The Chaudanne stream received urban inputs discharged through combined sewer overflows (CSOs). The water quality was not severely impaired, with pollution mainly of organic origin. Oligochaete assemblages were studied in the coarse surface sediments and the hyporheic zone and sampled at 4 sites on 7...

Oligochaete assemblages in the hyporheic zone and coarse surface sediments: their importance for understanding of ecological functioning of watercourses

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M. Lafont et al. (2006)

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The hyporheic zone and its interactions with coarse surface sediments is increasingly reported by aquatic ecologists because the water exchanges between surface and subsurface are important factors for the understanding of the ecosystem functioning. However, the hyproheic oligochaete assemblages hav...

Souls under Duress : protestantism in the Nobility of Lower Normandy in Turmoil (1661-1787, Generality of Caen)

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Véronique Petit-Bancquart (Dec 18, 2017)

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This paper relates the decline of protestantism in the nobility of Lower Normandy , confined to the generality of Caen, from the beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV in 1661, marked by a policy aimed at Huguenot particularism, up to the the return of tolerance in 1787. It draws, for the year...

The Social Sciences of Religion in Iran : Intersecting Perspectives

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Sabrina MERVIN et al. (Apr 9, 2020)

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After a review of how religious facts in Iran have been studied in the West, particularly since the 1979 Revolution, the recent history of the social sciences of religion in Iran is traced and the debates that have arisen exposed. This is followed by a presentation of the dossier "Religions in Iran"...

Wednesday, May 15, 1940 at La Horgne : from Memory to History.: The 1940 May-June campaign of the 3rd Spahis Brigade.

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Thierry Moné (Sep 5, 2016)

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Wednesday, May 15, 1940, in the small Ardennes village of La Horgne, west of Sedan, the troopers of the 3rd [Cavalry] Brigade of Spahis (2nd Regiment of Algerian Spahis from Tlemcen and 2nd Regiment of Moroccan Spahis from Marrakech) try to stop a part of the most modern Panzer-Division of the Wehrm...

The Making of Community. Greeks in Venice, Livorno and Marseille, c.1770-c.1830

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Mathieu Grenet (Sep 6, 2010)

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The point of departure for this dissertation is a historical, epistemological and methodological discussion of the notion of “community”. Based on a comparative approach to the three cases of the Greeks in Venice, Livorno and Marseilles from the age of the “Greek Enlightenment” (c. 1770) up until th...

La baisse de la fécondité en milieu rural iranien

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Amandine Lebugle (Dec 3, 2007)

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According to the last national based socio-demographic survey, fertility rate in Iran was 1.9 children per women in 2002. This figure reflects the dramatic fall of fertility in cities and villages of the country. The fall of fertility started in the 1950's and was at first limited to cities. Since t...

Les hôtels particuliers à Versailles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : quelques exemples pour une typologie

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Alix De Bouvier (Sep, 2016)

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Les fêtes organisées à Versailles dans les années 1660 consacrèrent le château comme lieu de séjour de la cour. Dès 1665, encouragés par le roi, les courtisans firent élever des hôtels, pour pouvoir suivre le souverain dans ses déplacements. En 1671 puis en 1672, des privilèges uniques accélérèrent...

River restoration in France and worldwide : from the definition of a concept to practical evaluation of projects. Applicable research elements

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Bertrand Morandi (Sep 25, 2014)

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“Restoration” is a key concept in river management. In France and worldwide, “river restoration” has been provided a strong legislative, operational and scientific anchor. This research aims to better understand “river restoration”: that is, how is “river restoration” defined, practiced and evaluate...

Une méthode nationale pour évaluer les fonctions des zones humides dans le cadre de la compensation écologique des impacts

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Guillaume GAYET et al. (2017)

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Les Agences de l’eau et la restauration : 50 ans de tensions entre hydraulique et écologique

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Bertrand Morandi et al. (2016)

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River restoration paradigm takes a major place in French current management of water and aquatic environments. The paradigm signifiance becames more complex for the late 1970s and its first scientific and operational occurrences. Interest for restoration has not declined but its objectives are still...

Les racines du dynamisme de la diaspora copte

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Grégoire Delhaye (Nov 16, 2012)

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Copts, Egypt indigenous Christian minority, face some legal but mostly social discrimination in their homeland. Having experienced a significant institutional and spiritual revival since the 19th century, the ensuing preservation mechanism developed in Egypt, once transposed, in the diasporic contex...

Les Agences de l’eau et la restauration : 50 ans de tensions entre hydraulique et écologique

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Bertrand Morandi et al. (May 9, 2016)

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