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Snow Avalanches.

Christophe Ancey

Avalanches have long been a natural threat to humans in mountainous areas. At the end of the Middle Ages, the population in Europe experienced significant growth, leading to an intensive exploitation of upper valleys. At almost the same time, Europe’s clim ...

Oxford University Press2016

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CEUR Workshop Proceedings2016

Transatlantic Influence in the Shaping of Business Education: The Origins of IMD, 1946-1990

Thomas David, Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

The history of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, highlights the role of multinationals in establishing business education in Europe and the problem of legitimacy. The cr ...

Cambridge Univ Press2015

Cross-Intersecting Families of Vectors

János Pach, Gábor Tardos

Given a sequence of positive integers , let denote the family of all sequences of positive integers such that for all . Two families of sequences (or vectors), , are said to be -cross-intersecting if no matter how we select and , there are at least distinc ...

Springer Japan Kk2015

Architecture Without Content 9: The Difficult Double

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...

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The link with a home country. A comparative analysis of host country environments for diaspora engagement

Jean-Claude Bolay, Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Metka Hercog

The benefits that highly skilled migrants can bring to their home countries are increasingly regarded as being important for development, and consequently, many countries are now looking to take advantage of the experiences of their diasporas. The policies ...

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The Birth of the Workshop: Techno-Morals, Peace Experts and the Care of the Self in the Middle East

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

In the article I examine through ethnography and contextual analysis one of the flagship techniques of peace expertise in the Middle East and elsewhere, the so-called conflict resolution workshop. For the transnational and hyper-mobile clan of peacemakers ...

2014

AH: innovative buildings for sustainability in architecture

Arianna Brambilla

In the last years we have been witness of the innovation of the building sector that it is trying to improve buildings behaviour in order to save energy and optimize the use of renewable sources. It is a necessary step considering that buildings consume mo ...

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The Functional City between utopia and reality

Sila Karatas

Acting as a decision making institution on the raison d’etre of modern architecture by attributing a utopian role to it, CIAM (Congrés International d’Architecture Moderne), formed by some pioneering modern architects from Europe and USSR, and served betwe ...

2013

Unpleasant Design

Unpleasant Design book is a collection of different research approaches to contemporary urban phenomenon in which social control and is inherent in the design of objects and places. With many examples to be found across cities worldwide, Unpleasant Design ...

G.L.O.R.I.A.2013