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In this paper we find nonasymptotic exponential upper bounds for the deviation in the ergodic theorem for families of homogeneous Markov processes. We find some...

Communication prononcée à San Francisco, dans le cadre du 20th/21th Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, " Humain/Animal ", 30 mars-2 avril 2011.

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A new fictitious domain method, the algebraic immersed interface and boundary (AIIB) method, is presented for elliptic equations with immersed interface conditions....

Comment se délivrer de la peur de la mort et du deuil? L'article analyse les différentes attitudes philosophiques face à la mort, le sens de l'expression "fin de vie"...

Peut-on appliquer la méthode géométrique au règlement des passions? Cette question trouve une réponse par la lecture du prologue du TIE et des parties III et IV de...

Model-Driven Engineering enables to assess a system's model properties since the early phases of its lifecycle and to improve iteratively these models according to the...

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007,...

The primary aim of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of Hoarding International Reserves and Sterilization in dollarized and indebted countries such as Turkey...

In France, the various studies that have examined the motivations of parents when giving money to their children do not support the altruistic hypothesis of transfer....

The spectacular failure of the 150-year old investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15th, 2008 was a major turning point in the global financial crisis that broke...

Using data from whisky tastings and fixed effect regressions, we find that net of any composition effect, experts report different tasting scores on average. This...

This article provides and tests a measure scale of cognitive dissonance both in ante and post-decisional situations. An experiment was conducted with 264 subjects. A...

The idea of disaster afflicts the mind to such an extent that it prevents us from believing what we in fact know. For instance, Bergson knew the first World War was...

We propose in this paper to introduce a spinor representation for images based on the work of T. Friedrich. This spinor representation generalizes to arbitrary...

This paper studies the determinants of scientific productivity from an original database of French academic economists observed in 2009 and 2010. All individuals of...

In 2002, the French policymakers adopted the VAE procedure, allowing to obtain a part or the whole of a diploma without following an initial or on-the-job training....

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The Arawak language of the Guianas, also known as "Arawak proper" or "Lokono", -- a native term meaning "human beings", "the Indians" -- is one of the few surviving...