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    Translating the Subject à la française

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    Exhibition review in The Journal of Modern Craft

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    Review of extensive exhibition of contemporary French ceramic art entitled “Circuit Céramique aux Arts Décoratifs: La Scène Française Contemporaine” held at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 2010, on the occasion of the 44th assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics

    Une analyse des revues indexées dans le KLAPP (Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française)

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    Résultats préliminaires d'un projet de comparaison des deux plus importants répertoires bibliographiques spécialisés en littératures de langue française (accessibles sous forme de bases de données bibliographiques en ligne depuis 2014) : la « Bibliographie de la littérature française » (« Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft » ou « KLAPP »), publiée chez Klostermann depuis 1956, et la « Bibliographie de la littérature française » (ou « Rancoeur », précédemment intitulée « Bibliographie de la littérature française), publiée depuis 1953 chez Armand Colin et aux Presses universitaires de France (sous forme de hors-série annuel de la « Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France ») puis chez Classiques Garnier

    Absurd dignity: the rebel and his cause in Jean Améry and Albert Camus

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    Regularized Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Feature Selection in Mixtures-of-Experts Models

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    Mixture of Experts (MoE) are successful models for modeling heterogeneous data in many statistical learning problems including regression, clustering and classification. Generally fitted by maximum likelihood estimation via the well-known EM algorithm, their application to high-dimensional problems is still therefore challenging. We consider the problem of fitting and feature selection in MoE models, and propose a regularized maximum likelihood estimation approach that encourages sparse solutions for heterogeneous regression data models with potentially high-dimensional predictors. Unlike state-of-the art regularized MLE for MoE, the proposed modelings do not require an approximate of the penalty function. We develop two hybrid EM algorithms: an Expectation-Majorization-Maximization (EM/MM) algorithm, and an EM algorithm with coordinate ascent algorithm. The proposed algorithms allow to automatically obtaining sparse solutions without thresholding, and avoid matrix inversion by allowing univariate parameter updates. An experimental study shows the good performance of the algorithms in terms of recovering the actual sparse solutions, parameter estimation, and clustering of heterogeneous regression data

    Defining a robust biological prior from Pathway Analysis to drive Network Inference

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    Inferring genetic networks from gene expression data is one of the most challenging work in the post-genomic era, partly due to the vast space of possible networks and the relatively small amount of data available. In this field, Gaussian Graphical Model (GGM) provides a convenient framework for the discovery of biological networks. In this paper, we propose an original approach for inferring gene regulation networks using a robust biological prior on their structure in order to limit the set of candidate networks. Pathways, that represent biological knowledge on the regulatory networks, will be used as an informative prior knowledge to drive Network Inference. This approach is based on the selection of a relevant set of genes, called the "molecular signature", associated with a condition of interest (for instance, the genes involved in disease development). In this context, differential expression analysis is a well established strategy. However outcome signatures are often not consistent and show little overlap between studies. Thus, we will dedicate the first part of our work to the improvement of the standard process of biomarker identification to guarantee the robustness and reproducibility of the molecular signature. Our approach enables to compare the networks inferred between two conditions of interest (for instance case and control networks) and help along the biological interpretation of results. Thus it allows to identify differential regulations that occur in these conditions. We illustrate the proposed approach by applying our method to a study of breast cancer's response to treatment

    Landscaping Hispaniola Moreau de Saint-MĂ©ry's border politics

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    This article focuses on Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry's <i>Description Topographique et Politique de la partie espagnole de l'Isle Saint-Domingue </i>(1796) and his <i>Description Topographique, Physique, Civile, Politique et Historique de la partie française de l'Isle Saint-Domingue </i> (1797). The Descriptions were both written before the beginning of the French Revolution and the 1791 slave revolt in Saint Domingue but were published when the colonial frontier had been abolished (at least de jure if not de facto) by the 1795 Peace of Basle. Overall, the article argues that the two Descriptions are ultimately committed to the (re)inscription of the colonial frontier but intriguingly oscillate between its erasure and its reinforcement. It begins by focusing on Saint-Méry's territorial projections and appropriative landscaping of the Spanish colony; it highlights the important role played by the border in the racial politics of Hispaniola and then revisits Saint-Mery's border politics on the island in the light of the author's conviction that France should reannex Louisiana, given to Spain in 1762

    Culture and identity in study abroad contexts:After Australia, French without France

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    Re-imagining French lexicography: The dictionnaire vivant de la langue française

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    The Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF), developed by The ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, represents an experimental, interactive, and community-based approach to French lexicography. The DVLF enables broad public access to a wide variety of linguistic tools and resources, with the goal of changing user interaction with dictionaries and providing better descriptions of emergent word use. In this article we describe the history of the DVLF and provide a survey of similar community-oriented electronic dictionaries. We then proceed to a presentation of the dictionary’s many features, including the variety of its definitions and mechanisms for user interaction. The article concludes with a discussion of ARTFL’s plans for the future developement of the DVLF
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