Cyril Lemieux, La Sociologie pragmatique

Madeleine Lemieux and Georges Bordage

Two approaches to the study of diagnostic thinking are compared, one mainly propositional, namely that of Pate1 and Groen (1986), the other mainly semantic, that of Lemieux and Bordage (1986). Pate1 and Groen analyzed the linear dimension of cardiologists’ discourses while solving a case of acute bacterial endocarditis, that is, the before and after propositional rules. A secondary analysis of ...

Cyril Norman Hugh Long.

During his twenty-two years at Yale, Hugh Long has provided leadership as chairman of three departments (physiological chemistry, phar-macology and physiology), as dean, and as chairman of the division of biological sciences of the University, but even this unparalleled record of academic versatility and productivity reflects only a small part of his achievement. four years he came to Yale as P...

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1897-1967.

Composants objets fiables : une approche pragmatique

Software reliability and correctness remain a major problem in industry. The goal of our study is to propose a software component design framework which promote the highest formal level compatible with economic, organizational and programmer skills constraints. The support of our approach is a model of self-documented and self-testable classes, that uses design-by-contract mechanisms, object-or...

Sir Cyril Burt in Perspective

Numerical peculiarities in Sir Cyril Burt's reports of kinship correlations are most reasonably attributable to carelessness rather than fraud. Showing statistically significant deviations from randomness in the final digits of correlations, Ns, and IQs, or other nonrandomness suggesting "digital preferences," is unconvincing as purported evidence that Burt's figures were faked. -No analysis is...