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Burning Down the House

Pier Vittorio Aureli

The current hypercommodification of housing casts a long shadow back in the history of domestic space. In this lecture I will attempt a critical and deep history of domestic space from its origins to the present condition. I will show how whtin Western ci ...

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Center-aware Adversarial Augmentation for Single Domain Generalization

Mathieu Salzmann, Zhiye Wang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a model from multiple training (i.e., source) domains that can generalize well to the unseen test (i.e., target) data coming from a different distribution. Single domain generalization (SingleDG) has recently emerge ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

China’s extended urbanization driven by the 'consumption city' in the context of financialized ecological civilization

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

2022

Regularized Diffusion Adaptation via Conjugate Smoothing

Ali H. Sayed, Stefan Vlaski

The purpose of this article is to develop and study a decentralized strategy for Pareto optimization of an aggregate cost consisting of regularized risks. Each risk is modeled as the expectation of some loss function with unknown probability distribution, ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

How the Labour Self-Build: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This presentation aims to discuss the transnational activity and discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the assisted self-help model by ...

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Fluid-dynamic and thermo-mechanical analyses of the Monoblock Mitre Bend for the ITER electron cyclotron Upper launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez

The ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH) system will be used to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by aiming up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The primary vacuum boundary at the Electron Cyclotron Upper Launcher (EC UL) extends in ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Production flexibility of small run-of-river power plants: KWGO smart-storage case study

Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Jessica Zordan, Matthieu Dreyer, Siamak Alimirzazadeh, Steve Crettenand

In the framework of the new Swiss feed-in-tariff system for Small Hydropower Plants (SHP), the aim of the SmallFLEX project, led by HES-SO Valais and performed in collaboration with EPFL, WSL, EAWAG, PVE and FMV, is to show how SHP can provide winter peak ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Electromagnetic and mechanical analyses of the ITER electron cyclotron Upper launcher steering M4 mirrors for the vertical displacement event

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni

The mm-wave power exiting the eight In-Vessel waveguides inside the ITER Electron Cyclotron Upper Launcher is reflected by three fixed mirror sets and finally aimed by two independent steering mirrors to specific plasma locations. A design solution for bot ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

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