Dans cet article, j’analyse la stratégie rhétorique qui oriente l’affirmation d’un membre de l’élite l’État São Paulo (rapportée par Lévi-Strauss dans Tristes Tropiques) que les colons portugais avaient exterminé tous indigènes brésiliens et l’une des méthodes d’extermination était l’offre aux vêtements infectés variole. Je compare structure ce récit avec mythes grecs comme celui Médée ou Déjan...

Two species, one each of Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964, and Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901, are recorded from the far eastern Solomon Islands for the first time. Abyssocladia lakwollii sp. nov. is characterized by the pedunculate disc-shape of the body, the unusually large size of the isochelae I microscleres, and by the shape of the cleistochelae with crossed central teeth. Asbestopluma (A.) desmophora ...

Building patterns are salient urban and rural structures for map readers (e.g. urban geographers and tourists) to understand the organization, function, history and development of a city or city parts (Lévi-Strauss, 1963). To represent and preserve the patterns at various scales for different applications has always been a challenge for cartographers, as it requires knowledge and experience on ...

We adapt the Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm for solving the three color Graph Coloring Problem (3-GCP). The difficulty of this task is adapting CS from a continuous to a discrete domain. Previous researches used sigmoid functions to discretize the Lévi Flight (LF) operator characteristic of CS, but this approach does not take into account the concept of Solution Distance, one of the main characte...

Structural studies are, in the social sciences, the indirect outcome of modern developments in mathematics which have given increasing importance to the qualitative point of view in contradistinction to the quantitative point of view of traditional mathematics. It has become possible, therefore, in fields such as mathematical logic, set theory, group theory, and topology, to develop a rigorous ...

Augmented quasiparticle (QP) mappings, as applied to indistinguishable point sets of (Liouvillian) democratic-recoupled (DR) tensors, provide for a 1:1 invariant labelling of the underlying (disjoint) dual projective map carrier subspaces, where the Liouville pattern basis set is defined via superboson unit-tensor actions on a null space, |∅〉〉. The co-operative-action Liouville algebras describ...