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The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

A critical assessment of experimental investigation of dynamic recrystallization of metallic materials

Roland Logé, Ke Huang

Dynamic recrystallization (DRX) often takes place during hot deformation of metallic materials, which then exerts significant influence on the final microstructures and mechanical properties of the formed components. A considerable number of published pape ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Data Management Checklist

Managing research data throughout its lifecycle ensures its long-term value and prevents data from falling into digital obsolescence. Proper data management is a key prere- quisite for effective data sharing throughout the scientific community. This, in tu ...

DLCM2018

Weyl vs. conformal

Alexander Monin, Georgios Karananas

In this note we show that given a conformally invariant theory in flat space-time, it is not always possible to couple it to gravity in a Weyl invariant way. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY li ...

Elsevier2016

Formation and aging of secondary organic aerosol from toluene: changes in chemical composition, volatility, and hygroscopicity

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is transformed after its initial formation, but this chemical aging of SOA is poorly understood. Experiments were conducted in the Carnegie Mellon environmental chamber to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from the photo- ...

2015

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

Open access models of publications: a strategy for improving 3R information retrieval?

Sylvie Vullioud-Marcacci

Accessing 3R information for fundamental research is difficult for many reasons: the titles, abstracts, and author keywords of scientific articles do not contain the terms 3R, Reduce, Refine, Replace, alternatives or replacement. Mesh terms in Pubmed or th ...

2013

Heinrich von Wild (1833-1902) and his Polaristrobometer

Jean-François Loude

Born near Zurich, Heinrich Wild studied physics and became in 1858 professor at the University of Bern. In 1868, he was called to the direction of the Central Physical (Meteorological) Observatory in Saint-Petersburg. During his 27 years in Russia, he was ...

2011

Access to the scientific literature in India

Patrick Gaulé

This paper uses an evidence-based approach to assess the difficulties faced by developing country scientists in accessing the scientific literature. I compare backward citations patterns of Swiss and Indian scientists in a database of 43'150 scientific pap ...

2009

The first chapter of this thesis, coauthored with Annamaria Conti, seeks to add an economic contribution to the current debate on using university licensing contracts to improve access to medicines in developing countries. We build a simple model in which ...

EPFL2009