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After presenting the final results of the archaeological explorations of the Sacred Wood of the Arvals at La Magliana, which have made considerable progress thanks to new excavations carried out by the Superintendency of Antiquities in Rome on the basis …

A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. …

Works cited Marcel Mauss, "Rites funéraires en Chine", Année sociologique, no. 2 (1899): review of Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, The Religious System of China. Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect. Manners, Customs and Social Institutions …

In this lecture, we began by analyzing and describing the biominerals found in nature. These biomaterials correspond mainly to the very abundant mineral sources found on Earth: calcium carbonates, phosphates, oxalates and sulfates, silica and silicates …

Since the introduction of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in 1974, considerable progress has been made in achieving broad immunization coverage of paediatric populations in low-income countries. today, 80% of the world's children are …

Universal administration of the same group of vaccines to the entire population, in the absence of contraindications, is based on a number of fairly approximate assumptions: every vaccinated individual would respond immunologically identically (antibody …

In Les Misérables , Victor Hugo writes: "Those heaps of garbage on the corner of the bollards, those tumblers of mud bumped up and down the streets at night, those dreadful roadside barrels [...], do you know what they are? It's meadow in bloom, it's …

Historically, it was neuropsychology, i.e. the study of the consequences of brain lesions, that led to the first advances in understanding the brain mechanisms of linguistic operations. Early observations quickly led to a dissociation between Broca's …

Abstract After a historical perspective and a review of some recent results obtained within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics, Christian Van de Broeck has shown that the efficiency (or yield) of a thermal machine is also a fluctuating quantity …

Abstract The first lecture was mainly devoted to an introduction to non-equilibrium systems and reminders, such as the macroscopic definition of entropy in thermodynamics. This definition is based on the following postulates: Entropy is only defined for …

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Abstract This lecture focuses on the close relationship between bulge masses and black hole masses, and hence on black hole demography. This relationship is very well verified for high masses, but is more dispersed at low masses. Likewise, barred galaxies …