All writers produce text content and ideally connect it together according to discourse conventions. We investigate whether a particularly strong discourse convention, the need for causal coherence in narratives, can predict the kind of text writers will produce. Causality has been found to be a significant discourse factor in reading comprehension and hence can be expected to determine also wh...

Marcel Proust was one of the greatest French writers of all times. Since early in his life, Proust was interested in arts and particularly literature. He also demonstrated a great knowledge of medicine, particularly neurology. His father was a doctor, and contributed to neurology through studies on aphasia, stroke, hysteria, and neurasthenia. During his childhood, Proust had the first asthma at...

In this chapter, excerpts from famous or little-known works of French literature are used to illustrate how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physicians tried to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses. Although the causes were unknown to them, they did not hesitate to inflict suffering on their patients, who were often in an appalling condition to begin with. Novelists such as Gustave Flaubert, Alph...

—In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust P because chrysanthemums bloom well into the autumn and come in an array of colors and varieties, these hardy flowers have inspired poets, writers, and artists for millennia. French Impressionist artist Claude Monet celebrated this flower in a series of four still-life paintings in 1897, including Chrysanthemum, 1897, selected for this mo...

Since the 1990s, there has been growing interest in two key types of terminological information: terminological relations (including generic-specific and part-whole, as well as various non-hierarchical relations), and terminological contexts. These come together in knowledge-rich contexts (KRCs), which both illustrate terms’ behaviour in texts and reveal important connections between terms and ...

In her article "Ginsberg's Translations of Apollinaire and Genet in the Development of his Poetics of 'Open Secrecy'" Véronique Lane analyzes the extent to which the journals, letters and poems of Allen Ginsberg are marked by constant reference to literary models that give just as much weight to French as to American writers. Focusing on his long involvement with Guillaume Apollinaire and Jean ...

Scenarios, which constrain the behavior of agents, can be the interface between computer experts (agent system developers) and application designers (scenario writers), as well as the interface between scenario writers and agents. It raises a number of challenging issues to execute multi-agent scenarios: 1) How can scenario writers generate customized scenarios easily? 2) How can scenario write...

Since the 21st century, some French literary writers began to make corresponding adjustments road of 
 literature, starting from narrative style, a series innovation and transformation, at same time, also opened up connecting philosophy history culture.With writing as basis point, they poured their imagination creation into all aspects works, thus opening door new world causing people thin...

How does a team of medical writers working in different countries navigate time zones and cultures to get their work done remotely? In this interview, six one editor at P95, private research organisation focused on epidemiology pharmacovigilance, share insights about the main benefits challenges remote work, how it affects everyday writing tasks, make long-distance colleague relationship work.

BACKGROUND In France, epidemiological data on immigrant population are limited since characterization of immigrants is viewed as a sensitive issue. The Histoire de Vie survey has enabled the description of the association of immigration characteristics and two health indicators. METHODS Health-related functional limitations and overweight status (BMI> or =25 kg/m(2)) were studied among 18 to ...