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We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual’s decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change ...

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Experimental and numerical investigation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy sheet pile wall

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Marianna Adinolfi

One-of-a-kind experimental and numerical investigation is provided in this paper about energy sheet pile walls: earth retaining structures that embed heat exchanger probes within piles for the exploitation of shallow geothermal energy. The study resorts to ...

ELSEVIER2021

A Laplacian approach to stubborn agents and their role in opinion formation on influence networks

Within the framework of a simple model for social influence, the Taylor model, we analytically investigate the role of stubborn agents in the overall opinion dynamics of networked systems. Similar to zealots, stubborn agents are biased towards a certain op ...

2020

Framework to Approximate the Value of Information of Bridge Load Testing for Reserve Capacity Assessment

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In developed countries, structural assessment of existing bridges should not be performed using the same conservative models that are used at the design stage. Field measurements of real behavior provide additional information for the inference of previous ...

2020

Kinetic processes in the high-temperature pressure-infiltration of Al into Al2O3

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Marta Fornabaio, Gionata Schneider

We explore the influence (i) of the interaction between aluminium and alumina, and (ii) of sodium impurities present in Bayer alumina, on the pressure infiltration of alumina particle preforms with molten aluminium. At 1000°C or above, although the alumini ...

2020

A miniaturized selective laser melting device for operando X-ray diffraction studies

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Nicola Casati, Samy Hocine

We report on the development of a miniaturized device for operando X-ray diffraction during laser 3D printing. The printing chamber has a size of only 130 x 135 x 34 mm(3) and is optimized to be installed at synchrotron beamlines. We describe the design co ...

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Determinants of pro-environmental behavior: A comparison of university students and staff from diverse faculties at a Swiss University

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann, Rafael Laurenti

In the context of an initiative to become a carbon neutral campus, an online survey (N = 1864) of students, scientists, and administrative and technical staff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Large eddy simulation of the tip-leakage cavitating flow with an insight on how cavitation influences vorticity and turbulence

Mohamed Farhat, Huaiyu Cheng

Cavitation within a tip leakage flow remains a challenging issue in a variety of axial hydraulic machines. It is still not possible nowadays to predict cavitation occurrence in such a flow with acceptable accuracy. In the present study, we have carried out ...

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Can we predict real-timefMRIneurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Kirsten Emmert, Maria Laura Blefari

Neurofeedback training has been shown to influence behavior in healthy participants as well as to alleviate clinical symptoms in neurological, psychosomatic, and psychiatric patient populations. However, many real-time fMRI neurofeedback studies report lar ...

2020

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