School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Context (language use). The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

The Definite Article: Code and Context

Abstract: Beaucoup d'items grammaticaux ne peuvent etre compris que si le contexte est pris en compte. Afin de fournir un traitement formel de ce probleme, l'A. introduit la notion de base de connaissance et, apres avoir elabore un systeme de regles pour l'analyse des numeraux, des articles definis et indefinis, il presente une etude detaillee de l'article francais le. Cet item grammatical a la particularite de ne pas encoder une information fixe stockee dans le lexique, mais d'enclencher un programme de traitement de l'information. Cette etude propose un compte-rendu unitaire de donnees pour la plupart empiriques et permet de reconcilier l'approche logique de Russell et Montague avec l'approche pragmatique de Hawkins

Women in Kurdistan-Iraq: issues, obstacles and enablers

Abstract: This article explores women’s situation in Kurdistan-Iraq. We examine key issues of concern to Kurdish women and the arenas which present enablers and obstacles to their action: the family and tradition; Islam and Muslim institutions; political parties and the state; civil society associations and non-governmental organisations. We look at recently promulgated laws on violence against women and on personal status. Our research is based on in-depth interviews, legal documents, grey literature and internet sources.

Bones geometric morphometrics illustrate 10th millennium cal. BP domestication of autochthonous Cypriot wild boar (Sus scrofa circeus nov. ssp).

Abstract: Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers from the Near East introduced wild boars (Sus scrofa) to Cyprus, with the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) settlers hunting the wild descendants of these boars. However, the geographic origin of the Cypriot boar and how they were integrated into the earliest forms of pig husbandry remain unsolved. Here, we present data on 11,000 to 9000 cal. BP Sus scrofa from the PPN sites of Klimonas and Shillourokambos. We compared them to contemporaneous populations from the Near East and to Neolithic and modern populations in Corsica, exploring their origin and evolution using biosystematic signals from molar teeth and heel bones (calcanei), using 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics. We found that the Cypriot PPN lineage of Sus scrofa originates from the Northern Levant. Yet, their phenotypic idiosyncrasy suggest that they evolved into an insular sub-species that we named Sus scrofa circeus, referring to Circe, the metamorphosis goddess that changed Ulysses companions into pigs. The phenotypic homogeneity among PPNA Klimonas wild boars and managed populations of PPNB Shillourokambos suggests that local domestication has been undertaken on the endemic S. s. circeus, strengthening the idea that Cyprus was integrated into the core region of animal domestication.

Karl R. Popper, 1992: about the EPR controversy

Abstract: Sir K. R. Popper's experimental schemes challenge the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, principally Heisenberg's indeterminacy relations and the EPR paradox. “The so-called Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox is not a paradox. It is a theoretical statement in expectation of an interpretation,” says K. R. Popper in this interview. “My experiment ought to be a classical experiment. It is very simple and free from any additional assumption. It should really be done.”

Tracking the dynamics of kinship and social category terms with AustKin II

Abstract: The first AustKin project (AustKin I) collected a large database of kinship terms from Aboriginal languages all over Australia, endeavouring to maintain standards of spelling, kin formulae and group identities, without losing the details of original sources used. An online geospatial interface has been used to map distributions of forms of terms and their polysemies or equations. The patterns of the latter provide identification of kinship systems as defined in ethnology. The project proposed and tested hypotheses about the evolution of such systems in Australia based on knowledge of the common polysemies and related changes. The next stage, AustKin II, builds on hypotheses from the current authors and others, testing these further by adding two more components to the database: the marriage rules and the social categories used by each group. Of the latter, section and subsection systems are unique to Australia. The aim is to gauge how these different systems fit together and propose how they evolved over time and how they influenced each other.