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Mike Davis, Petite histoire de la voiture piégée
No full textSi les chercheurs en sciences sociales n'ont pas déserté le sujet de la violence politique, ils choisissent d'ordinaire une « entrée » par les hommes plutôt que par les techniques. Ce titre « petite histoire de la voiture piégée » a ainsi beaucoup pour intriguer, si ce n'est choquer. N'y a-t-il pas en effet quelque chose d'indécent dans le projet de retracer l'histoire d'une arme dont la liste des victimes ne cesse de croître quotidiennement ? Ce serait pourtant bien mal connaître Mike Davis..
A toolbox for volumetric visualization of light properties
No full textIn this paper, we introduce a toolbox for the perceptually based visualization of light in a volume, focusing on the visual effects of illumination. First, our visualizations extend the conventional methods from a two-dimensional representation on surfaces to the whole volume of a scene. Second, we extend the conventional methods from showing only light intensity to visualizing three light properties (mean illuminance, primary direction and diffuseness). To make our methods generally available and easily accessible, we provide a web-based tool, to which everybody can upload data, measured by a cubic or simple illuminance meter or even a smartphone-app, and generate a variety of three-dimensional visualizations of the light field. The importance of considering the light field in its full complexity (and thus as a three-dimensional vector field instead of its two-dimensional sections) is widely acknowledged. Our toolbox allows easy access to sophisticated methods for analysing the spatial distribution of light and its primary qualities as well as how they vary throughout space. It is our hope that our results raise interest in ‘third stage’ approaches to lighting research and design, and the toolbox offers a practical solution to this complex problem.Human Information Communication Desig
Characteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.
No full textCharacteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.</p
Alien theory : the decline of materialism in the name of matter
No full textThe thesis tries to define and explain the rudiments of a 'nonphilosophical'
or 'non-decisional' theory of materialism on the basis of a
theoretical framework provided by the 'non-philosophy' of Francois
Laruelle. Neither anti-philosophical nor anti-materialist in character, non-materialism
tries to construct a rigorously transcendental theory of matter by
using certain instances of philosophical materialism as its source material.
The materialist decision to identify the real with matter is seen to retain a
structural isomorphy with the phenomenological decision to identify the real
with the phenomenon. Both decisions are shown to operate on the basis of a
methodological idealism; materialism on account of its confusion of matter
and concept; phenomenology by virtue of its confusion of phenomenon and
logos. By dissolving the respectively 'materiological' and
'phenomenological' amlphibolies which are the result of the failure to effect a
rigorously transcendental separation between matter and concept on the one
hand; and between phenomenon and logos on the other, non-materialist
theory proposes to mobilise the non-hybrid or non-decisional concepts of a
'matter-without-concept' and of a 'phenomenon-without-logos' in order to
effect a unified but non-unitary theory of phenomenology and materialism.
The result is a materialisation of thinking that operates according to matter's
foreclosure to decision. That is to say, a transcendental theory of the
phenomenon that licenses limitless phenomenological plasticity,
unconstrained by the apparatus of eidetic intuition or any horizon of
apophantic disclosure; yet one which is simultaneously a transcendental
theory of matter, uncontaminated by the bounds of empirical perception and
free of all phenomenological circumscription
PAS leert ons dat we strijdige belangen niet kunnen ‘wegpolderen’
No full textTien jaar geleden besloot de Tweede Kamer dat de stikstofuitstoot mocht stijgen als gelijktijdig natuurmaatregelen werden getroffen die later tot minder uitstoot zouden leiden. Diederik Samsom en Ger Koopmans hadden hiertoe een amendement ingediend. Met deze theoretische beleidswerkelijkheid namen ze onbedoeld een hypotheek op de toekomst, betoogt hoogleraar Gebiedsontwikkeling Co Verdaas. Als onderliggende belangen en waarden worden ‘weggepolderd’, betekent dit nog niet dat de strijd gestreden is. De keuzes waar ‘we’ voor staan, moeten alsnog gemaakt worden.Practice Chair Urban Area Developmen
"Coordinating Regional Policy in the EU"
No full text[From the Introduction]. EU regional policy is an instrument to promote development in economically weaker areas of Europe as well as to facilitate integration and ensure the success of the single market (European Commission, 2003). The territorial nature of EU regional policy demands complex coordination among various levels of government as well as across several policy sectors. Coordination, however, is often unsuccessful. Vertical coordination, inherently necessary for regional policy, is often precluded due to power struggles among supranational, national and regional governments. Likewise, conflicting policy goals and competing interests across policy sectors curtails the achievement of cross-sectoral coordination. Challenges to cross-sectoral coordination often arise since regional policy, based upon redistribution and Keynesian economics, has found itself at odds with underlying principles of the EU, namely neo-liberalism and free market competition
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Understanding 1968: the case of Brest
No full textThis article examines the dominance of Paris in how May '68 has been portrayed over the years. It will be argued, through a case-study of the revolt in the Breton city of Brest, that the Paris-centred approach is one that belies the true nationwide aspect of May/June 1968. As one of a range of characteristics, the concentration on the Latin Quarter has helped mould what Kristin Ross has described as the 'official history' of 1968. An examination of how the events were played out within different regional contexts would go a long way towards helping overcome the shortcomings of the increasingly narrow portrayal that has come to dominate the stereotypical image of 1968
Defective interaction between Pol2p and Dpb2p, subunits of DNA polymerase epsilon, contributes to a mutator phenotype in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
No full textMost of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic replicative polymerases are multi-subunit complexes. There are several examples indicating that noncatalytic subunits of DNA polymerases may function as fidelity factors during replication process. In this work, we have further investigated the role of Dpb2p, a noncatalytic subunit of DNA polymerase epsilon holoenzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae in controlling the level of spontaneous mutagenesis. The data presented indicate that impaired interaction between catalytic Pol2p subunit and Dpb2p is responsible for the observed mutator phenotype in S. cerevisiae strains carrying different mutated alleles of the DPB2 gene. We observed a significant correlation between the decreased level of interaction between different mutated forms of Dpb2p towards a wild-type form of Pol2p and the strength of mutator phenotype that they confer. We propose that structural integrity of the Pol epsilon holoenzyme is essential for genetic stability in S. cerevisiae cells
Une communication publicitaire en accord avec son temps
No full textOn peut se demander si la communication — et plus spécialement la communication publicitaire — est bien orientée.
En moins d'un demi-siècle, les pays économiquement développés sont passés d'une société de subsistance, dans laquelle primait la satisfaction des besoins matériels, à une société de surconsommation. Et tout le système d'information et de consommation repose encore sur les aspects matériels de la lutte pour la vie ; il surnage à une époque où 60 % des Français vivaient de la terre, où une moitié de la population ne votait pas, il ne tient pas compte des données nouvelles d'une société dans laquelle les besoins psychologiques deviennent de plus en plus importants et pressants. Cela explique en partie le « rejet » de la publicité aujourd'hui, qui ne s'occupe que des besoins matériels.
Telle est l'hypothèse de départ de Mike Burke, un des animateurs du Centre de communication avancée de Havas-Conseil. Puis l'auteur décrit les méthodes appliquées et les résultats qu'il croit déjà déceler. Le but : inventer des produits, des services, un type de communication publicitaire capables de satisfaire nos besoins réels dans le présent et assez souples pour s'adapter à nos besoins futurs.Burke Mike. Une communication publicitaire en accord avec son temps. In: Communication et langages, n°20, 1973. pp. 103-115
Fables complètes
No full textThis paperback is apparently a re-issue of a hardbound book of the same title by the same publisher in 2001. Virgile, Léon Crabbé, died at the age of about eighty in 1970, having written, apparently, hundreds of columns – especially in the column "Pourquoi Pas?" -- and having made many recordings. Many see him. as does his friend Jean Francis, as the the ideal manifestation of the spirit of Brussels. Here we have seventeen of his redoings of La Fontaine's fables and then about twenty-four of his "fables personnelles." These are followed by "the fables of Suske le Brugeois, Noel Barcy." This is yet another pseudonym for the author. These again take up La Fontaine as models, but they seem to add some mockery of Brugians' confusion with French articles, masculine and feminine. They also play more drastically with the endings of La Fontaine's fables. A last section offers the originals of La Fontaine's fables developed in this book. This book was sitting at my door as I returned to my room after my first breakfast at St. Michel Jesuit high school in Brussels. The author had been mentioned at breakfast. I value the book as a wonderful gift! Footnotes and a Brussels vocabulary help! The cover presents a crow perched on a tall building looking down with cheese in his beak at a waiting fox. Jean Francis: "Si vous voulez vous ouvrir le coeur de Bruxelles, je ne vois guère d'autre clé."Language note: FrenchVirgile du Pourquoi Pas
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