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De quoi le Covid-19 est-il le nom ? L’impact du langage sur la prise en charge et le positionnement éthique par temps de pandémie
2020
Résumé L’irruption massive de l’expression Covid-19 dans le milieu hospitalier comme dans nos vies a fait apparaître une étrange analogie entre l’expansion d’un virus et la dissémination virale, elle aussi, d’une manière de parler, de formuler et de nommer pour agir. Cet article se propose de questionner l’impact de l’expression Covid-19 sur le langage des soignants. Il propose de discuter la dimension éthique d’un soin des mots du soin lorsqu’une manière de parler s’impose à eux. Il interroge également le pluralisme épistémologique et éthique engageant la médecine entre science, clinique et politique.
The force interpretation of evolutionary theory: scope and limits
2016
La teoría evolutiva suele entenderse como una teoría causal donde las causas principales del cambio evolutivo son identificadas con la selección natural, la deriva genética, la mutación y la migración. Siguiendo este razonamiento, muchos biólogos y filósofos de la biología han estructurado la teoría evolutiva de forma análoga a la mecánica newtoniana, entendiendo la teoría evolutiva como una teoría de fuerzas. El punto clave en el que se sustenta la analogía, es que la estructura de la mecánica newtoniana permite identificar los elementos causales del sistema de interés. De esta manera, la teoría evolutiva encuentra una útil imagen explicativa del fenómeno evolutivo, estructurándose como un…
A quantum vocal theory of sound
2020
Concepts and formalism from acoustics are often used to exemplify quantum mechanics. Conversely, quantum mechanics could be used to achieve a new perspective on acoustics, as shown by Gabor studies. Here, we focus in particular on the study of human voice, considered as a probe to investigate the world of sounds. We present a theoretical framework that is based on observables of vocal production, and on some measurement apparati that can be used both for analysis and synthesis. In analogy to the description of spin states of a particle, the quantum-mechanical formalism is used to describe the relations between the fundamental states associated with phonetic labels such as phonation, turbule…
The temporal analogue of diffractive couplers
2020
International audience; Based on the space-time duality of light, we numerically demonstrate that temporal dispersion grating couplers can generate from a single pulse an array of replicas of equal amplitude. The phase-only profile of the temporal grating is optimized by a genetic algorithm that takes into account the optoelectronic bandwidth limitations of the setup.
Qualità dell’aria: il Fuzzy Environmental Analogy Index Model (FEAIM) per valutare l’idoneità delle stazioni ai fini modellistici
2020
Tutte le attività volte a studiare le cause primarie e gli effetti dell’inquinamento atmosferico richiedono l’impiego di una rete di monitoraggio della qualità dell’aria ottimizzata per la valutazione dell’esposizione dei bersagli recettori agli effetti degli inquinanti aerodispersi. Nell’ambito di una collaborazione tra ARPA Sicilia e il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Università di Palermo, sono state condotte ricerche per sviluppare una metodologia innovativa utile per ottimizzare l’assetto delle reti di monitoraggio della qualità dell’aria su scala regionale. L’approccio metodologico si fonda su un nuovo indice, chiamato indice di analogia ambientale del territorio (FEAI), basato sulla …
Los principios generales del derecho en la interpretación. (Una aproximación desde J. Bms. Vallet de Goytisolo)
2011
RESUMENEl artículo comienza haciendo mención al papel de la interpretación en el campo del Derecho así como su alcance en esta área. A continuación, se analiza el concepto de principio general del Derecho. Una vez centradas estas cuestiones, el artículo continúa con una panorámica general de la visión de Vallet de Goytisolo en el tema que se plantea, haciendo una pequeña referencia a la particularidad de la aplicación de la analogía iuris en la proyección de los principios generales del Derecho. La exposición finaliza con unas notas a modo de conclusiones ABSTRACT The article begins by explaining the role and scope of interpretation in Law. Next, it explores the concept of General Principle…
What does Ramon Llull mean when he says «[el resclús] se maravellá com podia esser que Deus no exoya la natura humana de Jesucrist, qui pregava per s…
2014
The proto-novel Fèlix, o Llibre de meravelles contains many unsettling «meravelles» or «wonders». One such consists in an observation made by a «recluse» —rather than by a professional theologian— concerning the prayers of Christ and of Mary and the angels, etc., to the effect that their prayers have been unable to call forth any response from God. The efficacy of such prayers is thus brought into question, as is the readiness of God’s mercy and grace. By contextualising such matters within medieval currents of Neoplatonism, particularly the doctrine of causality, I argue that Llull presents a causally conceived theorisation of the hypostatic union. I identify Biblical and medieval preceden…
“Another Munich We Just Cannot Afford”: Historical Metonymy In Politics
2016
The appeasement of Hitler and the Munich Agreement is a rhetorical comparison used commonly in international relations to defend politico-military action. On the basis of conceptual history and rhetorics, we examine cases of political speech in this paradigm. Firstly, we discuss time and conceptualize experience into first and second order experiences. Secondly, the roles of metaphor, metonymy and analogy in relation to thought and action are examined. We then contextualise Munich 1938, and present three cases demonstrating the political usage of this metonymy since WWII. These range from the Suez Crises to the Gulf War and on-going War on Terror. These cases show that “Munich” can be used …
Das Werden des Kosmos Von der Erfahrung der zeitlichen Dimension astronomischer Objekte im 18. Jahrhundert
1985
The Permanent ‘Becoming’ of the Cosmos: On Experiencing the Time Dimension of Astronomical Entities in the 18th Century. - This paper deals with two of the initial stages through which the dimension of time, in the sense of an irreversible development, found its way into astronomical-cosmological thinking. The one resulted from the first consequental application of Newtonian principles and laws to cosmic entities outside of our solar system found in the General Natural History or Theory of the Heavens of Immanuel Kant (1755): Endeavoring to explain through natural causes first the peculiarities of the solar system, no longer naturally explainable through the celestial mechanics of Isaac New…
An immune system model in discrete time based on the analogy with the central nervous system
1988
Jerne's model for the immune system formulated in terms of a neural network recently proposed by Weisbuch and Atlan is generalized to interactions with continuous coupling coefficients. It is shown that even the extended model can be solved analytically without the aid of computer simulations and exhibits one additional attractor, which corresponds to a configuration with high concentrations of active killer cells eventually causing death of the organism.