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Programmatic Action in Times of Austerity. Elites' Competition and Health Sector Governance in France, Germany, the UK (England) and the USA (2008-2018). – ProAcTA
ProAcTA refines and implements the Programmatic Actor Framework to test the following hypothesis in the US, UK (England), Germany, and France (2008-2018): In the health policy sector of western democracies, budgetary austerity has had the counter-intuitive result of providing specialized sectora
Luwili: Luwian Religious Discourse Between Anatolia and Syria – Luwili
• Producing up-to-date commented translations of Hittite texts from Central and Southern Anatolia and Syria containing Luwian insertions (CTH 757-766 and 768-770). • Studying Luwian religious discourse and its communication strategies, by defining the cultural and linguistic specificities of each
The public Debates on Energy Transition in Germany and France. Understanding ecological transformations by crossing two sociological approaches to discourse ; – ENERGICORPUS
This Franco-German collaborative research combines the cross-fertilization of different but similar theoretical and methodological perspectives in discourse analysis based on corpuses, the adaptation of computer procedures distributed in several software programs developed in France, including Prosp
Spoken lAnguage in motions: Learning and Adaptation of speech coMMunication in the context of BOdy motions – Salammbo
In everyday situations, we often speak while moving (e.g., walking together, cooking, knitting), and we move while speaking (e.g. head, arms and hands, posture). Breathing mediates between speech and motion, and is a source for these activities: It provides the brain and muscles with the required ox
DimeData: On-line Platform for Editing Roman Period Accounts from the Soknopaios Temple in Dimê (Fayum) – DimeData
Previous research has blamed the Romans for the decline of the Egyptian temples. The current view, however, is that Rome played a stimulating role on the Egyptian economy. Against this background the temple in Dimê is particularly suitable to explore the economic situation of an Egyptian temple unde
Formalism, Formalization,Intuition and Understanding in Mathematics: From Informal Practice to Formal Systems and Back Again – FFIUM
This project investigates the interplay between informal mathematical theories and their formalization. Reflecting on the interplay between informal mathematical theories and their formalization means reflecting on mathematical practice and on what makes it rigorous, and how this dynamism generates
History of transparency: making politics visible, France and Germany, 1890-1990 – HISTRANS
Today, transparency is a political demand which is associated with the progress of democracy, participation and accountability. The current debate often does not reflect two important aspects: First, the quest for transparency is neither entirely new, nor is it a super-temporal category. Rather, it
How Immigration Impacts Natives' Wages: Investigating Cross-Country Differences – NaWaCC
In three scientific work-packages (WPs), this project will investigate the impact of immigrant workers on natives’ jobs and wages. We will go beyond the existing literature by investigating why the impact of immigrants varies across countries. We will give a particular attention to task allocation a
Human interactions during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Europe: The dual perspectives of cultural and biological exchanges – INTERACT
Archaeological research shows that the dispersal of the Neolithic took a more complex turn when reaching the western parts of Europe. It is conceivable that the concurrence of the two main “streams” of the West European Neolithic expansion (i.e. the Danubian and Mediterranean stream) and encounters
Teaching and Preaching with the Patristic auctoritates - Meister Eckhart, bridging France and Germany, past and present – TEAPREA
The patristic sources of Eckhart have never been systematically studied. Through the exceptional cooperation of Franco-German specialists in TEAPREA, through their constant interaction, the complementarity of their skills, giving access to resources, dispersed in France and Germany, the project will
A Sea of Connections: Contextualizing Fisheries in the South Pacific Region – SOCPacific
The South Pacific region represents a unique context in which local communities and their political representatives are increasingly committed to integrated management of marine resources and spaces after a predicted dissolution of related community-based activities in the 1970s. This holds especial
Rhythms of attentional exploration and selection – RATES
Accumulating evidence suggest that the phenomenological, continuous stream of our perceptual experience relies on a series of discrete moments, similar to the snapshots of a video clip. The rhythms of our perceptual and attentional processes have been demonstrated mostly with behavioral data. Studie
Look who’s talking: Interactions between face processing and speech perception during perceptual narrowing in monolingual and bilingual German and French infants – BabyFaceSpeech
From the beginning of life infants are exposed to talking faces. During their first year they become attuned to their native language as well as to faces which belong to their parents’ ethnic group. In learning their native language, infants will use auditory as well as visual information. Although
Understand and optimize mental strategies in motor training – MentAct
Motor imagery is the mental simulation of action. Although it can assist in decision-making and skill improvement for novice and experts, the inter-individual variability of such improvement lowers the potential benefits at a broader level. The neural resources underlying motor imagery have been ide
Entangled History of Cutural Anthropology and Prehistory in Germany and France until the 1960's – Anthropos 2
In France and Germany, the scientific and disciplinary traditions as well as their institutional contexts have sometimes developed in a very diverging way in the first half of the 20th century. Regarding ethnology, one may however also note intersections between the two epistemological national appr