bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
One-Pot Synthesis of Waterborne Polymeric Dispersions Stabilized with Alkali-Soluble Resins
Authors: Bandiera Massimo , Balk Roelof , Barandiaran Maria
Published: January 2018

Alkali-soluble resins (ASRs) are a type of electrosteric emulsifiers of high interest because they can profitably improve the features of waterborne dispersions. In this work, they have been synthesized in-situ through a one-pot approach and they have been used as polymeric surfactants for a second emulsion polymerization step in the same reactor. This strategy provides some advantages compared to other polymerization techniques, like the intensification of the process and the absence of organic solvents. Their use can also further reduce the environmental impact of formulations for film-forming applications, since grafting reactions with the particles have been observed and quantified in relation with the synthetic parameters. These chemical linkages with the particles may reduce the leaching and the release of surfactants from polymeric films, for example in water-based coatings or adhesives. The systems have been also studied from the kinetics point of view, finding relevant differences with other electrosterically stabilized processes from the literature, as well as concerns the nucleation mechanism.
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles Featuring Polyzwitterionic Coatings
Authors: Biehl Philip , Von der Lühe Moritz , Dutz Silvio , Schacher Felix
Published: January 2018

Throughout the last decades, magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) have gained tremendous interest in different fields of applications like biomedicine (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), drug delivery, hyperthermia), but also more technical applications (e.g., catalysis, waste water treatment) have been pursued. Different surfactants and polymers are extensively used for surface coating of MNP to passivate the surface and avoid or decrease agglomeration, decrease or modulate biomolecule absorption, and in most cases increase dispersion stability. For this purpose, electrostatic or steric repulsion can be exploited and, in that regard, surface charge is the most important (hybrid) particle property. Therefore, polyelectrolytes are of great interest for nanoparticle coating, as they are able to stabilize the particles in dispersion by electrostatic repulsion due to their high charge densities. In this review article, we focus on polyzwitterions as a subclass of polyelectrolytes and their use as coating materials for MNP. In the context of biomedical applications, polyzwitterions are widely used as they exhibit antifouling properties and thus can lead to minimized protein adsorption and also long circulation times.
Geospatial Object Detection in High Resolution Satellite Images Based on Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Network
Authors: Guo Wei , Yang Wen , Zhang Haijian , Hua Guang
Published: January 2018

Daily acquisition of large amounts of aerial and satellite images has facilitated subsequent automatic interpretations of these images. One such interpretation is object detection. Despite the great progress made in this domain, the detection of multi-scale objects, especially small objects in high resolution satellite (HRS) images, has not been adequately explored. As a result, the detection performance turns out to be poor. To address this problem, we first propose a unified multi-scale convolutional neural network (CNN) for geospatial object detection in HRS images. It consists of a multi-scale object proposal network and a multi-scale object detection network, both of which share a multi-scale base network. The base network can produce feature maps with different receptive fields to be responsible for objects with different scales. Then, we use the multi-scale object proposal network to generate high quality object proposals from the feature maps. Finally, we use these object proposals with the multi-scale object detection network to train a good object detector. Comprehensive evaluations on a publicly available remote sensing object detection dataset and comparisons with several state-of-the-art approaches demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method. The proposed method achieves the best mean average precision (mAP) value of 89.6%, runs at 10 frames per second (FPS) on a GTX 1080Ti GPU.
Application of Computational Intelligence to Improve Education in Smart Cities
Authors: Gomede Everton , Gaffo Fernando , Briganó Gabriel , De Barros Rodolfo , Mendes Leonardo
Published: January 2018

According to UNESCO, education is a fundamental human right and every nation’s citizens should be granted universal access with equal quality to it. Because this goal is yet to be achieved in most countries, in particular in the developing and underdeveloped countries, it is extremely important to find more effective ways to improve education. This paper presents a model based on the application of computational intelligence (data mining and data science) that leads to the development of the student’s knowledge profile and that can help educators in their decision making for best orienting their students. This model also tries to establish key performance indicators to monitor objectives’ achievement within individual strategic planning assembled for each student. The model uses random forest for classification and prediction, graph description for data structure visualization and recommendation systems to present relevant information to stakeholders. The results presented were built based on the real dataset obtained from a Brazilian private k-9 (elementary school). The obtained results include correlations among key data, a model to predict student performance and recommendations that were generated for the stakeholders.
A Multi-Band Body-Worn Distributed Radio-Frequency Exposure Meter: Design, On-Body Calibration and Study of Body Morphology
Authors: Aminzadeh Reza , Thielens Arno , Agneessens Sam , Van Torre Patrick , Van den Bossche Matthias , Dongus Stefan , Eeftens Marloes , Huss Anke , Vermeulen Roel , De Seze René , Mazet Paul , Cardis Elisabeth , Rogier Hendrik , Röösli Martin , Martens Luc , Joseph Wout
Published: January 2018

A multi-band Body-Worn Distributed exposure Meter (BWDM) calibrated for simultaneous measurement of the incident power density in 11 telecommunication frequency bands, is proposed. The BDWM consists of 22 textile antennas integrated in a garment and is calibrated on six human subjects in an anechoic chamber to assess its measurement uncertainty in terms of 68% confidence interval of the on-body antenna aperture. It is shown that by using multiple antennas in each frequency band, the uncertainty of the BWDM is 22 dB improved with respect to single nodes on the front and back of the torso and variations are decreased to maximum 8.8 dB. Moreover, deploying single antennas for different body morphologies results in a variation up to 9.3 dB, which is reduced to 3.6 dB using multiple antennas for six subjects with various body mass index values. The designed BWDM, has an improved uncertainty of up to 9.6 dB in comparison to commercially available personal exposure meters calibrated on body. As an application, an average incident power density in the range of 26.7–90.8 μW·m − 2 is measured in Ghent, Belgium. The measurements show that commercial personal exposure meters underestimate the actual exposure by a factor of up to 20.6.
Peri-Elastodynamic Simulations of Guided Ultrasonic Waves in Plate-Like Structure with Surface Mounted PZT
Authors: Patra Subir , Ahmed Hossain , Banerjee Sourav
Published: January 2018

Peridynamic based elastodynamic computation tool named Peri-elastodynamics is proposed herein to simulate the three-dimensional (3D) Lamb wave modes in materials for the first time. Peri-elastodynamics is a nonlocal meshless approach which is a scale-independent generalized technique to visualize the acoustic and ultrasonic waves in plate-like structure, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanodevices for their respective characterization. In this article, the characteristics of the fundamental Lamb wave modes are simulated in a sample plate-like structure. Lamb wave modes are generated using a surface mounted piezoelectric (PZT) transducer which is actuated from the top surface. The proposed generalized Peri-elastodynamics method is not only capable of simulating two dimensional (2D) in plane wave under plane strain condition formulated previously but also capable of accurately simulating the out of plane Symmetric and Antisymmetric Lamb wave modes in plate like structures in 3D. For structural health monitoring (SHM) of plate-like structures and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of MEMS devices, it is necessary to simulate the 3D wave-damage interaction scenarios and visualize the different wave features due to damages. Hence, in addition, to simulating the guided ultrasonic wave modes in pristine material, Lamb waves were also simulated in a damaged plate. The accuracy of the proposed technique is verified by comparing the modes generated in the plate and the mode shapes across the thickness of the plate with theoretical wave analysis.
Himawari-8 Satellite Based Dynamic Monitoring of Grassland Fire in China-Mongolia Border Regions
Authors: Na Li , Zhang Jiquan , Bao Yulong , Bao Yongbin , Na Risu , Tong Siqin , Si Alu
Published: January 2018

In this study, we used bands 7, 4, and 3 of the Advance Himawari Imager (AHI) data, combined with a Threshold Algorithm and a visual interpretation method to monitor the entire process of grassland fires that occurred on the China-Mongolia border regions, between 05:40 (UTC) on April 19th to 13:50 (UTC) on April 21st 2016. The results of the AHI data monitoring are evaluated by the fire point product data, the wind field data, and the environmental information data of the area in which the fire took place. The monitoring result shows that, the grassland fire burned for two days and eight hours with a total burned area of about 2708.29 km2. It mainly spread from the northwest to the southeast, with a maximum burning speed of 20.9 m/s, a minimum speed of 2.52 m/s, and an average speed of about 12.07 m/s. Thus, using AHI data can not only quickly and accurately track the dynamic development of a grassland fire, but also estimate the spread speed and direction. The evaluation of fire monitoring results reveals that AHI data with high precision and timeliness can be highly consistent with the actual situation.
Economic, Energetic, and Environmental Impact Evaluation of the Water Discharge Networks from Mining Works
Authors: Rada Andrei , Irimie Sabina , Irimie Sabin
Published: January 2018

Sustainable development represents an optimistic scenario for the evolution of contemporary civilization. The object of this paper is to define certain evaluation criteria regarding the performances of water discharge networks from mining works, and propose a method for aggregating the specific indicators for monetary costs, energetic costs, and environmental impact-related costs. The global pollution index (GPI) represents a method for assessing environment health status or pollution levels. The GPI quantitatively expresses this status based on its index, which results from a ratio between the ideal value and the given value of certain quality indices that are considered specific for the analyzed environmental factors at certain moments. The proposed method in this paper tries to perform a synergistic aggregation of the balance sheet of harmfulness and classic balance sheets for matter and energy for an industrial process.
An Entropy Approach to Regional Differences in Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Ethanol Usage
Authors: Suh Dong
Published: January 2018

The growth of the U.S. economy has been accompanied with a significant rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As CO2 emissions are dependent on regional climatic conditions and energy-related activities in states, this study examines the extent to which the distribution of CO2 emissions vary across nine climatically consistent regions in the U.S. The results obtained from the entropy approach reveal that the inequalities of CO2 emissions vary across the regions. While the total inequality of CO2 emissions is determined by the between-region and the average within-region inequalities, the between-region inequality begins to dominate the average within-region inequalities around 1980s; the emission inequalities between regions increase, but those within each region decrease. Given that ethanol usage is relevant to energy-related CO2 emissions, this study also evaluates the impact of ethanol usage on the changes in the emission inequalities. The results show that an increase in the ratio of ethanol to fossil fuels is associated closely with the reductions in the inequalities of CO2 emissions.
At Home with Sustainability: From Green Default Rules to Sustainable Consumption
Authors: Hale Lara Anne
Published: January 2018

Although it is often assumed that default rules affect change without awareness, this paper suggests that contrast with the default and transition into conscious adoption of the default design may be the starting point to establish long-term changes in consumer behavior. Despite the rooting of default rules in subconscious decision-making, this research finds that, ultimately, awareness drives the demand necessary for the creation of sustainable consumption. Whereas direct appeal to individuals has a disappointing level of influence on sustainability choices, it is understood that green consumers do come from somewhere. Green default rules offer interesting prospects for sidestepping the drawbacks of direct marketing to individuals. Under green default rules, behavior is guided by a default, such as utilities automatically sending customers renewables-sourced instead of fossil-fuel-based energy. To act otherwise requires additional effort and is less likely. Motivated by a need to understand how defaults might bridge standards and sustainable consumption, I investigate how organizational processes potentially lead from standardized green default rules to individual awareness that can spread and facilitate sustainable consumption. This paper examines the Active House sustainable building demonstrations in Europe in order to understand how (1) communications and market creation and (2) responsible, user-centered experimentation are organized to move from defaults to sustainable consumption.
Identification of Secreted Proteins Involved in Nonspecific dsRNA-Mediated Lutzomyia longipalpis LL5 Cell Antiviral Response
Authors: Martins-da-Silva Andrea , Telleria Erich , Batista Michel , Marchini Fabricio , Traub-Csekö Yara , Tempone Antonio
Published: January 2018

Hematophagous insects transmit infectious diseases. Sand flies are vectors of leishmaniasis, but can also transmit viruses. We have been studying immune responses of Lutzomyia longipalpis, the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas. We identified a non-specific antiviral response in L. longipalpis LL5 embryonic cells when treated with non-specific double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs). This response is reminiscent of interferon response in mammals. We are investigating putative effectors for this antiviral response. Secreted molecules have been implicated in immune responses, including interferon-related responses. We conducted a mass spectrometry analysis of conditioned medium from LL5 cells 24 and 48 h after dsRNA or mock treatment. We identified 304 proteins. At 24 h, 19 proteins had an abundance equal or greater than 2-fold change, while the levels of 17 proteins were reduced when compared to control cells. At the 48 h time point, these numbers were 33 and 71, respectively. The two most abundant secreted peptides at 24 h in the dsRNA-transfected group were phospholipid scramblase, an interferon-inducible protein that mediates antiviral activity, and forskolin-binding protein (FKBP), a member of the immunophilin family, which mediates the effect of immunosuppressive drugs. The transcription profile of most candidates did not follow the pattern of secreted protein abundance.
Le flou / net de profondeur : un héritage inattendu
Authors: Martin Pascal
Published: January 2018

La sortie de Citizen Kane, en 1 946, marque une rupture conceptuelle de la représentation en profondeur du dispositif cinématographique. Pourtant, Renoir avait déjà amorcé cette révolution en considérant l'objectif non pas comme un simple outil de la retranscription de la réalité, mais comme un inducteur esthétique. La stratification de l'espace en profondeur est une typologie récurrente de l'histoire de l'image qu'elle soit fixe ou animée. Régulièrement, diverses publications traitent de dossiers relatifs au flou ou à la profondeur de champ, bien que ces concepts semblent demeurer en marges des œuvres fictionnelles actuelles. Cependant, un regard particulier sur cette question permet de constater quelques surprises concernant non seulement le grand mais également le petit écran. Nous tenterons dans cette contribution de décrire quelques utilisations particulièrement réussies et proposerons une étude inédite, fruit d'une longue recherche, permettant de quantifier en pratique le flou/net de profondeur.
La question de l'espace filmique (Bergson versus Bachelard)
Authors: Chateau Dominique
Published: January 2018

De nombreux théoriciens considèrent le cinéma comme un «art bergsonien», selon la formule de Sartre. Ils pensent tous à sa conception de la durée, temps pur expurgé de toute spatialité. Or, quand Bergson songeait au cinéma, c'était plutôt pour le critiquer comme modèle du temps spatialisé, celui qui fonctionne dans les activités pratiques et scientifiques. En outre, lorsqu'on approfondit sa conception du temps spatialisé, on rencontre une conception de l'espace peu adaptée au cinéma, aux arts de l'image. À cette conception s'oppose celle de Bachelard, méconnue, mais à maints égards plus féconde pour la théorie du cinéma.
Problèmes de spatialisation en son multicanal
Authors: Bailblé Claude
Published: January 2018

Avec l'invention du montage, le cinéma s'est émancipé de la scène frontale des origines, assemblant la suite de points de vue en une sorte de voyage spatio-temporel parfaitement centré. La diffusion monophonique - réellement ponctuelle, virtuellement omnidirectionnelle - a intégré le dispositif en aménageant une audibilité réduite, certes, mais totalement compatible avec les changements de plans. L'objet visuel y dicte sa place à la source sonore [in ou off]. Aujourd'hui, le son multicanal se généralise dans le cinéma commercial, depuis - entre autres - La guerre des étoiles, Les aventuriers de l'arche perdue, Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan... Immersion spatiale, effets pyrotechniques ou telluriques, sons omniprésents, émotions garanties. Pourtant le système narratif mis en œuvre au temps du muet compose à l'écran un espace supra-directionnel (quoique toujours frontal) en désaccord possible avec l'espace sonore englobant (la «géode auditive» de la salle). On a cherché à résoudre les inévitables problèmes de scénographie qui en résultent en s'abstenant de croiser les espaces, en recherchant au contraire la convergence audio-visuelle. Il s'agit le plus souvent de retourner à la transparence du dispositif, tout en profitant habilement des possibilités expressives de la spatialisation. On pourrait aussi bien explorer la dissociation attentionnelle (oeil/oreille), où se jouerait une nouvelle forme de montage horizontal, un peu à la manière du triple écran d'Abel Gance.

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Prétexte-postface
Authors: Fougeras Nathalie
Published: January 2018

The following fragments are taken from a performance played at one year intervals. Between these two moments, another interval of time, marked by the work with students on digital images destined for another medium, a website on Internet. This moment in time was in turn fragmented by the rhythms of teacher/student exchanges and intervening work on images. At stakes, the relationship between performance and the circulation of images.
La réduction du visible par la fragmentation du champ. Exemples issus d'un film classique B, Big Combo [Association de malfaiteurs 1955] de Joseph Lewis
Authors: Baubias Thierry
Published: January 2018

Ce que l’on appelle communément “ clair-obscur” en peinture se traduit au cinéma par des effets d’obscurcissement du champ. Tandis que l’écran se découpe en zones perceptibles et imperceptibles, un visible fragmenté se dessine. En fait, plusieurs éléments participent à ce phénomène : bien sûr, les aspects techniques (les éclairages, le cadrage et le profilmique) mais aussi l’énonciation qui dépend d’un choix intentionnel de montrer certains événements plutôt que d’autres. S’effectue alors une réflexion du discours cinématographique sur lui-même : la délimitation du visible manifeste de nouvelles frontières au champ et matérialise un hors-champ dans le cadre. En somme, les fragments du visible

désorganisent les coordonnées langagières du film. L’objet de cet article sera d’expliquer comment les films acceptent ces espaces de visibilité réduite. Néanmoins, si le film ne paraît plus s’offrir complètement à nous, n’est-ce pas un moyen de nous pousser à coopérer avec lui ?
Adoration – Dévoration
Authors: Bonnet François , Millot Laurent , Pelé Gérard
Published: January 2018

En période trouble, les usages pédagogiques changent radicalement. Le découpage est l’une des pratiques qui se répandent de plus en plus dans le cadre des processus d’assimilation des savoirs et savoir-faire, toujours enseignés par cette “ caste” quelque peu surannée que nos élites s’attellent à dépecer – en enseignants, enseignants-chercheurs ou chercheurs – dans la majorité des champs disciplinaires avec, toutefois, un acharnement prononcé dans le champ des sciences humaines où sont testés les modèles de décompositions mathématiques et économiques les plus aiguisés. Les effets de mode ne sont pas étrangers à ces segmentations mais, à l’issue d’une tentative de dissection de ces pratiques, une constante semble pourtant émerger : l’ingestion de savoirs et de pratiques par portions. Différentes écoles se constituent en une multitude de petits laboratoires où le découpage actif prend toute sa place, mais l’on peut, a priori, postuler qu’il s’agit d’un syncrétisme mêlant, dans un même creuset, une base religieuse, généralement monothéiste, et un fond de croyances millénaires souvent qualifiées à tort de “ primitives”, traitant des moyens d’absorber les forces ou, dans le cas disséqué, les connaissances de l’Autre. Le principe génératif associé à cette pratique du découpage “ assimilatif” semble assez bien traduit par cette maxime : «pour apprendre, rien ne vaut l’accès à une coupe de cerveau d’un “ sachant”. » (Anonyme) ; maxime, qui, portée au paroxysme dans une sorte de communion des groupes revendiquant un goût plus raffiné pour l’accès au savoir, s’énonce souvent ainsi : “ Mangez, digérez, déféquez”.
Du retrait au manque dans les arts numériques interactifs Lessness
Authors: Maza Monique
Published: January 2018

The collapse of the values and the certainty which marked the twentieth century undoubtedly offered to art the occasion to be ventured with the borders of the vacuum and to seek in the expression of its corollaries of new ways for creation. Ways which will reveal moreover how much the feeling lack is, curiously, in the middle of the esthetic relation. The prolific universe of the Net, in which occurs today many artists of the numerical Art, seems on the other hand, by its propensity with the filling (superabundance of the sound and visual signs, reduction of connections and saturation of the screens), in total contradiction with the idea even of the vacuum or the lack.

How artists of the Net Art put up do with this new environment ? In addition, if the thought of the vacuum still works their works, through which strategies can it be expressed and manage to hold the attention constantly inattentive of the Net surfers ?
Le silence gestuel, source de langages musicaux
Authors: Dewagtere Bernard
Published: January 2018

This article is interested in the process by which the gestural silence, far from personified the vacuity or the idleness, can be source of sound production, that it is about musical language or, in contrast, about indefinite sounds.

Two examples will illustrate this approach :

1 -The conducting gesture : when the silence conducts sounds

Real mirror of the performer gesture, the conducting gesture - beaten at the origin of noisy way to put itself in the service of the musical production - knew how to, having crossed many transformations and controversies, having imposed within the world of the sound aesthetics the authority of its silence.

2 -The silent player : the case of 4'33"

Brief presentation and analysis of 4'33", works sometimes called to good or bad escient "Silent piece", where the place left vacant by the sacred space of the stage, is immediately occupied by the profane space of the public (whispers, coughs, outer noises). Two examples will illustrate this approach :

1 -The conducting gesture : when the silence conducts sounds

Real mirror of the performer gesture, the conducting gesture - beaten at the origin of noisy way to put itself in the service of the musical production - knew how to, having crossed many transformations and controversies, having imposed within the world of the sound aesthetics the authority of its silence.

2 -The silent player : the case of 4'33"

Brief presentation and analysis of 4'33", works sometimes called to good or bad escient "Silent piece", where the place left vacant by the sacred space of the stage, is immediately occupied by the profane space of the public (whispers, coughs, outer noises).
Quelques silences
Authors: Bosseur Jean-Yves
Published: January 2018

The question of silence, notably in the works of Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Scelsi, Mompou or Takemitsu, has for some time now, often strayed from the traditional acceptance of such a notion in the history of musical thought in the West. We propose to share these hypotheses for reflection, which also allow us to determine the roots of the aesthetic conception of the composers concerned.
Photographie et marché de l’art : quels objets, pour quels enjeux ?
Authors: Caujolle Christian
Published: January 2018

Au moment où les marchés et les métiers de la photographie se transforment en profondeur, au moment où le secteur de la presse cesse d’être le producteur essentiel et où les mutations technologiques ouvrent la voie à des relations à l’image entièrement nouvelles, un seul secteur semble en progression, celui de la vente de tirages de collection. Sans atteindre l’importance du marché américain qui reste le premier au monde, celui qui se développe en Europe ouvre de nouvelles perspectives, tant économiques que du point de vue de leur positionnement, à des photographes, de plus en plus nombreux, voire trop nombreux par rapport à la demande. Mais aujourd’hui, porté par Paris Photographie devenu la meilleure foire photographique au monde, ce marché ne saurait être une panacée. Il doit rester très vigilant quant à la nature des objets proposés, à la logique des prix, au respect des règles. Il permet alors à certains auteurs de développer et de produire leur travail.
Subjectivités en mouvement et déplacements identitaires dans les « cinémas africains » contemporains
Authors: Ricci Daniela
Published: January 2018

African films, poorly distributed within commercial cinema circuits, are still sometimes seen from an anthropologic and ethnographic perspective, rather than as artistic expressions. For this reason, reviews of movies such as Un homme qui crie (Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Chad, Belgium, France, 2010), mainly deal with the situation in Chad rather than with the cinematographic aspects themselves.

Likewise, for a long time, African filmmakers were prisoners of their origins, compelled to bow to foreign expectations.

Today, many directors openly deal with their subjectivities, their complex and shifting identities that are an integral component of their lives and experiences. They put into play their complex and yet rewarding hybrid existence, mirroring the complexities of reality. The present article deals with the central role that the theme of the search for identity, in a constant state of flux and re-definition, plays in the lives, and notably in the works, of these African filmmakers that are thus placed within a wider, universal context.
Le cinéma direct : du sujet retrouvé à l’invention du subjectif
Authors: Marchiori Dario
Published: January 2018

Où se situe le point-limite de films qui, appartenant encore à l’utopie d’immédiateté du cinéma direct, fait jaillir, de façon bien inattendue et parfois abrupte, le travail du subjectif, par-delà le simple intérêt pour un sujet filmant ou filmé ? Ce ne sera pas dans l’intersubjectivité et les échanges qui précèdent la forme finale du film – ce qui pourrait s’appliquer à n’importe quel film, même au jeu d’échange complice ou violent entre filmeur et filmé dans les vues Lumière. En rester à ce qui passe pendant le travail du film, à la fois à l’écran et dans la tête du spectateur analyste : dénicher l’événement subtil qui révèle le désir du réalisateur et quelque chose de l’esprit des personnes filmées, en provoquant le spectateur à faire de même. Une série de films, notamment de Shirley Clarke, Vidéo Out, Jean Rouch, Raymond Depardon, Samba Félix Ndiaye, ont permis à ce propos d’exister.
L’auto récit, la mise en scène de l’identité narrative au cinéma
Authors: Fontorbes Jean-Pascal , Granié Anne-Marie
Published: January 2018

The theoretical and methodological questions at stake in the cinematic construction of 12 ½ lead us to investigate the social interactions (character, researchers-filmmaker), as the root of reality in film. The central mise-en-scène, constructed from autobiographical narrative, recalls slices of life, which combine both subjectivities on-screen, those of the character and the director-camera operator. We show that 12 ½ , like every other film which we directed, is a social experience which cannot totally shake off feelings, imprints created by the relationships between the one filming and the one being filmed. The reflexive stance (Bourdieu, 1978) helps find the right distance when filming the narrated event.
Gestion des archives de l’École nationale grecque de cinéma et de télévision
Authors: Dendramis Panagiotis
Published: January 2018

Dans le cadre de ma thèse sur l’évolution des institutions grecques assurant la formation des futurs réalisateurs et autres professionnels du secteur audiovisuel, j’ai eu la possibilité d’accéder aux archives de l’école nationale grecque de cinéma et de télévision «L. Stavrakos» . En tant qu’institution la plus ancienne et la plus respectée de Grèce dans ce domaine, elle représente depuis de nombreuses années le principal pourvoyeur de professionnels pour l’industrie du cinéma national.

Ses archives comprennent de nombreux documents sur toutes sortes de sujets, par exemple des catalogues détaillés sur les étudiants et la faculté, des notes sur les cours, les évaluations et les diplômes. De la fondation de l’école jusqu’à ce jour, tous ces documents ont été conservés en bon état, grâce au soin et à l’intérêt de son directeur et de ses héritiers.

Comme la recherche universitaire sur les études cinématographiques en Grèce rencontre d’importantes difficultés pour trouver des archives de ce type, à une si grande échelle et en si bon état, leur importance paraît évidente. La combinaison des informations qu’elles fournissent avec d’autres témoignages et les rares références bibliographiques existantes constituent le corpus principal de mon étude. Enfin, la méthodologie employée pour traiter les résultats pourrait servir d’exemple aux projets de recherche similaires.
Souvenirs intangibles : conservation des films d’étudiants de la NYU Tisch Asia School of the Arts, et modèles envisageables pour un enseignement et un échange collaboratifs futurs entre écoles de cinéma
Authors: Kelly Gabrielle
Published: January 2018

Basé à Singapour, Tisch Asia est un cursus cinématographique diplômant qui propose le même programme que la NYU Film School de New York. Fondé en 2007, il inclut des cours sur le cinéma, l’animation, l’écriture dramatique et la production médias internationale. Les films de ses étudiants ont été primés dans de grands festivals de cinéma tels que Sundance, les Oscars (Academy Awards), le festival de Toronto et le festival de Cannes, entre autres. Bien que l’école ait archivé certains films d’étudiants dès sa création, sa fermeture après sept ans d’existence l’a incitée à archiver ses films d’étudiants de manière plus complète afin de préserver la mémoire intangible de Tisch Asia. Certains films d’étudiants sont en cours d’archivage dans le cadre du programme cinématographique diplômant de Tisch Asia qui réfléchit aux meilleures pratiques de conservation, de promotion et d’éducation, notamment dans le but de sauvegarder la nature unique d’un programme où des étudiants venus du monde entier tournent leurs films à travers toute l’Asie, voire au-delà. Afin d’identifier le meilleur système pour ces archives, on s’est demandé comment les autres écoles de cinéma géraient les questions de droits d’auteur, de financement, de préservation et de traitement des travaux d’étudiants, l’utilisation et la raison d’être ultime de leurs archives, tout en s’interrogeant sur la manière dont la collaboration pourrait améliorer la gestion et le déploiement des archives pour toutes les autres écoles de cinéma intéressées.

Un plus grand intérêt des écoles de cinéma pour les pratiques actuelles, pourrait inciter plus d’écoles à initier l’archivage et à partager leurs expériences. Une meilleure connaissance des bonnes pratiques d’archivage aiderait les cinéastes à conserver leurs propres travaux ; le peu d’attention portée à ce sujet entraîne la perte de travaux potentiellement importants.

Les archives de films d’étudiants représentent un défi à relever et une source d’inspiration pour les étudiants futurs, les universitaires et les professionnels de l’audiovisuel. Elles constituent de précieuses ressources en termes de contenus, qui témoignent d’une époque ou d’un lieu particulier, de la promotion des étudiants et des écoles de cinéma, mais aussi la création de contenus dont l’utilisation pourrait être redéfinie ultérieurement.
Julian Grigor´Evič Oksman et son rôle dans l’édition académique des Oeuvres d’Alexandre Herzen : ébauche de Mémoires
Authors: Ptouchkina Inna
Published: January 2018

The Role Played by Julian Grigor ´ evič Oksman in the Academic Edition of the Collected Works of Aleksandr Herzen An outline of Memoirs

The article deals with the central role played by Ju. G. Oksman (1895-1970) in the academic edition of A. Herzen’s Works in 30 volumes (35 volumes altogether), which has been prepared by the Institute for World Literature (IMLI) between 1954 and 1966. The author, who made her contribution to it, evokes, through her notes, his extraordinary personality, his erudition, his precision and his refusal of any dishonest compromise. She also points out how closely Oksman was watched in spite of his rehabilitation after ten years spent in labour camps, because of his contacts with foreign slavists, which led him to new persecutions in 1954 and to the banishment of his name until the Perestroika.
Les séquences duelles avec drug drug[a] et la question du désenclavement de la préposition
Authors: Viellard Stéphane
Published: January 2018

Lorsque le pronom réciproque drug drug[ a] est régi par une préposition, les grammaires présentent l’enclavement de celle-ci comme une règle générale. or le désenclavement est relativement fréquent. La langue moderne en offre de nombreux exemples, mais on le rencontre également en vieux russe et en moyen russe. L’analyse d’exemples russes mais aussi français montre que le désenclavement relève d’une opération cognitive et énonciative qui met en évidence l’hétérogénéité des deux entités constitutives de la configuration.
Mixail Vasil′evič Lomonosov (1711-1765) et le latin
Authors: Comtet Roger
Published: January 2018

This Article deals with Lomonosov’s exceptional relations with Latin. Lomonosov (1711-1765) had become an excellent Latinist thanks to his studying humanities in the Muscovite ecclesiastical academy and his stay as a student in germany. He took advantage of this competence in the scientific field in the Imperial academy of sciences in saint-Petersburg, in a time when the use of scientific Latin was the rule ; but he took profit too of his Latin in his philological and literary works which are nourished with Latin culture. However Lomonosov strove all his life long to create a new russian language, both scientific and literary, which could compete with this Latin model he considered as an essential reference. thus Lomonosov remains an exceptional example of a humanist who succeeded in synthesizing his scientifically and philological knowledge for the sake of emancipation and affirmation of a new european modern language.
Boire le thé "à la mode des marchands"
Authors: Nercessian Anne
Published: January 2018

Scenes showing people drinking tea from a saucer are rather common in russian painting (Perov, Kustodiev, etc.). But where did the habit come from in the first place ? French handbooks of good manners of the XIXth century, advise strongly against it (grimod de La reynière, baronne Staffe) showing that it was a widespread practice alluded to in literature (molière, Flaubert…). In russia, it may be the result of the good manners lessons given by middle class French teachers and governesses to their middle-class merchant pupils.
Les vainqueurs et les vaincus : découverte mutuelle : les Russes en France (1814-1818)
Authors: Goubina Maya
Published: January 2018

Winners and Losers Making Acquaintance The Russians in France (1814-1818)

The end of the Napoleonic wars causes the arrival of the troops of the anti-Napoleonic coalition in France in 1814. Napoleon’s attempt to return to power leads to a partial occupation of the country from 1815 to 1818. The subject of this article is the anthropological aspect of theses events : the mutual perception of the winners (the Russians) and the losers (the French). Indeed, the forced neighborliness invites to (re) consider preexisting mutual perceptions and to create some new images. Russian soldiers discover the real life in France and they are disappointed with it, but also they admire it. And the French overcome their fear of the most unknown and the most powerful of all of theirs rivals and “ calm down” with the thought of the superiority of their culture.
La campagne de Russie de 1812 : mythes et réalités
Authors: Petiteau Natalie
Published: January 2018

Русская кампания 1812 г. Мифы и реальность

Существует большая литература по русской кампании Наполеона, в том числе воспо-мнания ее более или менее известных участников. Внимательный анализ этих источников позволяет провести различие между мифологией и реальностью войны. Так становится понятным, что об упадке боевого духа армии во время продвижения наполеоновских войск вглубь российской территории предпочитали не говорить, а Бородинское сражение слишком быстро было квалифицировано как блестящая победа. Нередко забывают также о том, как сильно Москва поразила французов. Что же касается отступления наполеонов-ской армии, то реальность часто превосхо-дила миф : по окончании Империи, счи-талось, что ветеран наполеоновских армий должен был непременно быть участником русской кампании, в связи с чем воспо-минания часто подвергались искажениям.
1812 in the Evocations of Imperial Myth
Authors: S. Wortman Richard
Published: January 2018

1812 dans les mises en scène du mythe impérial

L’article met en lumière les changements d’interprétation et de signification de 1812 en tant qu’événement central dans la représentation de la monarchie et de l’empire russes. L’auteur commence par un examen des significations données aux événements par Alexandre Ier et ses interlocuteurs culturels – ceux qui ont fourni les bases philosophiques et esthétiques qui étayent ses convictions – à savoir que 1812 représente le début d’une renaissance historique mondiale, dictée par la divine Providence. Le règne de Nicolas Ier voit se développer une conception différente de la Russie en tant que monarchie nationale, celle d’une autocratie qui se distingue, par sa religion et son histoire propres, des autres États européens corrompus par l’influence du libéralisme et des idées révolutionnaires. Dans le scénario de Nicolas Ier, 1812 est la preuve de l’union du peuple russe et de l’autocratie. Dans les années 1830, il introduit des éléments du mythe de 1812 qui permettent de faire de la victoire un élément central de la mythologie de l’État et de la nation russes. Cela inclut des jours de fête célébrant la victoire par de grandes parades glorifiant l’armée et Alexandre Ier comme les acteurs de la victoire, l’introduction d’un style néomoscovite dans l’architecture de l’église du Christ-Sauveur construite à la mémoire des victimes de 1812, l’élévation du champ de bataille de Borodino au rang de sanctuaire national et la publication d’une monumentale histoire des campagnes de 1812, 1813 et 1814, exhaltant le rôle de l’empereur et de ses généraux.
MEASURING REIKI HEALING - MYSTERY, PLACEBO, OR REAL ENERGY HEALING?
Authors: Kuman Maria
Published: January 2018

'Rei-ki' means 'Universal-Energy' and Reiki Healers, who heal with hands, claim they use Universal energy to heal. To prove or disprove their statements, Reiki Healers and their patients were measured before and after treatment with very sensitive patented equipment capable of measuring
one millionth of the ampere (microampere) and less. The human nonlinear electromagnetic field is very weak, but it rules and regulates everything in the body. It can be justified with sensitive equipment, which measure the magnetic component (SQUID) or the electric component (our patented
equipment). The measurements showed that energy is indeed transferred from the hands of healers to the patients, but surprisingly after hand healing not only was the energy of the patients higher and better balanced, the energy of the healers was always higher and better balanced, which proves
involvement of a third source of energy. Since the electric energy on top of their heads, which we measured, was higher after each treatment, obviously they channel electric energy, which stimulates (from the atmosphere through the top opening of their spinning donut-shaped EMF (electromagnetic
field)). However, to sedate they could suck earth's magnetic energy, which sedates, through the bottom opening of their spinning donut-shaped EMF. The greatest advantage of energy healing is that it can be used for prevention. The used equipment could detect energy imbalance 5 to 7 years before
the symptoms of the disease would appear. By restoring the energy balance with energy healing or acupuncture, the disease could be prevented and the symptoms of the disease would never appear.
The Molecular Mechanistic Effects of Acupuncture in Endometriosis Management
Authors: Zhao Wenli , Tseng Claire , Zhao Ye , Chen Shau-Kwaun , Shi Xuemin , Tseng Yiider
Published: January 2018

Recent advances in neuroendocrinology and immunology have provided an entry to understand acupuncture. Here, we highlight these progresses and use endometriosis as an example to provide a perspective in how to effectively engage acupuncture into modern biomedicine. Endometriosis is
a common chronic inflammatory disease in which endometrial tissue progressively grows outside the uterine cavity and into the pelvic region, including the fallopian tubes and ovaries. Also, estrogen promotes the endometriosis progression through on-site inflammation. Current treatments for
endometriosis involve hormonal therapy and surgical procedures, however, they both may induce several side effects. Several studies have shown that the administration of exogenous dopamine agonists can significantly suppress endometriosis progression. Acupuncture is multivalent in which it
can simultaneously stimulate the secretion of endogenous dopamine to modulate the GnRH neuroendocrine pathway in CNS and the COX-2 inflammatory pathway in PNS. Hence, acupuncture can smoothly manage endometriosis without the side effects of exogenous dopamine. The endometriosis management
by acupuncture provides us an example of how to incorporate acupuncture into current biomedical systems. Acupuncture may provide a convenient, physiological method to regulate the neuroendocrine system in an integrative, systematic means.
Preliminary Study of β1-Adrenergic Receptor and M2 Muscarinic Cholinergic Receptor Mediated Protective Effect of Electroacupuncture on PC6 against Myocardial Ischemia
Authors: Li Shi Candidate , Zhao Ji-Ping , Gao Jun-Hong , Zhang Jin-Ling , Zhu Bing , Yu Xiao-Chun , Rong Pei-Jing
Published: January 2018

The aims of the present study were to observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) at Neiguan (PC6) on ischemic myocardium and the involvement of myocardial β1-adrenergic (β1AR) and M2 cholinergic muscarinic receptors (M2AChR) in
the protective effect. The C57BL6 mice were divided into control, model and PC6 groups randomly. The myocardial ischemia (MI) model of mice was established by forced exhaustive swimming (ES). EA at PC6 was performed to the PC6 group for 7 days. The Electrocardiograph (ECG) was recorded before
ES and immediately after ES on the 1st and 7th day. The ECG J-point deviation value and heart rate (HR) were analyzed to evaluate the effect of EA. The β1AR and M2AChR knockout mice were used to explore whether β1AR and M2AChR
in the cardiac myocytes mediated the cardioprotection effect of EA. The β1AR knockout (β1AR-/-) and M2AChR knockout (M2AChR-/-) mice were divided into MI model and PC6 groups respectively and treated the same way corresponding to the groups
of C57BL6 mice. The results showed that the Electrocardiograph (ECG) J-point deviation value in C57BL6 mice were significantly increased after MI (P=0.015 in the model group, P=0.001 in the PC6 group), which is a symptom of MI, while the heart rate (HR) on the 1st
decreased significantly (P<0.05, or P<0.01). Following EA in the C57BL6 mice, the J-point deviation on the 7th day was significantly decreased (P=0.031, decreased 70.05%), but the HR was still much slower than their baseline (both P<0.01). The
increased J-point deviation value and decreased HR level were also observed in both β1AR-/- and M2AChR-/- mice (P<0.05, or P<0.01). While no significant changes were found in the J point deviation after EA intervention on the 7th day,
and in HR of the both types of mice. These results suggested that EA at PC6 could protect the myocardium against ischemic injury, probably mediated by myocardial β1AR and M2AChR.