Quand l'évêque Athanase se prend pour l'évangéliste Luc (Lettre festale XXXIX sur le canon des Ecritures)

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) This collection of studies in honor of François Bovon highlights the rich diversity found within early expressions of Christianity as evidenced in ancient texts, traditions, symbols, and motifs. Old labels like 'apocrypha' or 'heresy' that for centuries have suppressed much of this evidence are removed, previous assumptions are questioned, and the old data are examined afresh along with the latest discoveries. The studies fall into six areas: ancient gospels, acts, early Christian movements, ancient interpretations, art, and manuscripts. Contributors include James Robinson, Helmut Koester, Harold Attridge, Karen King, and Jean-Daniel Kaestli.

Medinas, súbditos y simbología del poder en el norte de Marruecos

La investigació vol identificar i analitzar les manifestacions, icones i estratègies utilitzades pel poder polític al Marroc per a ressaltar la seva presència pública i social en alguns espais urbans de les ciutats, en particular a Tetuan. La utilització d'una determinada simbologia i l'ocupació o apropiació d'espais urbans per part del poder polític (sobretot monarquia i govern) possiblement representa una estratègia de presència pública i transmet explícitament o implícitament certs valors i missatges relacionats amb el poder.

El mirall de la guerra

Treball que fa un estudi iconogràfic i mitològic del quadre

El futur de les democràcies a Bolívia i Equador

Segons L'índex de Desenvolupament Democràtic d'Amèrica Llatina (IDD-Lat 2004) tot i que a la zona hi ha símbols democràtics com eleccions periòdiques, alternança en el poder per part dels partits polítics, divisió de poders, en alguns dels països llatinoamericans també s'hi ha trobat signes de debilitat del sistema democràtic.

Religious act, public space: reflections on some Geertzian concepts

This paper examines theoretical and methodological implications of Clifford Geertz's approach to religion as he formulated it in 'Religion as a cultural system' (Geertz 1966), where religion and culture seem to be defined as functional equivalents. The paper considers religious symbols in the public space, using two examples from contemporary reality - one being a certain expression spoken by the copilot of Egypt Air Flight 990, the other being the headscarf controversy in France - in order to explore how the anthropologist relates the microsituations he observes to an all-embracing context

Hybrids and Regulation in the Global Political Economy

While regulation theory literature has made important contributions to the much-debated domain of globalisation by focusing on various aspects of post-Fordism, it has not yet fully engaged with the implications that can be drawn from critical approaches in international political economy. Recent studies have explored the transnational bases of new patterns and agents of change beyond states, firms and institutions traditionally involved in regulatory practices. Hybrid is often used as a default attribute reflecting lack of clear understanding of the breadth of this new type of influence and the opacity of the means involved. Drawing on the insights of philology and mythology, the paper argues that the notion of hybrid is relevant in elucidating the ontological ambiguity between imaginary and real aspects of globalisation. Furthermore, it specifies the categories involved in the analysis of emerging forms of hybrid regulation. Recent scholarship on globalisation tends to focus on the private-public nexus of the subjects involved in new forms of institutional arrangements and authority. Here, subjects, objects and space are analysed as joint issues. By focusing particularly on transformations affecting the role of the state, forms of competition, and their rescaling on a transnational basis, the concept of global hybrid is seen as complementary to the emancipation of regulation approaches from early emphasis on national levels of compromises.

Iowa Official Register, 2000

The Iowa Official Register, commonly known as the "Redbook," serves as a biographical and historical record of Iowa's leaders, government and people.

Probabilistic base calling of Solexa sequencing data.

BACKGROUND: Solexa/Illumina short-read ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing technology produces millions of short tags (up to 36 bases) by parallel sequencing-by-synthesis of DNA colonies. The processing and statistical analysis of such high-throughput data poses new challenges; currently a fair proportion of the tags are routinely discarded due to an inability to match them to a reference sequence, thereby reducing the effective throughput of the technology. RESULTS: We propose a novel base calling algorithm using model-based clustering and probability theory to identify ambiguous bases and code them with IUPAC symbols. We also select optimal sub-tags using a score based on information content to remove uncertain bases towards the ends of the reads. CONCLUSION: We show that the method improves genome coverage and number of usable tags as compared with Solexa's data processing pipeline by an average of 15%. An R package is provided which allows fast and accurate base calling of Solexa's fluorescence intensity files and the production of informative diagnostic plots.

L'evolució iconogràfica del mite de Dànae : De Gossaert a Subirachs

El fascinant mite de Dànae ha inspirat artistes de múltiples disciplines; poetes, escriptors, escultors, gravadors i pintors han quedat subjugats per aquesta història i per la seva ductilitat. En aquest document concentrarem la nostra anàlisi en l'estudi d'un conjunt representatiu i divers de pintures sobre l'escena de la pluja d'or del mite de Dànae.

What is the value of joint processing of pilots and data in block-fading channels?

The spectral efficiency achievable with joint processing of pilot and data symbol observations is compared with that achievable through the conventional (separate) approach of first estimating the channel on the basis of the pilot symbols alone, and subsequently detecting the datasymbols. Studied on the basis of a mutual information lower bound, joint processing is found to provide a non-negligible advantage relative to separate processing, particularly for fast fading. It is shown that, regardless of the fading rate, only a very small number of pilot symbols (at most one per transmit antenna and per channel coherence interval) shouldbe transmitted if joint processing is allowed.

Early Christian School Texts on Papyri: the database

Database of papyrus school texts which may be identified as Christian on the basis of the presence of some internal indicator: Christian symbols, textual content originating from the Bible or of a clearly Christian origin proposed as a copying exercise, or Christian contents not part of the exercise itself, such as prayers or invocations.

Symbolic meaning of local identity – A case study on Barcelona place brand representation

The core objective of this research process was to design an operational tool for place brand analysis. By modelling the emotional significance and the deeper-lying symbols associated to a specific place identity I expected to create a semiotic tool that could be applied, mutatis mutandis, on other similar place brands. As a field case study to develop the instrument, my choice of the research arena was Barcelona city, the capital of Catalonia Autonomous Community, Spain. Barcelona brand identity was approached in the line of the Chicago Urban Anthropology School. The research methods were designed according to the prescriptions of the urban anthropology, namely qualitative methods: in-depth interviews and discourse analysis. The final research outcome was a model summarizing a range of specific emotional values that support a place brand to position in the collective mindset and to assume a positively valued status and identity in the world order.

Voimavaroja arkeen : PCS-kuvat strukturoimassa kehitysvammaisen lapsen päivittäisiä toimintoja

Opinnäytetyömme on tapaustutkimus, jonka tarkoituksena on selvittää PCS-kuvien (Picture Communication Symbols) käytön hyötyä 8-vuotiaan kehitysvammaisen Joonaksen arjessa. Joonas ei ymmärrä ajan käsitettä, joten hänen on vaikea ennakoida päivän aikana tapahtuvia toimintoja, mikä näkyy levottomuutena ja turhautuneisuutena. Työelämän yhteistyötahonamme toimii Joonaksen koulu, jossa käytetään PCS-kuvia strukturoimassa eri toimintoja ja tilanteita. Tavoitteenamme on yhtenäistää koulun ja kodin käytäntöjä tuomalla PCS-kuvat osaksi Joonaksen arkea myös kotona. Olemme valmistaneet Joonakselle kotiin päiväjärjestyksen, jossa on PCS-kuvat päivän aikana tapahtuvista toiminnoista. Haluamme selvittää miten ja millaista struktuuria kuvat tuovat Joonaksen arkeen ja pystyykö hän ennakoimaan tulevia tapahtumia niiden avulla. Opinnäytetyötämme varten olemme haastatelleet Joonaksen vanhempia ja opettajaa sekä havainnoineet Joonasta erilaisissa tilanteissa. Menetelminä olemme käyttäneet avointa haastattelua ja teemahaastattelua, osallistuvaa havainnointia sekä videohavainnointia. Sisällönanalyysia apuna käyttäen olemme analysoineet saatua aineistoa. Tarkoituksenamme oli saada mahdollisimman kattava kuva Joonaksen käyttäytymisestä erilaisissa ympäristöissä, ohjeita PCS-kuvien tekemiseen sekä tietoa päiväjärjestyksen käytöstä kotona. Olemme kuvanneet opinnäytetyössämme Joonaksen Inhimillisen toiminnan mallin (Kielhofner 2002 ja 1985) käsitteiden tahto, tottumus, suorituskyky ja ympäristö kautta. Työn teoriaosuudessa on kerrottu myös PCS-kuvista, struktuurista, päivittäisistä toiminnoista sekä kehitysvammaisuudesta. Seurasimme päiväjärjestyksen käyttöä Joonaksen kotona noin kuusi kuukautta. Perhe ja yhteistyötaho olivat tyytyväisiä, että saimme siirrettyä kuvat koulusta kotiin. Joonas nauttii kuvien käyttämisestä ja osaa jonkin verran ennakoida päivän aikana tapahtuvia toimintoja päiväjärjestyksen avulla. Päiväjärjestys yksinään ei pysty tuomaan struktuuria Joonaksen arkeen, vaan hän tarvitsee toisen ihmisen jatkuvaa läsnäoloa suoritukseen päivittäisistä toiminnoista. Opinnäytetyöprosessin myötä olemme tulleet siihen tulokseen, että kuvien käytöllä on suuri merkitys struktuurin tuojana ja arjen jäsentäjänä. Mielestämme toimintaterapeuteilla tulisi olla näkyvämpi rooli tukemassa kuvien käyttöä päivittäisten toimintojen yhteydessä.

Iowa Official Register, 2005-2006

The Iowa Official Register, commonly known as the "Redbook," serves as a biographical and historical record of Iowa's leaders, government and people.

The Flag, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the Constitution of the State of Iowa, the Declaration of Independence, the "Mayflower" Compact, the Constitution of the United States : reprint from the Iowa Official Register, 1951-1952, 1958.

Reprints from the Iowa Official Register, 1951-1952 of The Flag, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the Constitution of the State of Iowa, the Declaration of Independence, the "Mayflower" Compact and the Constitution of the United States.