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Steel, aluminium, plastic: the "unbearable lightness" of architectural modernity. The Centrale d'Allocations Familiales building of the XV th Arrondissement in Paris (1953-1959)

The Caisse Centrale d’Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne (or CCAFRP, shortened to CAF) was built between 1953 and 1959 as regional headquarters of a new post-war agency, the Central Fund for Family Allowance. Designed by French architects Raymo ...

2012

Young firms and innovation: A microeconometric analysis

Gabriele Pellegrino

This paper discusses the sources of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs), here defined as firms engaged in product innovation and with less than 8 years of activity. In particular, we look at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisit ...

2012

Process Bifurcation and the Digital Chain in Architecture

Russell Alexander Loveridge

This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...

EPFL2012

Distributed Adaptation Decision-Taking Framework and Scalable Video Coding Tunneling for Edge and In-Network Media Adaptation

Daniele Renzi

Existing and future media ecosystems need to cope with the ever-increasing heterogeneity of networks, devices, and user characteristics collectively referred to as (usage) context. The key to address this problem is media adaptation to various and dynamica ...

IEEE2012

Aligning Supply Chain and Product Portfolios

Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Kerstin Langenberg

In recent years, it has become widely accepted that optimal supply chain design depends on the type of product the chain is catering to. Moreover, as opposed to carrying one product type only, firms deliver a variety of both functional and innovative produ ...

Elsevier2012

The Mobile Data Challenge: Big Data for Mobile Computing Research

Daniel Gatica-Perez

This paper presents an overview of the Mobile Data Challenge (MDC), a large-scale research initiative aimed at generating innovations around smartphone-based research, as well as community-based evaluation of related mobile data analysis methodologies. Fir ...

2012

3D Reconstruction Of Wave-Propagated Point Sources From Boundary Measurements Using Joint Sparsity And Finite Rate Of Innovation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Ivana Jovanovic, Zafer Dogan

Reconstruction of point sources from boundary measurements is a challenging problem in many applications. Recently, we proposed a new sensing and non-iterative reconstruction scheme for systems governed by the three-dimensional wave equation. The points so ...

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Mobility, Knowledge and Cooperation: Scientific Diasporas as Agents of Change

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The growing knowledge gap between the North and the South shows the need for innovative perspectives in the study of the mobility of scientists and skilled professionals. Today, more than ever, it is obvious that there is a need to recognize the importance ...

2012

A Social Media Platform in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Na Li, Evgeny Bogdanov

This paper reports on the successful use of Graasp, a social media platform, by university students for their collaborative work. Graasp features a number of innovations, such as administrator-free creation of collaborative spaces, context-aware recommenda ...

2012

Estimating spillover benefits of large R&D projects: application of real options modelling approach to the case of thermonuclear fusion R&D programme

Edgard Gnansounou, Denis Bednyagin

This paper is focused on the analysis of spillover benefits of the ongoing R&D programme on thermonuclear fusion technology. The spillover effects are understood here as positive externalities of publicly funded R&D, demonstration and deployment (RDDD) act ...

Elsevier2012

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