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… objects. The first confirmed sighting of a supernova was in the year 185, although there are records of similar … approximation. This involves filtering out sound waves which are not very useful for studying the subsonic … component. “The challenge now is to go beyond just an order of magnitude and reproduce the distribution of the …
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… environment which encouraged sport. From an early age, he wanted to become a physical education teacher. After the … Yvelines, he returned to Orsay in 1997. In the process, he swapped the football pitch for the rugby pitch. “Daniel … approach to research and international open-mindedness, “in order to better understand what’s happening at home”. Is …
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… hundreds of years. The French Academy of Sciences recently awarded him the ‘Sophie Germain - Fondation de l’Institut de … With his passion for classical mathematics, he leaned towards analytical number theory, which was a relatively … we need to go through this number sequence in ascending order. Each new number we come across is noted down, and …
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… how their natural defence system works is a step forward towards discovering and understanding antibiotics for human … control the stability conditions of strains over time in order to optimise antibiotic production and exploit genomes … how their natural defence system works is a step forward towards discovering and understanding antibiotics for …
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… shelters played in the Middle Palaeolithic era. France was occupied solely by Neanderthals during this period … ago - a period characterised by the knapping of stone. In order to establish the period of occupation of each cave and … carried out over the past twenty years and new dating was carried out to fill in the chronological gaps. As the …
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… work, disability, old age and vulnerability. Maryse Bresson was a student in the Social Science department at the École … of Economic and Social Science at a secondary school, she was taken on as an associate professor at the Université de … work and employment in the civil service in particular. In order to do this, she changed the methodology and started to …
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… the issue of sustainable development in his thesis, which was supervised by Gilles Rotillon at Université de Nanterre. … the first time in Brittany. “I created dynamic models in order to study the economic, ecological and social issues … than in France. Career development In 2007, the economist was taken on by INRAE as a research fellow and joined the …
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… the co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and was one of the 25 most cited scientists in their discipline … in 1992, he quickly knew that the medical profession was for him. "There were no doctors in my family and … the main role of which is to replace tissue biopsy, in order to find the molecular anomalies of cancers that can be …
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… began back in 1969, when the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon was launched. She was eleven years old at the time. "I was lucky enough that … dynamic influence on the evolution of galaxies. "Now in order to understand the impact of these cosmic rays, we …
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… Originally from the Franche-Comté region, Didier Boichard was fascinated by cattle from an early age. After graduating … such as milk production. In the past, their potential was assessed by progeny testing where, cows were inseminated … or shortened lifespan. Towards large-scale sequencing In order to identify mutations responsible for monogenic or …
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… to develop treatments for prediabetes, a blood sugar disorder that precedes diabetes. With effects on glycaemic … Prediabetes is a blood sugar disorder that is an early warning sign of diabetes. Strong support In 2016, the project was recognised with an award from the French group working …
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… Researcher portraits Research As a child, Loïc Lepiniec was drawn to forests and nature. He began his scientific … first genetic transformations of plants. "That internship was a turning point for me: I realised there that I wanted … research organizations, and engineering schools in order to facilitate synergies between research, education, …
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