Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop

The Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop (GPWDCW) was held 15-18 April 1991 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for individuals involved in wildlife damage management to discuss new ideas and recent advances in ecology, technology, public education, and policy. The format allowed for interaction and exchange on current issues, damage control techniques, priority areas for research, public education, and extension activities. The GPWDCW is one of three national conferences (including the Vertebrate Pest Conference and the Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference) that deal specifically with wildlife damage management. More than 250 people from 22 states and two provinces participated. Most participants were responsible for management, administration, or extension duties in federal, state, or provincial agencies, or in educational institutions. Others reported responsibilities including research, regulation, commerce, teaching, consulting, policy, and production. Most participants were involved with wildlife damage management in relation to agriculture (especially livestock, field crops, cash crops, nurseries, and fruit crops) and dealt with damage caused by predators, birds, field rodents, ungulates, and commensal rodents

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Stéphane Breton, maître de conférences Enseignement suspendu durant l’année universitaire 2009-201

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Stéphane Breton, maître de conférences Anthropologie sémiotique : la norme des échanges Le séminaire a été consacré à une analyse minutieuse des travaux de Michael Silverstein concernant l’idéologie linguistique. En suivant cet auteur - qui s’inscrit dans la tradition de l’anthropologie linguistique américaine (de Boas à Whorf) et dans la filiation d’une réflexion sémiotique inaugurée par Peirce et continuée par Jakobson -, nous nous sommes intéressé aux modalités de la méconnaissance, par le..

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Par une habitude que déterminent nos propres conditions d’existence sociale, nous n’envisageons la monnaie que du point de vue d’un agent économique qui acquiert grâce à elle des marchandises sur un marché. Elle est indissociable de l’équivalence permettant d’expliquer pourquoi les biens sont échangés et selon quel rapport ; celui-ci détermine leur valeur économique. Dans la perspective classique, la monnaie est donc définie par l’échange, c’est-à-dire par une forme de réciprocité. C’est cett..

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Stéphane Breton, maître de conférences Anthropologie sémiotique : la chose commune Dans la perspective de la description monographique d’une société de Nouvelle-Guinée occidentale (les Wodani des hautes terres) dans laquelle l’enseignant a conduit son travail de terrain, le séminaire s’est attaché à comprendre ce que l’on pourrait appeler les « médiations sociales » qui interviennent et s’interposent dans tous les aspects de la vie sociale, que ce soit dans la constitution de la personne – av..

Les signes en société

Stéphane Breton, maître de conférences Enseignement suspendu durant l’année universitaire 2009-201

Review of patient-specific simulations of transcatheter aortic valve implantation

International audienceTranscatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) accounts for one of the most promising new cardiovascular procedures. This minimally invasive technique is still at its early stage and is constantly developing thanks to imaging techniques, computer science, biomechanics and technologies of prosthesis and delivery tools. As a result, patient-specific simulation can find an exciting playground in TAVI. It canexpress its potential by providing the clinicians with powerful decision support, offering great assistance in their workflow. Through a review of the current scientific field, we try to identify the challenges and future evolutions of patient-specific simulation for TAVI. This review article is an attempt to summarize and coordinate data scattered across the literature about patient-specific biomechanical simulation for TAVI

Exhumation tectonics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in east China: New petrological-structural-radiometric insights from the Shandong Peninsula

International audienceIn eastern China, the Sulu area is recognized as the eastern extension of the Qinling-Dabie Belt, which is famous for its ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism. Although numerous petrologic and geochemical works are available, structural data are still rare. This paper provides the first extensive study of bulk geometry and kinematic analysis of the Shandong Peninsula. The study area is divided into three tectonic areas by Cretaceous faults, namely, a southern UHP belt or Sulu area, a northern migmatite area, and an eastern eclogite and migmatite area or Weihai area. Conversely to the deeply entrenched idea that the later area belongs to the North China Belt, and the two others to the South China Block (SCB), we argue that all three areas are parts of the SCB. Structural, petrologic, 40Ar/39Ar, and U/Pb data comply with this new interpretation. In the North Shandong area, mafic granulites enclosed as blocks within gneissic migmatites do not significantly differ from the Sulu and Weihai eclogites which also experienced a granulite facies overprint before migmatization. The circa 210–200 Ma age of the main ductile deformation is related to an extensional event during the Triassic (or Indosinian) orogeny. This date corresponds to the temperature climax, but the time of the pressure peak, i.e., the real age of the UHP metamorphism is discussed