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Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Jérôme Baudry

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

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Severe thunderstorms can have devastating impacts. Concurrently high values of convective available potential energy (CAPE) and storm relative helicity (SRH) are known to be conducive to severe weather, so high values of PROD - (CAPE)(1/2) x SRH have been ...

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC2021

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

6789. Detroit Techno Assembly Line: un musée de la musique électronique à Detroit (USA)

En 1908, la Ford T était la matérialisation d’une idée révolutionnaire qui allait changer le monde: l’Assembly Line. Detroit lui doit son histoire, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. L’Assembly Line est un processus de manufacture déléguant à chaque travail ...

2018

Tracking and Stress-Testing U.S. Household Leverage

Andreas Fuster

Housing equity is an important component of borrowers’ wealth and a critical determinant of their vulnerability to shocks. In this article, the authors use a unique, newly created data set to analyze the evolution of household leverage—defined here as the ...

2018

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In Switzerland, walking accounts for 30% of trips and 44% of single-mode episodes. This is higher than in many countries but does not account for walking distances or durations, which tend to be short according to evidence from North America. This contribu ...

2018

The Next Switzerland: The Country's New Political Geography Goes Without the Röstigraben

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Cultural diversity and political stability are historical trademarks of Switzerland. This paradox makes of the country a success story of modern democracies. On many social and political questions, cultural frontiers between linguistic groups have been kno ...

2016

El Cruze. Water and Borders between Mexico and the United States of America

Valentina Collu

Le mur, qui sépare les Etas-Unis du Mexique, n'est pas seulement une division politique, c'est aussi une barrière physique qui coupe la continuité territoriale. Plus précisément, dans l'Imperial Valley, ce mur s'arrête au Colorado River, fleuve qui devient ...

2016

The history of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) provides a powerful account of the cultural transformations, technological shifts and socio-political opportunities that shaped the idea of professional practice in the United States of America between the end of ...

2016

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Leprosy, caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or the recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was once endemic in humans in the British Isles. Red squirrels in Great Britain (Sciurus vulgaris) have increasingly been observed with leprosy-li ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016