In 1920, the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead argued: “If we are to look for substance anywhere, I should find it in events which are in some sense the ultimate substance of nature” (Whitehead 1920, ‘The concept of nature’, p19). Whitehead called process of abstraction the process by which cognitive beings infer the existence of objects from regularities of events. The White...

OBJECTIVES To describe gambling practices and trends in Quebec between 2009 and 2012 given that, in Canada, public funding allocation to address the risks associated with gambling practices should be based on valid prevalence data and knowledge of patterns and trends in vulnerable populations. METHODS The study data were taken from the 2009 and 2012 cross-sectional waves of the Enquête sur le...

Some physical parameters, that are positive by definition, appear often as reciprocal pairs, like an electrical resistivity ρ and the electrical conductivity σ = 1/ρ , or a frequency ν and the period T = 1/ν . Theoretical arguments suggest that behind these pairs there are more natural parameters: their logarithms. This paper suggests a terminology that could bring those logarithmic units into ...

Avec l’integration de plus en repandue la technologie classe, les apprenants voient leurs habitudes quant a realisation diverses activites classe modifiees cause l’affordance des technologies. Cette etude s’est interessee specifiquement aux notes realisees dans modes manuscrit et numerique, le but etant d’observer si du mode, autrement dit fonctionnalites offertes etudiants deux modes, un impac...

À l’échelle mondiale, les changements climatiques (CC) font partie des plus grands défis auxquels populations doivent faire face. Les jeunes d’aujourd’hui désirent s’engager dans la cause climatique leur permettant ainsi de participer à construction écocitoyenneté. Au Québec, Carbone Scol’ERE, un programme éducatif cinq ateliers en classe au primaire, repose sur le principe l’éducation relative...