Publications related to European single market

SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps

Michael Lehning, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Annelen Kahl

The overall EDGE objective is to fast-track the growth of locally-sourced decentralized renewable energy in Switzerland and to ensure that by 2035 and 2050, when ambitious shares of renewable energy are reached, the Swiss energy system is designed and oper ...

2022

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo spatial structures

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Romain Pascal T van Wassenhove

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo space structures is introduced in this paper. The system consists of a removable clipping connection for raw bamboo structures, adapted to the European market. The use of parametric design a ...

2021

The emission benefits of European integration

Vincent Moreau, Luís Costa Borges, Luis Costa

Simulating the implications of Brexit on the UK's emissions embodied in trade with a multi-region input-output table exposes the benefits of European integration. Under 2014 trade volumes, technologies and energy mixes, a hard Brexit-reverting to a trade p ...

2019

Skin lightening products' violations in Europe: An analysis of the rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products 2005-2018

Florentino Luciano Caetano Dos Santos

Background: Skin lightening products containing dangerous levels of chemicals pose a serious health concern for consumers. However, to date, the extent of these products in Europe has not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to determine whe ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

An origami-inspired cargo drone

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Multicopters stand to revolutionize parcel delivery because of their capability to operate in areas with unsuitable road infrastructure and precisely maneuver in cluttered environments. However, current multicopters for delivery can be dangerous for people ...

2017

Cross-Border Life in Europe: Daily Mobility in the Trinational Metropolis of Basel

Yann Francis Eric Dubois

In Europe about 2 million people work and live in two different countries. While at the European scale cross-border workers only account for a limited portion of the working-age population, in some regions cross-border work takes a huge importance. In thes ...

2017

Applicability of Non-Destructive Examination to Iter TF Joints Nb3Sn

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Stephen Alfred March

The Iter TF joints are of a twin-box design and the critical parameters of the overall resistance are 1) the contact between cable and termination, and 2) the resistance between two terminations. This paper describes applicability of non-destructive examin ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

A Two-level Computable Equilibrium Model to Assess the Strategic Allocation of Emission Allowances Within the European Union

Marc Vielle, Alain Haurie, Alain Bernard

This paper deals with the modeling of the strategic allocation of greenhouse gases emission allowances in the EU-wide trading market that results from Kyoto agreement implementation. An M-matrix game is formulated where the players are countries or groups ...

2006

Premières simulations de la directive européenne sur les quotas d'emission avec le modèle GEMINI-E3

Marc Vielle, Alain Bernard

The article assesses the European Directive on CO2 emission quotas using the GEMINI-E3 model. After summarizing the Directive and briefly describing the model, we present and analyze scenarios for different potential allocation rules. While the European qu ...

2005