Gaussian Processes and Gaussian Measures

2022

Dedicated with affection and passion to my late dad and mom as well as to my beloved wife Demet and my sole princess Fatma.-J.C.

2023

Technologie et innovation, 2024

Le design thinking désigne une méthode de créativité reposant sur l'empathie, le storytelling et le prototypage. Ces trois caractéristiques sont notamment explicitées par Tim Brown, dont un des livres, L'esprit design (2009) est étudié précisément dans cet article qui cherche à établir une filiation avec le design fiction, cette nouvelle approche du design reposant sur le prototypage à partir de l'imaginaire science-fictionnel. Le livre du Near Future Laboratory The Manual of Design Fiction (2022) sert de référence à l'analyse des liens entre design fiction et design thinking. Le projet Esoldat est un exemple de design fiction dont la fonction est notamment de d'appuyer une démarche prospective. Science-fiction et design thinking permettent d'extraire les imaginaires des organisations et de créer des histoires permettant d'optimiser le discours stratégique. Pouvons-nous tirer de ces textes des éléments de généalogie et de prospective du storytelling institutionnel ? Le design fiction pourrait avoir intérêt à se tourner vers les méthodes du design thinking pour améliorer encore une méthodologie orientée vers la mise en place de politiques d'innovation utilisant l'imaginaire des experts, mais aussi des employés des organisations. ABSTRACT. Design thinking is a method of creativity based on empathy, storytelling and prototyping. These three characteristics are explained in particular by Tim Brown, one of whose books, Change by design (2009) is studied precisely in this article which seeks to establish a connection with design fiction, this new approach to design based on prototyping from of the science fiction imaginary. The Near Future Laboratory book The Manual of Design Fiction (2022) serves as a reference for analyzing the links between design fiction and design thinking. The Esoldat project is an example of design fiction whose function is notably to produce foresight. Science fiction and design thinking make it possible to extract the imaginary of organizations and create stories to optimize strategic discourse. Design fiction would therefore benefit from turning to design thinking methods to further improve a methodology oriented towards the implementation of innovation policies using the imaginary of experts, but also of organizational employees.

2004

espanolDemanda de seda granadina por los grandes centros manufactureros italianos a fines del siglo XIV y en la primera mitad del XV, en especial a traves de las cuentas de Francesco Spinola q. Pietri, mercader genoves en el emirato de Granada. Puntos de aprovisionamiento de seda y proveedores a los que acude, especialmente en Granada, Malaga, Almeria, Almunecar y las Alpujarras. EnglishDemand for Granada's silk in the large Italian manufacturing centers at the end of the fourteenth century and during the first half of the fifteenth century, particularly through the accounts of Francesco Spinola Pietri, genevan merchant in the Emirate of Granada. Places for obtaining silk and suppliers frequenting them, especially in Granada, Malaga, Almeria, Almunecar and the Alpujarras Mountains.

Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology

In a little over a century, plastic has gone from being addressed as a scientific marvel to being reviled as an ecological scourge. Development and modernization have brought about a colossal swell in the global plastic fabrication and consumption, due to its immense applications, versatility and relatively paltry cost. The main bottleneck lies in its disposal. They tend to endure in the environment for an implausibly long time and thus traverse from one habitat to another and then get incorporated in food chain, posing ignoramus risks for communities, ecosystems, and the planet. Indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste at startling rates has driven to a search for an all-inclusive, proficient, and sustainable remediation research work looking for a practical alternative to manage, process, and dispose of plastic debris. Albeit, there are several processes such as incineration, landfilling, and recycling available but are unsustainable, costly, and has serious repercussions on the environment, wildlife, marine, and human health. Thus, contemporary focus has been highlighted on the need for substitutes such as biodegradable plastics and surrogate disposal approaches, namely, the potential of microbes to degrade synthetic plastics with no inimical impact. In this regard, bacteria and fungi have been shown to ingurgitate these polymers and metamorphose them into environmental friendly carbon compounds. The present review covers the types of plastics, their applications, plastic degradation with more weight on the multifaceted roles played by microorganisms, their modus operandi, and probable enzymatic mechanisms.

Hellenistic and Roman Knossos

Paru dans l'Humanité Dimanche 1er février 2019

La Historia desde Canarias. Cuaderno 11: «¿UNA “PRODIGIOSA” DÉCADA?», 2024

Este Cuaderno forma parte de una serie que, bajo el epígrafe de La Historia desde Canarias, se propone divulgar mediante tiras gráficas el pasado reciente del archipiélago en el marco general de los tiempos contemporáneos. «¿Una “prodigiosa” década?» desarrolla, naturalmente, los años que van desde 1960 (descolonizaciones en África) a 1973 (crisis energética que marca realmente el final de la década). Unos años que el imaginario colectivo occidental tiene por prodigiosos, pero cuya complejidad —como se muestra en las páginas que siguen— va mucho más allá del tópico. Como en cuadernos anteriores, hay constantes alusiones a la historia de Canarias con el fin de contextualizar el pretérito insular en el marco general de aquella extensa década. This series, under the heading of The History from the Canary Islands, shows through graphic strips their recent past in the general framework of contemporary times. «A “prodigious” decade?» naturally develops the years from 1960 (decolonizations in Africa) to 1973 (energy crisis that really marks the end of the decade). A few years that the Western collective imagination considers prodigious, but whose complexity —as shown in the pages that follow— goes far beyond the cliché. There are constant allusions to the history of the Canary Islands, as in previous graphic notebooks, in order to contextualize the island's past in the general framework of that long decade.