Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic,...

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that ...

It is very rare to find in a single person both the qualities of a remarkable scientific mind and of a wonderful human being. With this tribute to Jean-Yves Jaffray, we hope to convince the reader of his outstanding creativity and vision, of the coherence of his work, and of its relevance for some topics in decision theory that are currently under lively debate. As a scientist, Jean-Yves Jaffra...

There are no doubts. We owe wavelet analysis to Jean Morlet. How did Morlet discover wavelets? Here is the story. During the late seventies Morlet was working as a geophysicist for the Elf-Aquitaine company. He had to process the backscattered seismic signals which carry the information related to the geological layers. These seismic signals present transient patterns. Processing such signals w...

TODAY Jean Cruveilhier is best remembered as an early professor of pathology, as the author of the two-volume atlas L'Anatomie pathologique du Corps Humain, and for his theoretical views on the role of phlebitis and inflammation in general disease processes.13 Works dealing with the history of pathology emphasize his views on inflammation and mention several conditions of which he gave the firs...

[2] Jean-Vivien Millo and Robert Simone. Explicit routing schemes for implementation of cellular automata on processor arrays. Natural Computing, 12(3):353–368, 2013. [3] Jean-Vivien Millo and Robert de Simone. Periodic scheduling of marked graphs using balanced binary words. Theoretical Computer Science, 458:113-130, November 2012. [4] Calin Glitia, Julien DeAntoni, Frédéric Mallet, Jean-Vivie...

English sentences such as: (1) John appreciates that book. (2) John appreciates this book. can both be translated into French as: (3) Jean apprécie ce livre. (‘Jean appreciates ce book’) so that ce seems neutral between that and this. To express the English distinction, French adds -là or ci: (4) Jean apprécie ce livre-là. (‘Jean appreciates ce book-there’) (5) Jean apprécie ce livre-ci. (‘Jean...

Organization committee members Jean-Pierre Chambon, CHRU, Hôpital Claude-Huriez, Lille, Vascular Surgery David Elkharrat, Hôpital Ambroise-Paré, Boulogne, Emergency Room Georges Ha Van, Clinique les Trois Soleils, Boissise le Roi, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Agnès Heurtier-Hartemann, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Endocrinology and Diabetology Fabien Koskas, Hôpital de la Piti...

Published jointly with Critical Care Medicine Conference Participants: Mitchell M. Levy (Co-Chair), Graham Ramsay (Co-Chair), Edward Abraham, Derek Angus, Robert Balk, Gordon Bernard, Julian Bion, Joseph Carcillo, Jean M. Carlet, Jonathan Cohen, Deborah Cook, Jean-François Dhainaut, Tim Evans, Mitchell P. Fink, Donald E. Fry, Herwig Gerlach, Steve Lowry, Mark A. Malangoni, John C. Marshall, Geo...