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Testing and Characterisation of Earth-based Building Materials and Elements
This book presents the work done by the RILEM Technical Committee 274-TCE. It focuses on the estimation of the parameters which are necessary to properly design earthen constructions. It provides a compilation of the value classically obtained for the key parameters of earthen materials, a pedagogical presentation of the main testing procedures for earthen materials, their advantage and their drawback and an overview of most standards on earthen materials, whatever their origin and their language.The book is divided into eight chapters. After a general introduction on earthen materials and constructions, the state of the art on the material characterisation technics, the assessment of hygrothermal performance, the mechanical behaviour, seismic resistance and the durability will be presented, each in a dedicated chapter. On the basis of these last chapters, a critical review of the standards which are used for earthen material will be presented in the last chapter. The last chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the environmental potential of earth-based building materials.
Forest Decline and Atmospheric Deposition Effects in the French Mountains
Forest decline became a matter of public and scientific concern in France in 1983 when conifers in the Vosges mountains were found to exhibit unusual crown deterioration. An impassioned controversy on a supposedly large scale forest health problem was then in full swing in Central Europe. A co-ordinated research programme entitled DEFORPA ("Deperissement des For~ts et Pollution AtmospMrique") was launched in 1984. This programme ran from 1984 to 1991 and a number of projects are still in progress. The Programme was sponsored by three French ministries (Enviroument, Agriculture and Forestry, Research and Technologyl), several state agencies, various regional authorities and the Commission of ...
Fuite de fluide
Un robinet qui goutte avec désinvolture dans la salle de bains. Un agacement qui va grandissant. Une insomnie qui s'installe... Une baignoire qui se remplit d'eau chaude. Un rêve éveillé. Une fuite de l'esprit vers un hypothétique réconfort. Une mer d'encre qui se condense par plaques pour donner corps à des avatars loufoques dont le seul but est d'aider l'" Auteure " à mettre en mots ses pensées. Un combat titanesque contre un monstre qui ne veut pas que son encre s'épaississe et qui refuse de laisser les mots couler vers la réalité. Une lutte intestine entre les multiples facettes d'une même entité, celle de l'écrivaine. " Je "est Li-Cam... ou peut-être pas. La narratrice a perdu les commandes de son récit. Existe-t-elle seulement ? Li-Cam ne serait-elle pas comme tous les autres personnages créés par l'esprit fécond de la nouvelliste... une projection de mots... un épanchement cérébral... une fuite de fluide ?,
Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World
Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of “sensible ideas,” from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as “co-naissance,” from Valéry came “implex” or the “animal of words” and the “chiasma of two destinies.” Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or “figuratives” that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.
La réglementation du suicide
Alors que chaque être humain souhaite éviter de souffrir à l'occasion de sa propre mort, il n'est encore aucun pays qui offre la possibilité d'une mort douce. À ce jour en 2011, aucun pays n'a ouvert un réel droit à la mort choisie.Pourtant, une évaluation d'un tel droit humain conduit à préconiser la création d'un véritable service public du suicide.Il s'agit de mettre à la disposition de ceux qui le veulent une option de mort choisie, sans souffrances subies.Ultime parade contre la souffrance quand il n'en existe plus d'autres, cet enjeu de société concerne les milliards d'êtres humains présents et à venir.
