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Qualitätsanalyse von inhaltsbasierten Empfehlungssystemen für Journals
(2023)Churer Schriften zur InformationswissenschaftDiese Arbeit analysiert, wie geeignet Empfehlungssysteme für die Auswahl von passenden Journals für die Publikation wissenschaftlicher Artikel sind. Weiterhin gibt sie Einblick auf Basis welcher Feature-Engineerings und Klassifikationssysteme Empfehlungssysteme qualitativ die besten Empfehlungen treffen können. Hierzu wurde basierend auf dem Verfahren «Klassifikation» eine Analyse von 12 verschiedenen Kombinationen aus drei Feature-Engineerings ...Monograph -
Infrastructures of Freedom
(2023)Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions ...Monograph -
The second moment theory of families of L-functions - The case of twisted Hecke L-functions
(2023)Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyFor a fairly general family of L-functions, we survey the known consequences of the existence of asymptotic formulas with power-saving error term for the (twisted) first and second moments of the central values in the family. We then consider in detail the important special case of the family of twists of a fixed cusp form by primitive Dirichlet characters modulo a prime q, and prove that it satisfies such formulas. We derive arithmetic ...Monograph -
Inhabited Machines
(2023)Exploring ArchitectureWoher die Idee der Wohnmaschine kommt Um 1800 entstand mit der Konzeption gebauter Räume als technische Geräte eines der einflussreichsten architektonischen Denkmodelle der letzten 250 Jahre. Klima, Moral und Komfort bilden die tragenden Themen dieser Untersuchung, die in je eigenen Kapiteln im synchronen Vergleich und anschaulich mithilfe von Beispielen untersucht werden. Verfolgt wird das Aufkommen entsprechender Metaphern, Wissensinhalte ...Monograph -
Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector
(2023)CirklaAlthough widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practice. This paper highlights practitioners’ needs for implementing circularity in the AEC sector in Switzerland, and how digital platforms could support it. We hosted two workshops with ...Monograph -
Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications
(2023)Springer ActuarialThis open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the future. It presents the mathematical foundations behind these fundamental statistical concepts and how they can be applied in daily actuarial practice. Statistical modeling has a wide range of applications, and, depending ...Monograph -
Dachwerke
(2023)Berichte zur Bauforschung und KonstruktionsgeschichteDie Schweizer Bau- und Zimmermeister der Frühen Neuzeit gelten mit ihren herausragenden Tragkonstruktionen als Pioniere des Holzbaus. Mit bemerkenswertem Können erschufen sie über Jahrhunderte elaborierte hölzerne Dachwerke großer Spannweite, von denen die meisten bis heute hervorragend erhalten sind. Sie gehören neben den gedeckten Holzbrücken zu den wertvollsten materiellen Zeugnissen, die das Zimmermannshandwerk in ganz Europa ...Monograph -
Vortex-Flow Intakes
(2023)IAHR Water Monograph SeriesThis Water Monograph shows how designers use swirl and vortex generation to design vortex-flow intakes used to create vortex flows in dropshafts. Special focus is given to tangential vortex intakes, as this form is becoming especially common in urban areas. In addition, this monograph considers when swirl and vortex formation are undesired for intakes, especially submerged intakes such as used for hydropower and pumps. In so doing, this ...Monograph -
Mutual Integration in Immigration Society
(2023)The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity's role in policy-making, governance and social practice, ...Monograph -
Flowcharting
(2023)gta editionBy the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Paris to Cambridge, painters, poets, designers, and architects poured their energy into cracking the code of artistic genius in hopes of ...Monograph