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The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

2024

Survey experiments on economic expectations

Andreas Fuster

In this chapter, we discuss field experiments in surveys that are conducted with the purpose of learning about expectation formation and the link between expectations and behavior. We begin by reviewing the rationale for conducting experiments within surve ...

Academic Press2023

Smart acoustic lining for UHBR technologies engine: from the design of an electroacoustic metasurface to experimental characterization under flow

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery

The SALUTE project aims at evaluating performance of electroacoustic metasurface, employing a surface array of controlled electroacoustic actuators, for smart acoustic lining under grazing turbulent flow to be used in UHBR Technologies Engines. Theoretical ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2023

Reinforcement learning approach to control an inverted pendulum: A general framework for educational purposes

Jesus Sanchez Rodriguez

Machine learning is often cited as a new paradigm in control theory, but is also often viewed as empirical and less intuitive for students than classical model-based methods. This is particularly the case for reinforcement learning, an approach that does n ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2023

Towards reproducible software studies with MAO and Renku

Pamela Isabel Delgado Borda, Christine Choirat

In software engineering, the developers' joy of decomposing and recomposing microservice-based applications has led to an enormous wave of microservice artefact technologies. To understand them better, researchers perform hundreds of experiments and empiri ...

ELSEVIER2022

Sensor Systems for Smart Agriculture

Diego Ruben Barrettino

This paper presents two sensor systems used in smart agriculture. The first sensor system is capable of remote monitoring at real time the condition of grains stored in silo bags. The second sensor system comprises soil's nitrogen (N), potassium (K), phosp ...

IEEE2022

The KDD 2021 Workshop on Causal Discovery (CD2021)

Huan Liu, Negar Kiyavash

As a basic and effective tool for explanation, prediction and decision making, causal relationships have been utilized in almost all disciplines. Traditionally, causal relationships are identified by making use of interventions or randomized controlled exp ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Test rooms to study human comfort in buildings: A review of controlled experiments and facilities

Dusan Licina, Mengdi Kong

Occupants' comfort perception affects building energy consumptions. To improve the understanding of human comfort, which is crucial to reduce energy demand, laboratory experiments with humans in controlled environments (test rooms) are fundamental, but the ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Validation of axial void profile measured by neutron noise techniques in CROCUS

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin

Recently a joint project has been carried out between the Paul Scherrer Institut, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and swissnuclear, an industrial partner, in order to determine the axial void distribution in a channel installed in the reflecto ...

2021

QUAREP-LiMi: A community-driven initiative to establish guidelines for quality assessment and reproducibility for instruments and images in light microscopy

Andrea Bassi, Antje Keppler, Arne Seitz

A modern day light microscope has evolved from a tool devoted to making primarily empirical observations to what is now a sophisticated , quantitative device that is an integral part of both physical and life science research. Nowadays, microscopes are fou ...

WILEY2021

Experimental study of impulse waves generated by viscoplastic fluid

Zhenzhu Meng

Landslide-generated waves, also called impulse waves, occur as a result of the intrusion of landslides (such as rock falls, debris flows, and avalanches) into bodies of water (such as lakes, reservoirs, and seas). The objective of this thesis was to study ...

EPFL2020

Motivating Innovation: The Effect of Loss Aversion on the Willingness to Persist

Kenneth Younge

We investigate the willingness of individuals to persist at exploration in the face of failure. Prior research suggests that the organization's "tolerance for failure" may motivate greater exploration by the individual. Little is known, however, about how ...

MIT Press2020

Reproducibility warning: The curious case of polyethylene glycol 6000 and spheroid cell culture

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Zhi Luo, Ahmet Bekdemir

Reproducibility of results is essential for a well-designed and conducted experiment. Several reasons may originate failure in reproducing data, such as selective reporting, low statistical power, or poor analysis. In this study, we used PEG6000 samples fr ...

2020

An Experimental Study on Mixed-Dimensional 1D-2D van der Waals Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-WSe2 Hetero-Junction

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi, Nicolò Oliva, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert, Matteo Cavalieri, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Amin Rassekh

This experimental study investigates a novel multi-functional one dimensional-two dimensional (1D-2D) heterojunction made of two different band-gap semiconductors, i.e. single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and tungsten di-selenide (WSe2). The proposed ult ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Statistical accuracy for estimations of large wood blockage in a reservoir environment

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Paloma Furlan

The blockage of weirs or bridges by in-stream wood can reduce the flood discharge capacity, leading to hazardous situations. To assess the related risk, blocking probabilities quantifications are needed. However, large wood has a random behaviour and it is ...

SPRINGER2020

Erosion, transport and deposition of a sediment replenishment under flood conditions

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Christopher Robinson, Severin Stähly

River reaches downstream of dams with constant residual discharge often lack sediment supply and periodic high flows due to dam sediment retention and flow regulation, respectively. To test a novel multi-deposit methodology for defining environmental flows ...

2020

Navigating the validity tradeoffs of entrepreneurship research experiments: A systematic review and best-practice suggestions

Jérémy Binder, Julia Katharina Binder

Experimental methods provide important advantages for advancing academic understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complex and comingled relationships between some of entrepreneurship's key characteristics pose thorny methodological challenges to entrepr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

2019

Perceptual effects of daylight patterns in architecture

Kynthia Chamilothori

The profound impact of daylight on occupants is broadly recognized in the fields of architecture and lighting. In particular, the façade and its interplay with light is a central design element, while the diversity of daylight in space is widely acknowledg ...

EPFL2019

How to improve the sensitivity of coplanar electrodes and micro channel design in electrical impedance flow cytometry: a study

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Jonathan Bastien Cottet

This paper describes a comprehensive analysis of the geometrical parameters in uencing the sensitivity of a coplanar elec- trode layout for electrical impedance ow cytometry. The designs presented in this work have been simulated, fabricated, and tested. 3 ...

2019