Senses and sensibilities:stabilising and changing tastes in cross-national couples

This article examines changes in tastes and practice in the context of establishing and maintaining a new cross-national couple relationship. Interviews provided accounts of the experience of change among fourteen Anglo-French couples. We describe two processes of change which, because accentuated in cross-national couples, reveal mechanisms lying behind the transformation and stabilisation of tastes and diets. Explanation of the evolution of taste and diet can be found in the interplay between aesthetic and ethical drives, incorporated bodily practices, and social mechanisms of legitimation and integration. To make sense of gustatory and dietary change, tastes are best understood through their insertion in meaningful sequences, patterns, and series

Gastro-nomy and gastro-anomy. The wisdom of the body and the biocultural crisis of modern eating

Los individuos de los países occidentales desarrollados padecen problemas de salud relacionados con una alimentación excesiva e inadecuada. ¿Cuáles son las causas de ello? Con la modernidad, se difunde un modo de alimentación basado en el picoteo, en el comisquear más que en el comer; entra en crisis el sistema de normas (las gastro-nomías) que regulaba las prácticas alimentarias, y éstas quedan libradas a la decisión y elección individual (se convierten en gastro-anomías). Los mecanismos biológicos implicados en la alimentación, seleccionados en situaciones de escasez e inseguridad alimentaria, dejan de ser adaptativos cuando, como ocurre en las sociedades opulentas, es posible acceder de manera continua a una plétora de productos alimenticios.People in developed Western countries suffer health problems related to excessive or inadequate eating. What are the causes? With modernity, dietary habits are based on snacking and nibbling rather than eating. This crisis also involves a system or norms (gastro-nomies) that regulate dietary practices, and these are released to the decision and choice of the individual (they become gastro-anomies). The biological mechanisms involved in eating, selected in situations of food scarcity and insecurity, are no longer adopted when, as occurs in opulent societies, it is possible to have continuous access to a plethora of food products.Grupo de Investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granad

Broad Themes of Difference between French and Americans in Attitudes to Food and Other Life Domains: Personal Versus Communal Values, Quantity Versus Quality, and Comforts Versus Joys

Analysis of previous literature on the role of food in life in France and the United States suggests some fundamental differences in attitudes which may generalize outside of the food domain. Questionnaire results from French and American adults suggest that, compared to the French, Americans emphasize quantity rather than quality in making choices, Americans have a higher preference for variety, and Americans usually prefer comforts (things that make life easier) over joys (unique things that make life interesting). The American preference for quantity over quality is discussed in terms of the American focus on abundance as opposed to the French preference for moderation. The American preference for variety is reflective of Americans’ more personal as opposed to communal food and other values

Centre d’études transdisciplinaires, sociologie, anthropologie, histoire

Claude Fischler, directeur de recherche au CNRS et Saadi Lahlou, chef du laboratoire de design cognitif à EDF Acteurs, enjeux, représentations, institutions de l’alimentation en France : une analyse transcidiplinaire Le séminaire s’est déroulé en deux séries de séances alternées (14 en tout). La première visait à construire la représentation du champ à travers une analyse critique de la vue subjective qu’en ont les principaux acteurs. Continuant la série de « grands témoins » entamée l’année ..

Centre d’études transdisciplinaires, sociologie, anthropologie, histoire

Claude Fischler, directeur de recherche au CNRS et Saadi Lahlou, EDF R&D Le paysage alimentaire français : acteurs, institutions, représentations, une approche interdisciplinaire Le séminaire s’est déroulé, comme l’année précédente, en deux séries de séances alternées. La première série visait à construire la représentation du champ à travers une analyse critique de la vue subjective qu’en ont les principaux acteurs eux-mêmes. Continuant la série de « grands témoins » entamée l’année précéden..

Centre d’études transdisciplinaires, sociologie, anthropologie, histoire

Claude Fischler, directeur de recherche au CNRS et Saadi Lahlou, EDF R&D Le soi, l’autre et l’objet comestible Le séminaire de cette année a revêtu un caractère exceptionnel, puisque nous avons associé les développements théoriques à un travail empirique mené avec les participants au séminaire. La problématique était celle de la construction sociale de l’objet, abordée avec le triangle psychosocial (ego, alter, objet). L’objet est tantôt motif, tant moyen du rapport à l’autre et à soi-même. N..

Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger during commissioning with cosmic ray muons and LHC beams

This is the Pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2010 IOPThe CMS Level-1 trigger was used to select cosmic ray muons and LHC beam events during data-taking runs in 2008, and to estimate the level of detector noise. This paper describes the trigger components used, the algorithms that were executed, and the trigger synchronisation. Using data from extended cosmic ray runs, the muon, electron/photon, and jet triggers have been validated, and their performance evaluated. Efficiencies were found to be high, resolutions were found to be good, and rates as expected.This work is supported by FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTDS (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA)