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Why converging technologies need converging international regulation

Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, gene editing, nanotechnology, neurotechnology and robotics, which were originally unrelated or separated, are becoming more closely integrated. Consequently, the boundaries between the physical-biologi ...

Springer2024

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

Data Transformation in the Processing of Neuronal Signals: A Powerful Tool to Illuminate Informative Contents

Mohammad Ali Shaeri

Neuroscientists seek efficient solutions for deciphering the sophisticated unknowns of the brain. Effective development of complicated brain-related tools is the focal point of research in neuroscience and neurotechnology. Thanks to today's technological a ...

2023

FIB-Fabrication of Resonating Cantilevers to Explore Symmetry-Breaking in Quantum Materials

Amelia Emily-Kay Estry

Scientific progress and technological advancements on novel materials are often deterred by limitations on size and quality of samples. Materials with electronic phenomena attractive for applications, and presenting many open scientific questions, are ofte ...

EPFL2023

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

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

Noninvasive detection of focal seizures in ambulatory patients

David Atienza Alonso, Leila Cammoun

Reliably detecting focal seizures without secondary generalization during daily life activities, chronically, using convenient portable or wearable devices, would offer patients with active epilepsy a number of potential benefits, such as providing more re ...

2020

A Telemonitoring and Hybrid Virtual Coaching Solution "CAir" for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Ádám Dániel Ivánkay

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common disorders in the world. COPD is characterized by airflow obstruction, which is not fully reversible. Patients usually experience breathing-related symptoms with periods of a ...

2020

Ethics in Research

Science is in revolution. The formidable scientific and technological developments of the last century have dramatically transformed the way in which we conduct scientific research. The knowledge and applications that science produces has profound conseque ...

2019

De Smart à Responsive, les enjeux de la planification urbaine à l'ère du numérique: Les expériences de Genève et Singapour

Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Rapid urbanization, climate change, sustainable development, resource depletion, the widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones, and the big data phenomenon all pose great challenges to urban planning. By facilitating data exchange, collection, and a ...

EPFL2019

Non-contact femtosecond laser-based methods for investigating glass mechanics at small scales

Christos Edouardos Athanasiou

With the progress made in miniaturizing systems over the last decades, understanding materialsâ behavior at small scales has become a necessity. In this context, glass behavior has remained largely unknown, partly for technological reasons and partly due ...

EPFL2018

Fluid Dynamics and Outliers : Outstanding Performance of High-Tech Companies in Microfluidic Technologies

Bernard André Vincent Calisti

The current craze for unicorns and other hyper growth companies brings a novel interest in what makes the exceptional performance of a firm. Literature about technological innovation explains the bond between the performance level reached by a company and ...

EPFL2017

Optimal Sensor Architecture Selection for Health Management of Complex Systems

Martin Vetterli, Juri Ranieri

With technological progress, humans tend to create engineering systems with constantly increasing complexity and higher operational requirements. Many complex systems require the use of a Health Management (HM) solution to ensure safety and enable lifecycl ...

Ieee2016

Information-based recognition: TED talks and the institutional fabric of valuable innovation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

Information has long been considered a commodity, something that organizations and individuals can trade for financial gain (Chandler, 1993). And, the networks via which information flowed have long had a conflictual relationship with power and control, bu ...

2016

Design of a light confining concentrator for a solar photochemical reactor and upper bound to the method

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata

Optical concentration obtained by light confinement bears unique features that can increase the efficiency of a photochemical reactor. A suitable implementation of this method for a solar reactor is a series of parallel tubular receivers sealed in a slab-s ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Planar Antennas for Ka-Band Space Applications

Rafal Glogowski

This dissertation aims to explore the design trade-offs and technological limitations of planar antenna elements and arrays for Ka-band space applications. The motivation for this research stems from the growing importance of wideband millimetre wave radio ...

EPFL2013

Connected at any cost? The vulnerability of critical infrastructures and crisis management

Valérie November

Critical infrastructures are receiving a great deal of attention, due, on the one hand, to the major malfunctions to which they are subject and their potential as targets of malicious intent on the other. Economic and political impacts are studied; increas ...

2011

Design Experiences of a CMOS LNA for mm-waves

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Steve Tanner, Enrique Rivera Parada

This paper describes some of the design experiences achieved during the design, simulation and characterization of a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) LNA which has been designed for 24GHz and fabricated in a standard 0.180 µm technology. More ...

2010

Mathematics in the Wind

Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini

In any sport or human endeavor, coaches regularly state “play to your strengths.” One might not guess that a land-locked, mountainous country like Switzerland would have strengths that would give them a chance at winning the oldest, most competitive sailin ...

2009

Low firing temperature thick-film piezoresistive composites : properties and conduction mechanism

Sonia Vionnet Menot

Thick-film technology has found applications on miniaturised hybrid circuits in various fields (automotive electronics, televisions, ...). This technology is also now widely used for the fabrication of force and pressure sensors that use the piezoresistive ...

EPFL2005