Many articles have shown the usefulness of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) where characterizing spatial electrical resistivity variations over time associated with water content variations. ...In a case study of artificial drainage processes in comparison to isolated measurements of the temporal variation in water content, ERT could be used to obtain additional qualitative spatial information (2D or 3D). Indeed, there have been no articles relating the advantages of using ERT to study tile drainage processes. The aim of this article is to explore the effectiveness of the ERT method for delineating soil moisture spatial patterns, following their temporal variations in the context of artificial drainage. First, in the numerical description, taking into account the current knowledge on artificial drainage processes, the authors evaluate the combination of surface and cross‐borehole ERT measurements and different array types. In a field application, the surface and cross‐borehole combination helps to obtain better information on the soil structure and to optimize electrical resistivity monitoring during tile drainage processes. In the second part of the article, the comparison between the ERT data sets and ancillary data from TDR sensors provides a useful critical evaluation of ERT for studying water transfer in waterlogged soil influenced by artificial drainage. The field results showed that ERT contributes additional 2D information on resistivity as related to the water content, which complements single TDR measurements.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mediated Matter Group is honing its research into robotic swarm printing by focusing its efforts on material sophistication, or ‘tunability’, and ...communication or coordination between fabrication units. Here, the group's Neri Oxman, Jorge Duro‐Royo, Steven Keating, Ben Peters and Elizabeth Tsai illustrate this by describing three case studies that investigate robotically controlled additive fabrication at architectural scales.
This article examines the activism of Tunisian university students in the late 1960s. During the series of events surrounding the student protests of March 1968 at the University of Tunis, political ...activists across Tunisia and France forged communication networks or drew upon existing ones in order to further their political claims. The objectives of this article are to investigate the historical roots of these transnational networks in the colonial and postcolonial periods as well as to integrate Tunisia within the “global 1968.” Through an analysis of student protests and government reactions, I argue that ties with the former metropole shaped students’ demands and that a strictly national perspective of events is insufficient. In response to state repression, Tunisian activists shifted their struggle from global anti-imperialism toward the expansion of human rights on the national level. The networks proliferated over the course of 1968 and beyond as concrete realities shaped the direction of new claims.
Between 2000 and 2007, 34 Romanian families living in shanty towns in a Parisian suburb participated in a local group-specific social integration project. A socio-anthropological study was undertaken ...2 years after it ended, including documentary analysis of its archives, interviews with its beneficiaries and the professionals involved and ethnography among three families with distinct integration histories. Using the analysis of the project's implementation and outcomes, this article sheds light on how exceptional acts of minority identity recognition - sporadic and on a case-by-case basis - were ultimately functional in the performance of a republican redistributive policy on individual access to rights and resources based on the denial of racialised inequalities.
In this article I examine how foreign correspondents reported from Paris to the local Hebrew-language press in Eretz Yisrael from the end of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. I ...claim that Paris was represented in the local Hebrew press as the model of a desirable society, based on democratic, republican, liberal, secular, capitalist, and consumerist values. It was also seen as the capital of culture, the arts, and technology, and as such an example for imitation.
Eliezer Ben Yehuda was the first correspondent to report regularly from Paris to readers in the Yishuv. He covered political life in Paris and described the fragile republic that had recently been founded. Another correspondent was Abraham Ludvipol who sent regular reports about the Dreyfus trial and the anti-Semitism that abounded in the streets of the city. Nahum Slousch covered the opening of the 1900 Paris Exposition, which confirmed the role of Paris as the technological and cultural capital of the world. While Slousch’s articles were marked by optimism, those of M. Zarki, who described the great floods in Paris in the winter of 1910 which left half of the city underwater for ten days, were characterized by pessimism and uncertainty.
In the second part of the article I follow the activities of Uri Keisari who worked as a foreign correspondent in the service of four Hebrew newspapers after World War I: Davar (1926), Doar Hayom (1931–32), and Maariv and Haaretz (1951–52). In his reports Keisari continued to glorify and perpetuate the legend of Paris as the capital of culture and the arts, and a model for Israelis.
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