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Sounds of Science: Translating Science and Technology Projects with TED

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

TED has become a powerful vector for disseminating information and consequently influencing public opinion on a broad range of subjects. While TED talks are immensely popular (Sugimoto et al., 2013), there has not been much scholarly research on this form ...

2016

A view on global urbanization

Emanuele Strano

It is widely recognized that global urbanization is one the most urgent issue of our time. Any problem related to global issues, such as climate change, social and environmental sustainability and the future of our society, is somehow related to cities and ...

EPFL2016

Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

Sean Lewis Hill, Miguel Nicolelis, Corrado Cali

The next grand challenges for society and science are in the brain sciences. A collection of 60+ scientists from around the world, together with 10+ observers from national, private, and foundations, spent two days together discussing the top challenges th ...

2016

Do we need "more research" or better implementation through knowledge brokering?

Janet Gordon Hering

More research is needed is an iconic catchphrase used by scientists worldwide. Yet policy and management decisions are continually being made with variable levels of reliance on scientific knowledge. Funding agencies have provided incentives for knowledge ...

Springer2015

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Berend Smit

The aim of the book is to provide an understanding of the current science underpinning Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and to provide students and interested researchers with sufficient background on the basics of Chemical Engineering, Material Scie ...

Imperial College Press2014

Architecture Without Content 9: The Difficult Double

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...

2014

Intriguing aspects of lanthanide luminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Svetlana Eliseeva

The enthralling properties of lanthanide luminescence have propelled luminescent probes, tags and materials based on these elements to the forefront of science and technology. In this minireview, attention is focused on the latest innovations and on less-k ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

Hydrology A Science of Nature

André Musy, Christophe Higy

Looking beyond a purely scientific discussion of hydrology, the authors of this volume emphasize that mankind needs to recognize the urgency of the situation in which our water is threatened. Providing a comprehensive overview of the broad and complex fiel ...

CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group2011

Universal-SBAS: A worldwide multimodal standard

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

This paper describes a generalisation of the aeronautical GNSS Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) air interface, in a true worldwide multimodal standard named Universal S-BAS. Examples of usages of this multifrequency future standard are presented in t ...

2010