Saint Raymond asked whether continuously differentiable maps with isolated critical points are necessarily open in infinite dimensional (Hilbert) spaces. We answer this question negatively by constructing counterexamples various settings including all weakly separable

With the death of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) in 1893 came the impossible task of finding a suitable successor. The clinical chair for nervous system diseases was temporarily entrusted to Édouard Brissaud (1852-1909). There were a number of potential successors, but only three were officially declared: Brissaud, Jules Déjerine (1849-1917) and Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910). In the final vote,...

Analysis and Synthesis of Expressive Guitar Performance Raymond Vincent Migneco Advisor: Youngmoo Edmund Kim, Ph.D. The guitar is one of the most popular and versatile instruments used in Western music cultures. Dating back to the Renaissance era, the guitar can be heard in nearly every genre of Western music, and is arguably the most widely used instrument in present-day rock music. Over the s...

Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. Translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. (CPW) Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Theory of Political Systems. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. (Dem) Les Dernieres Annees du Siecle. Paris: Julliard, 1983. (DA) Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society. Translated by M. K. Bottomore. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson...

Llull has been described, anachronistically, as the first computer scientist. Nevertheless he did make significant contributions to the discipline that is now seen as computer science. Some of these contributions are also relevant to mathematics. The latter has become wellknown, principally because his ideas were taken up by Leibniz (16461716) and his followers. We discuss these contributions. ...

A theory of social communication is developed to explain (he endogenous processes by which stable organization is achieved in social collectives. The theory shows how two orders of social relations, fl/lx (the distribution of energy) and ("amral (spati:ll and temporal conslmints on behavior) activate the potential energy of the collective's members-their cap:lcity for physical and social behavi...

A review is presented in this paper of recent developments in the area of optical logic. Special emphasis is placed on optical programmable logic arrays and the development of a rudimentary optoelectronic central processing unit.

Investigators from Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Sorbonne Paris Cite University, Raymond Poincare University, and Paris Descartes University studied motor neuron function in children with Dravet syndrome (DS).

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study presents our experience with respect to the clinical and angiographic outcomes of patients treated with stent-assisted coil embolization using Solitaire™ AB stents. MATERIALS AND METHODS From March 2011 to December 2014, 50 patients with 55 wide-necked and/or complex intracranial aneurysms were evaluated. Four patients presented with an acute subarachnoid he...