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National identity

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The invention of the Swiss house: engineers, ethnographers and artists to the discovery of the Alpine vernacular construction / L’invenzione della casa svizzera: ingegneri, etnografi e artisti alla scoperta della costruzione vernacolare alpina

Nicola Braghieri

At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...

2021

Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

Sean Lewis Hill, Miguel Nicolelis, Corrado Cali

The next grand challenges for society and science are in the brain sciences. A collection of 60+ scientists from around the world, together with 10+ observers from national, private, and foundations, spent two days together discussing the top challenges th ...

2016

Tracklet-based Multi-Commodity Network Flow for Tracking Multiple People

François Fleuret, Pascal Fua, Horesh Beny Ben Shitrit

(EN)A method for continuously tracking multiple people partitioned into groups while preserving identities under global appearance constraints, wherein people's trajectories may intersect, and wherein only sparse appearance information is available is disc ...

WO2013

Comprendre la société-Monde par ses enjeux et ses acteurs : l'implication de l'entreprise Lafarge dans la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA

The aim of this thesis is to understand the World as a full-fledged object, namely as the space of a society. This objective is at the same time necessary and problematic. It is necessary because the sudden end of the Cold War entailed the need of new conc ...

EPFL2009

Across the river : urban borderland development in the Republic of Haiti + the Dominican Republic : the case of Dajabo'n + Ouanaminthe

Border cities have to cope with divergent interests more than other cities, because in the same place protection of national sovereignty clashes with local practices and international cross-border movements. The question of how economic, political, and soc ...

2007

Villes à la frontière et transformation de l'espace : le cas de Haïti et la République Dominicaine

Lena Poschet El Moudden

Few borders exist which separate two countries as dramatically disparate as the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Both share the territory of the Hispaniola island, but a profound process of differentiation rooted in the colonial division of the island between ...

EPFL2006

Methodological Aspects of the Definition of a 2kW Society

Daniel Favrat, Pierre-André Haldi

The consumption of primary energy is often used to compare energy systems from a sustainability viewpoint at regional, national or even world level. For such comparisons to be “fair” and meaningful, this implies however to define primary energies in a cohe ...

2006