A Color Notation is a book written by Albert Henry Munsell, an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. Munsell color system is an early attempt at creating an accurate system for numerically describing colors. The Munsell color order system has gained international acceptance and has served as the foundation for many color order systems.
Given the recent advances in telecommunications and the fact that the French lead the field in many aspects of information technology, this will be a valuable tool for students, translators and interpreters. The author has himself worked for a number of years as a technical translator and the dictionary reflects his knowledge and practical experience. 30,000 entries in each language cover terminology used in telecommunications, electronics and computer science, and developments in related disciplines such as the design and manufacture of printed circuits and components, installation, testing, maintenance and software programming.
This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of jurilinguistics that not only presents the latest international research findings among academics and practitioners, but also provides a new approach to the phenomena and nature of communicative flexibility, legal genres, vulnerability of interlingual legal communication, and the cultural landscape of legal translation.
Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see-what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically identified and arranged in some kind of order. How to order colors is not merely a philosophical question, it also has many practical applications in art, design, and commerce. Our intense interest in color and its myriad practical applications have led people throughout history to develop many systems to characterize and order it. The number of color order systems developed throughout history is unknown but ranges in the hundreds. Many are no longer used, but continue to be of historical interest. Despite wrong turns and slow progress, our understanding of color and its order has improved steadily. Although full understanding continues to elude us, it seems clear that it will ultimately come from research in neurobiology, perception and consciousness. Color Ordered is a comprehensive, in-depth compendium of over 170 systems, dating from antiquity to the present. In it, Rolf Kuehni and Andreas Schwarz present a history and categorization of color systems, describe each one using original figures and schematic drawings, and provide a broad review of the underlying theory. Included are a brief overview of color vision and a synthesis of the various systems. This volume is a unique and valuable resource for researchers in color vision, and visual perception, as well as for neuroscientists, art historians, artists, and designers.
Les grandes études en population s’accompagnent de plus en plus souvent de la constitution d’une biobanque, associant aux données cliniques, biologiques, environnementales et comportementales collectées la conservation d’échantillons biologiques. Les biobanques constituent ainsi un élément indispensable des dispositifs d’information sur l’état de santé lié aux phénotypes, aux génotypes et aux facteurs d’environnement. La conservation des informations recueillies devient alors indispensable, permettant de disposer de données déjà collectées pour apporter une réponse rapide lorsque surgit une nouvelle question de santé publique ou pour mesurer les paramètres biologiques à l’aide de méthodes plus performantes qu’au moment du recueil des informations ou selon de nouveaux de paramètres. L’objectif de ce livre est de faire le point sur les principaux aspects de la constitution, du fonctionnement et de l’utilisation de biobanques associées à des études en population générale et d’apporter une aide pour l’établissement du cahier des charges d’une biobanque. L’ouvrage comporte : des recommandations générales qui reflètent l’état de l’art en matière d’ingénierie de biobanques ; des éléments relatifs aux principaux choix stratégiques concernant la structure chargée de la conservation des échantillons biologiques et les options techniques pouvant être retenues pour le traitement et la conservation des échantillons ; une présentation de l’infrastructure nationale BIOBANQUES, qui coordonne l’ensemble des biobanques en France et assure le lien avec les structure scientifiques équivalentes à l’échelle européenne et internationale. Cet ouvrage s’adresse : aux médecins et chercheurs impliqués dans la collecte et l’exploitation des ressources biologiques.
For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial era rather than an Atlantic city on the southern coast of the United States. Beginning with the French founding of New Orleans in 1718 and concluding with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, An American Color seeks to correct this vision. By tracing the impact of racial science, law, and personal reputation and identity through multiple colonial and territorial regimes, it shows how locally born mulâtres in French New Orleans became part of a self-conscious, identifiable community of Creoles of color in the United States. An American Color places this local history in the wider context of the North American continent and the Atlantic world. This book shows that New Orleans and its free population of color did not develop in a cultural, legal, or intellectual vacuum. More than just a study of race and law, this work tells a story of humanity in the Atlantic world, a story of how a people on the French colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century became unlikely, accepted parts of a vast political, social, and racial United States without ever leaving home.
