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A good knowledge of cuneiform is required for the seminar. Following a historiographical review of covenant pacts from the Palaeo-Babylonian period, we will systematically examine allusions to the formulation of commitments: deletions or additions of …

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

After studying a few epigraphic funerary poems taken from Virgil, we briefly returned to the question of the meridian in Piazza del Parlamento, Rome, to note that, despite renewed interest in the matter over the past few years [1] , there is nothing to …

Knowledge of ancient Greek is required for the seminar. …

Works cited Lectures et usages de la Grande Étude , edited by Damien Morier-Genoud, Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2015 (diffusion De Boccard, 11 rue de Médicis, 75006 Paris). Martina Deuchler, Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, …

Various organisms possess a genetic program that enables the controlled formation of a mineral. This lecture has been devoted to an analysis of the state of knowledge concerning the biomineralization processes involved in iron oxides contained in …

Bacterial shape is largely dependent on the conformation of the bacterial cytoskeleton, essentially formed by peptidoglycan, one of the preferred targets of antibiotics. The fundamental biology of bacterial shape, thanks to its level of resolution, is …

Is it justified to start talking about a "post-antibiotic period" in view of the threat of long-term loss of activity of these precious molecules, particularly if the discovery of new bactericidal molecules continues to stagnate? What are the options? …

To deal with this subject, we need to define a number of concepts and issue a few methodological warnings. The term "multilingualism" is an ambiguous one, covering two very different notions: 1. Multilingualism at the collective level, which can cover …

Les affreux tonneaux de la voirie" are the carriages used to empty cesspools, often used by Baudelaire. The word voirie has several meanings: the public highway, the administration that maintains it or the places where garbage is stored. Hugo coined the …

What is the anatomical and functional organization of the brain areas involved in representing linguistic structures ? The main brain areas activated during sentence processing are now known : these are the left inferior frontal convolution and a string …

Abstract The third lecture dealt with Jarzinsky's and Crooks' relations and their generalizations. Because of fluctuations on the microscopic scale, the work that has to be done by a system, when exactly the same experimental protocol is repeated, …

The first hour introduced the general theme of the lecture: the articulation of Passion (of Christ) and Passion (human). This was followed by a comparison of philosophical archaeology with two new orientations: Reinhart Koselleck's work on the "Future …

Abstract Given that a supermassive black hole exists in every bulge galaxy, when these interact and coalesce through dynamical friction, the respective black holes are expected to merge, with the temporary formation of a black hole binary. Theoretically, …