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Bicyclic Peptide inhibitor reveals large contact interface with a protease target

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Angelini, Shiyu Chen, Jeremy Touati

From a large combinatorial library of chemically constrained bicyclic peptides we isolated a selective and potent (K(i) = 53 nM) inhibitor of human urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and crystallized the complex. This revealed an extended structure ...

2012

A Hybrid Bio-Organic Interface For Neuronal Photo-Activation

Diego Ghezzi

A key issue toward the realization of retinal prosthetic devices is a reliable transduction of the information carried by light into specific patterns of electrical activity at the level of the networks involved in visual information processing. In this pe ...

2012

Materials for neural interfaces

Philippe Renaud

The treatment of disorders of the nervous system poses a major clinical challenge. Development of neuromodulation (i.e., interfacing electronics to nervous tissue to modulate its function) has provided patients with neuronal-related deficits a new tool to ...

2012

Design tool for estimation of buffer requirement for enhanced reductive dechlorination of chlorinated solvents in groundwater

David Andrew Barry, Clare Robinson

To assist in the design of enhanced reductive dechlorination systems for in situ remediation of chlorinated solvent source zones, the software BUCHLORAC (BUffering of deCHLORination ACidity) was developed to predict the amount of buffer required to maintai ...

Elsevier2009

User Technology Adoption Issues in Recommender Systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Nicolas Jones

Two music recommender websites, Pandora (a content-based recommender) and Last.fm (a rating-based social recommender), were compared side-by-side in a within-subject user study involving 64 participants. The main objective was to investigate users’ initial ...

2007

Concrete syntax definition for modeling languages

Frédéric Fondement

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of models as primary artefacts of a software development process, as an attempt to handle complexity through abstraction, e.g. to cope with the evolution of execution platforms. MDE follows a stepwise approac ...

EPFL2007

Performance evaluation of consumer decision support systems

Pearl Pu Faltings

Consumer decision support systems (CDSSs) help online users make purchasing decisions in e-commerce Web sites. To more effectively compare the usefulness of the various functionalities and interface features of such systems, we have developed a simulation ...

Idea Group Publishing2006

Query types in the meeting domain: assessing the role of argumentative structure in answering questions on meeting discussion records

Marita Ailomaa, Vincenzo Pallotta

We define a new task of question answering on meeting records and assess its difficulty in terms of types of information and retrieval techniques required. The importance of this task is revealed by the increasingly growing interest in the design of sophis ...

2006

VR haptic interfaces for teleoperation: an evaluation study

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Renaud Ott

We present the results of an evaluation study in the framework of user interfaces for teleoperation of vehicles. We developed a virtual cockpit with haptic feedback provided by a Haptic Workstation™. Four alternative teleoperation interfaces were implement ...

2005

Interaction indirecte en réalité virtuelle à l'aide d'un médiateur

Currently many researches in the field of multimodal interfaces (input, output) have been made in order to be able to achieve complex tasks merely, naturally, and quickly. Expert interfaces should be considering the risks resulting from an ordered action, ...

EPFL2005

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