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Since ancient times, mathematics has displayed a high level of creativity and impressive dynamism. However, in teaching/learning programs, they appear as relics to be displayed within the walls of the school. To break with this archaism, Statistics has emerged as the part of mathematics that can shed light on its dynamism and societal roots. Here, too, computational, and theoretical aspects have left little room for a clear understanding of the concepts studied. The aim of this article is to show, through the epistemological study of the notion of standard deviation, how the study of the evolution of concepts can help us understand their meaning and serve as a resource for their teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This article focuses on the visual qualities of Alexander von Humboldt’s statistical tables in his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1808–1811, 2nd ed. 1825–1827) with special attention to how such composites of numbers, alphabetical script, and semiotic elements relate to narrative writing. I argue that Humboldt’s tables/tableaus open up spaces inside his narrative that fragment the reading process, inviting new conversations, connections, and ideas. Resumen Este articulo entretiene con los atributos visuales de las abundantes tablas estadísticas incluyendo en el Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne (1808–1811, 2nd ed. 1825–1827) de Alexander de Humboldt, en especial con las relaciones entre las combinaciones de números, escritura y elementos semióticos (que Humboldt llama “tableaux”) y la propia narrativa. Obran estas relaciones una fragmentación del proceso de leer, abriendo dimensiones y espacios en que se podrían manifestar nuevas conexiones, conversaciones e ideas innovadoras. Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit den bildhaften Eigenschaften der vielen statistischen Tabellen in Alexander von Humboldts Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne (1808–1811, 2nd ed. 1820–1827), wobei meine besondere Aufmerksamkeit den Verhältnissen gilt, die diese aus Zahlen, alphabetischer Schrift und semiotischen Elementen zusammengesetzten Komposita (die Humboldt als Tableaux bezeichnet) mit der beschreibenden Erzählung selbst eingehen: In diesen Verhältnissen offenbaren sich nämlich Dimensionen oder Räumlichkeiten, die durch die visuelle Zerteilung des Textes stets weitere, neue Verbindungen, Gespräche und Ideen zu produzieren suchen

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Divorce has been a hotly debated topic for several years, mainly around Khul', which is a divorce requested by the wife in exchange for financial compensation from the husband. What is Khul', how has it evolved, and what are its representations and perceptions? To answer these questions, in addition to collecting statistical data since 2005, a questionnaire explored the knowledge, representations and supposed effects of Khul' on family members. The main results indicate a large lack of awareness of Khul' and contrasting representations between condemnation and acceptance, negative effects, especially on the husband but also on the wife, highlighting stigmatization and bad reputation. Khul' is a method of divorce that is gradually becoming established in Algerian society and indicates changes in the place of women but also men in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How does the voice of a poet sound? Poetry reading, an essential component of this art, represents interesting material for phonetic studies. However, it remains an under-researched topic. This work attempts to go beyond the state of the art, providing an experimental analysis of some voices of the Generation of ’27, aiming to mark the first step towards a phonetic history of the voices of Spanish poets. This research, which employs a qualitative phonetic approach and a statistical approach, has brought to light some principal elements. These include variation as a consistent element among authors and within a single author, enabling the detection of main features and sub-groups; common features marking a global grouping; and the possible variety and criticism of clusters, revealing the complexity of this speech and the effectiveness of our model to describe it.

In Serbian historiography in the previous four decades, in which the state in which we live shrank more and more, and the names changed as many as four times, the continuity of scientific institutions and publications was more the exception than the rule. We can point out that one of the scientific publications, which has already become an institution in itself and which maintains continuity, is the journal “History of the 20th Century”. The initiative to establish the journal was launched in 1978, implementation began in 1982, and the first volume was published in October 1983. In a period of forty years, 74 volumes were published with 1,582 texts in them. Analyzing the structure of the texts by type, it is easy to conclude that original scientific papers (561) and reviews (569) are by far the most represented. Eight persons held the position of editor-in-chief. After Nikola Popović, who edited eight volumes from 1983 to 1987, Branislav Gligorijević was appointed editor. From 1992 to 1995, the editor was Smiljana Đurović, who was succeeded by Milan Vesović from issue 2/1995. Đorđe Borozan was the editor-in-chief in 2000 and 2001. From 2002 to 2004, the journal was edited by Kosta Nikolić. From issue 1/2005, the editorship of Bojan Dimitrijević began and lasted until the end of 2015. From 2016, the editorship of the journal was taken over by Dragomir Bondžić, who is still in that position. The author’s interest in certain topics changed over time. The works that dealt with the period between the two world wars were the most numerous in the first decade (1983-1992), but their percentage decreased over time. The situation is reversed with the texts that dealt with socialist Yugoslavia. In terms of the number of published articles, the topic of the Second World War is fairly evenly distributed throughout the periods of publication, but in terms of the share, there is a significant difference between the first decade of publication and the others. A total of 90 articles in foreign languages were published in the journal, 47 of which in the last seven years. A total of 403 authors published in the journal, of which 108 are foreigners. Among the authors, in terms of the number of texts written, the former editor-in-chief Bojan Dimitrijević, who was the author of as many as 90 texts, leads the way. In the past few years, the journal has significantly increased its international visibility by introducing a website, and also by including it in many index databases (ERIH PLUS, DOAJ, SCOPUS, WOS).

This paper, of a methodological nature, aims to discuss the use of quantitative methods in tourism history. As a first step, we will endeavour to understand why this type of approach has been little used by historians who have studied the two-sided object, tourism, both a social leisure activity and an economic service sector. The difficulty of finding relevant figures to quantify developments, particularly at the regional level, will be at the heart of our discussion. Indeed, the statistical series are largely incomplete until at least the beginning of the 20th century. As a second step, the purpose will focus on the relevance of such approaches for the analysis of regional tourism. Based on the case of the Lake Geneva region and its main tourist centres (Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey-Montreux and Évian), the analysis will underline the multiple methodological contributions of the reconstruction of statistical series from historical sources, while pointing out the difficulties and limitations of such a work. By showing trends on graphs, the quantitative data reconstructed not only confirmed or refuted certain research hypotheses, but also brought to light new questions and challenged stereotypes long used in historiography. The statistical series also made it possible to develop a comparative approach with other Swiss tourist centres, which revealed certain specificities of the Lake Geneva region. Two areas of quantification will be compared successively: the evolution of the tourism economy and that of the tourism offer in the transport and hotel sectors.

As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the digital journal e-Rea, this paper aims to look back to the issues of this journal from a statistical perspective. It analyses significant data and figures such as the quantity of published articles or book reviews, with a view to shedding light on editorial choices as seen over the years in the emergence of new sections. Visitor statistics highlight the internationalization of the journal and its increasing visibility in the field of English studies.

This paper presents a novel methodology for calibrating cup anemometers, addressing a critical need in the wind energy sector for accurate and reliable wind speed measurement. Ensuring measurement accuracy through calibration remains a major challenge. In response, a cost-effective alternative methodology is presented that takes advantage of statistical analysis techniques. York linear regression is applied for the estimation of calibration coefficients, a novelty in the context of cup anemometer calibration. The approach overcomes the limitations of traditional procedures reliant on wind tunnel facilities. Experimental validation of the proposed methodology, carried out with wind turbines placed at a height of 10 meters, demonstrates that a reliable calibration can be achieved even in sites with a low wind regime.

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the analysis of two surveys of teachers during the TNE (Territoire Numérique Éducatif) programme of the French state (2021) as part of the recovery plan after the first confinements, allows us to study the links between well-being, stress and relations with pupils, from the point of view of the conditions of their digital praxis with regard to the model proposed by Viac and Fraser (OECD, 2020). À double statistical analysis was carried out. The salient result is that the conditions of the environment of the professional practices of the primary school teacher, at home and at school, and his or her digital practice anchored in an « ordinary » praxis, are influencing factors on his or her declared well-being and stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a socio-cognitive transdisciplinary perspective combining psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, this research paper studies the relations between manifestations of interlinguistic transfers and metasyntactic skills in 9/10-year-old French-Norwegian children. Its purpose is to assess whether these transfers influence access and use of the children’s metasyntactic skills in reading comprehension tasks. Following a mixed-method research design, data was collected with 33 bilingual French-Norwegian children registered in the 5th grade at the French school in Oslo. The children took part in a grammaticality judgment test written in French and containing errors due to Norwegian syntactic calque. Subsequently, 13 of the children involved in the experiment participated in a semi-structured interview in which they explained their answers. A group of French monolingual children also took the test in France. Statistical analyses of the test results show the existence of interlinguistic syntactic transfers which weaken metasyntactic skills when errors are related to the use of a preposition.

Access to the First World War battlefield depended on the favorable opinion of medical experts, as scientific examination resulted in the conscript’s enrolment into or exclusion from the military. Statistical indexes were established to properly measure and assess suitability for the military service and to interpret the medical data obtained throughout this process. Those data were the focus of major political debates moving in completely opposite directions in France and in Great Britain. In France, Pignet’s index was used as a tool to criticize and control the health implications of the recruitment policy. In the United Kingdom, Keith’s index of fitness was used to legitimate the recruitment policy and allay public unrest. Political use of medical statistics thus confirms the strategic importance of quantification in the exercise of power.

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The present article offers an overview of the role of statistics in the research of the youth language. Statistical research requires certain activities that include design, structuring, collecting and data preparation, followed by data analysis and interpretation. The main goal of this paper is to show how statistical instruments can be used to synthesize and structure data material in the most direct and intuitive way possible having as basis a questionnaire investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a critique of the territorial categories used in Brazilian censuses by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE. The case studies presented illustrate the difficult compatibility between localized population data and a geographic approach to settlement. Numerous discrepancies appear when one compares field images (photographs) and satellite images that show the real forms of land use with official divisions that distinguish between urban and rural territories. These discrepancies are related to several factors: the legal definition of urban, the aggregation of data, and confusion between the city population (those concentrated in the capital of the municipality) and the total municipal urban population. Such discrepancies are also the consequence of historical processes and political, economic, and land issues. They affect the aggregate results of the census data (urban population, urbanization rate, etc.), as well as the local results for each municipality. The examples analyzed in this article show that the statistical and cartographic wealth disseminated by the IBGE could be better used, especially to obtain more coherent measures of « degrees of urbanity » and a better knowledge of the different forms and densities of settlement in the country.

The work aims to study two recent migration flows to Brazil. The first concerns migrants from Haiti, the second migrants from African countries. It aims to dress a typology of these migrations, in order to understand the socio-demographic profile and the routes taken by these people to reach Brazil, while situating these new migratory flows in the context of the history of migration in Brazil. Finally, the aim will be to discuss the prospects for migration in Brazil, in the actual context of the economic crisis and political radicalization in the country.

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Though discussing birth-control had been forbidden in France since the 1920 promulgation of a law, Doctor Lagroua Weil-Hallé undertook in 1957 long-range work on medical inquiries into the consequences of contraceptive practices. Three consecutive publications released the results of these investigations. They were designed as the centerpiece of an All-Out Assault in order to have the law abolished. This scientific production imposed the topic of contraception in the circles of traditionally hostile experts, the medical and demographic spheres. The way the questionnaires have been devised and the mathematical processing of the results tend to over-value a particular contraceptive method: the diaphragm. Light is mainly thrown on the positive consequences of contraception on mental health, namely women’s sexual fulfillment, the prevention of unwanted pregnancy, harmonious relationships between parents and within the family.

The importance of numbering practices for colonial social control is well-documented. From October 1873 to February 1875, there was officially a famine situation in Bengal but its scope was controversial both in colonial India and in Britain. Officials stated that only twenty-four people had died directly from starvation during the famine. But what does this number stand for? It seems paradoxical to register individual cases in the midst of a broad phenomenon. With this statistically questionable official statement, the colonial authorities were more concerned with justifying their policies than acknowledging the reality of famine. Moreover they made the starving responsible for their own starvation.

This paper performs a statistical analysis of the dependency relationships between processes and phenomena and focuses on highlighting the main causes of accidents. As the number of vehicles increased, so did the number of accidents. When we talk about the road transport system, we must not exclude the fact that there will always be road accidents due to unpredictable causes (vehicle failures) or foreseeable (infrastructure, reckless driving). All these causes can be amplified by a series of conditions such as day or night, road category, but also by the manner and nature of accidents (between vehicles, between vehicle and pedestrian, etc.). Using the analysis of the Pearson correlation between the codings, the nature, the mode and the place of accidents in Romania, it was highlighted that the most prone to accidents at night are new vehicles and "used" vehicles are responsible for accidents in localities.

Although women have a long history of contributing to classical scholarship, they continue to be a minority both among faculty members and scholarly authors. In this paper, I compare the proportion of women employed at Classics departments in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland with their proportion among the authors of a sample of English journal articles. While the overall institu­tional gender balance is approaching parity, women continue to be under­represented in senior positions, and progress seems to have stalled over the last ten years. In addition, my analysis of the L’Année philologique database demonstrates that while the share of articles written by women has greatly increased from 1970 to 2009, it has remained stagnant since, hovering just around the 28% mark. I hypothesise that the main reason for women’s con­tinued underrepresentation in Classical scholarship, apart from uncon­scious biases, is the disproportionate share of care responsibilities shouldered by women both within and without academia. In order to improve the situation, I propose a series of interventions to be taken by journal editors and university administrators, particularly the introduction of quotas.

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From a socio-cognitive transdisciplinary perspective combining psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, this research paper studies the relations between manifestations of interlinguistic transfers and metasyntactic skills in 9/10-year-old French-Norwegian children. Its purpose is to assess whether these transfers influence access and use of the children’s metasyntactic skills in reading comprehension tasks. Following a mixed-method research design, data was collected with 33 bilingual French-Norwegian children registered in the 5th grade at the French school in Oslo. The children took part in a grammaticality judgment test written in French and containing errors due to Norwegian syntactic calque. Subsequently, 13 of the children involved in the experiment participated in a semi-structured interview in which they explained their answers. A group of French monolingual children also took the test in France. Statistical analyses of the test results show the existence of interlinguistic syntactic transfers which weaken metasyntactic skills when errors are related to the use of a preposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Basic understanding of linear model is primordial in quantitative psychology and modelling. As an advanced topic for students in psychology, modelling data according to given sets of parameters can be challenging. In this paper, we address the variance sum law which states how to combine variance of variables into a new one. The paper uses a progressive pedagogical approach, presenting step by step the statistical prerequisites. An example with code in R is offered to support the presentation. Some matrix algebra is gently introduced to stimulate readers to more advanced topics. We hope this paper can stimulate research in data modelling and invite newcomers to the fields.

Performing the entire transition from raw data to reportable statistics can pose difficulties: it takes time, it allows various mistakes (that may or may not go unnoticed), and there are no general guidelines on how to proceed with this task. One particularly useful tool for this transition is the R programming language. However, how to use R for this is not trivial, especially for novices. The present paper serves as a step-by-step yet fast tutorial on how to make all the steps from raw data files to all the statistics normally needed in a conventional psychological experiment (including ANOVA and t-tests). At the same time, it also introduces the R package \fontencoding {T1}\texttt {neatStats}, which was created for the very purpose of making these steps as easy and straightforward as possible.

The article discusses the socio-economic aspects of the development of the city of Ekaterinburg from the standpoint of the cultural and entertainment potential of its development. The authors examined the dynamics of the development of the quest industry in the Russian Federation within the framework of the experience economy. The main development trends in the field of entertainment are identified. Collected, analyzed and systematized statistical and economic indicators characterizing the current state of the entertainment industry in the post-pandemic period of economic development of the country and the city of Ekaterinburg. The most competitive areas of the entertainment industry have been identified. Based on consumer preferences, the authors formulated conclusions about the further growth of the market share of quest services in the total volume of entertainment services in the city of Ekaterinburg.

In the use of big data, public security mainly focuses on the key processing of data. Although it is structured, it needs to be used in many aspects. Data processing results and analysis results, but through data processing, can effectively think about the specific implementation methods. Public security data science is becoming a new public security discipline and police technical field. Under the influence of public security big data technology, there are various problems in the development of statistics education and teaching and the design of teaching courses. On the premise of combining the design of statistics-related courses and the development of teaching, this paper makes an in-depth study on the reform of statistics courses under the influence of public security big data technology, and puts forward the reform path of statistics courses. In order to improve the teaching quality of statistics course and cultivate professionals who are more in line with the development of the times.

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Statistics plays an important role in describing the results of various research. The basic role of statistical reasoning is to enable generalizations valid for the entire population to be made on the basis of certain quantitative characteristics of the sample. Various statistical procedures are used for this purpose, among which those for which the normality of distribution is the null hypothesis are very common. This paper provides an insight into the statistical techniques most commonly used in pedagogical research, which serve as a guide for the researcher in confirming or rejecting the null hypothesis about the normality of the distribution of the population characteristics based on a simple random sample. These are commonly known descriptive methods that allow the researcher to statistically confirm the normality of the characteristics of the entire population. The first part of the paper describes the most commonly used visual methods: histogram, QQ graph, and scatter diagram, pointing out their advantages and disadvantages, but also the interrelation and a complementary role in drawing conclusions. Statistical tests are described as well: Chi-square, Shapiro-Wilk and Anderson-Darling tests, the application of which contributes to the discovery of the essence, which is not possible only by applying visual methods. The correctness of statistical inference is always conditioned by the adequate application of the selected methods and techniques. The aim of this paper is to present the application of statistical methods in determining the normality of the distribution of the features of empirical pedagogical research.

The fall of imperial authority and the decline of the Byzantine state at the end of the 12th century has its cause not only in foreign policy but also, to a large extent, in the family policy of the Komnenoi emperors. The “clan” system introduced during Alexios I’ reign and continued by his successors, connected the aristocratic elites with the imperial family by blood ties. In the 12th century, the composition of this group, linked by a complicated marriage network, underwent a significant transformation, which could be one of the most important factors of the later crisis. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First: distinguishing two groups of aristocrats within the Komnenos “clan” i.e. “core” Komnenos family and affine families. Second: determining their approximate numer during the 12th century. Relatively large amount of data about aristocratic elites of that period allows for statistical approach. Written sources and sigillography of the 12th century Byzantium is rich in information about high ranking persons. In addition, the Komnenos era has been thoroughly described in prosopographical works. This allows for counting the number of aristocrats and thus obtaining reliable results. Such an approach is not free from estimation and probability. However, the amount of information is sufficient enough to show the overall trends visible in the composition of the elites associated with the Komnenoi. The result of this study is a table that shows the tendency of the weakening of the Komnenos family in face of a constantly growing group of affine aristocratic families. This sheds a new light on the progressive collapse of the imperial authority after the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the key role of destructive actions of Andronikos I, and the weakness of the Angelos dynasty.

The aim of this article is to analyze the process of evaluation of Albanian literature in literary periodicals (print or online). The research aims to explain the nature of criticism of Albanian literature in accordance with three main periods of Albanian literary history (1920–1944; 1945–1990; 1991–present). The paper has a short chronological presentation of the main periodicals which deal with literature. It also deals with the reception of Albanian literature in old and new periodicals. Some of the most important research questions of this paper are: Is there a continuation in the critical approaches to Albanian literature from the beginning to the present? Do critics have a ‘critical’ interaction between them while they express their evaluation regarding literature? Who are the critics? Which is the core role of certain critics and periodicals? The methodology used in this paper embraces a historical, analytical, statistical and interpretative approach. The paper will be developed in two parallel sections. The first one will elaborate quantitatively official data related to the number of periodicals which deal with the evaluation of literature in its theoretical and critical aspects and the other section will describe, analyze and interpret the data. The research results tend to prove that the process of critical evaluation of Albanian literature has experienced similar characteristics with Albanian literature itself. The critical reflection or criticism has turned out to be a refracting process. The critical evaluations are marred occasionally by low levels of professionalism or political interference.

Although, there is no generally definition for the term “Emerging Markets”, there are two representative features for emerging countries. First, these markets are characterized by rapid growth which is usually expressed in terms of income levels and population. The term of emerging economies refers to nations with social and business activity in the process of fast growth and industrialization. Emerging markets countries are assumed to play a decisive role in international trade and finance as well as to contribute significantly to the global economic growth. Entering an emerging market is not easy. Opportunities in the emerging markets come with their own set of challenges. Doing business in Emerging Markets reflects the challenges and opportunities facing international businesses and professionals when operating in emerging markets. There is intense competition among emerging countries to capture their share of the global economy. Emerging markets are commonly considered relatively riskier than developed markets as they carry supplementary political, economical and currency risks. As a result, these markets could be good investments for diversification purposes. These economies are growing fast, so the information that is defining them is easily outdated as their structure is quickly evolving. My research contains a theoretical introduction, literature review and also applied statistics on a dataset. In this paper I apply linear regression using IBM SPSS Statistics in order to measure the profitability for 51 banks from China during the period 2016 to 2019. The purpose of my research paper is to analyze the profitability of Chinese banks using two important profitability indicators: Return on Assets and Net Profit Margin. ANOVA is used to verify if the regression model is a good fit for the data. Also, I present descriptive statistics that show a general overview for the variables. The variables that are in the center of analysis are Return of Assets and Net profit Margin. For a more detailed analysis, Pearson Correlation was performed in order to verify the association between the variables that are in the interest of my research paper.

This article includes a translation and a short presentation of two major papers by Georg von der Gabelentz. The first one (1881) is a revised version of the inaugural lecture he presented on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Chinese, Japanese and Manchu languages, University of Leipzig. The paper shows how Gabelentz delimits his own scientific field in relation to the Indo-European comparative grammar, which was considered as the scientific reference among linguists. The second paper was published in 1894 shortly after the author’s death and introduces typology in linguistics. By using models that probably originate from natural science, the author outlines a program for a statistical processing of typology, based on conjunctions of characters, which foreshadows the implicational universals of modern typology.

Faced with a terrorist movement, the authoritarian or democratic power deploys a repressive response. At certain times, it was massive against the armed group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). To study its effects on the group's operationality, we used two original databases (ETA actions, arrests of its activists). Statistical analysis underlines that the most intense deployments of police repression had a radicalising effect on the Basque national liberation movement, whether under authoritarian or democratic regimes until at least the 1980s, and that this radicalisation phenomenon does not occur at the end of a protest cycle as a backlash against its exhaustion. The effectiveness of repression is only real when it is not only police-related but also judicial, and when it is supported by transnational cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Own dwelling in ancient times was the most desired and created the largest social conflicts. National customs, social trends of recent decades and the psychology of young families feel the need to have their own home. Satisfying the existing demand on the market, entrepreneurs offer various possibilities to purchase or build their own home. The desire to earn a lot and relatively quickly together with the fact that the object of construction is accessible enough to be accepted as a mortgage guarantee, led to the emergence of various financial schemes, which in many cases proved to be fraudulent. In this article the causes of fraudulent financial schemes are examined in the Republic of Moldova. The article describes some existing schemes as well as current and proposed ways to develop housing construction sector. The authors, based on the comparative analysis of financing opportunities for home purchase transactions in the Republic of Moldova (mortgage, real estate leasing, state project "first home"), demonstrate the lack of considerable difference for the consumer between existing offers and the impossibility to use them for the vast majority of the population.

A lexicometric analysis was performed with Hyperbase software, in order to capture the variations of Charles Darwin's six original editions of The Origin of Species, as well as of the French translations of the 1st, 3rd, and 6th editions. The source corpus is characterized by a greater homogeneity than the translated corpus, but the specificities identified point to salient elements of Darwinian thought and its evolution. The translated corpus, on the other hand, presents variations reflecting the translators’ choice and emphasizing that access to Darwin's thought for the French-speaking reader remains incomplete. The advantages and disadvantages of the method are also discussed.

Symbolism in Armenian poetry manifested itself at most in the works by Vahan Teryan and his follower Egishe Charents. Stemming from the classical heritage of Tumanyan, these two poets substantially reformed traditional verse on different levels, ideological, figurative, lexical, and metrical. The images of the Girl-Dream, Dreams, Other World, Twilight, Love-dispersed-in-th-world were new to the Armenian poetry at the beginning of the 20th century. Statistical the calculations of the groups of words with the meaning of the color (golden, silver, blue, sun, light, etc.), sound (voice, call, whisper, ringing, cry, silence, etc.), and words conventionally grouped as Upper World (self, soul, heart, sky, God, Universe, Dreams, Dream, etc.) demonstrate the difference in the poetics of Hovhannes Tumanyan, on the one hand, and Teryan and Charents on the other. The article juxtaposes semantic dominants of the poems and analyzes their stylistic properties with attention to their content and contexts. While Tumanyan’s poetic world is material and concrete and the language of his poems is traditional, symbolists develop a new poetical language that includes new lexical layers, neologisms and, most importantly, defamiliriazation of the ordinary words. The poet-demiurge creates a new symbolist meta-reality that results in a new poetic language and imagery.