Publications related to Human resources

Is Green A Good Color For A House? Typological Transfer And The LOG ID Experiment

Tiago André Pratas Borges, Anja Fröhlich

Architecture is a prospective discipline. In other words, the practice of architecture traditionally explores design methods in which a particular solution is speculated upon, in order to answer a particular set of questions. These solutions tend to be org ...

2024

Dynamic power budget redistribution under a power cap on multi-application environments

Luis Maria Costero Valero

We present a two-level implementation of an infrastructure that allows performance maximization under a power-cap on multi-application environments with minimal user intervention. At the application level, we integrate BAR (Power Budget-Aware Runtime Sched ...

ELSEVIER2023

Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene services in district health care facilities in rural area of Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Solomzi Makohliso

Access to sufficient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is a crucial requirement for patients during therapy and general well-being in the hospital. However, in low- and middle-income countries, these services are often inadequate, resulting in ...

SPRINGER2022

Transient electronics: new opportunities for implantable neurotechnology

Diego Ghezzi, Adele Fanelli

Neurotechnology includes artificial devices integrated with the neural tissue to mitigate the burden of neurological and mental disorders. This field has significantly expanded its range of applications thanks to the development of flexible, stretchable an ...

2021

The impact of heart rate on pulse wave velocity: an in-silico evaluation

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Vasiliki Bikia, Stamatia Zoi Pagoulatou

Background: Clinical and experimental evidence regarding the influence of heart rate (HR) on arterial stiffness and its surrogate marker carotid-to-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is conflicting. We aimed to evaluate the effect of HR on cf-PWV measure ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2020

Supernumerary Robotic Arm for Three-Handed Surgical Application: Behavioral Study and Design of Human-Machine Interface

Elahe Abdi

In surgical to industrial manipulation, the operator needs assistance for tasks requiring more than two hands. Teamwork may be the source of errors and inefficiency, especially if the assistant is a novice or unfamiliar with the main operator. The need for ...

EPFL2017

Climate-driven endemic cholera is modulated by human mobility in a megacity

Andrea Rinaldo, Francisco Javier Perez Saez

Although a differential sensitivity of cholera dynamics to climate variability has been reported in the spatially heterogeneous megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the specific patterns of spread of the resulting risk within the city remain unclear. We build on ...

Elsevier2016

Accelerating resource allocation in virtualized environments using workload classes and/or workload signatures

Dejan Novakovic, Dejan Kostic, Nedeljko Vasic, Ricardo Bianchini

Systems, methods, and apparatus for managing resources assigned to an application or service. A resource manager maintains a set of workload classes and classifies workloads using workload signatures. In specific embodiments, the resource manager minimizes ...

2013

Creative-Learning Innovation Cycle - CLIC : Work Motivation and Organizational Creativity

Vincent Nassar

WHY do certain leaders’ management of organizational resources encourage creative people engaged in New Product Development (NPD) to achieve high performance, on time, while other leaders’ practices foster frustration and delays? In this research project I ...

EPFL2012

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012

Development of Prototype UrbanSim Models

Michel Bierlaire

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2010

Diversification into logistics : strategies for incumbent postal operators in Europe

Patrick Mollet

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

Development of prototype UrbanSim models

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2008

Development of prototype UrbanSim models

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2008