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The Advocacy Planning and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States: The Architects’ Renewal Committee and the Democratization of Urban Planning
(2021)This paper takes as its point of departure advocacy planning approaches’ consideration that urban renewal is incompatible with any kind of socially effective urban planning. It focuses on analysing the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), the first organisation solely devoted to advocacy planning in the United States, and places particular emphasis on the critiques of urban renewal strategies in the late 1960s in the North-Eastern ...Other Conference Item -
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Cinema as an Apparatus for Homemaking: Gender Roles from Post-war Neorealism to the Contemporary Italian Scene
(2021)The paper presents how the representation of the categories of urban, domestic, individual and collective in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Cinema enhances a new understanding of migrant and gender subjectivities. Its scope is double-fold: firstly, it draws upon the situation of the gender roles of migrants in post-war neorealist films, and, secondly, it addresses the ways in which contemporary Italian films dealing with contemporary ...Conference Paper -
Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardware
(2021)Proceedings of the Neur-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE '20)Many contemporary advances in the theory and practice of neural networks are inspired by our understanding of how information is processed by natural neural systems. However, the basis of modern deep neural networks remains the error backpropagation algorithm [1], which though founded in rigorous mathematical optimization theory, has not been successfully demonstrated in a neurophysiologically realistic circuit. In a recent study, we ...Conference Paper -
Conductance-based dendrites perform reliability-weighted opinion pooling
(2021)Proceedings of the Neur-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE '20)Cue integration, the combination of different sources of information to reduce uncertainty, is a fundamental computational principle of brain function. Starting from a normative model we show that the dynamics of multi-compartment neurons with conductance-based dendrites naturally implement the required probabilistic computations. The associated error-driven plasticity rule allows neurons to learn the relative reliability of different ...Conference Paper -
To what scale are conversational agents used by top-funded companies offering digital mental health services for depression?
(2021)There is strong support in the literature for the use of conversational agents (CAs) in digital mental healthcare along with a recent increase in funding within digital mental health, indicating the fast growth of the industry. However, it is unknown to what extent CAs are leveraged in these digital interventions for depression. The aim of this study is to therefore explore the scale of CA use in top-funded digital mental health companies ...Conference Paper -
Are conversational agents used at scale by companies offering digital health services for the management and prevention of diabetes?
(2021)Successful interventions to prevent and manage type 2 diabetes rely on long-term, day-to-day decisions which take place outside of clinical settings. In this context, human resources are difficult to scale up, and leveraging Conversational agents (CAs) could be one way to scale up healthcare to tackle the emerging epidemic of type 2 diabetes. The objective of this paper is to assess the degree to which CAs are employed by top-funded digital ...Conference Paper -
Face(book)ing the truth: initial lessons learned using Facebook advertisements for the chatbot-delivered Elena+ Care for COVID-19 intervention
(2021)Utilizing social media platforms to recruit participants for digital health interventions is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to directly track advertising spend, number of app downloads and other metrics transparently. The following paper concerns the initial tests completed on the Facebook Ad Manager platform for the chatbot-delivered digital health intervention Elena+ Care for COVID-19. Eleven advertisements were run ...Conference Paper -
Sensitivity analysis of electric vehicle impact on low-voltage distribution grids
(2021)Electric Power Systems ResearchThe presented work identifies the dominating influencing factors in electric vehicle (EV) modelling on low-voltage distribution grids to establish guidance for reliable impact assessments of increasing EV penetration. Seven aspects are distinguished with respect to the modelling of the load of EVs that influence the flows and voltages in the grid. For each of these aspects sensitivity analyses are carried out by running power flow simulations ...Conference Paper