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This paper focuses on sex-related metaphors in two TV series, Sex and the City (1998-2004) and Sex Education (2019-2023). Although there are major differences between the two series, both are popular and successful TV series and were, at the time they were released, considered as transgressive and progressive when tackling the taboo topic of sex. Although it has been receding, it nevertheless remains a partially taboo topic that characters speak of by means of X-phemisms (Allan and Burridge 1991; 2006). After a brief study of the use of literal language (using WMatrix5, Rayson 2009), this paper focuses on metaphorical X-phemisms, as metaphor arguably is the most prominent mechanism of lexical semantic change and is a particularly productive tool when creating new euphemisms to mention taboo topics (Crespo Fernández 2006a; 2008; 2015). The study seeks to determine whether the conceptual sex metaphors in Sex and the City and Sex Education reflect the perceived differences in the conceptualisation of sex in the two series, since Sex Education has been argued to be more inclusive. 66 occurrences were collected in the first two seasons of Sex and the City and 68 in the first two seasons of Sex Education (MIP, see Pragglejaz group 2007. The metaphorical expressions were then classified according to the source domain with which the correspondences are established (CMT, see Lakoff and Johnson 1980). The results are similar in the two TV series. The main conclusions that can be drawn are that even if there is some evolution in the language of sex in general, the source domains used for sex-related conceptual metaphors are so deeply anchored in our cognitive systems that dysphemistic, violent, dehumanising metaphors undergo very slow change.

Classe de 6e thème 7 : l'Empire romain. Étude d'un sanctuaire Gallo-romain afin de mobiliser la notion de romanisation. Utilisation de la méthode régressive : remonter le temps en menant un enquête archéologique. Mobilisation de serious games en contexte de confinements et de cours en ligne. Lien vers le jeu vidéo : https://view.genial.ly/5e836beaba81d90dfb2017f1/presentation-alba-la-romaine

We conducted a pilot study to evaluate the potential and feasibility of back-support exoskeletons to help the caregivers in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital of Nancy (France) executing Prone Positioning (PP) maneuvers on patients suffering from severe COVID-19-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. After comparing four commercial exoskeletons, the Laevo passive exoskeleton was selected and used in the ICU in April 2020. The first volunteers using the Laevo reported very positive feedback and reduction of effort, confirmed by EMG and ECG analysis. Laevo has been since used to physically assist during PP in the ICU of the Hospital of Nancy, following the recrudescence of COVID-19, with an overall positive feedback.

Le contrôle en temps réel des locaux climatisés requiert la connaissance de modèles de la distribution de température et du champ de vitesse. Des modèles complets, basés sur les codes CFD, donnent accès à ces informations, mais sont incompatibles avec des applications en temps réel. Ainsi, un modèle d'ordre réduit est nécessaire. Cette étude propose de réduire la taille d'un modèle CFD en adoptant, dans un premier temps, l'hypothèse d'un champ de vitesse fixé, ce qui permet de ne résoudre que l'équation de conservation de l'énergie. Puis, mis sous forme d'un système d'état, la décomposition orthogonale aux valeurs propres est utilisée pour réduire son ordre. Cette méthode est appliquée au cas d'un local équipé d'un ventilo-convecteur. La forme de système d'état du modèle réduit ainsi obtenu permet, par application de la théorie moderne du contrôle, d'estimer la température dans la zone d'occupation sans mesure directe, et ainsi de l'intégrer dans une boucle fermée de contrôle. Plusieurs contrôleurs sont comparés avec pour point commun d'être synthétisés sur le principe du modèle interne basé sur la connaissance d'un modèle d'ordre réduit de l'air du local.

La tortue est un gibier expressément recherché pendant trois mois en saison des pluies. Elle peut ensuite être gardée en captivitée deux ou trois mois. C'est une nourriture d'homme que les femmes ne consomment pas. Ce sont les hommes qui la préparent et la consomment. Très appréciée, elle constitue un mets de choix pouvant être offert dans certains circonstances. Elle est très investie sur le plan symbolique et est aussi un personnage rusé et intelligent des contes.

Stakeholders' participation is increasingly considered as a plain part of the assessment and the management of a contaminated site. It is also acknowledged to be a difficult and sometimes risky challenge. Beside virtual experiments on "test groups", there is very little feedback on real cases of extensive stakeholders' participation on contaminated sites in Europe. No guideline or support document exist in Europe to help to organize Stakeholders' participation. We present here the real case of a Southern area of the town of Vincennes near Paris: following a high number of cancers among children in a school in the vicinity of a former industrial site and a hospital incinerator, the Health Ministry set up an independent Scientific Committee in charge of designing the epidemiological and risk assessment studies, of reviewing theirs results and of issuing recommendations. The Prefect directed a Participation Committee gathering all stakeholders in the aim of sharing all information available on the site, of discussing the results of the studies and the conclusions of the Scientific Committee and collecting opinions and expectations of each stakeholder in order to prepare decisions. Numerous studies were conducted. The Scientific Committee reviewed more than 30 protocols and reports. This experience is discussed here with regard to major questions on stakeholders' participation in site assessment and management, such as the communication between experts and non-experts and between experts of different fields (health scientists vs. environmental engineers), the impact of the media, the psychological impacts, the "crisis vs. non-crisis" aspects of participation. The discussion integrates other experience gathered on stakeholders' involvement It leads to the identification of some ingredients for an efficient stakeholders' participation, event if the specificity of each case, and the importance of spontaneity, reactivity, is recognized.

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Tea, Yi-Kai, Gill, Anthony C. (2020): Systematic reappraisal of the anti-equatorial fish genus Microcanthus Swainson (Teleostei: Microcanthidae), with redescription and resurrection of Microcanthus joyceae Whitley. Zootaxa 4802 (1): 41-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.3

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