No serologic evidence for emerging Schmallenberg virus infection in dogs (Canis domesticus)

in Vector Borne & Zoonotic Diseases (in press)

Schmallenberg virus, a novel orthobunyavirus, is spreading among ruminants, especially sheep and cattle throughout Europe. To determine the risk for domestic dog infection, we conducted a survey among ... [more ▼]

Schmallenberg virus, a novel orthobunyavirus, is spreading among ruminants, especially sheep and cattle throughout Europe. To determine the risk for domestic dog infection, we conducted a survey among cases referred to the university Companion Animal Clinic to assess possible seroconversion. No evidence of transmission to dogs was detected. [less ▲]

Introduction : Le Rorschach comme test (a)perceptif

in Englebert, Jérôme (Ed.) Test de Rorschach et perception : Perspectives cognitives et phénoménologiques (in press)

An open-air site from the recent Middle Palaeolithic in the Paris Basin (France): Les Bossats at Ormesson (Seine-et-Marne).

in Quaternary International (in press)

In northern France, most of the sites attributed to the Middle Palaeolithic are open-air sites in which mainly lithic artefacts are found, due to taphonomic conditions often unfavourable to the ... [more ▼]

In northern France, most of the sites attributed to the Middle Palaeolithic are open-air sites in which mainly lithic artefacts are found, due to taphonomic conditions often unfavourable to the preservation of fauna. The lithic assemblages found in most of those open-air sites suggest that the activities on the camp sites were diversified, although flint knapping was often intense due to the proximity of sources of raw siliceous materials. With the exception of very rare open-air sites, fauna is poorly preserved and spatial and economic analyses may often be based on the spatial distribution of lithic artefacts, in particular based on refits and their analysis. Therefore the palaeoethnological approach is difficult to implement in most open-air areas. In contrast, in the Paris Basin, the study of more recent sites from the Tardiglacial, such as the Magdalenian sites of Pincevent or Etiolles, falls within this approach. The recent discovery (2009) and excavation of the open-air site of Ormesson (Seine-et-Marne - France) was initially intended to document a Gravettian occupation floor dated around 26,000 years uncal BP and related to a preferential bison hunt. Whilst checking the thickness of the loess in which the Gravettian level was found, several other prehistoric settlements were discovered (Chatelperronian, Middle Solutrean) including two units attributed to the Middle Palaeolithic. One of them, level 4, seems to be particularly well-preserved. It occurs between one and three meters below the main Upper Palaeolithic occupation. The lithic industry from level 4 belongs to a technical tradition generally attributed to the Middle Palaeolithic: discoid technology. The freshness of the material and the presence of bone fragments attributed in part to horse support a general good state of preservation of this occupation. The Mousterian remains seem to cover at least 500 m2, as currently estimated. Even more exceptional is the close spatial relationship between the discoid industry, the bone pieces, remains of fireplaces and especially the numerous fragments and nodules of red colouring materials. These were brought to the site where they were utilised by the Mousterians. The used surfaces show indisputable scraping traces and facets. These recent discoveries will certainly contribute to the debate on the cognitive capacities of nearly the last representatives of the Middle Palaeolithic and this within a complex stratigraphy which will allow us to make comparisons between the different periods. [less ▲]

Louise de Savoie (1476-1531)

Book published by Presses universitaires François-Rabelais de Tours / Presses universitaires de Rennes (in press)

Blâmée par Jules Michelet, en raison d'un goût que l'historien du XIXe siècle estime trop prononcé pour les intrigues, Louise de Savoie (1476-1531) est sans conteste l'une des personnalités les plus ... [more ▼]

Blâmée par Jules Michelet, en raison d'un goût que l'historien du XIXe siècle estime trop prononcé pour les intrigues, Louise de Savoie (1476-1531) est sans conteste l'une des personnalités les plus fascinantes de la première Modernité européenne. Comtesse puis duchesse d'Angoulême, Louise n'est pas seulement la mère de deux illustres enfants, Marguerite et François, futur François Ier. Elle se charge de leur éducation ; une fois son fils devenu le roi de France, elle devient un conseiller des plus influents, avant d'assurer, à deux reprises, la régence du royaume. Amatrice d'art et bibliophile avertie, son action concerne encore la musique, la littérature et l'architecture. Les textes rassemblés dans cet ouvrage - issu d'un colloque tenu, en décembre 2010, à Romorantin-Lanthenay, où Louise possédait le château et des terres sur lesquelles Léonard de Vinci avait projeté d'édifier une ville nouvelle pour la cour - ambitionnent de passer en revue tant les aspects biographiques du personnage, que son action dans le champ politique, religieux et culturel. [less ▲]

Control of Dispersed Generation to Regulate Distribution and Support Transmission Voltages

in Proc. IEEE PES 2013 PowerTech Conference (in press)

This paper presents an on-line centralized controller based on Model Predictive Control concepts to regulate distribution network voltages, and possibly support transmission network. It computes and ... [more ▼]

This paper presents an on-line centralized controller based on Model Predictive Control concepts to regulate distribution network voltages, and possibly support transmission network. It computes and applies a sequence of changes of the distributed generators power outputs to progressively meet a set of operation constraints at distribution, and possibly transmission level. An 11-kV, 75-bus test system with 22 distributed generators is used to illustrate the performance of the proposed controller when transmission system support is requested. Comparisons with single-step open-loop control are also provided. [less ▲]

The Sceptical President: Václav Klaus' Influence on Czech Public Opinion on Climate Change

in Climatic Change (in press)

Competing as a Luxury SME

in Reinecke, Sven; Berghaus, Benjamin; Müller-Stewens, Günter (Eds.) The Management of Luxury (in press)

Les jugements de Dominique Lampson sur Jan Gossart et Lambert Lombard

in Delfosse, Annick; Glesener, Thomas (Eds.) Ecrire, lire et éduquer à la Renaissance, Hommage en l’honneur de Franz Bierlaire (in press)

Sarapis et Neôtera élus parmi les dieux

in Revue Archéologique (in press)

One of the bronze plates formerly in the Bianchini collection, which entered the Cabinet des Médailles (Paris) at the end of the 18th century, bears a text and an image, supposedly unintelligible and ... [more ▼]

One of the bronze plates formerly in the Bianchini collection, which entered the Cabinet des Médailles (Paris) at the end of the 18th century, bears a text and an image, supposedly unintelligible and therefore thought to be of a magic nature. A new examination of this artefact, actually the main part of a bracelet, shows that it depicts an assembly of twenty-eight divinities, illustrating the religious landscape of Egypt in the 2nd-3rd century, and that it is inscribed with two short acclamations. The first one exalts the greatness of the name of Sarapis, the second that of Neôtera the invincible. The identity of this goddess is difficult to define, but she often seems to correspond to a form of Isis assimilated to Korè. The glorifying invocation of these two gods, depicted with their pantheon, may be considered to be an expression of what is today called “megatheism”. [less ▲]

La magie et la sorcellerie des visages comme socle anthropologique de la philosophie sartrienne

in Année Sartrienne (L') : Bulletin du Groupe d'Etudes Sartriennes (in press)

L’« émotion » est la possibilité d’une « anthropologie de la relation ». Énoncer une telle proposition nécessite de définir les deux blocs qu’elle relie. Nous réaliserons cette entreprise en recourant à ... [more ▼]

L’« émotion » est la possibilité d’une « anthropologie de la relation ». Énoncer une telle proposition nécessite de définir les deux blocs qu’elle relie. Nous réaliserons cette entreprise en recourant à un troisième axe, intermédiaire : celui du visage ou, plutôt, des visages. La thèse de ce court essai tient à considérer que la phénoménologie sartrienne a déjà réalisé ce travail de fond qui requiert, pour le rendre explicite, articulation simple et ordonnancement. [less ▲]