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An overview of the 2017 report of the French academy of Sciences on biodiversity
“…Abstract: In the present context of concerns for biodiversity, the French Academy of Sciences produced in 2017 a report entitled “Mechanisms of adaptation of biodiversity to climate change and their limits”. …”
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Caractéristiques d’un enseignement des sciences fondé sur l’investigation et évaluation de dispositifs d’accompagnement des enseignants
Published 2013-12-01“…In order to develop an investigation-based science education in the French primary schools, the La main à la pâte group of the French Academy of Science created - in 2000 - a network of "pilot-centres". …”
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About Tresca’s Memoirs on the fluidity of solids (1864–1870)
Published 2021-02-01“…One hundred and fifty years ago, Henri-Édouard Tresca submitted a series of Memoirs to the French Academy of Sciences, which were devoted to recording the extensive series of experiments he had carried out. …”
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Boucher de Perthes and the Discovery of Human Antiquity
Published 2014-01-01“…Why did Boucher de Perthes’ discoveries of handaxes in the Somme River’s gravels need to be verified by English geologist Joseph Prestwich, and antiquarian John Evans, before members of the French Academy of Sciences changed their minds about evidence for the antiquity of humanity? …”
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Commentary on Using LNT for Radiation Protection and Risk Assessment
Published 2010-07-01“…The Puskin article omits any mention of important reports from UNSCEAR, the NCRP and the French Academies of Science and Medicine, while citing an assessment of the Canadian breast cancer study that manipulated the data to obscure evidence of reduced breast cancer mortality following a low total dose. …”
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The International Association of Geodesy: from an ideal sphere to an irregular body subjected to global change
Published 2019-04-01“…In the 18th century, Isaac Newton postulated an ellipsoidal figure due to the Earth's rotation, and the French Academy of Sciences organized two expeditions to Lapland and the Viceroyalty of Peru to determine the different curvatures of the Earth at the pole and the Equator. …”
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Reconstructing 50,000 years of human history from our DNA: lessons from modern genomics
Published 2021-07-01“…The symposium from the French Academy of Sciences “50,000 ans d’épopée humaine dans notre ADN” has reviewed some of the latest contributions from the fields of genomics, archaeology, and linguistics to our understanding of $>$300,000 years of human history. …”
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Le ginseng d’Amérique : un lien entre les deux Indes, entre curiosité et science
Published 2014-12-01“…His discovery was initially contested by members of the French Academy of Sciences who claimed that it was not ginseng but another plant. …”
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RAD-BY-RAD (BIT-BY-BIT): Triumph of Evidence over Activities Fostering Fear of Radiogenic Cancers at Low Doses
Published 2007-10-01“…Fortunately, these aspects are addressed in-depth in another major report—issued jointly in March 2005 by two French Academies, of Sciences and of Medicine. The latter report is much less publicized, and thus it is a responsibility of radiation professionals, physicists, nuclear engineers, and physicians to become familiar with its content and relevant studies, and to widely disseminate this information. …”
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