Ethnie, nation, État, empire

Ethnie identity and rationality

Ethnic identity is explained through the lens of collective action theory. Like other groups (Tribes, Fuedal states, international organizations, nation states, etc.,) ethnic groups are a result of an individuals cost-benefit analysis that maximizes wealth and security. External variables associated with social relations determine the individual’s cost benefit analysis to choose ethnicity over ...

(Review) Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era

La dysplasie fibreuse: état des lieux

La dysplasie fibreuse des os est une affection osseuse bénigne congénitale mais non héréditaire, où l'os normal est remplacé par un tissu fibreux renfermant une ostéogenèse immature. Elle est due à une mutation du gène GNAS 1sur le chromosome 20q13, une mutation activatrice de la sous-unité α de la protéine G. C'est une pathologie qui est le plus souvent silencieuse, de découverte fortuite sur ...

Ethnie Conflict as an Intra-Group Phenomenon: A Preliminary Framework

The literature on "ethnic conflict" tends to focus solely on external sources of such conflict. But this unquestioning focus on ethnic conflict as due to factors in the relationship between "ethnic groups” or their elites may at times be misleading. Drawing on a critique of conflict theory as developed in the field of international relations, I point out the conceptual and methodological proble...

Recherche d'information sémantique : état des lieux

This article focuses on the field of Semantic Information Retrieval (IR), which is at the intersection of several disciplines: Information Retrieval, Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing. We present the basics to understand how a semantic IR system works. We also present a classification of the types of semantic resources used in information retrieval. We detail the role of the...