Balzac-Tanpinar: Comparing Two Imaginary Interview

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.

Comparing Two Populations

2 Imaginary Phases in Two - Level Model with Spontaneous Decay

We study a two-level model coupled to the electromagnetic vacuum and to a weak external electric field with fixed frequency. The amplitude of the external electrical field is supposed to vary very slowly in time. The coupling of the two-level system with the environment (vacuum) introduces decreasing exponentials in the probability of the two-level system to be in its upper level. Garrison and ...

Imaginary Devices

We propose Imaginary Devices, a set of freehand gestures that mimic the use of physical input devices. Imaginary Devices allow users to choose the input modality best suited for the task at hand, such as a steering wheel for a driving game or a joystick for a flight simulator. Exploiting the skills that users have acquired using physical input devices, they can instantly begin interacting with ...