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Houses take on housing blocks. Marshall Plan’s cooperative housing for ‘free labor'

This presentation argues that strategical activity and discourse of the Marshall Plan indoctrinated ‘democracy, cooperation and freedom’ and instrumentalized this discourse in union-founded workers’ housing cooperatives as a means of setting the bottom-up ...

2022

From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

Opportunities in Critical Rare Earth Metal Recycling Value Chains for Economic Growth with Sustainable Technological Innovations

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Ajay Bhagwan Patil

Rare earth elements (REEs) are often referred to as the industrial vitamins and the key drivers of the industry 4.0 revolution. The current global supply chain of REEs for green and high-tech applications with more than 220 metric kilotons per year involve ...

2022

How the Labour Self-Build: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This presentation aims to discuss the transnational activity and discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the assisted self-help model by ...

2021

Optimizing the operating profit of young highways using updated bridge structural capacity

Ian Smith

As more private firms participate in public projects aiming to increase their profits by adjusting operational strategies, there has been an increasing demand for structural identification in the operational phase. In this paper, we propose a framework for ...

2020

Virtual reality improves embodiment and neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury

Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà, Estelle Palluel, Polona Pozeg

Objective: To investigate changes in body ownership and chronic neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using multisensory own body illusions and virtual reality (VR). Methods: Twenty patients with SCI with paraplegia and 20 healthy cont ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017

D2P: Distance-Based Differential Privacy in Recommenders

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mahsa Taziki, Rhicheek Patra

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. This information growth calls for recommenders that personalize the in- formation proposed to each individual user. Nevertheless, p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Success and failure assessment methodology for wastewater and faecal sludge treatment projects in low-income countries

Christof Holliger, Doulaye Koné, Linda Strande, Magalie Diane Bassan

Many factors influence success and failure of large-scale faecal sludge and wastewater treatment projects in low-income countries. Benchmarking indicators and multicriteria analysis were adapted to define key institutional, technical and financial factors, ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Why STM can be more than a Research Toy

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber

Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which it enables to leverage multicores and outperform sequential code. A recent CACM ...

2011

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

Andreas Fuster, Stephan Meier

Monetary incentives, such as subsidies or bonuses, are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of private contribution incentives in the presence of a norm en ...

2010

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