Publications related to Biological anthropology

“Please Ensure the Gate is Properly Closed”: Questioning the Swiss Presence in Apartheid South Africa Through the Swiss Social Club in Cape Town

It’s a special type of Swiss enclave that Denise Bertschi came across in South Africa in 2018: the Swiss Social & Sports Club welcomes Cape Town’s Swiss ex-pat community and temporary visitors to sit back and relax, be they businesspeople, bankers, or fina ...

2023

Tunnel junction sensing of TATP explosive at the single-molecule level

Helena Miljkovic, Radomir Zikic

Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a highly potent homemade explosive commonly used in terrorist attacks. Its detection poses a significant challenge due to its volatility, and the lack of portability of current sensing techniques. To address this issue, we ...

Cambridge2023

Removing algorithmic discrimination (with minimal individual error)

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Le Nguyen Hoang

We address for the first time the problem of correcting group discriminations within a score function, while minimizing the individual error. Each group is described by a probability density function on the set of profiles. We first solve the problem analy ...

ELSEVIER2022

Removing Algorithmic Discrimination (With Minimal Individual Error)

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Le Nguyen Hoang

We address for the first time the problem of correcting group discriminations within a score function, while minimizing the individual error. Each group is described by a probability density function on the set of profiles. We first solve the problem analy ...

2022

Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems

Mirko Marras

Considering the impact of recommendations on item providers is one of the duties of multi-sided recommender systems. Item providers are key stakeholders in online platforms, and their earnings and plans are influenced by the exposure their items receive in ...

SPRINGER2021

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

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available platforms have been criticized for minimizing users' autonomy, marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users' data for prof ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Inventions of foreign origin are about ten percentage points less likely to be granted a U.S. patent than domestic inventions. An empirical analysis of 1.5 million U.S. patent applications identifies three systematic differences between foreign and domesti ...

2020

Boundary Stabilization of Focusing NLKG near Unstable Equilibria: Radial Case

Joachim Krieger, Shengquan Xiang

We investigate the stability and stabilization of the cubic focusing Klein-Gordon equation around static solutions on the closed ball in

\mathbb{R}^3

. First we show that the system is linearly unstable near the static solution

u\equiv1

for any dissipat ...

2020

Method and Procedure in Metal Detection and Distinctive Discrimination of Size, Shape, and Location of Hidden Single and Multi-Material Targets

Chafic Abu Antoun

This work provides a procedure and methodology for the design of an electro-magnetic sensor based on induction due to ferromagnetic and pure electrically conduc-tive hidden targets. The electromagnetic sensor is made of one or several excitation coils, whi ...

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“Please Ensure the Gate is Properly Closed”: Questioning the Swiss Presence in Apartheid South Africa Through the Swiss Social Club in Cape Town

Tunnel junction sensing of TATP explosive at the single-molecule level

Removing algorithmic discrimination (with minimal individual error)

Removing Algorithmic Discrimination (With Minimal Individual Error)

Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems

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

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

Boundary Stabilization of Focusing NLKG near Unstable Equilibria: Radial Case

Method and Procedure in Metal Detection and Distinctive Discrimination of Size, Shape, and Location of Hidden Single and Multi-Material Targets

“Please Ensure the Gate is Properly Closed”: Questioning the Swiss Presence in Apartheid South Africa Through the Swiss Social Club in Cape Town

Tunnel junction sensing of TATP explosive at the single-molecule level

Removing algorithmic discrimination (with minimal individual error)

Removing Algorithmic Discrimination (With Minimal Individual Error)

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems

Method and Procedure in Metal Detection and Distinctive Discrimination of Size, Shape, and Location of Hidden Single and Multi-Material Targets

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

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Boundary Stabilization of Focusing NLKG near Unstable Equilibria: Radial Case