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Tribute to Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Arnold, an eminent mathematician of our time, passed away on June 3, 2010, nine days before his seventy-third birthday. This article, along with one in the next issue of the Notices, touches on his outstanding personality and his great contribution to mathematics. A word about spelling: we use “Arnold”, as opposed to “Arnol’d”; the latter is closer to theRussian pronunciation, but Vlad...

Applying the Tensive Model to Ferdowsi's Rustam and Sohrab and Its Translation by Arnold

The purpose of this study is to look into post-Greimasian semiotics and investigate how this tensive model can be applied to Rustam and Sohrab in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and its translation by Arnold. The tensive model, considering the two dimensions of intensity and extent, investigates meaning formation and production. Accordingly, this research intends to analyze the semiotic ...

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Marcel Arnold * and Marie

EPIDEMIOLOGY Cervical artery dissection accounts for up to 20% of strokes in patients under 30 years of age (Bogousslavsky et al. 1987). The incidence of carotid dissection is about 2–3 per 100 000 per year (Schievink et al. 1993; Giroud et al. 1995); the incidence of cervical dissection must be higher because these fi gures do not take into account vertebral dissection (about 25% of all dissec...