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Geotechnical Engineering in the Digital and Technological Innovation Era

The book collects the keynote contributions and the papers presented at the “8th Italian Conference of Researchers in Geotechnical Engineering 2023, CNRIG’23”. The conference was held on July 5–7, 2023, at the University of Palermo (Italy), and it was orga ...

Springer2023

Game changers in science and technology- now and beyond

Yahya Mohammadzadeh

The recent devastating pandemic has drastically reminded humanity of the importance of constant scientific and technological progress. A strong interdisciplinary dialogue between academic and industrial scientists of various specialties, entrepreneurs, man ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Expert perceptions of game-changing innovations towards net zero

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana

Current technological improvements are yet to put the world on track to net-zero, which will require the uptake of transformative low-carbon innovations to supplement mitigation efforts. However, the role of such innovations is not yet fully understood; so ...

2023

Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Jérôme Baudry

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

Silicon spin qubits from laboratory to industry

Edoardo Charbon, Louis Hutin

Quantum computation (QC) is one of the most challenging quantum technologies that promise to revolutionize data computation in the long-term by outperforming the classical supercomputers in specific applications. Errors will hamper this quantum revolution ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

Dario Floreano, Nicola Nosengo, Fabrizio Schiano, Rafael Lalive, William John Stewart, Davide Zambrano, Antonio Paolillo

The effects of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market are matters of great social concern. Economists and technology experts are debating at what rate, and to what extent, technology could be used to replace humans in occupations, and ...

2022

Spectral properties of extended systems from Koopmans-compliant functionals

Riccardo De Gennaro

Electronic-structure simulations have been impacting the study of materials properties thanks to the simplicity of density-functional theory, a method that gives access to the ground state of the system. Although very important, ground-state properties rep ...

EPFL2022

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

Farnaz Eslamishoar

Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...

EPFL2021

Computational model of the dorsal horn circuitry for innocuous touch

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Providing a naturalistic tactile sensory feedback is currently one of the key challenges in neuroprosthetics. Modeling has played a fundamental role in the development of "biomimetic" stimulation protocols, determining optimal activation patterns to be eli ...

IEEE2021

High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Guanhao Huang, Nils Johan Engelsen, Tianyi Liu

Low-loss photonic integrated circuits and microresonators have enabled a wide range of applications, such as narrow-linewidth lasers and chip-scale frequency combs. To translate these into a widespread technology, attaining ultralow optical losses with est ...

Nature Research2021

Neuronal Circuits In Barrel Cortex For Whisker Sensory Perception

Carl Petersen

The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use their whiskers to detect stimuli, distinguish textures, locate objects a ...

AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC2021

Highly efficient THz four-wave mixing in doped silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Third-order non-linearities are important because they allow control over light pulses in ubiquitous high-quality centro-symmetric materials like silicon and silica. Degenerate four-wave mixing provides a direct measure of the third-order non-linear sheet ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

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

Using agricultural residues for sustainable transportation biofuels in 2050: Case of West Africa

Edgard Gnansounou, Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon

This article focuses on the use of biomass to produce transportation fuels such as synthetic natural gas, bioethanol and electricity under a sustainable scenario in West Africa in 2050. The aim of this work was to evaluate the feasibility of producing such ...

Elsevier2020

Applying IDC theory to education in the Alps region: A response to Chan et al.’s contribution

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Shuqing Teresa Yeo

In this paper, we present a response to the Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory from a European perspective. Specifically, we raise six questions intended to start a dialogue with respect to IDC Theory’s placement in existing learning theories, its adopti ...

2019

Forged Authenticity: Governing Deepfake Risks

The manipulation of digital content is not a new phenomenon, but the application of machine learning to the creation of deepfakes has (i) radically improved the quality of output, (ii) slashed the resources required to produce realistic fakes at previously ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2019

The software and hardware architecture of the real-time protection of in-vessel components in JET-ILW

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Alessandro Pau, Federico Nespoli, Cristian Sommariva, David Pfefferlé, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Yann Camenen, Hamish William Patten, Jan Horacek, Samuel Lanthaler, Javier García Hernández, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Marco Wischmeier, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Yao Zhou, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta

For the first time, the JET operation in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasma, which is scheduled to take place on JET in 2020, will be performed in the ITER mix of plasma-facing component materials. In view of the preparation of the DT campaign (DTE2), several ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Recent advances in the metallurgy of aluminium alloys. Part I: Solidification and casting

Michel Rappaz

The goal of these review papers is to summarize the recent advances in the metallurgy of aluminium alloys and from this analysis, to try to outline future developments in this field. Part I deals with the transformation of aluminium alloys from the liquid ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2018

Quantifying the Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union

Unemployment differentials are bigger in Europe than in the United States. Migration responds to unemployment differentials, though the response is smaller in Europe. Mundell (1961) argued that factor mobility is a precondition for a successful currency un ...

2018

Integration of Wearable Sensors Into the Evaluation of Running Economy and Foot Mechanics in Elite Runners

Benoît Mariani, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard

Running economy, known as the steady-state oxygen consumption at a given submaximal intensity, has been proposed as one of the key factors differentiating East African runners from other running communities around the world. Kenyan runners have dominated m ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2018