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Vertical and Leg Stiffness Modeling During Running: Effect of Speed and Incline

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard, Frédéric Meyer

A spring mass model is often used to describe human running, allowing to understand the concept of elastic energy storage and restitution. The stiffness of the spring is a key parameter and different methods have been developed to estimate both the vertica ...

GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG2023

Comparison of questionnaire items for discomfort glare studies in daylit spaces

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Sneha Jain, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

When studying discomfort glare, researchers tend to rely on a single questionnaire item to obtain user evaluations. It is unclear whether the choice of questionnaire item affects the distribution of user responses and leads to inconsistencies between studi ...

2023

Assessing Computational Thinking: Development and Validation of the Algorithmic Thinking Test for Adults

Olivier Lévêque, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Marc Lafuente Martinez

This study describes the development and validation process of a computational thinking (CT) test for adults. The team designed a set of items and explored a subset of those through two qualitative pilots. Then, in order to provide validity evidence based ...

2022

Evaluation of a shortened version of the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) for upper extremity function after stroke: The Mini-ARAT

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Objectives (i) to create a shortened version of the Action Research Arm Test scale, (ii) to investigate its psychometric properties compared to the original scale and (iii) to externally validate it within an independent cohort. Design Prospective longitud ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Study on the internal crack network of the ASR-affected concrete by the tomography-based numerical model

Jean-François Molinari, Emil Gallyamov

In this paper, we present a novel finite element model to simulate alkali-silica reaction in a realistic concrete meso-structure. Application of the internal ASR loading leads to the evolution of multiple deviated cracks and corresponding macroscopic expan ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Evaluating the Explainers: Black-Box Explainable Machine Learning for Student Success Prediction in MOOCs

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Mirko Marras, Vinitra Swamy, Bahar Radmehr

Neural networks are ubiquitous in applied machine learning for education. Their pervasive success in predictive performance comes alongside a severe weakness, the lack of explainability of their decisions, especially relevant in human-centric fields. We im ...

2022

Self-learning surrogate models in superstructure optimization

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher, Michel Lopez

In this contribution, we propose an algorithm for replacing non-linear process simulation integrated in multi-level optimization of an energy system superstructure with surrogate models. With our approach, we demonstrate that surrogate models are a valid t ...

Elsevier2021

Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI

Raphaël Pierre Liégeois, Jonathan Raël Lurie

The brain is a complex, multiscale dynamical system composed of many interacting regions. Knowledge of the spatiotemporal organization of these interactions is critical for establishing a solid understanding of the brain's functional architecture and the r ...

MIT PRESS2020

Construct Validity of Unobtrusive Measures of Organizational Ethical Climates

Christine Choirat

Prior studies have examined the relationship between organizational ethical climates and an array of work-related attitudes and behaviors. However, current research is hampered by the lack of knowledge on how ethical climates relate to organizational outco ...

2021

Predictive Validity of Thin-Slice Nonverbal Behavior from Social Interactions

Laurent Son Nguyen

We present five studies investigating the predictive validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior (NVB). Predictive validity of thin slices refers to how well behavior slices excerpted from longer video predict other measured variables. Using six NVBs, we ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019

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

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

Heightened clinical utility of smartphone versus body-worn inertial system for shoulder function B-B score

Kamiar Aminian, Alain Farron, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli, Cyntia Duc

The B-B Score is a straightforward kinematic shoulder function score including only two movements (hand to the Back + lift hand as to change a Bulb) that demonstrated sound measurement properties for patients for various shoulder pathologies. However, the ...

2017

An assessment of how well we account for intangibles

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Estimates of intangible capital stock are of prime importance for accurate measurement of productivity growth. Aggregate intangible capital stock is usually estimated using the so-called Corrado-Hulten-Sichel (CHS) new growth accounting framework. Yet this ...

Oxford University Press2017

On the born approximation for differential microwave imaging using volume integral equation formulation

Juan Ramon Mosig, Michael Mattes, Benjamin Fuchs, Benjamin Fuchs, Mina Bjelogrlic

The Degree of Non-Linearity (DNL) of scattering problems and specifically of differential Microwave Imaging (dMWI) problems is addressed in this paper. The quantification of the DNL amounts to evaluate the validity range of the Born first order (linear) ap ...

2016

Physical Behavior in Older Persons during Daily Life: Insights from Instrumented Shoes

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Activity level and gait parameters during daily life are important indicators for clinicians because they can provide critical insights into modifications of mobility and function over time. Wearable activity monitoring has been gaining momentum in daily l ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Instrumented shoes for daily activity monitoring in healthy and at risk populations

Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Daily activity reflects the health status of an individual. Ageing and disease drastically affect all dimensions of mobility, from the number of active bouts to their duration and intensity. Performing less activity leads to muscle deterioration and furthe ...

EPFL2016

Validity Tests of Superposition Principle Based on Forward Model for Electromagnetic Induction Scattering

Yves Perriard, Christian Köchli, Chafic Abu Antoun

Low-frequency electromagnetic scattering from conductive and permeable bodies is the main principle of detection devices. To be able to classify the objects in the base material, a fast forward model based on the dipolar approximation was developed and ver ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Computational Analysis Of Behavior In Employment Interviews And Video Resumes

Laurent Son Nguyen

Used in nearly every organization, employment interviews are a ubiquitous process where job applicants are evaluated by an employer for an open position. Consisting of an interpersonal interaction between at least one interviewer and a job applicant, they ...

EPFL2015

Hire Me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen

Understanding the basis on which recruiters form hirability impressions for a job applicant is a key issue in organizational psychology and can be addressed as a social computing problem. We approach the problem from a face-to-face, nonverbal perspective w ...

2014

Inter-laboratory trial of a standardized sediment contact test with the aquatic plant Myriophyllum aquaticum (ISO 16191)

A whole-sediment toxicity test with Myriophyllum aquaticum has been developed by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and standardized within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO; ISO 16191). An international ring-test was performed ...

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2014