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Driving an electric vehicle. A sociological analysis on pioneer users

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In most of the western countries, car is the prevalent means of transport for local mobility. At the same time, sensitivity to environmental issues is increasing, correlated to the consciousness that carbon dioxide emissions have to be reduced. In regard t ...

2011

The effects of channel length and film microstructure on the performance of pentacene transistors

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Libero Zuppiroli, Katrin Sidler Arnet, Franziska Dora Fleischli

With the use of the stencil lithography, we fabricated pentacene thin-ﬁlm transistors pre- pared directly on thermally oxidized silicon gates with channel lengths ranging from 2 to 600 lm. By performing 4-probe measurements or by using the transfer line me ...

Elsevier2011

Adding Meaning to Your Steps (Keynote Paper)

Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent

Mobility data is becoming an important player in many application domains. Many techniques have been elaborated to extract statistical knowledge from the data sets gathering raw data tracks about the moving objects of interest to an application. These data ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

Mobility and social exclusion : the need of a comprehensive research approach

Hanja-Niriana Maksim, Regina Witter

In recent years, issues of social inequality and social exclusion in mobility and transport have gained increasing attention, both in empirical research and in policymaking and transport development. While some European countries (such as Great Britain, th ...

Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses2011

Small strain mechanical properties of latex-based acrylic nanocomposite films

John Christopher Plummer, Riccardo Ruggerone

A waterborne latex-based technique has been used to prepare acrylic films with laponite contents up to about 25 vol%. The laponite was attached to the surfaces of the latex particles, giving a cellular arrangement of laponite-rich regions at high laponite ...

2011

Segmentation of Foot and Ankle Complex based on Kinematic Criteria

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli, Xavier Crevoisier, Hossein Rouhani

Although various foot models were proposed for kinematics assessment using skin makers, no objective justification exists for the foot segmentations. This study proposed objective kinematic criteria to define which foot joints are relevant (dominant) in sk ...

Taylor & Francis2011

Integration for All Configurations

Mihai Adrian Ionescu

Since their discovery in 1991 [1], carbon nano-tubes (CNTs), have been considered among the most promising materials for logic nanodevices, interconnects and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). They have remarkably unique mechanical (Youngs modulus up to ...

2011

Contextual Factors in the Adoption of Social Software: a Case Study

Denis Gillet, Maryam Najafian-Razavi

Over the past decade, social computing has emerged immensely as a phenomenon among distributed communities. The benefits of social systems depend on a large part on the existence of an active user community who use it continuously to deploy and share infor ...

2011

Does it matter for us that my partner or I commute ? Spatial mobility for job reasons and the quality of conjugal relationships in France, Germany, and Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry

Spatial mobility has often been considered a detrimental factor for families for various reasons, stemming from increasing stress, unpredictability of daily life, increasing gender inequalities, and decreasing investment in parenting and partnerships due t ...

2010

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