Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013INFO001.
In the object oriented programming (OOP) paradigm, programs are composed solely of objects. The computational model is based on a world of collaborating objects, where they send each other messages to carry out tasks. The programs are crafted with the aid of tools, which enable to describe their components and behavior in a human readable form. With the advent of the graphical user interface...
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In: Human Reproduction, 2013, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 1210-1220
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO003.
Managed language platforms such as the Java Virtual Machine rely on a dynamic compiler to achieve high performance. Despite the benefits that dynamic compilation provides, it also introduces some challenges to program profiling. Firstly, profilers based on bytecode instrumentation may yield wrong results in the presence of an optimizing dynamic compiler, either due to not being aware of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007ECO003.
Traditionally, the gender wage gap has been explained by gender differences in the level of human capital (observed gender wage gap) and by discriminatory forces in the labour market (unobserved gender wage gap). One candidate for explaining part of the unobserved gender wage gap is occupational segregation. In this dissertation we study the characteristics of horizontal and vertical occupational...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO011.
A gradual move in the electric power industry towards Smart Grids brings new challenges to the system's efficiency and dependability. With a growing complexity and massive introduction of renewable generation, particularly at the distribution level, the number of faults and, consequently, disturbances (errors and failures) is expected to increase significantly. This threatens to compromise...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010 ; 2010INFO004.
This thesis presents methods for minimizing the computational effort of problem solving. Rather than looking at a particular algorithm, we consider the issue of computational complexity at a higher level, and propose techniques that, given a set of candidate algorithms, of unknown performance, learn to use these algorithms while solving a sequence of problem instances, with the aim of...
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In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020, vol. 17, no. 15, p. 15 p
As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now well recognized as the leading cause of mortality among adult populations worldwide, they are also increasingly the focus of media coverage. As such, the objective of this study is to describe the framing of NCDs in the coverage of newspapers, with the understanding that it says something about the society producing it. Automatic content analysis was ...
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In: Patient education and counseling, 2007, vol. 67, no. 3, p. 261-266
Many people are concerned about their family history of breast cancer, and are anxious about the possibility of developing breast cancer themselves. The majority of these people are likely not to be at significantly increased risk of developing inherited breast cancer. All women are at risk of developing sporadic breast cancer, and this risk increases with age. The UK National Institute of Health...
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In: The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2014, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 186-200
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In: Pragmatics & cognition, 2008, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 540-567
This paper aims at clarifying the ontology of conflict as a preliminary for constructing a conflict mapping guide (Wehr 1979). After recalling the main definitions elaborated in different disciplines, the meaning of conflict is elicited through semantic analysis based on corpus evidence. Two fundamental meanings emerge: conflict as an interpersonal hostility between two or more human subjects,...
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