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Building Capabilities for Service Innovation

The service sector is the most dominant sector in every developed economy today. The ability to develop and successfully launch new services is crucial for service organizations to stay competitive and to adapt to the ever-changing conditions of the enviro ...

EPFL2015

A tutorial on machine learning in educational science

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski

Popularity of massive online open courses (MOOCs) allowed educational researchers to address problems which were not accessible few years ago. Although classical statistical techniques still apply, large datasets allow us to discover deeper patterns and to ...

2015

Sources and forms of modelling uncertainties for structural identification

Ian Smith, Romain Pasquier

The aim of model-based structural identification is to make sense of monitoring data in order to improve knowledge of the real behaviour of structures. Common use of structural-identification techniques involves an assumption of independent zero-mean Gauss ...

2015

Nano-SAW Devices for Wireless Identification

Florian Bienefelt

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology is omnipresent in the devices around us today, mainly used as passive bandpass filters in most radio systems like smartphones and TV antennas or as delay lines in telecommunications. More recently, the possibility to ...

2014

Reservoir sedimentation management at Gebidem Dam (Switzerland)

Tobias Meile

The Gebidem Dam located on the Massa River intercepts annually around 400’000 m3 of solid material. These sediments must be evacuated by annual flushing of the reservoir over 4 to 7 days. A trend for silting in the flushing channel was observed during the ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Boiling Augmentation With Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces: Current Status And Research Outlook

John Richard Thome

Advances in the development of micro- and nanostructured surfaces have enabled tremendous progress in delineation of mechanisms in boiling heat transfer and have propelled the rapid enhancement of heat transfer rates. This area of research is poised to mak ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2014

Energetic particle instabilities in fusion plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Mario Ludovico Podesta

Remarkable progress has been made in diagnosing energetic particle instabilities on present-day machines and in establishing a theoretical framework for describing them. This overview describes the much improved diagnostics of Alfven instabilities and mode ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Migration, Scientific Diasporas and Development. Impact of Skilled Return Migration on Development in India

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Skilled migration has gained significance over the past number of years, with increasing studies addressing the flows of scientists, skilled professionals and students within the migration and development nexus, from the perspective of their potential cont ...

CODEV-EPFL, IDSK, JNU, ILO2013

Migration, Scientific Diasporas and Development: Impact of Skilled Return Migration on Development in India

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Cahier de la Coopération No.8, Cooperation and Development Center, EPFL2013

Mobility, Knowledge and Cooperation: Scientific Diasporas as Agents of Change

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The growing knowledge gap between the North and the South shows the need for innovative perspectives in the study of the mobility of scientists and skilled professionals. Today, more than ever, it is obvious that there is a need to recognize the importance ...

2012

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