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Epidemicity indices and reproduction numbers from infectious disease data in connected human populations

Andrea Rinaldo, Cristiano Trevisin, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

We focus on distinctive data-driven measures of the fate of ongoing epidemics. The relevance of our pursuit is suggested by recent results proving that the short-term temporal evolution of infection spread is described by an epidemicity index related to th ...

2024

Using Gaming Footage as a Source of Internet Latency Information

Catalina Paz Alvarez Inostroza, Aikaterini Argyraki

Keeping track of Internet latency is a classic measurement problem. Open measurement platforms like RIPE Atlas are a great solution, but they also face challenges: preventing network overload that may result from uncontrolled active measurements, and maint ...

2023

Work and High Mobility in Europe

Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

The high work-related mobilities concern a significant proportion of the active population and condition novel lifestyles. This chapter describes the practices and discourses of the people concerned by these high mobilities, challenge a number of preconcep ...

ISTE Wiley2023

Metabolic influence of core ciliates within the rumen microbiome

Ianina Altshuler, Yu Jiang

Protozoa comprise a major fraction of the microbial biomass in the rumen microbiome, of which the entodiniomorphs (order: Entodiniomorphida) and holotrichs (order: Vestibuliferida) are consistently observed to be dominant across a diverse genetic and geogr ...

2023

Dynamic environmental flows using hydrodynamic-based solutions for sustainable hydropower

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona

Water diversions from rivers and torrents for anthropic uses of the resource alter the natural flow regime. As a measure, environmental flows have been prescribed and often are enforced by law to follow policies (e.g., minimal flow, proportional redistribu ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

Making Computer Vision Models Robust and Adaptive

Shuqing Teresa Yeo

Visual perception is indispensable for many real-world applications. However, perception models deployed in the real world will encounter numerous and unpredictable distribution shifts, for example, changes in geographic locations, motion blur, and adverse ...

EPFL2023

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

Alireza Amirshahi, Saleh Baghersalimi, Jonathan Philippe Reymond

The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Relating health benefits of water, sanitation, and hygiene services with the context of urban informal settlements: lessons from Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya

Vitor Pessoa Colombo

This thesis is inscribed in the recent efforts to reconnect urban planning and public health. It focused on the context of sub-Saharan African cities, for they offer invaluable lessons regarding environmental health determinants and potential solutions to ...

EPFL2023

Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Mood inference with mobile sensing data has been studied in ubicomp literature over the last decade. This inference enables context-aware and personalized user experiences in general mobile apps and valuable feedback and interventions in mobile health apps ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Geographic clusters of objectively measured physical activity and the characteristics of their built environment in a Swiss urban area

Stéphane Joost, Marco André Vieira Ruas, Idris Guessous, Cédric Gubelmann

Introduction ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

High spatial resolution dataset of La Mobiliere insurance customers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Emanuele Massaro

We present the La Mobiliere insurance customers dataset: a 12-year-long longitudinal collection of data on policies of customers of the Swiss insurance company La Mobiliere. To preserve the privacy of La Mobiliere customers, we propose the data aggregated ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review

Roland John Tormey

There is today a broad consensus that emotions influence all forms of teaching and learning, and scholarship on Emotions in Engineering Education (EEE) is an emerging and rapidly growing field. However, this nascent research is currently very dispersed and ...

2021

The COUGHVID crowdsourcing dataset, a corpus for the study of large-scale cough analysis algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Lara Orlandic

Cough audio signal classification has been successfully used to diagnose a variety of respiratory conditions, and there has been significant interest in leveraging Machine Learning (ML) to provide widespread COVID-19 screening. The COUGHVID dataset provide ...

2021

The COUGHVID crowdsourcing dataset: A corpus for the study of large-scale cough analysis algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Lara Orlandic

Overview Cough audio signal classification has been successfully used to diagnose a variety of respiratory conditions, and there has been significant interest in leveraging Machine Learning (ML) to provide widespread COVID-19 screening. Th ...

Zenodo2021

Understanding multimodality through rhythm of life. An empirical evidence from the Swiss case study

Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

The car dominance car in the urban transport system may contribute to health and environmental troubles. In recent years, multimodality appears as a central issue for public policies as they try to encourage and develop the modal shift in favour of walking ...

Routledge2020

Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

Amer Chamseddine, Christine Mohr, Maya Roinishvili, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Meng Zhang, Niloufar Pouyan

Many of us "see red," "feel blue," or "turn green with envy." Are such color-emotion associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations learned through our languages and traditions? To answer these questions, we t ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Citizen Visual Search Engine: Detection and Curation of Urban Objects

Jeffrey Huang, Immanuel Chee Beng Koh

Increasingly, the ubiquity of satellite imagery has made the data analysis and machine learning of large geographical datasets one of the building blocks of visuospatial intelligence. It is the key to discover current (and predict future) cultural, social, ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Real-Scenario Testing of an Active Phasor Data Concentrator

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo

The privileged position of the Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) in a synchrophasor-based monitoring system can be exploited to make this device the core of a distributed measurement architecture suitable for control and protection applications in power syste ...

IEEE2019

Reduction of a Cone-Shaped Terrain Grounding Resistance by Remote Grounding

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to have line of sight to end users. Those locations are usually very rocky and characterized by a low-conductivity ...

IEEE2019

Building the Arrow of Time ... Over Time: A Sequence of Brain Activity Mapping Imagined Events in Time and Space

Baptiste Gauthier

When moving, the spatiotemporal unfolding of events is bound to our physical trajectory, and time and space become entangled in episodic memory. When imagining past or future events, or being in different geographical locations, the temporal and spatial di ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2019