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Geospatial Tools and Remote Sensing Strategies for Timely Humanitarian Response: A Case Study on Drought Monitoring in Eswatini

This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...

MDPI2024

Dataset for the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits"

Daniel Kuhn, François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger

This dataset complements the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits" by Dirk Lauinger, François Vuille, and Daniel Kuhn, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02987. The dataset contains the following files: 1.

Zenodo2023

Multi-time integration approach for combined pulp and ammonia production and seasonal CO2 management

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

In this work, the gasification of the black liquor is proposed as an alternative ammonia production route. Due to the seasonal variation of the energy prices, a multi-time integration approach that combines different technologies and energy inputs is used ...

2023

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has altered people's lives around the world. Here we document population-wide shifts in dietary interests in 18 countries in 2020, as revealed through time series of Google search volumes. We find that during the first wave of the COVI ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Monodisperse Selectively Permeable Hydrogel Capsules Made from Single Emulsion Drops

Esther Amstad, Alexandre Louis André Persat, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Alice Cont

Capsules are often used to protect chemical and biological entities from the environment, to control the timing and location of their release, or to facilitate the collection of waste. Their performance depends on the thickness and composition of their she ...

2021

New and improved methods for integrated models of metabolism and gene expression

Pierre Guy Rémy Salvy

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by the advent of disruptive technologies, which ushered an era of groundbreaking advances in fundamental sciences, carried by the great pace at which computational capabilities spread and evolved. But the new ce ...

EPFL2021

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

Ling Zhou

As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pro ...

EPFL2021

Fiscal Policy, Relative Prices and Net Exports in a Currency Union

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on net exports, the terms of trade and expenditure switching. Using data on government spending and consumption taxes for twelve euro area countries over 1996 to 2018, it shows that fiscal austerity shocks im ...

2020

Assessing spatial temporal patterns of ecosystem services in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Martí Bosch Padrós, Rémi Jaligot

Despite the importance of understanding the historical dynamics of ecosystem services (ES), littleresearch has focused on a historical, spatially explicit, assessment of ES supply. This research is aimed at understanding the spatial patterns and potential ...

2019

Does Austerity Go Along With Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019

Does Austerity Go Along with Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019

Microstructured Fibers for the Production of Food

Véronique Michaud, Francesco Stellacci, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Federica Sordo, Emma-Rose Janecek

Food engineering faces the difficult challenge of combining taste, i.e., tailoring texture and rheology of food matrices with the balanced intake of healthy nutrients. In materials science, fiber suspensions and composites have been developed as a versatil ...

Wiley2019

Strategic Durability with Sharing Markets

Thomas Alois Weber, Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Electronic sharing markets are contributing to a paradigm shift, from consuming products to accessing products. This paper studies the effects of sharing markets on the prices for new products and on product design in terms of durability. In a dynamic econ ...

2019

Economic Advantages of Office Buildings Providing Ancillary Services with Intraday Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ali Ahmadi Khatir

Controlling the consumption profile of office buildings can be used to provide balancing services to the power grid at a financial benefit without violating its thermal comfort constraints. The economic advantage of such a service is a reduction in the tot ...

2018

Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

We demonstrate how charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles can be utilized for the provision of Ancillary Services to the Power Grid. Fast- charging stations that supply energy to vehicles at high power rates in- corporate energy storage to prevent ...

2018

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Pavel Vaskan, Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez

Meeting the growing food demand with minimum impact on the environment is a major challenge to face for ensuring a more sustainable food production. To tackle this problem, in this article we present a novel systematic method for agriculture planning that ...

Elsevier2017

Revenue and Reserve Prices in a Probabilistic Single Item Auction

Moran Feldman

We investigate the effect of limiting the number of reserve prices on the revenue in a probabilistic single item auction. In the model considered, bidders compete for an impression drawn from a known distribution of possible types. The auction mechanism se ...

Springer Verlag2017

Waste heat valorisation at multiple scales : focus on in-building waste water and regional heat recovery

Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand

Considering current environmental issues (e.g. climate change, air pollution) related to energy consumption, this thesis focuses on data characterisation and integrated optimisation methods for waste heat valorisation at the building, city and regional sca ...

EPFL2017

Dietary risk assessment of pesticides from vegetables and drinking water in gardening areas in Burkina Faso

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann

Vegetables and water samples have been collected around the lake of Loumbila in Burkina Faso. Pesticides resi- dues in food commodities were analyzed using a modified QuEChERS extraction method prior analysis on GC-MS and UPLC-MS/MS of 31 pesticides. Maxim ...

Elsevier2017

Insider Trading, Stochastic Liquidity, And Equilibrium Prices

Pierre Collin Dufresne

We extend Kyle's (1985) model of insider trading to the case where noise trading volatility follows a general stochastic process. We determine conditions under which, in equilibrium, price impact and price volatility are both stochastic, driven by shocks t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016