Rencontres et solitude

Mistakenly seeking solitude.

Connecting with others increases happiness, but strangers in close proximity routinely ignore each other. Why? Two reasons seem likely: Either solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. To examine the experience of connecting to strangers, we instructed commuters on trains and buses to connect w...

Rencontres en Toxinologie Collection Meetings on Toxinology

Voltage-activated sodium (NaV) channels are crucial for initiating and transmitting action potentials, an ability that places them amongst the most widely targeted ion channels by drugs and animal venoms. An increasing number of toxins isolated from animal venom have been shown to interfere with the voltage-driven activation process of NaV channels, possibly by interacting with one or more of t...

Rencontres Graphs: a Family of Bipartite Graphs*

Sociotherapy took me out of my solitude.

I am fifty-eight years old. I have been a widow since 1995. Because of the ethnic conflicts that reigned in Rwanda over a period of many years, I grew up and lived in different neighbouring countries. I returned to Rwanda in 1992, at the age of thirty-eight. I was born into a family of six children, four of whom died during the genocide. Only one sister and I are still alive. I married my husba...

XXXVIIiéme Rencontres de Moriond: Electroweak 2002 Conference Summary

A substantial body of data is described by the Standard Model of particle physics. However the description is far from perfect and there is a growing number of internal inconsistencies. These fall short of qualifying as discoveries; nevertheless, examination of their merits is both interesting and worthwhile. The existence of three families of quarks and leptons is not understood. There are new...