The publication introduces letters from Catholic priest Aurelio Palmieri, an employee of the Vatican Library, sent to the editorial board of the Theological Herald in 1905–1906. The letters are published in French with a Russian translation, commentary, and an introductory article providing the context of the beginning of the correspondence. After a personal visit to Russia, Palmieri became acquainted with Ivan Popov, who was at that time the Editor-in-chief of the Herald, and through him with the Secretary of the editorial board Sergei Smirnov. These contacts enabled Palmieri to anonymously publish a number of his articles in the Theological Herald, which largely became a matter of the published letters. Palmieri’s letters to I. V. Popov and S. I. Smirnov can contribute to the history of international academic ties among the staff of the Moscow Theological Academy. One of the main academic lines of these ties was S. I. Smirnov’s dissertation on the spiritual father of the ancient Eastern Church. On the one hand, Palmieri made a certain contribution to S. I. Smirnov’s work on his dissertation by recommending and giving him books by Catholic and Protestant scholars. On the other hand, he in a way “opened” Smirnov’s thesis to the Western academic world: having familiarised himself with S. I. Smirnov’s texts, Palmieri made several communications about them to theological journals in France and Italy. Finally, the letters provide at least some insight into Palmieri’s own scholarly interests.
Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Stefan Gromoll, Michael M. Shara
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We used the Condor Array Telescope to obtain deep imaging observations through the luminance broadband and He ii 468.6 nm, [O iii ] 500.7 nm, He i 587.5 nm, H α , [N ii ] 658.4 nm, and [S ii ] 671.6 nm narrowband filters of an extended region comprising 13 “Condor fields” spanning ≈ 8 × 8 deg ^2 on the sky centered near M81 and M82. Here we describe the acquisition and processing of these observations, which together constitute unique very deep imaging observations of a large portion of the M81 Group through a complement of broad- and narrowband filters. The images are characterized by an intricate web of faint, diffuse, continuum produced by starlight scattered from Galactic cirrus, and all prominent cirrus features identified in the broadband image can also be identified in the narrowband images. We subtracted the luminance image from the narrowband images to leave, more or less, only line emission in the difference images, and we masked regions of the resulting images around stars at an isophotal limit. The difference images exhibit extensive extended structures of ionized gas in the direction of the M81 Group, from known galaxies of the M81 Group, clouds of gas, filamentary structures, and apparent or possible bubbles or shells. Specifically, the difference images show a remarkable filament known as the “Ursa Major Arc;” a remarkable network of criss-crossed filaments between M81 and NGC 2976, some of which intersect and overlap the Ursa Major Arc; and details of a “giant shell of ionized gas.”
Christopher El Hadi, Rindala Saliba, Georges Maalouly
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Introduction COVID-19, caused by severe acure respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has posed unprecedented challenges globally, with diverse clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic and mild symptoms to severe and fatal illness. Identifying patient subgroups with distinct clinical profiles could enhance individualized treatment strategies. Clustering mixed clinical data offers a promising avenue for uncovering meaningful patterns; however, few algorithms effectively manage heterogeneous datasets. This study applied evidence-based clustering algorithms, that is, KAMILA and K-prototypes, to categorize COVID-19 patients on the basis of medical history and biochemical and radiological data. Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 556 COVID-19 patients admitted to Hôtel Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut between March 2020 and October 2021. Only data collected within the first 24 hours of admission were used for clustering to ensure early prognostic relevance. After data cleaning, the missing values were imputed into 30 datasets. KAMILA and K-prototype algorithms were applied to these datasets, generating clusters ranging from two to six groups. The optimal clustering solution was determined via the silhouette, Calinski–Harabasz, and Dunn indices, followed by statistical analyses to characterize cluster-specific patient profiles and outcomes. Results Clustering identified three distinct patient groups, with the KAMILA algorithm providing the best fit. Cluster 1 primarily included middle-aged male patients exhibiting elevated inflammatory markers, consistent oxygen requirements, and extended hospital stays. Cluster 2 included elderly patients with multiple comorbidities and high intensive care unit (ICU) admission rates, requiring cautious anticoagulation and early antibiotic intervention. Cluster 3 included younger, generally healthier individuals who required minimal interventions and experienced low mortality. Conclusions Mixed-data clustering revealed three COVID-19 patient clusters indicating the clinical meaningfulness and global reproducibility with prognostic and therapeutic implications. This unsupervised approach may inform early triage and resource allocation. Further prospective validation in diverse, vaccinated populations is warranted.
Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
Dislocations in ceramics have enjoyed a long yet underappreciated research history. This brief historical overview and reflection on the current challenges provides new insights into using this line defect as a rediscovered tool for engineering functional ceramics.
Muhammed Adil Yatkin, Mihkel Korgesaar, Jani Romanoff
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Current neural network (NN) models can learn patterns from data points with historical dependence. Specifically, in natural language processing (NLP), sequential learning has transitioned from recurrence-based architectures to transformer-based architectures. However, it is unknown which NN architectures will perform the best on datasets containing deformation history due to mechanical loading. Thus, this study ascertains the appropriateness of 1D-convolutional, recurrent, and transformer-based architectures for predicting deformation localization based on the earlier states in the form of deformation history. Following this investigation, the crucial incompatibility issues between the mathematical computation of the prediction process in the best-performing NN architectures and the actual values derived from the natural physical properties of the deformation paths are examined in detail.
Jordane Demonchy, Lucie Biard, Raphaël Clere-Jehl
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Invasive fusariosis can be life-threatening, especially in immunocompromised patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We conducted a multicenter retrospective study to describe clinical and biologic characteristics, patient outcomes, and factors associated with death and response to antifungal therapy. We identified 55 patients with invasive fusariosis from 16 ICUs in France during 2002–2020. The mortality rate was high (56%). Fusariosis-related pneumonia occurred in 76% of patients, often leading to acute respiratory failure. Factors associated with death included elevated sequential organ failure assessment score at ICU admission or history of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or hematologic malignancies. Neither voriconazole treatment nor disseminated fusariosis were strongly associated with response to therapy. Invasive fusariosis can lead to multiorgan failure and is associated with high mortality rates in ICUs. Clinicians should closely monitor ICU patients with a history of hematologic malignancies or stem cell transplantation because of higher risk for death.
Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slave societies in history. Garraway’s readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and moral depravity. While tracing this critique in colonial accounts of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit beliefs, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a theory of “the libertine colony.” She argues that desire and sexuality were fundamental to practices of domination, laws of exclusion, and constructions of race in the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean. Among the texts Garraway analyzes are missionary histories by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, Raymond Breton, and Jean-Baptiste Labat; narratives of adventure and transgression written by pirates and others outside the official civil and religious power structures; travel accounts; treatises on slavery and colonial administration in Saint-Domingue; the first colonial novel written in French; and the earliest linguistic description of the native Carib language. Garraway also analyzes legislation—including the Code noir —that codified slavery and other racialized power relations. The Libertine Colony is both a rich cultural history of creolization as revealed in Francophone colonial literature and an important contribution to theoretical arguments about how literary critics and historians should approach colonial discourse and cultural representations of slave societies.
In Queer/Early/Modern , Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero takes issue with New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties and to derive identity categories from the past. She urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions and she encourages us to read differently the relation between history and literature. Contending that the term “queer,” in its indeterminacy, points the way toward alternative ethical reading practices that do justice to the aftereffects of the past as they live on in the present, Freccero proposes a model of “fantasmatic historiography” that brings together history and fantasy, past and present, event and affect. Combining feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and literary criticism, Freccero takes up a series of theoretical and historical issues related to debates in queer theory, feminist theory, the history of sexuality, and early modern studies. She juxtaposes readings of early and late modern texts, discussing the lyric poetry of Petrarch, Louise Labe, and Melissa Ethridge; David Halperin’s take on Michel Foucault via Apuleius’s The Golden Ass and Boccaccio’s Decameron ; and France’s domestic partner legislation in connection with Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron . Turning to French cleric Jean de Lery’s account, published in 1578, of having witnessed cannibalism and religious rituals in Brazil some twenty years earlier and to the twentieth-century Brandon Teena case, Freccero draws on Jacques Derrida’s concept of spectrality to propose both an ethics and a mode of interpretation that acknowledges and is inspired by the haunting of the present by the past.
Diffusion models have recently been recognised as efficient inverse problem solvers due to their ability to produce high-quality reconstruction results without relying on pairwise data training. Existing diffusion-based solvers utilize Gradient Descent strategy to get a optimal sample solution. However, these solvers only calculate the current gradient and have not utilized any history information of sampling process, thus resulting in unstable optimization progresses and suboptimal solutions. To address this issue, we propose to utilize the history information of the diffusion-based inverse solvers. In this paper, we first prove that, in previous work, using the gradient descent method to optimize the data fidelity term is convergent. Building on this, we introduce the incorporation of historical gradients into this optimization process, termed History Gradient Update (HGU). We also provide theoretical evidence that HGU ensures the convergence of the entire algorithm. It's worth noting that HGU is applicable to both pixel-based and latent-based diffusion model solvers. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to previous sampling algorithms, sampling algorithms with HGU achieves state-of-the-art results in medical image reconstruction, surpassing even supervised learning methods. Additionally, it achieves competitive results on natural images.
The cultural dynamics of reception are best understood as a reiterative process of reshaping and reframing. Reception as an object of critical study embraces first the history of how texts were read, disseminated, and consumed across media, languages, and geographical regions. But if this is the first port of call, such analysis quickly draws in questions about the relationship between reception and production, audience and agency, about contemporary and posthumous reputation. This special issue investigates the ways in which the act of reception is a reiterative process on a continuous spectrum with cultural production. Receivers — of texts, events, reputations — are mediators, creatively reconstituting that which they receive according to their own agendas and contemporary imperatives. The articles in this collection embrace international, comparative, and new material contexts for early modern reception studies as they address poetry, romance, letters, history, hagiography, autobiography, and literary reviews. The transnational perspectives that emerge lead from the Low Countries to Italy, Ireland to France and the Spanish Netherlands, Spain to England, and England to France. The introductory essay for the issue additionally examines recent digital projects concerned with the history of reading and reception, exploring in particular how digital resource design foregrounds questions of representation and our immersion, as critics, in the act of reception.
In this article, we analyse how bathing practices and facilities have been a part of a long history in Île-de-France and have never totally disappeared despite their decline in the second half of the 20th century. We then try to determine what motivated the actors in the Paris bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to promise the opening of twenty or so bathing sites by 2024. The inclusion of the Seine in the bid project makes it possible to further develop urban strategies which are already underway. At the same time, the development of open water swimming as a sport offers an exceptional opportunity to showcase the architectural and natural heritages of cities hosting the games. Finally, the evolution of bidding models and their popularity leads committees to promise to provide intangible and symbolic legacies for the benefit of inhabitants and international actors and audiences alike.
This article examines the history and international experience of creating and functioning of transport and logistics infrastructure facilities - transport and logistics centers in Europe, the USA, and Asian countries, and identifies specific features and directions of further development.
The concept of "transport and logistics center" is characterized, which takes into account the peculiarities of its structure, management, and functioning formed by the European Association of Transport and Logistics Centers.
For the first time the ideology of creating a large logistics complex dates back to 1960, when in France (near Paris) at the initiative of the state in cooperation with local authorities and private companies were established two specialized logistics centers "Garonor" and "Sogaris".
In accordance with the objectives of the functioning of transport and logistics centers, the main components of the class of transport and logistics centers are determined by their presence or absence.
This article presents the classification of transport and logistics centers for the following features: integration of main modes of transport; capacity of vantage processing, space, occupied territory and the complexity of the transport and logistics services provided by the cluster; scale and administrative level of the area, which is served by the nature of specialization of terminals in the transport and logistics center and the degree of integration with enterprises and industries, trade, etc.
Regardless of the diversity of types of transport and logistics centers, shows the main general features of all transport and logistics centers, as a complex system, which includes several subsystems, integrated links, due to which it is able to perform logistical functions.
Since existing scientific research is not enough to improve the state of methodological support of the process of creating transport-logistic infrastructure relevance of conducting research into the creation of the methodological basis of support of the processes of creation and functioning of transport-logistic centers.
Though Mnemosyne has been working on fostering gender equality in schools for over ten years–like many other gender-equality organizations–, France’s national syllabi in History, as proposed since 2010, keep on side-tracking women and largely ignoring gender issues. Yet the law on equality is quite clear and History teachers are essential in promoting equality. Training teachers in gender issues is thus of paramount importance as is the rewriting of History syllabi in France, if we want mind-sets about gender to evolve.
Women. Feminism, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
<i>Circus Wols</i> is a multimedia spectacle conceived by Wols during World War II at the Camp des Milles where he was interned between May and October 1940. As a German citizen, the artist was considered an enemy of France and <i>Circus</i> helped him bear the harsh conditions of his imprisonment. Wols envisioned a show of high intellectual and aesthetic value that would employ advanced technology but remain accessible to the masses. As such, it is comparable to a utopian avant-garde total artwork. However, through its assumed incompletion and fragmentation, <i>Circus Wols</i> destabilized the ambitions of the avant-garde and modernism; it even went further, rejecting anthropocentrism. Shortly after his liberation from the camp, Wols began to claim that his art should not be considered a human creation. Prefigured by <i>Circus Wols</i>, the artist’s dismissal of European humanism as a valid social and cultural paradigm only grew after the war. His stance is best understood in relation to the contemporaneous notion of “abhumanism”, first theorized by playwright Jacques Audiberti, and embraced by Wols’s close friend, artist and poet Camille Bryen. The article argues that approaching Wols through the lens of abhumanism highlights the pressing historical concerns of his work, which, associated with post-war Parisian Abstraction, is usually depoliticized.
The $γ$-ray deposition history in an expanding supernova (SN) ejecta has been mostly used to constrain models for Type Ia SN. Here we expand this methodology to core-collapse SNe, including stripped envelope (SE; Type Ib/Ic/IIb) and Type IIP SNe. We construct bolometric light curves using photometry from the literature and we use the Katz integral to extract the $γ$-ray deposition history. We recover the tight range of $γ$-ray escape times, $t_0\approx30-45\,\textrm{d}$, for Type Ia SNe, and we find a new tight range $t_0\approx80-140\,\textrm{d}$, for SE SNe. Type IIP SNe are clearly separated from other SNe types with $t_0\gtrsim400\,\textrm{d}$, and there is a possible negative correlation between $t_0$ and the synthesized $^{56}$Ni mass. We find that the typical masses of the synthesized $^{56}$Ni in SE SNe are larger than those in Type IIP SNe, in agreement with the results of Kushnir. This disfavours progenitors with the same initial mass range for these explosions. We recover the observed values of $ET$, the time-weighted integrated luminosity from cooling emission, for Type IIP, and we find hints of non-zero $ET$ values in some SE SNe. We apply a simple $ γ$-ray radiation transfer code to calculate the $γ$-ray deposition histories of models from the literature, and we show that the observed histories are a powerful tool for constraining models.