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  1. The Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns: Evidence on Domestic Violence in Italy 

    Bochenkova, Alena; Buonanno, Paolo; Deiana, Claudio; et al. (2024)
    Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series
    This study examines the effects of Italy’s COVID-19 tiered lockdown system on domestic violence. The policy implemented categorizes regions into different weekly risk levels, imposing corresponding mobility restrictions—the higher the risk, the greater the constraints on mobility outside the home. Leveraging this setting, we employ a difference-in-differences approach with staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous treatment effects ...
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  2. The second coefficient of the Alexander polynomial as a satellite obstruction 

    Lewark, Lukas (2024)
    arXiv
    A set P of links is introduced, containing positive braid links as well as arborescent positive Hopf plumbings. Inspired by work of Ito, it is shown that for links in P, the leading and the second coefficient of the Alexander polynomial have opposite sign. It follows that certain satellite links, such as (n,1)-cables, are not in P.
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  3. A new concordance homomorphism from Khovanov homology 

    Lewark, Lukas (2024)
    The universal Khovanov chain complex of a knot modulo an appropriate equivalence relation is shown to yield a homomorphism on the smooth concordance group, which is strictly stronger than all Rasmussen invariants over fields of different characteristics combined.
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  4. The impact of decreasing horizontal grid spacing on the simulation of the mountain boundary layer in the hectometric range 

    Goger, Brigitta; Dipankar, Anurag (2024)
    arXiv
    The horizontal grid spacing of numerical weather prediction models keeps decreasing towards the hectometric range. We perform limited-area simulations with the ICON model across horizontal grid spacings (1 km, 500 m, 250 m, 125 m) in the Inn Valley, Austria, and evaluate the model with observations from the CROSSINN measurement campaign. This allows us to investigate whether increasing the horizontal resolution automatically improves the ...
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  5. Text-image Alignment for Diffusion-based Perception 

    Kondapaneni, Neehar; Marks, Markus; Knott, Manuel; et al. (2023)
    arXiv
    Diffusion models are generative models with impressive text-to-image synthesis capabilities and have spurred a new wave of creative methods for classical machine learning tasks. However, the best way to harness the perceptual knowledge of these generative models for visual tasks is still an open question. Specifically, it is unclear how to use the prompting interface when applying diffusion backbones to vision tasks. We find that automatically ...
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  6. On-chip quantum interference between independent lithium niobate-on-insulator photon-pair sources 

    Chapman, Robert James; Kuttner, Tristan; Kellner, Jost; et al. (2024)
    arXiv
    Generating and interfering non-classical states of light is fundamental to optical quantum in formation science and technology. Quantum photonic integrated circuits provide one pathway to wards scalability by combining nonlinear sources of non-classical light and programmable circuits in centimeter-scale devices. The key requirements for quantum applications include efficient genera tion of indistinguishable photon-pairs and high-visibility ...
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  7. Die schweizerische Raiffeisenbewegung 1880–1950 

    Spuhler, Gregor; Rothenbühler, Verena; Schneider, Oliver; et al. (2024)
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  8. Top-funded digital health companies offering lifestyle interventions for dementia prevention: Company overview and evidence analysis 

    Vinay, Rasita; Probst, Jonas; Huynh, Panitda; et al. (2024)
    medRxiv
    Background and objectiveDementia prevention has been recognized as a top priority by public health authorities due to the lack of disease modifying treatments. In this regard, digital dementia-preventive lifestyle services (DDLS) emerge as potentially pivotal services, aiming to address modifiable risk factors on a large scale. This study aims to identify the top-funded companies offering DDLS globally and evaluate their clinical evidence ...
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  9. Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil 

    Valentin-Alvarado, Luis E.; Appler, Kathryn E.; Appler, Kathryn E.; et al. (2023)
    bioRxiv
    The roles of Asgard archaea in eukaryogenesis and marine biogeochemical cycles are well studied, yet their contributions in soil ecosystems are unknown. Of particular interest are Asgard archaeal contributions to methane cycling in wetland soils. To investigate this, we reconstructed two complete genomes for soil-associated Atabeyarchaeia, a new Asgard lineage, and the first complete genome of Freyarchaeia, and defined their metabolism ...
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  10. Dataset and Analysis of River Waste Pollution in the Limmat River, CH, during a One-day City Festival (Zurich Street Parade, 2023) 

    Esquivel Estay, Fidel; Kolvenbach, Hendrik; Strübin, Dario; et al. (2024)
    This paper introduces a dataset of instance seg- mentation of waste items collected from the Limmat River in Zurich, Switzerland, after the annual festival “Street Parade” held on August 12th, 2023. We have collected the objects during and after the event took place. The objective of the data collection is to gain a better understanding of waste items commonly found in rivers and to provide an open-source dataset for technology developers ...
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  11. Schweizer Mobilitätspanel. Vierte Erhebungswelle: Zusatzbefragung ÖV-Präferenzen 

    Lichtin, Florian Maurus; Smith, Keith; Linder, Jan; et al. (2024)
    Im Folgenden werden die Ergebnisse einer Befragung zu Präferenzen hinsichtlich der zukünftigen Ausgestaltung des öffentlichen Verkehrs in der Schweiz präsentiert. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer ausserordentliche Umfrage des Schweizer Mobiltätspanels (SMP) unter Kundinnen und Kunden der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen (SBB), welche von November bis Dezember 2022 durchgeführt wurde. Das Schweizer Mobilitätspanel ist eine Panelbefragung zum ...
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  12. Potenzialanalyse zweiter Arbeitsmarkt 

    Bolli, Thomas; De Pietro, Jürg; Morlet, Guillaume Maxence Augusti; et al. (2024)
    CES Studien
    In der heutigen Schweizer Wirtschaft leiden viele Unternehmen unter Fachkräftemangel. Ein Lösungsansatz besteht in der Integration von Menschen aus dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt. Die Forschungsfrage dieser Studie lautet: Wie kann der zweite Arbeitsmarkt in die Fertigungs- und Kunststoffindustrie der Schweiz integriert werden? Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf dem sogenannten Shop-im-Shop-Modell, das Arbeitskräfte des zweiten Arbeitsmarktes direkt ...
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  14. IVT Annual Report 2023 

    Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zurich (2024)
    IVT Jahresbericht / IVT Annual Report
    This annual report describes the activities of the IVT in the year 2023.
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  15. Effect of the 2022 summer drought across forest types in Europe 

    Gharun, Mana; Shekhar, Ankit; Xiao, Jingfeng; et al. (2024)
    EGUsphere
    Forests in Europe experienced record-breaking dry conditions during the 2022 summer. The direction in which various forest types respond to climate extremes during their growing season is contingent upon an array of internal and external factors. These factors include the extent and severity of the extreme conditions and the tree ecophysiological characteristics adapted to environmental cues, which exhibit significant regional variations. ...
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  16. Increasing public support for climate policy: Research needs, questions, and challenges around politically influenceable acceptability factors 

    Heyen, Dirk Arne; Wicki, Michael (2022)
    Oeko-Institut Working Paper
    Ambitious climate policy needs a mix of instruments, from relatively soft and supportive pull measures to more intervening and demanding push measures. Given that the latter often receive relatively low public support, especially when targeting consumers’ everyday life, we need to know more about how to increase their acceptability. We argue that existing research has focused on factors that explain relatively stable differences in climate ...
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  17. Transformation de la formation professionnelle supérieure de conduite des travaux 

    Renold, Ursula; Bolli, Thomas; Dändliker, Lena (2024)
    CES Studies
    La formation professionnelle supérieure dans la conduite des travaux subit actuellement un changement fondamental : le diplôme de conduite des travaux ne sera plus obtenu dans une école supérieure (ES), mais à partir de 2026, il sera exclusivement délivré par le biais d'un examen professionnel fédéral supérieur (EPS). Sur mandat de la Société Suisse des Entrepreneurs, le Swiss Education Lab de la Chaire de Systèmes Éducatifs de l'EPF ...
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  18. Transformation der höheren Berufsbildung in der Bauführung 

    Renold, Ursula; Bolli, Thomas; Dändliker, Lena (2024)
    CES Studien
    Die höhere Berufsbildung in der Bauführung erfährt derzeit einen grundlegenden Wandel: Das Bauführungs-Diplom wird nicht mehr an einer höheren Fachschule (HF) erworben, sondern ab 2026 ausschliesslich über eine eidgenössisch höhere Fachprüfung (HFP) verliehen. Im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Baumeisterverbands begleiten wir vom Swiss Education Lab der Professur für Bildungssysteme der ETH Zürich diese Transformation wissenschaftlich. Damit ...
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  19. Prognose 2024 / 2025 Globale Konjunkturschwäche hemmt Schweizer Wirtschaft 

    Rathke, Alexander; Sarferaz, Samad; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; et al. (2024)
    KOF Konjunkturbericht
    Der vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der Frühjahresprognose 2024 der KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich vom 26. März 2024. Zuerst werden die jüngsten Wirtschaftsentwicklungen in der Schweiz und im Ausland diskutiert. Danach folgen die wichtigsten Prognoseergebnisse für die verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbereiche der Schweiz, aufgeteilt nach den wichtigsten verwendungsseitigen Komponenten des Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP). ...
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  20. Automatisiertes Fahren im Strassentunnel 

    van Linn, Andreas; Schneider, Reto; Kouvelas, Anastasios; et al. (2023)
    Selbstfahrende intelligente Fahrzeuge bringen ein neues Fahrverhalten in die Strassenverkehrssysteme ein, welches die derzeitigen Verkehrsnetze verändern wird, besonders in Anbetracht des noch über lange Zeit zu erwartenden Mischverkehrs. Die strategische Ausrichtung des ASTRA umfasst das ausdrückliche Ziel, dass bis im Jahr 2030 auf Nationalstrassen hoch- und vollautomatisierte Fahrzeuge verkehren können. Zur Zielerreichung sind sowohl ...
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