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The Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape during the Coronavirus Crisis
(2020)CSS Cyberdefense ReportsIn light of the societal changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, this report examines the impact this crisis has had on the general cybersecurity threat landscape during the first two quarters of 2020. This report highlights that the coronavirus pandemic has generated a set of remarkable and psycho-societal, technical, and logistical-economic circumstances upon which malicious actors have capitalized. The analysis of the COVID-19-related ...Report -
Costs and Benefits of Electric Vehicles and District Cooling Systems: A case study in Singapore
(2020)Technical ReportUrban heat brings negative consequences for communities, their people and their assets. Different strategies and measures could be introduced to reduce urban heat and increase Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC). However, these strategies and measures, not only brings with diverse levels of benefits, but also result in differing costs. Typically, a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is used to assess the cost and benefits of policy interventions. Yet, ...Report -
Interpretability and Explainability: A Machine Learning Zoo Mini-tour
(2020)In this review, we examine the problem of designing interpretable and explainable machine learning models. Interpretability and explainability lie at the core of many machine learning and statistical applications in medicine, economics, law, and natural sciences. Although interpretability and explainability have escaped a clear universal definition, many techniques motivated by these properties have been developed over the recent 30 years ...Working Paper -
A Safe Harbor: Wealth-Income Ratios in Switzerland over the 20th Century and the Role of Housing Prices
(2020)KOF Working PapersWe estimate the ratio of private wealth to national income, βpt, for Switzerland over the period 1900–2018. Our results indicate that the development of βpt in Switzerland did not follow a U-shaped pattern as in most European countries, but that the evolution was extraordinarily stable, with βpt oscillating around 500% over most of the 20th century. However, the wealth-income ratio has been on the rise since the turn of the century to ...Working Paper -
Trend Analysis Civil Protection 2030
(2020)CSS Risk and Resilience ReportsArtificial Intelligence, Digitalization, Climate Change – many overarching trends and developments have the potential to alter the lives of billions of people in the coming years. For society, most of these trends represent both a challenge and an opportunity. In any case, they will also affect the civil protection system in Switzerland. The objective of this report is therefore twofold. First, it aims to provide a systematic analysis of ...Report -
Analysis of knowledge and technology transfer in Switzerland – the perspective of the enterprises
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Drivers and Barriers of Scaling-Up the Dual VETApprenticeship Programme in Nepal
(2020)CES StudiesThe ENSSURE project entails a component of introducing a Dual VET-Apprenticeship in Nepal. This new formal upper secondary education programme combines about one day of classroom education with about five days of workplace training each week for two years. While this project is in its pilot phase, the question arises whether and how this pilot might represent a first step towards a Dual VET-Apprenticeship system in Nepal. Therefore, this ...Report -
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