Victimes, héros ou martyrs ?

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

Heroes & Martyrs of Quality and Safety

WASTE NOT William Edwards Deming, the first child of William Albert Deming and Pluma Irene Edwards, was born on 14 October 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. His father worked mainly in freelance legal work and his mother gave music lessons on their grand Kimball piano. As a child, Deming grew up in meagre conditions. He and his family lived for years in a tarpaper shack. As a boy he worked at a hotel f...

The Greenock medical martyrs of 1864-65.

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...

Discipline ou spécialité: Microélectronique

Full integration of energy conversion devices for compact power supply circuits is still encountering strong technological locks, especially to integrate passive inductive and capacitive components. The increasing working frequency of those devices, which already reaches 1 Megahertz, would enable the size reduction of passive components and then their integration. Nevertheless, losses, which hi...

Rhabdomyosarcome ou pseudotumeur inflammatoire

Il s’agit d’un enfant de 4 ans, sans ATCD pathologique particulier, qui présente depuis 2 mois une tuméfaction inflammatoire, douloureuse, rapidement progressive de l’œil gauche. A l’examen, l’AV était à 2/10 et on retrouve une exophtalmie, axile, inflammatoire, irréductible et non pulsatile de cet œil. Une TDM orbito-cérebrale réalisée chez ce patient montre un processus orbitaire intra et ext...