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Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

Gospel of the Marseille Docker - Nicholas Derybolsky from 1952

Sila Karatas

This text, accompanied by a ‘gospel’ that I made by montaging the US-recorded captions, is an attempt for re-narrating Marshall Plan’s discourse on the working class, aka the so-called ‘free labor’ of the US against the ‘communist labor’ of the “Soviet thr ...

EPFL Press2023

Inventory of Problems: The Genesis of the Rotterdam Kunsthal by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 1987-1992

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key work in the oeuvre of OMA/Rem Koolhaas that marks the threshold between the firmâs architectural production of the decades before and after 1990. This doctoral thesis aims at a deeper and comprehensive understanding of ...

EPFL2021

Devout Landscape Migrant Placemaking through the Afterlife in Huế, Vietnam

Phi Nguyen Yen

The settlement history of Huế is one of constant demographic shifts, political turmoil, and natural vulnerability. A borderland and battleground during Vietnam’s invasion of Champa Kingdom, the North-South Civil War between two Vietnamese clans Trịnh - Ngu ...

2021

Plant Terpenes on Treating Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: A Review

The use of medicinal plants as a therapy alternative is old as human existence itself. Nowadays, the search for effective molecules for chronic diseases treatments has increased. The cardiometabolic disorders still the main cause of death worldwide and pla ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2021

Nature, Science, and Enterprise: The Origins of the Success of Reinforced Concrete in Switzerland. The Introduction, Diffusion, and Supersedence of the Hennebique System

Salvatore Aprea

This contribution gives an account of how concrete construction developed in French-speaking Switzerland since the end of the nineteenth century. The narrative is based on original sources from the Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) and on data and ...

EPFL Press2021

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

RUSSIAN NATL PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Giovanni Colavizza

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Emerging technologies for the recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from the end-of-life electronic wastes: a review on progress, challenges, and perspectives

Sami Rtimi

The demand for rare earth elements (REEs) has significantly increased due to their indispensable uses in integrated circuits of modern technology. However, due to the extensive use of high-tech applications in our daily life and the depletion of their prim ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Can Venice be saved?

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

Will Venice be inhabitable in 2100? What kinds of policies can we develop to navigate the best scenarios for this floating city? In 2012, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University Ca’Foscari launched a programme called the Veni ...

2019

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