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Development of a displacement-based design approach for modern mixed RC-URM wall structures

The recent re-assessment of the seismic hazard in Europe led for many regions of low to moderate seismicity to an increase in the seismic demand. As a consequence, several modern unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, constructed with reinforced concrete (R ...

Techno-Press2015

Modeling Social-Ecological Feedback Effects in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services in Pasture-Woodlands

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

An effective implementation of payment for environmental services (PES) must allow for complex interactions of coupled social-ecological systems. We present an integrative study of the pasture-woodland landscape of the Swiss Jura Mountains combining method ...

Resilience Alliance2013

A post-2020 EU energy technology policy: Revisiting the Strategic Energy Technology Plan

Matthias Finger

With the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) expiring in 2020, the EU needs to revisit its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon and to establish a policy framework that fosters the achievement of ambitious EU commitments for ...

Elsevier2013

Implications of in situ calcification for photosynthesis in a similar to 3.3 Ga-old microbial biofilm from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

Anders Meibom, François Robert

Timing the appearance of photosynthetic microorganisms is crucial to understanding the evolution of life on Earth. The ability of the biosphere to use sunlight as a source of energy (photoautotrophy) would have been essential for increasing biomass and for ...

2011

Trends in biomedical engineering: focus on Patient Specific Modeling and Life Support Systems

Alfio Quarteroni, Fabio Nobile, Christian Vergara, Wei Wu, Carlo D'Angelo, Federica Boschetti, Luca Formaggia, Paolo Zunino, Chiara Corsini

Over the last twenty years major advancements have taken place in the design of medical devices and personalized therapies. They have paralleled the impressive evolution of three-dimensional, non invasive, medical imaging techniques and have been continuou ...

2011

A Developing World Perspective on the Design of Wireless Enabled Humanitarian Relief Services

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

In the absence of adequate state support, societies in the developing world have long relied on community support for humanitarian relief. Such community networks provide a readily available platform for delivery of humanitarian relief services. Wireless t ...

2011

Uncertainty in prediction of disinfection performance

Urs von Gunten

Predicting the disinfection performance of a full-scale reactor in drinking water treatment is associated with considerable uncertainty. In view of quantitative risk analysis, this study assesses the uncertainty involved in predicting inactivation of Crypt ...

2007

Opportunistic Search with Semantic Fisheye Views

Pearl Pu Faltings

Search goals are often too complex or poorly defined to be solved in a single query. While refining their search goals, users are likely to apply a variety of strategies, such as searching for more general or more specific concepts in reaction to the infor ...

2004

Bast, A Framework for Reliable Distributed Computing

Rachid Guerraoui

Although useful in the development of distributed systems, current reliable distributed environments, such as group communication toolkits (e.g., ISIS, TOTEM, PHOENIX) or transactional monitors (e.g., ENCINA, TUXEDO), are hardly extensible or customisable ...

1997

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