Les acquisitions patrimoniales de la bibliothèque universitaire d'Angers depuis 2008

Depuis 2008, de nombreux fonds d\u27archives littéraires et féministes ont rejoint la bibliothèque universitaire d\u27Angers qui a la particularité de conserver des archives littéraires depuis les années 1990 et abrite le Centre des Archives du féminisme depuis 2000

Les archives de Luc Bérimont à la bibliothèque universitaire d'Angers

Comment sont arrivées les archives de Luc Bérimont à l\u27université d\u27Angers ? Que contiennent-elles

Recent developments on micrometric fission chambers for high neutron fluxes

ISBN 9781424452071International audiencewith the development of innovative nuclear systems and new generation neutron sources, the nuclear instrumentation should be adapted. Since several years, we developed microscopic fission chambers to study the transmutation of minor actinides in high thermal-neutron fluxes. The recent developments done to fulfill the drastic conditions of irradiations are described in this paper together with the feedback from the measurements. Two installations were used: the HFR of the ILL for its highest thermal neutron flux of the world and the MEGAPIE target which was the first 1 MW liquid Pb-Bi spallation target in the world

An Italian foreign policy of religious engagement: challenges and prospects

A new awareness of the role of religion in international relations has started to inform concrete policy discussions in several Western Ministries of Foreign Affairs under the heading of ‘religious engagement’ in foreign policy. Italy is no exception, but as the country which hosts the Holy See, it represents a special case. As the approach to religion found in the historical record of Italian foreign policy shows, Italy has a comparative advantage and could well develop a unique model of religious engagement by strengthening the central structures involved in religious matters and foreign policy, as well as by using the vast network of Rome-based religious non-state actors as a forum of consultation and policy advice

The GUINEVERE Project for Accelerator Driven System Physics

paper 9414International audienceThe GUINEVERE project is part of the EUROTRANS Integrated Project of the 6th EURATOM Framework Programme. It is mainly devoted to ADS on-line reactivity monitoring validation, sub-criticality determination and operational procedures (loading, start-up, shut-down, ...) as a follow-up of the MUSE experiments. The project consists in coupling a fast lead core, set-up in the VENUS reactor at SCK*CEN Mol (B), with a GENEPI neutron source under construction by CNRS. To accommodate the accelerator in a vertical coupling configuration, the VENUS building is being heightened. The fast core will be loaded with enriched Uranium and will be moderated and reflected with solid lead (zero power experiment). For the purpose of the experimental programme, the neutron source has to be operated not only in pulsed mode but also in continuous mode to investigate the current-to-flux reactivity indicator in representative conditions of a powerful ADS. In this latter mode it is also required to make short beam interruptions to have access to the neutron population decrease as a function of time: from this spectrum it will be possible to apply different analysis techniques such as "prompt decay" fitting techniques and "source jerk" techniques. Beam interruptions will be repeated at a programmable frequency to improve time spectra statistics. Different sub-criticality levels (keff=0.99, 0.97, 0.95, ...) will be investigated in order to obtain a full set of data points for the final overall validation of the methodology. This paper describes the status of the experimental facility assembling, and the foreseen experimental programme to be started

Spallation reactions. A successful interplay between modeling and applications

The spallation reactions are a type of nuclear reaction which occur in space by interaction of the cosmic rays with interstellar bodies. The first spallation reactions induced with an accelerator took place in 1947 at the Berkeley cyclotron (University of California) with 200 MeV deuterons and 400 MeV alpha beams. They highlighted the multiple emission of neutrons and charged particles and the production of a large number of residual nuclei far different from the target nuclei. The same year R. Serber describes the reaction in two steps: a first and fast one with high-energy particle emission leading to an excited remnant nucleus, and a second one, much slower, the de-excitation of the remnant. In 2010 IAEA organized a worskhop to present the results of the most widely used spallation codes within a benchmark of spallation models. If one of the goals was to understand the deficiencies, if any, in each code, one remarkable outcome points out the overall high-quality level of some models and so the great improvements achieved since Serber. Particle transport codes can then rely on such spallation models to treat the reactions between a light particle and an atomic nucleus with energies spanning from few tens of MeV up to some GeV. An overview of the spallation reactions modeling is presented in order to point out the incomparable contribution of models based on basic physics to numerous applications where such reactions occur. Validations or benchmarks, which are necessary steps in the improvement process, are also addressed, as well as the potential future domains of development. Spallation reactions modeling is a representative case of continuous studies aiming at understanding a reaction mechanism and which end up in a powerful tool.Comment: 59 pages, 54 figures, Revie

International migration and the rise of the ‘civil’ nation

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 2 March 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1155980Scholars largely agree that immigration policies in Western Europe have switched to a liberal, civic model. Labelled as ‘civic turn’, ‘civic integration’ or ‘liberal convergence’, this model is not identically applied across countries, since national institutions, traditions and identifications still matter. Even so, the main focus is on processes which allow or prevent migrants to be incorporated into nations usually taken for granted in their meanings. Moving from policies to discourses, this article aims to interrogate what kind of nation is behind these policies as a way to further scrutinise the ‘civic turn’. Exploring how the term ‘civility’ and its adjectivisations are discursively deployed in Italian parliamentary debates on immigration and integration issues, the article points to two opposite narratives of nation. While one mobilises civility in order to rewrite the nation in terms of a common, inclusive, civic ‘we’, the other uses civility to reaffirm the conflation between national identity and the identity of the ethno-cultural majority. These findings suggest the importance of exploring the ‘civic turn’ not only across countries, but also across political parties within the same country to capture the ways in which a liberal, civic convergence in political discourses might hide divergent national boundary mechanisms

Le fonds Hervé Bazin à la bibliothèque universitaire d'Angers

Le fonds d\u27archives de Hervé Bazin est conservé à la bibliothèque universitaire d\u27Angers après avoir été acheté aux enchères publiques en 2004, grâce à la mobilisation de différents partenaires institutionnels. Composé de 22 manuscrits, de 9000 lettres autographes reçues, d\u27archives littéraires et de documentation, il reflète la vie culturelle et politique de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle et permet de pénétrer dans les coulisses de la création d\u27une oeuvre

Rapport I-1. La circulation générale et les méthodes opérationnelles de prévision adaptées aux problèmes de pollution atmosphérique

Essential causes of atmosphere air transferts and characteristic aspects of air general circulation are recalled herein. From this point of view, air masses identification already brings a first data on the future atmosphere ability to easy or to keep down the polluents natural dispersion. Then are analysed synoptical items that seem to be in narrow relation with pollution rates changes and their most characteric tresholds. The third part of the paper shows, in the concrete case of an alarm system placed in Rouen, the methodology that was able to number the polluents stagnancy risk gravity.On rappelle les causes essentielles des transferts de l’air atmosphérique ainsi que les aspects caractéristiques de la circulation générale. A cet égard l’identification des masses d’air apporte déjà un premier renseignement sur la faculté qu’aura l’atmosphère de faciliter ou d’empêcher la dispersion naturelle des polluants. On examine ensuite les éléments synoptiques semblant en relation étroite avec les variations des taux de pollution ainsi que leurs seuils les plus caractéristiques. La troisième partie du texte indique, dans le cas concret du système d’alerte mis en place à Rouen, la méthodologie ayant permis de «chiffrer» la gravité du risque de stagnation des polluants.Chabod G., Duvernet F. Rapport I-1. La circulation générale et les méthodes opérationnelles de prévision adaptées aux problèmes de pollution atmosphérique. In: La mécanique des fluides et l'environnement. Prévision et maîtrise de la qualité de l'eau et de l'air. Compte rendu des quatorzièmes journées de l'hydraulique. Paris, 7-9 septembre 1976. Tome 1, 1977

Modelling of Fission Chambers in Current Mode-Analytical approach

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