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Elder masters and new generations of religious specialists in China today : ethnographic fieldwork on daily life and anthropology of social change – SHIFU
This research program is concerned with the daily lives of Chinese religious specialists today, in a context where their roles, and in a larger sense the religious landscape itself, have undergone massive changes. It takes as its subject the different figures of Chinese religions – Daoism, Buddhism,
Deep Earthquakes : from the Laboratory to the Field – DELF
Seismological, geophysical, field and experimental observations all seem to point towards the same direction: a high pressure (> GPa) high temperature (> 500°C) domain exists where although deformation should be ductile, the arousal of phase transitions triggers mechanical instabilities which favor
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in ciliates: proximal causes and long-term evolutionary consequences – INFERNO
Small RNAs are very often used in eukaryotes as genomic ‘immune systems’ to control transposable elements. They have also been implicated in non-Mendelian inheritance phenomena in a variety of organisms. We propose to use the ciliate P. aurelia to shed some new phylogenetic light on the evolutionary
Water resource management in the Eastern Mediterranean: the example of Alexandria and its water system – GEOMAR
Our objective is to understand palaeohydrological changes in the region of Alexandria in terms of natural and anthropogenic forcing agents. We would like to answer the following questions: (1) How were the freshwater resources exploited in the desert and deltaic areas of Alexandria’s hinterland? (2)
Description, Indexing, Accessibility to Etnomusicologist and Sound Documents – DIADEMS
Oral archives from the CNRS-Musée de l’Homme build a unique recordings collection of a great historical importance, containing more than 5000h. A powerful and collaborative web platform will ensure its management and ease its consultation thanks tools for audio content analysis. The challenge is
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe at Next-to-Leanding Order – COSMO@NLO
The recent highlighting of an accelerated expansion of the universe is a fantastic challenge in fundamental physics. Identifying the origin of this acceleration remains a widely open question: it could be a new component in the energy content of the universe as well as a modification of the laws of
Using Water Stable Isotopes to Assess past, present and future tropical precipitation change – ISOTROPIC
Projections of tropical precipitation strongly differ from one climate model to another, both in sign and in amplitude. How to assess which of the model projections are likely to be the most reliable? By identifying the models that are most reliable both in simulating the processes that control pres
STructuring by Inversion the Local InterStellar Medium – STILISM
Our objective is to provide a realistic and detailed three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the interstellar matter (ISM) distribution in the Sun vicinity, within a kiloparsec wide volume. This 3D distribution of gas and dust, based on the inversion of distance-limited data and their combination with int
Excitation and chemistry of interstellar hydrides – HYDRIDES
In the period 2010-2013, the European Space Agency’s Herschel infrared observatory has mapped interstellar hydrides3 with unprecedented spectral resolution and sensitivity. Comprehensive analysis of such spectra requires the knowledge of collisional rate coefficients for hydrides excited by H, H2 an
Sieve Algorithms: Theoretical Advances, and Effective Resolution of the Discete Logarithm Problem. – CATREL
Study of the algorithms for solving the discrete logarithm problem in finite fields. The difficulty of this algorithmic problem is the keystone of the security of many cryptographic protocols. Publications are online: http://catrel.loria.fr/publications.en.html We expect to provide new algori
