This essay discusses three aspects of the Terror (September 1793–July 1794): (1) The Institutions of the Terror: The Committee of General Security, the Committee of Public Safety, and the Revolutionary Tribunal; (2) the Theory of Terror: The unity and indivisibility of the people, the category of enemy of the people, and the concept of Revolution as a state of war against aristocratic/foreign c...

Our daily life happens in a world of dense acoustic environments. This is especially the case in train stations, where soundscapes are usually very complex. In this paper, we will investigate how Non Negative Matrix Fac-torization methods can be used to obtain a low rank spectrogram approximation, composed of spectral templates that can be related to some salients events like footsteps, whistle...

Image saliency detection has recently achieved great success due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks . However, most existing salient object methods cannot identify individual instances in detected region In this paper, we present a instance segmentation method that produces map with distinct labels for an input image. Our consists three primary steps, i.e. , inference, con...

Over the past few years Claude Hagège, the prestigious author of, among several books, the seminal Le souffle de la langue (1992) and Halte à la mort des langues (2000), has also positioned himself in the same camp as Phillipson (2003), notably in Français: histoire d’un combat (1996) and Combat pour le français (2006). Along with the latter author, he has spread the theme of English as a “kill...

The binary opposition between ‘equal European women’ and ‘oppressed Muslim women’ has become a powerful representation in Switzerland and throughout Europe. Yet little is empirically known about the mechanisms through which actors in their everyday lives (re)produce this prominent construction. In this mixed-method study with young adults in a French-speaking Swiss Canton, we explore how and on...

This article explores the history of concept infrastructure, from its origins in 19th-century French railway legislation, adoption as a metaphor for characterizing social world, to international expansion both military and civilian domains. Delving into manifold meanings contexts which term is employed, author unveils genealogy that weaves continuities with translations transfers, marking journ...