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The presence of Shivaism in Bactria : Dil'berdzhin, Surkh Kotal. …

Abstract Thanks to the seminal works of Raffaella Cribiore, papyrological evidence has been largely exploited, in order to reconstruct the mechanisms of teaching and learning how to write and read in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and more in general the …

Over the course of the previous lectures, the relationship between Demeter's action among humans and the growth of cereals has become increasingly clear. As a result, it makes sense to posit, at least as a preliminary hypothesis, that the festivals …

Abstract Copying and modifying a branch of a balanced tree, while sharing the unmodified subtrees with the original tree, is a simple and general technique for building many persistent data structures with O(log n) complexities. The lecture will show this …

The great English poet Geoffrey Hill gave a lecture in English in the form of an annotated reading of his poems. Professor Hill, who is also the author of major books on poetry, has taught at Cambridge and Boston universities. His books of poems …

Today, nature is often understood as the external physical environment that surrounds us. For the ancients, physis / natura was an immanent, life-giving force ; according to a definition by Aristotle, " a principle and cause of movement and rest for the …

Abstract (4) Mathematics. The training students receive also extends to the world of numbers (in the form of basic operations). The tables of metrological conversions written by Dioscore ( P.Lond. V 1718) could be linked to this type of training. (5) …

Abstract Exploring fluid transport at the nanoscale has necessitated the development of original experimental devices, which allow flow to be measured through an individual nanochannel. In contrast to this " nano " approach, " macroscopic " approaches, …

This lecture will explore one of the most elementary yet subtle transport phenomena : osmosis. The phenomenon of osmosis is usually associated with the notion of osmotic pressure, as described by van 't Hoff. First, we'll look at the molecular nature of …

Abstract The way we think about characters, essential elements in literature, has changed a great deal : consider, for example, the attack on the hero, that " outdated notion ", according to Robbe-Grillet. A current assessment can be made in three stages. …

Abstract Paul Valéry's conception of great art is particularly elitist  : "   Ce que tout le monde peut faire est exclu de la poétique   " (12   décembre 1941). It also presupposes a biological view of history, with progress and decadence, and is …

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It is not yet possible to carry out historical demographic studies for Paleo-Babylonian Mesopotamia. But a few texts provide interesting data. We'll be looking at the composition of households and the role played by …

Abstract Virtually absent from official historiography, the memory of women is preserved in individual biographies, religious practices and folklore. The lecture analyzes the crumbs of history (up to the 10th century) gathered from these different …

Abstract The debate on the role of stochasticity is central to evolutionary biology, often summarized by the question of whether evolution is predictable or repeatable. Yet this " repeatability " or parallel evolution has been used as " evidence " of …

Many phenomena involving living organisms have multifactorial causes. Evolution rarely takes the shortest route. Documents and media Download …