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Hydraulic performance evaluation of a micro-turbine with counter rotating runners by experimental investigation and numerical simulation

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné

The development of energy recovery systems on existing water utility networks is a new challenge for increasing the sustainability of electricity generation mix. The concept of the new micro-turbine with counter rotating runners braces this goal by allowin ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) with nested LDPC codes

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Adriano Pastore, Erixhen Sula, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu

Inspired by the compute-and-forward scheme from Nazer and Gastpar, a novel multiple-access scheme introduced by Zhu and Gastpar makes use of nested lattice codes and sequential decoding of linear combinations of codewords to recover the individual messages ...

2017

Enhancing Social Media Platforms for Educational and Humanitarian Knowledge Sharing : Analytics, Privacy, Discovery, and Delivery Aspects

Andrii Vozniuk

Social media (SM) platforms have demonstrated their ability to facilitate knowledge sharing on the global scale. They are increasingly often employed in educational and humanitarian domains where, despite their general benefits, they expose challenges pecu ...

EPFL2017

GraaspBox: Enabling Mobile Knowledge Delivery into Underconnected Environments

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...

ACM2017

Community Building with Co-located Social Media: A Field Experiment with Syrian Refugees

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer

While co-located social media previously has been employed to enhance interaction in community building activities in previous work, its range of effects have not been quantitatively described. In this study, we introduce a co-located social media app call ...

ACM2017

Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Oxy-Alkynylation of Diazo Compounds

Jérôme Waser, Durga Prasada Rao Hari

Enantioselective catalytic methods allowing the addition of both a nucleophile and an electrophile onto diazo compounds give a fast access into important building blocks. Herein, we report the highly enantioselective oxyalkynylation of diazo compounds usin ...

2017

Mobile Health Applications to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

Kamiar Aminian

The European population is ageing, and there is a need for health solutions that keep older adults independent longer. With increasing access to mobile technology, such as smartphones and smartwatches, the development and use of mobile health applications ...

Mdpi Ag2017