AGTEC-Org Technological Handbook of Methods

A common handbook was conceived in the CORE Organic AGTEC-Org project in order to give some elements on technological treatments and analyses which will be led in the project

The Religion of War and Peace: Better Understanding of International Conflict

PEACE: Is peace the cessation of war? The Binary Logic, The History: War is organized and collective, War is a balance of strengths. Can politics alone create a foundation of peace? Is peace only security? WAR: Is the difference the cause of violence? War is linked to living together as a social group. War: Is the hidden threat in the differences between the nations? War:”Is the midwife of societies”.The problem of terrorism: Is peace the obliteration of the differences? THE MEADING OF CONFLICTS: The conflict is permanent and necessary. Peace is not a cessation of conflict. Peace exists only with, through, and owing to conflicts .PEACE AS A DIALECTIC BETWEEN JUSTICE AND LOVE: The spiritual meaning of love. Humility and responsibility. The relation to the other. THE LESSONS OF THE EIGHT WELLS OF THE BIBLE: From war to love. To give and to receive

French of the present and the past: the representation of the Parisian vernacular in Maurice Chevalier's songs

Today in France, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in 1930s French culture, with the release of Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), set in Montmartre, and Patrick Bruel's re-edition of 1930s popular songs (2002). Songs of the 1930s and 1940s have hardly been exploited by linguists. I have compiled a corpus of Maurice Chevalier's songs whose lexical items I have analysed to assess how language has evolved. The stereotypical representation of the lower class which was a popular theme in musical-hall songs at that time enables the analysis of vernacular forms used at the beginning of the 20th century. I willendeavour in this analysis to establish the change in attitudes towardsthe standard and stigmatised language varieties in France by looking at lexicographers' labelling of non-standard items with stylistic indicators such as familier, populaire and argotique. I also intend to gauge through a survey conducted recently in France whether the once denigrated français populaire found in Chevalier's songs is obsolete or whether it is still used in the 21st century

The perfect learners' dictionary

Thomas Herbst and Kerstin Popp (Editors). The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?). 1999, XII + 320 pp. ISBN 3-484-30995-4. Lexicographica. Series Maior 95. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. Price: €88

Better words: evaluating efl dictionaries.

Gabriele Stein. Better Words: Evaluating EFL Dictionaries. 2002, x + 246 pp. ISBN 0 85989 719 2 (Hb.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. Price: £39.50

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English.

Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson and Andrew Wilson. Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English. 2001, xv + 304 pp. ISBN: 0 582 32007 0. Har-low: Pearson Education. Price: £45.9

Developing Your English Vocabulary: A Systematic New Approach.

Gabriele Stein. Developing Your English Vocabulary: A Systematic New Approach. 2002, VIII + 272 pp. Stauffenburg Linguistik 26. ISBN 3-86057-727-1. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Price: €33

Colloidal motility and pattern formation under rectified diffusiophoresis

In this letter, we characterize experimentally the diffusiophoretic motion of colloids and lambda- DNA toward higher concentration of solutes, using microfluidic technology to build spatially- and temporally-controlled concentration gradients. We then demonstrate that segregation and spatial patterning of the particles can be achieved from temporal variations of the solute concentration profile. This segregation takes the form of a strong trapping potential, stemming from an osmotically induced rectification mechanism of the solute time-dependent variations. Depending on the spatial and temporal symmetry of the solute signal, localization patterns with various shapes can be achieved. These results highlight the role of solute contrasts in out-of-equilibrium processes occuring in soft matter