service of radical political aims. Advances in wealth and a consumerist attitude to life had created pathological lifestyles and addicted people to false medicine. Entrepreneurialism had rendered doctors complicit, finding their own gain in society's sickness. Only a few disenchanted radicals, like Beddoes, were prepared to step back and offer a scientific diagnosis, and they were not only marg...

This paper tries to illustrate the relevance of what Benveniste called conglomérés (conglomerates) for the study of English. It shows that conglomerates refer to a set of regular phenomena and account for two general trends of the lexicon : the quest for economy on the one hand and the importance of speech (parole) in the lexicalisation of units on the other hand. By analysing a borderline case...

Hard spheres with an attraction of range a tenth to a hundredth of the sphere diameter are constrained to remain fluid even at densities when monodisperse particles at equilibrium would have crystallized, in order to compare with experimental systems that remain fluid. They are found to have a fluid-fluid transition at high density. As the range of the attraction tends to zero, the density at t...

An interesting property for curve length digital estimators is the convergence toward the continuous length and the associate convergence speed when the grid spacing tends to zero. On the one hand, DSS based estimators have been proved to converge but only under some convexity and smoothness or polygonal assumptions. On the other hand, we have introduced in a previous paper the sparse estimator...

The Diverse Worlds Project analysed 130 computer and video games (CVGs) to understand their textual landscape. Titles were sampled from the five gaming platforms dominant in 2002. Blending the quantitative content analytic tradition and the Bordwellian approach to formal film analysis, characters, settings, narrative and stylistic factors were studied in four units of analysis including box, ha...

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...

This article analyzes several French eighteenth century physiological theories that later on were classified as vitalist. The overall background is set by the tradition of Montpellier medical school, in particular by the physiological and medical ideas of Théophile de Bordeu. Paul-Joseph Barthez was initially trained in this setting, however, his conception of the autonomy of life was also heav...