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Université de Fribourg

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

Mondal, Manuel ; Lalanne, Denis

(Internal working papers DIUF ; 21-02)

The objective of this document is to provide a non-technical introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence. It is intended for anyone outside of the data science community curi-ous about the subject, such as researchers from other areas looking for new instruments, legal professionals confronted with automated decision making algorithms or legal tech tools, en-trepreneurs interested in...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Can reputation risk related to Glencore's activities in the DRC be an impediment to making an investment or indeed to sell one's shareholding stake in Glencore ? : Can this reputation risk undermine Glencore's share price and if so to what extent ?

Grosjean, Julien ; Piller, Robert (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 81.

The research objective of this report is to show the impact of reputation risk linked to Glencore’s activities in the DRC. In order to measure the impact of reputational risk, a focus is made on Glencore’s share price. In the first part of this report, the introduction helps the reader to get important contextual information about Glencore’s background and activities in the DRC. An emphasis...

Université de Fribourg

Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction

Massa, Francesco ; Belayche, Nicole

In: Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 2020, vol. 194, p. 1-37

Università della Svizzera italiana

Simplifying offloading applications to the network

Bressana, Pietro Giuseppe ; Soulé, Robert (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO011.

Recent advancements in the networking field have made the data plane fully programmable, thanks to the introduction of both programmable network architectures and network programming languages. P4, the most prominent network programming language, provides software abstractions to the components of PISA, a programmable network architecture that is able to process huge amounts of network ...

Université de Fribourg

Independent introductions of hedgehogs to the North and South Island of New Zealand

Pipek, Pavel ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Bolfíková, Barbora Černá ; Hulme, Philip E.

In: New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2020, vol. 44, no. 1, p. -

According to the most recent (2005) compendium on the history of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) in New Zealand, this small insectivorous mammal was first brought from Europe to the South Island in the 19th century. This introduction has been presumed to be the source of hedgehogs that subsequently spread to the North Island. This view was informed by the absence of hedgehogs in...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Implementation of smart contract in the Liquefied Natural Gas trade

Sananes, Gary ; Piller, Robert (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 61.

In this Bachelor thesis, we will study all the key aspects for the implementation of a smart contract for a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) trade. As starting point, a brief introduction about LNG is written to realise the specificities of the commodity traded. Then, smart contracts will be presented as well as its fundamental goal and the key concerns about how English law is regulating them....

Université de Fribourg

Computational socioeconomics

Gao, Jian ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physics Reports, 2019, vol. 817, p. 1–104

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic processes provides foundations to quantify global economic development, to map regional industrial structure, and to infer individual socioeconomic status. In this review, we will make a brief manifesto about a new ...

Université de Fribourg

On the sustainability of photochemical reactions

Bochet, Christian G.

In: CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 2019, vol. 73, no. 9, p. 720–723

Photochemical reactions are often presented as intrinsically environmentally friendly ('green'). This may be indeed the case, but only in particular circumstances. This short essay comments on various aspects of the greenness of photochemical reactions, both in a historical (when only mercury-based hard UV light sources were available) and a current (with the recent introduction of LED...