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Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Robinia viscosa Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.
No full text69. Robinia viscosa Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.: tab. 4. 1800. Lectotypus (designated here): [UNITED STATES]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. (G [G00341607]!; isolecto-: P-JU n° 15222 [P00667174]!). Notes. – Two gatherings are present in Ventenat’s herbarium: the collection from Michaux and a cultivated specimen from Cels’s garden. We designate the cultivated specimen as the lectotype because it is a more complete collection with a complete inflorescence. An isolectotype from Cels’s garden has been located in P-JU. Michaux’s collection from South Carolina (“ Caroline méridionale”) is considered as an element of original material (G [G00341606], G-DC [G00478142]!, P [P02924476], P-MICH [P00667178]).Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on pages 114-116, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Ionidium strictum Vent., Jard. Malmaison
No full text35. Ionidium strictum Vent., Jard. Malmaison 1: sub tab. 27. 1803. Ξ Viola stricta (Vent.) Poir. Lectotypus (designated here): D OMINICAN REPUBLIC / HAITI: “ St. Domingo ”, Poiteau s.n. (P-JU n° 12799 [P00672092]!; isolecto-: G-DC [G00209948]!, P-JU n° 12799 [P00672093]!). Notes. – No collection has been located at G. Two collections have been located at P-JU and one at G-DC. The more complete collection at P-JU is designated here as the lectotype and the remaining collections are considered as isolectotypes.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Echium thyrsoideum Vent., Jard. Malmaison
No full text25. Echium thyrsoideum Juss. ex Vent., Jard. Malmaison 2: sub tab. 97. 1805. Lectotypus (designated here): EUROPE: Anon. s.n. (P-JU n° 6609 [P00667187]!). = Echium maculatum L. Notes. – Ventenat clearly referred to a plant that was communicated to him by Jussieu. No material was found at G and the collection in the P-JU herbarium is designated here as the lectotype.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 104, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Nemesia linearis Vent., Jard. Malmaison
No full text50. Nemesia linearis Vent., Jard. Malmaison 1: sub tab. 41. 1804. Lectotypus (designated here): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape, Sonnerat s.n. (P-JU n° 6170 [P00667181]!). Notes. – No specimen has been located at G. Ventenat clearly referred to Jussieu’s herbarium (“ex Juss.”) and the only specimen located for this species in P-JU is here designated as the lectotype.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Oliveria decumbens Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.
No full text54. Oliveria decumbens Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.: tab. 21. 1801. Lectotypus (designated here): [IRAQ]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. (G [G00341532]!; isolecto-: G [G00341531]!, P-JU n° 10396 [P00667197]!). Notes. – Two gatherings have been located. The original material cultivated in Cels’s garden in Ventenat’s herbarium with a duplicate in P-JU and two specimens from Iraq collected by Bruguière and Olivier in G-DC [G00664660, G00664720]. The better preserved Cels’s garden collection in Ventenat’s herbarium is here designated as the lectotype.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Measurement of the D+/- production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
No full textThe asymmetry in the production cross-section \sigma of D+/- mesons, A_P = (\sigma(D+) - \sigma(D-))/(\sigma(D+) + \sigma(D-)), is measured in bins of pseudorapidity \eta and transverse momentum p_T within the acceptance of the LHCb detector. The result is obtained with a sample of D+ -> K_S pi+ decays corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb^-1, collected in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. When integrated over the kinematic range 2.0 K_S pi+ decay is negligible. No significant dependence on \eta or p_T is observed
Turpinia paniculata Vent.
No full text84. Turpinia paniculata Vent. in Mém. Cl. Sci. Math. Inst. Natl. France 8: 6. 1807 [cited in Choix Pl.: tab. 31. 1807]. Lectotypus (designated here): DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / HAITI: “St. Domingo”, Poiteau s.n. (G [G00341609]!; isolecto-: G [G00341668, G00341670, G00341678]!, G-DC [G00458760]!, P-JU n° 16024 [P00678736]!). = Turpinia occidentalis (Sw.) G. Don Notes. – Several specimens of a single gathering have been located. A fragment of the Poiteau s.n. collection is in G-DC with the mention “ M. B. Delessert 1816” and is here considered to have been previously part of Ventenat’s herbarium (see introduction). The single collection in Ventenat’s herbarium is designated here as the lectotype.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Observations of Bºs→ψ(2S)η and Bº(s)→ψ(2S)π+π- decays
No full textFirst observations of the B0s
→ψ(2S)η, B0 →ψ(2S)π
+
π
− and B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
− decays are made
using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in
proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of
√
s = 7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions
of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)η)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψη)
= 0.83± 0.14 (stat)±0.12 (syst) ±0.02 (B),
;
B(B0→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.56± 0.07 (stat)±0.05 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
;
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.34± 0.04 (stat)±0.03 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
where the third uncertainty corresponds to the uncertainties of the dilepton branching fractions of the J/ψ
and ψ(2S) meson decays
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