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Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe, Melissa Pang, Ulrike Vilsmaier

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

On The Relationship Between Speech-Based Breathing Signal Prediction Evaluation Measures And Breathing Parameters Estimation

Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani, Venkata Srikanth Nallanthighal

The respiratory system is one of the major components of the speech production system. Any alteration in breathing can result in changes in speech. Specific breathing characteristics, such as breathing rate and tidal volume, can indicate a person's patholo ...

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Effect of task conditions on human hand pose selection strategies in bimanual fine manipulation tasks

Many manipulations in human everyday activities rely on the collaboration of our two hands. Bimanual fine manipulation tasks are particularly demanding as precise coordination among fingers of both hands is required. Yet, despite the abundant degrees of fr ...

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Integration of passenger satisfaction in railway timetable rescheduling for major disruptions

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Unexpected disruptions occur for many reasons in railway networks and cause delays, cancellations, and, eventually, passenger inconvenience. This thesis focuses on the railway timetable rescheduling problem from a macroscopic point of view in case of lar ...

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The influence of centrality on the global energy consumption in Swiss neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi

The objective of this research is to compare the energy consumption of seven recently built residential neighborhoods in the urban region of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in order to identify the influence of centrality on total energy spending. Primary energy i ...

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Autonomic SLA-driven Provisioning for Cloud Applications

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Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless their cloud resources are dynamically adjusted. Moreover, although cloud resources dedica ...

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The challenges of regulating the drinking water sector: lessons from Mozambique

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Private sector participation and liberalisation call for a greater and more efficient role for sector‐specific regulation. This necessitates a balanced and stable institutional regulatory framework to accommodate both public intervention and market dynamic ...

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Integrated sustainability assessment for local projects : environmental impact and their connections with economic and social fields

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Introduction In 1987, the need to strive towards development aimed at making it possible to satisfy the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations is generally acknowledged. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 propagated Agenda 211, whi ...

EPFL2005