Publications related to Dispute resolution

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Semiconductor-based device architectures in multimaterial fibers

William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

Semiconductor materials have given rise to today's digital technology and consumer electronics. Widespread adoption is closely linked to the ability to process and integrate them in devices at scale. Where flexibility and large surfaces are required, such ...

EPFL2023

Femtosecond laser-based optomechanical processes for permanent and high-precision fine alignment of optical systems

Saood Ibni Nazir

Miniaturization has been at the forefront of scientific research in the past decade covering diverse areas such as electronics, mechanics, and optics. While 'small is beautiful' may be a vast generalization, the true benefits of miniaturization are especia ...

EPFL2021

Microsphere-mediated optical contrast tuning for designing imaging systems with adjustable resolution gain

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Gergely Huszka

Upon illumination, a dielectric microsphere (mu,S) can generate a photonic nanojet (PNJ), which plays a role in the super-resolution imaging of a sample placed in the mu S's immediate proximity. Recent microscopy implementations pioneered this concept but, ...

Nature Research2018

Spinning-disc confocal microscopy in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II)

Vitalijs Zubkovs, Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alessandra Antonucci, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert

Fluorescence microscopy in the second near-infrared optical window (NIR-II, 1000–1350 nm) has become a technique of choice for non-invasive in vivo imaging. The deep penetration of NIR light in living tissue, as well as negligible tissue autofluorescence w ...

Nature Research2018

Two sides of the same coin: A population genetics perspective on lethal mutagenesis and mutational meltdown

Jeffrey David Jensen, Claudia Bank, Sebastian Matuszewski, Nicky Louise Ormond

The extinction of RNA virus populations upon application of a mutagenic drug is frequently referred to as evidence for the existence of an error threshold, above which the population cannot sustain the mutational load. To explain the extinction process aft ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Essays in Financial Economics

Christoph Helmut Peter Herpfer

This thesis contains four chapters, each of which utilizes new or unusual data sources to analyze a different area of financial economics. In the first chapter, I construct a novel dataset linking individual bankers to large borrowers in the U.S. syndicate ...

EPFL2017

Brillouin dynamic gratings in optical fibres for distributed sensing and advanced optical signal processing

Andrey Denisov

This thesis presents results of a research on applications of Brillouin dynamic gratings - distributed reflectors that can be dynamically created in an optical fibre by two optical waves. A basic theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is introduce ...

EPFL2015

Multivariate statistical analysis as a tool for the segmentation of 3D spectral data

Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Guillaume Lucas, Pierre Burdet

Acquisition of three-dimensional (3D) spectral data is nowadays common using many different microanalytical techniques. In order to proceed to the 3D reconstruction, data processing is necessary not only to deal with noisy acquisitions but also to segment ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs : The Case of the Postal Sector

Martin Maegli

In recent decades, the European postal industry has undergone profound reforms, which aim to promote competition while simultaneously maintaining a high level of universal services for consumers. It is often put forth that market opening and the emergence ...

EPFL2012

3D Near-Infrared Imaging Based on a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Array Sensor

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Matthias Wolf

An imager for optical tomography was designed based on a detector with 128x128 single-photon pixels that included a bank of 32 time-to-digital converters. Due to the high spatial resolution and the possibility of performing time resolved measurements, a ne ...

2011

Evaluating Cases in Legal Disputes as Rival Theories

Jingshi Li

In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the stories of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by me ...

2010

Response of testate amoeba assemblages to environmental and climatic changes during the Lateglacial-Holocene transition at Lake Lautrey (Jura Mountains, eastern France)

Edward Mitchell

We tested the response of lacustrine testate amoebae (thecamoebians) to climate and environmental changes for the Lateglacial-Holocene transition. The palaeoenvironmental history of the study site (Lake Lautrey, Jura Mountains, eastern France) was previous ...

2010

Gas assisted focused electron beam induced etching of alumina

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Tristan Bret, Bamdad Afra

This study investigates focused electron beam induced etching for the removal of alumina particles on patterned extreme ultra violet (EUV) mask using nitrosyl chloride (NOCl) as assist gas. As potential contaminant, particles of aluminum oxide (alumina, Al ...

2009

Multi-experts scheduling system for real-time applications

Mario Bellino

This thesis focuses on the decisional process of autonomous systems, and more particularly, on the way to take a decision when the time at disposal in order to assess the whole situation is shorter than necessary. Indeed, numerous systems propose solutions ...

EPFL2009

Experimental and modeling investigations on local performance and local degradation in solid oxide fuel cells

Zacharie Wuillemin

This thesis focuses on performance, reliability and degradation in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), which currently represent the three key technical challenges for the deployment of this technology. By its development of dedicated modeling and experimental ...

EPFL2009

Preparation and synthetic applications of 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one derivatives

Pierre Vogel, Sandrine Gerber, Sylvain Favre

The development of efficient routes to multi gram quantities of chiral synthons is a key issue in total synthesis of natural products and analogues. The conformationally defined and rigid 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one template appears as an appealing s ...

2008

Uncovering the value of planning in new venture creation: A process and contingency perspective

Marc Gruber

Researchers are engaged in a major debate on the value of business planning in new venture creation. This study suggests a potential resolution by applying a process and contingency perspective. The results indicate that planning is beneficial, yet plannin ...

2007

Evanescent wave gas sensing based on modulation spectroscopy : potential application to transcutaneous blood gas determination

Daniel Salzmann

In recent years, optical gas detectors based on a tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer has become more and more important for monitoring trace gases in atmospheric, medical, and industrial processes. In the medical field, blood gases, essentially pO ...

EPFL2003