How did human consciousness arise, in comparison with that of apes? This question has motivated many hypotheses, from psychoanalysis (Freud, 1939) and literature (Bloom, 1999) to evolutionary psychology (Dennett, 1997; Tomasello, 2014). One of the most provocative is that of Julian Jaynes (1976), who understood the question as pertaining to the cultural evolution of introspection during the fir...

Students who want to build competence in data science and would like to gain a complete set of skills: how to ask a question, discover the relevant digital traces, extract and explore them, and produce a useful tool or insight. Students who can work independently and are highly motivated to learn how to use Python and other tools necessary to solve practical data science problems. Upon completi...

Introduction Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in a vast amount of materials. NAA relies on excitation by neutrons so that the treated sample emits gamma-rays. It allows the precise identification and quantification of the elements, above all of the trace elements in the sample. NAA has applications in chemistry but also i...

Acoustical archeology aims to study previous acoustical stages in buildings or rooms or to recover old rooms, environments or buildings that has been lost. This part of the acoustic science also tries to analyze the historic acoustic evolution of emblematic buildings of our Cultural Heritage. The main aim of this paper is to make a virtual acoustic rehabilitation of a ruined church, according t...

The unshredding problem is of interest in various domains such as forensics, investigative sciences and archeology, and has therefore been approached in many different ways. This paper tries to bridge the gap between previous, disparate, efforts by proposing a modular, probabilistic, solution. Novel approaches to two of the independent subproblems are presented and shown to both have good theor...