Book review: cotton by Adam Sneyd

In Cotton, Adam Sneyd brings the reality of international trade into focus through tracing the local and global politics behind the circulation of one of the most everyday of materials: cotton. This is a vividly told, interrogative read that establishes its author as a leading expert on the politics of commodities and development, finds Dr Milasoa Chérel-Robson

Portrait. Laurence Bertrand Dorléac

Réfutant une histoire de l’art « internaliste » et timorée, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (1957) développe une pratique qui intègre les sciences humaines et joue dans les entrelacs de leurs différents registres. Titulaire d’un doctorat en histoire de l’art et archéologie, à Paris I - La Sorbonne (1984), et d’un second en histoire de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1990), elle est, depuis 1995, professeur à l’Université d’Amiens où elle a fondé le département d’histoire de l’art. Membre d..

Kneading Ambiguity

In a “critical and polemical” essay, Dominique Baqué puts forward the hypothesis that for the past 20 years art has flopped. In the face of the complexity of reality, it is naïve and ineffectual. In railing against activist practices associated with the anti-globalization doxy, the author observes the depoliticized withdrawal of “the art of the intimate”, condemns the offhandedness of “entertainment artists”, refutes the effectiveness of the “neo-avant-garde”, and laments the illusions of “re..

Elvan Zabunyan. Black Is A Color : une histoire de l’art africain-américain contemporain

Nier d’autres récits qui ont pourtant pris forme, c’est manquer l’essentiel de ce qui se passe dans le monde depuis un siècle. Black Is A Color cherche à reconstituer, avec pertinence, les données propres à une histoire culturelle et artistique afro-américaine. Cet ouvrage repose sur l’idée que le statut de ces artistes les a renvoyés à leur identité raciale ; leurs œuvres se sont alors développées en relation à celle-ci. Cette thèse participe à une analyse de leur place dans la société des E..

Travailler l’ambiguïté

Dans un essai “critique et polémique”, Dominique Baqué avance l’hypothèse que l’art, depuis vingt ans, a échoué. Face à la complexité du réel, il serait naïf et inopérant. Dénonçant les pratiques activistes liées à la doxa altermondialiste, l’auteure observe le repli dépolitisé de “l’art de l’intime”, condamne la désinvolture des “artistes du divertissement”, réfute l’efficacité de la “néo-avant-garde”, déplore les illusions de l’“esthétique relationnelle”. Après ce postulat, elle affirme qu’..

Advances in the development of Astatine-radiolabelling protocols: exploring the metallic character of astatine

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Impact of transposition of the directive 2013/34/EU into the national laws of EU member states emphatically V4

The European Union has published the Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings for reasons of increasing of the competitive advantage and productivity of small and medium.sized enterprises. The EU Member States have to incorporate the rules of the Directive with their national law by 20 July 2015 at the latest during the year 2016. The intention of this paper is to determine and to evaluate the impacts of transposition of the Directive into the Czech Accounting Law and into the national accounting laws of EU Member States chosen. There is an identification of main differences of Czech Accounting Law and of amended Czech Accounting Law issued 1st of January 2016. There is an impact of implementation of the Directive 2013/34/EU on financial statements and at the same time on requirements of audit for individual categories of Czech accounting entities. In this paper, there is also an analysis of impact of the Directive 2013/34/EU on national accounting laws V4 States and on several further EU Member States. On the basis of comparison of differences recognized, there is an deduction of findings for companies falling into the same group.O

Characterization of At- species in simple and biological media by high performance anion exchange chromatography coupled to gamma detector.

Astatine is a rare radioelement belonging to the halogen group. Considering the trace amounts of astatine produced in cyclotrons, its chemistry cannot be evaluated by spectroscopic tools. Analytical tools, provided that they are coupled with a radioactive detection system, may be an alternative way to study its chemistry. In this research work, High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography (HPAEC) coupled to a gamma detector (γ) was used to evaluate astatine species under reducing conditions. Also, to strengthen the reliability of the experiments, a quantitative analysis using a reactive transport model has been done. The results confirm the existence of one species bearing one negative charge in the pH range 27.5. With respect to the other halogens, its behavior indicates the existence of negative ion, astatide At-. The methodology was successfully applied to the speciation of the astatine in human serum. Under fixed experimental conditions (pH 7.47.5 and redox potential of 250 mV) astatine exists mainly as astatide At- and does not interact with the major serum components. Also, the method might be useful for the in vitro stability assessment of 211At-labelled molecules potentially applicable in nuclear medicine