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Objective: To investigate the association between socioeconomic deprivation and the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 clusters. Methods: We analyzed 3,355 SARS-CoV-2 positive test results in the state of Geneva (Switzerland) from February 26 to April 30, 2020. We ...

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Innovative Techniques and Strategies for a Reliable High-Throughput Genotoxicity Assessment

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Assessing Subaquatic Mass Movement Hazards: an Integrated Observational and Hydrodynamic Modelling Approach

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A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

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Competitive Neural Layer-based Method to Identify People with High Risk for Diabetic Foot

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Background and objective: To automatically identify patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) who have high risk of developing diabetic foot, via an unsupervised machine learning technique. Methods: We collected a new database containing 54 known risk factors f ...

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Impact of facade details on the reliability of performance-based decisions for early-stage neighborhood designs

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Neighborhood-scale projects often commence with the conceptualization of several massing-schemes as potential design solutions. There is growing interest in using building performance simulation (BPS) to evaluate and rank such conceptual stage schemes in o ...

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Design of a quality control network for an international food company

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

In this article, the design of a quality control network is considered in an entire supply chain, in the context of an international food and beverage company, denoted as ABC. For each possible control point of the network, two decisions have to be made: ( ...

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Analysis of SwissCovid

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux

We present an analysis of the SwissCovid application which is currently being tested. We observe that the essential part of SwissCovid is under the control of Apple and Google. Outsourcing the heart of SwissCovid to Apple and Google has apparent benefits i ...

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