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A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management

Understanding the meaning of value to asset-intensive organizations and their stakeholders has been a long -standing goal of researchers and managers of the asset management community. These issues have become particularly prominent with the publication of ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Palimpsest Metaphor: Figures and Spaces of the Contemporary Project

Paola Viganò

What are the consequences of the use of the palimpsest metaphor on the construction of the contemporary project? The metaphor casts criticism on the modern project and opens to the long-term (longue durée). The investigation of territorial rationalities br ...

2020

The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

Hilal Lashuel, Graham Knott, Marion Leleu, Fabien Kuttler, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Mary-Claude Croisier-Coeytaux, Johannes Burtscher, Niran Maharjan, Laura Emmeline H Weerens

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated α-synuclein (α-syn) into intraneuronal inclusions named Lewy bodies (LBs). Although it is widely believed that α-syn plays a central role in the pathogenesis of PD, t ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Development of chemical biology tools to reveal the function and organization of the silenced chromatin state

Nora Guidotti

Effector proteins are recruited to chromatin via transient interactions between their reader domains and histone post-translational modification (PTM) patterns. These interactions form signaling pathways that control gene expression or repression and which ...

EPFL2020

Testing Analytical Frameworks in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development

Jean-Claude Bolay, Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Silvia Hostettler, Clémence Noëlie Marie Ranquet Bouleau, Marina Cracco

This article discusses the concept and the practice of transdisciplinary research, including how it is conceived and implemented through the cooperation of different actors involved. With transdisciplinarity gaining recognition as an approach to addressing ...

2019

Meeting Report – The 2019 FEBS special meeting on sphingolipid biology: sphingolipids in physiology and pathology

Giovanni D'Angelo

Sphingolipids are a fundamental class of molecules that are involved in structural, organizational and signaling properties of eukaryotic membranes. Defects in their production or disposal lead to acquired and inherited human diseases. A growing community ...

2019

Neural dynamics of the competition between grouping organizations

Michael Herzog, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Einat Rashal

Neural dynamics of the competition between grouping organizations have been studied to a limited extent. The paradigms used so far confounded grouping operations with task demands, using explicit reports of the predominantly perceived organization and bias ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

A new approach to spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

Motorcycle taxis operate in a non-regulated, uncontrolled environment, raising public health, environmental and economic issues. Consideration of such issues requires an in-depth understanding of motorcycle taxis’ organizational and operational features. U ...

2017

Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

Mervegül Kirci

As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...

EPFL2017

Spatial organization of DNA sequences directs the assembly of bacterial chromatin by a nucleoid-associated protein

Giovanni Dietler, Aleksandre Japaridze, Sylvain Renevey

Structural differentiation of bacterial chromatin depends on cooperative binding of abundant nucleoid-associated proteins at numerous genomic DNA sites and stabilization of distinct long-range nucleoprotein structures. Histone-like nucleoid-structuring pro ...

American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)2017

Graspeo: a Social Media Platform for Knowledge Management in NGOs

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Timely access to critical information is crucial for any organization operating in situations of emergency. Deploying an adequate information system tailored to specific organizational needs and matched to the organizational structure is essential. To unde ...

2015

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Creative-Learning Innovation Cycle - CLIC : Work Motivation and Organizational Creativity

Vincent Nassar

WHY do certain leaders’ management of organizational resources encourage creative people engaged in New Product Development (NPD) to achieve high performance, on time, while other leaders’ practices foster frustration and delays? In this research project I ...

EPFL2012

Aligning Value and Implementation in Service Design: A Systemic Approach

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Philippe Laprade, Julien Ramboz

The promise of service design is to enable a service supplier to prosper by delivering continuous value to customers. This prosperity is of strategic value to the service supplier. There is value in a service for both the service supplier and its service c ...

2012

A Systemic Approach for Designing Open Innovation Value Networks

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

The past two decades have seen a number of changes to the business and technological environment that have favored the rise of “open” collaborative innovation as alternative to the more traditional ”closed” models. The traditional view of innovation as a c ...

International Society for Professional Innovation Management2009

Co-ordination of local policies for urban development and public transportation in four Swiss cities

Vincent Kaufmann

The present article aims at assessing the possibility for urban areas to coordinate local policies of urban development and public transportation and at explaining the differences in this achievement between urban regions. In order to do so, the study draw ...

2006

Where do Goals Come From: the Underlying Principles of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

Goal is a widely used concept in requirements engineering methods. Several kinds of goals, such as achievement, maintenance and soft goals, have been defined in these methods. These methods also define heuristics for the identification of organizational go ...

2005

A Method and Tool for Business-IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko, Lam Son Lê, Irina Rychkova

Enterprise architects seek to align enterprise processes and structure with their supporting IT systems so that enterprises can flourish in their environment. The enterprise architecture (EA) discipline has emerged from business best practices. EA framewor ...

2005