282 research outputs found
What language are you speaking? Why patient communication is a patient safety issue-9/10/2008
No full textMario Moussa of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR) and co-author of the book, The Art of Woo, presents a framework for exploring communication styles within health care settings. Dr. Moussa provides specific examples illustrating common mixed messages that occur between clinicians
Hello, do you hear me? Debating the poetics and noetics of orature. A comment to Ali Moussa Iye
No full textIn this article, the author comments on Ali Moussa Iye theory about Somalis relationship with orality and writing.Qoraagu wuxuu maqaalkaan ka faalloonayaa fikraddii Cali Muuse Ciye oo ku saabsan xiriirka ay Soomaalidu la leedahay hidde-afeedka iyo qoraalka.In questo articolo, l'autore commenta la teoria di Ali Mousse Iye relativa al rapporto dei somali con l'oralità e la scrittura.M.S. Lilius (ed.
Les tyrans ne sont pas invincibles : la quête de la liberté dans les romans pour la jeunesse de Moussa Konaté
No full textDans la trilogie Kanuden, destinée aux jeunes lecteurs, Moussa Konaté décrit le valeureux combat du personnage juvénile éponyme contre les tyrans qui règnent sur l’humanité. Sa victoire consacre l’avènement d’un monde nouveau, celui de la liberté et de la justice. Cette oeuvre de l’auteur malien dévoile ainsi une nouvelle dimension du roman politique africain qui trouve son expression dans la construction des utopies possibles. En abordant la violence, thème délicat en littérature de jeunesse, Moussa Konaté emprunte le chemin de l’allégorie par le biais du fantastique, mais articule aussi des réflexions sur le pouvoir, le désir de puissance et le mal politique.In the Kanuden trilogy, aimed at young readers, Moussa Konaté describes the valiant struggle of the eponymous young hero against the tyrants who rule over humanity. His victory marks the arrival of a new world, one of freedom and justice. This work by the Malian author thus reveals a new dimension of the African political novel which finds its expression in the construction of possible utopias. By tackling violence, a sensitive theme in children’s literature, Moussa Konaté takes the path of allegory through fantasy, but also articulates reflections on power, the desire for power, and political evil
Reply to "Comments on 'Experimental Measurement of Vapor Pressures and Densities at Saturation of Pure Hexafluoropropylene Oxide: Modeling Using a Crossover Equation of State'"
No full textEn référence à 1) Comments on "Experimental Measurement of Vapor Pressures and Densities at Saturation of Pure Hexafluoropropylene Oxide: Modeling Using a Crossover Equation of State" Author(s): Laugier, Serge; Richon, Dominique Source: INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH Volume: 50 Issue: 15 Special Issue: SI Pages: 9473-9475 DOI: 10.1021/ie2011559 Published: AUG 3 2011 2) Experimental Measurement of Vapor Pressures and Densities at Saturation of Pure Hexafluoropropylene Oxide: Modeling Using a Crossover Equation of State Author(s): Dicko, Moussa; Belaribi-Boukais, Ghemina; Coquelet, Christophe; Valtz, Alain; Belaribi, Farid Brahim; Naidoo, Paramespri; Ramjugernath, Deresh Source: INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH Volume: 50 Issue: 8 Pages: 4761-4768 DOI: 10.1021/ie102354p Published: APR 20 2011International audienc
Kanuden et le commissaire Habib : deux héros emblématiques de l’oeuvre de Moussa Konaté ?
No full textMoussa Konaté est un auteur qui fait voyager ses lecteurs d’un genre à l’autre, d’un univers à l’autre, et dont l’oeuvre semble placée sous le signe de la variété. Quoi de commun entre la trilogie pour enfants Kanuden et « Les enquêtes du commissaire Habib » ? Le destinataire, les intentions esthétiques, tout semble a priori différer. Pourtant, un fil conducteur relie les deux héros : tous deux sont porteurs d’une vision de la société et d’une idéologie qui sont propres à leur auteur. En rapprochant ces deux figures de l’oeuvre de Moussa Konaté, on comprend en quoi son oeuvre, par-delà sa diversité générique, tend vers un même objectif : être un miroir des sociétés noires africaines en portant les problématiques qui sont les leurs et en réfléchissant sur leur singularité, leur richesse mais aussi leurs blocages et leur rapport complexe à l’Occident. De la fantasy au roman policier, les mêmes thèmes se retrouvent : le pouvoir, la soumission, la révolte, mais aussi les croyances, les traditions et la superstition. Les héros, à l’image de leur créateur, sont en perpétuelle recherche d’un équilibre entre la fidélité à une culture et le refus de se laisser emprisonner par elle.Moussa Konaté is an author who takes his readers on a journey from one genre to another, from one universe to another, and whose work seems to be characterized by variety. What do the Kanuden trilogy for children and « Les enquêtes du commissaire Habib » (« The investigations of detective Habib ») have in common ? The addressee, the aesthetic intentions, everything seems a priori different. However, a common thread links the two heroes : both carry a vision of society and an ideology specific to their author. Comparing these two figures in Moussa Konaté’s work enables us to understand how his work, beyond its generic diversity, aims toward the same goal : being a mirror of black African societies by addressing their own issues and reflecting on their own singularity, their richness, but also their mental blocks and complex relationship with the West. From fantasy to detective novels, the same themes are found : power, submission, revolt, but also beliefs, traditions and superstition. The heroes, like their creator, are constantly searching for balance between loyalty to a culture and the refusal to be imprisoned by it
Le Bédouin, le voyageur et le philosophe
No full textSarga Moussa : The Bedouin, the traveller and the philosopher.
In the 18th Century a new image of the Bedouin appears in French literature, in both travel accounts and works with anthropological or encyclopaedic ambitions. The nomadic Arabs, previously presented as frightening bloodthirsty beings, now more and more appear as free, hospitable people, living in the simple style of the ancient patriarchs. The first traces of this change, which is linked to the réévaluation of Islam in the early Enlightenment, can be found in d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale (1697), d'Arvieux's Journey to Palestine (1717) or Boulan-villiers Life of Mohamed (1730). This image is, however, ambivalent and Turpin, the author of the article Arabes in the 1776 Supplement to the Encyclopédie, alternates beteween Rousseauistic praise for a people with 'natural' virtues and criticism of a society which tolerates stealing. It is this paradox which makes it possible, in the Romantic period, to project onto the Bedouin values like generosity and revolt, thus allowing a new reflection on humans as double beings.Moussa Sarga. Le Bédouin, le voyageur et le philosophe. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°28, 1996. L'Orient. pp. 141-158
On the use of the diffusive wave for modelling extreme flood events with overbank flow in the floodplain
No full textCorresponding author. fax: +33 4 67 63 26 14. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Moussa).International audienceCatastrophic flood events are frequently chosen as reference events, for modelling the impact of scenarios of river bank remediation to prevent inundations. However, these rare events are poorly understood due to the poor hydrological knowledge available, and due to the lack of data. A model for routing flood events adapted to the few available data during historical extreme events was developed. The model subdivides the floodplain into cells linked to the main channel, and the diffusive wave model with overbank flow was used to route floods in the main channel and through the inundation floodplain. The linearized equations are resolved by an implicit numerical scheme to ensure stability and convergence. The flood event of October 1958 on the Herault river, which caused one of the largest inundations Southern France during the XXth century, was studied as the application case. As input data, the model requires a Digital Elevation Model, geographical map and cross sections in order to subdivide the channel network into cells. The model parameters are the Manning roughness coefficients in the main channel and in the floodplain. The model was applied to simulate the flood event of 1958, and was validated on other flood events under similar hydro-meteorological conditions. Then, the model was applied to quantify the impact of scenarios of river bank remediation. Fourteen scenarios of construction of dams, embankments, or coupling both dams and embankments, were modelled. The model simulates hydrographs in the main channel, the water depth, the area and the volume on both right and left banks of the floodplain cells. Results show that the model developed herein, with relatively little hydraulic modelling, is well adapted to simulate extreme flood events, and is useful for environmental managers to study the impact of river bank remediation on inundation
Enantiopure Ibuprofen - Sample 3 NanED, Data ESR1 & ESR2
No full textGeneral Information
Project
NanED (www.naned.eu)
ESR Project
ESR1 & ESR2
Instrumental
Instrument
Zeiss Libra 120
Radiation source
LaB6
Accelerating voltage
120 kV
Wavelength
0.0335 Å
Probe Type
Nanodiffraction
Beam Diameter
600 nm
Beam Convergence
Parallel beam
Detector
Timepix Single Electron Detector
Number of pixels in the image
512 x 512
Physical pixel size
55 µm * 55 µm
Effective camera length
180 mm
Calibration constant
0.004815 Å-1/pixel
Sample description
Name
Ibuprofen
Chemical composition
C13H18O2
Sample source
Thermo Scientific (catalog. No: 333200050, lot: A0424385)
Sample preparation
Crushed between two glass slides
Experimental
Data type
3D Electron Diffraction (3D-ED)
Data collection method
Continuous Rotation Electron Diffraction (CRED)
Rotation Speed
1.125 º/s
Temperature
95.15 K
Number of crystals contributing to the dataset
1
Number of experimental frames
226
Tilt range, tilt step
-60º to +55, 0.5º
Exposure time per frame
450 ms
Software
Software used for data collection
WinTEM (Zeiss), Digistar (NanoMEGAS) and Sophy (Software for Physics)
Software used for processing
Pets2
Software used for solution
Shelxt
Software used for refinement
Jana, Olex2
Authorship and bibliography
Author(s) of the data
Moussa Diame FAYE (ESR1) & Vincentia Emerson Agbemeh (ESR2)
Related data
Publication(s)
Precession:
General Information
Project
NanED (www.naned.eu)
ESR Project
ESR1 & ESR2
Instrumental
Instrument
Zeiss Libra 120
Radiation source
LaB6
Accelerating voltage
120 kV
Wavelength
0.0335 Å
Probe Type
Nanodiffraction
Beam Diameter
150 nm
Beam Convergence
Parallel beam
Detector
Timepix Single Electron Detector
Number of pixels in the image
512 x 512
Physical pixel size
55 µm * 55 µm
Effective camera length
180 mm
Calibration constant
0.004815 Å-1/pixel
Sample description
Name
Ibuprofen
Chemical composition
C13H18O2
Sample source
Thermo Scientific (catalog. No: 333200050, lot: A0424385)
Sample preparation
Crushed between two glass slides
Experimental
Data type
3D Electron Diffraction (3D-ED)
Data collection method
Precession
Precession Semiangle
1º
Temperature
95.15 K
Number of crystals contributing to the dataset
1
Number of experimental frames
104
Tilt range, tilt step
-60 to +55, 1º
Exposure time per frame
1000 ms
Software
Software used for data collection
WinTEM (Zeiss), Digistar (NanoMEGAS) and Sophy (Software for Physics)
Software used for processing
PETS2
Software used for solution
Shelxt
Software used for refinement
Jana
Authorship and bibliography
Author(s) of the data
Moussa Diame FAYE (ESR1) & Vincentia Emerson Agbemeh (ESR2)
Related data
Publication(s
A liminal staging of pan-Africanism: Shifts in messages on migration from Abasse Ndione’s<i>Mbëkë mi</i>to Moussa Touré’s<i>La Pirogue</i>
No full textThis article examines the adaptation from book to film of a recent Senegalese tale of clandestine migration by boat. Abasse Ndione’s Mbëkë mi (2008) foregrounds the motivations for migration for Senegalese youth and provokes readers’ sympathy for its migrating characters. It uses a heteroglossic lexicon which is nevertheless anchored in the French language on which the author must rely in order to publish his message. Moussa Touré’s film La Pirogue, by contrast, although sponsored by agents promoting francophonie, includes French and African languages in equal measure. This article examines the ethnic, religious and linguistic differences that the film points up as it represents contemporary migration.</jats:p
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
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