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Abstract Philippe Clergeau will present the concept of regenerative urbanism, after recalling the definitions of biodiversity and ecosystems, which are essential to a liveable, sustainable city. Nature-based solutions already permeate architecture, but we …

Abstract Cities are particularly exposed to hydro-climatic hazards, now exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. As both major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerable territories, cities are called upon to be drivers of mitigation and …

Abstract This paper examines the future of cities by shifting the focus to the African continent. The aim is to consider African cities as places for exploring new imaginaries and new ways of inhabiting the world. This reflection comes at a crucial time …

Abstract The second lecture looked at control structures on a larger scale than the commands (statements ) of the first lecture : the scale of mechanisms for breaking programs down into subroutines, procedures, functions and methods. These linguistic …

Abstract When it comes to building, as with energy, the new doesn't make the old disappear. The extraordinary rise of concrete between 1950 and 2000, far from eradicating other building materials, allowed them to grow : glass of course, steel, wood, but …

Abstract New York, the city of exile for the Surrealists and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is the capital of the modern, but also the refuge of the archaic. " Ali Baba's cave ", it provides backdoor exits and an escape from the time of …

Abstract If love is the founding novel of the West, it expresses its political haunts far more than the assurance of its moral edification. This is the case not only in Albert Cohen's Belle du seigneur , but also, thirty   years earlier, in Denis de …

Awards ceremony for the 2023 season's data challenges , with presentation of results by the winners. Access the videos of the 2023 challenges Season 2023 challenge winners Learning radiological anatomy with few shots learning (by Raidium) 1. Jude …

Markov fields make it possible to build data models with many variables and a reduced number of parameters, by imposing that the variables have only local interactions. These are defined on a non-directional graph, such as an image grid. A Markov field …

Abstract In the 17th   century, "   Andromaque   " was used to describe a widow. This meaning, fixed in later texts and in the collective imagination, prevents us from seeing how an author like Racine was able to turn the figure of Andromaque, against the …

Documents and media Download support Abstract In classical antiquity, depictions of children reading are rare, as children were not considered as people in their own right. Indeed, children's reading did not always exist as we know it today. The history …

Abstract Most massive stars live in pairs. Often, since their birth, they have lived close to another star. During their life as a couple, certain events in the life of a star will bring them so close together that they will exchange matter, a phenomenon …

Abstract La Chaumière indienne is a short philosophical tale by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, published in 1791. It depicts the encounter between an English scholar and an Indian outcast, a face-off between the learned culture of the European Enlightenment …

Abstract After a supernova explosion, if the remaining core does not exceed 3 solar masses, it can remain in equilibrium as a neutron star. It is the Pauli pressure of the degenerated neutrons that compensates for gravity. The explosion of the Crab …