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The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface

Problem. In the field of sustainability, scholars and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in transdisciplinary (TD) research. The increasing use of TD in science policy is rooted in the expectation that involving practitioners in ...

EPFL2020

Nuove forme dell'abitare

Marson Korbi

With the crisis of Fordist capitalism and the rise of “cognitive capitalism”, the ‘knowledge worker’ became a crucial figure in contemporary cities. In such a context, once away from the sphere of the family, after concluding the university studies, for th ...

Politecnico di Bari e Università Roma Tre2020

Evolution of microstructural changes in cement paste during environmental drying

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, Hamed Maraghechi, Wioletta Soja

Exposure of concrete to the atmosphere changes the microstructure of the cement paste. However, knowledge about the alteration of the porosity due to drying is typically not considered in deterioration processes of the hardened cement paste. The purpose of ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward

Franziska Meinherz, Livia Bianca Fritz

Any sustainability assessment uses some notion of sustainability as a reference. It is increasingly acknowledged that sustainability is a contested concept and that its different definitions are rooted in different values. Accordingly, researchers have sta ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Epistemic Images in Early-Modern Mixed Mathematics

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Challenging Ancient textual authorities, images are ubiquitous in the early-modern regime of knowledge: from Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica to Newton’s Principia through Hooke’s Micrographia, illustrations, depictions, figures, diagrams, and schemati ...

Springer2020

3D Silver Dendrites for Single-molecule Imaging by Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) followed by evolution of optical systems and nanoengineering approaches has paved a path to detection of essential organic molecules on solid SERS-active substrates from solutions at concentrations attr ...

2020

The Mekong Delta Research Project as a Tool for Building a Pedagogical Approach

Sylvie Tram Nguyen

As an opportunity to discuss “Teaching in Research,” at EDAR’s Fourth Rencontre, I will be sharing my past experience in teaching without a Ph.D. and why I have decided to invest in obtaining a Ph.D. I shall discuss the differences between teaching with an ...

2019

FUNSD: A Dataset for Form Understanding in Noisy Scanned Documents

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Guillaume Jaume

We present a new dataset for form understanding in noisy scanned documents (FUNSD) that aims at extracting and structuring the textual content of forms. The dataset comprises 199 real, fully annotated, scanned forms. The documents are noisy and vary widely ...

IEEE2019

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Marc Laperrouza, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin, Eric Hoesli

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

2019

Atlas Poliphilo, Grand Genève

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Aurélie Dupuis

This course focuses on techniques and methods for an open and systematic compilation of images. Forms of visual information are major manifestations of a culture and will be explored in respect to their symbolic, intellectual or emotional power. All these ...

2019

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