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Boundaries and Urban Worlds. The Contested Ethnoscape of Expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...

2013

World politics of a space without territory

Boris Beaude, Luc Guillemot

The Internet is increasingly becoming a political place in the World whose governance is therefore changed. In fact, classical political governance mechanisms appears to be overwhelmed by the emergence of this new space and its growing impact on the redefi ...

2013

VideoKheti: Making Video Content Accessible to Low-Literate and Novice Users

Sébastien Cuendet

Designing ICT systems for rural users in the developing world is difficult for a variety of reasons ranging from problems with infrastructure to financial constraints. But beyond these difficulties, there are serious challenges associated with the potentia ...

2013

Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Executive Role

Ralf Seifert

The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companies have tu ...

Routledge2012

A Developing World Perspective on the Design of Wireless Enabled Humanitarian Relief Services

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

In the absence of adequate state support, societies in the developing world have long relied on community support for humanitarian relief. Such community networks provide a readily available platform for delivery of humanitarian relief services. Wireless t ...

2011

Entangled Transactions

Christoph Koch, Milos Nikolic

As the world becomes more interdependent and computing grows more collaborative, there is a need for new abstractions and tools to help users work together. We recently introduced entangled queries – a mechanism for information exchange between database qu ...

2011

L'Hydroptère: A story of a dream

Pascal Fua, Véronique Michaud, Mohamed Farhat, Mark Sawley, Michel Deville, Robin Amacher, Joël Cugnoni, Guillaume Bonnier, Luc Blecha, Olivier Braun, Antoine Sigg, Marc Oggier, Daniel Schmäh, Martin Calmon, Stéphane Dyen, Davy Moyon

In 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the symbolic barrier of 50 knots and became the world fastest sailing boat over both 500 meters and 1 nautical mile. This major achievement relied on the high skills of the sailing team but also on technical advances of the boat ...

2010

POP-C++ and Alpine3D: Petition for a New HPC Approach

Michael Lehning, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Pierre Kuonen

In the developed world, an ever better and finer understanding of the processes leading to natural hazards is expected. This is in part achieved using the invaluable tool of numerical modeling, which offers the possibility of applying scenarios to a given ...

Information Science Reference2010

The Emancipation of Destruction – Transforming Gällivare (Suède)

Linus Godet

Gällivare is a remote city in the middle of the northern Swedish wilderness. The city was established as iron ore was found in the ground just over a century ago. Until the 60's the mining industry and the city grew together in what seemed to be a perfect ...

2009

A World to be read

Luc Guillemot

Poster summarizing some cartographic practices in use in Chôros laboratory. ...

2009

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