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Palimpsest Metaphor: Figures and Spaces of the Contemporary Project

What are the consequences of the use of the palimpsest metaphor on the construction of the contemporary project? The metaphor casts criticism on the modern project and opens to the long-term (longue durée). The investigation of territorial rationalities br ...

2020

Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Marc Gruber

Creating new ventures is one of the most central topics to entrepreneurship and is a critical step from which many theories of management, organizational behavior, and strategic management build. Therefore, this review and proposed research agenda are rele ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Development of chemical biology tools to reveal the function and organization of the silenced chromatin state

Nora Guidotti

Effector proteins are recruited to chromatin via transient interactions between their reader domains and histone post-translational modification (PTM) patterns. These interactions form signaling pathways that control gene expression or repression and which ...

EPFL2020

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Synaptic patterning and the timescales of cortical dynamics

Alexander Kevin Seeholzer

Neocortical circuits, as large heterogeneous recurrent networks, can potentially operate and process signals at multiple timescales, but appear to be differentially tuned to operate within certain temporal receptive windows. The modular and hierarchical or ...

Elsevier2017

Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

Mervegül Kirci

As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...

EPFL2017

The significance of organizational change management for sustainable competitiveness in manufacturing: exploring the firm archetypes

Gökan May

The successful development and deployment of adequate sustainable manufacturing strategies are still open issues and of utmost interest for research and practice. Guided by this particular challenge, we investigate the significance of organisational change ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Brain-Controlled Devices: The Perception-Action Closed Loop

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz

Future neuroprosthetics will be tightly coupled with the user in such a way that the resulting system can replace and restore impaired upper limb functions because controlled by the same neural signals than their natural counterparts. However, robust and n ...

Ieee2016

Graspeo: a Social Media Platform for Knowledge Management in NGOs

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Timely access to critical information is crucial for any organization operating in situations of emergency. Deploying an adequate information system tailored to specific organizational needs and matched to the organizational structure is essential. To unde ...

2015

An Extended, Boolean Model of the Septation Initiation Network in S-pombe Provides Insights into Its Regulation

Viesturs Simanis, Andrea Krapp

Cytokinesis in fission yeast is controlled by the Septation Initiation Network (SIN), a protein kinase signaling network using the spindle pole body as scaffold. In order to describe the qualitative behavior of the system and predict unknown mutant behavio ...

Public Library of Science2015

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

What We Can Learn about Business Modeling from Homeostasis

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business modeling methods most often model an organization’s value provision to its customers followed by the necessary activities and structure to deliver this value. These activities and structure are seen as infinitely malleable; they can be specified a ...

2013

Creative-Learning Innovation Cycle - CLIC : Work Motivation and Organizational Creativity

Vincent Nassar

WHY do certain leaders’ management of organizational resources encourage creative people engaged in New Product Development (NPD) to achieve high performance, on time, while other leaders’ practices foster frustration and delays? In this research project I ...

EPFL2012

Multimodality evaluation of the pediatric brain: DTI and its competitors

Elda Fischi Gomez

The development of the human brain, from the fetal period until childhood, happens in a series of inter- twined neurogenetical and histogenetical events that are influenced by environment. Neuronal proliferation and mi- gration, cell aggregation, axonal in ...

2012

Surface-Confined Self-Assembly of Di-carbonitrile Polyphenyls

Harald Brune, Uta Schlickum, Régis Decker

This Feature Article reports on the controlled formation and structure-functionality aspects of vacuum-deposited self-assembled organic and metal-organic networks at metal surfaces using ditopic linear and nonlinear molecular bricks, namely di-carbonitrile ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry : A Methodology to Develop an Electricity Sourcing Strategy

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Exploring the Origins of Organizational Paths: Empirical Evidence from Newly Founded Firms

Marc Gruber

The notion of path dependence in organizational processes has intrigued scholars for several decades. Yet, while extant studies provide rich insights on the factors that cause persistence in organizational paths, research that explores the origins of organ ...

2010

Dimerization of Dendrimeric Lanthanide Complexes: Thermodynamic, Thermal, and Liquid-Crystalline Properties

Kurt Schenk, Thomas Binderup Jensen

A series of 10 different mesomorphic semidendrimeric tridentate ligands L5-L14 grafted with terminal cyanobiphenyl groups have been synthesized. Upon reaction with Ln(NO3)(3) (Ln = trivalent lanthanide), the central 2,6-bis(N-ethylbenzimidazol-2-yl)pyridin ...

2010

A Systemic Approach for Designing Open Innovation Value Networks

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Arash Golnam

The past two decades have seen a number of changes to the business and technological environment that have favored the rise of “open” collaborative innovation as alternative to the more traditional ”closed” models. The traditional view of innovation as a c ...

International Society for Professional Innovation Management2009

Interpretation of neuronal response properties with simplified neuron models

Laurent Badel

Computational neuroscience is a branch of the neurosciences that attempts to elucidate the principles underlying the operation of neurons with the help of mathematical modeling. In contrast with a number of fields pursuing a tightly related goal, such as m ...

EPFL2009