The health related behaviour and attitudes of a random sample of 125 women aged 45-64 who declined to accept an invitation to attend a breast screening clinic are described. The women differed from attenders in their socioeconomic class and in their customary use of measures to promote health. They were basically unsympathetic towards the idea of screening and the invitation had caused them con...

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Ce texte est une introduction aux emphsurfaces de dilatation. On tente d’exposer les aspects géométriques et dynamiques du sujet : espaces modules, feuilletages directionnels la dynamique flot Teichmüller.

This paper explores and analyzes the Gnostic themes that are present throughout Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Invitation to a Beheading. Although other scholars have recognized the Gnostic elements in the novel, previous analyses present a limited understanding of the Gnostic religion, and, therefore, have narrow interpretations of the extent to which Nabokov includes Gnostic ideas. This paper prov...