Publications related to Naturalism (philosophy)

Morphological processes and potential for lacustrine delta restoration

Giovanni De Cesare, Stéphanie Joëlle André, Alexandre Philippe Louis Antoine Fourrier

Most lacustrine deltas are nowadays highly anthropized systems. River training works during past centuries considered rivers mainly as vectors of water and sediments from a point source to a sink. However, numerous problems have been identified by resident ...

2024

Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'

Marcello Ienca

The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty - often framed as ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2023

Exploiting Marginal Stability in Slow-Fast Quasilinear Dynamical Systems

Alessia Ferraro

The accurate investigation of many geophysical phenomena via direct numerical simulations is computationally not possible nowadays due to the huge range of spatial and temporal scales to be resolved. Therefore advances in this field rely on the development ...

EPFL2022

Design for Test With Unreliable Memories by Restoring the Beauty of Randomness

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Marco Widmer

This article presents a design-for-test methodology for embedded memories. The methodology relies on a fully random fault model of post-fabrication errors, which results in a low-overhead test strategy. The methodology's effectiveness is demonstrated on an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe, Melissa Pang, Ulrike Vilsmaier

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

Temporal stability of stimulus representation increases along rodent visual cortical hierarchies

Liviu Soltuzu

Cortical representations of brief, static stimuli become more invariant to identity-preserving transformations along the ventral stream. Likewise, increased invariance along the visual hierarchy should imply greater temporal persistence of temporally struc ...

Nature Research2021

A systematic review of machine learning classification methodologies for modelling passenger mode choice

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Ying Jin

Machine Learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being investigated as an alternative to Random Utility Models (RUMs) for modelling passenger mode choice. These approaches have the potential to provide valuable insights into choice modelling research ques ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Lieu hologrammatique, un concept et une méthodologie complexe de mesure de l'organisation spatiale des réalités sociales

Thibault Pierre Louis Romany

The urban is a complex phenomenon whose exploration remains a important scientific challenge. Choosing complex thought in order to renew our capacities for understanding and action on and with the urban is not trivial. The complex thought developed by Edga ...

EPFL2020

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

The participation of societal actors has been advanced as the gold standard of sustainability assessment processes and is thought essential to dealing with the plurality of normative claims surrounding sustainability and the need to take decisions in a con ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Motility as a tool to uncover mobility practices

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

This paper investigate the causal relationships that exist between the motility, defined as the personal ability to be mobile (Kaufmann et al., 2015), and mobility behaviors. To do so, we use the first wave (2018) of the "national daily mobility panel" sur ...

2019

A Weak Form Implementation of Nonlinear Axisymmetric Shell Equations With Examples

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Matteo Pezzulla

We present a weak form implementation of the nonlinear axisymmetric shell equations. This implementation is suitable to study the nonlinear deformations of axisymmetric shells, with the capability of considering a general mid-surface shape, non-homogeneous ...

2019

Design optimization of a CFRP-aluminum joint for a bioengineering application

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

Lightweight design demands and complexity requirements of modern high-end structures in aerospace, automotive, sports and bioengineering can be successfully covered by a combination of fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs) with metallic components. Conventional ...

2019

Specification of the cross-nested logit model with sampling of alternatives for route choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Xinjun Lai

We present an operational estimation procedure for the estimation of route choice multivariate extreme value (MEV) models based on sampling of alternatives. The procedure builds on the state-of-the-art literature, and in particular on recent methodological ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Verification methodology for plasma simulations and application to a scrape-off layer turbulence code

Paolo Ricci, Sébastien Jolliet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto

Bridging the gap between plasma physics and other scientific domains, in particular, the computational fluid dynamics community, a general, rigorous, and simple-to-apply methodology is presented for both the verification of the correct implementation of th ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Coupled Approach to Assess Caprock Deformation Caused by CO2 Injection

Lyesse Laloui, Chao Li

This study focuses on a specific problem related to the caprock deformation induced by the injection of CO2 at depth. The adopted methodology includes the development of a mathematical model that incorporates the deformable behaviour of storage media and t ...

ASCE2014

On the continuity of mean total normal stress in geometrical multiscale cardiovascular problems

Simone Deparis, Adelmo Cristiano Innocenza Malossi

In this work an iterative strategy to implicitly couple dimensionally-heterogeneous blood flow models accounting for the continuity of mean total normal stress at interface boundaries is developed. Conservation of mean total normal stress in the coupling o ...

Elsevier2013

Coupled semi-analytical solution for CO2 injection-induced surface uplift and caprock deflection

Lyesse Laloui, Chao Li

This study focuses on a specific problem related to the surface uplift induced by the injection of CO2 at depth. The adopted methodology includes the development of a mathematical model that incorporates the deformable behaviour of storage media and the fl ...

2013

A quality assessment protocol for Free-viewpoint video sequences synthesized from decompressed depth data

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart

In this paper, the analysis of a subjective quality experiment consisting in assessing the quality of free-viewpoint video sequences generated from decompressed depth data is presented. In the absence of a dedicated subjective assessment protocol for the e ...

2013

L'habitant et la cohabitation dans les modèles de l'espace habité

André Ourednik

The notion of habiter (inhabiting in both a transitive and intransitive sense), developed in the course of the second half of the 20th century, made it possible to place the human individual in the center of spatial theories. Of phenomenological inspiratio ...

EPFL2010

Monitoring of hygrothermal ageing effects in an epoxy resin using FBG sensor: A methodological study

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Dimitrios Karalekas

This study demonstrates the feasibility of using fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors to monitor the effects of hygrothermal ageing on the axial strains in a cylindrical epoxy specimen with a centrally located optical glass fibre. A 24 mm long FBG, inscribed ...

Elsevier2009