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A multi-reservoir extruder for time-resolved serial protein crystallography and compound screening at X-ray free-electron lasers

Christoph Bostedt, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira

Serial crystallography at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) permits the determination of radiation-damage free static as well as time-resolved protein structures at room temperature. Efficient sample delivery is a key factor for such experiments. Here, we ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Deriving Major Ion Concentrations at High Resolution from Continuous Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Karst Systems

Paolo Benettin

Time series of hydrochemical parameters support the investigation of dominant karst hydrological processes and conceptual model structures. Nevertheless, high costs for sample collection and analyses cause hydrochemical data to be rarely available at a suf ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

Assessing normalization methods in mass spectrometry-based proteome profiling of clinical samples

Loïc Dayon

Background: Large-scale proteomic studies have to deal with unwanted variability, especially when samples originate from different centers and multiple analytical batches are needed. Such variability is typically added throughout all the steps of a clinica ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

RSVQA Meets Bigearthnet: A New, Large-Scale, Visual Question Answering Dataset for Remote Sensing

Devis Tuia

Visual Question Answering is a new task that can facilitate the extraction of information from images through textual queries: it aims at answering an open-ended question formulated in natural language about a given image. In this work, we introduce a new ...

IEEE2021

Reinforced Attention for Few-Shot Learning and Beyond

Tong Zhang

Few-shot learning aims to correctly recognize query samples from unseen classes given a limited number of support samples, often by relying on global embeddings of images. In this paper, we propose to equip the backbone network with an attention agent, whi ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Systems engineering and design of a Mars Polar Research Base with a human crew

Claudio Guiliano Leonardi, Anton Ivanov, Tatiana Maillard, Anne-Marlene Rüede

Mars Polar Ice caps have been known ever since they were first observed by Cassini. Robotic exploration mis- sions, starting with Mariner 9, have confirmed that they are composed of water ice. During later missions, instruments such as Mars Global Surveyor ...

2019

Object Detection with Active Sample Harvesting

Olivier Canévet

The work presented in this dissertation lies in the domains of image classification, object detection, and machine learning. Whether it is training image classifiers or object detectors, the learning phase consists in finding an optimal boundary between po ...

EPFL2017

Microfluidic Platform for Seawater Desalination by Coulometric Removal of Chloride Ions through Printed Ag Electrodes

Herbert Shea, Peter Van der Wal, Marianna Fighera

This paper reports on the electrochemical characterization and comparison of printable silver inks for the fabrication of planar electrodes to integrate in a microfluidic platform for in situ desalination of seawater prior to detection of nutrients in mari ...

Electrochemical Soc Inc2017

A user's guide for α-synuclein biomarker studies in biological fluids: Perianalytical considerations

Hilal Lashuel

Parkinson's disease biomarkers are needed to increase diagnostic accuracy, to objectively monitor disease progression and to assess therapeutic efficacy as well as target engagement when evaluating novel drug and therapeutic strategies. This article summar ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Microdevice for Sedimentation-based Separation of Blood Microsamples at the Point of Collection

David Forchelet

Laboratory blood testing plays a central role in current diagnostics and therapeutical decisions. Thus, errors have a direct impact on care quality and cost. The majority of errors occur in the pre-analytical phase, when samples are collected, stored and p ...

EPFL2017

High-speed phase-shifting common-path quantitative phase imaging with a piezoelectric actuator

Theo Lasser, Miguel Sison, Antonio Lopez, Séverine Coquoz

We present a phase-shifting quantitative phase imaging technique providing high temporal and spatial phase stability and high acquisition speed. A piezoelectric microfabricated phase modulator allows tunable modulation frequencies up to the kHz range. Afte ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2016

Sampling strategies and post-processing methods for increasing the time resolution of organic aerosol measurements requiring long sample-collection times

Satoshi Takahama, Robin Lewis Modini

The composition and properties of atmospheric organic aerosols (OAs) change on timescales of minutes to hours. However, some important OA characterization techniques typically require greater than a few hours of sample-collection time (e.g., Fourier transf ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: extending the predictions to different years and different sites

Satoshi Takahama, Matteo Reggente

Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) are major components of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), which has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality, climate change, and reduced visibility. Typically OC and EC concentrations are meas ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Structured sparsity for spatially coherent fibre orientation estimation in diffusion MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Yves Wiaux, Anna Auria Rasclosa

We propose a novel formulation to solve the problem of intra-voxel reconstruction of the fibre orientation distribution function (FOD) in each voxel of the white matter of the brain from diffusion MRI data. The majority of the state-of-the-art methods in t ...

Elsevier2015

Measurement of the penetration depth and coherence length of MgB2 in all directions using transmission electron microscopy

We demonstrate that images of flux vortices in a superconductor taken with a transmission electron microscope can be used to measure the penetration depth and coherence length in all directions at the same temperature and magnetic field. This is particular ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

A 10 mK scanning tunneling microscope operating in ultra high vacuum and high magnetic fields

Klaus Kern

We present design and performance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that operates at temperatures down to 10 mK providing ultimate energy resolution on the atomic scale. The STM is attached to a dilution refrigerator with direct access to an ultra h ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Simulation of a suite of generic long-pulse neutron instruments to optimize the time structure of the European Spallation Source

We here describe the result of simulations of 15 generic neutron instruments for the long-pulsed European Spallation Source. All instruments have been simulated for 20 different settings of the source time structure, corresponding to pulse lengths between ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Robust Data-Driven Dynamic Programming

Daniel Kuhn, Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto

In stochastic optimal control the distribution of the exogenous noise is typically unknown and must be inferred from limited data before dynamic programming (DP)-based solution schemes can be applied. If the conditional expectations in the DP recursions ar ...

2013

Sampling and reconstructing diffusion fields in presence of aliasing

Martin Vetterli, Juri Ranieri

The reconstruction of a diffusion field, such as temperature, from samples collected by a sensor network is a classical inverse problem and it is known to be ill-conditioned. Previous work considered source models, such as sparse sources, to regularize the ...

2013

Focusing System Flexure-Mechanism for the Close-Up Imager Instrument of the ExoMars Rover

Simon Nessim Henein, Philippe Schwab

This paper presents the design of a flexure based focusing system, part of the Close-Up Imager (CLUPI) instrument which is planned to be integrated on the future ExoMars NASA-ESA Mars Rover to be launched in 2018. Various design trade-offs are discussed, i ...

2012