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Image information about the state of a building after an earthquake, which can be collected without endangering the post-earthquake reconnaissance activities, can be used to reduce uncertainties in response predictions for future seismic events. This paper ...

Springer2024

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Context. Gaia DR3 has offered the scientific community a remarkable dataset of approximately one million spectra acquired with the radial velocity spectrometer (RVS) in the calcium II triplet region, which is well suited to identify very metal-poor (VMP) s ...

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SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

Yi Zhang, Xin Chen, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Frédéric Courbin, Jean-Luc Starck, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Austin Chandler Peel, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Lei Zhang, Hua Zhang, Xiuwei Zhang, Libo Yu, Claudio Gheller, Mark Thomas Sargent, Yi Wang

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, requiring the application of ad ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents

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This contribution argues that a particular scientific context made summits a place of interest for eighteenth-century travelers. This development is connected to two particular scientific practices. First, the challenges raised by making the barometer into ...

2022

Revisiting Detailing Rules for Bending Bars, Anchorage and Minimum Shear Reinforcement in Concrete Structures

Frédéric Monney

Reinforcement detailing rules describe the shape, geometrical dimensions, and amount of steel to be placed in reinforced concrete structures. They allow for simple and fast designs, account for several effects neglected in the design, ensure a satisfactory ...

EPFL2022

Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions

Alina Volynskaya

In this article, I focus on digital scientific archives which are made up of the leftovers of science, such as drafts, obsolete instruments, photographs, documentation, etc. The artifacts exhibited in such collections were neither meant to be representatio ...

2021

Understanding multimodality through rhythm of life. An empirical evidence from the Swiss case study.

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy

The car dominance car in the urban transport system may contribute to health and environmental troubles. In recent years, multimodality appears as a central issue for public policies as they try to encourage and develop the modal shift in favour of walking ...

Routledge2020

Fourier could be a data scientist: From graph Fourier transform to signal processing on graphs

Pierre Vandergheynst, Benjamin Ricaud, Nicolas Tremblay

The legacy of Joseph Fourier in science is vast, especially thanks to the essential tool that the Fourier transform is. The flexibility of this analysis, its computational efficiency and the physical interpretation it offers makes it a cornerstone in many ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2019

Comparison of data interpretation methodologies for geotechnical back analysis

Ian Smith

Rigorous back analysis plays a major role in providing information to engineers for better decision-making. Most research on this topic has focused on optimization techniques. Comparative studies of data interpretation methodologies have seldom been report ...

2019

Review of design works for the conversion of sugarcane to first and second-generation ethanol and electricity

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Rami Bechara, Jean-Marc Schweitzer

The conversion of sugarcane, the world's largest crop, to energy vectors, namely first and second-generation ethanol and electricity, is an ongoing scientific endeavor. This conversion makes use of complex processes with numerous unit operations and proces ...

2018

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