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    A Comparison of Several Interpretations of "Snow" by Louis MacNeice

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    International audience‘Snow’ was written in January 1935 and included in the middle section of Poems the third work published by MacNeice in September 1935. In the collection, “Snow” had quite an unconspicuous place; it was merely one of the shorter early poems. But in the Collected Poems (1925-1948) published in 1949, it was given a choice position as last poem in the second section. Its importance may have revealed itself to the poet with hindsight. Besides, the poem had become one of the best known works by MacNeice and it had started a critical epic that was to last to this day. We propose here to focus on a series of interpretations spanning thirty five years or so between 1953 and 1988 in order to draw up a comparison. We chose to select the most representative ones but we did not have to carry out long researches to discover the first controversy about the interpretation of the poem

    PHYSIOPATHOLOGIE ET PREVENTION DU SYNDROME DE MORT SUBITE CHEZ LE NOURRISSON

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    REIMS-BU Santé (514542104) / SudocSudocFranceF

    Marine calcification as a source of carbon dioxide: positive feedback of increasing atmospheric CO2

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    Calcification is a well‐recognized source of CO2 to the surrounding water and thus a potential source of atmospheric CO2 due to chemical equilibria involving the CO2 species. The released CO2: precipitated carbonate ratio (Ψ) has recently been estimated to be 0.6 in seawater (taking into account the buffering capacity of the latter). We report an analytical expression enabling the computation of this ratio. Calculations show that the amount of CO2 that must be released to equilibrate seawater increases with increasing partial pressure of CO2 in seawater (pCO2), which results from human impact on atmospheric CO2. We show that at 15°C Ψ increased from 0.55 during the time of glaciation to 0.67 at present and would increase to 0.84 for a pCO2 of 1,000 µatm. Doubling the preindustrial pCO2 value results in a total CO2 source of ∼5 Gt C (taking into account the described buffering effect)
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