Jean is a computational account of several aspects of cognitive development, specifically, a kind of Piagetian schema-driven learning. Jean’s schemas amalgamate Piagetian sensorimotor schemas with Image Schemas and with Dynamic Maps. These schemas are implemented in our Image Schema Language. Using our Experimental State Splitting algorithm, Jean learns by composing schemas into gists and by di...

this article explores the concept of civil religion from the perspective of jean-jacques rousseau. it starts with a discussion of the essence of sovereignty as the implementation of general will, which, the author explains, is manifested in the obedience of the laws. the article then discusses the way in which, in rousseau’s view, institutional mechanisms work and thereupon explores how he envi...

présenté le 28 juin 2007, après avis des rapporteurs Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Miloš ERCEGOVAC, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Paul ZIMMERMANN, Directeur de Recherche, INRIA devant le jury composé de Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Bernard GOOSSENS, Professeur, Université de Perpignan Peter MARKSTEIN, Senior Enginee...

It is with great sadness that we share that Jean St. Germain, our colleague, friend, and integral member of the Medical Physics Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for over 50 yr, passed away on December 7, 2017. She died peacefully and was with her brother, Amos, at the time. Following completion of graduate study at Rutgers University and a fellowship at Brookhaven Na...

Jean Dumas (Fig. 1) published his combustion method in Paris back in 1848. This makes the method considerably older than Kjeldahl digestion. While researching the composition of natural oils, Dumas tried combusting his samples, initially to analyse the carbon and hydrogen contained therein. Combustion therefore makes it possible to analyse multiple parameters, while Kjeldahl digestion is only s...