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According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...

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Nested maps: reality representation as a first action against easement process

Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux

In China, vast rural areas are currently undergoing “modernisation” via the application of a generic, expansive urban model. This modernisation is evidenced in the creation of new towns and road infrastructures – a process that simultaneously homogenises t ...

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Metrics of Utopia: Optionality, Aesthetics and Patrick Geddes’ Ideal of Synoptic Utopia

Matthew Skjonsberg

My dissertation, ‘Periodicity and Rural Urban Dynamics’, hypothesizes that the simultaneous experience of strongly contrasting sensations is pleasurable, and that ‘abrupt urbanism’ can enhance both rural and urban experience. This article investigates the ...

EPFL Press2015

Scattering coefficients for the automatic diagnosis of perinatal asphyxia

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Perinatal Asphyxia is causing the death of about 1.2 million newborn infants every year. It is one of top three causes of infant mortality in developing countries. The current way of determining the occurrence of perinatal asphyxia is by the analysis of a ...

2015

EFFECT OF WATER CONTACTS SEASONALITY ON SCHISTOSOMIASIS TRANSMISSION IN RURAL SAHELIAN AREA IN BURKINA FASO

Anna Faes

patterns due to economic and sociologic activities in African rural area are an important factor in the comprehension of the transmission of this disease. Through interviews and a participatory workshop, activities related to water-contact were identified, ...

2015

Greenhouse gas emissions from animal husbandry and strategy for their reduction in indonesian villages

The animal husbandry sector is a large contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly the emissions of methane and nitrous oxide. It is possible to reduce these emissions through better livestock management, composting of animal manure or turn ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Modernisation de la champagne chinoise: scenarios urbains alternatifs pour la plaine de Chengdu

Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux

The author’s doctoral research is primarily focused on analysing the issue of rural urbanisation as a key sustainable development challenge – based on the conviction that rural areas today must be studied on their own account and no longer simply understoo ...

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Metropolitan dynamics and institutional fragmentation in the United States, 1950-2010

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Since 1950, the United States have witnessed a change in their urban dynamics: the advent of the metropolis. Before, the border was clear between big industrial cities, and small rural communities. At the end of the 19th century, large urban centers starte ...

2014

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