Narcisse, Tirésias et Orphée. Un regard moralisé sur le corps chez Alexandre Neckam

Au chapitre De la voix de son encyclopédie De Naturis rerum (I, 20), A. Neckam (1157-1217) réunit trois figures mythiques présentant un rapport au corps. Narcisse est subjugué par sa beauté, Orphée se découvre pédéraste, Tirésias devient transsexuel. Ces trois exemples montrent le rôle original que l’auteur fait jouer à la mythographie dans une œuvre didactique, où sont introduits, puis remis à distance par la moralisation, des sujets tabous.In the chapter Of the voice of its encyclopaedia De Naturis rerum (I, 20), Alexander Neckam (1157-1217) joins together three mythical figures presenting varied relations with the body. Narcissus is subjugated by his own beauty, Orpheus seems a pederast, Tiresias becomes transsexual. These three examples show with wich originality this English author uses the mythography in a didactic work, where he introduces taboos topics, then tries to attenuate and rationalize them according to the moral standard

Edoardo D’Angelo, La Letteratura latina medievale. Una storia per generi

Edoardo d’Angelo nous livre là un véritable précis de littérature européenne du Moyen Âge écrite en langue latine. Cet exercice de synthèse littéraire, goûté en Italie ou en Allemagne, est trop peu représenté dans les études médiévales en France, où l’on ne dispose, à côté de travaux nourris sur des genres précis, que de synthèses partielles. D’Angelo, auteur déjà en 2004 d’une littérature médiolatine, s’est donné ici une contrainte supplémentaire : il propose un classement par genres, dans ..

Antonio Telesio de Cosenza, Petit traité des couleurs latines (De coloribus libellus), éd. Michel Indergand et Christine Viglino

L’École Estienne, à Paris, forme depuis plus de cent vingt ans aux métiers des Arts et des industries du Livre. Elle a pris pour nom ceux d’illustres humanistes qui furent aussi de grands imprimeurs, Henri Ier Estienne (1470-1520) et son fils Robert Estienne (1503-1559). Mais elle abrite de plus une bibliothèque exceptionnelle, ouverte aux chercheurs, et comprenant quelques incunables inestimables, quatre cents ouvrages allant du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, des catalogues de fondeurs rarissimes et..

Very high resolution mapping of coral reef state using airborne bathymetric LiDAR surface-intensity and drone imagery

International audienceVery high resolution (VHR) airborne data enable detection and physical measurements of individual coral reef colonies. The bathymetric LiDAR system, as an active remote sensing technique, accurately computes the coral reef ecosystem’s surface and reflectance using a single green wavelength at the decimetre scale over 1-to-100 km2 areas. A passive multispectral camera mounted on an airborne drone can build a blue-green-red (BGR) orthorectified mosaic at the centimetre scale over 0.01-to-0.1 km2 areas. A combination of these technologies is used for the first time here to map coral reef ecological state at the submeter scale. Airborne drone BGR values (0.03 m pixel size) serve to calibrate airborne bathymetric LiDAR surface and intensity data (0.5 m pixel size). A classification of five ecological states is then mapped through an artificial neural network (ANN). The classification was developed over a small area (0.01 km2) in the lagoon of Moorea Island (French Polynesia) at VHR (0.5 m pixel size) and then extended to the whole lagoon (46.83 km2). The ANN was first calibrated with 275 samples to determine the class of coral state through LiDAR-based predictors; then, the classification was validated through 135 samples, reaching a satisfactory performance (overall accuracy = 0.75)

Multi-modal image fusion for small animal studies in in-line PET /3T MRI

Congrès sous l’égide de la Société Française de Génie Biologique et Médical (SFGBM).National audienceIn the framework of small animal multi-modal imaging, the current progression of the IMAPPI project is illustrated by the design of an in-line PET/MRI prototype, coupled to a dedicated multi-resolution registration method allowing the robust fusion of data coming from both modalities. The first results show a good alignment of the data from tumor imaging at the level of the abdomen

Compte-rendu de la journée d’étude « Qualité de vie et cohésion au travail »

Les élèves conservatrices et conservateurs promus DCB30 proposent un retour sur la journée d’étude consacrée à la qualité de vie et cohésion au travail qu’ils ont organisée le 21 mai 2021. Cette journée s’est déclinée autour de deux conférences introductives sur le thème de la qualité de vie au travail, des ateliers pour permettre à de futurs cadres de réfléchir et de mettre en place des actions relatives à ces thèmes et enfin des retours d’expériences

International trade law, plain packaging and tobacco industry political activity:the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Tobacco companies are increasingly turning to trade and investment agreements to challenge measures aimed at reducing tobacco use. This study examines their efforts to influence the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major trade and investment agreement which may eventually cover 40% of the world's population; focusing on how these efforts might enhance the industry's power to challenge the introduction of plain packaging. Specifically, the paper discusses the implications for public health regulation of Philip Morris International's interest in using the TPP to: shape the bureaucratic structures and decision-making processes of business regulation at the national level; introduce a higher standard of protection for trademarks than is currently provided under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights; and expand the coverage of Investor-State Dispute Settlement which empowers corporations to litigate directly against governments where they are deemed to be in breach of investment agreements. The large number of countries involved in the TPP underlines its risk to the development of tobacco regulation globally

OVX033, a nucleocapsid-based vaccine candidate, provides broad-spectrum protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants in a hamster challenge model

Spike-based COVID-19 vaccines induce potent neutralizing antibodies but their efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 variants decreases. OVX033 is a recombinant protein composed of the full-length nucleocapsid (N) protein of SARS-CoV-2 genetically fused to oligoDOM®, a self-assembling domain which improves antigen immunogenicity. OVX033 including N as an antigenic target is proposed as new vaccine candidate providing broad-spectrum protection against sarbecoviruses. OVX033 demonstrated its ability to trigger cross-reactive T cell responses and cross-protection against three variants of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1 Europe, Delta B.1.617.2, and Omicron B.1.1.529) in a hamster challenge model, as evidenced by lower weight loss, lower lung viral loads, and reduced lung histopathological lesions

A far-ultraviolet-driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk

Most low-mass stars form in stellar clusters that also contain massive stars, which are sources of far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation. Theoretical models predict that this FUV radiation produces photo-dissociation regions (PDRs) on the surfaces of protoplanetary disks around low-mass stars, impacting planet formation within the disks. We report JWST and Atacama Large Millimetere Array observations of a FUV-irradiated protoplanetary disk in the Orion Nebula. Emission lines are detected from the PDR; modelling their kinematics and excitation allows us to constrain the physical conditions within the gas. We quantify the mass-loss rate induced by the FUV irradiation, finding it is sufficient to remove gas from the disk in less than a million years. This is rapid enough to affect giant planet formation in the disk