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The " fable of Tahiti " fed European imaginations at the end of the 18th  century, sparking not only reveries on the state of nature, but also debates on the perils of civilization and on relations between Europeans and other parts of the world. After …

We'll be looking at three particularly well known families, from three different periods : that of the chancellor Etellum in Larsa ( XIXth century), that of the soothsayer Asqudum in Mari ( XVIIIth century) and that of the chief-lamenter Ur-Utu in Sippar …

Abstract French colonial domination of Việt Nam led to major economic and social transformations in the early 20th century. In addition to economic exchanges with metropolitan France, there was the circulation of ideas, techniques and material culture …

Abstract Environmental protection and animal welfare are closely related when it comes to native wildlife, but they clash when it comes to managing introduced predators that pose a threat to local species. The objective of protecting biodiversity, which …

Today, phylogenetic distances are often used as a universal objective criterion. In some cases, however, other ways of classifying living organisms may be more appropriate. Documents and media Download …

Abstract Infectious diseases have been one of the main causes of mortality in our species, Homo sapiens . Pathogens have had a profound impact on the demography and history of human populations, as well as on their current susceptibility to disease. …

This lecture looks at the unique history of the settlement of the Americas. It represents the culmination of the last expansion of modern humans from Africa. It also involves the encounter between native Americans and, from the 15th   century onwards, …

Abstract The Hubbard Hamiltonian governs the phases accessible to strongly correlated particles in a periodic potential. Here, we introduce a technology for emulating the Hubbard model from semiconducting quasiparticles confined in electrostatic lattices. …

Abstract We present a state-of-the-art review of multi-scale finite element methods : the problems these methods tackle, the development of different approaches, advances in their performance and in their theoretical understanding. We will also highlight …

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Abstract In today's Muslim world, apprenticeship is often associated with religious schools, where pupils are taught writing, grammar and Quranic recitation. We also know from medieval treatises the curriculum of the elite kuttâb (or secretaries), who …

Temples and fire chapels from the 3rd century AD : Paykend ; Erkurgan (?) ; Dil'berdzhin (?) ; Surkh Kotal. …

A scholia in the Dialogues des courtisanes by the satirist Lucien of Samosata describes in unusual detail the ritual manipulations performed during the Thesmophoria. This Byzantine gloss is probably based on a scholarly text from the Hellenistic period, …

Abstract The talk gives a brief overview of our book "Functional Algorithms, Verified!" and its approach to verifying not just correctness but also running time of a large collection of functional algorithms. Then, two examples are presented in more …

Abstract Amortization is a principle of data structure design which aims to guarantee an average cost per operation over any sequence of operations, with the high cost of some operations being amortized by the low cost of previous operations. After a …