Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC002.
This study is located at the intersection of architecture and the social sciences. Its core is an ethnographic investigation of how Cairo experiences and tackles urban heatwaves, which was carried out primarily by looking at people’s building practices. The research is structured along three axes. The first consists of a historical overview of the Egyptian architectural field, based on a...
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In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, vol. 119, no. 2, p. 445-454
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In: Text & Talk, 2017, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 213-241
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In: Geomorphology, 2020, vol. 355, p. 107068
Aosta Valley (Western Alps, Italy) is the region with the largest glacierized area of Italy. Like other high mountain regions, it has shown a significant glacier retreat starting from the end of the ‘Little Ice Age’ that is expected to continue in the future. As a direct consequence of glacier shrinkage, glacier-bed overdeepenings become exposed, offering suitable geomorphological ...
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In: Sensors, 2018, vol. 18, no. 11, p. 3993
In this paper, a computational approach is proposed and put into practice to assess the capability of children having had diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to produce facial expressions. The proposed approach is based on computer vision components working on sequence of images acquired by an off-the-shelf camera in unconstrained conditions. Action unit intensities are estimated by...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018INFO010.
Autonomous robots in real-world environments face a number of challenges even to accomplish apparently simple tasks like moving to a given location. We present four realistic scenarios in which robot navigation takes into account partial information, hierarchical structures, and multiple objectives. We start by discussing navigation in indoor environments shared with people, where routes are...
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In: Environmental Conservation, 1982, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 43-49
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2016.
Today, a customer loyalty programmes is considered a common marketing tool in tourism. It is said that loyalty programmes increase the revenue of a well-handled business, others doubt the effectiveness. Matterhorn Valley Hotels’ loyalty programme is experiencing issues and therefore, a new loyalty programme is necessary.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015COM008.
This research projects examines planning as an instance of instructed action - that is, by focusing on how plans are designed and changed to anticipate actions, by competently using the instructions that regulate work. It does so by drawing on ethnomethodology and membership categorization analysis to understand the empirical materials collected over the course of ethnomethodologically...
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In: Journal of Ecology, 2015, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 1069–1098
This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. (Common ragweed) that are relevant to understanding its ecology. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biological Flora of the British Isles: distribution, habitat, communities, responses to biotic factors, responses to environment, structure and physiology, phenology, floral...
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