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Abstract Most judges on international tribunals lack scientific expertise. In response, commentators have implored international tribunals to use their power to appoint independent experts. The rules of procedure of international human rights tribunals …
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Abstract The extraordinary diversity of wing color patterns observed in butterflies gives us an opportunity to understand the selective mechanisms involved in the evolution of traits in living beings. From the molecular biology laboratory to field …
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Abstract Clinical neurotechnologies are medical advances using innovative devices and techniques to diagnose, treat and improve neurological and psychiatric conditions. They include methods such as functional MRI for real-time brain imaging, auditory …
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Abstract Since leaving Africa around 60 000 years ago, humans have had to cope with a variety of environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity or sunlight levels. They have also had to adapt to a wide range of nutritional resources, from long …
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2001-2003 : the years of danger
Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World
2001-2003 : the years of danger
Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World
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september 11 2001 and April 9 2003. After a period defined as " revolutionary " in the years 1950-1960, whose epilogue was the first years of the Lebanese civil war, the Arab East experienced a wave of confrontations with Islamist movements in the wake of …
Laura Battini
The origins of the world : theomachy as a cosmogonic phase in Mesopotamian thought
Laura Battini
The origins of the world : theomachy as a cosmogonic phase in Mesopotamian thought
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Abstract Gn 3 contains the famous story of Adam and Eve's original sin in the Garden of Eden. Why are man and woman condemned, and what does this condemnation consist of ? Documents and media Download …
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Abstract Since 2000, advances in the natural sciences have led to increasingly precise knowledge of the climate and its spatial and temporal variations in Roman times. The question of the role of these variations in Roman history was quickly raised in …
11:15 to 12:15
Kyle Harper
Medieval climate
Kyle Harper
Medieval climate
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Abstract The Middle Ages witnessed several distinct climatic cycles. Slow technological progress and population growth paved the way for a complex crisis at the end of the Middle Ages, in which climate and pandemics played a major …
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Abstract Chemistry goes beyond simply observing and understanding nature. Through chemical synthesis, and using natural resources such as oil, coal and biomass, we can create valuable, unnatural organic molecules. Made up of a finite number of atoms …
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Lecture plan 2.2. Funny lecture rooms ! Or the empire of the school tag (continued) 2.2.1. Béni Hassan : a classroom among the dead... (continued) 2.2.2. An open-air classroom …
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Abstract Effect handlers are a programming language construct able to express and combine diverse computational features such as backtracking, stream redirection, multiple scheduling strategies, or continuations. This flexibility comes as no surprise …
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Abstract Many programming languages use static typing to guarantee runtime safety properties such as the integrity of data structures prior to program execution. At the start of this seventh lecture, we showed how well-known type systems (simple types and …
09:30 to 11:00
Correlations and Transport in Strongly Interacting Phases of Condensed Matter
Antoine Georges, chair Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
Correlations and Transport in Strongly Interacting Phases of Condensed Matter
Antoine Georges, chair Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
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Assa Auerbach is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Pr Antoine Georges. Assa Auerbach …
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Abstract Metaphor is the transport of a word from its proper meaning to another meaning. It's a way of expressing one idea using a term that would normally refer to another. Sometimes it's a way of making speech more elegant. At other times, it's a …
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Abstract Written in the last quarter of the twelfth century, André le Chapelain's De amore was long considered the code of courtly love. Questioning the very notion of a love code to characterize a literary movement and a lifestyle, we undertake to …
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Abstract Bayesian statistical inference generally requires simulations of the statistical model parameter from its posterior distribution , in order to approximate the integrals of interest by Monte Carlo. These simulations become tricky when the density …
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The Metropolis-Hasting algorithm samples a probability distribution, defining an ergodic Markov chain, of which it is the only invariant measure. We begin by introducing the main properties of the transition probabilities of a Markov chain, which define a …
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Abstract To study misreading is to understand a deviation from the norms of reading generally described in literary studies. It's about what the reader does or can do with the text. Bad reading is not the same as failed reading : dysfunctions can be …
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Even if John Ruskin wanted to find in works of art a moral and spiritual value capable of elevating the soul, there is in him a valorization of sensation as such, which explains Marcel Proust's interest in his …
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