Pierre-Louis Rey, Pierre-Louis Rey commente “Le Premier homme” d’Albert Camus

Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865): the cerebral lobes and fissures.

Early anatomists referred to parts of the brain as 'posterior' and 'anterior.' But after comparing many primate brains, Gratiolet noticed a pattern of folds or sulci and convolutions marked by fissures of increasing complexity in the more advanced mammalian brains. The primary fissures he could also identify in the smoother ape brains. He was the first to separate four brain lobes (frontal, par...

Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting.

Louis, Lester and Pierre: Three Protocols for Location Privacy

Location privacy is of utmost concern for location-based services. It is the property that a person’s location is revealed to other entities, such as a service provider or the person’s friends, only if this release is strictly necessary and authorized by the person. We study how to achieve location privacy for a service that alerts people of nearby friends. Here, location privacy guarantees tha...

Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865) and His Contribution to the Study of Cerebral Convolutions in Primates

Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865) was one of the first modern anatomists to pay attention to cerebral convolutions. Born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde), he moved to Paris in 1834 to study medicine, as well as comparative anatomy under Henri de Blainville (1777-1850). In 1842, he accepted de Blainville’s offer to become his assistant at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and progressively aband...

Rey Hernández - Julián

Studies have shown that attractive people have higher earnings. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that physical attractiveness may be a proxy for unobserved productivity. We compare the impact of attractiveness on grades in college courses where instructors can directly observe the student’s appearance to courses where they do not. We confirm that appearance matters: attractive female stude...