Past research finds that monolingual and bilingual children prefer native speakers to individuals who speak in unfamiliar foreign languages or accents. Do children in bilingual contexts socially distinguish among familiar languages and accents and, if so, how do their social preferences based on language and accent compare? The current experiments tested whether 5- to 7-year-olds in two bilingu...

Research in the field of vocabulary learning has shown that child L2 learners need to meet words again and again in new contexts in order to expand and deepen their word knowledge. In an instructional setting, cognitive processing is enhanced not only by the interplay between language use and metalinguistic reflection during classroom interaction but also by the activation and articulation of d...

Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Unité Antibiorésistance et Virulence Bactériennes, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), Lyon, France; INSERM U914, South-Paris Medical School, K.-Bicêtre, Paris, France; Centre National Associé Centre de Référence des Ré...

with valuation 110/110 cum laude Thesis: " Polymorphism and subtyping in MetaML " Supervisor: Eugenio Moggi • July 1996 High school degree at the " Istituto Tecnico Statale F.Liceti " of Rapallo (Gen-ova), with valuation 60/60 English: scholastic knowledge (PET certificate) French: scholastic knowledge Research activity Research interests Formal semantics of programming languages, functional an...

To improve the dietary offering in schools, the French authorities published recommendations on nutrition in 1999, which were then revised in 2007. The aim of the present study was to assess the nutritional offering in secondary school meals and the extent to which the recommendations promote balanced nutritional offerings. In 2005, a national survey was conducted on a representative sample of ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the health effects of attending a well-kept school swimming pool maintained according to French public health regulations. METHODS This prospective month long study was carried out on a randomised sample of pupils aged 5 to 18 years who attended a private French school with two swimming pools. The children surveyed, helped by their parents, had to fill...

Using the Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2013) news-based measure to capture economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the United States, we find that EPU positively forecasts log excess market returns. A one-standard deviation increase in EPU is associated with a 1.5% increase in forecasted 3-month abnormal returns (6.1% annualized). Furthermore, innovations in EPU earn a significant negative risk premiu...

Multivariate analyses are well known and widely used to identify and understand structures of ecological communities. The ade4 package for the R statistical environment proposes a great number of multivariate methods. Its implementation follows the tradition of the French school of ”Analyse des Données” and is based on the use of the duality diagram. We present the theory of the duality diagram...

Some aspects of a dark period in the history of the modern neurology, that of the World War I (WWI), are here remembered, mainly by the neurological French School participation . Some personalities and their works related to the WWI are presented such as Joseph Babinski, Jules Froment, Clovis Vincent, Jules Joseph Dejerine, Augusta Déjérine-Klumpke, Jules Tinel, Pierre Marie, Achille Alexandre ...

Twelve years ago I introduced a B course at Ensimag, a wellknown french Mathematics and Computer Science engineer school. In this paper I describe this experiment and the evolution of the contents of this course. In particular I present a set of fundamental concepts that can be easily illustrated with the help of the B framework. I also present some unpublished examples and theoretical results.