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Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Martí Bosch Padrós, Jürg Utzinger

Unlike water and sanitation infrastructures or socio-economic indicators, landscape features are seldomly considered as predictors of diarrhoea. In contexts of rapid urbanisation and changes in the physical environment, urban planners and public health man ...

2022

A Large, Finite Permutation of Specific, Discrete Variants: Dan Graham's Children's Pavilion at Chambres d'Amis (1986)

Christophe van Gerrewey

In 1986, Dan Graham participated in Chambres d'Amis in Ghent, Belgium, curated by Jan Hoet as an art exhibition outside of the museum, in individual houses. With the help of a local architect, Graham constructed a glass and steel pavilion in a private gard ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

On the relation between landscape beauty and land cover: A case study in the U.K. at Sentinel-2 resolution with interpretable AI

Devis Tuia, Alex Hubertus Levering

The environment where we live and recreate can have a significant effect on our well-being. More beautiful landscapes have considerable benefits to both health and quality of life. When we chose where to live or our next holiday destination, we do so accor ...

2021

Geometric landscapes for material discovery within energy–structure–function maps

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Henglu Xu

Porous molecular crystals are an emerging class of porous materials formed by crystallisation of molecules with weak intermolecular interactions, which distinguishes them from extended nanoporous materials like metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). To aid disco ...

2020

Cellular memory enhances bacterial chemotactic navigation in rugged environments

Adám Gosztolai

The response of microbes to external signals is mediated by biochemical networks with intrinsic time scales. These time scales give rise to a memory that impacts cellular behaviour. Here we study theoretically the role of cellular memory in Escherichia col ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

A Closing Window of Opportunity to Save a Unique Marine Ecosystem

Anders Meibom, Maoz Fine

Five years in the making, a massive oil spill of 1 million barrels is imminent in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. Emergent action must be taken by the United Nations and its International Maritime Organization (IMO) to remove the oil, despite regional ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Edge influence on understorey plant communities depends on forest management

Matteo Tolosano

Questions Does the influence of forest edges on plant species richness and composition depend on forest management? Do forest specialists and generalists show contrasting patterns? ...

WILEY2020

Cooling potential of greening in the urban environment, a step further towards practice

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo

In the present century, for the first time in history, the urban population overpassed the rural one. Cities are growing, and their impact on the world energy balance is significant. Consequently, a sustainable urban environment focusing on the reduction o ...

2018

L'oeuvre de Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994), architecte à la recherche de l'identité élusive de l'architecture philippine du second après-guerre

Jean-Claude Girard

Filipino architect Leandro Valencia Locsin (Silay1928 - Makati 1994) produced an architectural work that involved 250 projects, of which at least more than half were completed and mostly in his country of origin. A graduate in architecture of San Tomas de ...

EPFL2018

Multi-scale feedbacks between tree regeneration traits and herbivore behavior explain the structure of pasture-woodland mosaics

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

The pasture-woodlands of Central Europe are low-intensity grazing systems in which the structural richness of dynamic forest-grassland mosaics is causal for their high biodiversity. Distinct mosaic patterns in Picea abies- and Fagus sylvatica-dominated pas ...

Springer Verlag2016

Registration of single landscape photographs with 3D landscape models

Timothée Produit

Terrestrial imagery found in public databases is an alternative and complementary data source for environmental studies. Compared to usual data source, such as airborne images, terrestrial pictures may have higher temporal and spatial resolutions. They are ...

EPFL2015

Imagining the Dutch polder landscape. A design by OMA from 1986

Christophe van Gerrewey

In 1986, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) / Rem Koolhaas created a landscape design for the Haarlemmermeerpolder, located between Amsterdam, Leiden, and Haarlem. They were invited by urbanists and planners wanting to denounce the urban policy ...

2015

Perception and use of landscape concepts in the procedure of Environmental Impact Assessment: Case study-Switzerland and Romania

Alexandre Buttler, Andreea Nita

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) defines landscape as "an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors". Because all aspects linked to landscape are evaluated during the En ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Subalpine Pasture-Woodlands in a Changing Climate : the Role of Land Use Type in Ecosystem Resistance to Simulated Climate Change

Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov

Climate change in temperate mountain systems and associated increase in temperature and decrease in precipitation are expected to have strong implications for vegetation productivity, species diversity and carbon turnover in subalpine grasslands. Little is ...

EPFL2013

La création d'une japonité moderne (1870-1940), ou Le regard des architectes européens sur le Japon : J. Conder, R. Mallet-Stevens, B. Taut et C. Perriand

Irène Elizabeth Vogel Chevroulet

This thesis questions the fundamentals and modes characterising the European architects' way of looking at Japanese architecture and garden art between 1870 and 1940. It establishes the corpus of the major writings and of other texts published by their Occ ...

EPFL2009

Effects of cognitives abilities on metapopulation connectivity

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco, Nicolas Perrin

Connectivity among demes in a metapopulation depends on both the landscape's and the focal organism's properties (including its mobility and cognitive abilities). Using individual-based simulations, we contrast the consequences of three different cognitive ...

2006

Animal dispersal modelling: handling landscape features and related animal choices

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco, Richard Metzger

Animal dispersal in a fragmented landscape depends on the complex interaction between landscape structure and animal behavior. To better understand how individuals disperse, it is important to explicitly represent the properties of organisms and the landsc ...

Elsevier2006

Map of ecological networks for landscape planning

Roland Prélaz-Droux, Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

This paper presents a method based on a geographical information system (GIS) to model ecological networks in a fragmented landscape. The ecological networks are generated with the help of a landscape model (which integrate human activities) and with a wil ...

Elsevier2002