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Materials Taking a Lesson from Nature

Holger Frauenrath, Emmanuel Croisier, Liangfei Tian

Structural biomaterials with their often extraordinary properties and versatile functions are typically constructed from very limited sets of building blocks and types of supramolecular interactions. In this review we discuss how, inspired by nature's desi ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2013

Using semi-open questions to integrate perceptions in choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Bilge Atasoy

This research investigates the measurement of perceptions by means of adjectives freely reported by respondents in semi-open questions. The objective of this work is to use these adjectives as indicators of perceptions in hybrid choice models (HCM) in orde ...

2012

On Complete Completion using Types and Weights

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero, Ivan Kuraj, Ruzica Piskac

Developing modern software applications typically involves composing functionality from existing libraries. This task is difficult because libraries may expose many methods to the developer. To help developers in such scenarios, we present a technique that ...

2012

Social Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Design Approach

This article shows the design of an assistive product and a proposal of a business plan for persons with motor disability in lower-limbs, in accordance with the guidelines for social inclusion of the World Health Organization (2001). The design project wit ...

2012

On Fast Code Completion using Type Inhabitation

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero, Ivan Kuraj, Ruzica Piskac

2012

Techniques for modelling microstructure in metal forming processes

Roland Logé

This chapter discusses several types of numerical models for metallurgical evolution. First, some basic notions of microstructure representations and microstructure state variables, some features of hardening and recovery and some features of recrystalliza ...

Elsevier Ltd.2012

People-Centric Mobile Sensing with a Pragmatic Twist: from Behavioral Data Points to Active User Involvement

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Mobile phones have recently been used to collect large-scale continuous data about human behavior. This people centric sensing paradigm is useful not only from a scientific point of view: Contextual user data has pragmatic value, too. Individuals whose dat ...

2011

From Labyrinth to Piano Key Weirs – A historical review

Anton Schleiss

Free crest spillways are hydraulically efficient and safe in operation. Since their discharge capacity is directly proportional to the crest length several types have been developed with the purpose to increase the length of the latter. Among these types t ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Improving API Documentation for Java-like Languages

Gilles Dubochet, Donna Malayeri

The Javadoc paradigm for displaying API documentation to users is quite popular, with similar variants existing for many mainstream languages. However, two user interface design properties of Javadoc may reduce its utility when displaying documentation for ...

2010

Modified Geometry of Transition Slabs for Integral Bridges

Damien Dreier

Over the past decades, an increasing number of integral bridges have been built. This type of bridge offers various advantages in comparison with standard bridges equipped with expansion joints and bearings. In particular, integral bridges require less mai ...

EPFL Doctoral conference in Mechanics - EDCM20102010