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Catastrophe environnementale

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Gas Sensing with Rotary-Wing Nano Aerial Vehicles

Harmful chemical compounds are released daily in warehouses, chemical plants and during environmental emergencies. Their uncontrolled dispersion contributes to the pollution of the atmosphere and threatens human and animal lives.When gas leaks occur, their ...

EPFL2024

Environmental Flows Determination and Monitoring with Hydraulic Habitat Models-Pushing the Boundaries of Habitat Models Application

Mikolaj Stanislaw Adamczyk, Piotr Parasiewicz

Hydraulic habitat simulation models were designed for the quantitative determination of environmental flows that consider the needs of aquatic fauna in rivers and streams. In the past 50 years, the modeling techniques were significantly developed, but expe ...

2019

Special Section on Energy and Food Security in a Humanitarian Context

Natural disasters, population growth, social conflicts, and political or structural crises give rise to forced migrations, which can lead to humanitarian emergencies. According to the “UNHCR annual global trends report”, 65.6 million people were displaced ...

2017

Slash-and-burn agriculture and tropical cyclone activity in Madagascar: Implication for soil fertility dynamics and corn performance

Alexandre Buttler, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Thomas Guillaume, Justine Marie Gay des Combes

On the western coast of Madagascar, the dry tropical forest of Kirindy may disappear in the next 50 years because of its rapid conversion into agricultural land by slash-and-burn cultivation. The slash-and-burn fields are cultivated during 3 years in avera ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

On-field chemical profiling of volatile and odorous compounds in water pollution cases: toward a forensic in situ approach

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, William Lacour

With 6% of Europe's freshwater resources, Switzerland is often considered the ‘water tower of Europe’. There are 57’600 farms and 750 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in the country. When manure or raw wastewater enters aquatic environment, accidently or ...

2015

Chemical profiling of manure: toward source inference in environmental fraud cases?

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Nicolas Estoppey, Adrien Schopfer, William Lacour

With 6% of Europe's freshwater resources, Switzerland is often considered the ‘water tower of Europe’. Over 8 millions residents rely on more than 57’600 farms to provide meat, milk, or eggs, with 1.58 million cattle, 1.58 million swine or 9.39 million pou ...

2015

Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Legged Locomotion

Jamie Paik, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Yixin Bai, Benjamin Shih

Search and rescue robots are being used more frequently to access hazardous environments to assess situations and locate survivors. There are a wide range of existing mobile platforms for various situations and environments, but these robots are typically ...

2014

Resolving biodegradation patterns of persistent saturated hydrocarbons in weathered oil samples from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Jonas Gros

Biodegradation plays a major role in the natural attenuation of oil spills. However, limited information is available about biodegradation of different saturated hydrocarbon classes in surface environments, despite that oils are composed mostly of saturate ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Chiese provvisorie. Identità sospesa

Chiara Monterumisi

This book is the result of a choral participation (School of Doctorate Studies in Architecture, University of Bologna and Laboratorio “Ricerca Emilia”) in the exhibition entitled “Architetture padane”. It is also the second step of wider investigation focu ...

CLUEB2013

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