Faction Antoine Volodine

Jules - Antoine Regnauld

Jules-Antoine Regnauld (1822-1895), French physician and pharmacist, who carried researches about mydriatic alkaloids (such as atropine), electrochemical phenomena, electromotive force, amalgams, properties of mixing in saline solutions, physiology, electrophysiology, fluorescence in live tissues, medical chemistry, anesthesia, and vision phenomena. Life and career Very little information is av...

Electronic cigarettes: fact and faction.

Annual Report of Antoine LEMENANT

During the year 2009/2010 I was principally working on 3 different problems in collaboration with 4 different people, 3 of them working in Pisa and one in Parma. Those works led to 3 scientific papers and 1 review paper submitted during the year 2009/2010. The first work is a collaboration with Pablo Àlvarez-Caudevilla, postdoc at the center De Giorgi. We studied a problem in PDEs, about the as...

Antoine - Augustin Parmentier

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), an Army pharmacist, single-handed promoted the introduction of the potato as a cultivar and food in France. His main activities were in agriculture, nutrition, and public health. He was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign, pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, founding the first governmental school of bread ma...

Predicting social influence with faction sizes and relative status.

Building on a recent theoretical development in the field of sociological social psychology, we develop a formal mathematical model of social influence processes. The extant theoretical literature implies that factions and status should have non-linear effects on social influence, and yet these theories have been evaluated using standard linear statistical models. Our formal model of influence ...