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Connectivity between the hyporheic zone and the flow is essential for the development of benthos and the reproductive success of spawning fish. The infiltration of fine sediment leads to clogging of the riverbed, reducing porosity and vertical water exchan ...

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UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has surged in the last two decades, making them popular instruments for a wide range of applications, and leading to a remarkable number of scientific contributions in geoscience, remote sensing and engineering. H ...

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The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

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Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Macroecology in the age of Big Data - Where to go from here?

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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 ...

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Validation strategies for the interpretation of microstructure imaging using diffusion MRI

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Extracting microanatomical information beyond the image resolution of MRI would provide valuable tools for diagnostics and neuroscientific research. A number of mathematical models already suggest microstructural interpretations of diffusion MRI (dMRI) dat ...

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Electrochemical Imaging of Cells and Tissues

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The technological and experimental progress in electrochemical imaging of biological specimens is discussed with a view on potential applications for skin cancer diagnostics, reproductive medicine and microbial testing. The electrochemical analysis of sing ...

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A roadmap for the development of precision medicine

Gérard Escher, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

The purpose of the roadmap proposed by IRGC is to recommend a structured process that organisations can follow in their transition towards the development of precision medicine. The process is adaptable, and each organisation should further develop it to a ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2017

Application of imaging mass spectrometry approaches to facilitate metal-based anticancer drug research

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Mass spectrometry imaging is being increasingly used in metal-based anticancer drug development to study elemental and/or molecular drug distributions in different biological systems. The main analytical tools employed are SIMS (especially nanoSIMS), LA-IC ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

PALMsiever: a tool to turn raw data into results for single-molecule localization microscopy

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During the past decade, localization microscopy (LM) has transformed into an accessible, commercially available technique for life sciences. However, data processing can be challenging to the non-specialist and care is still needed to produce meaningful re ...

Oxford University Press2015

Nanoparticles in medicine: Current challenges facing inorganic nanoparticle toxicity assessments and standardizations

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Although nanoparticles research is ongoing since more than 30 years, the development of methods and standard protocols required for their safety and efficacy testing for human use is still in development. The review covers questions on toxicity, safety, ri ...

Elsevier2015

Influence of dam operation on water resources management under different scenarios in the Zambezi River Basin considering environmental objectives and hydropower

Théodora Cohen Liechti

Worldwide, almost 50,000 dams over 15 m height have been built during the last six decades with an aggregated storage capacity of 6,000 km3. The fact that large dams, by increasing irrigation and hydroelectricity production, can sustain development and red ...

EPFL2013

Enabling Scientific Discovery Via Innovative Spatial Data Management

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Researchers in several scientific disciplines are struggling to cope with the masses of data resulting from either increasingly precise instruments or from simulation runs on ever more powerful supercomputers. Efficiently managing this deluge of data has b ...

2013

Development of Prototype UrbanSim Models

Michel Bierlaire

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2010

Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments

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A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes called widgets or plugins) which can be organized or combined (ma ...

2009

Transnational practices to benefit local science and technology: Empirical evidence of the Colombian scientific diaspora

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Within the current context of globalisation, trasnationalism has acquired importance as a social phenomenon and an object of study, since it shows the value that the diasporas' own decentralized mechanisms have in promoting development in the countries of ...

2008

Development of prototype UrbanSim models

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2008

Development of prototype UrbanSim models

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

UrbanSim is an integrated transportation land-use model that has been under development since the late 1990s. It has received a significant amount of attention in the integrated modeling community. It is well known for its disaggregated approach. A number ...

2008

Progress in the PLC development during the years 2003-2004

Michel Ianoz

This report presents the progress achieved in the development and implementation of the PLC technology during the years 2003 and 2004. It presents the progress on the standardization work for products and for network standards. It also gives a general view ...

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