Publications related to Historical source

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

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

Inventory of Problems: The Genesis of the Rotterdam Kunsthal by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 1987-1992

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key work in the oeuvre of OMA/Rem Koolhaas that marks the threshold between the firmâ s architectural production of the decades before and after 1990. This doctoral thesis aims at a deeper and comprehensive understanding of ...

EPFL2021

Plant Terpenes on Treating Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: A Review

Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva

The use of medicinal plants as a therapy alternative is old as human existence itself. Nowadays, the search for effective molecules for chronic diseases treatments has increased. The cardiometabolic disorders still the main cause of death worldwide and pla ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2021

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (Part 2)

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

RUSSIAN NATL PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

Selection Bias in News Coverage: Learning it, Fighting it

Karl Aberer, Jérémie Rappaz

News entities must select and filter the coverage they broadcast through their respective channels since the set of world events is too large to be treated exhaustively. The subjective nature of this filtering induces biases due to, among other things, res ...

2018

Design of Remote Quiet Zones Using Spot-Type Sound Reducers

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet, Thomas Laurence

This paper presents a local control approach to generate remote quiet zones. To deal with situations where global control can hardly be achieved, it is proposed to use an arrangement of spot-type sound reducers as originally suggested by Olson and May. Ass ...

2017

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Giovanni Colavizza

Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examini ...

2017

Annotated References in the Historiography on Venice: 19th–21st centuries

Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

We publish a dataset containing more than 40’000 manually annotated references from a broad corpus of books and journal articles on the history of Venice. References were considered from both reference lists and footnotes, include primary and secondary sou ...

2017

The structural role of the core literature in history

Giovanni Colavizza

The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory. Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines areas of intellectual activity. An open question relates to the structural role of core literature: hi ...

Springer Verlag2017

Frequency fluctuations in silicon nanoresonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Eric Sage, Thomas Alava

Frequency stability is key to the performance of nanoresonators. This stability is thought to reach a limit with the resonator's ability to resolve thermally induced vibrations. Although measurements and predictions of resonator stability usually disregard ...

2016

On Mining Citations to Primary and Secondary Sources in Historiography

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza

We present preliminary results from the Linked Books project, which aims at analysing citations from the histo- riography on Venice. A preliminary goal is to extract and parse citations from any location in the text, especially footnotes, both to primary a ...

2015

Contemporary renovation of 19th century housing in Lisbon, Oporto and Geneva : comfort, typology and urban character

Catarina Wall Gago

This work examines strategies for contemporary renovation of 19th century housing, focusing on three cities with significant ensembles dating from this time: Lisbon and Oporto, in Portugal, and Geneva, in Switzerland. Taking into account the unique urban i ...

EPFL2015

Imaging the time-integrated cerebral metabolic activity with subcellular resolution through nanometer-scale detection of biosynthetic products deriving from (13)C-glucose

Anders Meibom, Graham Knott, Arnaud Comment, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Yuhei Takado, Mojgan Masoodi

Glucose is the primary source of energy for the brain but also an important source of building blocks for proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Little is known about the use of glucose for biosynthesis in tissues at the cellular level. We demonstrate that l ...

Elsevier2015

Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes : Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond

Ivan Dokmanic

A central theme of this thesis is using echoes to achieve useful, interesting, and sometimes surprising results. One should have no doubts about the echoes' constructive potential; it is, after all, demonstrated masterfully by Nature. Just think about the ...

EPFL2015

Encoding metaknowledge for historical databases

Frédéric Kaplan, Marc-Antoine Nüssli

Historical knowledge is fundamentally uncertain. A given account of an historical event is typically based on a series of sources and on sequences of interpretation and reasoning based on these sources. Generally, the product of this historical research ta ...

2014

Value Map - An Innovative Tool for Business Model Innovation

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Aarthi Gopal

In this paper, we present a modeling framework called “Value Map”. Value Map assists in conceptualization, representation and analysis of value creation and capture processes with the objective of innovating a firm’s business model. We illustrate the appli ...

ISPIM2014

Construire à distance : les réalisations de l'agence immobilière genevoise Addor et Julliard à Beyrouth dans les années 1950-1960

Habib Sayah

Through a case study, this research aims at contributing to the historic understanding of the international architecture after the Second World War. It is based on the monographic analysis of the projects realised by the Geneva agency Addor & Julliard in L ...

EPFL2007