Publications associées à Venture Capitalists' evaluation of start-up Teams: Trade-offs, Knock-out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

Equity ownership and identification with the founding team

Founders benefit from identifying with their founding teams because identification facilitates cooperation in the team, aligns founders' actions with the norms and interests of the team, and, ultimately, enhances team performance. High identification with ...

Wiley2024

Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life. In this article, we study the origins of this pervasive petroculture through the lens of the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program (ERP), its Refinery Expan ...

2023

Superior visible light-mediated catalytic activity of a novel N-doped, Fe3O4-incorporating MgO nanosheet in presence of PMS: Imidacloprid degradation and implications on simultaneous bacterial inactivation

Stefanos Giannakis, Jérémie Decker

Impressive Imidacloprid (IMD) degradation and bacterial inactivation were attained through the photocatalytic activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) via a novel, N-doped MgO@Fe3O4, under visible light. After complete characterization (XPS, XRD, FT-IR, FE-SE ...

ELSEVIER2022

Determining the Core Primitive for Optimally Secure Ratcheting

Serge Vaudenay, Muhammed Fatih Balli

After ratcheting attracted attention mostly due to practical real-world protocols, recently a line of work studied ratcheting as a primitive from a theoretic point of view. Literature in this line, pursuing the strongest security of ratcheting one can hope ...

2020

Dual-responsive polyphosphazene as a common platform for highly efficient drug self-delivery

For clinical applications, simplicity, high efficiency, and low toxicity are key issues in the design of anti-tumor drugs. In this work, a novel dual-responsive drug self-framed delivery system (DSFDS) with high drug delivery efficiency is proposed based o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Breaking size-segregation waves and mobility feedback in dense granular avalanches

Christophe Ancey, Kasper van der Vaart

Through experiments and discrete particle method (DPM) simulations we present evidence for the existence of a recirculating structure, that exists near the front of dense granular avalanches, and is known as a breaking size-segregation (BSS) wave. This is ...

2018

Towards subjective quality assessment of point cloud imaging in augmented reality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Evangelos Alexiou

Recently, there has been an increased interest in capture, processing and rendering of visual content in form of point clouds. Among other challenges, subjective and objective quality evaluation of point clouds are still open problems. Most proposed subjec ...

2017

Multilevel Design Understanding: From Specification to Logic Invited Paper

Mathias Soeken

We present an outline of the field of Multilevel Design Understanding by first defining and motivating the related problems, and then describing the key issues which must be addressed in future research. ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

The development of RAPTA compounds for the treatment of tumors

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Benjamin Samuel Murray

Ruthenium(II)-arene RAPTA-type compounds have been extensively explored for their medicinal properties. Herein a comprehensive review of this class of compounds is provided. A discussion of the basic RAPTA structure is given together with the ways it has b ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Efficient Public-Key Distance Bounding Protocol

Serge Vaudenay, Handan Kilinç Alper

Distance bounding protocols become more and more important because they are the most accurate solution to defeat relay attacks. They consist of two parties: a verifier and a prover. The prover shows that (s)he is close enough to the verifier. In some appli ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2016

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Public Key Infrastructure

Touradj Ebrahimi, David Mc Nally, Lin Yuan

A significant number of pictures are posted to social media sites or exchanged through instant messaging and cloud-based sharing services. Most social media services offer a range of access control mechanisms to protect users privacy. As it is not in the b ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Human-centered Innovation Processes : The Case of Design Thinking in Nascent and Large Firms

Alan Cabello Llamas

For more than a decade managers, academics, educators and politicians have indicated that innovation is the key to our future. As a result, we find a plethora of innovation initiatives around the world, from university curricula to the mission statements o ...

EPFL2015

Weakly Supervised Alignment Of Image Manifolds With Semantic Ties

Devis Tuia

Aligning data distributions that underwent spectral distortions related to acquisition conditions is a key issue to improve the performance of classifiers applied to multi-temporal and multi-angular images. In this paper, we propose a feature extraction me ...

Ieee2014

Electrical contacts to single nanowires: a scalable method allowing multiple devices on a chip. Application to a single nanowire radial p-i-n junction

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Carlo Colombo, Martin Heiss, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Pierre Loïc Blanc

Semiconductor nanowires are currently at the forefront of research in the areas of nanoelectronics and energy conversion. In all these studies, realising electrical contacts and statistically relevant measurements is a key issue. We propose a method that e ...

Inderscience2013

Front-Crawl Propulsive Phase Detection Using Inertial Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Grégoire Millet, Florent Crettenand

Front crawl is an alternating swimming stroke technique in which different phases of arm movement induce changes in acceleration of limbs and body. This study proposes a new approach to use inertial body worn sensors to estimate main temporal phases of fro ...

2011

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Francesco Mondada, Alcherio Martinoli, Michael Bonani, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a consid ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

Convolution and iterative methods applied to low frequency waves in 3D configurations

Stephan Brunner, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Laurent Villard, Nicolas Mellet

Kinetic effects have been implemented in the three-dimensional full-wave code LEMan. These allow modeling Landau damping as well as the Kinetic Alfvén Wave (KAW). Special attention has been taken on the exact computation of the parallel wave vector as it c ...

Elsevier2011

Uptake of Cd(II) and Pb(II) by microalgae in presence of colloidal organic matter from wastewater treatment plant effluents

Laura Sigg

The present study addresses the key issue of linking the chemical speciation to the uptake of priority pollutants Cd(II) and Pb(II) in the wastewater treatment plant effluents, with emphasis on the role of the colloidal organic matter (EfOM). Binding of Cd ...

2010

Retinal ischemia-induced apoptosis is associated with alteration in Bax and Bcl-x(L) expression rather than modifications in Bak and Bcl-2

Purpose: Apoptosis is known to play a key role in cell death after retinal ischemia. However, little is known about the kinetics of the signaling pathways involved and their contribution to this process. The aim of this study was to determine whether chang ...

2009

Weariness and Loyalty Loss in Recurrent Service Models

Max-Olivier Hongler, Olivier Gallay

For recurrent service providers (fast-food, entertainment, medical care,...), retaining loyal customers is obviously a key issue. The customers' loyalty essentially depends on their service satisfaction defined via an ad-hoc utility function. Among several ...

2008