Tatiana Debaggi Baranova, A coups de libelles. Une culture politique au temps des guerres de religion (1562-1598), Genève, Droz (« Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance » 104), 2012, 520p.

Disponible intégralement en ligne sur le site de la revue, URL : https://crm.revues.org/13151Compte rendu dans "Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes

Les utopies urbaines protestantes (Empire et Suisse) : la Jérusalem céleste

Disponible en audio et vidéo, URL : http://cesr.univ-tours.fr/actualites/videos-du-colloque-utopie-consensus-et-libre-arbitre-xive-xviie-siecles-fais-ce-que-voudras-248329.kjsp?RH=CESR_FRInternational audienc

Empirical evidence on the impact of privatization of fixed-line operators on telecommunications performance - Comparing OECD, Latin American, and African countries

The aim of this paper is to highlight empirically some important worldwide differences in the impact of privatization of the fixed-line telecommunications operator on network expansion, tariffs, and efficiency during the 1985-2007 period for a large panel of countries. Our work suggests that the divergent results in the empirical literature on the performance of the privatization reform can be explained to a large extent by cross-regional heterogeneity. We find that the impact of privatization on outcomes is significantly positive in OECD and African resource scarce coastal countries, weakly positive in Latin American and the Caribbean countries, and strongly negative in African resource rich and African resource scarce landlocked countries. The results presented in this paper thus challenge the idea that there is a unique model of reform for infrastructure sectors that is equally applicable across regions and countries.Privatization, Telecommunications

A Review of Existing Treatments for Substance Abuse Among the Elderly and Recommendations for Future Directions

Background: With population aging, there is widespread recognition that the healthcare system must be prepared to serve the unique needs of substance using older adults (OA) in the decades ahead. As such, there is an increasingly urgent need to identify efficient and effective substance abuse treatments (SAT) for OA. Despite this need, there remains a surprising dearth of research on treatment for OA. Aims of review: This review describes and evaluates studies on SAT applied to and specifically designed for OA over the last 30 years with an emphasis on methodologies used and the knowledge gained. Methods: Using three research databases, 25 studies published in the last 30 years which investigated the impact of SAT on OA and met specific selection criteria were reviewed. Results: A majority of the studies were methodologically limited in that they were pre-to-post or post-test only studies. Of the randomized controlled trials, many were limited by sample sizes of 15 individuals or less per group, making main effects difficult to detect. Thus, with caution, the literature suggests that among treatment seeking OA, treatment, whether age-specific or mixed-age, generally works yielding rates of abstinence comparable to general populations and younger cohorts. It also appears that with greater treatment exposure (higher dosage), regardless of level of care, OA do better. Finally, based on only two studies, age-specific treatment appears to potentiate treatment effects for OA. Like younger adults, OA appear to have a heterogeneous response to treatments, and preliminary evidence suggests a possibility of treatment matching for OA. Conclusions: Expansion of research on SAT for OA is urgently needed for maximum effectiveness and efficiency of the healthcare system serving these individuals. Future research needs to include laboratory and community based randomized controlled trials with high internal validity of previously vetted evidenced-based practices, including Motivational Interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and medications such as naltrexone, to determine the best fit for OA

Introduction : "Les visages de Janus"

Consultable en ligne sur Revue.org, URL : http://crm.revues.org/12914National audienceThis workshop dedicated to relations between people of different faiths is focused on the links between majority and minorities in Europe between the 12th and 17th centuries. From the Iberic Peninsula to Byzantium, from Sicily to northern France, the artistic influences, commercial exchanges and theological debates that occurred, whether those involved were willing or reluctant participants in them, are examined here by historians both medieval and modern. Janus's face seems to symbolize perfectly these ambivalent relationships, which ran the whole gamut from actively being sought after to being sternly discouraged.[résumé de l'éditeur] Cette journée d'étude consacrée aux échanges interconfessionnels examine les relations entre groupes minoritaires et majoritaires en Occident entre les XIIe et XVIIe siècles. De la Péninsule Ibérique à Byzance, de la Sicile au nord de la France, ce sont les influences artistiques, assumées ou non, les voisinages professionnels souhaités ou à peine tolérés, les débats théologiques passionnés ou au contraire voilés qui sont ici évoqués par des médiévistes et des modernistes. La figure de Janus au double visage nous a semblé illustrer de façon pertinente cette ambivalence des relations interconfessionnelles à la fois normées et parfois même découragées, et dans le même temps souhaitées ou en tout cas acceptées

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to study physiological changes affecting the red blood cell after invasion by malaria parasites

The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human erythrocytes and induces dramatic changes in the host cell. The idea of this work was to use RBC modified electrode to perform electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) with the aim of monitoring physiological changes affecting the erythrocyte after invasion by the malaria parasite. Impedance cell-based devices are potentially useful to give insight into cellular behavior and to detect morphological changes. The modelling of impedance plots (Nyquist diagram) in equivalent circuit taking into account the presence of the cellular layer, allowed us pointing out specific events associated with the development of the parasite such as (i) strong changes in the host cell cytoplasm illustrated by changes in the film capacity, (ii) perturbation of the ionic composition of the host cell illustrated by changes in the film resistance, (iii) releasing of reducer (lactic acid or heme) and an enhanced oxygen consumption characterized by changes in the charge transfer resistance and in the Warburg coefficient characteristic of the redox species diffusion. These results show that the RBC-based device may help to analyze strategic events in the malaria parasite development constituting a new tool in antimalarial research