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See detailThe benefit of musical and linguistic expertise on language acquisition in sung material
Larrouy, Pauline ULg; Leybaert, Jacqueline; Kolinsky, Régine

in Musicae Scientae (in press)

Music learning and training appear to have large cross-domain transfer effects: they are beneficial in various cognitive domains including language. The present study aimed at examining the role of music ... [more ▼]

Music learning and training appear to have large cross-domain transfer effects: they are beneficial in various cognitive domains including language. The present study aimed at examining the role of music expertise on how musical and linguistic information contained in songs is used. However, as the superiority of musicians could be attributed to improvements in executive functions (e.g., Bialystok, & DePape, 2009), we tried to isolate the role of music training by comparing music experts to both non-experts and language experts. To this aim we used the tasks proposed by Schön, Boyer, Moreno, Besson, Peretz, and Kolinsky (2008), who compared artificial language learning (ALL) based on spoken sequences to ALL based on sung sequences. These authors concluded that songs, more than speech, allow fast and strong learning. In contrast to Schön et al. (2008), the benefit of songs on ALL was not found among nonexperts in our study. However, there was a highly significant interaction between type of expertise and materials. The music experts were the only group to benefit from the matching of linguistic and music information, hence showing a different profile than language experts. The present data thus confirms the specificity of transfer effects linked to music expertise. [less ▲]

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See detailLifestyle Behaviours and Plasma Vitamin C and Beta-Carotene Levels from the ELAN Population (Liège, Belgium)
Pincemail, Joël ULg; Vanbelle, Sophie; Degrune, Fabien et al

in Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism (in press), 2011

Several factors, including fruit and vegetables intakes, have been shown to significantly influence the plasma concentrations of the two antioxidants vitamin C and β-carotene. Deficiency levels of 6 mg/L ... [more ▼]

Several factors, including fruit and vegetables intakes, have been shown to significantly influence the plasma concentrations of the two antioxidants vitamin C and β-carotene. Deficiency levels of 6 mg/L (34.2 μM) for vitamin C and of 0.22 mg/L (0.4 μM) for β-carotene have been suggested below which cardiovascular risk might be increased. The present study performed on 897 presumably healthy subjects aged 40–60 years aimed to examine how modifiable lifestyle factors may be related to vitamin C and/or β-carotene deficiency. Gender, smoking, lack of regular physical activity and of daily fruit consumption (≥2/day), and social status (in particular, unemployment) were found to be significant risk factors for vitamin C deficiency. For β-carotene deficiency, the same factors were identified except social status; moreover, overweight and OC use in women were also found to have a deleterious effect. For non exposed subjects, the probability of developing vitamin C deficiency was 4% in men and 2.4% in women. This probability increased to 66.3% for men and to 44.3% for women (and even to 50.4% under OC use), when all risk factors were present. For β-carotene deficiency, the corresponding probabilities were equal to 29.7% in men and 13.7% in women (no risk factor present), and to 86.1% for men and 69.9% (91.6% for OC use) for women (all factors present), respectively. [less ▲]

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See detailLa physiognomonie au XIXe siècle. Transpositions esthétiques et médiatiques
Stienon, Valérie ULg; Wicky, Érika

Book published by revue Etudes Françaises (in press)

Dès les premières traductions françaises des traités de Johann Kaspar Lavater à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la physiognomonie a pris une place prépondérante dans l’iconographie et la pensée de l’époque. Très ... [more ▼]

Dès les premières traductions françaises des traités de Johann Kaspar Lavater à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la physiognomonie a pris une place prépondérante dans l’iconographie et la pensée de l’époque. Très tôt renforcée par la diffusion des traités de phrénologie de Franz Josef Gall, cette théorie paramédicale a suscité une émulation telle qu’elle a contribué à poser les bases de la morphopsychologie, qu’elle a participé au développement de l’anthropométrie et s’est ramifiée en d’innombrables branches parmi lesquelles figurent la physiognomonie zoologique, la physiognomonie ethnologique ou encore la « pathognomonie ». En outre, reposant sur la conviction qu’il est possible d’atteindre les profondeurs de l’intériorité humaine par l’observation d’éléments conçus comme autant de signes à déchiffrer, cette théorie relève du raisonnement par induction qui a pris, dans la fiction littéraire, la forme spécifique d’une recherche d’indices et a participé, dans les disciplines médicales, à la méthode diagnostique. Le postulat selon lequel une connaissance de l’être humain est possible par l’observation minutieuse de ses traits extérieurs – conviction renforcée, à la moitié du siècle, par les possibilités techniques de la photographie – a contribué à enrichir la description, à affiner l’art du portrait et à aiguiser le trait incisif de la caricature. Ayant offert de riches moyens cognitifs et esthétiques d’exploration du monde social au peintre, à l’illustrateur, à l’homme de lettres et à l’historien, ces théories paramédicales ont durablement marqué l’histoire des conceptions et des représentations sociales. Envisager l’influence de la physiognomonie en termes de diffusion d’un paradigme scientifique permettra de saisir les modalités et de mesurer les enjeux non seulement de la transposition de ce paradigme d’un médium à un autre, mais aussi de sa circulation entre différentes aires géographiques, disciplinaires ou sociales. L’étude des vecteurs suivant lesquels la physiognomonie investit les représentations fera intervenir des corpus variés, issus de contextes culturels allant de la France romantique à la blogosphère actuelle en passant par l’Allemagne nazie de l’entre-deux-guerres. À l’observation attentive des sources primaires (documents historiques, traités médicaux, gravures d’époque, œuvres picturales, textes littéraires), s’ajoutera une réflexion sur la postérité de ces développements théoriques par l’analyse des discours distanciés, dubitatifs, voire explicitement critiques à leur égard, et ce dès leur toute première diffusion. Ce dossier propose une réflexion susceptible d’apporter des éléments de réponse à la double question suivante : de quelle postérité épistémique le modèle d’interprétation et de représentation hérité de la physiognomonie bénéficie-t-il, entre dépréciation et application effective, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle ? Comment cette influence s’est-elle répandue ? [less ▲]

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See detailRaul Rossetti : Dos de verre
D'Arconso, Sabrina ULg; Curreri, Luciano ULg; Virone, Carmelo

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See detailCompte-rendu de l'ouvrage de Boyd Taylor COOLMAN et Dale M. COULTER : Trinity and creation
Close, Florence ULg

in Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale (in press)

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See detailO insecabilis unitas ? Augustinisme et théologie politiques
Close, Florence ULg

in Depreux, Philippe; Esders, Stefan (Eds.) La productivité d'une crise: le règne de Louis le Pieux (814-840) et la transformation de l'Empire carolingien / Produktivität einer Krise: Die Regierungszeit Ludwigs des Frommen (814-840) und die Transformation des karolingischen Imperium » (Limoges, mars 2011) (in press)

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See detailLa politique religieuse des Pippinides (714-768)
Close, Florence ULg

Book published by PULIM (in press)

L’image de Charles Martel pilleur d’Église figure encore dans bon nombre de nos manuels et grandes synthèses historiques. Il en va de même de celle de l’avènement de Pépin III à la royauté, élu par un ... [more ▼]

L’image de Charles Martel pilleur d’Église figure encore dans bon nombre de nos manuels et grandes synthèses historiques. Il en va de même de celle de l’avènement de Pépin III à la royauté, élu par un peuple franc unanime, sur un précepte du pape Zacharie, et oint par Boniface. Or, de multiples questions ont été soulevées, ces dernières années, de nouvelles orientations de recherche ont été suggérées, qui constituent un pressant appel à un nouvel examen de la crédibilité des sources principales de l'histoire du royaume franc. Selon toute vraisemblance, la conviction des Carolingiens de détenir leur pouvoir directement de Dieu ne remonte pas au-delà du changement de dynastie mais n’est pas née ex nihilo. Elle plonge ses racines dans les décennies qui précédèrent le coup d’État de 751. L’alliance franco-pontificale de 754 fut, de toute évidence, l’aboutissement d’une transformation progressive de l’attitude des Pippinides à l’égard de Rome, du sentiment religieux et de leur rapport au sacré. À la fois typologie de sources et florilège, ce volume entend donner un aperçu de l’ampleur et de la diversité du corpus de sources à ceux et celles qui souhaiteraient aborder ce pan de l’histoire politico-religieuse du haut Moyen Âge, en présentant vingt-six sources du VIIIe siècle – narratives, diplomatiques, épistolaires ou liturgiques – traduites et commentées, retenues pour leur caractère exemplatif. [less ▲]

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See detailAldebert et Clément. Deux évêques marginaux sacrifiés à la réforme de l’Église ?
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in Depreux, Philippe (Ed.) Compétition et sacré au haut moyen âge : entre médiation et exclusion. Actes du colloque international tenu à Limoges du 2 au 4 juillet 2012 (in press)

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See detailCOSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses: XII. Time delays of the doubly lensed quasars SDSS~J1206+4332 and HS~2209+1914
Eulaers, Eva ULg; Tewes, Malte; Magain, Pierre ULg et al

in Astronomy and Astrophysics (in press)

Aims. Within the framework of the COSMOGRAIL collaboration we present 7- and 8.5-year-long light curves and time-delay esti- mates for two gravitationally lensed quasars: SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914 ... [more ▼]

Aims. Within the framework of the COSMOGRAIL collaboration we present 7- and 8.5-year-long light curves and time-delay esti- mates for two gravitationally lensed quasars: SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914. Methods. We monitored these doubly lensed quasars in the R-band using four telescopes: the Mercator, Maidanak, Himalayan Chandra, and Euler Telescopes, together spanning a period of 7 to 8.5 observing seasons from mid-2004 to mid-2011. The pho- tometry of the quasar images was obtained through simultaneous deconvolution of these data. The time delays were determined from these resulting light curves using four very different techniques: a dispersion method, a spline fit, a regression difference technique, and a numerical model fit. This minimizes the bias that might be introduced by the use of a single method. Results. The time delay for SDSS J1206+4332 is ∆tAB = 111.3 ± 3 days with A leading B, confirming a previously published result within the error bars. For HS 2209+1914 we present a new time delay of ∆tBA = 20.0 ± 5 days with B leading A. Conclusions. The combination of data from up to four telescopes have led to well-sampled and nearly 9-season-long light curves, which were necessary to obtain these results, especially for the compact doubly lensed quasar HS 2209+1914. [less ▲]

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See detailChemical surface inhomogeneities in late B-type stars with Hg and Mn peculiarity: I. Spot evolution in HD 11753 on short and long time scales
Korhonen, Heidi; Gonzalez, J.F.; Briquet, Maryline ULg et al

in Astronomy and Astrophysics (in press)

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See detailDes ambassadeurs entre Liège et Bourgogne: Pour une étude des relations diplomatiques des pouvoirs liégeois avec les ducs Valois
Masson, Christophe ULg

in Publication du Centre Européen d'Etudes Bourguignonnes (in press), LIII(2013),

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See detailWauthier de Corswarem, un commanditaire qui se laisse peu approcher par l'histoire…
Marchandisse, Alain ULg; Masson, Christophe ULg

in Peintures murales du XVe siècle dans la Principauté de Liége. Regards croisés sur la chapelle castrale de Ponthoz et l’église de Bois (in press)

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See detail"Worte stürzen zerbrochen über die Straße." Zum Gerücht als Figur und Erzählverfahren in Wolfgang Koeppens "Jugend"
Leyh, Valérie ULg

in Häntzschel, Günter; Hanuschek, Sven; Leuschner, Ulrike (Eds.) Schuld in der Literatur der fünfziger Jahre (in press)

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See detailHombre de letras, escritor, autor: declinación social de una función simbólica
Durand, Pascal ULg

in Zapata, Juan (Ed.) Teoría del autor (in press)

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See detail"Gens" isiaque et intailles. L’envers de la médaille
Veymiers, Richard ULg

in Iossif, Panagiotis; de Callataÿ, François; Veymiers, Richard (Eds.) Greek Coins and their Images: "Noble" Issuers, "Humble" Users? (in press)

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See detailLe Journal d’Antoine Galland (1646-1715) : la période parisienne. Volume IV (1714-1715)
Bauden, Frédéric ULg; Waller, Richard; Veymiers, Richard ULg et al

Book published by Peeters (in press)

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See detailLe Journal d’Antoine Galland (1646-1715) : la période parisienne. Volume III (1712-1713)
Bauden, Frédéric ULg; Waller, Richard; Veymiers, Richard ULg et al

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See detailCurrency Total Return Swaps: Valuation and Risk Factor Analysis
Cuchet, Romain; François, Pascal; Hübner, Georges ULg

in Quantitative Finance (in press)

Currency total return swaps (CTRS) are hybrid derivatives instruments that allow to simultaneously hedge against credit and currency risks. We develop a structural credit risk model to evaluate CTRS ... [more ▼]

Currency total return swaps (CTRS) are hybrid derivatives instruments that allow to simultaneously hedge against credit and currency risks. We develop a structural credit risk model to evaluate CTRS premia. Empirical test on a sample of 23,005 price observations from 59 underlying issuers yields an average percentage error of around 10%. This indicates that, beyond interest rate risk, firm-specific factors are major drivers of the variations in the valuation of these instruments. Regression analysis of residuals shows that exchange rate determinants account for up to 40% of model pricing errors — indicating that a currency risk premium affects the CTRS price significantly but only marginally, which confirms the prevalence of credit risk in the pricing of CTRS. [less ▲]

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See detailComprendre la mammite bovine comme une enzootie dynamique
Theron, Léonard ULg; Hanzen, Christian ULg

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Health disorders in bovine herds are, in essence, multifactorial. They are based on the equilibrium among various factors. The major difficulty in managing endemias in livestock production emerges from ... [more ▼]

Health disorders in bovine herds are, in essence, multifactorial. They are based on the equilibrium among various factors. The major difficulty in managing endemias in livestock production emerges from two elements: the extreme variability of practices among farms and over time on one hand and on the other hand, the crossed impact of various factors producing the same result. A simple example will illustrate the two problems: Mastitis has epidemiological components that govern their own response to means of prevention. Because no two dairy farms ever have fifty per cent of their livestock production practices in common, the establishment of the usual means of prevention will never have the same dosable impact in each of the two farms (Bradley et al. 2007; Théron et al. 2009). Further, in view of the variability of certain practices or adjustments over time, a situation can vary while all other factors remain constant, due to a neglected invisible factor, thus diminishing the strength of the prevention argument. Each of us has known situations in which post-dipping did not generate the anticipated effects, and situations in which, after a transitory improvement linked to milking practices, the situation degrades again for a cause associated with the milking machine or feeding. The conclusion of this introduction is both simple and complex: the integrated control of mastitis is based on long-term monitoring. This monitoring is justified by the economic and societal impact of this disease. Good monitoring implies the definition of key measurable control points. The aim of this article will be to define the indicators and epidemiological objectives that enable the level of mammary health and its evolution to be defined over time. [less ▲]

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