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Data Champions Lunch Talks - Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability

Miguel Peon Quiros, Francesco Varrato, Chiara Gabella, Manuel Simon Paul Cubero-Castan

For this edition of the DC Lunch Talks series, the discussion centered around Data-Driven Approaches to sustainability at EPFL, a topic of significant relevance in the contemporary academic landscape. The event featured a series of short talks by experts w ...

2024

Towards sustainable sanitation: Identifying and mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers

Tamar Kohn, Simon Schindelholz, Timothy R. Julian

Sanitation systems that systematically recover and reuse waste can promote social enterprise, reduce discharge of harmful nutrients, pathogens and other contaminants to the environment, replace synthetic fertilizer sources, and increase access to sanitatio ...

2017

Exploring the Links between Community-based Governance and Sustainable Energy use: Quantitative Evidence from Flanders

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

Community-based energy organizations have been said to influence their members’ energy-related behavior by activating social norms and by providing trustworthy information about sustainable energy investments and behaviors. However, little is known yet abo ...

Elsevier2017

A green productivity based process planning system for a machining process

Ian Anthony Stroud

In the metal cutting industry, manufacturers have strived to increase energy efficiency and to reduce environmental burdens through the use of dust collectors and waste disposers. It is more beneficial and efficient to apply the front-of-pipe technology th ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Variational minimization of orbital-density-dependent functionals

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Borghi, Andrea Ferretti

Orbital-density-dependent functionals, such as the Perdew-Zunger or the Koopmans-compliant functionals, are used to remove unphysical self-interaction energies and to restoremissing piece-wise linearity in approximate formulations of density-functional the ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

How a Complete Pesticide Screening Changes the Assessment of Surface Water Quality

Juliane Hollender

A comprehensive assessment of pesticides in surface waters is challenging due to the large number of potential contaminants. Most scientific studies and routine monitoring programs include only 15-40 pesticides, which leads to error-prone interpretations. ...

American Chemical Society2014

Herbicides export dynamics of a mid-sized lake tributary: lessons from observations and modelling

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Bettina Schaefli, Pierre Claude Jean Queloz

We present here a model which couples the hydrologic component and the transport of herbicides within a catchment. The model used takes into account the age structure of the stream water in order to characterize short and long term fluctuations of herbicid ...

2013

Exploiting the Path Propagation Time Differences in Multipath Transmission with FEC

Maciej Kurant

We consider a transmission of a delay-sensitive data stream (e. g., a video call) from a single source to a single destination. The reliability of this transmission may suffer from bursty packet losses - the predominant type of failures in today's Internet ...

2011

Analysis of intra-country virtual water trade strategy to alleviate water scarcity in Iran

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Increasing water scarcity has posed a major constraint to sustain food production in many parts of the world. To study the situation at the regional level, we took Iran as an example and analyzed how an intra-country "virtual water trade strategy" (VWTS) m ...

2010

The stable carbon isotope composition of the terrestrial biosphere: Modeling at scales from the leaf to the globe

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Global data sets of the stable carbon isotope composition of plant leaves, of CO2 in canopy air, and of CO2 in the background atmosphere were compiled and compared to results of a global vegetation model (BIOME4) that simulated, at these three scales, the ...

2002

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