Les étudiants entrant à l’université peinent parfois maîtriser la langue française, ce qui constitue un frein réussite de certains. Des dispositifs d’aide l’amélioration des compétences écrites sont mis en place dans les universités afin d’y remédier. À Le Mans Université, première année licence participent, manière obligatoire, ces enseignements. Nous nous intéressons ici aux représentations e...

MOTS CLÉS Addiction ; Propriétés psychométriques ; Analyse factorielle confirmatoire ; Échelle de dépendance à l’activité physique Résumé Sur la base des critères diagnostiques de dépendance aux substances du DSM-IV [American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994.], Hausenblas et Downs [Exer...

JACQUELINE DELBECK ET FLORENCE WEBER, Handicap psychique et vie quotidienne, Paris, Revue française des Affaires sociales, La documentation française, 2009, vol. 63, 352 p.. Un article de la revue Développement Humain, Changement Social / Human Development, Disability, and Change (De l'appropriation du pouvoir l'autodétermination : le parcours mouvement social personnes ayant incapacités) diffu...

demonstration that surgical innovation was slow and often uncertain when chronicled day by day. It is a pity that the author, having surveyed such vast information and having gained such insight into the realities of innovation, should not have attempted some analysis or synthesis of his material. Perhaps another volume is in preparation: let us hope it is a slimmer one. David Hamilton Universi...

The French conception of Information science is often compared to the Anglophone one which is perceived as different and rooted mainly in Shannon's mathematical theory of communication. While there is such thing as a French conception of information science, this conception is not totally divorced from the Anglophone one. Unbeknown to researchers from the two geographical and cultural regions, ...

indecision and resistance to change all hindered plans set out so hopefully in Tenon's fifth memoir, with his vision of 'How splendid hospitals can be'. It is tempting to see parallels in some of the problems faced by Tenon in drawing up his reports and in the politics of the finance, administration and location of hospitals today. The recent Tomlinson Report on hospitals throws the same shadow...

forms one chapter of Building types (1976), lamented the lack of studies in this field. "There are", he wrote, "few 'types' as fruitful as the Hospital, if one wants to see how functional thought, i.e. medical convictions and discoveries, is reflected in plans and elevations; the pavilion type instead of the cruciform plan and the big blocks of today owing to antisepsis." Dr Taylor is one of th...