269 research outputs found
L'Ici de l'Ailleurs et le Nous de Là-bas: La description du Japon de Luis Frois à Roland Barthes
No full textIl existe dans la tradition de la relation du Japon une remarquable continuité : inaugurée par les lettres que Luis Frois envoyait du Japon à ses supérieurs hiérarchiques de 1570 à 1590, une tradition du rapport antipodique s’est installée en perdurant jusqu’à nos jours, et que Roland Barthes illustre de manière exemplaire, quatre siècles après Frois. Il serait même possible de dire que cette tradition s’organise autour d’un trope, d’un exercice littéraire rigoureux sur le mode de “l’Ici de l’Ailleurs” par opposition au “Nous de Là-bas”. En effet, alors que Frois, humble et attentif, acteur minutieux de la Renaissance, offre à lire une revue systématique du contraste nippo-européen, Barthes, las des abus de la “sémiocratie occidentale”, se délecte d’une vacance exquise au milieu de signes qui parlent tout en disant le moins. Cet antipodisme radical, ce culte ensorcelant du topsy turvy (B. H. Chamberlain), ne cesse de produire des textes déchiffrant la figure présumée de l’envers, toujours énigmatique, toujours déconcertante. En fin de parcours, ce sont les contours de l’oikuméné – ce monde quitté par le visiteur même, qui sont délibérément épaissis et valorisés, dans une volonté programmatique, comme s’il en fallait souligner la vacuité.
There exists in the relation of Japan, in all the various accounts that this country has long elicited, a remarkable continuity: unveiled with the letters written by Luis Frois to his superiors from 1570 to 1590, a tradition of antipodal report was installed and has lived on until today; Roland Barthes’ L’Empire des Signes (1970) illustrates this in an exemplary manner, four centuries after Frois. This tradition appears to revolve around a particular trope, through a rigorous literary exercise by which 'Here of Elsewhere' opposes to 'We from Yonder'. While Frois, humble and attentive, unequivocal temperament of the Renaissance, offers to read a methodical review of the Japanese-European contrast, Barthes, weary of all the abuse of 'Western sémiocratie', appears to take relish in an exquisite vacation amidst signs that speak while saying the least. This radical antipodism, this bewitching worship of the “topsy turvy” (B.H. Chamberlain), continue to pollinate texts that decipher the alleged figure of the reverse
, always enigmatic and disconcerting. In the end, it is the contours of the Oikumene - this world left behind by the visitor - that are deliberately thickened and valued in a programmed design, as if its emptiness had to be underscored
THE LONG-RUN DETERMINANTS OF INVESTMENT: A DYNAMIC APPROACH FOR THE FUTURE ECONOMIC POLICIES
No full textInvestment is the sum of the purchases on newly produced capital, changes in business inventories referred to as inventory investment, and the purchases of new residential housing. The work covered by this study aims to identify the model that presents, in the best possible way, the method of investment’s calculation and to determine the factors of influence. In the first part, the investment is analyzed as a linear function dependent on the interest rate; and the second part implies a new model for determining long-term investments, but also an identification of the measures that would lead to increased investments.investment, interest rate, tax rate, fiscal policy
A Fabry--Pérot cavity for Compton polarimetry
No full textA new kind of Compton polarimeter using a resonant Fabry - Pérot cavity as a power buildup for the photon beam is proposed. A prototype of such a cavity is described, along with the results obtained in terms of source to be used in a Compton scattering polarimeter. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
An algorithmic method for functionally defining regions of interest in the ventral visual pathway
No full textIn a widely used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analysis method, functional regions of interest (fROIs) are handpicked in each participant using macroanatomic landmarks as guides, and the response of these regions to new conditions is then measured. A key limitation of this standard handpicked fROI method is the subjectivity of decisions about which clusters of activated voxels should be treated as the particular fROI in question in each subject. Here we apply the Group-Constrained Subject-Specific (GSS) method for defining fROIs, recently developed for identifying language fROIs (Fedorenko et al., 2010), to algorithmically identify fourteen well-studied category-selective regions of the ventral visual pathway (Kanwisher, 2010). We show that this method retains the benefit of defining fROIs in individual subjects without the subjectivity inherent in the traditional handpicked fROI approach. The tools necessary for using this method are available on our website (http://web.mit.edu/bcs/nklab/GSS.shtml).Ellison Medical Foundatio
Many-body theory of electron-nucleus scattering: nuclear matter
No full textTo appear as a chapter in the book Modern Topics in Electron-Scattering edited by B-Frois and I.SickSIGLEITItal
Genomes of marine cyanopodoviruses reveal multiple origins of diversity
No full textThe marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are highly abundant in the global oceans, as are the cyanophage with which they co-evolve. While genomic analyses have been relatively extensive for cyanomyoviruses, only three cyanopodoviruses isolated on marine cyanobacteria have been sequenced. Here we present nine new cyanopodovirus genomes, and analyse them in the context of the broader group. The genomes range from 42.2 to 47.7 kb, with G+C contents consistent with those of their hosts. They share 12 core genes, and the pan-genome is not close to being fully sampled. The genomes contain three variable island regions, with the most hypervariable genes concentrated at one end of the genome. Concatenated core-gene phylogeny clusters all but one of the phage into three distinct groups (MPP-A and two discrete clades within MPP-B). The outlier, P-RSP2, has the smallest genome and lacks RNA polymerase, a hallmark of the Autographivirinae subfamily. The phage in group MPP-B contain photosynthesis and carbon metabolism associated genes, while group MPP-A and the outlier P-RSP2 do not, suggesting different constraints on their lytic cycles. Four of the phage encode integrases and three have a host integration signature. Metagenomic analyses reveal that cyanopodoviruses may be more abundant in the oceans than previously thought.National Science Foundation (U.S.). Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (Grant OCE-042560)National Science Foundation (U.S.). Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (Grant EF 0424599
Estudo da estabilidade da linamarase de manihot esculenta crantz sob armazenamento.
No full textA linamarase é uma β-glicosidase que pode ser obtida, dentre outras fontes, da mandioca. Ela é responsável pela hidrólise dos glicosídeos cianogênicos linamarina e lotaustralina, que se supõe estão envolvidos em processos de defesa da planta
La Rente
No full textContributions to rent theory in a Sraffian approach.Papers by G. Abraham-Frois, A. d'Agata, E. Berrebi, C. Bidard, J.-P. Butault, A. Delarue, J.-P. Guichard, A. Jeanclaude, A.M. Nassisi, N. Salvadori, P. Saucier, B. Schefold, A. Soubeyran
N170 ERP responses over PO7 and PO8 scalp sites are shown as a function of eye-gaze landing positions on face stimuli.
No full text<p>(<b>a.</b>) N170 responses recorded at fixated face regions of interest (fROIs) in upright and inverted face images. (<b>b.</b>) N170 responses elicited by fixated face regions along the vertical meridian (upper in green, middle in red, and lower in blue) in upright and inverted face images. (<b>c.</b>) N170 responses elicited by fixated face regions along the horizontal meridian (left and right visual fields).</p
Diffractive Physics at HERA
No full textComptes-rendus du “International Nuclear Physics Conference 1998 (INPC98)”, 24–28 August 1998, UNESCO, Paris, France, eds. B. Frois, D. Goutte and D. Guillemaud-Muellerhep-ph/9903241info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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