The emblematic statement of the Nobel Peace Prize. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 13 No. 1, January 2013

From the Introduction. On October 12th the Nobel Committee announced that the annual Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the European Union for, “promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades”.1 This was a bit of good news for the EU who had produced nothing but bad press with the Euro Crisis, the bailouts of struggling countries like Greece, and protests in the southern member states of Spain, Portugal, and Italy. At such a momentous occasion the EU’s next challenge was to figure out who would be the rightful head of the EU to accept the award. The EU has made their decision by opting to send its top three officials Jose Manuel Barroso the President of the European Commission, Herman Van Rompuy the President of the European Council, and Martin Schulz the President of the European Parliament2 as a sign that the EU is not headed by one person but instead is an supranational economic and political bloc that seeks to unify the European continent. Their symbolic acceptance of the award is in response to what Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, called, “an accumulated record.”3 This record has ushered the EU into the international spotlight as a beacon for countries in the EU’s periphery to want to join the bloc.

Le Boccace de Jean sans Peur : Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes : reproduction des cent cinquante miniatures du manuscrit 5193 de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal /

"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 410 exemplaires dont: 10 exemplaires, texte et planches sur papier du Japon, numérotés de 1 à 10; 400 exemplaires, texte et planches sur vélin, numérotés de 11 à 410"--Prelim. leaf.

Histoire de la vie, des ouvrages et des doctrines de Martin Luther /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire ecclesiastique des six premiers siécles... : tome dixième, qui contient les vies de S. Ambroise, S. Martin, S. Epiphane et divers autres saints morts à la fin de quatrième siecle et an commencement du cinquième /

Mode of access: Internet.

Collection des chroniques nationales fran̨caises, écrites en langue vulgaire du treizième au seizième siècle, avec notes et éclaircissements.

t.1-2. DuCange, C. Du F. Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs Fran̨cais. 1826. 2 v. t.3. Villehardouin, G. de. Chronique de la prise de Constantinople par les Frances. 1828. t.4. Chronique de la conquête de Constantinople et de l'établissement des fran̨cais en Morée. 1825. t.5-6. Muntaner, R. Chronique. 1826. 2 v. t.7-8. Guiart, G. Branche des royaux lignages, chronique métrique. 1828. 2 v. t.9. Godefroy de Paris. Chronique métrique. 1827. t.10. Froissart, J. Poésies. 1829. t.11-25. Froissart, J. Chroniques. 1824-1826. 15 v. t. 26-40. Monstrelet, E. de. Chroniques. 1826-27. 15 v. t. 32-33. Le Fèvre, J. Mémoires. 1826-27. 2 v. t.34. Chronique et procès de la Pucelle d'Orléans. 1827. t.35-36. Escouchy, M. de. Chroniques. 1826-27. 2 v. t.37-40. Duclercq, J. Memoires. 1826-27. 4 v. t.40. Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris. 1826-27. t.41. Chastellain, G. Chronique de J. de Lalain. 1825. t.42-43. Chastellain, G. Chronique des ducs de Bourgogne. 1827. 2 v. t.44-47. Molinet, J. Chroniques. 1827-28. 5 v.

Illustrations of the life of Martin Luther,

Mode of access: Internet.

Histoire de la formation de la langue fran*aise pour servir de complément à l'Histoire littéraire de la France /

First lub. in 1841 under title: Histoire de la littérature française au moyen âge comparée aux littératures étrangères ... Introduction: histoire de la formation de la langue française.

Mémoires de Luther : écrits par lui-même ; suivis d'un Essai sur l'Histoire de la Religion, et desbiographiesde Wicliff, Jean Huss, Érasme, Mélanchton, Hutten, et autres prédécesseurs et contrmporains de Luther /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dr. Martin Luthers Leben /

Part 2 has separate title: Das Leben von Huldreich Zwingli und Johann Calvin.

Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S.J., 1801-1873; missionary labors and adventures among the wild tribes of the North American Indians ...

Paged continuously; v. 1: xv, 402 p.; v. 2: vii, 403-794 p.; v. 3: vi, 795-1211 p.; v. 4: vi, 1213-1624 p.

Langage et commencement dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Langage et commencement dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Raman microscopic study of the Li amphibole holmquistite, from the Martin Marietta Quarry, Bessemer City, NC, USA

The Raman spectrum of holmquistite, a Li-containing orthorhombic amphibole from Bessemer City, USA has been measured. The OH-stretching region is characterized by bands at 3661, 3646, 3634 and 3614 cm–1 assigned to 3 Mg–OH, 2 Mg + Fe2+–OH, Mg + 2Fe2+–OH and 3 Fe2+–OH, respectively. These Mg and Fe2+ cations are located at the M1 and M3 sites and have a Fe2+/(Fe2+ + Mg) ratio of 0.35. The 960–1110 cm–1 region represents the antisymmetric Si–O–Si and O–Si–O stretching vibrations. For holmquistite, strong bands are observed around 1022 and 1085 cm–1 with a shoulder at 1127 cm–1 and minor bands at 1045 and 1102 cm–1. In the region 650–800 cm–1 bands are observed at 679, 753 and 791 cm–1 with a minor band around 694 cm–1 attributed to the symmetrical Si–O–Si and Si–O vibrations. The region below 625 cm–1 is characterized by 14 vibrations related to the deformation modes of the silicate double chain and vibrations involving Mg, Fe, Al and Li in the various M sites. The 502 cm–1 band is a Li–O deformation mode while the 456, 551 and 565 cm–1 bands are Al–O deformation modes.

On Ordinal VC-Dimension and Some Notions of Complexity

We generalize the classical notion of Vapnik–Chernovenkis (VC) dimension to ordinal VC-dimension, in the context of logical learning paradigms. Logical learning paradigms encompass the numerical learning paradigms commonly studied in Inductive Inference. A logical learning paradigm is defined as a set W of structures over some vocabulary, and a set D of first-order formulas that represent data. The sets of models of ϕ in W, where ϕ varies over D, generate a natural topology W over W. We show that if D is closed under boolean operators, then the notion of ordinal VC-dimension offers a perfect characterization for the problem of predicting the truth of the members of D in a member of W, with an ordinal bound on the number of mistakes. This shows that the notion of VC-dimension has a natural interpretation in Inductive Inference, when cast into a logical setting. We also study the relationships between predictive complexity, selective complexity—a variation on predictive complexity—and mind change complexity. The assumptions that D is closed under boolean operators and that W is compact often play a crucial role to establish connections between these concepts. We then consider a computable setting with effective versions of the complexity measures, and show that the equivalence between ordinal VC-dimension and predictive complexity fails. More precisely, we prove that the effective ordinal VC-dimension of a paradigm can be defined when all other effective notions of complexity are undefined. On a better note, when W is compact, all effective notions of complexity are defined, though they are not related as in the noncomputable version of the framework.