metric-affine gravity, which a ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022Characterizing human mobility patterns in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa
Andrea Rinaldo, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez
Human mobility is a core component of human behavior and its quantification is critical for understanding its impact on infectious disease transmission, traffic forecasting, access to resources and care, intervention strategies, and migratory flows. When m ...
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2021Matter matters in Einstein-Cartan gravity
Andrey Shkerin, Georgios Karananas, Sebastian Zell
We study scalar, fermionic and gauge fields coupled nonminimally to gravity in the Einstein-Cartan formulation. We construct a wide class of models with nondynamical torsion whose gravitational spectra comprise only themassless graviton. Eliminating nonpro ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021Mass loss of density currents travelling over pourous bed
Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sara Venuleo
Polluted liquids leaking from their storages over the surrounding gravel beds or oil spilling into aquifers, are examples of gravity currents moving over a porous terrain. Density-driven flows provoked by saline or temperature differences or turbidity curr ...
2019Surface tension and viscosity of liquid Pd43Cu27Ni10P20 measured in a levitation device under microgravity
Roland Logé, Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann
Here we present measurements of surface tension and viscosity of the bulk glass-forming alloy Pd43Cu27Ni10P20 performed during containerless processing under reduced gravity. We applied the oscillating drop method in an electromagnetic levitation facility ...
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