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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus which, by infecting CD4 T lymphocytes, is responsible for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), characterized by opportunistic infections, encephalopathy and tumors leading, in the absence of …

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Digital tools today offer interesting "first intention" solutions within the school to support learning to read, particularly for processes such as decoding, whose implementation requires extra time, massive repetition and individualized supervision. …

Recent advances in Experimental Cognitive Psychology have led to the development of simple tests that assess a child's skills and progress in reading and mental arithmetic. Stanislas Dehaene will show how these ideas can be implemented in tablet-based …

We learn with our brains, and what we learn transforms our brains. The period of childhood and adolescence is one of rapid change, due to the heterogeneous and prolonged maturation schedule of different brain regions. Since time immemorial, schools have …

For several decades now, France has been developing standardized assessment systems to measure student achievement against the expectations of the school system. These observation systems are part of the major statistical surveys carried out by the …

This presentation will relate the efforts needed to move from a successful experiment on a medium scale to a policy that can be accepted and adopted on a large scale. The case followed is that of the "right level" teaching approach, which has proved …

Now in its 15th year, PISA assesses 15-year-old students in over 70 countries around the world. The results, published every three years, show the progress made by each country in terms of the quality, equity and efficiency of educational services. They …

Much of what we know about learning mechanisms and teaching approaches is based on small-scale experiments in highly controlled environments. However, their application in everyday classroom life brings into play a whole range of contextual elements: …

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Numerous studies in cognitive science and neuroscience point to capacities underlying mathematics that are present at birth, that function throughout life in all corners of the world, and that are linked to learning mathematics at school. Could these …

Mobilizing the notions of "textual migrations" (Roger Chartier) and "architextuality" (Gérard Genette), borrowing from contemporary critical theory the concept of "novellisation" (Jan Baetens and Matthieu Letourneux) and from medievalists the question of …

Invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Claire Voisin, holder of the Algebraic Geometry Chair. …

Surface plasmons can be understood as light trapped on the surface of a metal by interaction with its free electrons. As a result, the electromagnetic field of the plasmon is intense at the metal surface. Surface plasmons have a number of advantages which …

Invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Claire Voisin, holder of the Algebraic Geometry Chair. …

The interaction between politics and architecture in Germany can be divided into two long sections. The first shows the fairly rapid succession of political regimes between German unity in 1871 and the end of the Cold War, marked by the Wende in …

The main building linked to the economic life of the Nanna sanctuary was the Ganun-mah. It is known both from archaeology and from a large number of written sources: commemorative inscriptions (names of years and royal inscriptions), as well as archival …

Abstract The text of a set of sacred norms recently found in Thessaly and published by J.-C. Decourt and A. Tziaphalias ( Kernos 28 [2015] 13-51) contains a clause mentioning an inscription on the peristyle of the temple (lines B22-23: ἐπιγραφὴ εἰςτὸ …