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Who are the strangers?

Maxime Carl Felder

In the first sentence of her book,The lonely city, British writer Olivia Laing (2016, p 3) asks the reader to imagine him- or herself standing at the window at night, when dark and illuminated windows compose the urban landscape. ‘Inside’, she writes, ‘str ...

Policy Press2019

Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalize, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with it. As a result, more than one hundred households living in 66 tradit ...

2019

The Philosophy of Domesticity

Alessandro Porotto

This paper aims to analyze the contribution of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) to domestic architecture through his theoretical writings and housing projects. Firstly, the book Der Wohnhausbau, published in 1909, proposes his housing design ...

2019

Collective Memory and Resistance: Visual explorations in the Historic Centre and Films of Mexico City

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Today, institutionalised discourses surrounding heritage have social and physical impacts, with the potential to lead to a break between inhabitants' collective memory of popular neighbourhoods, and their transforming territories. In this context, the acti ...

EPFL2019

Evolving biodiversity patterns in changing river networks

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

Biodiversity patterns are governed by landscape structure and dispersal strategies of residing organisms. Landscape, however, changes, and dispersal strategies evolve with it. It is unclear how these biological and geomorphological changes interplay to aff ...

2019

An Introduction to Vein Presentation Attacks and Detection

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Pedro Tomé

The domain of presentation attacks (PA), including vulnerability studies and detection (PAD) remains very much unexplored by available scientific literature in biometric vein recognition. Contrary to other modalities that use visual spectral sensors for ca ...

Springer International Publishing2019

Robustness via curvature regularization, and vice versa

Pascal Frossard, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Alhussein Fawzi

State-of-the-art classifiers have been shown to be largely vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. One of the most effective strategies to improve robustness is adversarial training. In this paper, we investigate the effect of adversarial training on the ...

IEEE2019

On machine learning force fields for metallic nanoparticles

Kevin Rossi

Machine learning algorithms have recently emerged as a tool to generate force fields which display accuracies approaching the ones of the ab-initio calculations they are trained on, but are much faster to compute. The enhanced computational speed of machin ...

2019

La Buvette d'Évian. Maurice Novarina, Jean Prouvé, Serge Ketoff. 1955-2018

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Achevée en 1957, la Nouvelle buvette de la Source Cachat à Évian-les-Bains est à classer parmi les icônes du XXe siècle. Le bâtiment est issu de la collaboration fructueuse entre un architecte expérimenté, Maurice Novarina, un « constructeur génial », Jean ...

Infolio2018

Cooling potential of greening in the urban environment, a step further towards practice

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo

In the present century, for the first time in history, the urban population overpassed the rural one. Cities are growing, and their impact on the world energy balance is significant. Consequently, a sustainable urban environment focusing on the reduction o ...

2018