The ambiguities of documentation: migrants’ everyday encounters with Italian immigration law

Tuckett, Anna (2013) The ambiguities of documentation: migrants’ everyday encounters with Italian immigration law. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Balance of favour: the emergence of territorial boundaries around Japan, 1861-1875

Yamamoto, Takahiro (2015) Balance of favour: the emergence of territorial boundaries around Japan, 1861-1875. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Advers(ary) effects? Investigating the purportedly disabling character of conspiracy theory via analysis of the communicative construction of resistance discourses in online anti-New World Order conspiracy theory discussion forums.

Mager, Alexander (2015) Advers(ary) effects? Investigating the purportedly disabling character of conspiracy theory via analysis of the communicative construction of resistance discourses in online anti-New World Order conspiracy theory discussion forums. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Hierarchies of evidence in evidence-based medicine

Blunt, Christopher (2015) Hierarchies of evidence in evidence-based medicine. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Harbingers of modernity: monetary injections and European economic growth, 1492-1790

Palma, Nuno Pedro G. (2015) Harbingers of modernity: monetary injections and European economic growth, 1492-1790. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Infrastructure, market access and trade in developing countries

Moore, Alexander (2015) Infrastructure, market access and trade in developing countries. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Nomos: a comparative political sociology of contemporary national border barriers

Mena, Olivia (2015) Nomos: a comparative political sociology of contemporary national border barriers. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in macroeconomics and finance

Clymo, Alex (2015) Essays in macroeconomics and finance. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Swimming against the tide: trajectories and experiences of migration amongst Nigerian doctors in England

Sveinsson, Kjartan Páll (2015) Swimming against the tide: trajectories and experiences of migration amongst Nigerian doctors in England. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Small firms and local economic development in Turkey: three case study areas

Ozcan, Gui (1993) Small firms and local economic development in Turkey: three case study areas. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Agency as difference-making causal foundations of moral responsibility

Himmelreich, Johannes (2015) Agency as difference-making causal foundations of moral responsibility. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Whether to insure against the weather: demand for extreme weather insurance in developing and developed country contexts

Helgeson, Jennifer (2015) Whether to insure against the weather: demand for extreme weather insurance in developing and developed country contexts. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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L'étude comparative de la corruption passive d'agents publics nationaux entre la France et l'Italie

par David Chapus Université Paris X 2015

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Analyse de la filière viande rouge en tunisie viande cameline

par Mohamed Ali Trabelsi INAT 2016

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University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars

University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars Eustice, Ryan Self-driving test vehicles have become a reality on roadways, and there is an ever-present push toward making them a consumer product in the not-so-distant future. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of our previous work in collaboration with Ford Motor Company in full-scale automated driving. In particular, we’ll look at some of our successes in high-definition map building and precision localization, including our recent work in cross-modality localization using vision within a priori LIDAR maps as well as localization in snow using Gaussian mixture maps. We’ll also discuss our new unique Mcity test facility for connected and automated driving. Presented on April 20, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, room 1116.; Ryan M. Eustice is an associate professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan where he additionally holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the director of the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL), a mobile robotics laboratory focused on algorithm development in the areas of robotic perception, navigation, and mapping. His active research projects include applications for autonomous underwater ship hull inspection, multi-vehicle cooperative underwater navigation, benthic high-resolution mapping, and automotive active safety and self-driving capabilities.; Runtime: 65:39 minutes

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Essays on asset pricing in over-the-counter markets

Shen, Ji (2015) Essays on asset pricing in over-the-counter markets. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Burden of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – health, social, and economic impacts of exposure to the London bombings

Buljan, Nika Fuchkan (2015) Burden of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – health, social, and economic impacts of exposure to the London bombings. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A market and government failure critique of services of general economic interest: testing the centrality and strictness of article 106(2) TFEU

Burke, Jarleth (2015) A market and government failure critique of services of general economic interest: testing the centrality and strictness of article 106(2) TFEU. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Earth Day: The Sustainability Roundtable

Earth Day: The Sustainability Roundtable Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 301, broadcast Apr 22, 2016. Features interview with Madeleine Charney, Sustainability Studies Librarian at UMASS Amherst, and Coordinator of SustainRT (Sustainability Roundtable) for ALA.

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La participation des citoyens à la protection de l'environnement au Togo

par Aboudoul Raouf OURO-YONDOU Université de Limoges 2013

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La gestion administrative des localités affectées par le bornage de la frontière Burkina-Mali: cas des localités de la région des hauts-bassins

par Seydou MILLOGO Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (Burkina Faso) 2015

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La performance managériale dans les infrastructures au cameroun: une approche par le suivi-évaluation

par René ABEGA ABEGA Université Internationale SENGHOR 2015

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Advances in Ion Trap Quantum Computing

Advances in Ion Trap Quantum Computing Fallek, Spencer With the advent of very-large-scale integration (VLSI), we have seen incredible improvements in computational power over the past four decades. However, there are certain problems which are untenable even with the most advanced computing resources available to us today and in the foreseeable future. A few of these key problems can be solved via a quantum computer using quantum bits (qubits). Two main problems of interest are simulating quantum systems for chemical dynamics, and factoring large numbers for cryptography. In the Quantum Information Systems group at GTRI, we have been working on developing a quantum computer with trapped-ion qubits. In this talk, I will discuss the efforts at GTRI to scale up such a quantum processor and the technical challenges that lie ahead. I will highlight novel ion trap designs, as well as preliminary work towards elementary quantum algorithms that surpass their classical counterpart. Presented at the Nano@Tech Meeting on April 12, 2016 at 12 noon in room 1116-1118 of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building.; Spencer Fallek has been working on quantum information technologies for the past four years. He joined GTRI’s Quantum Systems Group in 2013 as a Research Scientist. Prior to that, he was a student at Duke University in the Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology group. His research interests include atomic physics, quantum information, and low-noise analog and digital hardware for quantum control.; Runtime: 38:24 minutes

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Facebook Is Not Your Archive

Facebook Is Not Your Archive Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 299, broadcast Apr 8, 2016. Features interview with Robin Fay, librarian, trainer, artist, and creative technologist (RobinFay.net).

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Les déteminants des investissements directs étrangers dans les pays de l'Afrique subsaharienne

par Junior BUKASA LUABEYA Université de Kinshasa 2015

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Pension de retraite et conditions socioéconomiques des retraités de la SNCC Lubumbashi

par PATRICK ABAMANI Université de Lubumbashi 2015

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Production végétale pécher

par Mohamed Ali Trabelsi INAT 2016

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Gestion et conservation des ligneux fourragers en zone soudanienne, république du Bénin

par Alfred HOUNGNON Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques 2008

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Evaluation de l'adoption des nouvelles variétés des principales cultures vivrières dans le territoire de Kalehe

par Papy MUGISHO Université Catholique de Bukavu 2010

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Externalisation du recrutement et performance économique des entreprises parapubliques: cas de la Sonara

par Léon Bertin NOMI BILOY UCAC 2014

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Gestion durable de la réserve de biosphère de Dimonika : contribution à l'estimation de la quantité de carbone de la forêt modèle de Dimonika (république du Congo)

par Bertrand Russel TSOUMOU Ecole Postuniversitaire d'Aménagement et Gestion Intégrés des Forêts et Territoires Tropicaux (ERAIFT/UNESCO) 2014

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L'Espagne en France. Les centres culturels espagnols dans l'hexagone au XXe siècle.

par Julien JACQUES Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne 2015

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Implication des couples mariés dans la planification familiale

par Marcel LUBOYA NGWAKONDE Université Pédagogique Nationale 2014

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Valoriser l'activité des sages-femmes : comment conduire le changement vers un nouveau paradigme ?

par Anne CALLAC Université de Bourgogne, UFR des Sciences de Santé 2015

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International humanitarian food aid in the north-south cooperation: the case of cameroon

par Alain Christian Essimi Biloa La Sapienza University of Rome - Italy 2014

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Etude de la convection naturelle turbulente dans une enceinte a paroi chauffee

par Maxwell TIENTCHEU NSIEWE Universite de Ngaoundere 2013

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The Manipulation Action Grammar: A Key to Intelligent Robots

The Manipulation Action Grammar: A Key to Intelligent Robots Aloimonos, Yiannis Humanoid robots will need to learn the actions that humans perform. They will need to recognize these actions when they see them and they will need to perform these actions themselves. In this presentation, it is proposed that this learning task can be achieved using the manipulation grammar. Context-free grammars have been in fashion in linguistics because they provide a simple and precise mechanism for describing the methods by which phrases in some natural language are built from smaller blocks. Also, the basic recursive structure of natural languages, the way in which clauses nest inside other clauses, and the way in which lists of adjectives and adverbs are followed by nouns and verbs, is described exactly. Similarly, for manipulation actions, every complex activity is built from smaller blocks involving hands and their movements, as well as objects, tools and the monitoring of their state. Thus, interpreting a “seen” action is like understanding language, and executing an action from knowledge in memory is like producing language. Several experiments will be shown interpreting human actions in the arts and crafts or assembly domain, through a parsing of the visual input, on the basis of the manipulation grammar. This parsing, in order to be realized, requires a network of visual processes that attend to objects and tools, segment them and recognize them, track the moving objects and hands, and monitor the state of objects to calculate goal completion. These processes will also be explained and we will conclude with demonstrations of robots learning how to perform tasks by watching videos of relevant human activities. Presented on April 6, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, room 1116.; Yiannis "John" Aloimonos is a professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Laboratory. His research has been supported over the years by NSF, NIH, ONR, DARPA, IBM, Honeywell, Dassault, Westinghouse, Google, Honda and the European Union. For the past five years, he has been working on cognitive systems under the project POETICON, and more recently under the NSF Cyberphysical Systems Program.; Runtime: 66:57 minutes

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Exploring intercultural communicative competence in a distance language learning environment

From axiomatization to generalizatrion of set theory

Fendrich, Samuel (1987) From axiomatization to generalizatrion of set theory. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Does the daily paper rule Britannia: the British press, British public opinion, and the end of empire in Africa, 1957-60

Coffey, Rosalind (2015) Does the daily paper rule Britannia: the British press, British public opinion, and the end of empire in Africa, 1957-60. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Discrete Element Modeling of shielding and size effects during single particle crushing

Discrete Element Modeling of shielding and size effects during single particle crushing Wang, Pei; Arson, Chloé In granular assemblies such as soil, ballast, cementitious aggregates, food and medical products, particle fragmentation and crushing alter material properties. The goal of this research work is to better understand the microstructure parameters that control the triggering of fragmentation, and to predict how microstructure evolution consequent to crushing can actually enhance or reduce material properties. We focused on size and shielding e ects, which respectively refer to the decrease of particle strength with increasing particle size, and to the increase of particle strength with the redistribution of stress towards hydrostatic stress conditions upon crushing of neighboring particles. We calibrated the parameters of a Distinct Element Method (DEM) cluster model of crushable particle so as to match the displacement and axial force obtained experimentally at the first particle fragmentation. In order to study the in uence of the coordination number on particle crushing, we modeled the mechanical confinement effect of neighboring particles by placing rigid walls around the DEM cluster. In order to understand why larger particles have lower tensile strength, we studied size effects on the crushing process of clusters with and without internal flaws. We found that for clusters with a porosity ranging between 0% and 30%, tensile strength only depends on porosity and not on aw size. Overall results show that particle strength depends: (1) linearly on particle coordination number; (2) quadratically on particle porosity. Theoretical and DEM modeling of particle crushing will advance the fundamental understanding of energy transfer in particulate media.

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Archive the Future Part III: Bert Lyons and Exactly

Archive the Future Part III: Bert Lyons and Exactly Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion nterview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 298, broadcast Apr 1, 2016. Features interview with Bertram Lyons, Senior Consultant at AVPreserve.

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ECCO Version 4: Second Release

ECCO Version 4: Second Release Forget, Gael; Campin, Jean-Michel; Heimbach, Patrick; Hill, Christopher N.; Ponte, Rui M.; Wunsch, Carl The purpose of this note is twofold: (1) document the second release of ECCO version 4 state estimates (ECCO v4-r2); (2) provide a citable identifier to distinguish it from the previous release (ECCO v4-r1; Forget et al 2015).

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