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Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...

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Waterborne Virus Transport and Risk Assessment in Lake Geneva Under Climate Change

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Climate changes influence lake hydrodynamics and radiation levels and thus may affect the fate and transport of waterborne pathogens in lakes. This study examines the impact of climate change on the fate, transport, and associated risks of four waterborne ...

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City, State, Transnational Space

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This chapter takes stock of contemporary migration by breaking with a few myths and by distinguishing between interregional and international migration. It shows how new research paradigms have relativized the importance of the state as the preferred frame ...

ISTE Wiley2023

1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

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Zenodo2023

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The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018

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The matricellular protein Drosophila Cellular Communication Network Factor is required for synaptic transmission and female fertility

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Genetics Society America2022

High spatial resolution dataset of La Mobiliere insurance customers

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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

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

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures

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Cities today encounter significant challenges pertaining to urbanization and population growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are generated through Internet of Things (IoT) sensing implemented at urban, buil ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Socioeconomic development predicts a weaker contraceptive effect of breastfeeding

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The contraceptive effect of breastfeeding remains essential to controlling fertility in many developing regions of the world. The extent to which this negative effect of breastfeeding on ovarian activity is sensitive to ecological conditions, notably mater ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities

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Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...

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Both diversity and functional composition affect productivity and water use efficiency in experimental temperate grasslands

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WILEY2021

KRAB zinc finger protein-mediated control of transposon-embedded regulatory sequences from human germline to early embryos

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EPFL2021

A birth-death-migration model for life in astrophysical environments

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To assess the number of life-bearing worlds in astrophysical environments, it is necessary to take the intertwined processes of abiogenesis (birth), extinction (death), and transfer of life (migration) into account. We construct a mathematical model that i ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards

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By combining well-established population genetic theory with high-throughput sequencing data from natural populations, major strides have recently been made in understanding how, why, and when vertebrate populations evolve crypsis. Here, we focus on backgr ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)

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Although rapid population growth will give them a significant weight in global urbanization by the middle of the century, African cities remain little known. As a result, they are essentially outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which jus ...

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Regional variation in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the developing world

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Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities

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In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land. Sprawl ...

EPFL2019

The Minimization of Public Facilities With Enhanced Genetic Algorithms Using War Elimination

Michael Mark

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing a network of state facilities that provide essential public services (schools, offices, and hospitals). The goal is to reduce the size of the network in order to minimize the costs associated with it. Ho ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019