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Calibration from statistical properties of the visual world

What does a blind entity need in order to determine the geometry of the set of photocells that it carries through a changing lightfield? In this paper, we show that very crude knowledge of some statistical properties of the environment is sufficient for th ...

2008

Calibration from statistical properties of the visual world

IDIAP2008

Evaluation of bamboo for building elements satisfying housing criteria

David Javier Guzman Chavez

Bamboo – identified as a Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) – offering optimal mechanical properties for construction purposes, and at the same time little studied among contemporary building materials, is paradoxically most used in precarious housing. The u ...

EPFL2008

From City to Detail - The sphere of the architect

Harry Gugger, Carolin Christin Stapenhorst

Essay outlining the working methodology of the laboratoire de la production d'architecture, and discussing the ability of the architect to influence the built fabric of urbanity beyond the scope of a building project. The article is a result of teaching an ...

Birkhäuser Architecture2008

Multicriteria analysis of health, comfort and energy efficiency in buildings

Flourentzos Flourentzou, Claude-Alain Roulet

In order to comply with sustainable development policy, the minimum that buildings should achieve are a healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient environment. Criteria for individually assessing each of the many criteria are known: the occupant's perceived ...

2006

Kinetics and mechanistic aspects of As(III) oxidation by aqueous chlorine, chloramines, and ozone: Relevance to drinking water treatment

Urs von Gunten

Kinetics and mechanisms of As(III) oxidation by free available chlorine (FAC-the sum of HOCl and OCl-), ozone (O-3), and monochloramine (NH2Cl) were investigated in buffered reagent solutions. Each reaction was found to be first order in oxidant and in As( ...

2006

Optimum design of cascade stilling basins using genetic algorithms

Roham Bakhtyar

Cascade stilling basins system, consisting of a series of falls and stilling basins, may be a good alternative energy dissipation system for high head dams. Traditional design of such a system is based on a trial and error procedure by which the number and ...

2006

Multicriteria analysis of health, comfort and energy-efficiency of buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet

In order to cope with sustainable development policy, buildings should be at least healthy, comfortable and energy efficient. Criteria for assessing individually the occupant's perceived health, the provided thermal, visual, acoustical comfort, the indoor ...

2005

Simulating stochastic demand of resources in an urban neighbourhood

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson, Nicolas Morel

The consumption of resources within an urban neighbourhood depends on the behaviour of its occupants. To understand the randomness of this behaviour and its effect on the demand of resources calls for the development of a set of stochastic models which are ...

2005

Construction and real estate dynamics

Besides being a major constituent of the industrialised economies, many aspects of the construction sector such as its heterogeneity, high volatility, low productivity gains and tendency to generate bubbles make it a particularly fertile field of analysis ...

Palgrave Macmillan2003