Lectures for the XXIst Century.

Intro -- LECTURES FOR THE XXIst CENTURY -- CONTENTS -- LECTURES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY "INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF BELGIUM" -- LINGUISTIC JUSTICE FOR EUROPE, BELGIUM AND THE WORLD -- INTRODUCTION: THREE INTERPRETATIONS -- DEMYSTIFICATIONIf linguistic injustice -- SYMBOLIC EQUALITY -- LINGUISTIC TERRITORIALITY -- LAPONCE'S LAW AND THE SURVIVAL ARGUMENT -- LANGUAGE SURVIVAL WITHOUT TERRITORY? -- CONCLUSION: THE WAY FORWARD -- APPENDIX: LANGUAGE TRENDS IN EUROPE AND BELGIUM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE HISTORIC AND THE CURRENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN BELGIUM FOR KING AND LASAGNE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BELGIAN CHALLENGE -- A COAT OF TWO DIFFERENT FABRICS WITH ONE BUTTON -- A HISTORY OF CHANGING CONCEPTS -- THE CURRENT SITUATION IN BELGIUM -- CULTURE AND PUBLIC DEBATE -- NO BELGIAN PARTIES -- THE PRESENT DAY FEDERAL MODEL -- A UNIQUE SYSTEM -- THE FEDERAL ENTITIES -- NO HIERARCHY -- FEDERAL OR CONFEDERAL? -- THE LASAGNE MODEL -- THE LACK OF A COMMON STORY -- ONE DEBATE, ONE COUNTRY? -- THE COMMON STORY -- NOT JUST INCIDENTS … -- THE FUTURE OF BELGIUM -- AND THE EUROPEAN UNION? -- FAIR PLAY: ITS ORIGINS AND MEANINGS IN SPORT AND SOCIETY -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT'S IN A WORD? -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SPORT -- FROM BETTING TO FAIRNESS: MODERN SPORT AS A METAPHOR FOR EQUALITY -- "TO BE A GOOD ANIMAL": MODERN SPORT AS A METAPHOR FOR COMPETITION -- THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND MODERN SPORT -- THE GHOST OF TOM BROWN -- FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO THE WORKING CLASSES: AMATEURS VERSUS PROFESSIONALS -- THE WANING OF THE AMATEUR SPORT ETHOS: FROM ETON TO PROSHOW -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MORE FOOD, LESS WATER -- WATER IN THE WORLD: CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY -- WATER AVAILABILITY AND WATER DEMAND -- WATER FOOTPRINTS -- CHALLENGES FOR IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE -- CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY -- HOW EFFICIENT ARE CROPS IN THEIR WATER USAGE?.

SEVERAL WAYS TO IMPROVE CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY -- HOW TO IMPROVE IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT -- DESIGNING IRRIGATION PLANS TO MATCH WATER SUPPLY WITH DEMAND -- IRRIGATION CHARTS FOR FARMERS -- DEFICIT IRRIGATION: DELIBERATELY PROVOKING WATER STRESS -- SIMULATION OF CROP DEVELOPMENT AND YIELD -- SIMULATION AS A TOOL FOR OBTAINING PROMISING FIELD MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES -- AQUACROP: A CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY MODEL FROM FAO -- SOIL WATER BALANCE -- BIOMASS PRODUCTION -- HARVEST INDEX AND YIELD -- WHAT RESULTS CAN BE EXPECTED? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4.5 BILLION YEARS OF GLOBAL CHANGE -- AN UNCHANGING WORLD? -- SYSTEM EARTH: WHY THE WORLD IS IN A PERMANENT STATE OF CHANGE -- FROM THE 'BUILDING OF MOUNTAINS' TO A 'LIVING PLANET' -- SYSTEM EARTH -- DRIVING THE SYSTEM -- THE NATURAL THERMOSTAT -- GLOBAL CHANGE -- THE 'GOLDILOCKS PHENOMENON' - "… NOT TOO HOT, NOT TOO COLD …" -- RARE EARTH HYPOTHESIS -- 'CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD' -- 'BURSTING THE LIMITS OF TIME' -- THE BIRTH OF GEOLOGY -- MEASURING TIME -- 'DEEP TIME' -- MODI OPERANDI OF TIME -- BACK TO THE FUTURE -- SYSTEM EARTH ON THE HUMAN TIME SCALE -- THE HUMAN TIME SCALE -- THE HOLOCENE: A CLIMATIC ODDITY? -- THE 'HOCKEY STICK SYNDROME' -- THE 21ST CENTURY: A CENTURY OF NATURAL DISASTERS -- LIVING ON BORROWED TIME -- ARE WE PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN? -- ADAPT OR PERISH … -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE PRIMACY OF THE POLITICAL -- SOME BASIC NOTIONS -- EXISTENTIALISM VS STRUCTURALISM -- THE 'SYMBOLIC ORDER' -- THE ARBITRARY, YET OBJECTIVE CHARACTER OF SYMBOLS -- THE 'COGNITIVE HIATUS': LIVING WITH TRANSCENDENCE -- SYMBOLIC IDENTIFICATIONS -- THE NOTION OF 'HABITUS' -- THE ROLE OF 'THE OTHERS' -- WESTERN LIBERAL IDENTITY -- LIBERALISM -- LIBERALISM VS. COMMUNITARIANISM -- TWO LIBERALISTIC CHALLENGES -- THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE -- INSTITUTIONALISING THE DIFFERENCE: CLAUDE LEFORT.

UNIVERSALISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM -- MULTI-LAYERED IDENTITY -- LIBERALISM AND THE 'CRISIS OF SYMBOLISATION' -- A CULTURE OF OPENNESS? -- A CLASH OF CULTURES? -- TOTALITARIAN PLURALISM -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHINA AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHINA'S ECONOMIC MIRACLE -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH -- IMAGES OF CHINA'S URBANISATION -- THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS -- THE GLOBAL DIMENSION OF CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS -- THE IMPACT OF CHINA'S URBANISATION ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT -- CHINA'S DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS ARE GLOBAL! -- GLOBAL DEMANDS ON CHINA -- LESSONS TO BE LEARNED -- CHINA AS A GLOBAL MIRROR -- RETURNING TO HARBIN: A LOOK INTO CHINA'S FUTURE? -- THE STATUS OF LIBERTY, FROM ROMAN CIVIL LAW TO HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE MILITARY STATUS OF LIBERTY -- THE POLITICAL STATUS OF LIBERTY -- THINKING ABOUT LIBERTY -- FROM LIBERTY TO FREEDOM -- LIBERTY AT MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES -- THE 16TH CENTURY ON THE CONTINENT -- THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF THE 17TH CENTURY -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FROM BIOINFORMATICSTO SYSTEMS BIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS BIOINFORMATICS? -- BREAKTHROUGHS IN BIOLOGY -- 1. DNA and genomes -- 2. Genes, amino acids and proteins, and so-called 'junk-DNA' -- TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS: MICROARRAYS AND BIODATA -- BREAKTHROUGHS IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS -- APPLICATIONS -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS IN ONCOLOGY -- 1. Feature selection -- 2. Selection of individual genes -- 3. Selection of combinations of genes -- 4. Predictions -- 5. Class discovery -- UNRAVELLING DNA FUNCTIONALITY -- 1. Context -- 2. Clustering gene expression profiles -- 3. Representing binding sites -- 4. An example -- THE NEAR FUTURE: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ALZHEIMER S DISEASE: FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH PAVES THE WAY FOR THERAPEUTICS -- INTRODUCTION: BIOTECHNOLOGY'S AMBITIOUS GOALS.

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: A TWO-LEVEL DEFINITION -- A CLINICAL DEFINITION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- A NEUROPATHOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- CREEPING FORWARD DURING THE PRE-BIOTECH ERA -- LEAPING FORWARD DURING THE BIOTECH ERA: PART 1, MOLECULAR GENETICS -- MODE OF GENETIC TRANSMISSION: SPORADIC VS. FAMILIAL FORMS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- IDENTIFICATION OF THE GENES CAUSING FAMILIAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- LEAPING FORWARD DURING THE BIOTECH ERA: PART 2, MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY -- THE ROLE OF APP IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- THE ROLE OF THE PRESENILINS -- THE AMYLOID CASCADE HYPOTHESIS -- NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- SECRETASE-INHIBITORS -- ACTIVE AND PASSIVE β-AMYLOID PEPTIDE VACCINATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ART AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE LOW COUNTRIES -- CULTURAL IDENTITY -- CULTURAL IDENTITY IN ART -- THE ARTISTIC SPECIFICITY OF THE CULTURE OF THE LOW COUNTRIES -- THE BYZANTINE HERITAGE -- THE DIFFERENCES -- ANALYTIC ART VERSUS SYNTHETIC ART -- REALISTIC ART VERSUS IDEALISED ART -- STATIC ART VERSUS NARRATIVE ART -- CONTACTS BETWEEN CULTURES AND MUTUAL INFLUENCES -- CULTURAL IDENTITY AS THE RESULT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROCESS -- FLEMISH ART VERSUS DUTCH ART -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Contributors.

What preoccupies scientists today? What is the impact of their ideas and discoveries on ourselves and on our society? This question is the starting point of the ‘Lectures for the twenty-first century'. Parallel to the established Dutch series, this year for the first time an English edition was organized. This first English edition offers an international audience a glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, the work shops or the studies and shows how linguistic justice, the history of Belgium, Fair Play, food supplies, global change, cultural identity, China and the global environmental government, civil law, bioinformatics, molecular medicine, art and cultural identity of the Low Countries and vortices in nature impact our daily lives.

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