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Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...

2023

NOVEL TOD PLANNING APPROACHES

Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot

The handbook aims at raising awareness on the challenge of extending TOD to RUR, the social and environmental challenges, and offers planners, NGOs and interest groups hands-on methods and approaches to understand and analyse local land- scape values of st ...

2023

DATED: GUIDELINES FOR CREATING SYNTHETIC DATASETS FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN APPLICATIONS

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Cyril Picard, Faez Ahmed

Exploiting the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, showcased by ChatGPT and DALL-E, in real-world applications necessitates vast, domain-specific, and publicly accessible datasets. Unfortunately, the scarcity of such datasets poses a significan ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens.

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

Learning from Chernobyl: Reverse Colonialism and Feral Architectures

Aitor Frías Sanchez, Olena Orap, Joaquin Perailes Santiago

This article revolves around the concept of reverse colonialism and uses the fascinating example of Pripyat as a case study. Pripyat was deeply affected by the devastating Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Following the disaster, the disappearance o ...

2023

Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications

Michael Herzog

Perceptual learning is the process by which experience alters how incoming sensory information is processed by the brain to give rise to behavior-it is critical for how humans educate children, train experts, treat diseases, and promote health and well-bei ...

Thousand Oaks2023

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

Alireza Amirshahi, Saleh Baghersalimi, Jonathan Philippe Reymond

The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

How to Orient Oneself in Thinking in the Digital Era: A mixed-methods ethnography of researchers' navigational practices on Gallica

Simon François Dumas Primbault

The birth and development of digital libraries—broadly understood as curated collections of electronic documents accessible online on dedicated platforms with tools for search and consultation—have radically transformed research activities. Consequently, t ...

2022

Clinical detection of 'cold stress' is overlooked: an online survey of healthcare workers to explore the gap in neonatal thermal care in low-resource settings

Background Neonatal hypothermia has been widely regarded as a major contributory factor to neonatal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings. The high prevalence of potentially preventable hypothermia today urges an investigation into why neonates ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2022

Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Complete Mobile Data Collection Tasks Via a Smartphone App

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Smartphones present many interesting opportunities for survey research, particularly through the use of mobile data collection applications (apps). There is still much to learn, however, about how to integrate apps in general population surveys. Recent stu ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2022

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