Louis Lavelle : la philosophie, chemin de sagesse

Pour Louis Lavelle qui voulait écrire De la sagesse comme un couronnement de son oeuvre, la question de la sagesse se trouve au centre même de la philosophie. Le sage s’interroge sur le sens de l’existence. Par la sagesse, l’homme, être libre et temporel, choisit les possibles qui le rapprochent de l’Être. La sagesse lavellienne est une sagesse de l’amour, de l’esprit et de l’être. L’ami de la sagesse, homme de raison et d’intériorité, découvre dans l’amour la cime et l’essence des valeurs. La pensée lavellienne de la sagesse, gravitant autour de la notion d’esprit, unit des sources bibliques, spirituelles, mystiques à des sources purement philosophiques. À la fois théorique et pratique, cultivant un idéal grec de modération et de mesure, la sagesse aspire à la lumière de la présence.For Louis Lavelle who wanted to write De la sagesse as a crowning of his work, the question of wisdom stands in the very centre of philosophy. The wise questions the meaning of existence. Thanks to wisdom, man, a free and temporal being, chooses the possible realities that bring him closer to Being. Wisdom in Lavelle’s sense is a wisdom of love, of mind and of being. The friend of wisdom, a man of reason and interiority, discovers in love the summit and the essence of values. Lavelle’s thought on wisdom, gravitating around the notion of mind, brings together biblical, spiritual, mystic sources and purely philosophical sources. Both theoretical and practical, cultivating a Greek ideal of moderation and measure, wisdom aspires to the light of presence

Struggling to a monumental triumph : Re-assessing the final stages of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980

The global smallpox program is generally presented as the brainchild of a handful of actors from the WHO headquarters in Geneva and at the agency's regional offices. This article attempts to present a more complex description of the drive to eradicate smallpox. Based on the example of India, a major focus of the campaign, it is argued that historians and public health officials should recognize the varying roles played by a much wider range of participants. Highlighting the significance of both Indian and international field officials, the author shows how bureaucrats and politicians at different levels of administration and society managed to strengthen—yet sometimes weaken—important program components. Centrally dictated strategies developed at WHO offices in Geneva and New Delhi, often in association with Indian federal authorities, were reinterpreted by many actors and sometimes changed beyond recognition

Transitional Interface: Concept, Issues and Framework

Transitional Interfaces have emerged as a new way to interact and collaborate between different interaction spaces such as Reality, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. In this paper we explore this concept further. We introduce a descriptive model of the concept, its collaborative aspect and how it can be generalized to describe natural and continuous transitions between contexts (e.g. across space, scale, viewpoint, and representation)

La pensée sapientielle de Pascal

Passionné de vérité, Pascal est aussi en quête de sagesse. Il trouve dans la Bible la source d’une pensée du cœur, attentive au mystère, qui donne sa place à l’inquiétude spirituelle. La vraie sagesse naît de l’écoute de la Parole. Si elle est utile, la sagesse profane demeure impuissante à saisir la plénitude de la vérité. La pensée sapientielle de Pascal, de nature exis­tentielle, tragique, se centre sur le Christ qui illumine secrètement l’hu­maine condition. Exégétique, cette pensée trouve une issue à l’impasse philosophique dans le séjour à l’intérieur du texte sacré. La sagesse d’ins­piration biblique ordonne la raison à l’amour. La pensée sapientielle de Pascal ne peut se dissocier de l’expérience incandescente du Mémorial. C’est une pensée du témoignage, vibrante d’un humanisme lucide et poi­gnant. Sans juste langage il n’est de véritable sagesse. La pensée sapientielle de l’auteur de l’Apologie de la religion chrétienne prend l’inoubliable coloration du poème

Multifaceted contributions : health workers and smallpox eradication in India

Smallpox eradication in South Asia was a result of the efforts of many grades of health-workers. Working from within the confines of international organisations and government structures, the role of the field officials, who were of various nationalities and also drawn from the cities and rural enclaves of the countries in these regions, was crucial to the development and deployment of policies. However, the role of these personnel is often downplayed in official histories and academic histories, which highlight instead the roles played by a handful of senior officials within the World Health Organization and the federal governments in the sub-continent. This article attempts to provide a more rounded assessment of the complex situation in the field. In this regard, an effort is made to underline the great usefulness of the operational flexibility displayed by field officers, wherein lessons learnt in the field were made an integral part of deploying local campaigns; careful engagement with the communities being targeted, as well as the employment of short term workers from amongst them, was an important feature of this work

Electron irradiation: from test to material tayloring

In this article, we report some examples of how high-energy electron irradiation can be used as a tool for shaping material properties turning the generation of point-defects into an advantage beyond the presumed degradation of the properties. Such an approach is radically different from what often occurs when irradiation is used as a test for radiation hard materials or devices degradation in harsh environments. We illustrate the potential of this emerging technique by results obtained on two families of materials, namely semiconductors and superconductors

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Microstructural and magnetic characterization of Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles

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Crossing the ballistic-ohmic transition via high energy electron irradiation

P.H.M. and M.D.B. received PhD studentship support from the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council via Grant No. EP/L015110/1. C.P. and P.J.W.M. are supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Microstructured Topological Materials Grant No. 715730). E. Z. acknowledges support from the International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM). Irradiation experiments performed on the SIRIUS platform were supported by the French National Network of Accelerators for Irradiation and Analysis of Molecules and Materials (EMIR&A) under Project No. EMIR 2019 18-7099.The delafossite metal PtCoO2 is among the highest-purity materials known, with low-temperature mean free path up to 5 μm in the best as-grown single crystals. It exhibits a strongly faceted, nearly hexagonal Fermi surface. This property has profound consequences for nonlocal transport within this material, such as in the classic ballistic-regime measurement of bend resistance in mesoscopic squares. Here, we report the results of experiments in which high-energy electron irradiation was used to introduce pointlike disorder into such squares, reducing the mean free path and therefore the strength of the ballistic-regime transport phenomena. We demonstrate that high-energy electron irradiation is a well-controlled technique to cross from nonlocal to local transport behavior and therefore determine the nature and extent of unconventional transport regimes. Using this technique, we confirm the origins of the directional ballistic effects observed in delafossite metals and demonstrate how the strongly faceted Fermi surface both leads to unconventional transport behavior and enhances the length scale over which such effects are important. © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Noticia de la epidemia de tercianas que se padeció en varios pueblos del Urgel y otros parages del Principado de Cataluña en el año de 1785 : formada de orden de la Real Junta de Sanidad ...

Menció de responsabilitat obtinguda de la p. 75Tít. a portadella: Epidemia en Urgel del año de 1785Text datat el "2 de febrero de 1786" (p. 75)Text datat el "2 de febrero de 1786" (p. 75)Sign.: [ ]2, *-**4, A-I4, K222 línies i reclamsAlg. ornamentaci