Le théâtre catholique en France 1920-1940, une identité collective?

Pendant les années 1920-1930, la France est témoin d’une campagne, menée par de nombreux commentateurs et critiques catholiques, hostiles à ce qu’ils considèrent un théâtre moralement corrompu, en faveur d’un théâtre qui véhicule des valeurs spécifiquement catholiques. Dans ses Douze leçons sur l’histoire, Antoine Prost s’interroge sur une histoire qui accepte comme légitime la voix collective d’entités particulières qui se désigne par le pronom « nous ». On peut appliquer cette interrogation au cas du théâtre catholique pour savoir si la voix stridente en faveur du théâtre catholique représente le groupe « catholiques ». Cela amène à une réflexion sur un certain nombre d’« entités incomplètes », non seulement dans le rapport du catholicisme à la vie et à la culture nationales après 1905, mais aussi dans le rapport du théâtre catholique au théâtre tout court, où ceux qui parlent « pour » les catholiques cherchent à réinstaurer cette entité comme véritablement collective et dans leur propre milieu et dans la société française en général.The 1920s and 1930s in France witnessed a campaign led by Catholic commentators and critics against what they considered to be a morally corrupt theatre in favour of a Catholic theatre articulating Catholic religious values. In his Douze leçons sur l’histoire, Antoine Prost asks to what degree historians can accept as legitimate the collective voice of entities designated by the use of the pronoun "we". This historical question can be applied to the case of Catholic theatre in order to investigate whether the strident voice in favour of Catholic theatre is representative of the group called "Catholics". This leads to the investigation of a number of "incomplete entities", not only in the relation of Catholicism itself to national and cultural life in France after 1905, but also in the relation of Catholic theatre to theatre as a whole, where those who speak "for" Catholics seek to reinstate this entity as truly collective both for their own community and for French society as a whole

Luminosity and the Phenomenal

Though Timothy Williamson (2000) argues that we are not always in a position to know the phenomenal character of our experiences, critics retort that his argument overlooks views according to which the phenomenal properties involved in our experiences can serve to constitute our knowledge of their phenomenal character. I develop an argument against this view, contending that the phenomenal knowledge these critics envision would lack an adequate conceptual role: one who possessed such knowledge would nevertheless have no grasp of what it entailed or ruled out. At best, therefore, this knowledge cannot serve the foundational role its proponents imagine for it; and at worst, it will not count as knowledge at all. The upshot is that the best defense against Williamson turns out not to secure our epistemic foothold in the phenomenal realm

The Relation Between Chemical Constitution and Optical Rotatory Power.

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Measurements of noise in Josephson-effect mixers

We present new heterodyne receiver results obtained at 100 GHz using resistively-shunted Nb and NbN tunnel junctions. In addition, we have carried out accurate measurements of the available noise power of these devices at the L-band (1.5 GHz) IF frequency. Both the heterodyne and the output noise measurements show that the noise of these devices can be a factor of five or more higher than that predicted by the simple current-biased RSJ model. The noise approaches the appropriate thermal or thermal and shot noise limits for bias voltages where the nonlinearity is not strong (i.e., V>ICRN), but as expected from the RSJ model, can be significantly higher at the low voltages where the mixers are typically biased. The bias voltage dependence of the noise shows structure which is associated with resonances in the RF embedding circuit. Surprisingly, we find that changes in the high-frequency (100 GHz) impedance presented to the junction can dramatically affect the magnitude and voltage dependence of the low-frequency (1.5 GHz) noise. This emphasizes the necessity of very closely matching the junction to free space over a wide frequency range

Forecasting Economic Activity Using the Yield Curve: Quasi-Real-Time Applications for New Zealand, Australia and the US

Inversion of the yield curve has come to be viewed as a leading recession indicator. Unsurprisingly, some recent instances of inversion have attracted attention from economic commentators and policymakers about possible impending recessions. Using a variety of time series models and recent innovations in econometric method, this paper conducts quasi-real-time forecasting exercises to investigate whether the predictive capability of the yield curve extends to forecasting economic activity in general and whether removing the term premium component from yields affects forecast accuracy. The empirical findings for the US, Australia, and New Zealand show that forecast performance is not improved either by augmenting simplistic models with information from the yield curve or by making such a decomposition of yields. Results from similar research exercises in previous work in the literature are mixed. The results of the present analysis suggest possible explanations that reconcile these conflicting results

Investigating the impact of varying levels of inventory data detail on private sector harvest forecasting

peer-reviewedA comparison was made between four methods of generating roundwood production forecasts for private sector forests in Ireland which used varying levels of inventory data as inputs into the production Model. Two methods were based on stand variables: the Irish Dynamic Yield Model (IDYM) method and the General Yield Class (GYC) method. The other two methods were based on site variables used to derive predictions of productivity from climate and map-based data and include a local prediction (LPYC) and a national prediction of yield class (NPYC), the latter the same as that used in the All Ireland Roundwood Production Forecast 2016-2035 (Phillips et al. 2016). To determine the reliability of predictions for an individual stand, field measurements of yield class (GYC) were compared with the predictions of yield class derived using the NPYC and LPYC methods for 52 privately-owned stands of Sitka spruce in the north-west of Ireland. The prediction of yield class using the NPYC method had a low probability of agreement with GYC, with a large bias to under-predict yield class. The LPYC method had a higher probability of agreement and lower bias indicating a better assessment of local productivity. To assess the impact of the various productivity estimates on roundwood production forecasts, separate roundwood forecasts for the period 2016- 2035 were generated. The forecast produced using the NPYC method was used as a baseline for comparison purposes. As expected, the under-prediction of yield class using the NPYC method produced the lowest volume production estimate (318,454 m3) for the forecast period. Both the GYC and LPYC methods resulted in a significant increase in estimated volume production of between 25% and 29% over the baseline. The IDYM method provided the highest estimate of volume production (432,000 m3) for the forecast period, an increase of 35% over the baseline. The increased output predicted using the IDYM method is explained by the inclusion of stocking and basal area data, which more accurately reflected the increased growing stock of private forests than yield data derived using Forestry Commission yield models based on prescribed management. The increases in productivity associated with the use of LPYC, GYC and IDYM methods had the effect of producing shorter rotations and resulted in an increase in the area clearfelled and associated volume production. Perhaps more importantly, the timing of volume production was affected by using more accurate methods to assess productivity (i.e. LPYC, GYC, IDYM), owing to a higher yield-age profile of stands compared to those assessed using the NPYC predictions. The findings point to a possible under-estimation of the productivity for private stands in the All Ireland Roundwood Production Forecast and have implications for the timing of the forecasted volume which could be brought forward by 5 to 6 years. In the absence of field or aerial laser measurement of height and age, the use of the LPYC method is recommended for future private sector roundwood producion forecasts