Writing in 1932, Dr. Raymond Molinéry described the renowned French physician Pierre-François Olive Rayer (1793–1867) as having had the misfortune to have been born and to have lived through tempestuous times, when intrigue and violent uprisings were happy bed-fellows. It would seem appropriate then, before setting out details of the life and professional achievements of this ‘‘good, gentle, af...

This paper considers whether countries might mutually agree a policy of open borders, allowing free movement of workers across countries. For the countries to agree, the short run costs must outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income smoothing. We show that such policies are less likely to be adopted when workers are less risk averse workers...

This paper gives an overview of Pierre Bayle’s theory of toleration and derives a normative principle of toleration from it that is meant to compete with other normative principles of toleration such as the Harm principle. INDEX WORDS: Political philosophy, Social philosophy, toleration, religion, Christianity, justice, legitimacy, stability, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Baruch Spinoza, Harm princ...

Pierre Robin Sequence is a well-recognized case of rarity which presents with a triad of glossoptosis, cleft palate. We report a rare case of Pierre robin Sequence in an Asian child, with the absence of left femur and right sided inguinal hernia.

Bernard Gaveau, Michel Moreau, and Janos Toth Laboratoire Equations aux Dérivées Partielles, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case courrier 172, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Laboratoire Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Department of Computer Science, Agricultural University, Gödöllö, Pater K. u.1 H-2103, Hungary ~Received 20 Januar...

Quantitative Measurements of the Influence of Participant Roles during Peer Review Meetings Patrick d'Astous, Pierre N. Robillard École Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, Suc. Centre-ville Montréal, CANADA H3C 3A7 [email protected] [email protected] Françoise Détienne, Willemien Visser INRIA-Rocquencour, Bat 24, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153, Le Chesnay, ...

Swarm intelligence: combinatorial problems (optimization & clustering) Pheromones following : Lego robot On the Popularization of Artificial Insects: an interactive exhibition for a wide audience to explain and demonstrate computer science and robotic problem solving taking inspiration of insects Pierre Lebocey, Julie Fortune, Arnaud Puret, Nicolas Monmarché, Pierre Gaucher, Mohamed Slimane, Di...

Benjamin Martin, Abderrahim Aissaoui, Matthieu Sainlos, Noufissa Oudrhiri, Michelle Hauchecorne, Jean-Pierre Vigneron, Jean-Marie Lehn and Pierre Lehn 1 Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires, CNRS UPR 285, Collège-de-France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France. 2 INSERM U458, Hôpital Robert Debré, 48 Boulevard Sérurier, 75019 Paris, France ____________________________...

Michèle Sebag . . . . . . . . Senior Scientist, CNRS, Université Paris Sud . . . . . reviewer Craig Boutilier . . . . . . . Professor, University of Toronto, Canada . . . . . . . . . reviewer Peter Jonsson . . . . . . . . Professor, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden . . . . . . . . reviewer Jérôme Lang . . . . . . . . . Senior Scientist, CNRS, Université Paris Dauphine Patrice Perny. . . . . . . ....