639 research outputs found
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
James M. Powell, éd. trad. — The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author. Washington, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2004.
No full textPascal Pierre. James M. Powell, éd. trad. — The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author. Washington, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2004.. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 50e année (n°197), Janvier-mars 2007. pp. 93-95
Imaginaires du corps social
No full textImaginären des sozialen Körpers
Pascal Hintermeyer
Seit zwei Jahrhunderten benutzen die Sozialwissenschaften oft biologische Metaphern. Sie verstehen die Gesellschaft durch die Eigenschaften des Lebens, besonders die Organisierungsfähigkeit und-die Vollkommenheit. Hier werden einige Nachfolgen dieser Beziehungen untersucht.Imaginary constructions of the social body
Pascal Hintermeyer The social sciences have often used biological metaphors for two centuries. They consider society through the properties of life, particularly the capacity of organisation and the limits. The author examines the consequences of these relationships.Hintermeyer Pascal. Imaginaires du corps social. In: Revue des sciences sociales de la France de l'Est, N°20, 1993. L'Europe des imaginaires. pp. 192-197
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
L'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine : question et questionnement
No full textThe cultural history of contemporary France. Questions and questioning, Pascal Ory.
Although fashionable contemporary cultural history still suffers from conceptual in determinacy « culture » should be defined precisely, and specified vis-à-vis « politics » and « economic ». The author postulates that cultural history is the social history of representations. However, the historian deals more with what is measurable, quantifiable in other words, with forms less than with the very content itself of this representation. No serious cultural history can be conceived without knowledge of the broad outlines of the history of science and communication techniques. The result would be a study of the varieties of logic of experience, presented as relative to each society and conferring meaning to it.Ory Pascal. L'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine : question et questionnement. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°16, octobre-décembre 1987. Dossier : L'Allemagne, le nazisme et les juifs. pp. 67-82
Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0 -> J/ψ KS0 decays
No full textThis Letter reports a measurement of the CP violation observables SJ/ψK0S and CJ/ψK0S in the decay channel B0→J/ψK0S performed with 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The fit to the data yields SJ/ψK0S=0.73±0.07(stat)±0.04(syst) and CJ/ψK0S=0.03±0.09(stat)±0.01(syst). Both values are consistent with the current world averages and within
expectations from the Standard Model
First observation of Bs → J/ψf0(980) decays
No full textUsing data collected with the LHCb detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, the hadronic decay is observed. This CP eigenstate mode could be used to measure mixing-induced CP violation in the system. Using a fit to the π+π− mass spectrum with interfering resonances gives . In the interval ±90 MeV around 980 MeV, corresponding to approximately two full f0 widths we also find , where in both cases the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively
Honvault, Pascal Euclidean realizations of triangulated polyhedra. (English) £ ¢ ¡ Zbl 07203374
No full textInternational audienceThe author studies (not necessarily convex) triangulated polyhedra in three-dimensional Euclidean space and with genus zero. The focus of the paper is to devise an algorithm to construct an explicit realization of such a polyhedron given by its combinatorial data: • the number n + 1 and a labelling v 0 , v 1 ,. .. , v n of its vertices • degree sequence (d 0 , d 1 ,. .. , d n), where d i is the number of edges incident to the ith vertex v i • a triangulation given by a list of triangles (v i , v j , v k) The algorithm is guided by a set of necessary and sufficient conditions on the length of the edges, and the internal and external angles of the triangles in the triangulation. Reviewer: Matthias Schymura (Cottbus) MSC: 52B05 Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) 51N20 Euclidean analytic geometry 52-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to convex and discrete geometry 51M20 Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of space
Honvault, Pascal Euclidean realizations of triangulated polyhedra. (English) £ ¢ ¡ Zbl 07203374
No full textInternational audienceThe author studies (not necessarily convex) triangulated polyhedra in three-dimensional Euclidean space and with genus zero. The focus of the paper is to devise an algorithm to construct an explicit realization of such a polyhedron given by its combinatorial data: • the number n + 1 and a labelling v 0 , v 1 ,. .. , v n of its vertices • degree sequence (d 0 , d 1 ,. .. , d n), where d i is the number of edges incident to the ith vertex v i • a triangulation given by a list of triangles (v i , v j , v k) The algorithm is guided by a set of necessary and sufficient conditions on the length of the edges, and the internal and external angles of the triangles in the triangulation. Reviewer: Matthias Schymura (Cottbus) MSC: 52B05 Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) 51N20 Euclidean analytic geometry 52-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to convex and discrete geometry 51M20 Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of space
A model-independent Dalitz plot analysis of B±→DK± with D→K0Sh+h− (h=π,K) decays and constraints on the CKM angle γ
No full textA binned Dalitz plot analysis of B ±→DK ± decays, with D→KS0π+π- and D→KS0K+K-, is performed to measure the CP-violating observables x ± and y ± which are sensitive to the CKM angle γ. The analysis exploits 1.0 fb -1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment. The study makes no model-based assumption on the variation of the strong phase of the D decay amplitude over the Dalitz plot, but uses measurements of this quantity from CLEO-c as input. The values of the parameters are found to be x -=(0.0±4.3±1.5±0.6)×10 -2, y -=(2.7±5.2±0.8±2.3)×10 -2, x +=(-10.3±4.5±1.8±1.4)×10 -2 and y +=(-0.9±3.7±0.8±3.0)×10 -2. The first, second, and third uncertainties are the statistical, the experimental systematic, and the error associated with the precision of the strong-phase parameters measured at CLEO-c, respectively. These results correspond to γ=(44-38+43)°, with a second solution at γ→γ+180°, and r B=0.07±0.04, where r B is the ratio between the suppressed and favoured B decay amplitudes
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