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Panoramic View of Fault failure Modes from Laboratory and Numerical Experiments

Carolina Giorgetti

Certain phenomena in nature occur in Goldilocks zones that provide just the right conditions. One such phenomenon in earthquake science seems to be the occurrence of slow slip preceding dynamic slip. For example, the slow slip before the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku ...

2019

Unravelling the precipitation pathway of biorelevant minerals: from fundamental studies to biomedical applications

Agnese Carino

The formation pathway of biominerals archetypes, namely calcium carbonate (CaC) and calcium phosphates (CaPs), was investigated using a multidisciplinary approach. The time-resolved analytical data were collected using a controlled-composition method and i ...

EPFL2018

Sensitivity to Dispersion Forces in First-Principles Modeling of Disordered Chalcogenides

Assil Bouzid, Carlo Massobrio

The inclusion of dispersion (van der Waals, vdW) forces in first-principles modeling of disordered chalcogenides is analyzed and critically discussed in view of their impact on the atomic structure. To this purpose we considered the case of glassy GeTe4. W ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

Reflection: A Socratic approach

Reflection is a fuzzy concept. In this article we reveal the paradoxes involved in studying the nature of reflection. Whereas some scholars emphasize its discursive nature, we go further and underline its resemblance to the self-biased dialogue Socrates ha ...

Sage Publications Ltd2017

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Giovanni Colavizza

Marvel et al. [12] recently argued that the pre-modern contact world was physically and, by set inclusion, socially not small-world. Since the Black Death and similar plagues used to spread in well-defined waves, the argument goes, the underlying contact n ...

Springer International Publishing2016

A view on global urbanization

Emanuele Strano

It is widely recognized that global urbanization is one the most urgent issue of our time. Any problem related to global issues, such as climate change, social and environmental sustainability and the future of our society, is somehow related to cities and ...

EPFL2016

The Squares of Montchoisy. Notes for a History of the Open Form in Geneva

Elena Cogato Lanza

This paper deals with the ambivalent character of the neighborhood «Squares Montchoisy» built in Geneva between 1929 and 1957. According to visual representations (photographs and drawings) disseminated by the architect Maurice Braillard, the project embod ...

2014

Estimation of Space-Time Varying Parameters Using a Diffusion LMS Algorithm

Ali H. Sayed

We study the problem of distributed adaptive estimation over networks where nodes cooperate to estimate physical parameters that can vary over both space and time domains. We use a set of basis functions to characterize the space-varying nature of the para ...

2014

Materials Taking a Lesson from Nature

Holger Frauenrath, Emmanuel Croisier, Liangfei Tian

Structural biomaterials with their often extraordinary properties and versatile functions are typically constructed from very limited sets of building blocks and types of supramolecular interactions. In this review we discuss how, inspired by nature's desi ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2013

Locality and universality in gyrokinetic turbulence

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner

The nature of nonlinear interactions in gyrokinetic (GK) turbulence, driven by the ion-temperature gradient instability, is investigated using direct numerical simulations in toroidal flux tube geometry. To account for the level of separation existing betw ...

American Physical Society2012