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5MW CW supply system for the ITER gyrotrons Test Facility

ECH (Electron Cyclotron Heating) for ITER will deliver into the plasma 20 MW of RF power. The procurement of the RF sources will be shared equally between the three following partners: Europe, Japan and Russia. Moreover, Europe decided to develop a RF sour ...

Elsevier2011

Structural Changes in Industrial R&D in Europe and the US

Dominique Foray, Stéphane Lhuillery

We analyse the structural changes that have characterised the organisation of industrial R&D over the last 25 years. Taking Mowery's work (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2009, 18(1), 1-50) on the US as a starting point, we reconsider the different aspect ...

Beech Tree Publishing, Oxford2010

Energy Storage for Railway Systems, Energy Recovery and Vehicle Autonomy in Europe

Alfred Rufer

The benefits of the use of energy storage means for traction vehicles has been demonstrated for many years, as well in academic research as in industrial prototypes. Today, the well developed storage equipments are coming in commercial vehicles and first e ...

2010

Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: European Rock Mechanics Symposium EUROCK 2010

The Proceedings of EUROCK 2010 is a collection of 6 keynotes and 193 technical papers accepted by the symposium. As an annual European regional event of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM), EUROCK has been a major exchange and discussion pl ...

CRC Press/Balkema2010

Fragility functions for seismic risk in regions with moderate seismicity

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel, Marcelo Rafael Oropeza Ancieta

Current seismic risk evaluations are mostly based on approximate vulnerability curves. Damage prediction is improved by considering structural characteristics of building. Such improved fragility functions do not exist for many structures, especially in co ...

2010

Towards Robust Place Recognition for Robot Localization

Barbara Caputo, Jie Luo

Localization and context interpretation are two key competences for mobile robot systems. Visual place recognition, as opposed to purely geometrical models, holds promise of higher flexibility and association of semantics to the model. Ideally, a place rec ...

Idiap2010

Are the US outperforming Europe in university technology licensing? A new perspective on the European paradox

Patrick Gaulé, Annamaria Conti

Europe is perceived to lag behind the US in converting its academic results into economic outcomes. Using new survey data and controlling for standard factors affecting the productivity of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), we find that European TTOs do n ...

2009

An analysis of the July 2006 heatwave extent in Europe compared to the record year of 2003

Martine Rebetez

Recent analyses have identified summer warming trends in Europe in recent decades, culminating in 2003, when mean summer temperatures were exceptionally hot over much of Europe. Mean monthly temperatures were very high in July 2003 and reached record level ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Autogenic succession, land-use change, and climatic influences on the Holocene development of a kettle hole mire in Northern Poland

Edward Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz

We reconstructed the Holocene developmental history of a kettle-hole peatland in the Tuchola forest of Northern Poland, using pollen, testate amoebae and plant macrofossils indicators. Our aims were to determine the timing and pattern of autogenic successi ...

2008

RemKoolhaas / OMA. The Construction of Merveilles

Roberto Gargiani

Creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic merveilles along the skylines of America, Europe and Asia ; author of Delirious NewYork, the book that has revolutionized the reading of the contemporary metropolis ; leader of the current generation of a ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2008

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