Publications related to Global studies

What is the role of ethics in accreditation documentation from a global view?

Ethics in engineering has long been an important element in engineering programmes, however these subjects are often taught at a basic learning level with little attempt to connect to demonstrative learning outcomes. In recent years there has been a step c ...

University Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC)2022

Artist Residencies for Innovation: Development of a Global Framework

Nicolas Henchoz, Tania Moreira

Artists can play a major role in the success of innovation. The European program STARTS aims to increase their impact in high-tech environments. An international consortium has the mission to implement 45 residencies and set a complete framework for such p ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Urban Planning Against Poverty. How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

Jean-Claude Bolay

This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the cas ...

Springer International Publishing2019

Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs): An Innovative Solution to Achieving SDGs in the Global South

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Rayana Jaafar

In engineering education, laboratories represent an important academic resource as they provide practical training in addition to the fundamental theories. However, the acquisition of new machinery and the maintenance of the equipment imply a large investm ...

IEEE2019

SGAN: An Alternative Training of Generative Adversarial Networks

François Fleuret, Tatjana Chavdarova

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to train, what results ...

IEEE2018

Genome-wide SNP profiling of worldwide goat populations reveals strong partitioning of diversity and highlights post-domestication migration routes

Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat, Elia Vajana

Background: Goat populations that are characterized within the AdaptMap project cover a large part of the worldwide distribution of this species and provide the opportunity to assess their diversity at a global scale. We analysed genome-wide 50K single nuc ...

BMC2018

Human perceptions of daylight composition in architecture: a preliminary study to compare quantitative contrast measures with subjective user assessments in HDR renderings

Marilyne Andersen, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

Humans perceive daylight as a rich and dynamic luminous composition and yet existing performance metrics most often evaluate natural illumination for its ability to adequately illuminate a two-dimensional task surface while avoiding glare-based visual disc ...

2015

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

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Global studies

STATE FICTION „SUPERVISE, OBSERVE, INSPECT and INVESTIGATE“: The Scopic Practices of the Swiss Neutral Military Mission in Korea from 1953 to 1980

What is the role of ethics in accreditation documentation from a global view?

Artist Residencies for Innovation: Development of a Global Framework

Urban Planning Against Poverty. How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs): An Innovative Solution to Achieving SDGs in the Global South

SGAN: An Alternative Training of Generative Adversarial Networks

Genome-wide SNP profiling of worldwide goat populations reveals strong partitioning of diversity and highlights post-domestication migration routes

Digital Language Diversity: Seeking the Value Proposition

Human perceptions of daylight composition in architecture: a preliminary study to compare quantitative contrast measures with subjective user assessments in HDR renderings

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

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Genome-wide SNP profiling of worldwide goat populations reveals strong partitioning of diversity and highlights post-domestication migration routes

Urban Planning Against Poverty. How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs): An Innovative Solution to Achieving SDGs in the Global South

Digital Language Diversity: Seeking the Value Proposition

Human perceptions of daylight composition in architecture: a preliminary study to compare quantitative contrast measures with subjective user assessments in HDR renderings

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Artist Residencies for Innovation: Development of a Global Framework

SGAN: An Alternative Training of Generative Adversarial Networks