Diana Napoli, Michel de Certeau. Lo storico “smarrito”

Technology Resistance and de Certeau: Deceptive texting as a Tactic of Everyday Life

Previous research has identified the “butler lie”—a lie told through text message to explain why someone is, was, or will be unavailable for interaction (Hancock et al., 2009). The concept of butler lying was established by Hancock et al. (2009, p. 519) who coined the term in allusion “to the social buffering function that butlers provided for their employers” when lying to visitors about wheth...

Diana Bratu

Co-directeur de thèse: M. Jean-Michel MAZIN

Social familiarity affects Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana diana) alarm call responses in habitat-specific ways.

Male Diana monkeys produce loud and acoustically distinct alarm calls to leopards and eagles that propagate over long distances, much beyond the immediate group. Calling is often contagious, with neighbouring males responding to each other's calls, indicating that harem males communicate both to local group members and distant competitors. Here, we tested whether male Diana monkeys responding t...

Michel Deza , Michel Petitjean , Krassimir Markov

We study differential-geometrical structure of an information manifold equipped with a divergence function.A divergence function generates a Riemannian metric and furthermore it provides a symmetric third-order tensor,when the divergence is asymmetric. This induces a pair of affine connections dually coupled to each other withrespect to the Riemannian metric. This is the arising eme...