Annie Ernaux, un engagement d’écriture, éds. Pierre-Louis Fort, Violaine Houdart-Merot

Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865): the cerebral lobes and fissures.

Early anatomists referred to parts of the brain as 'posterior' and 'anterior.' But after comparing many primate brains, Gratiolet noticed a pattern of folds or sulci and convolutions marked by fissures of increasing complexity in the more advanced mammalian brains. The primary fissures he could also identify in the smoother ape brains. He was the first to separate four brain lobes (frontal, par...

Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting.

Louis, Lester and Pierre: Three Protocols for Location Privacy

Location privacy is of utmost concern for location-based services. It is the property that a person’s location is revealed to other entities, such as a service provider or the person’s friends, only if this release is strictly necessary and authorized by the person. We study how to achieve location privacy for a service that alerts people of nearby friends. Here, location privacy guarantees tha...

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Pierre Rayer (1793–1867): un demi-siècle de médecine française

indecision and resistance to change all hindered plans set out so hopefully in Tenon's fifth memoir, with his vision of 'How splendid hospitals can be'. It is tempting to see parallels in some of the problems faced by Tenon in drawing up his reports and in the politics of the finance, administration and location of hospitals today. The recent Tomlinson Report on hospitals throws the same shadow...