Jung and Deleuze: Enchanted Openings to the Other: A Philosophical Contribution

This paper draws from resources in the work of Deleuze to critically examine the notion of organicism and holistic relations that appear in historical forerunners that Jung identifies in his work on synchronicity. I interpret evidence in Jung's comments on synchronicity that resonate with Deleuze's interpretation of repetition and time and which challenge any straightforward foundationalist critique of Jung's thought. A contention of the paper is that Jung and Deleuze envisage enchanted openings onto relations which are not constrained by the presupposition of a bounded whole, whether at the level of the macrocosm or the microcosm. Openings to these relations entail the potential for experimental transformation beyond sedentary habits of thought which are blocked by a disenchanting ‘image of thought’ that stands in need of critique. Other examples of enchanted openings in Jung's work are signposted in an effort to counter their marginalisation in some post-Jungian critiques and to signal their potential value from a Deleuzian perspective

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and regions, but it remains unclear whether species are maintaining a good match between phenotype and environment, i.e. whether observed trait changes are adaptive. Here we reviewed 10,090 abstracts and extracted data from 71 studies reported in 58 relevant publications, to assess quantitatively whether phenotypic trait changes associated with climate change are adaptive in animals. A meta-analysis focussing on birds, the taxon best represented in our dataset, suggests that global warming has not systematically affected morphological traits, but has advanced phenological traits. We demonstrate that these advances are adaptive for some species, but imperfect as evidenced by the observed consistent selection for earlier timing. Application of a theoretical model indicates that the evolutionary load imposed by incomplete adaptive responses to ongoing climate change may already be threatening the persistence of species

Generalized gradient exchange functionals based on the gradient-regulated connection: a new member of the TCA family

International audienceA new type of generalized gradient approximation exchange functional coupled with the TCA correlation model has been proposed. Based on gradient-regulated connection, this exchange functional is able to mix performances of a modified PBE for the bulk region, to those of the PW91 for the asymptotic one, leading to a significant improvement on the modelization of weak interacting systems, while keeping a good accuracy for the atomization energies

«Nano-réacteurs à base de cyclodextrines amphiphiles pour la catalyse et la vectorisation»

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60 GHz antennas in HTCC and glass technology

International audienceThis paper presents a 60 GHz antenna structure built on glass and flip-chipped on a ceramic module. A single antenna and a two antenna array have been fabricated and demonstrated good performances. The single antenna shows a return loss below −10 dB and a gain of 6–7 dBi over a 7 GHz bandwidth. The array shows a gain of 7–8 dBi over a 3 GHz bandwidth

Gold Catalysis and Photoactivation: A Fast and Selective Procedure for the Oxidation of Free Sugars

International audienceA fast and efficient methodology for the selective oxidation of sugars into corresponding sodium aldonates is herein reported. Hydrogen peroxide was used as a cheap oxidant and electron scavenger, in the presence of only 0.003–0.006 mol % of gold in basic conditions. Three photocatalysts were studied, namely Au/Al2O3, Au/TiO2, and Au/CeO2, the latter being the most efficient (TOF > 750 000 h–1) and perfectly selective. Only a 10 min exposition under standard incident sunlight irradiation (A.M.1.5G conditions, 100 mW/cm2) affords total conversion of glucose into the corresponding sodium gluconate. Demonstrating its versatility, this methodology was successfully applied to a variety of oligosaccharides leading to the corresponding aldonates in quantitative yield and high purity (>95%) without any purification step. The photocatalyst was recovered by simple filtration and reused 5 times leading to the same conversion and selectivity after 10 min of illumination

Dimerization of xanthene dyes in water: Experimental studies and molecular dynamic simulations

1-D and 2-D NMR experiments and molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study the dimerization process of two laser dyes namely Rodamine 6G and Pyronine 6G in water. Two possible stacked dimer structures have been evidenced, and the agreement between experimental and theoretical results is very good. The role of dispersive and electrostatic forces in the dimerization mechanism is discussed. This analysis allows us to suggest some chemical modifications on xanthene dyes to prevent such dimerization. On this basis, a new synthesized rhodamine is described which does not exhibit any dimerization phenomenon in a large range of concentrations

Coupleurs hybrides miniatures large bande en technologie BiCMOS pour circuits fonctionnant à 60 GHz

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Differential feeding technique for mm-wave series-fed antenna-array

International audienceA differential feeding technique for a broadband planar antenna-array is presented. The antenna structure is composed of four parallel linear series-fed arrays of four microstrip patches. To cancel the beam tilt versus frequency, one side of the array is fed with in-phase signal, whereas the same out-of-phase signal feeds the opposite side of the array. A rat-race balun is especially designed to generate those two signals. In comparison with other feeding techniques, there is no need for a resistive load which is actually a problem at millimeter (mm)-wave frequencies. To validate the concept, a 60 GHz prototype etched on the TacLamPlus substrate is designed and measured