Habitat durable : approches critiques

Sen’s Entitlement Approach: Critiques and Counter-critiques

Twenty years after Poverty and Famines elaborated the entitlement approach as an innovative and holistic approach to famine analysis, debates about some of its fundamental assertions remain unresolved. This paper examines four limitations acknowledged by Sen himself: starvation by choice, disease-driven rather than starvation-driven mortality, ambiguities in entitlement speciŽ cation and extra-...

Emerging Therapy Critiques

Symptomatic intracranial stenoses are an important cause of stroke and have a high risk of recurrent stroke with medical therapy. The Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Arterial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) trial unexpectedly showed a higher-than-expected rate of complications with intracranial stenting and a lower-than-expected recurrence rate wit...

Approches discrètes pour l'analyse d'images

La notion d’image est polysémique à différents titres. D’un point de vue physique, une image traduit la représentation spatiale d’une grandeur donnée (l’intensité d’un rayonnement électromagnétique, d’une onde mécanique, etc.). En théorie, une telle image peut être infinie, tant en ce qui concerne son support, c’est-à-dire l’espace sur lequel elle s’appuie, que ses valeurs, c’est-à-dire l’espac...

CPSC 502: Paper Critiques

WebIQ uses a three-fold, query-based approach to the problem: First, it discovers data instances from the “Surface Web” (the part of the World Wide Web that can be accessed using regular search engines such as Google). This is done by formulating extraction queries, posing them to a search engine, extracting data instances from the results, and then validating them. Second, it borrows already e...

Empirical Approches to International Trade