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Technosignatures Longevity and Lindy's Law
The probability of detecting technosignatures (i.e., evidence of technological activity beyond Earth) increases with their longevity, or the time interval over which they manifest. Therefore, the assumed distribution of longevities has some bearing on the ...
Bristol2024Vers un projet territorial du vivantL'outil des réseaux écologiques comme projet urbanistique de revitalisation du paysage agricole
Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret
The aim of my thesis is to provide urban architects and planners with working theoretical elements territorial project of the living. The living and the socio-ecological transition are key concepts in the nature and people paradigm, which asserts a human-n ...
EPFL2024Territorial reading in Ukraine’s recovery policy: conceptual and methodological gaps
Approaches to Ukraine’s wartime and anticipated post-war reconstruction and recovery, united under a general slogan of ‘build back better’, are currently reflected in multiple policies, regulations, planning tools and data registers, as well as showcased t ...
2023Learning from the Ethics of AI-A Research Proposal on Soft Law and Ethics of AI
This contribution outlines a research proposal combining ethical guidelines on AI and a law-as-data approach. Building upon the definitions of soft law discussed in legal scholarship, it proposes a way of structuring the regulatory landscape on AI and of a ...
UBIQUITY PRESS LTD2022The New Brutalism, invenzione di uno stile
The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias.
The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâif only one can be identifiedâhas be ...
EPFL2021Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector
Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...
EPFL2021War of Words: The Competitive Dynamics of Legislative Processes
Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof
A body of law is an example of a dynamic corpus of text documents that are jointly maintained by a group of editors who compete and collaborate in complex constellations. Our goal is to develop predictive models for this process, thereby shedding light on ...
ACM / IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee)2020From the Principle of Inertia to the Death Drive: The Influence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics on the Freudian Theory of the Psychical Apparatus
Pierre Magistretti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet
In the Freudian theory of the psychical apparatus, the introduction from the 1920s onward of the second drive dualism appears as a major turning point. The idea of a "death drive," first expressed in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920), is generall ...
2020Writing/Drawing/Modeling Inventions: Regimes of Description and the ‘Intellectual’ in IP, France-United States ca. 1790-1850
In 1791, one year after the first US Patent Act, the French ‘Loi relative aux découvertes utiles’ sought to revolutionize the Ancien Régime’s privileges of invention, turning them into new patents or ‘brevets d’invention’. Not only did the law recast ci-de ...
2019Crise et gouvernance
Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale. Close to 220,000 persons died, more than 300,000 were wounded and almost two other million were displaced. The earthquake¿s epicenter was actually several kilometers away the c ...
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