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A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. …

Works cited Bronislaw Geremek, "L'exemplum et la circulation de la culture au Moyen Âge", Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge, Temps modernes , vol. 92, no. 1 (1980) pp. 153-179. James L. Watson & Evelyn S. Rawski, eds, Death Ritual in Late …

One of the signs announcing Emperor Otto's imminent death in 69 was this sacrifice to Dis Pater, during which the signs presented by the victim proved favorable. As Suetonius points out (Otto , 8, 6), "in such a sacrifice, a contrary fressure is of …

The ocean protects us, but it's under threat. The ocean is a source of potential innovations for human health; the richness and diversity of ocean microbiota must be inventoried. Through the presence of cyanobacteria and protists such as diatoms, the …

After presenting the major role of iron and its oxides in (bio)geochemistry and the environment, and in particular their involvement in numerous biological processes, we briefly discussed the processes by which iron oxides are formed in natural …

Louis Pasteur believed that life without microbes would be impossible. In the decades that followed, gnotoxenia, the science of life in a sterile or microbiologically controlled environment, was born, demonstrating that germ-free (axenic) life, contrary …

Over the past few decades, multilingualism has been attracting increasing attention from society, linguists and historians alike. Its resonance in our societies is rooted in various macro-social causes : mass emigration has made us ever more attentive to …

Tombereaux de boue" are vehicles loaded with garbage, and "boue" is a mixture of filth kneaded with earth and water, found in both Jonathan Swift and Marcel Proust. The "décrotteurs" are often depicted (Carle Vernet, Louis Boilly), and Mercier devotes a …

Do the brain circuits involved in syntactic processing form a " module " in the sense of Fodor (1983) ? They undoubtedly meet several modularity criteria. Not only is their neural architecture fixed and reproducible from one individual to another , but …

Abstract Roger Balian recalled how the transition from the full density operator to a reduced density operator leads to an entropy that increases in the course of time. By choosing increasingly precise reduced density operators, he showed that we end up …

Abstract The second lecture tried to show how, starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics, one can end up with a Markovian dynamics, by partitioning the phase space into cells and approximating the Hamiltonian dynamics by jump probabilities between …

Abstract One of the major current problems in black hole demography is to understand the feedback phenomena of AGNs. Throughout the Universe, the history of star formation parallels the growth of black hole mass. Is this a problem of simultaneous feeding, …

The first hour was devoted to a general introduction focusing on the notions of contagion and compassion, presented in Problemata VII, 7 by the pseudo-Aristotle, and on the formulation of the "Aristotelian" problem of the "synalgia" or "sharing" of …

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