A presidential election can be viewed as a national drama in which candidate casts herself/himself courageous protagonist who seeks to become collective symbol that embodies the best qualities of nation. Drawing from fields performance studies, French cultural studies and political rhetoric, this article provides critical reading key moment 2007 campaign: Nicolas Sarkozy’s first official on 14 ...

Nicolas Schweighofer*, Yupeng Xiao*, Sujin Kim, Toshinori Yoshioka, James Gordon, 4 Rieko Osu 5 1. Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 6 2. Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 7 3. ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan 8 9 10 *These authors contributed equally to this work. 11 1...

In device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD), the violation of a Bell inequality is exploited to establish a shared key that is secure independently of the internal workings of the QKD devices. An experimental implementation of DIQKD, however, is still awaited, since hitherto all optical Bell tests are subject to the detection loophole, making the protocol unsecured. In particular, ph...

We investigate families of minimal rational curves on Schubert varieties, their Bott–Samelson desingularizations, and generalizations constructed by Nicolas Perrin in the minuscule case. In particular, we describe small resolutions varieties.