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How Computer Science Risks to Lose its Innocence, and Should Attempt to Take Responsibility

Computer science is playing a driving role in transforming today's society through information technology. In this transformation we observe power shifts increasingly strengthening centralised organisations, which are negatively perceived by many people. W ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

A Historical Review of Diachrony and Semantic Dimensions of Trace in Neurosciences and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Pierre Magistretti

Experience leaves a trace in the nervous system through plasticity. However, the exact meaning of the mnesic trace is poorly defined in current literature. This article provides a historical review of the term trace in neuroscience and psychoanalysis liter ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Spatial location of activities and energy consumption of households in France

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Lorris Tabbone

The design of policies and interventions aiming at the reduction of energy consumption requires a good understanding of the underlying social logics. In this perspective, this paper focuses on how the distribution of daily activities at home and away, in v ...

2016

Spatial location of activities and energy consumption of households in France

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Lorris Tabbone

2016

Stochastic optimization of sailing trajectories in an upwind regatta

Stephan Morgenthaler, Robert Dalang, Frédéric Dumas, Sylvain Sardy

In a sailboat race, the navigator's attempts to plot the fastest possible course are hindered by shifty winds. We present mathematical models appropriate for this situation, which use statistical analysis of wind fluctuations and are amenable to stochastic ...

Palgrave Macmillan2015

The centre cannot hold: untangling two different trajectories of the 'approaches to learning'framework

Roland John Tormey

The ‘deep/surface approach to learning’ framework is widely used in higher education. Its perceived strength is that it is regarded as having two functions: both being (1) a useful metaphor for development of teaching and learning in higher education and ( ...

2014

Sensitivity of aerodynamic forces in laminar and turbulent flow past a square cylinder

François Gallaire, Edouard Boujo, Philippe Meliga

We use adjoint-based gradients to analyze the sensitivity of the drag force on a square cylinder. At Re = 40, the flow settles down to a steady state. The quantity of interest in the adjoint formulation is the steady asymptotic value of drag reached after ...

2014

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

Discussion of three definitions of spatial justice in the writing of Jacques Lévy

Ana Moura Bastos de Fernandes Póvoas

This text address the challenge of answering to two inseparable question: What is a just territory ? and What can we do to approach more just territories? The first section of this text explores three approaches of spatial justice as deployed by Jacques Lé ...

2013

Sparsity and the Bayesian perspective

Jean-Luc Starck, Anaïs Marie Rassat

Sparsity has recently been introduced in cosmology for weak-lensing and cosmic microwave background (CMB) data analysis for different applications such as denoising, component separation, or inpainting (i.e., filling the missing data or the mask). Although ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

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