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Financing rail infrastructure by multi-annual performance contracts

Dagny Anne Greinus

After decades of public or private vertically integrated monopolies, the organisation of the European railway sector was re-structured. The European Commission has been seeking to improve the efficiency of the railways to strengthen the position of railway ...

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Future of flight: From the return of supersonic travel to pods that clip onto planes

Claudio Leonardi

Modular aircraft for flexible transportation The modular Clip-Air aircraft decouples the transportation module - a flying wing - from its load - capsules that can carry passengers, freight, or fuel. This project is laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s air ...

2016

Optimal control of the Cahn-Hilliard equation

Stefano Guarino

The goal of the project is to study an optimal control problem for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. To this end, we proceed in three steps: we first introduce the Cahn-Hilliard equation and how it is derived, and describe some of its applications; then, we appr ...

2015

Karahnjukar dam spillway: Comparison of operational data and results from hydraulic modelling

Michael Pfister

The Karahnjukar dam spillway is the spillway for the Halslon reservoir, the main reservoir for the 690 MW Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in East Iceland. The spillway consist of a 140 m long overflowing weir with a capacity of 2250 m3/s which discharges ...

2015

Augmented Reality on your Smartphones

Gaétan Séchaud

Nowadays, mobile phone applications become more and more impressive, while the programming languages related to them offers more possibilities for new applications. One of these possibilities is the domain of the augmented reality, which consists of an app ...

2015

Building 2050 - Research program

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The Cardinal brewery bottled its last beer in 2011 in Fribourg. In order to revitalize this postindustrial urban area, the Canton and the city of Fribourg decided to transform the site into an innovation quarter (a technology and innovation park), called b ...

2015

Dynamics across the structural transitions at elevated temperatures in Na0.7CoO2

Martin Mansson

The layered transition-metal oxide Nax CoO2 has been studied extensively both for its correlated electronic properties as well as for potential battery applications. It was discovered that high-temperature Na ion vacancy order and dynamics can be very usef ...

E D P Sciences2015

Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state

Maxime Carl Felder

Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 ...

2015

Viscoelastic characterization of HEMA-DMHA hydrogels.

Mohamadreza Nassajian Moghadam

The goal of this project is determination of viscoelastic properties (creep, relaxation, and dissipation) of biodegradable HEMA-based (hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels. The viscoelastic characterization will be done under compression as well as shear ( ...

2014

Learning dashboards: an overview and future research opportunities

Sten Govaerts

In this paper, we present work on learning analytics that aims to support learners and teachers through dashboard applications, ranging from small mobile applications to learnscapes on large public displays. Dashboards typically capture and visualize trace ...

Springer London Ltd2014