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Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Marc Laperrouza, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin, Eric Hoesli

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

2019

Inertial manipulation of bubbles in rectangular microfluidic channels

Demetri Psaltis, François Gallaire, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Lailai Zhu, Pooria Hadikhani

Inertial microfluidics is an active field of research that deals with crossflow positioning of the suspended entities in microflows. Until now, the majority of the studies have focused on the behavior of rigid particles in order to provide guidelines for m ...

2018

Effects of visual and thermal stimuli interactions on comfort perception

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo

In industrialized countries, people spend on average 85-90% of their time indoors (1). For this reason, major efforts are being made to understand and control the factors which affect people’s comfort, health and well-being inside buildings (2). The indoor ...

2017

The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

2017

Mixed-Mode I/II fracture behavior of asymmetric composite joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Moslem Shahverdi

The partitioning of the total strain energy release rate, G(tot), into the Mode I, G(I), and Mode II, G(II), components is challenging, especially in asymmetric cracks. Although many researchers have studied the fracture behavior of composite materials und ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

AMP-activated protein kinase

Serge Thanh Son Ducommun

AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an evolutionally conserved key sensor of cellular energy status. Under conditions of cellular energy stress, AMPK is activated and will switch off anabolic processes that consume ATP, while activating catabolic proces ...

EPFL2016

Le facteur séisme dans l'architecture vernaculaire

Milo Hofmann

A large part of ancient built environments in earthquake prone areas have been accomplished exclusively thanks to the experience that their builders developed over centuries of practice. Several of the resulting techniques have showed a satisfactory perfor ...

EPFL2015

The early German production and use of modern hydraulic binders: between English influences and the search for a scientific approach, 1817-1839

Salvatore Aprea

Construction History Society2014

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