Uses and Perceptions of the Neighborhood Open Space

This research investigates the uses and perceptions of the population of the East Carrollton Area in New Orleans so as to evaluate the possible outcomes of urban design intervention and policy changes. Using GIS, field notes, structured interviews and a population survey, this research evaluates how much the built environment influences the uses of the neighborhood open space. Subsequently, it evaluates how the neighborhood open space is perceived as a place as opposed to a transportation infrastructure. Overall, the built environment affects the experience of the residents when they perform leisure activities in the neighborhood open space. Major deterrents to functional use and active transportation are related to social factors and the social environment. The neighborhood open space is largely perceived as an asset by the residents. It can be a valid replacement for urban parks when the population cannot access them

Uses and Perceptions of the Neighborhood Open Space

This research investigates the uses and perceptions of the population of the East Carrollton Area in New Orleans so as to evaluate the possible outcomes of urban design intervention and policy changes. Using GIS, field notes, structured interviews and a population survey, this research evaluates how much the built environment influences the uses of the neighborhood open space. Subsequently, it evaluates how the neighborhood open space is perceived as a place as opposed to a transportation infrastructure. Overall, the built environment affects the experience of the residents when they perform leisure activities in the neighborhood open space. Major deterrents to functional use and active transportation are related to social factors and the social environment. The neighborhood open space is largely perceived as an asset by the residents. It can be a valid replacement for urban parks when the population cannot access them

Ageing and relaxation times in disordered insulators

We focus on the slow relaxations observed in the conductance of disordered insulators at low temperature (especially granular aluminum films). They manifest themselves as a temporal logarithmic decrease of the conductance after a quench from high temperatures and the concomitant appearance of a field effect anomaly centered on the gate voltage maintained. We are first interested in ageing effects, i.e. the age dependence of the dynamical properties of the system. We stress that the formation of a second field effect anomaly at a different gate voltage is not a "history free" logarithmic (lnt) process, but departs from lnt in a way which encodes the system's age. The apparent relaxation time distribution extracted from the observed relaxations is thus not "constant" but evolves with time. We discuss what defines the age of the system and what external perturbation out of equilibrium does or does not rejuvenate it. We further discuss the problem of relaxation times and comment on the commonly used "two dip" experimental protocol aimed at extracting "characteristic times" for the glassy systems (granular aluminum, doped indium oxide...). We show that it is inoperable for systems like granular Al and probably highly doped InOx where it provides a trivial value only determined by the experimental protocol. But in cases where different values are obtained like in lightly doped InOx or some ultra thin metal films, potentially interesting information can be obtained, possibly about the "short time" dynamics of the different systems. Present ideas about the effect of doping on the glassiness of disordered insulators may also have to be reconsidered.Comment: to appear in the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Transport and Interactions in Disordered Systems (TIDS14

Identification of the hASCT2-binding domain of the Env ERVWE1/syncytin-1 fusogenic glycoprotein

The cellular HERV-W envelope/syncytin-1 protein, encoded by the envelope gene of the ERVWE1 proviral locus is a fusogenic glycoprotein probably involved in the formation of the placental syncytiotrophoblast layer. Syncytin-1-induced in vitro cell-cell fusion is dependent on the interaction with hASCT2. As no receptor binding domain has been clearly defined in the SU of neither the HERV-W Env nor the retroviruses of the same interference group, we designed an in vitro binding assay to evaluate the interaction of the HERV-W envelope with the hASCT2 receptor. Using truncated HERV-W SU subunits, a region consisting of the N-terminal 124 amino acids of the mature SU glycoprotein was determined as the minimal receptor-binding domain. This domain contains several sub-domains which are poorly conserved among retroviruses of this interference group but a region of 18 residus containing the SDGGGX(2)DX(2)R conserved motif was proved to be essential for syncytin-1-hASCT2 interaction

Velocity spectra and coherence estimates in the marine atmospheric boundary layer

Two years of continuous sonic anemometer measurements conducted in 2007 and 2008 at the FINO1 platform are used to investigate the characteristics of the single- and two-point velocity spectra in relation to the atmospheric stability in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. The goals are to reveal the limits of current turbulence models for the estimation of wind loads on offshore structures, and to propose a refined description of turbulence at altitudes where Monin–Obukhov similarity theory may be limited. Using local similarity theory, a composite spectrum model, combining a pointed and a blunt model, is proposed to describe the turbulence spectrum for unstable, neutral and stable conditions. Such a model captures the −1 power law followed by the velocity spectra at an intermediate frequency range in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. For the Monin–Obukhov similarity parameter ζ<0.3, the Davenport coherence model captures the vertical coherence of the horizontal velocity components well. A two-parameter exponential decay function is found more appropriate for modelling the coherence of the vertical velocity component. Under increasingly stable conditions, the size of the eddies in the vertical coordinate reduces, such that smaller separation distances than that covered in the present dataset may be required to study the coherence with sufficient accuracy.acceptedVersio

Valérie Guyen-Croquez, Tradition et Originalité dans les Croniques et Conquestes de Charlemaine de David Aubert

L’ouvrage de Valérie Guyen-Croquez est issu de sa thèse de doctorat soutenue à l’université de Lorraine en 2008 sous la direction de Bernard Guidot. C’est une monographie consacrée aux Croniques et Conquestes de Charlemaine, vaste compilation en prose rédigée avant 1458 par l’escripvain David Aubert à la gloire du grand empereur, qui mêle dérimages de chansons de geste et réécriture de chroniques. Composé de cinq parties, l’ouvrage complète l’étude littéraire par un pan linguistique (quatrièm..

La route des pèlerins : conclusion

Le projet du séminaire a évolué en cours de route : parties du désir d’approcher les conditions matérielles du pèlerinage, les contributions se sont ordonnées sur l’axe dynamique de la route elle-même. Différents pèlerins sillonnent des routes tantôt communes, tantôt singulières. Ainsi, comme le montre Céline Ménager, l’impératrice Hélène ouvre en partant pour Jérusalem la voie d’un pèlerinage qui a exercé une grande fascination aussi bien sur les hommes que sur les femmes du Moyen Âge. Son p..

A survey to determine the status of wrestling in Kansas junior high schools

Call number: LD2668 .R4 1967 C53

La route des pèlerins : éléments bibliographiques

La bibliographie ne recense pas les ouvrages consacrés au voyage en général ni à la croisade en particulier ; elle ne développe pas la question des échanges culturels le long des routes (architecture, iconographie), et elle est exclusivement consacrée aux pèlerinages chrétiens. On pourra consulter sur les croisades la bibliographie de Croisades et pèlerinages. Récits, chroniques et voyages en Terre sainte, XIIe-XVIe siècle, Danielle Régnier-Bohler (dir.), Paris, Robert Laffont, « Bouquins », ..

Chansons de geste et savoirs savants. Convergences et interférences

L’ouvrage dirigé par Philippe Haugeard et Bernard Ribémont publie les actes du congrès de la branche française de la Société Rencesvals, qui s’est tenu à Orléans les 12 et 13 décembre 2013. Une introduction par les directeurs de publication présente les travaux du congrès et problématise rapidement le thème du recueil, c’est-à-dire l’inscription de la culture savante dans l’épopée médiévale. Il n’y a pas de conclusion, mais des annexes qui rassemblent une bibliographie distinguant sources pri..