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Single-cell biology: what does the future hold?

Bart Deplancke

In this Editorial, our Chief Editor and members of our Advisory Editorial Board discuss recent breakthroughs, current challenges, and emerging opportunities in single-cell biology and share their vision of "where the field is headed." ...

WILEY2023

Between the Pattern and the Type: A short parallel story

Vasileios Chanis

Historically speaking, the notion of the type was reintroduced to the larger architectural discourse as a direct consequence of the crisis of the Modern. The task of revisiting the forms of the past also dictated the return of architectural methods that ha ...

2023

The microbiome of cryospheric ecosystems

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Tyler Joe Kohler, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Stylianos Fodelianakis, Massimo Bourquin, Leïla Ezzat

The cryosphere includes those parts of Earth where water or soil is frozen, such as snow, ice, glaciers and permafrost soils. Here, the authors present a global inventory of cryospheric microbial communities and their genetic repertoires. ...

Nature Portfolio2022

How different charging prices can contribute to the balancing of ride-hailing services with electric vehicles

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Nils Gustav Nilsson, Marko Maljkovic

Motivated by the growing popularity of both the services offered by the ride-hailing companies and the electric vehicles (EVs), we study a scenario in which a central body e.g., the government, wants to influence how the EVs of different ride-hailing compa ...

2022

Essays on Mortgage Supply in a Low Rate Environment and Gender Effects of Covid-19

Yu Wu

After the financial crisis, policy rates in the major advanced economies have moved downwards to near/below zero. Some countries have experienced an increase in house prices and an expansion of mortgages. Also, there have been considerable changes in the m ...

EPFL2021

In Via Accidit

Alexandre Blanc, Marco Bakker

To share an event that happened or could have happen on the road in relation to architecture or space in a wider sense. ...

MANSLAB2020

Mortgage Supply and Capital Regulation in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Luisa Lambertini, Yu Wu

Low-for-long nominal interest rates have resulted in strong growth in mort- gage lending and real house prices in Switzerland. Domestically-oriented, small banks have mostly contributed to this expansion in mortgage lending while the two big, global system ...

2020

Thrackles: An improved upper bound

János Pach, Radoslav Fulek

A thrackle is a graph drawn in the plane so that every pair of its edges meet exactly once: either at a common end vertex or in a proper crossing. We prove that any thrackle of n vertices has at most 1.3984n edges. Quasi-thrackles are defined similarly, ex ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

The More Economic Approach To Predatory Pricing

The "more economic approach" was introduced to antitrust to achieve a more effect-based and theoretically grounded enforcement. However, related to predatory pricing it resulted in systematic over- and under-enforcement: Economic theory does not require do ...

2018

Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital : Evidence from Investments in the Clean Technology Sector

Giovanni Liotta

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...

EPFL2016

Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets

Philipp Urs Moser

Process industries (PI) have thrived in recent decades, but structural changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In a period of tumbling prices, supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as an essential ...

EPFL2016

Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips

Pierre Collin-Dufresne

Many leading asset pricing models are specified so that the term structure of dividend volatility is either flat or upward sloping. These models predict that the term structures of expected returns and volatilities on dividend strips (i.e., claims to divid ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Progress against follicular lymphoma

Elisa Oricchio

To share the recent progress in research and new therapies against follicular lymphoma and highlight the exciting opportunities to improve the treatment of follicular lymphoma. ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2013

Liberalisation, competition and innovation in the postal sector

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of letter volume, public ownership and other con ...

Springer-Verlag2013

Essays in Financial Economics

In the first chapter of this thesis, I empirically show that the time delay firms face in raising outside capital affects cash holdings. I exploit the 2005 US Securities Offering Reform (the Reform) as a quasi-natural experiment. For a subset of large publ ...

EPFL2012

Enabling Query Technologies for the Semantic Sensor Web

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Ho Young Jeung

Sensor networks are increasingly being deployed in the environment for many different purposes. The observations that they produce are made available with heterogeneous schemas, vocabularies and data formats, making it difficult to share and reuse this dat ...

Igi Publ2012

Erdos-Szekeres-type theorems for monotone paths and convex bodies

János Pach

For any sequence of positive integers j(1)< j(2)= 2 and q >= 2, what is the s ...

London Math Soc2012

The Participation Payoff: Challenges and Opportunities for Multimedia Access in Networked Communities

Frédéric Dufaux

Increasingly, multimedia collections are associated with networked communities consisting of interconnected groups of users who create, annotate, share, view, critique and remix collection content. Information arises within networked communities via connec ...

2010

Strategic options of energy service companies in competitive energy markets

In this dissertation, I determine the strategic options of energy service companies active in urban areas. This work is developed considering the wider EU policy framework, namely a liberalised energy market, environmental protection and security of supply ...

EPFL2009

Promoting Intellectual Discovery: Patents Versus Markets

Because they provide exclusive property rights, patents are generally considered to be an effective way to promote intellectual discovery. Here, we propose a different compensation scheme, in which everyone holds shares in the components of potential disco ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2009

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MANSLAB2020

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2013

London Math Soc2012