Medieval Punctuation, mise en texte and the Digital World

Mise en page 1

Ebola viruses (EBOV; genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae) cause often fatal, hemorrhagic fever in several species of simian primates including human. While fruit bats are considered a natural reservoir, the involvement of other species in the EBOV transmission cycle is unclear, especially for domesticated animals. Dogs and pigs are so far the only domestic animals identified as species that ca...

Texte et Représentation en Recherche d'Information

Les performances des modèles de Recherche d'Information (RI) sont for-tement liées à leur capacité à représenter le texte. Ces dernières années, portés par les succès en reconnaissance d'image et de parole, de nombreux modèles basés sur les réseaux de neurones et les représentations distri-buées des mots et phrases sont apparus. Quelques modèles ont essayé d'aborder le problème de la RI, dont u...

Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action.

A school became safer after security measures were removed. Children can learn better in playful, rather than didactic, settings. At-risk students earned higher grades after writing about a personal value. A novel construct - mise en place--explains how small changes in context, such as these, can lead to large changes in behaviors by highlighting how the psychology of preparing to act within a...

Legal Competition in the Medieval World

We develop a model of competition between legal systems with overlapping jurisdictions based on Hotelling competition that suggests that, absent institutional reform, courts with overlapping jurisdictions will be driven to adopt divergent legal doctrines in order to extract rents from agents with heterogeneous preferences over which doctrine is applied to their case. This has the effect of weak...

Vérification d'automates étendus : algorithmes d'analyse symbolique et mise en oeuvre