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Dalmine: From Company Town to Hybridized Productive Habitat

The establishment of company towns played a significant role in developing both urban and rural areas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By combining historical and urban research, this study provides findings about the industry's pol ...

Louvain research institute for Landscape, Archi- tecture, Built environment, UCLouvain2023

Generalization of an Encoder-Decoder LSTM model for flood prediction in ungauged catchments

Olga Fink, Yi Zhang, Peter Molnar, Silvan Ragettli

Flood prediction in ungauged catchments is usually conducted by hydrological models that are parameterized based on nearby and similar gauged catchments. As an alternative to this process-based modelling, deep learning (DL) models have demonstrated their a ...

ELSEVIER2022

Nanophotonic supercontinuum based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Wolfgang Hänsel

We demonstrate a broadband mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy for parallel gas-phase detection in the functional group region from 2800–3600 cm−1, using dispersion engineered silicon nitride dual-core waveguides which produce broadband, intensity-enhanced ...

Optical Society2019

An Indicator-Based Approach for Analysing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part II: Empirical Application to the Case of Weiz-Gleisdorf, Austria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

In this paper, we apply an indicator-based approach to measure the resilience of energy regions in transition to a case study region in Austria. The indicator-based approach allows to determine the resilience of the transition of regional energy systems to ...

2018

“It’s an Endurance Race” An Indicator-Based Resilience Analysis of the Energy Transition in the Allgäu Region, Bavaria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

The energy transition currently taking place in Germany is recognised as being one of the most ambitious socio-technical transitions at the present time. Scholars have so far mostly studied the resilience of the current or future state of the energy system ...

Oekom Verlag2017

Delineating policies: governing spaces with no coextensive institutions : metropolitan areas and disadvantaged communities in the United States

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Many policies are spatially targeted: they attempt to foster or incent policy actions in areas meeting specific criteria. The identification and delineation of the spatial reality of interest is a major challenge to spatially targeted policies. In many cas ...

EPFL2017

Assessing the degradation of compliant electrodes for soft actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

We present an automated system to measure the degradation of compliant electrodes used in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) over millions of cycles. Electrodes for DEAs generally experience biaxial linear strains of more than 10%. The decrease in elect ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Widespread Signals of Convergent Adaptation to High Altitude in Asia and America

Matthieu Foll

Living at high altitude is one of the most difficult challenges that humans had to cope with during their evolution. Whereas several genomic studies have revealed some of the genetic bases of adaptations in Tibetan, Andean, and Ethiopian populations, relat ...

Cell Press2014

Adapting ski area operations to a warmer climate in the Swiss Alps through snowmaking investments and efficiency improvements

Camille Gonseth

Economic consequences of climate change for the Swiss winter tourism have been assessed in two studies. Though estimates of the potential annual costs highly differ between them, they however agree on two points. On the one hand, winter tourism will be one ...

EPFL2008

Amphibian conservation in human shaped environments : landscape dynamics, habitat modeling and metapopulation analyses

Flavio Zanini

Global biodiversity is experiencing a worrying decline. Habitats destruction, associated to their degradation and fragmentation are among the greatest causes. Amphibians are particularly interesting because they are more threatened and decline more rapidly ...

EPFL2006