Publications related to Cross-cultural studies

Building a Knowledge Graph of Chinese Kung Fu Masters From Heterogeneous Bilingual Data

Various endeavours into semantic web technologies and ontology engineering have been made within the organisation of cultural data, facilitating public access to digital assets. Although models for conceptualising objects have reached a certain level of ma ...

2023

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou

Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...

2023

River morphology and sediment transport processes numerical modeling applied to the fluvial environment of the Rhône River in Valais

Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Jean-Noël Saugy, Francesc Molné Correig

Within the frame of the Third Rhône Correction, the river bend in Martigny is considered a top priority measure for flood protection. During the preliminary project, physical and numerical modeling tests were considered necessary. For the latter, the softw ...

International Research Society INTERPRAEVENT2021

Developing STEM and Team-working Skills Through Collaborative Space Robotics Missions

Francesco Mondada, Evgeniia Bonnet

Building on the success of the first North-South cross-continental collaborative educational robotics mission held in November 2015 [1], this paper presents a practical model for scaling the event up into a program for developing countries, particularly th ...

IEEE2021

Renormalizing individual performance metrics for cultural heritage management of sports records

Orion B Penner

Individual performance metrics are commonly used to compare players from different eras. However, such cross-era comparison is often biased due to significant changes in success factors underlying player achievement rates (e.g. performance enhancing drugs ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Comparative characterisation of non-monodisperse gold nanoparticle populations by X-ray scattering and electron microscopy

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Zhi Luo, Ye Yang, Suiyang Liao, Runzhang Qi

Accurate nanoparticle size determination is essential across various research domains, with many functionalities in nanoscience and biomedical research being size-dependent. Although electron microscopy is capable of resolving a single particle down to the ...

2020

A cross-country perspective on solar energy in urban planning: Lessons learned from international case studies

Maria Cristina Munari Probst

This work, framed in the IEA SHC Task 51 "Solar Energy in Urban Planning", presents an illustrative perspective of solar energy in urban planning through the analysis of 34 international case studies conducted in 10 countries. The aim here is to examine ch ...

2019

Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests

Christof Holliger, Gabrielle Hack, Jing Liu

Production of biogas from different organic materials is a most interesting source of renewable energy. The biomethane potential (BMP) of these materials has to be determined to get insight in design parameters for anaerobic digesters. Although several nor ...

IWA Publishing2016

Linear multispecies gyrokinetic flux tube benchmarks in shaped tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Yann Camenen, Emiliano Fable, Gabriele Merlo, Alice Burckel

Verification is the fundamental step that any turbulence simulation code has to be submitted in order to assess the proper implementation of the underlying equations. We have carried out a cross comparison of three flux tube gyrokinetic codes, GENE [F. Jen ...

2016

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015