The National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris

During these four hard years of German occupation and in spite of hindrances of all kinds—preliminary permits to be obtained, censorship and severe limitations imposed on the liberty of the scientific press—research and the publication of works on our national antiquities have not meanwhile been interrupted. Excavations have been carried on with an activity, which the struggles for liberation during the summer of 1944, have not invariably retarded. The reviews and publications of the learned societies of the departments, although perceptibly reduced in bulk, continued to record discoveries and to print erudite articles. A new documentary review, Gallia: Excavations and Archaeological Monuments of Metropolitan France, was even published for the first time in 1943. Edited under the aegis of the National Centre for Scientific Research, its object is to publish, with the least delay possible, the reports of excavators upon their discoveries. Such results could not have been attained without the co-operation of all archaeologists, editors and printers, in fulfilling a single and imperative duty, namely, to assure the continuity of French archaeology in spite of the uncertainties and distress of the period. This amounted moreover, at the same time to a form of service and was one of the aspects of resistance to the invader. All were thus only following the example, set at the time of the first world war by Camille Jullian, the great historian of Gaul, who then placed his science and his eloquence at the service of his country. The book, dedicated to him by Albert Grenier, is no mere biography; it traces another page of the history and archaeology of contemporary France.

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Ergonomic and Usability Studies on PLEMODS Dressing Kit Intended as Rescue Equipment for Uniformed Services

Problems of Mechatronics Armament Aviation Safety Engineering ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.3706 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 33-54

Author(s):

Danuta BUKOWIECKA ◽

Adam PŁACZEK ◽

Mariusz NEPELSKI ◽

Paweł JASTRZĘBSKI ◽

Ewa KUCZYŃSKA

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Functional Properties ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Development Project ◽

Project Team ◽

Development Work ◽

National Centre ◽

Design Changes ◽

Innovative Solutions

The article was written as part of the development project entitled “Dressing kit for protecting injuries suffered by uniformed services while performing official duties” No. DOB-BIO6/19/98/2014, co-financed by the funds from the National Centre for Research and Development under competition No. 6/2014 for the implementation of projects in the field of scientific research or development work, within the area of state defence and security. The project's result will be the PLEMODS dressing kit, intended for saving the life and health of uniformed service officers who have suffered injuries while performing their duties. The kit was developed in response to the needs of both the police and the Polish army. The project owner is the police, however, in line with the project assumptions, the kit is dedicated to be used as service equipment of other uniformed services as well. The article presents the premises and conditions that the project team followed when developing the concept of the dressing kit and the functionality of its individual elements. The answers obtained from the research conducted to verify the functional properties of the PLEMODS dressing kit, indicated the need to introduce design changes in the developed model. At the same time, the high comfort of using the PLEMODS dressing kit while performing official duties was confirmed, as well as the effectiveness of the applied innovative solutions in the scope of treating bleeding wounds.

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Nomad lives: from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day

10.5852/nes04 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sophie Méry

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Point Of View ◽

Animal Origin ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Hard Materials ◽

Research Fellow ◽

National Centre

This book illustrates fragments of the lives of past and present “nomadic” peoples, from Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe, from different angles (habitats, material production, economic and territorial organisation, social organisation, rites and beliefs, art). This way of life prevailed for millions of years before another sedentary way of life gradually replaced it from 9,000 years ago onwards. However, nomads did not disappear. Today they are a minority and are often marginalised, but they are still an integral part of our humanity. This is the point of view we have adopted in Nomad Lives and we invite our readers to discover women, men and children from all sorts of geographical, climatic, sociological and even chronological horizons, all united by their nomadic lifestyle. This book contains nearly thirty contributions by archaeologists, ethnologists/anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, economists and historians. However, present-day nomads are not in any way considered as avatars of past nomads, any more than the nomads of today (or yesterday) would be representative of one and the same social and economic organisation, of one and the same relationship to the world. On the contrary, the diversity of the contributions gathered here underlines the plural character of this way of life. Being nomadic, living as a nomad, cannot be defined in a univocal way and throughout the pages a question emerges, simple in appearance but excessively complex in the reality of the peoples themselves and of researchers in human sciences: “What is it to be nomadic?” It is around this question that the book closes from the combined perspective of an archaeologist, an ethnologist and a sociologist. Aline Averbouh is an archaeologist, Senior Research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specialist in prehistoric nomadic groups of the late Upper Palaeolithic and their production of hard materials of animal origin. She works in France but has also worked in Central Europe and South America (Argentina). She is a member of the UMR AASPE (MNHN Paris, France). Nejma Goutas is an archaeologist, Research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specialist in prehistoric nomadic groups of the Early Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) in Europe and their production of hard materials of animal origin (France, Romania, Russia, Czech Republic, Belgium). She is a member of the “Prehistoric Ethnology” team, UMR ArScAN (Nanterre, France). Sophie Méry is an archaeologist, Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, she is a specialist in Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in Arabia and their ceramic production and Director of the French Archaeological Mission to the UAE. She is a member of UMR CReAAH (Rennes, France).

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Série de raiografias

(Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical ◽

10.53981/destroos.v2i1.35826 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anaïs Tondeur

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Royal College ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Mixed Media ◽

Marie Curie ◽

National Centre ◽

Historia Natural ◽

École Polytechnique

"Chernobyl Herbarium": Raiografias - Impressão de pigmento em papel de algodão. Dimensões: 24x36 cm. 2011-em andamentoSobre a artista: Anaïs Tondeur é artista visual. Mestra em "Mixed-media" (Artes mistas) pela Royal College of Arts (2010), e bacharel em Artes Têxteis pela Central Saint Martins College (2008) em Londres. Já trabalhou como artista residente junto aos cientistas do Museu de História Natural, bem como da Universidade Pierre e Marie Curie, Sorbonne-Paris (2015), e no Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris (2015). Trabalhou ainda no Laboratório de Hidrodinâmica (LadHyx) na Ecole Polytechnique do National Centre for Scientific Research, França (2013-2015). Atualmente, realiza pesquisa em solos urbanos com antropólogos, geógrafos e ecologistas como parte do laboratório de Chamarande com curadoria da COAL (Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development).Sobre as raiografias: Projeto composto por raiogramas de plantas cresceram nos solos da Zona de Exclusão de Chernobyl, estudada pela equipe da biogenética Martin Hajduch que analisa os impactos da radioatividade na flora. As imagens foram criadas pela impressão direta de espécimes de um herbário radioativo em placas fotossensíveis. Traços de traços materiais de um desastre invisível, essas imagens são capturadas na borda do visível. Compõem o livro "The Chernobyl Herbarium: fragments of an exploded consciousness" de Michael Marder e Anaïs Tondeur, junto a 35 fragmentos de textos do filósofo Marder, os quais convidam a refletir, significar e simbolizar, fazendo um balanço da consciência fragmentada do acidente e, talvez, cultivando outra forma de viver mais afinada com o meio ambiente.

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Statistical analysis of classification

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900053420 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

pp. 188-189

Author(s):

T. J. Deeming

Keyword(s):

Multivariate Analysis ◽

Statistical Analysis ◽

Classification Scheme ◽

Analytical Procedure ◽

Narrow Band ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Maximum Amount ◽

Amount Of Information

If we make a set of measurements, such as narrow-band or multicolour photo-electric measurements, which are designed to improve a scheme of classification, and in particular if they are designed to extend the number of dimensions of classification, i.e. the number of classification parameters, then some important problems of analytical procedure arise. First, it is important not to reproduce the errors of the classification scheme which we are trying to improve. Second, when trying to extend the number of dimensions of classification we have little or nothing with which to test the validity of the new parameters.Problems similar to these have occurred in other areas of scientific research (notably psychology and education) and the branch of Statistics called Multivariate Analysis has been developed to deal with them. The techniques of this subject are largely unknown to astronomers, but, if carefully applied, they should at the very least ensure that the astronomer gets the maximum amount of information out of his data and does not waste his time looking for information which is not there. More optimistically, these techniques are potentially capable of indicating the number of classification parameters necessary and giving specific formulas for computing them, as well as pinpointing those particular measurements which are most crucial for determining the classification parameters.

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Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research

10.1017/cbo9781139165471 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Phil Dee

Keyword(s):

Scientific Research ◽

Successful Career

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Social-Scientific Research Competency

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000451 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 737-750 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christopher Gess ◽

Christoph Geiger ◽

Matthias Ziegler

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Test Scores ◽

Research Performance ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Research Education ◽

Crystallized Intelligence ◽

Research Competency ◽

Social Scientific Research ◽

Social Scientific ◽

Education Courses

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.

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