Les « brûleurs » de frontières dans la musique tunisienne : la migration non documentée au prisme de chansons de rap et de mezoued

Cet article propose une analyse des représentations des « brûleurs » de frontières, les migrants d'Afrique du Nord, dans la musique populaire tunisienne à partir d'un corpus constitué de cinquante-quatre chansons. Il mobilise la musique populaire tel un révélateur de l'imaginaire migratoire et de dynamiques sociales profondes. Après avoir exploré le contexte d'énonciation des chansons, l'article se structure autour des quatre thèmes prévalents : désirs migratoires, dangers de la traversée, souffrance de l'exilé et des siens, acceptation de la volonté divine. Cette analyse permet de conclure que, sans pouvoir être classées dans la musique révolutionnaire au sens classique du terme, les paroles des chansons sur la harga contiennent un potentiel de subversion important : voter avec ses pieds

The Diversity of Religious Diversity. Using Census and NCS Methodology in Order to Map and Assess the Religious Diversity of a Whole Country

Religious diversity is often captured in “mapping studies” that use mostly qualitative methods in order to map and assess the religious communities in a given area. While these studies are useful, they often present weaknesses in that they treat only limited geographic regions, provide limited possibilities for comparing across religious groups and cannot test theories. In this article, we show how a census and a quantitative national congregations study (NCS) methodology can be combined in order to map and assess the religious diversity of a whole country (Switzerland), overcoming the problems mentioned above. We outline the methodological steps and selected results concerning organizational, geographic, structural, and cultural diversity

A Knowledge Based Vision System for Industrial Applications

Schröder S, Niemann H, Sagerer G, Brünig H, Salzbrunn R. A Knowledge Based Vision System for Industrial Applications. In: Mohr R, Pavlidis T, Sanfeliu A, International Association for Pattern Recognition. Technical Committee on Structural & Syntactical Recognition, eds. Structural pattern analysis. A selection of papers presented at the workshop organized by the IAPR Technical Committee on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (Pont-a-Mousson, 1988). World Scientific Series in Computer Science. Vol 19. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing; 1990: 95-111

Pd-Catalyzed Conversion of Aryl Chlorides, Triflates, and Nonaflates to Nitroaromatics

An efficient Pd catalyst for the transformation of aryl chlorides, triflates, and nonaflates to nitroaromatics has been developed. This reaction proceeds under weakly basic conditions and displays a broad scope and excellent functional group compatibility. Moreover, this method allows for the synthesis of aromatic nitro compounds that cannot be accessed efficiently via other nitration protocols. Mechanistic insight into the transmetalation step of the catalytic process is also reported.National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (GM-58160)BASFMerck & Co. (Fellowship)William Asbornsen Albert Memorial Fund (Fellowship