6 research outputs found
Shift in herders’ territorialities from regional to local scale: the political ecology of pastoral herding in western Burkina Faso
Projet Collectif de Recherche triennal 2020-2022, « La Confluence Saône / Doubs à l'âge du Fer » (VIe s. av. J.-C. au Ier s. de notre ère). Rapport intermédiaire 2020
Le PCR : La confluence Saône-Doubs à l’âge du Fer (VIe s. av. J.-C. au Ier siècle de notre ère), coordonné par Matthieu Thivet et Émilie Dubreucq, vise à relancer une dynamique de recherche sur un secteur géographique clé : la confluence de la Saône et du Doubs, située en plein coeur de la Bourgogne, à une vingtaine de kilomètres au nord de Chalon-sur-Saône. Nous souhaitons travailler d’une part, sur les interactions hommes/environnement dans la longue durée (VIe-Ier siècle), afin de mieux percevoir le rôle joué par la zone de confluence dans l’émergence d’un important pôle de peuplement à l’âge du fer. D’autre part nous aborderons la question de la proto-urbanisation et des modalités de développement des agglomérations ouvertes à spécialisation artisanale et commerciale au cours de l'âge du Fer, dont le Verdunois peut s'enorgueillir de posséder deux cas emblématiques : Bragny-sur-Saône « Sous Moussière » et Verdun-sur-le-Doubs « Petit chauvort ». Pour répondre aux multiples problématiques soulevées, la force du programme repose sur son interdisciplinarité, en compilant des approches à la fois documentaires, archéologiques, géophysiques et spatiales
< QC | HPC >: Quantum for HPC
Quantum Computing (QC) describes a new way of computing based on the principles of quantum mechanics. From a High Performance Computing (HPC) perspective, QC needs to be integrated: at a system level, where quantum computer technologies need to be integrated in HPC clusters; at a programming level, where the new disruptive ways of programming devices call for a full hardware-software stack to be built; at an application level, where QC is bound to lead to disruptive changes in the complexity of some applications so that compute-intensive or intractable problems in the HPC domain might become tractable in the future. The White Paper QC for HPC focuses on the technology integration of QC in HPC clusters, gives an overview of the full hardware-software stack and QC emulators, and highlights promising customised QC algorithms for near-term quantum computers and its impact on HPC applications. In addition to universal quantum computers, we will describe non-universal QC where appropriate. Recent research references will be used to cover the basic concepts. Thetarget audience of this paper is the European HPC community: members of HPC centres, HPC algorithm developers, scientists interested in the co-design for quantum hardware, benchmarking, etc
Shift in Herders' Territorialities from Regional to Local Scale: The Political Ecology of Pastoral Herding in Western Burkina Faso
International audienceIn Burkina Faso, livestock sedentarization programmes are still at the top of policy makers’ agendas and at the heart of their discourse, despite huge changes in land cover, land use and territorialities in rural areas. This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of livestock policies targeting the sedentarization of pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa by specifically highlighting the territorial consequences of such policies. This paper suggests that policies directed at improving livestock governance in a context of climate change and changes in land cover and land tenure need to focus on securing pastoralists’ reticular territories, which are made up of corridors and numerous areas of pastureland, rather than on creating disconnected state ranches