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How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey

BackgroundIn response to the challenges faced by emergency departments (ED), including overcrowding and high patient volumes, Fast Track (FT) systems are designed to optimize patient flow, yet their implementation and impact in Switzerland remain understud ...

BMC2025

Carving the transformation pathways to sustainable futures: A novel analytical framework for backcasting in sustainability transitions

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Despite the increasing number of climate and sustainability pledges, knowledge of how to reach those targets within a given system – systems and transformation knowledge – is often lacking. Backcasting can be highly relevant for tackling this transformatio ...

2025

Aerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots

Mirko Kovac, Yusuf Furkan Kaya

Recent advancements in large-scale additive manufacturing have extended its application in the building industry, delivering notable gains in productivity, efficiency, environmental sustainability, and safety compared with traditional construction methods. ...

2025

Digital Inclusion And Youth Participation In Urban Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Of Saint-Louis, Senegal

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Pablo Txomin Harpo de Roulet

This article investigates the inuence of digital technologies on youth participation in urban governance within the Global South, with a specic focus on Saint-Louis, Senegal. Rapid urbanization in developing countries has intensied the need for inclusiv ...

AIP Publishing2025

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

Jeffrey Huang, Simon Elias Bibri

The dynamic landscape of sustainable smart cities is witnessing a signi ficant transformation due to the integration of emerging computational technologies and innovative models. These advancements are reshaping data -driven planning strategies, practices, ...

Elsevier2024

Urban Farming and Health Challenges: Exploring Spatial Planning and Design Paradigms for Improved Urban Agriculture in Dar es Salaam and Greater Lomé, Togo (Africa)

Akuto Akpedze Konou

Although Urban Agriculture (UA) in Africa has a range of benefits for food security, as the literature asserts, these benefits are mixed and sometimes make the legitimacy of planning this activity on urban land controversial. Yet, to achieve the goal of a ...

EPFL2024

Explainable AI for Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Proposed Scheme Applied to a Case Study with Science Teachers

Tatjana Nazaretsky

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) seeks to render Artificial Intelligence (AI) models transparent and comprehensible, potentially increasing trust and confidence in AI recommendations. This research explores the realm of XAI within unsupervised edu ...

Science and Technology Publications, Lda2024

Urban Digital Twin Challenges: A Systematic Review and Perspectives for Sustainable Smart Cities

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, François Golay, Simon Elias Bibri, Charlotte Gisèle Weil, Régis Longchamp

Recent scientific and technological advancements have transformed the knowledge frontiers, giving rise to the next wave of disruptive technologies with deep impacts on urban society. An Urban Digital Twin (UDT) is a technology with great potential to trans ...

ELSEVIER2023

Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

Yara Kayyali El Alem

In this thesis we address various factors that contribute both theoretically and practically to mitigating supply demand mismatches. The thesis is composed of three chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first paper, we dev ...

EPFL2023

Identifying and Classifying Urban Data Sources for Machine Learning-Based Sustainable Urban Planning and Decision Support Systems Development

Jérôme Chenal

With the increase in the amount and variety of data that are constantly produced, collected, and exchanged between systems, the efficiency and accuracy of solutions/services that use data as input may suffer if an inappropriate or inaccurate technique, met ...

MDPI2022

On the role of districts as renewable energy hubs

Luise Middelhauve

Although inevitable, the process of transforming urban areas into sustainable living environments presents many challenges. The decentralization of the energy system, the interconnection of multiple energy carriers, and the need to account for conflicting ...

EPFL2022

Drivers and Barriers Toward Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Eating in Switzerland: Linking Impacts to Intentions and Practices

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann, Ivo Philippe Baur

Food consumption is among the activities with the most significant environmental impacts, and furthermore contributes to rising health costs. We explored the factors that foster or hinder healthy and sustainable eating in Switzerland. Based on an online ho ...

2022