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KRAB zinc finger proteins link heterochromatin maintenance to replicative stress and inflammation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins

Genomic instability enhances cancer progression by favoring clonal diversity, yet uncontrolled replicative stress can lead to mitotic catastrophe and inflammatory responses promoting immune rejection. KRAB-containing zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) are epigen ...

EPFL2023

Effect of different ions on dissolution rates of silica and feldspars at high pH

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Mahsa Bagheri, Mahdieh Shakoorioskooie

The dissolution kinetics of silica-containing minerals in aggregates influences strongly the process of ASR in concrete. In this paper, the effect of different ions on the dissolution rates of SiO2 (amorphous and quartz) and feldspars at high pH values was ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Warping-Inclusive Kinematic Coupling in Mixed-Dimension Macro Models for Steel Wide Flange Beam Columns

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A warping-inclusive kinematic coupling method to be used in finite-element analysis of members featuring wide-flange cross sections is proposed in this paper. This coupling method is used in mixed-dimension macromodels that combine continuum and beam-colum ...

2022

Teaching Through Performing Arts in Higher Education: Examples in Engineering and Psychology

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Susanne Martin, Ramiro Tau

This paper introduces two courses making use of performing arts at university level. The first course, taught by Prof. Simon Henein and his colleagues, called Improgineering, aims to teach collective creation through improvisation to master’s degree studen ...

2021

An Introduction to MPEG-G: The First Open ISO/IEC Standard for the Compression and Exchange of Genomic Sequencing Data

Marco Mattavelli

The development and progress of high-throughput sequencing technologies have transformed the sequencing of DNA from a scientific research challenge to practice. With the release of the latest generation of sequencing machines, the cost of sequencing a whol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Towards Modelling of Visual Saliency in Point Clouds for Immersive Applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Peisen Xu

Modelling human visual attention is of great importance in the field of computer vision and has been widely explored for 3D imaging. Yet, in the absence of ground truth data, it is unclear whether such predictions are in alignment with the actual human vie ...

2019

Anderson localisation in steady states of microcavity polaritons

Daniel Oberli, Marcia Portella Oberli, Mitchell David Anderson, Fauzia Jabeen, Morteza Navadeh Toupchi, Albert Adiyatullin

We present an experimental signature of the Anderson localisation of microcavity polaritons, and provide a systematic study of the dependence on disorder strength. We reveal a controllable degree of localisation, as characterised by the inverse-participati ...

Springer Nature2019

The influence of different hydro-mechanical paths on final properties of saturated MX80 bentonite samples

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Patrycja Ewelina Baryla

Compacted bentonite is considered to be used for deep geological nuclear waste disposal due to its isolation properties such as low permeability, solute retention and swelling pressure. To ensure that these properties will remain favourable throughout the ...

2018

Efficient Multi-dimensional Diracs Estimation with Linear Sample Complexity

Martin Vetterli, Thierry Blu, Hanjie Pan

Estimating Diracs in continuous two or higher dimensions is a fundamental problem in imaging. Previous approaches extended one dimensional methods, like the ones based on finite rate of innovation (FRI) sampling, in a separable manner, e.g., along the hori ...

2018

Development of a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test method to evaluate the pozzolanic reactivity of calcined kaolinitic clays

Karen Scrivener, Ruben Anton Snellings, Mohsen Ben Haha, François Henri Avet, Adrian Alujas Diaz

The present paper introduces a new rapid, relevant and reliable (R-3) test to predict the pozzolanic activity of calcined clays with kaolinite contents ranging from 0 to 95%. The test is based on the correlation between the chemical reactivity of calcined ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Water retention and swelling behaviour of granular bentonites for application in Geosynthetic Clay Liner (GCL) systems

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Ali Seiphoori

Geosynthetic Clay Liner (GCL) systems are used as efficient hydraulic barriers in landfills for the disposal of hazardous municipal wastes. Along with geotextiles, bentonite materials are chosen as one of the primary components of GCLs due to their high re ...

Japanese Geotechnical Soc2016

Multidirectional transparent support for overground gait training

Joachim von Zitzewitz

Gait and balance training is an essential ingredient for locomotor rehabilitation of patients with neurological impairments. Robotic overhead support systems may help these patients train, for example by relieving them of part of their body weight. However ...

IEEE2013

Using a head-mounted camera to infer attention direction

Aude Billard

A head-mounted camera was used to measure head direction. The camera was mounted to the forehead of 20 6- and 20 12-month-old infants while they watched an object held at 11 horizontal (-80 degrees to + 80 degrees) and 9 vertical (-48 degrees to + 50 degre ...

Sage Publications Ltd2013

UV-cured Epoxy for Adhesion in Steel Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites

Basile Golaz

This work addresses the development of composite materials that contain metallic load-bearing cords with the aim of combining outstanding mechanical performance with added functionality, including electrical conductivity, data transmission, and temperature ...

EPFL2012

Removal of the antiviral agent oseltamivir and its biological activity by oxidative processes

Urs von Gunten, Kristin Schirmer, Silvio Canonica

The antiviral agent oseltamivir acid (OA, the active metabolite of Tamiflu) may occur at high concentrations in wastewater during pandemic influenza events. To eliminate OA and its antiviral activity from wastewater, ozonation and advanced oxidation proces ...

2012

Mode-specific reactivity of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2): The concerted role of stretch and bend excitation

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Marco Sacchi

The state-resolved reaction probability of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2) was measured as a function of CH4 translational energy for four vibrational eigenstates comprising different amounts of C-H stretch and bend excitation. State-specific reactivity is observed b ...

American Physical Society2010

Practical Box Splines for Reconstruction on the Body Centered Cubic Lattice

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

We introduce a family of box splines for efficient, accurate, and smooth reconstruction of volumetric data sampled on the body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice, which is the favorable volumetric sampling pattern due to its optimal spectral sphere packing prope ...

IEEE2008

The gas phase acidity of oligofluorobenzenes and oligochlorobenzenes: about the additivity or non-additivity of substituent effects

Fabrice Cottet

The deprotonation energies of benzene, fluorobenzene, all di-, tri-, and tetrafluorobenzenes, pentafluorobenzene, chlorobenzene, all di-, tri-, and tetrachlorobenzenes, and pentachlorobenzene have been calcd. at various levels of second-order Moller-Plesse ...

2005