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Combatting climate change through a portfolio of approaches

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Given the urgency of deploying all possible ways to combat climate change, and in light of lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak that it was a mistake to ignore signals and not prepare for worst-case scenarios, this article suggests that tech ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2021

Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited

Harry Gugger, Amy Faith Perkins

Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources, especially on an island that has experienced a long history of privatization st ...

Park Books2021

Applications of dispersive sum rules: epsilon-expansion and holography

Alexander Zhiboedov, João Pedro Alves Da Silva, Din Carmi

We use Mellin space dispersion relations together with Polyakov conditions to derive a family of sum rules for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). The defining property of these sum rules is suppression of the contribution of the double twist operators. First ...

SCIPOST FOUNDATION2021

Risk governance and the low-carbon transition

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This IRGC policy brief focuses on the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon society and economy. It is based on a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held in September 2020. It incorporates views and insights from academia, industry, non-gover ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Oligomodal metamaterials with multifunctional mechanics

Aleksi Antoine Bossart

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites that exhibit a wide range of advanced functionalities such as negative Poisson's ratio, shape shifting, topological protection, multistability, extreme strength-to-density ratio, and enhanced energy dissip ...

NATL ACAD SCIENCES2021

Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Shareholder Democracy

Maxime Thibault B Couvert

This thesis is composed of two essays that study the effectiveness of shareholder democracy. In the first essay, I analyze the firm value implications of shareholder-initiated proposals. I show that managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-init ...

EPFL2021

Resolving time conflicts in activity-based scheduling

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

In this paper, we present a novel activity-based scheduling model that combines a continuous optimisation framework for temporal scheduling decisions (i.e. activity timings and durations) with traditional discrete choice models for non-temporal choice dime ...

2021

Resolving time conflicts in activity-based scheduling: A case study of Lausanne

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

2021

Cross Modal Focal Loss for RGBD Face Anti-Spoofing

Sébastien Marcel

Automatic methods for detecting presentation attacks are essential to ensure the reliable use of facial recognition technology. Most of the methods available in the litera- ture for presentation attack detection (PAD) fails in gen- eralizing to unseen atta ...

IEEE2021

A Politics of Intellectual Property: The French Revolution and the Creation of a Patent System

Jérôme Baudry

Our understanding of the rise of intellectual property has been highly influenced by the tools and concepts of economic history and the lens of the Industrial Revolution. Looking at the case of France, this article examines the cultural and ideological ori ...

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