QUEBEC — HENRI ROY

Roy 27_7

Multiple genetic alterations are common in cancers including those of the breast. The mechanisms leading to these alterations such as point mutations, gene amplifications, deletions and replication error are often associated with frequent and consistent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) or microsatellite instability (MSI). Several cytological and molecular studies have shown high frequency loss of g...

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...

Roy D'Andrade

Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform an action in response to a particular future event (e.g., give your colleague a message when you see her). In the typical laboratory paradigm to investigate event-based prospective memory, participants perform a particular action (e.g., press the Z key) when a target word appears on a computer screen during an ongoing task (e.g., a ...

Henri De Mondeville *

Henri ’ s Crystal Ball

O n April 10, 1908, at the general session of the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rome, Gaston Darboux presented a talk by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) entitled The Future of Mathematics (Poincaré was unfortunately unable to deliver the talk himself). The original can be found on the web at: http://gallica. bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k17083c/f934n10. capture. It is now a full c...