Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC001.
Cette thèse est consacrée à la seconde partie de la carrière de l’architecte Adolf Loos (1870-1933) à partir de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’en 1933, et surtout après son départ de Vienne en 1923. Notre hypothèse de travail est que loin d’être une période « en creux » comme l’historiographie l’a souvent présentée, celle-ci est marquée par une plus large...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO011.
Personal computing systems like e.g., laptop, smartphone, and smartwatches are nowadays ubiquitous in people's everyday life. People use such systems not only for communicating or searching for information, but also as digital companions, able to track and support their daily activities such as sleep, food intake, physical exercise and even work. Sensors embedded in personal computing systems...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO010.
The idea of agents in superposition is central to both encapsulated observers, i.e. Wigner’s-friend-type experiments, and correlations without definite causal order. An agent might be regarded as a thinking or computing entity that is able to perform operations on (other) quantum systems. In case of Wigner’s-friend setups, an agent’s ability to make predictions about other agents...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM010.
Social norms as concepts of legitimate and appropriate action are basic elements of social coordination and essentially “communication phenomena” (Rimal & Lapinski, 2015, Lapinski & Rimal, 2005). They are negotiated, shaped, understood, learned, and maintained through communication, with mediated public discourses as central forums for the communication and negotiation of norms. Despite...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO007.
I use empirical methods to forecast U.S. repeat-sales house price indices, to analyze Swiss long-run default rates and to investigate the role of country and industry effects on the downside risk of stock index returns.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO009.
Advances on psycho-linguistics have evidenced that the ways in which people use words could act as a reliable source to assess a wide array of behaviours. Language use acts as an indicator of the individuals’ current mental state, personality and even personal values. In this thesis, we focus on language analysis to study two closely related processes which encompass integral components of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM007.
Numerosi studi nell’ambito della ricerca in didattica della matematica hanno ormai da tempo evidenziato come esistano profonde connessioni tra apprendimento della matematica e dimensione linguistica. La presente dissertazione si pone sulla scia di queste ricerche: partendo dal presupposto che una visione integrata tra le due discipline rappresenti un fecondo terreno di indagine, viene...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM005.
Dispute mediation is a dialogical and communicative process in which a neutral third party, a mediator, helps conflicting parties modifying the way in which they interact with each other so that they become able to co-construct a solution to their conflict that is mutually satisfactory. Mediators cannot impose solutions to the parties, yet they play a fundamental role in conflict resolutions...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO008.
Fundamental tasks in multivariate and numerical analysis, such as sparse precision matrix estimation via graphical lasso and function approximation, are formulated in ever-increasing dimensions. Consequently, this results in a significant increase in the computational demand that quickly renders standard solution methods intractable. With this motivation, we present two scalable algorithms that...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO006.
Solving large sparse linear systems is at the heart of many application problems arising from scientific and engineering problems. These systems are often solved by direct factorization solvers, especially when the system needs to be solved for multiple right-hand sides or when a high numerical precision is required. Direct solvers are based on matrix factorization, which is then followed by...
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