203 research outputs found
Carine Lounissi, Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.
No full textCarine Lounissi’s study of the ‘French Paine’ is a highly valuable and necessary contribution to the wealth of scholarly work devoted to the self-styled citizen of the world. The author builds on her more theoretical study of Thomas Paine’s writings, published in 2012, to construct a contextualized portrait of the international revolutionary during the years he spent in France as an observer, commentator and agent of the French Revolution between 1787 and 1802. In doing so, she has addressed ..
Anarchival Practices
No full textLaunch of the publication series ‘Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation’, featuring Carine Zaayman (author of the premiering WPC book, Anarchival Practices: The Clanwilliam Arts Project as Re-imagining Custodianship of the Past, WPC / ICI Berlin Press 2022) in conversation with Wesley C. Hogan In this chapbook, Carine Zaayman instantiates the Anarchive as a means to reimagine how custodianship of the past is practiced. The Anarchive constellates archives and the absences that attend them in a manner that both centralizes the vastness of absence, and leaves it unreconstructed. The chapbook articulates the implications of the Anarchival constellation for scholarship and artistic practices that draw on archival material. Her argument is founded on an engagement with colonial archives that hold strands of Southern African pasts, and demonstrate its implications by examining the Clanwilliam Arts Project. Through an analysis of this case study, she argues that the Anarchive facilitates a privileging of decolonial forms of custodianship of the past that can lead to communal, co-designed and embodied forms of historical narration
Métodos para superação da dormência em sementes de taxibranco (Tachigali vulgaris L.F Gomes da Silva E H.C Lima).
No full textO Tachigali vulgaris , conhecido vulgarmente como Taxi - Branco ou Carvoeiro,é uma espécie leguminosa arbórea nativa da Amazônia brasileiraexigente em luz (heliófita) e de rápido crescimento, sua madeira apresenta qualidade superior para lenha e carvão, e tem como principal forma de propagação a via sexuada, apesar da baixa taxa de germinação naturaldas sementes
Thomas Paine’s democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language?
No full textCarine Lounissi’s premise in this chapter is that characterising Thomas Paine’s radicalism is a challenge, which she takes up by focusing on his “democratic style” as a way to make his ideas accessible to the common man. The author thus studies Paine’s “democratic style”, for which he was harshly criticised, as being part and parcel of his inherently republican and democratic radicalism. She argues that in his writings Paine sought to deconstruct the discourse of the political elite of his time, associated with the trappings of royalty, and promoted the language of common sense instead as an instrument of resistance predicated on the universality of human nature. He invented a radical linguistics whereby he wished to go back to the roots of words.</p
Editorial: Integrative and Translational Uses of Herbarium Collections Across Time, Space, and Species
No full textCopyright © 2020 Rønsted, Grace and Carine. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
Dynamic pricing with demand learning under competition
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204).In this thesis, we focus on oligopolistic markets for a single perishable product, where firms compete by setting prices (Bertrand competition) or by allocating quantities (Cournot competition) dynamically over a finite selling horizon. The price-demand relationship is modeled as a parametric function, whose parameters are unknown, but learned through a data driven approach. The market can be either in disequilibrium or in equilibrium. In disequilibrium, we consider simultaneously two forms of learning for the firm: (i) learning of its optimal pricing (resp. allocation) strategy, given its belief regarding its competitors' strategy; (ii) learning the parameters in the price-demand relationship. In equilibrium, each firm seeks to learn the parameters in the price-demand relationship for itself and its competitors, given that prices (resp. quantities) are in equilibrium. In this thesis, we first study the dynamic pricing (resp. allocation) problem when the parameters in the price-demand relationship are known. We then address the dynamic pricing (resp. allocation) problem with learning of the parameters in the price-demand relationship. We show that the problem can be formulated as a bilevel program in disequilibrium and as a Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints (MPECs) in equilibrium. Using results from variational inequalities, bilevel programming and MPECs, we prove that learning the optimal strategies as well as the parameters, is achieved. Furthermore, we design a solution method for efficiently solving the problem. We prove convergence of this method analytically and discuss various insights through a computational study.(cont.) Finally, we consider closed-loop strategies in a duopoly market when demand is stochastic. Unlike open-loop policies (such policies are computed once and for all at the beginning of the time horizon), closed loop policies are computed at each time period, so that the firm can take advantage of having observed the past random disturbances in the market. In a closed-loop setting, subgame perfect equilibrium is the relevant notion of equilibrium. We investigate the existence and uniqueness of a subgame perfect equilibrium strategy, as well as approximations of the problem in order to be able to compute such policies more efficiently.by Carine Simon.Ph.D
Euroscepticism in the political culture of Norway and Switzerland: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis
No full textDenne bacheloroppgaven er en kvalitativ, komparativ artikkel om euroskeptisisme i den politiske kulturen i Norge og Sveits. Spørsmålet jeg ønsker svar på er hvilken type euroskeptisisme finnes i Norge og Sveits? I hvilken grad er euroskeptisisme til stede i den politiske kulturen i disse landene? Og hvis det er til stede, hvorfor? Jeg analyserer dette gjennom å bruke en komparative fler-case-studie, og motivasjonstypologier av euroskeptisisme. Motivasjonstypologiene jeg setter søkelys på er politisk- og kulturell euroskeptisisme. Utifra resultatene fra European Values Study 2017, finner jeg at både politisk- og kulturell euroskeptisisme baseres på politisk system, politisk historie og nasjonal identitet. Min diskusjon leder meg til å konkludere med at euroskeptisisme er til stede i både Norge og Sveits, men den baseres på ulike ting.This bachelor thesis is a qualitative, comparative paper on Euroscepticism in the political culture of Norway and Switzerland. The questions I seek to answer are What kind of Euroscepticism exists in Norway and Switzerland? To what extent is Euroscepticism prevalent in the political culture of these two countries? And if it is prevalent, why is that? I analyse this using multiple comparative case study analysis and motivational typologies of Euroscepticism. The motivational typologies I focus on are political- and cultural Euroscepticism. Based on the results from the European Values Study 2017, I find that both types can be found in both cases based on political systems, political history, and national identity. My discussion leads me to conclude that Euroscepticism is prevalent in both Norway and Switzerland, although they differ in reasons
Unlocking the Potential of Smart Technologies: Addressing Adoption Challenges
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Engineering, Systems and Service
Considerations on the principles of development and manufacturing qualities of challenge agents for use in human infection models
No full textA consortium of international experts with experience in the production of challenge agents, performance of challenge studies, and/or good manufacturing practices (GMP) was established to draft a considerations document, intended to discuss fundamental principles of selection, characterisation, manufacture, quality control and storage of challenge agents for international reference. In the absence of clear international guidance on this topic, the principles outlined in this document should be considered for implementation with the context of the pathogen and setting taken into consideration and for the purposes of improving volunteer safety, model reliability, and for interactions with regulatory agencies or other bodies which oversee human challenge studies. This document can be utilised across high-, middle- and low-income countries and can be applied whether the agent is manufactured in a certified GMP facility or in an academic laboratory by trained personnel with sufficient facilities, appropriate quality control measures and other best practices.
Author affiliations
(1) hVIVO: Carine La, Alex Mann, Alan Bell, Bruno Speder
(2) IABS-EU: Jean-Hugues Trouvin, Pieter Neels
(3) European Vaccine Initiative – EVI: Hilde Depraetere
(4) John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Kawsar R. Talaat
(5) Naval Medical Research Center: Chad K. Porter
(6) PATH: Louis Bourgeois
(7) Leiden University Medical Center: Meta Roestenberg
(8) Tübingen University and Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambarene: Peter Kremsner
(9) Oxford University Clinical Research Unit: Evelyne Kestelyn
(10) NAFDAC: Beno N. Yakubu
(11) Translational Health Science and Technology Institute: Amrita Sekkar
(12) The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College: Gagandeep Kang
Carine La
Roles: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project Management, Data Collection, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Review & Editing
Alan Bell
Roles: Methodology, Review & Editing
Consortium members
Roles: Review
Alex Mann (corresponding author)
Roles: Conceptualisation, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Project management, Writing, Review & Editing
Edit 14/04/2022 to correct author list</p
Plastic representation of the author (1648-1778). Repertoire and studies)
No full textLa tesis doctoral que presentamos se centra en la utilización del retrato de escritores como estrategia de reconocimiento autorial en España, en el período comprendido entre los años 1648 y 1778. La complejidad que supone la recuperación del concepto de la noción de autor se proyecta desde el funcionamiento del campo literario y los mecanismos establecidos en la institucionalización de la literatura. Proyectamos esta investigación mediante una propuesta de desarrollo metodológico que se adentra en el terreno de la sociología de las redes de mercado. El estudio se inscribe en el marco de cotutela internacional entre la Universidad de Córdoba y l´Université Bordeaux Montaigne, siendo los codirectores de la misma el Prof. Pedro Ruiz Pérez (PHEBO-SILEM) y el Prof. Jean-Marc Buiguès (AMERIBER). La tesis mantiene un marcado carácter interdisciplinar al aunar las metodologías de la Literatura, las Bellas Artes y las Humanidades digitales. La investigación se establece en un ámbito muy determinado que considera inquebrantable el vínculo que se origina en el Siglo de Oro entre el arte y las letras, unido a los desarrollos tecnológicos, dentro de la creación de las nuevas tramas de sociabilidad en el entorno literario. Se inscribe de esta forma alrededor de un núcleo de trabajo en el que se abren dos vertientes fundamentales. Por una parte, en la constitución de un repertorio de retratos autoriales que tiene como origen el Parnaso de Quevedo y, como cierre, el Parnaso de los retratos de López de Sedano. Y por otra, en diferentes estudios de caso en los que los autores que tomamos de referencia se mueven en torno a la conformación del canon como estrategia de posicionamiento autorial desde la representación artística. Contrastamos estos ejes centrales de estudio con aquellos retratos anteriores a la fecha que toman como punto de partida El Libro de retratos de Pacheco (1599-1644), y por otro, con los retratos posteriores, que culminan en la galería de retratos de autor de 1780.The current doctoral thesis is focused on the use of portraits of authors in Spain as a strategy to seek for recognition, between 1648 and 1778. The complexity of the recovery of the sense of the author is treated taking into account the way the literary field functions and the existing mechanisms in the literature institutionalization. The investigation is based on a methodologic development proposal that enters into the market networks sociology field. The study is developed within an international co-tutorship framework in place between the University of Córdoba and the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. Prof. Pedro Ruiz Pérez (PHEBO-SILEM) and Prof. Jean- Marc Buiguès (AMERIBER) are the co-advisors. The thesis maintains a strong interdisciplinary character as it combines Literature, Fine Arts and Digital Humanities fields. The link that is originated during the Spanish literature Golden Age “Siglo De Oro” between Art and literature, together with the Research and Development, is considered as an unbreakable pair along the research, considering the appearance of new sociability plots in the literary environment. The core of the investigation is therefore concentrated in two fundamental aspects. On one hand, the constitution of a catalog of author portraits that originates from Quevedo’s Parnaso and that is finalized with Lopez de Sedano’s portraits Parnaso. On the other, different case studies in which the authors we take as a reference contribute to the establishment of a canon as an authorial positioning strategy using artistic representation. A comparison is made between these central axes of the study and on one side the earlier portraits that take as a starting point the Book of portraits of Pacheco (1599-1644), and on the other, with subsequent portraits, which culminate in the gallery of portraits of author of 1780
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