At the time of his death in January 2002, Pierre Bourdieu was perhaps the most prominent sociologist in the world (see Calhoun and Wacquant 2002). As the author of numerous classic works, he had become a necessary reference point in various “specialty” areas throughout the discipline (including education, culture, “theory,” and the sociology of knowledge); he had also achieved canonical status ...

The year 2006 marked 100 years since the death of Pierre Curie. It is therefore appropriate that we remember his life and his work, which was cut short by his untimely death from an accident on the Pont Neuf, Paris, on April 19, 1906. He had already accomplished much during his life, both before the discovery of radium with Marie Curie, in work co-authored with his brother Jacques on piezoelect...

The following problem is considered: when can the action of a cancellative semigroup S on a set be extended to a simply transitive action of the universal group of S on a larger set.

No doubt in institutions these days it takes more than brandishing the psychoanalytical referent, all be it Lacanian, in order to be heard. The transference required to establish the conditions of the psychoanalytical act requires more than that. It requires, among other things, that the clinician make psychoanalysis desirable, and that he can therefore, attest to its efficiency, its pertinence...

Professor Pierre Loiseau, died suddenly on March 29, 2004 leaving a world of family, friends and colleagues at a loss. Pierre was an outstanding clinical neurologist and renowned epileptologist. He was also an unrivalled teacher and an innovative clinical investigator in the field of the treatment of the epilepsies as well as a pioneer in the epidemiology of the epilepsies. Pierre was born on O...

UNLABELLED The Pierre Robin sequence is characterized by micrognathia, glossoptosis and upper airway obstruction. Symptom severity varies, and this makes the treatment of these patients a true challenge. AIM to identify the presence of sleep hypopnea-apnea in patients with Pierre-Robin sequence. MATERIALS AND METHODS retrospective study in which we assessed 14 children with Pierre-Robin seq...

a Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, hôpital La Conception, 147, boulevard Baille, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France b Multidisciplinary Center for Prenatal Diagnosis, Children’s Hospital La Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France c Obstetric ultrasound unit, pôle Parents-enfants, hôpital Saint-Joseph—Marseille, 26, boulevard de Louvain, 13285 Marseille cedex 08, Fran...

1Epigenetic and Telomeric Regulations, Lyon Sud Medicine Faculty, Lyon-1 University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5239, Pierre Bénite, France; 2Laboratory of Biology and Pathology of Genomes, University of Nice, Medicine Faculty, UMR 6267 CNRS U998 Inserm, Nice, France; 3Inserm, U823, Institut Albert Bonniot, Grenoble, France; 4Université Jo...