dear Noel Coward. Then I played in Macbeth. I was the apparition and Duncan's child. I had, of course, to be killed, and it was funny when as the apparition wearing a silken veil, and with my throat gashed, the veil caught fire at the cauldron and had to be quenched by the witches. Ha, Ha! Those were the times." I declined a cigarette, pointing out with some regret that I had given them up. "Ye...

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Chronic illness is a term applied to a broad range of diseases that vary greatly both in their essential characteristics and the ways in which they affect the family system and its adaptive functioning. To understand the most critical ways a chronic disease affects not only the family system as a whole but also the individual family members, one must consider the key characteristics of both the...

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

Is proof activity in danger with the use of dynamic geometry systems (DGS)? The papers of this special issue report about various teaching sequences based on the use of such DGS and analyse the possible roles of DGS in both the teaching and learning of proof. This paper is a reaction to these four papers. Starting from them, it attempts to develop a global discussion about the roles of DGS, by ...

Grégoire Robert *, Grégoire Gabbay , Raphaël Bram, Hervé Wallerand , Colette Deminière , François Cornelis , Jean-Christophe Bernhard , Alain Ravaud , Philippe Ballanger a,e Bordeaux University Hospital, Department of Urology, Bordeaux, France Bordeaux University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Bordeaux, France Bordeaux University Hospital, Department of Radiology, Bordeaux, France Bordeaux ...