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Geospatial Tools and Remote Sensing Strategies for Timely Humanitarian Response: A Case Study on Drought Monitoring in Eswatini

This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...

MDPI2024

Facets of Urban Co-Creation

Roberto Sega

Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...

Univ Politecnica Catalunya2023

Multi-agent actor-critic with time dynamical opponent model

Olga Fink, Qin Wang

In multi-agent reinforcement learning, multiple agents learn simultaneously while interacting with a common environment and each other. Since the agents adapt their policies during learning, not only the behavior of a single agent becomes non-stationary, b ...

2023

From Marshall Plan to “Hilton in the wild”: The Transnational History of a Cooperative Housing Block in Esat, Ankara

Sila Karatas

This paper concerns the planning, design, and construction history of a postwar multifamily housing block in Ankara, Turkey, viewed from the perspective of the transnational and local networks behind its realization. Built by the Mintrak Building Cooperati ...

2022

Toward Internet Performance Transparency

Georgia Fragkouli

From medical support to education and remote work, our everyday lives increasingly depend on Internet performance. When users experience poor performance, however, the decentralization of the Internet allows limited visibility into which network is respons ...

EPFL2022

A high-cooperativity, nano-optomechanical system comprised of high stress Si3N4

Tobias Kippenberg, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Nils Johan Engelsen

We report the design fabrication and characterization of a monolithic nano-optomechanical transducer comprised of high stress silicon nitride (Si3N4). Our system features a one dimensional Fabry-Perot photonic crystal cavity (Q approximate to 10(5)) integr ...

IEEE2021

Cooperative or undifferentiated: Two visions for housing

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

Throughout Europe, the dominant housing production practices of the last century seem to be running out of steam. Housing is looking for a future. The weakening of the power of the state, the instability of the markets and the ecological emergency have led ...

University of Nottingham2020

Caching in Heterogeneous Networks With Per-File Rate Constraints

Giuseppe Cocco

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a coordinator node s ...

2019

A Survey on Interdependent Privacy

Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Benjamin Trubert

The privacy of individuals does not only depend on their own actions and data but may also be affected by the privacy decisions and by the data shared by others individuals. This interdependence is an essential aspect of privacy and ignoring it can lead to ...

2019

Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition Transkribus as a case study

Frédéric Kaplan, Sofia Ares Oliveira

Purpose An overview of the current use of handwritten text recognition (HTR) on archival manuscript material, as provided by the EU H2020 funded Transkribus platform. It explains HTR, demonstrates Transkribus, gives examples of use cases, highlights the af ...

2019

MAMUT: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Real-Time Multi-User Video Transcoding

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Luis Maria Costero Valero

Real-time video transcoding has recently raised as a valid alternative to address the ever-increasing demand for video contents in servers' infrastructures in current multi-user environments. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) makes efficient online trans ...

IEEE2019

Exploring the Links between Community-based Governance and Sustainable Energy use: Quantitative Evidence from Flanders

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

Community-based energy organizations have been said to influence their members’ energy-related behavior by activating social norms and by providing trustworthy information about sustainable energy investments and behaviors. However, little is known yet abo ...

Elsevier2017

Social Capital And Mutual Versus Public Benefit: The Case Of Renewable Energy Cooperatives

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

One potential major role of social economy organizations in sustainability transitions is the creation and mobilization of social capital. Yet, the social economy gathers very distinct organizational models which may be associated with different types and ...

Wiley2017

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

Computational support for a scaffolding mechanism of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel

Centrioles are essential for forming cilia, flagella and centrosomes. Successful centriole assembly requires proteins of the SAS-6 family, which can form oligomeric ring structures with ninefold symmetry in vitro. While important progress has been made in ...

Nature Research2016

Producer cooperatives influence on competitive dynamics - the Azorean case

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it aims at investigating how cooperatives organizational dimensions affect its strategic positioning; and second, how producer cooperatives influence the competitive dynamics of the markets where they compete. In or ...

2016

Explaining the diversity of motivations behind community renewable energy

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

Community-based renewable energy initiatives may be important actors in the transition toward low-carbon energy systems. In turn, stimulating investments in renewable energy production at the community level requires a better understanding of investors' mo ...

Elsevier2016

Cooperative motion of a key positively charged residue and metal ions for DNA replication catalyzed by human DNA Polymerase-eta

Matteo Dal Peraro, Vito Genna

Trans-lesion synthesis polymerases, like DNA Polymerase-eta (Pol-eta), are essential for cell survival. Pol-eta bypasses ultraviolet-induced DNA damages via a two-metal-ion mechanism that assures DNA strand elongation, with formation of the leaving group p ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015