DASTUR, Françoise, Comment affronter la mort ?, Paris, Bayard, 2005, 96 p.

"Pale as death" or "pâle comme la mort": Frozen similes used as literary clichés

The present study is focused on the automatic identification and description of frozen similes in British and French novels written between the 19 century and the beginning of the 20 century. Two main patterns of frozen similes were considered: adjectival ground + simile marker + nominal vehicle (e.g. happy as a lark) and eventuality + simile marker + nominal vehicle (e.g. sleep like a top). Al...

La mort subite de l’adulte, particularités en Afrique, à propos de 476 cas

Résumé La mort subite est une mort instantanée ou rapide, d’origine naturelle, inattendue ou inopinée. Chez l’adulte les causes cardiovasculaires, pulmonaires et cérébrales prédominent. Son mode de survenue est dramatique. L’objectif était ici de déterminer les circonstances de survenue de ces morts subites, les facteurs de risque, d’identifier les causes de mort subite chez l’adulte à l’autops...

Françoise Forges † April 2006

A mistake in ”Five legitimate definitions of correlated equilibrium in games with incomplete information” motivates a re-examination of some extensions of the solution concept that Aumann introduced.

How blood was let in the sixteenth century: Jacques Guillemeau, La Chirurgie Françoise... 1594.

WSOM 2005, Paris Self-Organizing Maps for Time Series

We review a recent extension of the self-organizing map (SOM) for temporal structures with a simple recurrent dynamics leading to sparse representations, which allows an efficient training and a combination with arbitrary lattice structures. We discuss its practical applicability and its theoretical properties. Afterwards, we put the approach into a general framework of recurrent unsupervised m...