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Les jeux vidéo comme instruments de techno-transe
2016
International audience; This article aims to reopen the genealogy of video games, studying the similarities they share with what the author calls ‘techno-trance devices’. These devices, which are contemporary to the first video games in the early 1960s, rely on the creative hijacking of laboratory instruments. They share numerous technical and media properties with video games. Moreover, there are some records of these techno-trance devices being used during religious practices at the time, which might lead to speculation of a latent trance influence in video games as apparatuses. These shared properties between video games and these devices, derived from counterculture, are thus studied th…
Nest modifications by the acorn ant Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
2019
Many ant species construct nests and during the process considerably influence the environment such as by changing soil structure and creating new habitat for other species. However, other ant species dwell in ready-for-use cavities. Ants of the genus Temnothorax inhabit small cavities such as acorns and under rocks, but under natural conditions, good nest sites are limited resources. During field and laboratory experiments, I studied how the acorn ant Temnothorax crassispinus (Karawajew, 1926) modifies nesting sites. Temnothorax crassispinus is a forest species, which typically lives in cavities in fallen twigs and acorns; colonies usually number from a few dozen to about 200 workers. Alth…
Acorn Ants May Create and Use Two Entrances to the Nest Cavity
2021
Many ant species construct large nests that are inhabited by numerous workers, but other species dwell in ready-for-use cavities and live in small colonies. Ants of the genus Temnothorax inhabit small cavities, e.g., in acorns, twigs, and under rocks. Although a preference for nest sites with a narrower entrance is known, recent studies have shown that they also use cavities with wider entrances and may modify the size of such entrances. As good cavities for nest sites are a limited resource, the possibility to modify a potential nest site, including a reduction in the size of the hole, should be a favorable matter for the ants. Through field and laboratory experiments, I studied the acorn …
Ostensori architettonici in Sicilia tra suggestioni iberiche e rinascimentali
2022
Through the analysis of six architectural monstrances housed in churches and museums in Sicily, the formal and compositional languages that, between Iberian and Renaissance suggestions, characterize these masterpieces of sacred art are analyzed. They are small silver architectures, produced between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, which are influenced by the Catalan Gothic influences and the Italian Renaissance, in a peculiar Sicilian synthesis.
De l'outrance à l'incarnation de soi
2016
International audience
The Determinants of Delayed Entrance into the Academic Career : The Case of France
2008
08009 - 15 p.; The recruitment of young PhD graduates in the academic sector is linked to a strong uncertainty on their potential teaching and research productivity. When giving tenureto a PhD graduate, employers -universities or research institutions in France- attempt to reduce the asymmetric information on the research abilities of the applicant. However, because of the nature of the scientific work and the way it is rewarded, it is difficult to assessthe absolute value of much of the work of PhD graduates in the short term. So, in order to recruit the best PhD graduates for permanent jobs, public employers select from the signals sent by the applicant in their curriculum vitae. Our pape…
Handicap et visibilité : de l’outrance involontaire du corps à l’outrance volontaire de l’apparence
2018
Comment passer outre par rapport a l’apparence ? Notre regard est souvent pris au piege de la difformite corporelle. Il impose a celui ou celle qui en est porteur le poids du rejet social. Loin de negliger l’etat de sideration produit par ce qui excede notre idee de l’humain, il faudra decrire phenomenologiquement cet obstacle du regard ; apres quoi seulement peut etre envisagee la dimension ethique de la reconnaissance d’autrui non pas malgre son apparence, mais a travers elle. La deformation corporelle genere une sorte d’outrance involontaire, une outrance definie comme ce qui deborde le regard, cree de l’incertitude quant a l’humanite meme d’autrui. Peut-on des lors retourner cette outra…
De l’outrance à l’incarnation de soi
2018
International audience
C9ORF72 in a Large Series of Italian and Sardinian Familial and Sporadic ALS Patients (IN9-1.003)
2012
Objective: To assess the frequency and the phenotype of a large series of Italian sALS and fALS with C9ORF72 repeat expansions. Background Recently we found that large expansions of hexanucleotide repeats (GGGGCC) in the first intron of the C9ORF72 gene, located in the chromosome 9p21, are related to familial and sporadic ALS cases(Renton et al, 2011). Design/Methods: We assessed 126 index fALS (106 Italians, 20 of Sardinians) and 601 sALS (485 Italians, 116 Sardinians), negative for other ALS-related genes mutations. Patients were collected through the ITALSGEN consortium. Repeat primer PCR to screen the presence of the hexanucleotide expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 have been perf…
No Difference in Penetrance between Truncating and Missense/Aberrant Splicing Pathogenic Variants in MLH1 and MSH2: A Prospective Lynch Syndrome Data…
2021
Background. Lynch syndrome is the most common genetic predisposition for hereditary cancer. Carriers of pathogenic changes in mismatch repair (MMR) genes have an increased risk of developing colorectal (CRC), endometrial, ovarian, urinary tract, prostate, and other cancers, depending on which gene is malfunctioning. In Lynch syndrome, differences in cancer incidence (penetrance) according to the gene involved have led to the stratification of cancer surveillance. By contrast, any differences in penetrance determined by the type of pathogenic variant remain unknown. Objective. To determine cumulative incidences of cancer in carriers of truncating and missense or aberrant splicing pathogenic …