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The virtuous cycle of human genetics and mouse models in drug discovery

Ongoing studies in many species seek to understand the origins, architecture and consequences of phenotypic variation under normal and dysfunctional conditions, with the aim of identifying targets for intervention that can prevent, stabilize or reverse dis ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

High-resolution H-1 NMR of powdered solids by homonuclear dipolar decoupling

David Lyndon Emsley, Federico Maria Paruzzo

The development of homonuclear dipolar decoupling sequences to obtain high-resolution H-1 NMR spectra from solids has recently celebrated its 50th birthday. Over the years, a series of different decoupling schemes have been developed, starting with the pio ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2019

Understanding the Superior Stability of Single-Molecule Magnets on an Oxide Film

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Romana Baltic, Katharina Johanna Diller

The stability of magnetic information stored in surface adsorbed single-molecule magnets is of critical interest for applications in nanoscale data storage or quantum computing. The present study combines X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, density function ...

2019

Hydro-mechanical characterization of gas shales and Opalinus Clay shale in partially saturated conditions

Alberto Minardi

An experimental study on the behaviour of shales in partially water saturated conditions is presented in this thesis. The Opalinus Clay shale and gas shales from different unconventional reservoirs have been studied. Opalinus Clay is currently considered a ...

EPFL2018

High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers

Marco Mattavelli, Jean-Michel Sallese, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino

This paper presents a high precision capacitive moisture sensor for polymers that is part of a compact, fast, and economic moisture analyzer capable of reaching similar precision than commercial moisture analyzers based on the Karl Fischer method. The desi ...

IEEE2018

When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments

Gael Lederrey, Robert West

As online shopping becomes ever more prevalent, customers rely increasingly on product rating websites for making purchase decisions. The reliability of online ratings, however, is potentially compromised by the so-called herding effect: when rating a prod ...

2018

Fracture mechanics-based progressive damage modelling of adhesively bonded fibre-reinforced polymer joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Roohollah Sarfaraz Khabbaz, Moslem Shahverdi, Aida Cameselle Molares

A quasi-static progressive damage model for prediction of the fracture behaviour and strength of adhesively bonded fibre-reinforced polymer joints is introduced in this paper. The model is based on the development of a mixed-mode failure criterion as a fun ...

Wiley2017

Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy of Peptides and Glycans

Chiara Masellis

Understanding the structure of biomolecules, which are directly related to physiological processes that take place in the human body, has always generated a large interest in the scientific community. In this thesis we focus our attention on two of these c ...

EPFL2017

Columnar self-assembly of N,N ',N ''-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy and computational methods in solution and the solid state

Diego Carnevale, Mathieu Baudin

The columnar self-assembly resulting from units of N, N', N"-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide is investigated in solution and the solid state by means of NMR spectroscopy. A parallel computational study utilizing both semiempirical and DFT methods allo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017