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Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society

Classical monetary systems regularly subject the most vulnerable majority of the world's population to debilitating financial shocks, and have manifestly allowed uncontrolled global inequality over the long term. Given these basic failures, how can we avoi ...

2020

Writing/Drawing/Modeling Inventions: Regimes of Description and the ‘Intellectual’ in IP, France-United States ca. 1790-1850

Jérôme Baudry

In 1791, one year after the first US Patent Act, the French ‘Loi relative aux découvertes utiles’ sought to revolutionize the Ancien Régime’s privileges of invention, turning them into new patents or ‘brevets d’invention’. Not only did the law recast ci-de ...

2019

Studying Summarization Evaluation Metrics in the Appropriate Scoring Range

Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard

In summarization, automatic evaluation metrics are usually compared based on their ability to correlate with human judgments. Unfortunately, the few existing human judgment datasets have been created as by-products of the manual evaluations performed durin ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2019

The Hermenutic Circle of Data Visualization

Dario Rodighiero

According to Don Ihde (1990, 80–97), hermeneutic relations are a specific kind of technologically mediated I-world relations in which the technology must be “read” and “interpreted” in order to access the world. More recently, Peter-Paul Verbeek (2010, 145 ...

2018

Bridging the Gap from Cyber Security to Resilience

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This chapter describes an evolution of practices in community and business assurance from protective programs based upon risk management to the emerging strategy of resilience. The chapter compares and contrasts these two basic approaches, identifying nota ...

Springer2017

Challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinarity : insights from human-centric building research at EPFL

Marilyne Andersen

Interdisciplinarity has become an inherent component of most research and education developments nowadays. It brings with it new challenges, from how to share a common language to how to avoid becoming generalists, as well as new opportunities in solving m ...

2017

Mapeando la informalidad una experiencia participativa en Sao Paulo, Brasil / Mapping informality: a participative experience in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Vitor Pessoa Colombo

For some decades already, emerging countries have faced the complex reality of fast growing metropolitan areas, and local governments have showed little success in keeping track of the rapid changes that happen in their own territories. Consequently, all a ...

2016

Guide to Local Planning for Communities Affected by Migration, Based on Human Rights and Gender Equality

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The Mainstreaming Migration into Local Development project (MiDL) was launched in 2015 by UNDP Moldova in collaboration with the State Chancellery of the Government of Moldova, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (S ...

UNDP, UN Women2016

Semantic parametric body shape estimation from noisy depth sequences

Alexandru Eugen Ichim

The paper proposes a complete framework for tracking and modeling articulated human bodies from sequences of range maps acquired from off-the-shelf depth cameras. In particular, we propose an original approach for fitting a pre-defined parametric shape mod ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state

Maxime Carl Felder

Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 ...

2015

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