In the historic conference Combinatoire Énumérative [LL] wonderfully organized by Gilbert Labelle and Pierre Leroux there were many stimulating lectures, including a very interesting one by Pierre Leroux himself, who talked about his joint work with Xavier Viennot [LV], on solving differential equations combinatorially! During the problem session of that very same colloque, chaired by Pierre Le...

Formation Doctorale en Sciences Cognitives, Monsieur Pierre Escudier, pour ses conseils.

Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

the purpose of this article is to introduce the thoughts of pierre bourdieu, admittedly one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. his works, produced within the last three decades, go beyond conventional sociological research, making a fruitful theoretical contribution to sociology. his sociology is based on a basic idea: social reality lies neither on individuals nor on groups, but...