Publications related to Exploitation of labour

Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

Synthetic Studies toward Amanita Phalloides Toxins

Philipp Georg Werner Seeberger

Amatoxins are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified bicyclic octapeptides biosynthesized by the deadly basidiomycete fungus Amanita phalloides. Amongst this group, alpha-amanitin is the most widely known toxin and is currently under inv ...

EPFL2020

Fully 3D Printed Mechanical Pressure Sensors: A Comparison of Sensing Mechanisms

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen, Julien Gaëtan Berger

Recent advances in 3D printing techniques are allowing for new ways to manufacture sensors with materials and geometries previously not exploited. In this work we present a fabrication approach for fully 3D printed soft mechanical pressure sensors, as well ...

IEEE2020

A Passivity-Based Approach to Voltage Stabilization in DC Microgrids with ZIP loads

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Michele Tucci, Raffaele Soloperto, Andrea Martinelli

We consider the application of passivity theory to the problem of voltage stabilization in DC microgrids, which are composed of distributed generation units, dynamic RLC lines, and nonlinear ZIP (constant impedance, constant current, and constant power) lo ...

2020

Negative-pressure-induced enhancement in a freestanding ferroelectric

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Marco Cantoni, Tomas Sluka, Alexander Kvasov, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Jin Wang, Xiankui Wei, Brahim Dkhil

Ferroelectrics are widespread in technology(1), being used in electronics and communications(2), medical diagnostics and industrial automation. However, extension of their operational temperature range and useful properties is desired(3-5). Recent developm ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

In silico assessment of the HPLC-UV response coefficients

Eric Albert Georges Bremond

A new in silica approach allowing to compute HPLC-UV response coefficients using Time Dependent-Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) is here reported. Based on the use of a non linear least squares with bound restricted algorithm, this model exploits theoret ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

A (Nearly) Free Lunch : Extending NAND Flash Lifetime by Exploiting Neglected Physical Properties

Xavier Jimenez

NAND flash is a key storage technology in modern computing systems. Without it, many devices would probably not exist today or would at least not benefit from as many features. The very large success of this technology motivated massive efforts to scale it ...

EPFL2014

Liberalisation, competition and innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of letter volume, public ownership and other con ...

Springer-Verlag2013

Fault-Tolerant Facility Location: a randomized dependent LP-rounding algorithm

We give a new randomized LP-rounding 1.725-approximation algorithm for the metric Fault- Tolerant Uncapacitated Facility Location problem. This improves on the previously best known 2.076-approximation algorithm of Swamy & Shmoys. To the best of our knowle ...

Springer-Verlag2010

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation : the case of the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008

Structure-activity relationships for ruthenium(II)-arene drugs : in vitro and in vivo antitumour evaluation

Claudine Scolaro

The discovery of the anticancer properties of cisplatin in 1965 heralded the development of metallopharmaceuticals and founded a revolution in cancer therapy. Platinum drugs are believed to induce cytotoxicity by cross-linking DNA, causing changes to the D ...

EPFL2007