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Military and Art Museum Bunkered into the Landscape
The project is situated at the entrance of the Sado Estuary, a crucial location for the defense of Lisbon and Setubal. This place witnessed military occupations at various historical periods. Faced with abandonment and destruction, the intervention focuses ...
2023Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng
For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...
2023Optimizing the mitigation of epidemic spreading through targeted adoption of contact tracing apps
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the first epidemic in human history in which digital contact tracing has been deployed at a global scale. Tracking and quarantining all the contacts of individuals who test positive for a virus can help slow down an epidemi ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice
Frédéric Kaplan, Marcel Salathé, Gianrocco Lazzari, Giovanni Colavizza
The plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is widely considered to be responsible for the most devastating and deadly pandemics in human history. Starting with the infamous Black Death, plague outbreaks are estimated to have ...
2020Atomistic Simulations of The Structure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates: Interlayer Positions, Water Content And A General Structural Brick Model
Portland cement has been in use by human civilization for over a century. Yet, we do not fully understand its hydration reaction mechanisms due to the complexity of the system and its continued reaction over time making it hard to study it experimentally. ...
EPFL2018Mobility, Knowledge and Cooperation: Scientific Diasporas as Agents of Change
The growing knowledge gap between the North and the South shows the need for innovative perspectives in the study of the mobility of scientists and skilled professionals. Today, more than ever, it is obvious that there is a need to recognize the importance ...
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