Dans les campagnes : silence quotidien et silence coutumier

Amani's Silence

Amani was a 24-year-old woman in her second year of nursing school in Jerusalem. She lived with her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and six older brothers, who had emigrated from Syria more than 10 years earlier. They are religious Muslim Arabs who lived in an Arab village not far from our cancer center in Jerusalem. For more than a year, Amani had experienced symptoms of ...

Les Démoniaques dans l'Art, and Les Difformes et les Malades dans l'Art

Interaction et contexte dans les interfaces zoomables

Many interactive computer systems use menus as an important part of their interface. Menus allow users to select operations but not to control their execution. A second interactor, such as a dialog box, has to be used to control the chosen operation and thus complete the interaction. This decomposition of what is a single action from the user’s point of view into two distinct steps slows down i...

Gérer les informations temporelles dans et par les modèles informatiques

Temporal information proves to be prominent in many scientific problems. As regards Geography, temporal concerns are often in long or mean term interaction with spatial aspects and calendar issues. Practical and theoretical approaches necessarily crossreference various viewpoints from several scientific communities. The use of formal models is a means to make languages and practices more accura...

Breaking the silence

" Like all good memoirs it has not been emasculated by considerations of good taste. " That was Peter Medawar's verdict on The Double Helix, Jim Watson's ebullient succès de scandale. Watson's exuberant style, let it be said right away, is not Maurice Wilkins's. He and Francis Crick were outraged by Watson's account — now a modern classic, at number seven in the American Modern Library's roll o...