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Balanced binary tree. The efficiency of software depends very much on the way it organizes the data it manipulates into algorithmically efficient structures. Most data structures known today are transient : updates to the structure are made by …
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Abstract At the dawn of the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen posed a fundamental and irreducible tension between the proclamation of the natural rights of mankind and the affirmation of the rights of the French …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract Recent experiments and theory have shown that chromatin is organized as a polymer in a poor solvent in the nucleus, with a tendency to phase separate when the nucleus is hydrated. This downgrades the role of chromatin in nuclear volume …
16:15 to 17:15
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Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes References Amanda A. Amodeo and Jan M. Skotheim, "Cell-Size Control," Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, 8:a019083 (2016). Leigh K. Harris and Julie A. Theriot, "Relative Rates of Surface and Volume …
14:30 to 16:00
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Abstract Natural species terms (" Tiger ", " Beech ", " Gold ", etc.) are the subject of debate : are they descriptive terms that express characteristics of the objects falling within their extension, or do they function rather as names that designate …
11:30 to 13:00
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Abstract Brentano invokes single-term judgments (" il y a de la neige ", " il pleut "), to refute the Aristotelian view that all judgments have the subject/predicate structure. Single-term judgements affirm (or deny) the reality of something ; they are …
10:00 to 11:30
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Abstract The element fluorine is omnipresent in both secondary and primary batteries, in salt or electrolyte additives, separators, electrode formulation binders or anode or cathode materials. By way of example, LiPF6 and NaPF6 are used as salt, …
17:00 to 18:00
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Abstract The planetary formation process begins with the appearance of a population of planetesimals. Collisions between these planetesimals gradually lead to the formation of increasingly massive objects, known as protoplanets. These objects can also …
16:45 to 18:45
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The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, is joining forces with Biblissima+ to invite you to another day of study and discussion around the question : how to …
09:30 to 17:30
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Aqueduct, Rome. The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul ), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the Roman governor's mandate from his arrival in the province to his departure. Reading Ulpian's treatise …
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Aqueduct, Rome. Cicero observed that " by the work of our hands, we try to create, in nature, like a second nature  ". Drawing on the legal, literary and philosophical history of Antiquity, this year's lecture explores the resources and limits of the …
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The Fall of Man (detail), Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1592. …
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Abstract In response to anthropogenic climate change, species migrate towards the poles and summits, while communities are enriched with more thermophilic species or become poorer in cryophilic species (cf. community thermophilization process). In my …
15:30 to 16:30
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Abstract Alongside pollinators, plant communities are also changing, in response to a variety of human-induced pressures : changes in land use causing the local disappearance of species specializing in certain habitats, nitrate and biocide pollution …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract The Infancy Gospel according to Thomas is an early Christian apocryphal text that recounts the miracles of Jesus as a child, in the style of biblical fan fiction . A best-seller in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, the story was transmitted in …
15:30 to 17:00
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Abstract The origins of our minds are an enduring puzzle-- what parts of what we know require learning, and what emerges in the absence of specific experience? Questions about how nature and nurture contribute to human knowledge have been productive in …
11:00 to 12:30
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Abstract Contrary to popular opinion, the norms, procedures and models of science and law have long maintained a close and intertwined, albeit changing, relationship. While the more juridico procedure imposed itself on all academic disciplines in the …
14:30 to 16:00
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Perception of Quadrilaterals: A Human Singularity for Geometry Abstract How can we experimentally test the hypothesis of a language of geometry and its specificity to the human species ? A series of experiments, the subject of Mathias Sablé-Meyer's …
09:30 to 11:00
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