EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES: APPLICATION TO THE SWISS RAILWAY COMPANIES Mehdi Farsi Center for Energy Policy and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Department of Economics, University of Lugano ETH Zentrum, WEC, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected] Massimo Filippini Center for Energy Policy and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Department...

Can Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Detect Antihormonal Resistance in Patients with Prostate Cancer Bone Metastases? Carolin Reischauer, Johannes M. Froehlich, Dow-Mu Koh, René Patzwahl, Christoph A. Binkert, Sebastian Kos, and Andreas Gutzeit Institute of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Research Unit, Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne, Switzerland, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, E...

Measurements and receptor modeling of volatile organic compounds in south-eastern Mexico City, 2000–2007 H. Wöhrnschimmel, M. Magaña, W. A. Stahel, S. Blanco, S. Acuña, J. M. Pérez, S. González, V. Gutiérrez, S. Wakamatsu, and B. Cárdenas Instituto Nacional de Ecologı́a, Mexico City, Mexico Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich, Swi...

New stable decagonal quasicrystal in the system Al–Ir–Os S. Katrych a, Th. Weber a, M. Kobas b, L. Massüger a, L. Palatinus c,1, G. Chapuis c, W. Steurer a,∗ a Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland b SLS Detector Group, Swiss Light Source, Paul-Scherrer-Institut, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland c Laboratory of C...

Exposure dating of Late Glacial and pre-LGM moraines in the Cordon de Doña Rosa, Northern/Central Chile (∼31 S) R. Zech, C. Kull, P. W. Kubik, and H. Veit Geographical Institute, University of Bern, Hallerstr. 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland PAGES IPO, Sulgeneckstrasse 38, 3007 Bern, Switzerland Paul Scherrer Institute c/o Institute of Particle Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Received:...

1 Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 2 Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3 Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark 4 Lab. F. Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 5 Department of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany 6 Laboratory of Genetics, ...

1 Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA, 2 Department of Earth Sciences, ETH-Zurich, Institute for Geochemistry and Petrology, Zurich, Switzerland, 3 Formerly affiliated with the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of...

a Future Cities Laboratory, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland b State Key Lab of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, 430079 Wuhan, China c Institute of 4D Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University Co...

The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of novel non-destructive testing methodologies for bonding quality assessment in glued laminated timber developed within a recently completed Swiss National Science Foundation research project (Sanabria, 2012). The focus is set on air-coupled ultrasound testing, which has previously been applied to wood-based panels typically up to 50 mm t...

We study the result by Bogdanov and Trevisan (FOCS, 2003), who show that under reasonable assumptions, there is no non-adaptive reduction that bases the average-case hardness of an NP-problem on the worst-case complexity of an NP-complete problem. We replace the hiding and the heavy samples protocol in [BT03] by employing the histogram verification protocol of Haitner, Mahmoody and Xiao (CCC, 2...