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Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism

The extractive logic of Big Data-driven technology and knowledge production has raised serious concerns. While most criticism initially focused on the impacts on Western societies, attention is now increasingly turning to the consequences for communities i ...

Sage Publications Inc2023

Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life. In this article, we study the origins of this pervasive petroculture through the lens of the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program (ERP), its Refinery Expan ...

2023

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has altered people's lives around the world. Here we document population-wide shifts in dietary interests in 18 countries in 2020, as revealed through time series of Google search volumes. We find that during the first wave of the COVI ...

Nature Portfolio2022

The paths of gods and architects: From Japan to the Acropolis-the landscapes of Dimitris Pikionis

Irène Elizabeth Vogel Chevroulet

This essay examines the circulation of Japanese culture through European intellectual networks since the opening of the archipelago to the Western world in 1853. We argue firstly that the archipelago's self-imposed political distance from the Asian contine ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

A Grammar of Muqarnas: Drawings of the Alhambra by Jones and Goury (1834-1845)

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

The muqarnas of the Nasrid Alhambra stand out as one of the most singular architectural episodes o f Medieval Islamic art due to their sophisticated three-dimensional construction, whose layout remains little known. In 1834 and 1837, the architects Owen Jo ...

2019

Reduction of Abeta amyloid pathology in APPPS1 transgenic mice in the absence of gut microbiota

Theo Lasser, Tristan Bolmont, Taoufiq Harach, Nicolas Jean Marc Antoine Duthilleul

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in the western world, however there is no cure available for this devastating neurodegenerative disorder. Despite clinical and experimental evidence implicating the intestinal microbiota in a number o ...

Nature Research2017

Rethinking the house form in poor areas : researching a pedagogical methodology to improve self-build housing in Angola by creating a culturally and ecologically sensitive expert system

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

Epigenetic Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease

Johannes Gräff, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia in Western societies. It progresses asymptomatically during decades before being belatedly diagnosed when therapeutic strategies have become unviable. Although several genetic alterations have been as ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Fatigue Behaviour of Steel Reinforcement Bars at Very High Number of Cycles

Marina Rocha Pinto Portela Nunes

A large portion of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges in the western world were built in the second half of the last century. RC bridge deck slabs are nowadays often subjected to increased traffic loading and volume than originally designed for and thus, ste ...

EPFL2014

Lifestyle Evaluation Using Wearable Technologies: Opportunities for Stroke Patients

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Fabien Massé

Stroke is the leading cause of disabilities in the western world and may cause severe motor impairments. In the current clinical practice, progress during physical rehabilitation is assessed by a therapist for specific motor functions and through questionn ...

Springer2013