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Surge tank throttles for safe and flexible operation of storage plants

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam

Throttle surge tanks are a part of high head powerplants. The main consequence of a throttle placement is to introduce head losses by accelerating the flow. They make it possible to manage extreme water levels during mass oscillations while increasing wate ...

2016

Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading

Dario Rodighiero

Visualizations need interpretation as a way to grasp the meaning of visual representation. They are complex, and often the process of creation is hidden to the public. Because of this, the following text illustrates a way to read the visual representation ...

CEUR.WS.org2016

Surveying the Evolution of Computing in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Education since 2012

Ian Smith

This paper presents the results of an online survey that was conducted in 2014 to assess the evolution of computing in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) education. A primary goal includes contributing to the understanding of the evolution o ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2016

Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events

Krassimir Panajotov, Yiqi Zhang

The pioneering paper 'Optical rogue waves' by Solli et al (2007 Nature 450 1054) started the new subfield in optics. This work launched a great deal of activity on this novel subject. As a result, the initial concept has expanded and has been enriched by n ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Iterative structural identification framework for evaluation of existing structures

Ian Smith, Romain Pasquier

Evaluation of aging infrastructure has been a world-wide concern for decades due to its economic, ecological and societal importance. Existing structures usually have large amounts of unknown reserve capacity that may be evaluated though structural identif ...

2016

Transformation through Participation? A critical inquiry into participatory research practices in the field of sustainability

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

Academic literature on the driving and constraining factors that shape the ways in which researchers, civil society actors, political decision-makers or entrepreneurs – i.e. actors with distinct forms of expertise - jointly define concerns and (co-)produce ...

2016

Acquiring Broad Commonsense Knowledge for Sentiment Analysis Using Human Computation

Marina Boia

While artificial intelligence is successful in many applications that cover specific domains, for many commonsense problems there is still a large gap with human performance. Automated sentiment analysis is a typical example: while there are techniques tha ...

EPFL2016

Piezoelectric Coefficients of AlScN Thin Films in Comparison

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Mahmoud Hadad

Since the discovery of a high piezoelectric response in AlScN by Akiyama and coworkers in 2009, a number of works of other groups confirmed the large increase of piezoelectricity when partially substituting Al cations by Sc cations, as long as the alloy gr ...

Ieee2016

A Review of Non-saturated Resin Flow in Liquid Composite Moulding processes

Véronique Michaud

The fundamentals of flow in the liquid composite moulding (LCM) processes are reviewed with an emphasis on multiphase flow effects considering the dual-scale thin porous media constituted by the textiles, and the dynamic wetting effects observed with visco ...

Springer2016

Knowledge Transfers through Diaspora Transnationalism and Return Migration: A Case Study of Indian Skilled Migrants

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The chapter is based on new empirical data collected through primary surveys and in-depth interviews with Indian skilled migrants in Europe and with returnees in India. The study found that Indian skilled professionals, scientists and students are contribu ...

Springer2016

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