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Cold war (term)

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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies. In 1945, having occupied German territory, Soviet troops made two strategic moves: they dismantled the Deutschla ...

MIT Press2024

Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of Totalitarism

Alfredo Thiermann

Between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990, the silenced voices of many were dissolved into electromagnetic waves so they could be transmitted and heard in Chile. For sixteen years, the broadcasting house of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) – the Funk ...

2023

Gospel of the Marseille Docker - Nicholas Derybolsky from 1952

Sila Karatas

This text, accompanied by a ‘gospel’ that I made by montaging the US-recorded captions, is an attempt for re-narrating Marshall Plan’s discourse on the working class, aka the so-called ‘free labor’ of the US against the ‘communist labor’ of the “Soviet thr ...

EPFL Press2023

Preliminary design of the cold mass supports for the EU DEMO feeders

Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino

The Cold Mass Support (CMS) is a basic structural component of the feeder system of the EU DEMO tokamak. The function of this structural element is not only to provide support to the containment duct - wiring the cryogenic lines, electrical bus bars and in ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

Under the title "State Fiction" (2014–2021) the artist's long-term research focusses on the zone that divides the two Koreas, a locus of congealed international Cold War interests and a source of improbable images. After an internationally brokered armisti ...

self-published2021

Public housing for domestication: The socio-spatial politics of settling the Bulgarian immigrants in Turkey after 1950 and 1989

Sila Karatas

Turkey has been allowing immigrants from the early years of the republic. Most immigrants were from Greece due to the nation building policies after Lausanne Peace Agreement of 1923, forced to displacement through population exchanges between Turkey and Gr ...

2019

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse, David James McCoul

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical flexibility, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a variety of ...

Institute of Physics2016

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse, David James McCoul

We present a novel configuration of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) using electrodes made of a shape-memory polymer. DEAs are an efficient class of flexible electromechanical transducer. They have been incorporated into a variety of elegant devices, ...

2016

A Monolithic Shape Memory Alloy Microgripper for 3-D Assembly of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Yves Bellouard, Reymond Clavel, Etienne Burdet, Thomas Sidler, Han Zhang

This paper describes a microgripper used for the micro-assembly of an artificial scaffold for tissue engineering. The porous sponge-like scaffold is a three dimensional construct built by tiny unit parts of biodegradable polymer. This application requires ...

2001

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