Publications associées à An empirical comparative analysis of functional and perceived neighbourhood boundaries across Geneva, Switzerland

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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

Extremely metal-poor stars in the Fornax and Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Pascale Jablonka

We present our analysis of VLT/UVES and X-shooter observations of six very metal-poor stars, including four stars at [Fe/H] ≈ -3 in the Fornax and Carina dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. To date, this metallicity range in these two galaxies has not yet be ...

2024

Urban boundary-layer flows in complex terrain: Dynamic interactions during a hot and dry summer season in Phoenix, Arizona

Aldo Brandi

Anthropogenic modification of natural landscapes to urban environments impacts land-atmosphere interactions in the boundary layer. Ample research has demonstrated the effect of such landscape transitions on development of the urban heat island (UHI), but c ...

Wiley2024

Intensive Extensive: Merging Generative and Analytical Methods in Environmental Design Workflows

Christina Doumpioti

Architecture operates as an evolving interface that organises energy flows and stabilises material forms. It shapes the built environment by merging form with energy, creating spaces that resonate with occupants through sensory experiences, and by establis ...

EPFL2024

Spatial Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation to Evaluate on Public Policies for Energy Transition

Maria Anna Hecher, Simon Ladino Cano

The manuscript describes the development of a spatial Agent-based Simulation to model the effect of public policies on private houseowner’s decisions concerning their heating system. The methodology utilized comprises of an empirical survey to determine th ...

2024

Can we observe the ion-neutral drift velocity in prestellar cores?

Aris Evangelos Tritsis

Given the low-ionization fraction of molecular clouds, ambipolar diffusion is thought to be an integral process in star formation. However, chemical and radiative-transfer effects, observational challenges, and the fact that the ion-neutral drift velocity ...

2023

Effect of a temperature gradient on the screening properties of ionic fluids

Andrea Grisafi, Federico Grasselli

The electrostatic screening properties of ionic fluids are of paramount importance in countless physical processes. Yet the screening behavior of ionic conductors out of thermal equilibrium has to date mainly been studied in the context of thermoelectric p ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

A model for organization and regulation of nuclear condensates by gene activity

Halima Hannah Emilie Schede

Through a physics-based model framework, the authors propose a central role for the nonequilibrium processes underling gene activity in shaping morphology, dynamics, and regulation of diverse nuclear condensates. Condensation by phase separation has recent ...

Nature Research2023

Mott Insulating States with Competing Orders in the Triangular Lattice Hubbard Model

Riccardo Rossi

The physics of the triangular lattice Hubbard model exhibits a rich phenomenology, ranging from a metal-insulator transition, intriguing thermodynamic behavior, and a putative spin liquid phase at intermediate coupling, ultimately becoming a magnetic insul ...

American Physical Society2021

A New Approach to the Collection and Spatial Analysis of Land Values in Lomé and Yaoundé

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós

Understanding the land market is crucial when analyzing the spatial dynamics of cities. Spatial models, which are widely used to describe the growth of cities, are underdeveloped in Africa, due in part to the lack of urban data and/or the difficulty of col ...

2020

Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé

Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...

EPFL2020

Restorative design of urban brownfields, an interdisciplinary approach interconnecting nature-based solutions, heritage requalification and human wellbeing. A case study in Rome

Silvia Coccolo

In order to face increasing socio-economic challenges in a climate-change scenario, we should aim at re- designing our built environment, improving resilience and sustainability. Green infrastructure - trees in particular - play a critical role in urban he ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2020

Hyperaccurate currents in stochastic thermodynamics

Daniel Maria Busiello

Thermodynamic observables of mesoscopic systems can be expressed as integrated empirical currents. Their fluctuations are bound by thermodynamic uncertainty relations. We introduce the hyperaccurate current as the integrated empirical current with the leas ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Regional variation in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the developing world

Mathias Lerch

The study of regional trends in the rural-urban fertility gradient helps us to understand the pace of completion of the fertility transition and the geography of urban growth in the global South. We question whether the hypothesized inverted U-shaped evolu ...

2019

National assessment of cultural ecosystem services: Participatory mapping in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Previous studies assessed cultural ecosystem services (CES) at the local scale but often ignored them in national assessments. This paper explores CES relationships in Switzerland using web-based participatory mapping. We identified the spatial relationshi ...

2019

Contrasting processes drive alpha and beta taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of orthopteran communities in grasslands

François Gillet

Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversities can respond differently to biotic and abiotic filters. However, biodiversity management tends to focus on a single index, generally taxonomic diversity, assuming a strong positive correlation among biodive ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers

Michel Bierlaire, André Ourednik, Riccardo Scarinci, Farzaneh Bahrami

Moving walkways (MW) have been imagined as a possible means of transport since the late 19th century, and this system has fascinated urban planners and engineers ever since. Contrary to what has been imagined, moving walkways are only used in transportatio ...

Editorial Board Ejtir2017

The City of Extended Emotions

Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

Cities are much more than just the background of our lives, or complex artefacts. They are the social field and the content over which we quarrel; the reason and the tool by which we co-operate. Cities are shaped in the form of our passions. Those passions ...

EPFL2017