The water splitting is an appealing approach to fulfil the demand of energy without any global concerns. The oxygen evolution reaction is one of way to achieve unlimited energy from water but the low stability, high energy required to drive the reaction (o ...
Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...
The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...
The increasing urgency to make chemical processes more environmentally friendly while continuing to derive the chemicals required for modern society from renewable resources requires the development of a forthcoming generation of synthetic processes and th ...
In contemporary debates about sustainable development, vernacular architecture plays an important role. Presenting itself as a dictionary of man’s constructive logic, it declares with no uncertainty its own usefulness, its connection to the soil, to the cl ...
The modern web critically depends on aggregation of information from self-interested agents, for example opinion polls, product ratings, or crowdsourcing. We consider a setting where multiple objects (questions, products, tasks) are evaluated by a group of ...
Atomic clocks are a vital technology in the day to day operation of modern society. While passive Rb and Cs microwave atomic clocks find widespread practical applications today, active atomic clocks have the potential to surpass them in frequency stability ...
Ce commentaire de Face à Gaïa décrit la bataille intellectuelle que Bruno Latour engage contre les Modernes, à l’heure où la Terre les menace. Il use pour cela de l’icône Gaïa, personnage principal de l’ouvrage qui lui permet de représenter une Terre réani ...
Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...
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 ...
