Publications associées à Organisation internationale

Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'

The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty - often framed as ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2023

Setting priorities in CNF particle size measurement: What is needed vs. what is feasible

Tiffany Abitbol

Measuring the size of cellulose nanomaterials can be challenging, especially in the case of branched and entangled cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs). The International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 6, Task Group 1-Cellulosic Nanomaterial ...

TECH ASSOC PULP PAPER IND INC2023

Clusters of science and health related Twitter users become more isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller, Martin Müller

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users from January 13 to ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Risk governance and the low-carbon transition

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This IRGC policy brief focuses on the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon society and economy. It is based on a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held in September 2020. It incorporates views and insights from academia, industry, non-gover ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Accounting for Price Endogeneity in Airline Itinerary Choice Models: An Application to Continental U.S. Markets

Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Jeffrey Newman

Network planning models, which forecast the profitability of airline schedules, support many critical decisions, including equipment purchase decisions. Network planning models include an itinerary choice model that is used to allocate air total demand in ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

An Action Research Inquiry into Professional Training and Development for Addressing Complex Urban Problems

Mohamad Razaghi

The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Municipal, metropolitan, regional and national governments, companies, international organizations, financiers, technology developers and civil society across the globe are faced with increasingly complex probl ...

EPFL2016

Inter-laboratory trial of a standardized sediment contact test with the aquatic plant Myriophyllum aquaticum (ISO 16191)

A whole-sediment toxicity test with Myriophyllum aquaticum has been developed by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and standardized within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO; ISO 16191). An international ring-test was performed ...

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2014

What We Can Learn about Business Modeling from Homeostasis

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

Business modeling methods most often model an organization’s value provision to its customers followed by the necessary activities and structure to deliver this value. These activities and structure are seen as infinitely malleable; they can be specified a ...

2013

Surface-Confined Self-Assembly of Di-carbonitrile Polyphenyls

Harald Brune, Uta Schlickum, Régis Decker

This Feature Article reports on the controlled formation and structure-functionality aspects of vacuum-deposited self-assembled organic and metal-organic networks at metal surfaces using ditopic linear and nonlinear molecular bricks, namely di-carbonitrile ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Interpretation of neuronal response properties with simplified neuron models

Laurent Badel

Computational neuroscience is a branch of the neurosciences that attempts to elucidate the principles underlying the operation of neurons with the help of mathematical modeling. In contrast with a number of fields pursuing a tightly related goal, such as m ...

EPFL2009

Methodology for the integration of low temperature district network in urban area

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Nicole Calame

The energy services delivered to urban areas in Switzerland make up more than 45% of the national energy consumption. Thus, in the framework of the Tetraener European project, a methodology has been developed to design low temperature thermal networks base ...

2009

Comprendre la société-Monde par ses enjeux et ses acteurs : l'implication de l'entreprise Lafarge dans la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA

Olivier Vilaça

The aim of this thesis is to understand the World as a full-fledged object, namely as the space of a society. This objective is at the same time necessary and problematic. It is necessary because the sudden end of the Cold War entailed the need of new conc ...

EPFL2009

Reconfigurable Video coding on Multicore An overview of its main objectives

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Ghislain Roquier, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer

The current monolythic and lengthy scheme behind the standardization and the design of new video coding standards is becoming inappropriate to satisfy the dynamism and changing needs of the video coding community. Such scheme and specification formal- ism ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Adapt and Adopt: An Experiment in Making Best Practices Adequate in an Organization

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Nelly Burrin

So called best practices promise many advantages to organizations that adopt them. Reusing these practices, however, requires their adaptation to the specific context of each organization. This adaptation means that for a specific organization, the practic ...

2007

A model for the design of effective and resilient supply chain security management systems

Ximena Gutiérrez Rueda

The current business environment has become more risky and variable. In particular, the recent terrorist attacks against western economies have revealed the vulnerability of global supply chains. These events showed that companies that move cargo internati ...

EPFL2007

Cooperative and redundant roles of VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 signaling in adult lymphangiogenesis

Melody Swartz, Joseph Rutkowski, Miriella Carmela Pasquier

Activation of vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF) receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) by VEGF-C initiates lymphangiogenesis by promoting lymphatic proliferation and migration. However, it is unclear whether VEGFR-3 signaling is required beyond these initial stages ...

Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology2007