A New Platform for Editing Digital Multimedia : the eTalks

The eTalks are a new digital multimedia editing plaform developed at the University of Lausanne: their application is implemented via an easy-to-use editor interface, designed for the use of researchers themselves, to create and edit original eTalks. This permits the linking together of images, sounds and textual materials with hyperlinks, enriching it with relevant information. The final release of eTalks allows complete ‘citability’ of its contents: each and every portion of the researchers' talks can be precisely referred to and thus cited with a specific identifier, just like any traditional, paper-based scientific publication but with all the potential for plural literacies. It is openly accessible and the code is open source, including guidelines to install the eTalks. It contributes to the development of multiliteracies in the digital academic production of knowledge

Landauer vs. Nernst: What is the True Cost of Cooling a Quantum System?

Thermodynamics connects our knowledge of the world to our capability to manipulate and thus to control it. This crucial role of control is exemplified by the third law of thermodynamics, Nernst's unattainability principle, stating that infinite resources are required to cool a system to absolute zero temperature. But what are these resources and how should they be utilised? And how does this relate to Landauer's principle that famously connects information and thermodynamics? We answer these questions by providing a framework for identifying the resources that enable the creation of pure quantum states. We show that perfect cooling is possible with Landauer energy cost given infinite time or control complexity. However, such optimal protocols require complex unitaries generated by an external work source. Restricting to unitaries that can be run solely via a heat engine, we derive a novel Carnot-Landauer limit, along with protocols for its saturation. This generalises Landauer's principle to a fully thermodynamic setting, leading to a unification with the third law and emphasising the importance of control in quantum thermodynamics.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, 46 pages of appendice

Why Were the Resurrection Stories Read and Believed? And What Are We Making of Them Today?

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«A New NT Papyrus: P126 (PSI 1497)»

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Tout-ski. La fin d’un mythe ?

L’acceptation de l’initiative pour la limitation des résidences secondaires a constitué un véritable choc pour les régions touristiques suisses. En replaçant cette décision dans le contexte plus général du débat sur les avantages et les inconvénients d’un modèle de développement des stations basé sur la construction de résidences secondaires, nous rappelons tout d’abord le rôle jusqu’ici restreint joué en Suisse par les pouvoirs publics dans la gestion de cette problématique. Nous montrons également le décalage existant entre le discours des responsables politiques et touristiques, favorable à une restriction de la construction de nouvelles résidences secondaires, et la réalité du terrain matérialisée par une augmentation continuelle de ces dernières. Notre hypothèse principale consiste à affirmer que la modification du cadre légal imposée par l’acceptation de l’initiative va contraindre les acteurs du tourisme à innover afin de mettre en place un nouveau modèle de développement basé sur l’hébergement marchand, autrement dit à passer d’un « tourisme de construction » à un « tourisme d’exploitation »

What is the Current State of Play on Jesus' Laughter? Reading the Gospel of Judas in the midst of Scholarly Excitement

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Beyond the Category of "Proto-Orthodox Christianity": An Enquiry Into the Multivalence of Lk 1.35

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