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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
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 ...
2023Tunnel 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 ...
Cambridge2023Removing 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 ...
ELSEVIER2022Removing 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 ...
2022Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Suggest Repeated Inter-Species Hybridization among Direct Human Ancestors
The hypothesis that the evolution of humans involves hybridization between diverged species has been actively debated in recent years. We present the following novel evidence in support of this hypothesis: the analysis of nuclear pseudogenes of mtDNA ("NUM ...
MDPI2022Influence of advanced footwear technology on sub-2 hour marathon and other top running performances
Raphaël Gérard Théodore Michel Marie de Deloÿe et Fourcade de Fondeville
In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge ran a sub-two hour marathon wearing Nike's Alphafly shoes. Despite being the fastest marathon time ever recorded, it wasn't officially recognized as race conditions were tightly controlled to maximize his success. Besides, Kipchoge' ...
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions
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 ...
2021The 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 MACHINERY2021Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems
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 ...
SPRINGER2021Material surface detection on various body parts: a preliminary study for temperature substitution for upper arm amputees
Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur
Experiments have shown that healthy subjects can detect materials solely relying on the material's thermal properties at their fingertip. We are interested in developing a non-invasive temperature display for sensory substitution for patients with arm ampu ...
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