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When walking peters out: investigating distance-decay and time-decay for daily walking

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Dominic Villeneuve, Fernando Anisio De Oliveira Simas

In Switzerland, walking accounts for 30% of trips and 44% of single-mode episodes. This is higher than in many countries but does not account for walking distances or durations, which tend to be short according to evidence from North America. This contribu ...

2018

Workshops of the Sixth International Brain–Computer Interface Meeting: brain–computer interfaces past, present, and future

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Anton Nijholt

The Sixth International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting was held May 30-June 3rd, 2016 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, United States. The conference included 28 workshops covering topics in BCI and brain-machine inter ...

2017

Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Yan Yan, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Cong Liu

We experimentally insert a flexible number of electro-optical (EO) comb lines into a Kerr frequency comb via EO modulation and demonstrate the use of combined Kerr and EO combs as light sources in coherent communications. The number of EO lines inserted in ...

Optical Society of America2017

Towards Automatic Train Operation for long distance services: State-of-the art and challenges

Daniel Emery

The Automatic Train Operation of a metro line is not so difficult to implement: almost no junction or crossing between lines, rolling stock homogeneity, double track operation, relatively low speed, very simple station track layout, mostly rubber-mounted, ...

2017

El Cruze. Water and Borders between Mexico and the United States of America

Valentina Collu

Le mur, qui sépare les Etas-Unis du Mexique, n'est pas seulement une division politique, c'est aussi une barrière physique qui coupe la continuité territoriale. Plus précisément, dans l'Imperial Valley, ce mur s'arrête au Colorado River, fleuve qui devient ...

2016

Capital gains and architectural losses: the transformative journey of Caudill Rowlett Scott (1948–1994)

Paolo Tombesi

The history of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) provides a powerful account of the cultural transformations, technological shifts and socio-political opportunities that shaped the idea of professional practice in the United States of America between the end of ...

2016

Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks

Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar

Even though rail transportation is one of the most fuel efficient forms of surface transportation, the cost of fuel constitutes one of the major categories of very high operating costs for railroad companies. In the United States, unlike in Europe, fueling ...

2015

The Urban Diffusion of Local Direct Democracy between Switzerland and the United States

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

In this chapter I expose how direct democracy instruments based on the ballot (referendum, popular initiative, recall), as opposed to assembly based direct democracy, have developed in Switzerland and have been adopted by more than 20 US states as an answe ...

Ashgate Publishing2015

Chapter 6: Design and Design Frameworks: Investment in KBC and economic performance

Christopher Tucci, Tilo Peters

This chapter addresses the nature and the economic impact of design by looking at design-related intellectual property and how businesses protect their knowledge based capital. The chapter reviews the nature and various definitions of design and how design ...

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development2015

Differences between magnitudes and health impacts of BC emissions across the United States using 12 km scale seasonal source apportionment

Athanasios Nenes

Recent assessments have analyzed the health impacts of PM2.5 from emissions from different locations and sectors using simplified or reduced-form air quality models. Here we present an alternative approach using the adjoint of the Community Mult ...

American Chemical Society2015

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