An end to Nordic exceptionalism? Europeanisation and Nordic development policies

The Nordic countries have traditionally been praised for their generous and advanced development policies. Recently, however, it has been claimed that the Nordic model has faded: that the Nordic donors have become more similar to other European donors. One possible reason for such trends is influences from EU policies, that is, Europeanisation. This article critically evaluates such claims by presenting arguments for and against Europeanisation effects. We argue that changes have indeed taken place. The Nordic exceptionalism has been eroded. At the same time, a convergence of European aid policies has occurred. The question is if this is the consequence of Europeanisation – or is it rather a result of Nordicisation (the Nordic countries influencing the EU), or perhaps like-mindisation (a broader set of progressive member states having impact upon EU policies)? We suggest that Europeanisation has been extremely weak while there is strong evidence of Nordicisation but also, and increasingly, of like-mindisation. Today, a core group of mainly northern member states, including the Nordics, are the main driving forces behind European aid convergence

Special functions and twisted LL-series

We introduce a generalization of the Anderson-Thakur special function, and we prove a rationality result for several variable twisted $L$-series associated to shtuka functions

An exploratory data-driven analysis for describing discourse organization

International audienceThis paper focuses on the role of elements placed in the initial position i.e. elements fulfilling the role of Theme in discourse organisation. The large-scale corpus study proposes a new methodology based on automatic tagging and quantitative analysis of the discourse roles of sentence-initial elements. The theoretically-based hypothesis is that initial position has an important function in discourse organisation. Initial position, defined as the starting point of the message, is composed of the first elements that the reader perceives. The analysis of the distribution and the use in discourse of these elements gives us a great overview on the textual organisation of different types of text

Discourse organisation through Theme position

This paper focuses on the role of elements placed in the initial position i.e. elements fulfilling the role of Theme in discourse organisation. The large-scale corpus study proposes a new methodology based on quantitative analysis of the discourse roles of sentence-initial elements. The theoretically-based hypothesis is that Theme position has an important function in discourse organisation. Theme, defined as the starting point of the message, is composed of the first elements that the reader perceives. The analysis of the distribution and the use in discourse of these elements gives us a great overview on the textual organisation of different types of text

Twisted characteristic pp zeta functions

We propose a "twisted" variation of zeta functions introduced by David Goss in 1979

Phase slip phenomena in superconductors: from ordered to chaotic dynamics

We consider flux penetration to a 2D superconducting cylinder. We show that in the low field limit the kinetics is deterministic. In the strong field limit the dynamics becomes stochastic. Surprisingly the inhomogeneity in the cylinder reduces the level of stochasticity because of the predominance of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures (main text) and 1 page, 1 figure (supplementary material

Les discussions Wikipedia : un corpus pour caractériser le genre « discussion »

International audienceCette présentation propose une description des caractéristiques intra-linguistiques des discussions Wikipedia, forum de discussion associé à chaque article de l'encyclopédie Wikipedia. Après un exposé des propriétés qui font de ces textes un objet d'étude particulièrement intéressant pour les linguistiques de corpus, nous présenterons la procédure de constitution du corpus de discussion et une première description quantitative du corpus constitué. Nous finirons sur une présentation rapide d'un ensemble d'études linguistiques envisagées sur ce corpus