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Amenable groups and measure concentration on spheres

open access: yes, 1998
It is proved that a discrete group $G$ is amenable if and only if for every unitary representation of $G$ in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $\cal H$ the maximal uniform compactification of the unit sphere $\s_{\cal H}$ has a $G$-fixed point, that ...
Pestov, Vladimir
core   +1 more source

‘Time’ in tourism: ‘individual time’ and ‘social time’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The author does a review of the research into tourist activity and concludes that the particular character of tourist behaviour is reflected best in the study of time budgets. He proposes Max Weber's ideal-type method to be used in the analysis.
Bonneau, Michel
core   +1 more source

Spatial and Temporal Variation of Urban Heat Islands in French Guiana

open access: yesSensors
A surface urban heat island (SUHI) is a phenomenon whereby temperatures in urban areas are significantly higher than that of surrounding rural and natural areas due to replacing natural and semi-natural areas with impervious surfaces.
Gustave Ilunga   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

UN ESPACE AMBIVALENT : IMAGE DE CONSTANTINOPLE À TRAVERS AZIYADÉ DE PIERRE LOT [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2010
Dans Aziyadé, le même espace est à la fois investi d’une charge positive – lieu privilégié où se déploient les souvenirs, espace d’amour, de liberté et de rêve – et porteur d’une tonalité tragique : espace de mort, de souvenirs amers, de séparation ...
Dorsaf BEN ESSID
doaj  

Des bidonvilles aux banlieues : spatialite et desespoir dans la France contemporaine

open access: yesImpossibilia: Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios, 2020
De la marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme en 1983 aux émeutes de banlieues une vingtaine d’années plus tard, les citoyens français issus de l’immigration africaine ont multiplié les tentatives de visibilité sur la scène publique française. Au cœur
Hervé TCHUMKAM
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling connectivity at a regional scale during seasonal movements of the greater horseshoe bat

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, EarlyView.
Studying pathways during high mobility periods is one of the main missing elements for effective conservation, particularly for small species such as bats. An acoustic, stratified sampling at both local and large scale provided sufficient spatial and temporal accuracy to model connectivity throughout the life cycle of bats. This framework can easily be
David Pinaud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A proof of the Baum-Connes conjecture for reductive adelic groups

open access: yes, 2000
Let F be a global field, A its ring of adeles, G a reductive group over F.
Baum, Paul   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Le temps scolaire et la morale sociale

open access: yesTemporalités, 2021
At the end of the 19th century, the role of the school was to make France literate. It was also to give a purely secular moral education. The stakes of the moral run through Durkheim's work on the school, in which he defends the thesis that education is ...
Joël Zaffran
doaj   +1 more source

The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

Guesting: rethinking the relationship between hospitality and homemaking within temporary refugee accommodation Le concept de guesting: repenser la relation entre hospitalité et création d'un « chez‐soi » dans l'hébergement temporaire des personnes réfugiées

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This paper introduces the emic concept of guesting, coined by women living in refugee accommodation to distinguish their form of hospitality from other more hierarchical forms of hosting. Central to guesting is the unspoken rule that once you have played the host, next time you must be the guest.
Charlot Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

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