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Wikipédia, ou Imaginez un monde
(2024)Rue d'Ulm/EssaiL’encyclopédie libre Wikipédia a révolutionné à bas bruit l’accès à l’information pour des milliards d’individus sur la planète. Mais qui sait comment elle fonctionne? Eui édite le site? Et selon quels principes? Quand – et pourquoi – peut-on avoir confiance dans les informations qu’il fournit? Au-delà, de quoi l’encyclopédie que «tout le monde peut éditer» est-elle réellement le nom? Car Wikipédia ne représente qu’une déclinaison ...Monograph -
Metamaterial Analysis and Design
(2024)De Gruyter Series in Applied and Numerical MathematicsMetamaterials are advanced composite materials which have exotic and powerful properties. Their complicated microstructures make metamaterials challenging to model, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical techniques. This book uses a from-first-principles approach (based on boundary integral methods and asymptotic analysis) to study a class of high-contrast metamaterials. These mathematical techniques are applied to the problem ...Monograph -
Nonlinear Optics on Ferroic Materials
(2024)The use of nonlinear optics for the study of ferroics, that is, magnetically, electrically or otherwise spontaneously ordered and switchable materials has witnessed a remarkable development since its inception with the invention of the laser in the 1960s. This book on Nonlinear Optics on Ferroic Materials reviews and advances an overarching concept of ferroic order and its exploration by nonlinear-optical methods. In doing so, it brings ...Monograph -
Lectures on Symmetry-Assisted Computation
(2024)Scientific problems have an internal "beauty", called, referred to, precisely speaking, as their "symmetry". The symmetry arises, often, from the fact that the scientific problem refers to an object (a molecule, a crystal) and the object itself has some "symmetry" elements, but in more abstract situations, such as those arising in particle physics and quantum technologies, symmetry is often the only known (and relevant!) fact about the ...Monograph -
Vom Verschwinden der Technik
(2024)Wohin gehen Technologien, wenn sie verschwinden und weder Zukunft noch Anwendung haben? Lässt sich ihr Verschwinden überhaupt erzählen? Vielleicht als eine Geschichte im Rückwärtsgang? Oder bloss als grosse Aufräumaktion, bei der Abriss, Demontage und Entsorgung die Hauptrolle spielen? Die hier zusammengestellten Versuche zeigen, wie sich starke Verbindungen wieder auflösen können, warum sogar höchst prominente Technologien plötzlich ...Monograph -
Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint
(2024)This book focuses on the shared religious figure of Laldas/Khan, and uncovers fascinating historical and contemporary dimensions of Hindu-Muslim socio-cultural interactions around his shrines. It explores reformist and extremist politics that have influenced shared religious traditions, shedding light on the impact of the reformist ideologies of the Arya Samaj and Tablighi Jamaat on the followers of Laldas. It presents a compelling analysis ...Monograph -
Geochemischer Bodenatlas der Schweiz
(2023)Chemische Elemente im Boden, welche über die Nahrungskette aufgenommen werden, können je nach Konzentrationsbereich und Bioverfügbarkeit für Lebewesen essentiell sein oder schädlich wirken. Nebst dem Ausscheiden von Gebieten mit potentieller Belastung ist die Kenntnis der typischen Gehalte von Spurenelementen in den Oberböden der Schweiz für Kontroll- und Vollzugsaufgaben von zentraler Bedeutung. Das Bundesamt für Umwelt hat in Zusammenarbeit ...Monograph -
Divine Money
(2023)Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Where government and public safety nets fail, zakat serves as a form of social security in Muslim communities. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living ...Monograph -
Governance of radioactive waste, special waste and carbon storage
(2023)Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and EnvironmentDeep geological repositories of nuclear waste, long-term landfills of special waste and the substantive storage of carbon dioxide to relieve the world’s climate from excessive system change are intricate and contentious policy fields with an impact of decades to hundreds of thousands of years. This work aims to explore how society and technology can set up and implement sustainable ways—in the long run—to cope with the issues. They are ...Monograph -
A Proof that Artificial Neural Networks Overcome the Curse of Dimensionality in the Numerical Approximation of Black–Scholes Partial Differential Equations
(2023)Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyMonograph