From: VideoLectures on Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:54 PM

French culture is threatened both by European Unification and the rise of xenophobia within France itself. The defeat of the referendum on the European Constitution testified to the dissatisfaction of many people in rural France with the economic realities of the new international community. Raci...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:53 PM

If the extent of French collaboration during World War II has been obscured, so too has the nature of resistance. Although the communist Left represented the core of the resistance movement, resistors came from any different backgrounds, including in their ranks Catholics, Protestants, Jews and ...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:53 PM

The history of socialism in France can be understood in terms of the competition between revolutionary socialists and reform socialists. The former advocated abandoning electoral politics, while the latter attempted to improve conditions for workers by means of reforms within the political syste...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:53 PM

Because drinking is such an integral part of French culture, alcohol abuse has been historically ignored. Although there have been celebrated attempts to address this problem, such as Zola’s L'Assomoir, it is only in the past five or ten years that the government has seriously tried to tack...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:53 PM

The sacred union that united France’s political parties during World War I contributed to a resilient morale on the home front. Germany's invasion of France, and the conflict over Alsace-Lorraine in particular, contributed to French concern over atrocities and the national investment in the...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

Documents usually have content and structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark up...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

Documents usually have content and structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark up...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

Documents usually have content and structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark up...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

Documents usually have content and structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark up...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and nding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia exce...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and nding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia exce...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and nding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia exce...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and nding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia exce...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the Web as well as the one billion people that use it. In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explic...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:57 PM

The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the Web as well as the one billion people that use it. In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explic...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:56 PM

The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the Web as well as the one billion people that use it. In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explic...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:56 PM

The research area of Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) provides techniques that help to integrate multiple searchable resources into a single federated resource and provide direct access to them through a single system. A DIR system can access Deep Web resources through their search interfa...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:56 PM

The research area of Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) provides techniques that help to integrate multiple searchable resources into a single federated resource and provide direct access to them through a single system. A DIR system can access Deep Web resources through their search interfa...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:56 PM

The research area of Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) provides techniques that help to integrate multiple searchable resources into a single federated resource and provide direct access to them through a single system. A DIR system can access Deep Web resources through their search interfa...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:56 PM

The research area of Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) provides techniques that help to integrate multiple searchable resources into a single federated resource and provide direct access to them through a single system. A DIR system can access Deep Web resources through their search interfa...