Publications associées à USEtox-the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

Frédéric Courbin, Xiuwei Zhang, Hua Zhang, Libo Yu, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jean-Luc Starck, Claudio Gheller, Austin Chandler Peel, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Mark Thomas Sargent, Yi Wang, Xin Chen

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, requiring the application of ad ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents

Jérôme Baudry, Simon François Dumas Primbault, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

This contribution argues that a particular scientific context made summits a place of interest for eighteenth-century travelers. This development is connected to two particular scientific practices. First, the challenges raised by making the barometer into ...

IGA-ASSOC DIFFUSION RECHERCHE ALPINE2022

Combating Online Scientific Misinformation

Panagiotis Smeros

The drastic shift towards digital communication in our mediasphere has caused a profound change in the production and consumption of information, which in turn has substantial implications on the social and political landscape. Misinformation, as a side ef ...

EPFL2022

Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions

Alina Volynskaya

In this article, I focus on digital scientific archives which are made up of the leftovers of science, such as drafts, obsolete instruments, photographs, documentation, etc. The artifacts exhibited in such collections were neither meant to be representatio ...

2021

SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking

Karl Aberer, Panagiotis Smeros, Carlos Castillo

This paper describes SciClops, a method to help combat online scientific misinformation. Although automated fact-checking methods have gained significant attention recently, they require pre-existing ground-truth evidence, which, in the scientific context, ...

ACM2021

Small satellites for space science A COSPAR scientific roadmap

Jie Wu, Maurice Borgeaud, Volker Gass

This is a COSPAR roadmap to advance the frontiers of science through innovation and international collaboration using small satellites. The world of small satellites is evolving quickly and an opportunity exists to leverage these developments to make scien ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

Andrea Martini

In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

EPFL2018

Review of design works for the conversion of sugarcane to first and second-generation ethanol and electricity

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Rami Bechara, Jean-Marc Schweitzer

The conversion of sugarcane, the world's largest crop, to energy vectors, namely first and second-generation ethanol and electricity, is an ongoing scientific endeavor. This conversion makes use of complex processes with numerous unit operations and proces ...

2018

Unravelling the precipitation pathway of biorelevant minerals: from fundamental studies to biomedical applications

Agnese Carino

The formation pathway of biominerals archetypes, namely calcium carbonate (CaC) and calcium phosphates (CaPs), was investigated using a multidisciplinary approach. The time-resolved analytical data were collected using a controlled-composition method and i ...

EPFL2018

Fluid Dynamics and Outliers : Outstanding Performance of High-Tech Companies in Microfluidic Technologies

Bernard André Vincent Calisti

The current craze for unicorns and other hyper growth companies brings a novel interest in what makes the exceptional performance of a firm. Literature about technological innovation explains the bond between the performance level reached by a company and ...

EPFL2017

Investigating Alternatives To The Fish Early-Life Stage Test: A Strategy For Discovering And Annotating Adverse Outcome Pathways For Early Fish Development

Kristin Schirmer

The fish early-life stage (FELS) test (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] test guideline 210) is the primary test used internationally to estimate chronic fish toxicity in support of ecological risk assessments and chemical manag ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Corporate Science and Voluntary Disclosure : Analyzing Determinants and Firm Performance

Markus Simeth

The dissertation investigates the phenomenon of firms that make voluntary contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge. Such a firm behaviour appears counterintuitive from a traditional viewpoint, since no direct financial returns can be expected whi ...

EPFL2013

Risk and regulatory hazard-based toxicological effect indicators in life-cycle assessment (LCA)

In life-cycle assessment (LCA), it is desirable to compare quantities of chemicals released into the environment in terms of the risk and consequences of toxicological effects. Many current methods rely directly on adaptations of regulatory-orientated appr ...

Taylor & Francis2006