Cet article est consacré à Élizavéta Akhmatova (1820-1904), traductrice, éditrice et écrivaine, « première pionnière », comme elle le disait elle-même, du travail littéraire féminin. L’objectif de cette recherche est triple : décrire l’entrée d’Akhmatova dans le métier (traduction, édition, écriture), présenter les résultats de sa démarche (revues ...
The tree species Salix caprea shows high adaptability to different habitat conditions and is economically valuable as a woody crop for biomass production. Moreover, S. caprea is dependent on mycorrhizal fungi, which are crucial for its growth and adaptability in different environments. Hence, this study explores the ectomycorrhizal diversity of S. ...
Cet article revient sur la trajectoire de Felicia Adetowun Ogunsheye, pionnière en tant qu’étudiante dans l’enseignement supérieur au Nigéria, avant de devenir la première femme professeure des universités dans ce pays, en 1973. Ce texte présente la Fondation Ogunsheye, qui s’est ouverte en 2002 et qui regroupe notamment les archives personnelles d...
Published in The Laryngoscope
Our goal was to identify the early pioneering women surgeons in the United States who devoted their career or the majority of their practice to the care of otolaryngologic disorders in children. We sought to share their stories, recognize their contributions to the surgical subspecialty now known as pediatric otolaryngology, and acknowledge their v...
This document analyzes the different causes that drove afro-colombian communities to leave the Colombian Pacific to settle in the Amazon foothills. It is studied how these people arrived in the Putumayo department and why they settled in the Cofania Jardines de Sucumbíos district, showing how the economic and kinship system, as well as the relation...
A l’heure où tous les territoires cherchent à se doter de recycleries, où la valorisation des déchets de tout type est devenu un enjeu central, travailler sur la structuration des collectifs d’acteurs au début des années 2010 peut paraître à contre-courant. En effet, les accompagnements de projets fleurissent et semblent démontrer que l’on connaît ...
Published in Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
This article analyses the origins of the so-called frontier spirit as the main feature of the Japanese pioneers who were the grass-roots agents of Japanese expansion into Asia. It argues that this narrative traces back to the government-sponsored cultivation program in Hokkaidō, where so-called tondenhei were employed as farmer-soldiers to open up ...
Published in Genetics
During nervous system development, neurons send out axons, which must navigate large distances to reach synaptic targets. Axons grow out sequentially. The early outgrowing axons, pioneers, must integrate information from various guidance cues in their environment to determine the correct direction of outgrowth. Later outgrowing follower axons can a...
Published in JMA Journal
The first-ever open-heart operation in Bangladesh was performed on the 18th of September 1981. Although a few cases of finger fracture closed mitral commissurotomies were performed in the country in the 1960s and 1970s, full-fledged cardiac surgical services began only in Bangladesh after the establishment of the Institute of Cardiovascular Disease...
