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Abstract Dogs were once wild wolves who came closer to humans to take advantage of the benefits of living in a community. This natural selection led to the creation of domestic dogs over 15 000 years ago. Over the millennia, humans have selected those …

Abstract Some of the most extreme environments in which humans are found include the cold, barren climates of the Arctic, the hot, humid regions of tropical forests, and life at high altitude, whether in the Himalayas or the Andes, where the amount of …

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Abstract Gn   4 describes humanity's first murder, that of Abel by his own brother Cain. Where does human violence come from, and how can it be curbed  ? Documents and media Download …

Abstract This lecture will explore a simple question: Does the historical human experience of climate change since the last Ice Age matter to us now as we confront the very pressing problems raised by an unprecedented rate of change in a rapidly warming …

Abstract The most significant impacts of natural climate in human history have been influenced by human factors. The link between climate and conflict is one of the main possible mechanisms of …

Lecture plan 2.2. Funny lecture rooms ! Or the empire of the school tag (continued) 2.2.2. An open-air classroom ? (continued) …

Abstract Koka is a strict functional language with full algebraic effect handlers and rich effect typing. The Koka compiler also uses compiler guided reference counting and compiles directly to C code without needing a garbage collector or runtime system. …

Abstract Just as mathematical logic provides laws for reasoning about mathematical definitions and statements, a program logic for a programming language provides laws for establishing true properties of all possible executions of a program written in …

Abstract After metaphors, the protagonists of the first   session, it's the body that takes center stage in this lecture. The body acts in at least two   different ways as a matrix for metaphors and other tropes. Many metaphors arise from the fact that …

Abstract From the dolce stil nuovo envisaged as the collective exercise of a poetry of knowledge to the metaphysics of love deployed in the Commedia, Dante never ceased to "   think amorously   ". This conjunction between the experience of love and the …

Abstract Denoising diffusion models have led to impressive generative models in many domains. These algorithms learn from data a probability distribution in high dimension. They invert a stochastic differential which maps the probability distribution to a …

The state of the art for generating complex data such as images, sounds or complex physical fields is the diffusion score algorithm. The score diffusion algorithm samples a probability distribution by transporting white Gaussian noise to the distribution …

Abstract In 1943, the encyclical Divinante Afflante Spiritu marked the abandonment of fundamentalist reading and called for a critical reading of the Bible. From this moment onwards, a reflection on the ways in which the divine word can be interpreted …

Documents and media Download support Abstract With Marcel Proust, a theory and experience of reading become a theory and motor of writing. Such would be the fundamental intuition of his literary system, to use the words of Henri Bergson, according to whom …

Abstract This first lecture will present the historical background to the study of neural activity and experience. It will also present methods for measuring neuronal activity and their recent evolution, which have made it possible to highlight early …