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The effect of smooth parametrizations on nonconvex optimization landscapes

We develop new tools to study landscapes in nonconvex optimization. Given one optimization problem, we pair it with another by smoothly parametrizing the domain. This is either for practical purposes (e.g., to use smooth optimization algorithms with good g ...

Springer Heidelberg2024

La dynamique métropolitaine au défi de la transition

Selon les récentes statistiques, la grande majorité de la population suisse vit aujourd’hui dans des communes dites « à caractère urbain », ce qui se traduit sur le terrain par des limites diffuses entre la ville et la campagne. De nouvelles structures spa ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Observatoire ornithologique de Vidy. Surélévation au cœur d’une réserve aménagée entre terre et lac, dans la partie Ouest du parc Louis Bourget à Vidy (Lausanne Sud)

La localisation de l’édicule recensé n˚16312 et la qualité de son environnement sont propices à l’installation d’un observatoire ornithologique axé sur la nouvelle île aux oiseaux Leusonna que le Cercle Ornithologique de Lausanne projette de construire à l ...

2022

Un camp d’urgence verticalOccupation d'une ruine moderne à Beyrouth

Romane Terrien

Beyrouth, déjà lourdement impactée par des crises économiques et sociales, subit une explosion en 2020, qui impacte le logement de 300 000 personnes. Les instances humanitaires deviennent alors vitales afin de subvenir aux besoins de la population. Le proj ...

2022

Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to newspaper archives is transforming the way historians engage with these sources. The digital evolution not only affects how scholars access historical newspapers, but also, increasingly, how they search, explore a ...

De Gruyter Oldenbourg2022

Réhabilitation du complexe industriel d’Attisholz, SoleureCultiver le beau malaise de la sauvegarde, entre paysage et architecture

Tiffanie Paré

Nous habitons, nous bougeons, nous délaissons plus vite que jamais. Autant d’actions qui laissent des traces toujours plus marquantes sur notre cadre de vie. Si nous n’œuvrons pas en faveur d’un ralentissement de nos moyens de production, inclus ceux de l’ ...

2022

Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Martí Bosch Padrós, Jürg Utzinger

Unlike water and sanitation infrastructures or socio-economic indicators, landscape features are seldomly considered as predictors of diarrhoea. In contexts of rapid urbanisation and changes in the physical environment, urban planners and public health man ...

2022

Exploration of socio-ecological continuity project in great Geneva, toward a convergence of the territorial project of biodiversity and ecological continuities

Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot, Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret

A territorial project impelling biodiversity and socio-ecological transitions implies its renewal. The recognition of the landscape as a support of biodiversity led to the establishment of the tool of ecological continuities (ECs) within territorial planni ...

2022

Rethinking Urban metabolism for an optimized waste management in the Global South

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Giulia Frigo

This research aims to analyse how urban landscape patterns and stakeholders’ modus operandi relate to the way plastic waste circulate within a city. This allows for rethinking Urban Metabolism to include spatial variations and drivers that govern waste flo ...

2022

E-guerrilla 3D participation: Approach, implementation, and usability study

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

Typical urban participatory approaches engage citizens through lengthy sessions far from the area under transformation by an urban project. Several issues result from these settings of involvement including the mobilization of similar individuals, overwhel ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

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