Balzac and Cooper: "Les Chouans"

Balzac and human gait analysis.

INTRODUCTION People have been interested in movement analysis in general, and gait analysis in particular, since ancient times. Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Leonardo da Vinci and Honoré de Balzac all used observation to analyse the gait of human beings. The purpose of this study is to compare Honoré de Balzac's writings with a scientific analysis of human gait. SOURCES Honoré de Balzac's Th...

Balzac and the Crimes of the Powerful

This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the crimes of the powerful.

Kumarsen Cooper

Cooper Receives Lilienfeld Prize

and attendant exposure of the seaport town citizens to benzene emanating from petroleum handled through the terminal as one example, Goldstein reviewed a number of risk assessment issues. He noted that the risk assessment agenda has never been set by scientific experts but is always strongly affected by economic, political, and social issues. He also pointed out that there are two often contrad...

Cosmic Strings and Cooper Pairs

It is shown that it is possible for bound fermions on a cosmic string to form a superconducting state. Due to the attractive force between them, particles moving in opposite directions along the string form bound pairs. This involves a similar mechanism to superconductivity in metals at low temperatures. The method of Gorkov is used to analyse the system. In contrast to the situation in metals,...