Publications des institutions partenaires
Conflicts of interest in International Organizations. Evidence from two United Nations humanitarian agencies
The independence of International Civil Servants (ICSs) from their country of origin is often presumed but rarely accounted for empirically. In order to address this gap, we investigate whether ICSs face conflicts between national and international interests and which conditions are more conducive to the manifestation of this conflict in International Organizations. We adopt a mixed-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms for Solving Trademark Disputes (Mediation, UDRP, Arbitration)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Cyberspace: The Need to Adopt Global ADR Mechanisms for Addressing the Challenges of Massive Online Micro-Justice
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
A Simple Tags Categorization Framework Using Spatial Coverage to Discover Geospatial Semantics
There exist many popular crowdsourcing and social services (Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)) to share information and documents such as Flickr, Foursquare, Twitter , Facebook, etc. They all use metadata, folksonomy and more importantly a geographic axis with GPS coordinates and/or geographic tags. Using this available folksonomy in VGI services we propose a logical approach...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Analysing smartphone users “inner-self”: the perception of intimacy and smartphone usage changes
Smart mobile services and applications use users' context. However, we never investigate how users perceive this context and how to leverage this perception for even smarter services. We represent the perception of the context of users as their intimacy, their familiarity with their current place, the number, and kind of people around them. The adjective ‘intimate'...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Analysis of 3d knee joint deformation using a multiscale modelling approach
The human knee joint is the largest and most complex joint of the human body. The interdependencies encountered in the musculoskeletal system are crucial in understanding musculoskeletal conditions. Patient-specific models are promising methods to unravel clinical diagnosis. However, as the range of medical and experimental data is expanding, it has become a challenge to integrate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The value perspective in the analysis and design of service systems
The thesis proposes an interdisciplinary framework for service research in information systems that goes beyond the technological concerns and integrates the business concerns about service processes and models and the user's concerns about service usage and value. Based on this framework, the thesis analyzes further the concept of service value and suggests the value...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Efficient extraction of musculoskeletal structures from multi-channel MR images
We propose the extraction of musculoskeletal structures (bones, muscles) from the lower limb, following three main objectives: development of an MRI protocol, processing and labelling of the image data, and the exploitation of multi-channel data during the segmentation of individual muscles. We propose an MR acquisition protocol that generates seamless, high-resolution images of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Introduction to the special issue: citizens’ responses to the european economic crisis in the public domain
Citizens may respond to economic crises and to policy responses to such crises in a variety of ways. This special issue focuses on collective responses as they express themselves in the public domain, in the form of social movements or other types of interventions. The special issue originates in a large-scale comparative research project funded by the European Commission and titles...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Do issues matter? anti-austerity protests' composition, values, and action repertoires compared
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Rethinking Comparative Political Economy: The Growth Model Perspective
This paper develops an analytical approach to comparative political economy that focuses on the relative importance of different components of aggregate demand—in the first instance, exports and household consumption—and dynamic relations among the “demand drivers” of growth. We illustrate this approach by comparing patterns of economic growth in Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Racial Profiling and the Political Philosophy of Race
Philosophical reflection on racial profiling tends to take one of two forms. The first sees it as an example of ‘statistical discrimination,’ (SD), raising the question of when, if ever, probabilistic generalisations about group behaviour or characteristics can be used to judge particular individuals.(Applbaum 2014; Harcourt 2004; Hellman, 2014; Risse and Zeckhauser 2004; Risse 2007...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Multileveling EU external governance: The role of international organizations in the diffusion of EU migration policies
The thematic and geographical expansion of EUmigration policies has gone along with an increasing mobilisation of pertinent international organisations such as the IOM and UNHCR. Combining insights from the external governance approach with IR debates on international institutional complexity, this article examines the dynamics behind this ‘multilevelling’ of EU external policies....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The Consequences of Social Movements
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Statistical Discrimination
Racial discrimination uses race as grounds to discriminate in the treatment owed to others; sexual discrimination uses people’s sexual features as grounds for determining how they should be treated compared to others. Analogously, statistical discrimination treats statistical inferences about the groups to which individuals belong as grounds for discriminating amongst them in thought...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Studying policy advocacy through social network analysis
Social Network Analysis (SNA) conceptualizes a policy-making process as a network of actors. It can assess if an interest group (IGs) occupies a leading central position within this policy network, if it belongs to various ad hoc coalitions or if it plays a brokering role between different stakeholders. Such network variables are crucial to capture how IGs mobilize and gain access to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Enlightenment and solidarity: National union movements, distributive norms and the union effect on support for redistribution
Using data from the European Social Survey (2002-14), this paper explores the effect of union membership on support for redistribution. We hypothesize that the wage-bargaining practices of unions promote egalitarian distributive norms among low-wage and high-wage union members alike and that distributive norms in turn lead union members to support redistribution. Consistent with our...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
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