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The project "Citizen Bench" aimed a better understanding of the variety of urban seating-needs. This report summarises the results of the citizen engagement project on public benches in the City of Munich. In the framework of this pilot project, a method ...

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Environmental policies: designing acceptable road pricing and voluntary waste sorting schemes

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Growing urban population implies many challenges for the municipalities in terms of mobility, housing, waste management or infrastructures. Public policies are thus needed to ensure a sustainable development. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze ...

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Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-based ‘Taste’Sensor

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Simon Lukas Hauser

The sense of taste is fundamental to a human chef's ability to cook tasty food. To develop robots that can demonstrate human-like cooking, robots need to be equipped with a sense of taste and enabled to use this perception capability to improve or understa ...

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How the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland affected residential preferences

Vincent Kaufmann, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

During the first wave of COVID-19, residents’ health and well-being were challenged as residential environments suddenly had to accommodate most of the functions of an urban system. Although scholars and practitioners have proposed reconsidering dwelling r ...

2021

The role of ride-split revenue optimization on service level and traffic operation

Min Ru Wang

This master's project studies the role of ride-splitting incentives in the service level, total revenue, and trac impact of a ride-sourcing platform, which is built as a discrete event simulator using simulated taxi data within a congestible road network o ...

2021

Obstacles and opportunities for reducing dwelling size to shrink the environmental footprint of housing: Tenants' residential preferences and housing choice

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Claudine Bettina Karlen

The environmental footprint of housing is greatly influenced by the size of a dwelling. Housing size is the result of households' dwelling selections; accordingly, it is critical to consider residential preferences and choices to inform efforts towards hou ...

SPRINGER2021

Equality of Learning Opportunity via Individual Fairness in Personalized Recommendations

Mirko Marras

Online education platforms play an increasingly important role in mediating the success of individuals' careers. Therefore, while building overlying content recommendation services, it becomes essential to guarantee that learners are provided with equal re ...

SPRINGER2021

Tenants’ residential mobility in Switzerland: the role of housing functions

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Ivo Philippe Baur

The interaction between residential preferences and dwellings is a complex system whose function thus far remains insufficiently explored. In this paper, we investigate housing functions as orchestrators of households’ residential mobility in the context o ...

2021

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the emission line galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshift 0.6 and 1.1

Cheng Zhao, Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Yuting Wang, Amélie Tamone, Claudio Gorgoni

We analyse the large-scale clustering in Fourier space of emission line galaxies (ELG) from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. The ELG sample contains 173736 galaxies covering 1170deg(2) ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

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