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Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu
Our contribution will propose a new approach for engaging with scientific instruments inspired by a recent exhibition which we have designed and organized. Inverting the current trope of presenting history through many objects, the exhibition weaved togeth ...
2023Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann
Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023Reflections on the use of natural light in buildings
The use of natural light in buildings can affect our physiological and psychological health and has comfort, behavioral, economic, and environmental consequences. ...
2022Steel, a material to reuse
The destructive impact of the construction industry on the planet and its inhabitants is no longer in question. Global warming, waste management, depletion of natural resources, air and soil pollution are all issues that must be urgently addressed. They ar ...
2022FinTech Lending
In this article, we review the growing literature on financial technology (FinTech) lending-the provision of credit facilitated by technology that improves the customer-lender interaction or used in lenders' screening and monitoring of borrowers. FinTech l ...
ANNUAL REVIEWS2022Activity-based modeling and simulation of epidemics
Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Rico Krüger
The SARS-CoV-2 outburst in March 2020 has led to the lockdown of several countries across the world. Mobility restrictions have been constantly put into action and reversed to find the trade-off between minimizing the number of infections and death and mit ...
2021Developing the Catalytic Applications of 1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes
The development of new catalytic methods for organic synthesis is a critical endeavour in order to obviate the economic and ecological drawbacks of stoichiometric organic synthesis. While catalysis can offer significant advantages in terms of atom-economy, ...
EPFL2021Reaching Paris Agreement Goal through CDR/DAC Development: A Compact OR Model
Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie
A compact operations research (OR) model is proposed to analyse the prospects of meeting the Paris Agreement targets when direct air capture technologies can be used or not. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy and energ ...
2021On the economics of social innovation - a conceptual framework and its policy implications
Social innovation addressing social, economic and environmental challenges are increasingly recognized as crucial drivers of social changes. However, the concept of social innovation remains vague. This paper builds a conceptual framework from an economic ...
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