This report offers an account of the historical construction of Cotard's syndrome showing that by délire des négations the French author meant a subtype of depressive illness. Subsequent debate led first to the belief that it was just a collection of symptoms associated with agitated depression (anxious melancholia) or general paralysis, and later to the view that it might after all constitute ...

ABSTRACT Using data deriving from the Paris 1976 blind wine tastings of notable French and American Chardonnays, in the first tasting, and of notable French Bordeaux and American Cabernets in the second tasting, the author discovers the fact that the same 5 of 11 tasters were the most reliable or consistent ones in both wine competitions. He then discusses the very important implications that t...

the present study is a randomized pilot project that intends to test the graded salience hypothesis (giora, 1997), to investigate the major factors contributing to understanding meaning. according to graded salience hypothesis, more salient meanings–coded meanings foremost on our mind due to conventionality, frequency, familiarity, or prototypicality–are accessed faster than and reach sufficien...

Starting with a comparison between the first big French thesaurusof Lafaye which distinguishes between two lexicaly close items by opposing different co-occurences within the sentences in which these items are usaully uttered, thus pioneering the Lexicon-grammar analyses inittiated by Maurice Gross, and the first big French analogical dictionary of Boissière which indeed helps finding unknown w...

Corresponding author: Yves Bestgen, PSP/PSOR Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique Tel: (+32) 10 473005 Fax: (+32) 10 473774 [email protected] ABSTRACT Signaling the structure of a discourse using linguistic devices is at least as important in second language production as in one’s mother tongue. Still, very little is known about the difficulties second languag...

With the continued development of open access policies, it is important to promote consensus-building projects with the various stakeholders. This article gives an account of how such collaboration has facilitated the construction of the project Héloïse. This project is a French information service dedicated to describing the policies of French publishers on the self-archiving of scientific pub...

Introduction Presentation of the HoNOS-Secure French Version, an Outcome Measure for Users of Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services Eytan A*1, Golay D2, Della Polla S2, Hofer F2, Sillitti F2 and Gex-Fabry M3 1Division of General Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 2Division of Penitentiary Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 3Division of Ps...

Note: Prof. Dr John H. Elliott is participating as a research associate of Prof. Dr Ernest van Eck, Department of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa. This article is an English version (with minor modifications and additions) of an essay first published in French as ‘Lecture socioscientifique. Illustration par l’accusation du Mauvais Oeil en Galatie...

In this study, we investigate the work of [1] on Salient Object Subitizing — the ability to quickly detect a small number of objects in an image. We firstly apply the method described by [1] with a bigger model to show that performance is improved. We than look at how data augmentation and additional data affects our system. We improve the (recently established) state-of-the-art in Salient Obje...