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A View on Venetian Apprenticeship through the Garzoni Database

Giovanni Colavizza

A sample of contracts of apprenticeship from three periods in the history of early modern Venice is analysed, as recorded in the archive of the Giustizia Vecchia, a venetian magistracy. The periods are the end of the 16th century, the 1620s and the 1650s. ...

Universitas Studiorum2017

The structural role of the core literature in history

Giovanni Colavizza

The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory. Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines areas of intellectual activity. An open question relates to the structural role of core literature: hi ...

Springer Verlag2017

Layout Analysis on Newspaper Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Aris Xanthos

The study of newspaper layout evolution through historical corpora has been addressed by diverse qualitative and quantitative methods in the past few years. The recent availability of large corpora of newspapers is now making the quantitative analysis of l ...

2017

Observations on the LPN Solving Algorithm from Eurocrypt'16

Serge Vaudenay, Sonia Mihaela Bogos

In this note we re-evaluate the Eurocrypt’16 paper by Zhang et al. [9] in the area of LPN solving algorithms. We present the history of LPN solving algorithms and give the general description of the algorithm from [9]. While this new algorithm claims to im ...

2016

Hutongs-Transformations: A Battle between memories

Anna Pagani

Basing the analysis on social studies, on the history of a nation and its urban landscape, as well as on the connection between anthropology and architecture, the main aim of this book is to partially unveil the different roles that memories have had and s ...

2015

Transatlantic Influence in the Shaping of Business Education: The Origins of IMD, 1946-1990

Thomas David, Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

The history of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, highlights the role of multinationals in establishing business education in Europe and the problem of legitimacy. The cr ...

Cambridge Univ Press2015

ISWC 2013--Wearables are Here to Stay

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Daniel Roggen

The 17th edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) was a tremendous success. With 17 years of history, it was the perfect place to get a sense of what has been achieved, where our community stands today, and what lies ahead. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

The fragility of experiential knowledge

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging cons ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States

Stewart Cole, Jacques Rougemont, Rahul Sharma, Philippe Busso, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Pushpendra Singh

In the southern region of the United States, such as in Louisiana and Texas, there are autochthonous cases of leprosy among native-born Americans with no history of foreign exposure. In the same region, as well as in Mexico, wild armadillos are infected wi ...

2011

State of the Union in Daylighting at EPFL

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

The History and Heritage of Daylighting Design in Architecture Daylight contributes to the quality of architectural spaces and provides most of the necessary lighting provision to building occupants together with a premium spectral composition and temporal ...

2011