Publications related to Future generations

Digital Guardianship: Innovative Strategies in Preserving Armenian’s Epigraphic Legacy

In the face of geopolitical threats in Artsakh, the preservation of Armenia’s epigraphic heritage has become a mission of both historical and cultural urgency. This project delves deep into Armenian inscriptions, employing advanced digital tools and strate ...

2024

Multiwavelength cross-correlation analysis of the simulated cosmic web

Claudio Gheller

We used magnetohydrodynamical cosmological simulations to investigate the cross-correlation between different observables (i.e. X-ray emission, Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal at 21 cm, HI temperature decrement, diffuse synchrotron emission, and Faraday Rota ...

2020

Optimal Design of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani

Industrial operations consume energy and water in large quantities without accounting for potential economic and environmental burdens on future generations. Consumption of energy (mainly in the form of high pressure steam) and water (in the form of proces ...

2019

Inverse photonic design of functional elements that focus Bloch surface waves

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Andreas Vetter

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are sustained at the interface of a suitably designed one-dimensional (1D) dielectric photonic crystal and an ambient material. The elements that control the propagation of BSWs are defined by a spatially structured device layer ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

SIPRIUS+ : A sustainability monitoring tool specifically designed for urban brownfields regeneration projects

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

One of the relevant strategies to limit the sprawl of post-industrial European cities is the regeneration of urban brownfields. This type of projects concentrates new development within already urbanized areas and contributes to their revitalization. Despi ...

2017

Design of atomic clock cavity based on a loop-gap geometry and modified boundary conditions

Anja Skrivervik, Anton Evgeniev Ivanov

In this study, we investigate a concept that can be used to improve the magnetic field homogeneity in a microwave cavity applied in a novel, high-performance atomic frequency standard. We show that by modifying the boundary conditions in the case of a loop ...

2017

An under-actuated origami gripper with adjustable stiffness joints for multiple grasp modes

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Under-actuated robots offer multiple degrees of freedom without much added complexity to the actuation and control. Utilizing adjustable stiffness joints in these robots allows us to control their stable configurations and their mode of interaction with th ...

2017

Compact Microwave Cavity with Increased Magnetic Field Homogeneity

Anja Skrivervik, Anton Evgeniev Ivanov

In this study we aim at improving the homogeneity of the magnetic field inside a microwave resonator cavity designed in line with the development of a novel, high performance frequency standard. We study the effect of modified boundary conditions applied t ...

2016

A stochastic control model of economic growth with environmental disaster prevention

Alain Haurie

This paper proposes a capital accumulation model with a random stopping time corresponding to the occurrence of an environmental catastrophe. Depending on the preventive capital stock accumulated at the time of the catastrophe, the damage cost associated w ...

Elsevier2006

Integrated sustainability assessment for local projects : environmental impact and their connections with economic and social fields

Tourane Corbière

Introduction In 1987, the need to strive towards development aimed at making it possible to satisfy the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations is generally acknowledged. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 propagated Agenda 211, whi ...

EPFL2005

Methods of multicriteria decision analysis within the road projects like an element of the sustainability

André-Gilles Dumont, Micaël Tille

The present communication is based on the research undertaken by the author and whose principal results are detailed in its thesis entitled « Choice of alternatives of road infrastructures : multicriteria methods » like on the prospects offered by this one ...

2003