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An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

The industrial sector has a large presence in world energy consumption and CO2 emissions, which has made it one of the focal points for energy and resource efficiency studies. However, large investments are required to retrofit existing industrial plants, ...

2019

Agency conflicts around the world

Erwan Morellec, Boris Nikolov

We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency confl ...

2018

A new method to design structures that adapt to loads via large shape changes

Ian Smith, Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

The construction industry contributes to more than a third of the global energy demand and consumes almost half of all mined material resources. It is thus important to include energy and material efficiency criteria for the design of civil structures. Ada ...

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Where Does Energy Go in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Nanostructures?

Jürgen Brugger, Olivier Martin, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Jérémy Butet, Valentin Flauraud, Gabriel David Bernasconi

Electron energy loss spectroscopy is a method of choice for the characterization of both the spatial and spectral properties of localized surface plasmon resonances. The energy lost by the impinging electrons is commonly explained by the Lorentz force acti ...

2017

Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

Joachim Krieger, Daniel Tataru

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Annal Mathematics2017

Multiple Objectives of Lawful-Surveillance Protocols

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In recent work on open, privacy-preserving, accountable surveillance, we have proposed the use of cryptographic protocols that enable law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain actionable information about targeted users of mass-communication syst ...

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Low-temperature Collisions between Neutral Molecules in Merged Molecular Beams

Andreas Osterwalder, Justinas Jankunas, Benjamin Bertsche

We have developed an experiment for the investigation of neutral molecular collisions in the gas phase at temperatures as low as 100 mK. These low temperatures are obtained by merging two supersonic expansions, using an electric and a magnetic guide, and b ...

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Form, function, and evolution of living organisms

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

Despite the vast diversity of sizes and shapes of living organisms, life's organization across scales exhibits remarkable commonalities, most notably through the approximate validity of Kleiber's law, the power law scaling of metabolic rates with the mass ...

Natl Acad Sciences2014

The existence of a critical length scale in regularised friction

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, David Simon Kammer, Vladislav Yastrebov

We study a regularisation of Coulomb's friction law on the propagation of local slip at an interface between a deformable and a rigid solid. This regularisation, which was proposed based on experimental observations, smooths the effect of a sudden jump in ...

Elsevier2014

Process Design and Optimization (MLS-S03): Model Identification by Gradient Methods

Julien Léo Billeter

This lecture describes the following topics: • Dynamic Models - Conservation of Mass (Concentration Measurements) - Conservation of Energy (Calorimetry) - Beer’s Law (Spectroscop ...

2013

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An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning

Agency conflicts around the world

A new method to design structures that adapt to loads via large shape changes

Where Does Energy Go in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Nanostructures?

Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

Multiple Objectives of Lawful-Surveillance Protocols

Low-temperature Collisions between Neutral Molecules in Merged Molecular Beams

Form, function, and evolution of living organisms

The existence of a critical length scale in regularised friction

Process Design and Optimization (MLS-S03): Model Identification by Gradient Methods

Agency conflicts around the world

Where Does Energy Go in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Nanostructures?

An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning

A new method to design structures that adapt to loads via large shape changes

Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

Multiple Objectives of Lawful-Surveillance Protocols

The existence of a critical length scale in regularised friction

Low-temperature Collisions between Neutral Molecules in Merged Molecular Beams

Form, function, and evolution of living organisms

Process Design and Optimization (MLS-S03): Model Identification by Gradient Methods