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PALEOCORAN aims at bridging the gap between 1) the general history of the Qur’an as known through the Arabic sources and the latest palaeographic researches on the manuscripts and 2) the actual reception of the various aspects of the text as they can be documented in the in the “Qur’anic library” of

The BiHacoTax project aims to contribute to the debate on corporate tax harmonisation throughout countries in Europe. Analysis was based on two legal orders, those of France and Germany. The main idea of the project was to assess whether taxes incumbent on enterprises in France and in Germany could

Saccadic eye movements are the visual system’s camerawork that allow exploration of the fine details of a visual scene. Maintaining their accuracy throughout developmental or pathological modifications is thus of primary importance for our ability to see. This project aims to further our understandi

The study of ceramics is of specific importance for archaeologists in that it provides not only precious information regarding the dating of excavation contexts (pottery serves as chronological markers for any given site), but also assists in the understanding of economic patterns (import and export

Social security contribuions represent a considerable proportion of labour cost across all OECD countries (25% in 2008), rising to 40% in some continental European countries. The aim of the Structax project is to estimate the impact of social security contributions on the labour market based on e

Ensuring adequate outpatient medical care is a core task of public policy in advanced welfare states. Though the physicians’ density is increasing the number of regions with insufficient availability of medical care continues to grow. In the medium term, these problems are predicted to exacerbate.

The role of family-type networks in the Middle East from the 15th to the 17th centuries remained understudied and continued to be very regionally or socially focused, despite some punctual research. However family history has become one of the most stimulating fields in Middle Eastern studies in the

The period of formation of ethnology raises several questions that have been addressed during the four years of the Anthropos project. These were 1) the interactions with neighbouring disciplines, 2) the specific concepts of temporality, 3) the apprehension of the field (terrain) as an example of co

Although France and Germany are similar in many socio-economic dimensions, their total fertility rates are at the opposite extremes of the spectrum found in the OECD. German family policy has sought to increase the low rate for years with little success. We believe that much can be learned from a sy

While there is no gap in the written record of sources preserved since Antiquity, the transition from Latin to French is still poorly understood. One of the first reasons for this is the fact that languages change continuously. Different language registers corresponding to the situation, the region,

Market design has been one of the most successful fields of economics in terms of how research has improved practices in real life. As recognition, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley «for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design«.

The main innovative potential comes from considering differences in articulatory timing (consonant overlap) between languages and the impact timing differences have on the conditions in which preferred production patterns emerge and how these patterns are perceived. The most interesting result so fa

This project aimed at gathering in a single corpus the ancient Greek inscriptions from the region of Boiotia in central Greece. Boiotia is a strategic region that controls the communication between southern and northern Greece. It had important neighbors like Athens and played an important role in t

In previous projects, we have investigated hypothetical reasoning from a logical point of view. This new project targets hypothetical reasoning in extra-logical areas. Our leading viewpoint is that logical investigations must prove useful outside logic, and conversely, that logical investigations mu

The project tries to question the concept of «Enlightenment« under the view of the action and the work of some female educators. Three directions are selected: the redefining of the perimeter of the concept, its extension to the European context, the inclusion of a widened corpus. Plural, cross-cult