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Contractualizing environmental protection. Public and private international law perspectives in Azerbaijan’s post-conflict reconstruction
No full textMultiple environmental damages have been committed by belligerents and by private companies operating under their sovereignty during the thirty-year long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in South Caucasus. Markedly, this paper will provide an overview of illicit activities having caused severe harm to the natural environment of Azerbaijan, with the aim of exploring legal and governance solutions to be applied in the post-conflict reconstruction phase, and specifically for the recovery of the damaged areas. More precisely, the ultimate intention of this work is proposing a contractual approach to environmental protection, namely the incorporation of environmental protection clauses within contracts concluded between government agencies and foreign corporations. Considering this, the contractualization approach is intended to be applicable both to corporate activities and during the reconstruction of the conflict-affected areas of Azerbaijan. Hence, the adoption of a contractual approach to environmental protection will be considered in the field of mineral resource extraction; reconstruction of infrastructure and transportation lines; and eventually foreign investments. According to the author, the contractualization of environmental protection would eventually overcome the drawbacks of international law in the field of corporate environmental accountability and simultaneously be characterized as a viable governance approach to prevent future damage to the natural environment on the part of private companies operating in the territories of Azerbaijan. Ultimately, its successful application in Azerbaijan could galvanize the adoption of the same approach in other wartime corporate environmental harm-affected areas of the world
Observations on the origin, treatment and cure of asiatic cholera and cholera morbus : The result of an experience of forty five years during a residence in Asia, Europe and America
No full textCollection Chagnon
Plan of the Port of Chebucto on the coast of Acadia with neighboring coasts most of which was surveyed by Mr. Chabert with the other extracted from the best plans of the English by order of Mr. Sartine, State Counsellor, Minister and Secretary of State for the Department of the Navy
No full textRelief is shown by hachures. Depth is shown by soundings.Uses Paris prime meridian (2.337° east of Greenwich). The graphic scale bar unit of measure is nautical miles. Rhumb lines are displayed for navigation and geographic north indicated with fleur de lis symbol. The presence of rhumb lines and a right-angled graticule indicates a conformal projection, likely Mercator's, which preserves shape and direction, for the purpose of navigation
Influence of parameters controlling the extrusion step in fused filament fabrication (FFF) process applied to polymers using numerical simulation
No full textA Plurilingual Approach To Elt In Primary School: Towards An Ecological Perspective
No full textThis paper aims to demonstrate that using a plurilingual and ecological approach to English language teaching can achieve better results in primary school independently of the mother tongue of the student. This article is based on the initial results of our international research carried out in three very different countries (Norway, China and Spain). While the author´s research project involves 328 participants, we will present the results of the first phase of the experiment, including 133 students. In this paper, we propose a plurilingual communicative approach to English teaching as a foreign language, making a distinction between languages for communication and languages for identification. This research examines the current teaching policies in the participating countries, and analyses cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives in English language teaching while promoting the positive use of the mother tongue as a connecting tool in the students’ communication system. The subjects of this study were divided in control and experimental groups, in which they received traditional and plurilingual approach respectively. After the classes they completed a test and were then supplied with a Likert scale questionnaire focused on understanding their attitude and motivation towards mother tongue and English language learning. Based on observation and results obtained, we can conclude that a plurilingual approach that uses L1 as a tool in English teaching improves English learning, as well as develops an ecological understanding of languages.Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjama, kaip daugiakalbis ir ekologinis anglų kalbos mokymo metodas padeda pasiekti geresnius rezultatus pradinėje mokykloje, nepriklausomai nuo mokinio gimtosios kalbos. Straipsnis paremtas pirminiais tarptautinio tyrimo, atlikto trijose labai skirtingose šalyse (Norvegijoje, Kinijoje ir Ispanijoje), rezultatais. Nors tyrimo projekte dalyvavo 328 dalyviai, straipsnyje aptariami 133 mokinių pirmojo eksperimento etapo rezultatai. Straipsnyje aprašomas daugiakalbis komunikacinis anglų kaip užsienio kalbos mokymo metodas, atskiriant kalbą komunikacijai ir kalbą identitetui išreikšti. Tyrime nagrinėjama dabartinė mokymo politika tiriamose šalyse ir analizuojamos tarpkultūrinės ir lingvistinės perspektyvos anglų kalbos mokyme, kartu skatinant teigiamą gimtosios kalbos vartojimą kaip jungiamąją priemonę komunikacinėje sistemoje. Tyrimo dalyviai buvo suskirstyti į kontrolinę ir eksperimentinę grupes, kuriose buvo taikomi tiek tradiciniai, tiek daugiakalbiai mokymo metodai. Po kursų buvo laikomas testas ir pildomas Likerto skalės klausimynas, kurio tikslas buvo atskleisti dalyvių požiūrį į gimtąją ir anglų kalbas bei motyvaciją jas mokytis. Remiantis stebėjimais ir gautais rezultatais galima teigti, jog daugiakalbis metodas, kuriame gimtoji kalba yra naudojama kaip įrankis anglų kalbos mokyme, pagerina anglų kalbos žinias ir išvysto ekologinį kalbų supratimą
L’éphémère et les secondes vies des objets du carnaval
No full textLe carnaval de Nice est aujourd’hui l’un des carnavals les plus célèbres au monde. Au sein de cette festivité, les défilés de chars et de grosses têtes, accompagnés de troupes, s’imposent comme les événements phares. Chaque année, la thématique du carnaval change, ce qui implique de détruire les créations des défilés pour en refaire de nouvelles. Il s’agit donc d’œuvres éphémères. Cette configuration amène les fabricants à endosser le rôle de créateur-destructeur. L’éphémère est vécu en tant que réalité intrinsèque au carnaval, incarnant son cycle. Il peut aussi être loué comme une source de stimulation créative liée à la joie de créer et recréer, mais il peut, dans d’autres cas, générer de la tristesse et un sentiment d’injustice. Si la plupart des objets carnavalesques sont donc démontés et détruits, certains d’entre eux peuvent néanmoins connaître une autre destinée. Des sculptures de chars, des grosses têtes sont revendues, données, réutilisées à des fins décoratives et commerciales, ou encore exportées, mais également patrimonialisées, muséifiées. En reprenant le concept de biographie d’objets, l’auteur propose de mettre en lumière les trajectoires de ces objets festifs. Leurs réemplois et les usages qui en découlent reflètent les grandes dynamiques qui traversent ce carnaval urbain.The Nice Carnival is currently one of the most famous carnivals in the world. During these festivities, the procession of carts and “big heads”, along with companies, are key features of the event. Each year, the theme of the carnival changes, which implies the destruction of the works created for the previous processions, so as to build new ones. They are thus short-lived pieces of art. This leads the builders to be both creators and destroyers. The ephemeral aspect is experienced as an inherent reality of the carnival, an embodiment of its cyclical nature. It may also be praised as a source of creative stimulation, connected to the pleasure of creating and creating again, but it can be a source of sadness and feeling of injustice. While most of the objects of the carnival are dismantled and destroyed, some of them are likely to have another fate. The sculptures of carts or the “big heads” can be sold, given or reused with commercial or ornamental aims or even exported abroad, but also declared a part of heritage and sent to museums. By working on this concept of biographies of objects, the author offers to shed light on the future of these festive works. Their consequent reuse and the purposes of such mirror the large dynamics at work in this urban carnival
Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
No full textWe give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface Qⁿ of dimension n≥3, and its twistor space PT, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of Qⁿ. Viewing complex Euclidean space CEⁿ as a dense open subset of Qⁿ, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on CEⁿ can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of PT. The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.The author would like to thank Boris Doubrov, Lionel Mason and Jan Slov´ak for helpful discussions
and comments, and the anonymous referees for their reports. He is also grateful to Lukas
Vokrınek and Andreas Cap for clarifying some aspects of Section 2.5. This work was funded by
a GACR (Czech Science Foundation) post-doctoral grant GP14-27885P
L’écran au pluriel
No full textQuelles sont les spécificités des écrans en termes d’interactions aux images et surtout d’interactions des spectateurs aux spectateurs à travers les écrans ? Pour répondre à ces questions, en particulier celle du rapport à l’autre autour de l’écran mobile connecté, l’auteur choisit de mobiliser une approche interdisciplinaire et multi sensorielle. Pour appréhender l’objet sensible qu’est l’écran mobile, des méthodes relevant de l’anthropologie visuelle et des Space Studies sont en effet associées. La chercheuse montre alors que les interactions des individus autour des écrans mobiles sont aussi dépendantes du contexte de la réception, de la scénographie des dispositifs que de l’expérience “spatio-sensorielle” qu’elles suscitent. Et que ce n’est qu’à ces conditions qu’il est possible de s’emparer de la pluralité de l’écran contemporain, en particulier mobile.What are the features of the screens as interacting with images and above all with other spectators are concerned ? Here the author develops a multimodal and multisensorial approach to analyse the mobile screen as a sensitive object. She mobilizes Visual Anthropology and Space Studies to understand people’s interactions ‘through’ but also ‘among’ the screens. She stresses that such interactions depends as much on the context of the reception, on the narratives and scenography of the devices as on the corporeal and ‘spatio-sensorial’ experience it arouses. She highlights also that this is only in those conditions that it’s possible to approach the plurality of the contemporary screen, in particular mobile
Une lignée d'apothicaires et de pharmaciens languedociens : les Audouard, d'Agde, Béziers et Castres
No full textEin Apotheker- und Pharmazeutengeschlecht aus Languedoc : die Audouard, aus Agde, Béziers und Castres.
Die aus Agde stammende Familie Audouard schwärmte nach Béziers und Castres aus ; deren ausgeprägteste Figur ist Maxence Audouard (1776-1856), Apotheker, dann Militärarzt, kurz berühmt 1821 wegen seiner Sendung nach Barcelona, anlässlich der Gelbfieberseuche. Während des 18. und 19. Jts zählte die Familie Audouard ein Dutzend Apotheker und Pharmazeuten in Ihren Reihen, and deren Studien und Berufsausübungen der Autor erinnert ; zahlreich sind noch ihre Mitglieder in den Heilberufen.A line of apothecaries and pharmacists from Languedoc : the Audouard family from Agde, Béziers and Castres.
The Audouard family, originally from Agde, emigrated to Béziers and to Castres ; the most memorable figure among them was Maxence Audouard (1776-1856), pharmacist and later military physician, distinguished by his mission to Barcelona during the yellow fever epidemic of 1821. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Audouard family counted among its ranks a dozen or so apothecaries and pharmacists ; the author discusses the circumstances of their studies and practice ; numerous members of the family are still in the health professions.Chabert Pierre. Une lignée d'apothicaires et de pharmaciens languedociens : les Audouard, d'Agde, Béziers et Castres. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 68ᵉ année, n°246, 1980. pp. 175-188
Toward improvement of the properties of parts manufactured by FFF (fused filament fabrication) through understanding the influence of temperature and rheological behaviour on the coalescence phenomenon
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