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Radon contributes about 50% to the total annual effective dose of human radioactive irradiation. This gas is the main radiological pollutant of ecosystems. The question of studying the effect of radon on increasing the risk of the incidence of lung cancer is relevant in the context of European sanitary and hygienic research. We give in this article a comparative description of the results of experimental studies of volumetric activity of radon inside the air of the first floors of residential premises in Corsica island (France) and town of Rivne (Ukraine). «Kodak-alpha» integrated solid-state track detectors were used in France for three measurement campaigns between 1990 and 1999 (152 measurements in residential buildings and 638 in the schools of the island). In Ukraine, we did research using the “Alfarad Plus” Express Radon meter from 2013 to 2017 (200 measurements in the apartments of the first floors of buildings). The regions studied are similar in several parameters, which affect the increase in the percentage of cancer diseases: geology of underlying soils, the structure of housing and building material, the number of people and incidence of lung cancer, smoking factor, etc. We found that the volume activity (VA) of radon in indoor air inhouse compared regions have close in value. The main reason is the similarity of the underlying granites in terms of radon emanation power. The average geometric value of radon VA in living quarters for various measurement campaigns in Corsica is in the range from 81 to 152 Bq/m3 (the average of them is 134 Bq/m3). This value for Rivne is 127 Bq/m3. VA of radon in residential areas of Rivne have a lognormal distribution. Building norms for equivalent equilibrium volumetric activity (EEVA) of radon in the premises of Rivne are exceeded in 6.6% of buildings, Corsica - from 6 to 10% (this depends on the measurement campaign). Here, the average concentration of radon in housing is over 400 Bq/m3. We calculated the relative risk of lung cancer incidence due to radon for the population of the studied regions. The Jacobi and BEIR-VI models were used for Rivne for 70 years of exposure, and the BEIR-VI model was taken for Corsica for 110 years of exposure. The proportion of deaths from lung cancer is in Corsica from 30 to 48%, while for Rivne - about 50%. Consequently, the percentages of deaths from lung cancer caused by radon with an average value of VA in housing 134 Bq/m3, for men and women Corsica are 21.3% and 22.6% respectively (21.5% for the entire population) of the total number of deaths from this disease. In the quantitative form it is 33 people (men - 28, women - 5) out of 155 people died for a year from lung cancer. For residents of Rivne, the percentage of deaths from lung cancer is 25.1%, average value of VA in housing is 127 Bq/m3. 53 people die on average for a year from lung cancer caused by radon (men - 47, women - 6) of 214 deaths per year lung cancer lot. A preliminary assessment of the synergistic interaction between smoking and radon showed that there could be a 50% increase in morbidity due to radon for smokers, compared to non-smokers. However, these data are not sufficiently representative and therefore further research is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among meat products of Corsican pig production benefiting recently of a PDO, the prisuttu (dry cured ham) leads to the main value production stakes. Such changes imply that the prisuttu can't be no more sold in the year as a long ageing is able to express its aromatic potential. How producers cope with these new perspectives and what are the main difficulties they are facing? We made an enquiry with a sample of 21 producers of the Corsican mountain area showing a large diversity of situations. Questions concerned the selection of animals, the characteristics of the green hams, the processing and the ageing, the marketing activity. The results obtained show several changes compared to the previous period. Pig rearing is partially in compliance with the code of practices of the PDO. Selection of the carcasses shows a priority for the heavier ones for producing prisuttu. Enlarging the ageing is progressively obtained according to the demand for this type of product. Marketing modalities changed a lot, with less pieces and more cutting sold, together with the search of fairs and local markets, and prices doubled or more. Main difficulties faced in recent years concern the standardization of the plants, implementation of traceability and search for new marketing circuit for ensuring high level of price. The transition toward an up-market orientation is partially observed and the expected dynamics thanks to PDO are not yet real. It lacks a strategic reflection for helping the producers to invest in the chains where their efforts on animals, processing an ageing could be better valorised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past decades have seen growing sanitary events, strongly affecting animal health and thus questioning the classical ways of designing disease management strategies. Moreover, the growing knowledge on pathosystem dynamics, especially when involving wild fauna, and the tendency of official authorities to delegate the implementation of health policies to regional professional actors, raise important issues on how to design disease management strategies with stakeholders. In Corsica, the Aujezsky disease, caused by a virus shared by domestic pigs and wild boars, has been persistent for the past thirty years with a high prevalence, despite the various strategies designed and implemented. After Continental France has been recognized as free of Aujeszky disease in 2008, French authorities in Corsica have been looking for a way to build an efficient management system in order to eradicate this disease. The partial failure of an experimental plan conducted from 2011 to 2013, led researchers from INRA to propose an experimental participative approach to design a new strategy. This communication aims to present the first results of a round of participative workshops, held in 2015, and involving a large diversity of stakeholders (farmers, official services, veterinarians, animal health farmer associations, regional agricultural chambers, hunters, researchers...). These workshops allowed us to build a systemic representation of the Aujeszky disease problem, integrating its different dimensions (technical, biological, organizational, regulations...) and to create an arena where stakeholders involvement is legitimated through knowledge hybridization processes, enhanced by the collective search of solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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If sediments in a basin share a similar genetic history (derived from a common place, from a common suite of raw materials, under a common set of environmental conditions, and subsequently experienced a common burial and thermal history), then physical characteristics of those sediments should be internally consistent and inferences about one physical property in one part of the basin can be drawn reliably from other physical properties in other parts of the basin. Balanced mass between a prospective source and an observed sink can indicate shared genetic history. If the sediments in the sink don't balance with the source, then additional history must be accounted: perhaps other sources, or perhaps leaks. Balance can only be evaluated with deliberate analysis that precisely defines and accurately measures the relevant physical boundaries and conditions of the sink and the potential sources. The analysis must start with the sink and work backward to potential sources. An example from sediments of the last 190 Ma on the Angoche margin of Mozambique demonstrates that the immediately adjacent hinterland of a basin may not supply all the sediment, so that exotic sources must be considered. An example from sediments of the last 190 ka in the Corsican Trough illustrates the requirements for strict sedimentary accounting, including precise definition of the sediment body in 3 spatial and 1 temporal dimension; segmentation and characterization of the body according to physical characteristics and data quality; identification of sediment entry points; association of sediment sources with sediment entry points; segmentation and characterization of sources according to geology, environment, and volume and character of expected sediment. Constraining the range of possible explanations, and quantifying uncertainty around relevant parameters of both sink and source(s) provides valuable insight into the genetic history of sedimentary systems, even if the mass does not balance precisely. • Sediment-property predictions, including porosity, are more likely to succeed if the origin of the sediment is known. • ·The Angoche Margin contains more sediment than is produced by the adjacent hinterland and delivered by local rivers. • The Golo River and the Golo Canyons are less than half of the Corsica Trough source to sink sediment system. • A rigorous accounting for sediment source to sink mass balance must incorporate a comprehensive set of genetic factors.. • Uncertainties in mass-balance input factors are handled through Monte Carlo analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gravel-bed rivers transport large quantities of sediment from alpine sources to foreland sinks and are a key element in the sediment transport system of mountain regions. Generating a quantitative comprehension of the morphodynamics and sedimentary processes operating in gravel-bed rivers is a long-standing research goal in fluvial geomorphology. This constitutes the base for understanding fluvial sediment cascades, valley floor incision and mountain denudation as well as for managing flood and sediment hazard risks. The prediction of how riverbed texture, sediment load and channel morphology respond to changes in governing conditions (discharge, sediment supply, valley slope) remain complex and thus are still largely elusive. We systematically sampled the granitic fluvial lag deposits that are preserved in the river bed channel of the Solenzara in southern Corsica. We target the grain size range > 250 mm (gravels to boulders) and explore the capabilities of an EMCCD camera set-up for 2D rock surface dating. In this study the IRSL, post-IR-IRSL as well as the IRPL signals of these samples are investigated and compared with each other. In addition to generating 2D EMCCD images of rock luminescence, we also use a classic "drilling and slicing" approach to generate 1D luminescence-depth profiles by measuring individual rock slices under the photo multiplier tube. Advantages and disadvantages of the 1D versus 2D luminescence data for the Solenzara samples are discussed and initial rock surface burial ages for different grain sizes and sections of the fluvial lag deposit presented. The ultimate goal of this rock surface dating study is to better constrain the spatio-temporal pattern of bed load transport and formation of lag deposits on the scale of a fluvial channel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A detailed biostratigraphical study based on calcareous nannofossils has been carried out on the following Cretaceous-Eocene flysch of Alpine Corsica: Macinaggio Flysch, Tralonca Flysch, Vezzani Flysch, Balagne Calcareous Flysch, Lydienne (Toccone Unit), Palasca Sandstones, Gare de Novella Sandstones, Alturaia Arkoses. The bad preservation of calcareous nannofloras due to dissolution and overgrowth phenomena, did not permit the recognition of precise biozonal intervals; although many samples were barren, calcareous nannofossils provided further information about the Corsican flysch age and they often confirmed the previous age determination based on Foraminifera. The Macinaggio Flysch, ascribed in literature to the Cenomanian, has been referred to an age not older than latest Coniacian; the Balagne Calcareous Flysch, previously referred to the Eocene and, subsequently, to the Senonian, is Cenomanian and latest Coniacian-Campanian in age; for the Palasca Sandstones the Eocene age has been confirmed; the Lydienne (Toccone Unit) has been referred to an age not older than Late Albian; in the Gare de Novella Sandstones a Late Albian age has been recognized. These new data would suggest an older Cretaceous age for the beginning of the Corsican flysch deposition (Albian-Cenomanian) when compared to the Santonian and Maastrichtian ages of the Cretaceous flysch in the Northern Apennine. These results concerning the age of Corsican flysch together with the stratigraphic-structural and sedimentological data from the literature, provide new interesting considerations about the paleogeography of western Tethys.

There seem to be two types of fire risk in Corsica. The first would be a serious risk, the major threat to the "Mediterranean forest," caused mostly by the negligence of the local population, especially breeders. This is the most widely and commonly recognized notion of the meaning of fire risk. However, another more common and less dramatic fire risk exists, one that was part of "Mediterranean forest" history, that helped shape the forest, and with which local populations have always lived, though sometimes this is forgotten. Those two visions of risk rarely, if ever, come together. This article seeks to demonstrate the elitist social construction of a purportedly major risk which conceals the vulnerability of local territories. Woodlands increase because of low maintenance, leading to the closing of landscapes. These modifications produce vulnerable spatial structures and create new environmental representations. It appears that fire is not the problem but instead the issue is preserving the "Mediterranean forest” as a resource. Interactions between the environment, public policies and other actors of these island territories will be clarified through analysis and comparison of the discourse of various actors (local populations, political leaders, media and scientists).

At the end of XIX century nationalist movements proliferated all over Europe. During this period, an autonomist tendency emerged in Corsica. In 1923, Petru Rocca, inspired by the Sardinian Action Party, founded Partitu Corsu d’Azione which subsequently took the name of Partitu Corsu Autonomista. This party, arisen in the inner circle of intellectuals, denounced that French political system was the cause of all of the island problems and defended Corsica’s language and culture. The political newspaper «A Muvra», founded in 1920 – and partly edited in Corsican language – served as tribune of the PCA, fighting against Corsica’s “Frenchification”.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of acute hepatitis worldwide. In France, hyperendemic areas including Corsica have an anti-HEV Immunoglobulin G (IgG) prevalence higher than 50%. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of anti-HEV IgG in three adult populations in Corsica and the risk factors associated with antibody detection. Between 2017 and 2019, a total of 930 individuals, including 467 blood donors, 393 students or university staff members and 70 patients from general practice, were tested for the presence of anti-HEV IgG using the Wantai HEV IgG enzyme immunoassay kit and filled a questionnaire. The association between seropositivity and potential risk factors was tested with univariate and multivariate analyses. Out of the 930 samples, 52.3% (486/930) were seropositive—54.4% (254/467) among blood donors, 47.6% (187/393) among university students and 64.3% (45/70) among patients of general practice. Three main risk factors were identified: (i) skinning and butchering (Adjusted Odds Ratio aOR = 2.76, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] [1.51−5.37]; p-value < 10−3), (ii) consumption of a local pork live raw sausage (fittonu) (aOR = 1.95 95% CI [1.45−2.64]; p-value = 10−5), and (iii) increasing age (p-value = 0.003). Seropositivity rates between the different populations were homogeneous after age stratification. This cross-sectional study indicates a high anti-HEV IgG seroprevalence in the Corsican adult population, not significantly different between women and men and increasing with age. This serosurvey also showed homogeneity regarding the exposure to HEV among three different types of populations. Finally, we confirmed the endemicity of Corsica with respect to HEV and identified a strong association between consumption of figatellu/fittonu and the practice of skinning and butchering with the detection of anti-HEV IgG.

To obtain a better understanding of the current magnitude of tick-borne rickettsioses in Corsica, we used molecular methods to characterize the occurrence of Rickettsia spp. in ixodid ticks collected from domestic and wild animals. The presence of Rickettsia spp. was evaluated using real-time polymerase chain reaction targeting the gltA gene and by sequencing of gltA and ompA partial genes for species identification and phylogenetic analysis. Infection rates were calculated as the maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). In total, 1117 ticks belonging to four genera (Rhipicephalus, Hyalomma, Ixodes, and Dermacentor) were collected from cattle, sheep, wild boars, and companion animals during July−August 2017 and July 2018−January 2019. Overall, Rickettsia DNA was detected in 208 of 349 pools of ticks (MLE = 25.6%, 95% CI: 22.6−28.8%). The molecular analysis revealed five different rickettsial species of the spotted-fever group (SFG). We highlighted the exclusive detection of Candidatus Ri. barbariae in R. bursa and of Ri. aeschlimanii in H. marginatum. Rickettsia slovaca was detected in D. marginatus collected from wild boars. This study provides the first evidence of the presence of Ri. monacensis in I. ricinus ticks isolated from a dog in Corsica. In conclusion, our data revealed wide dispersal of SFG Rickettsiae and their arthropod hosts in Corsica, highlighting the need for surveillance of the risk of infection for people living and/or working close to infected or infested animals.

During 2000–2013, 4 genotypes of bluetongue virus (BTV) were detected in Corsica, France. At the end of 2013, a compulsory BTV-1 vaccination campaign was initiated among domestic ruminants; biological samples from goats were tested as part of a corresponding monitoring program. A BTV strain with nucleotide sequences suggestive of a novel serotype was detected.

The island of Corsica in the western Mediterranean is frequently struck by devastating heavy precipitation events ( HPEs), which endanger property and lives alike. In the framework of the Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment ( HyMeX) project, multiple HPEs from 2012 were observed and studied, and to provide context, a climatology for HPEs based on 31 years (1985-2015) of surface observations was derived, based on 173 events. HPEs (>100 mm day−1) strike the island around 5-6 times a year and show a distinct seasonal cycle. They occur predominantly during autumn, with more than half of the HPEs occurring from September to December and almost 20% in October, the most active month. The eastern half of the island is most affected by HPEs. Composite fields for all events show a cyclone over the western Mediterranean west of Corsica, and warm and moist low-level air upstream of the orography, predominantly over the Tyrrhenian Sea southeast of the island. The events are classified using their synoptic and mesoscale environment obtained from ERA-Interim data. Using empirical orthogonal functions ( EOFs) and a principal component ( PC) analysis together with the k-means clustering algorithm, three clusters of events are identified. Each has a different seasonal cycle, dominant wind direction, and precipitation distribution. Warm southeasterly events occur predominantly in autumn, produce the most extreme events and affect the coasts and slopes of eastern Corsica alike. Cool southeasterly events occur predominantly in winter and affect mostly the slopes along the east side of the orography. Southwesterly events are more often associated with large-scale Atlantic cyclones and occur throughout almost the entire year, with the highest precipitation over the mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau identifies Corsica as the last place in Europe capable of receiving his political proposals. To understand why this may be. this paper examines the historical and intellectual relationship between Rousseau's thought, enlightened European society and Corsica in the eighteenth century. In doing this it identifies what was unique about the island, noting the perceived 'savagery' of its people, and thus their capability to be given Rousseau's laws. It then examines how proposals from Rousseau's Constitutional Project for Corsica relate to the Social Contract, noting that the historical particularities of Corsica allow for further understanding of the proposals in the latter text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a context of climate change that may increase the extreme events and so the forest fires, the question is to know whether the legal framework is relevant or it should keep on evolving to manage the forest fire prevention risk. Many reports concerning the climate change and also the forest fire risk in France pointed the necessary adaptation of the public policies and the lack of the legal prevention measures. So, the question is what the main legal measures are to be developed or to be implemented in the territories actually exposed to forest fire which could be more exposed to this risk and the territories which are not exposed for that moment but which could be exposed in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the consequences pointed out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is assumed that xeric and thermophilic ecosystems, which are mostly involved in forest fires, could colonize areas currently less or not exposed to forest fire risk. The aim of our study is to assess the spatial distribution of xeric and thermophilic botanical taxa in Corsica for the end of the 21st Century, according to the climatic scenario named RCP 6 which is considered as one of the most probable reference scenario. The results of our study show a probable increase of forest fire risk due to the colonization of xeric and thermophilic ecosystems in more areas than we can observe today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interpretation of vendetta as a mere criminal practice, with no "legal" or "juridical" nature, has characterized several scientific studies on, and literary approaches to, Corsican folk-law. Such interpretation was explicitly dismissed by Jacques Busquet's Le droit de la vendetta et les paci corses (1920), almost overlooked by ethnographers and legal philosophers studying the notion of "vindicatory justice". The present work illustrates the content of Busquet's work and shows how, in several regards, Le droit de la vendetta et les paci corses anticipated Antonio Pigliaru's well-known La vendetta barbaricina come ordinamento giuridico (1959), a ground-breaking study concerning the interpretation of revenge folk-systems as legal regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new C15-acetogenin, sagonenyne (20), exhibiting an unusual single tetrahydropyran ring was isolated from an ethyl acetate extract of Laurencia obtusa collected on the Corsican coastline. Its structure was established by detailed NMR spectroscopic analysis, mass spectrometry, and comparison with literature data. Twenty-three known compounds were identified in the same extract by means of column chromatography steps, using a 13C-NMR computer aided method developed in our laboratory. In addition to sesquiterpenes, which represent the main chemical class of this extract, diterpenes, sterols, and C15-acetogenins were identified. The crude extract was submitted to a cytotoxicity assay and was particularly active against THP-1 cells, a human leukemia monocytic cell line. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Modern Europe, islands have generally been considered as passive spaces. Historically, however, Mediterranean island societies have played important--and often active--roles in the formation of nation-states and in nation-building processes. Little attention has been paid to the ways in which island societies have affected mainland nationalism. This article argues that Mediterranean islands offered rhetorical and symbolic elements that proved useful for the construction of mainland European national identities, largely because islandness, from a continental perspective, was seen as capable of conserving authenticity. This article draws upon the Mediterranean island case studies of Sardinia and Corsica and their relationships to Catalan nationalism, French nationalism, and Italian nationalism as well as wider nation-building processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The effects of ocean acidification on nitrogen (N 2 ) fixation rates and on the community composition of N 2 -fixing microbes (diazotrophs) were examined in coastal waters of the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. Nine experimental mesocosm enclosures of ∼50 m 3 each were deployed for 20 days during June–July 2012 in the Bay of Calvi, Corsica, France. Three control mesocosms were maintained under ambient conditions of carbonate chemistry. The remainder were manipulated with CO 2 saturated seawater to attain target amendments of p CO 2 of 550, 650, 750, 850, 1000 and 1250 μatm. Rates of N 2 fixation were elevated up to 10 times relative to control rates (2.00 ± 1.21 nmol L −1 d −1 ) when p CO 2 concentrations were >1000 μatm and pH T (total scale) < 7.74. Diazotrophic phylotypes commonly found in oligotrophic marine waters, including the Mediterranean, were not present at the onset of the experiment and therefore, the diazotroph community composition was characterised by amplifying partial nifH genes from the mesocosms. The diazotroph community was comprised primarily of cluster III nifH sequences (which include possible anaerobes), and proteobacterial (α and γ) sequences, in addition to small numbers of filamentous (or pseudo-filamentous) cyanobacterial phylotypes. The implication from this study is that there is some potential for elevated N 2 fixation rates in the coastal western Mediterranean before the end of this century as a result of increasing ocean acidification. Observations made of variability in the diazotroph community composition could not be correlated with changes in carbon chemistry, which highlights the complexity of the relationship between ocean acidification and these keystone organisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to investigate human-climate-environment interactions in a small Mediterranean island. Comparison between palynological and palaeoentomological data fromthe Greco pond (Cavallo Island, southern Corsica) reveals that the islandwas first covered by a more-or-less open Erica arborea pasture-woodland from ca. 7000 to 6100 cal. yr B.P. Grazing animals from 7000 to 6200 cal. yr B.P., followed by a spreading of Ficus carica (marked by the bark beetle Hypoborus ficus) from ca. 6100 to 5750 cal. yr B.P., suggest that human activities could be implicated in the E. arborea forest opening. From ca. 5500 cal. yr B.P., a regional expansion of Q. ilex was recorded, but an open landscape with thermophilous and drought-tolerant plants locally took place from ca. 4700 cal. yr B.P. onward. Pastoral and agricultural biomarkers (pollen, NPP and insect) together with archaeological evidence indicate that human activities were involved in the installation of a lasting open vegetation. Simultaneously, the effects of the Holocene relative sea-level rise on the coastal wetland are recorded: (1) freshwater conditions prevailed in the Greco pond since 7000 cal. yr B.P. at least, (2) the first evidence of salt marsh development dates back to ca. 4500 cal. yr B.P., (3) a strong increase of salinity with marine intrusions were recorded at ca. 3700 cal. yr B.P. while a decline in aquatic insect diversity occurred and (4) a phase of sand dune formationwas recorded fromca. 2000 cal. yr B.P. onward. Our results suggest that if large-scale climatic trend such as the Holocene relative sea-level rise could affect coastal ecosystem, effects of human activities could play the leading role in vegetation and terrestrial beetle assemblage changes in a small island context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UNESCO's World Heritage Centre's communication monopoly over nationally filtered heritage operates not in an apolitical past but in present politics. Working through the "World Heritage Order" and its changing definition of "outstanding universal value," this article develops a bridge between seemingly disconnected rural sites in France and the People's Republic of China to move beyond the confines of "imagined communities" and their potential for displacing "concrete inequalities." The article extends a critical approach of communication to heritage and contextualizes present rural heritage communication within larger political economic and cultural processes of urban-rural and capital-capillary dynamics that enables, in the cases examined, their current heritage identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims at identifying the water-rock interactions and mixing rates within a complex granite-carbonate coastal aquifer under high touristic pressure. Investigations have been carried out within the coastal aquifer of Bonifacio (southern Corsica, France) mainly composed of continental granitic weathering products and marine calcarenite sediments filling a granitic depression. A multi-tracer approach combining physico-chemical parameters, major ions, selected trace elements, stable isotopes of the water molecule and 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios measurements is undertaken for 20 groundwater samples during the low water period in November 2014. 5 rock samples of the sedimentary deposits and surrounding granites are also analysed. First, the water-rock interactions processes governing the groundwater mineralization are described in order to fix the hydrogeochemical background. Secondly, the flow conditions are refined through the quantification of inter aquifer levels mixing, and thirdly, the kinetics of water-rock interaction based on groundwater residence time from a previous study using CFCs and SF 6 are quantified for the two main flow lines. A regional contrast in the groundwater recharge altitude allowed the oxygene-18 to be useful combined with the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios to differentiate the groundwater origins and to compute the mixing rates, revealing the real extension of the watershed and the availability of the resource. The results also highlight a very good correlation between the groundwater residence time and the spatial evolution of 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios, allowing water-rock interaction kinetics to be defined empirically for the two main flow lines through the calcarenites. These results demonstrate the efficiency of strontium isotopes as tracers of water-rock interaction kinetics and by extension their relevance as a proxy of groundwater residence time, fundamental parameter documenting the long term sustainability of the hydrosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims at reconstructing the representations of Corsican banditry given by French travelers during the 19th century, taking into account travel guides and tourists reports. Between 1815 and 1915 an increasing interest in Corsica takes place; the island is perceived as a wild and archaic spot, outside civilization. French travelers incorporate the romantic idealization and literary figure of the bandit of honor, to whom they attribute positive morale values​​. The representation of banditry provided by travelers is closely related to the representation of the Corsican people. The banditisme honoraire will become the island’s main tourist object, so as to transform the legendary Antonio Bellacoscia in bandit decoratif.

The papal bull of 4 April 1297 whereby Boniface VIII gave the Kingdom of Sardinia in fief to Jaime II of Aragon triggered a long-lasting conflict between the Crown and the commune of Genoa. Until the mid-15th century, Sardinia and Corsica became the theatre for an indirect struggle between the two powers for dominion of the Western Mediterranean. In Corsica, this struggle took the form of opposition between a communal government, supported by Genoa, and a seigneurial government supported by Aragon. While the Genoese communal ideology, founded on hatred of the seigneurial regime, is well documented, the ideological underpinnings of the alliance of the Corsican lords with the Aragonese sovereigns are harder to define, and indeed have not been examined hitherto. However, a comparison of Genoese, Aragonese and Corsican documents suggests that the alliance was underpinned by a seigneurial ideology, one founded on the legendary memory of the Carolingian conquest of the island.

Coral bioconstructions associated with mixed carbonate-siliciclastic settings are known to be strongly controlled by coastal morphology and paleotopography. A striking example is represented by the different types of coral bioconstructions and coral-rich deposits of the Cala di Labra Formation deposited in the coastal environment of the Bonifacio Basin (Corsica, France) during the Early Miocene. Detailed mapping on photomosaics allowed accurate documentation of the internal organization of coral deposits as well as lateral and vertical facies relationships. Four types of coral bioconstructions (CB) and one reworked coral deposits (RCD) have been recognized. The CB are represented by sigmoidal cluster reefs, coral carpets and skeletal conglomerates rich in corals. The RCD occurs in lens-shaped bodies intercalated within clinoforms composed of bioclastic floatstones and coarse packstones. The investigated bioconstructions can be contextualised in a coastal environment. In the upper shoreface corals developed in association with the oyster Hyotissa, above bioclastic conglomerates sourced by ephemeral streams and erosion of the granitic coastline. In the lower shoreface corals formed sigmoidal bioconstructions interpreted as cluster reefs, whereas coral carpets developed during a relative sea-level rise related to the middle Burdigalian transgressive phase. The reworked coral deposits can be interpreted as lobe-shaped deposits of coarse-grained bioclastic submarine fans formed at the base of the depositional slope of an infralittoral prograding wedge system.