Crises, cérémonies et narrations

Representing Audio Narrations of Photos

Epilepsies et crises épileptiques aiguës chez l'enfant en Afrique subsaharienne: défis et espoirs

L'épilepsie est une maladie neurologique fréquemment rencontrée en Afrique Subsaharienne (ASS) au sein de la population pédiatrique. Bien que sa prévalence exacte au sein de cette population ne serait pas connue, il y a lieu de penser qu'elle n'est pas très différente de celle de la population générale à cause de l'âge précoce de son début avant 20 ans dans plus 60% des cas et à l'absence de la...

Community Created Narrations as Mobile Entertainment

In this paper we describe short mobile video story tests that have been done by using several authors/ users as story composers in the MoViE platform, which enables users to share, communicate and compose short mobile video stories in a networked community. The starting point of our study is the possibility to create an entertaining, dramaturgically intensive and coherent story from various sho...

A Formal Semantics for Protocol Narrations

Protocol narrations are an informal means to describe, in an idealistic manner, the functioning of cryptographic protocols as a single intended sequence of cryptographic message exchanges among the protocol’s participants. Protocol narrations have also been informally “turned into” a number of formal protocol descriptions, e.g., using the spi-calculus. In this paper, we propose a direct formal ...

Financial Crises and Political Crises∗

The simultaneous determination of financial default and political crises is studied in an open economy model. Political crises accompany default in equilibrium because of an information transmission conflict between the government and the public. Multiple equilibria are possible: if foreign lenders are pessimistic about the country’s stability, they demand a high interest on the debt, exacerbat...