Professor Gerald Maurice Edelman died in La Jolla, California, on May 17, 2014, at the age of 84. His wife, Maxine Morrison Edelman, and three children, Judith, Eric, and David, survive him. We, of course, remember him for his brilliant scientific career. However, I have received many comments from people who, upon hearing of his death, remarked along lines similar to these: “It’s the end of an...

In this series of studies, we used a monkey model of human hemispherectomy in order to characterize behavioral recovery and anatomical reorganization of the visual system. Monkeys were tested neurobehaviorally on a variety of tests every 6 months for a period of 30 months. Thereafter, the organization of the retinofugal pathways was studied by means of histological techniques. At the behavioral...

Maurice Gross (1934-2001) was both a great linguist and a pioneer in natural language processing. This article is written in homage to his memory. Maurice Gross is remembered as a vital man surrounded by a lively group, constituted by his laboratory, the LADL, and by his international network, RELEX. He and his group always resolutely steered away from any kind of abstemiousness or abstinence. ...

* This is Contribution No. 132 of the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University. 1 F. A. Vening Meinesz, Theory and Practice of Pendulum Observations at Sea (Delft: Technische Boekhandel en Drukkerij, J. Waltman, Jr., 1929). 2 F. A. Vening Meinesz, Theory and Practice of Pendulum Observations at Sea, Part II: Second Order Corrections, Terms of Browne and Miscellaneous Subjects (Delft...

Shortly after the publication of La Madone des sleepings in 1925, Maurice Dekobra became a household name among Dutch readers and critics. By mapping the critical reception of Dekobra’s novel in the Netherlands, this article explores the attitudes of Dutch journalists and critics towards popular French literature during the interwar period. Which conceptions of literature and culture were invol...

Abstract In this article we rethink the chronotope approach by examining what happened to religious space-times in a Chinese urban development project that completely transformed had once been five relatively rural townships. What happens chronotopes when place is so transformed? We focus on multiple chronotopic dimensions experience of those villagers whose families long occupied land, but who...

The digital world is where 3.4 billion people communicate via images through social media. On average, each one of us spends 6 hours day in front a screen. rapidly appearing and disappearing under our scrolling fingers shape perception, time body movements, brain structure, responses complex neurological way. camera enables the formation identity, development, aesthetic value, cultural particip...

Dans le domaine cinématographique, la métaphore du miroir trouve dans les mots de Maurice Merleau-Ponty l’un des plus précieux soutiens herméneutiques, surtout en ce qui concerne l’explicitation relation « chiasmatique » individus avec eux-mêmes et monde autour d’eux. L’image cinématographique nous permet déchiffrer prélever, comme si on était face à un miroir, leurs modes d’agir. Mais cinéma n...