Dr Quentin Bone, 1931–2021

Quentin Jones and Sheizaf Rafaeli

This paper examines the importance of ‘discourse architecture’ and ‘community’ to the maintenance and growth of virtual publics. ‘Virtual publics’ are computer mediated discourse spaces created by using various technologies including email, the USENET, web based bulletin boards, IRC, MUDS, etc. It is argued that the over-emphasis to date on ‘community’ has discouraged systemic analysis of colla...

Ideas in Context : Conversation with Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is an intellectual historian known for his pioneering work on early-modern European political thought. He was educated at Bedford School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Author of such works as The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978) and Visions of Politics (2002) he served as the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, and currently as t...

QUENTIN: reconstruction of disease transmissions from viral quasispecies genomic data

Motivation Genomic analysis has become one of the major tools for disease outbreak investigations. However, existing computational frameworks for inference of transmission history from viral genomic data often do not consider intra-host diversity of pathogens and heavily rely on additional epidemiological data, such as sampling times and exposure intervals. This impedes genomic analysis of outb...

Pseudoparasitism of Sypharista kamegaii Quentin, 1971, found in Japanese martens.

Georges GARDARIN Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines