Ce mémoire de maitrise porte sur la représentation de l’ailleurs véhiculée aux lecteurs d’images, au Québec, par les gravures du journal illustré L’Opinion publique. Effectivement, si l’Histoire commence avec les premières traces écrites, elle pose le problème de l’étude historique…

La réadaptation pulmonaire est une intervention dont l’efficacité est largement reconnue. Cette efficacité a été établie grâce à l’utilisation d’instruments de mesure d’impact global. Les patients bénéficiant des programmes de réadaptation pulmonaire possèdent des caractéristiques variées et souffrent généralement de…

Afin de mieux comprendre l'évolution des étoiles jeunes, nous avons utilisé un code Monte Carlo simulant leur environnement afin d'étudier une nouvelle distribution chez les étoiles Herbig Ae/Be et pour reproduire des cartes d'intensité et de polarisation linéaire obtenues au…

It was hypothesized that children with physical disabilities would show a deficit in procedural and declarative knowledge of ball catching compared to age-matched non-disabled children. The first group of children consisted of sixteen children with physical disabilities, three girls and…

The high rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies among the Cree adolescents indicate that this population frequently engages in unprotected sexual activities. AIDS is a critical health problem worldwide and AIDS contamination within a Cree community could be…

The main objective of the present work is to investigate the nature of the cognitive processes responsible for the problem-solving operations of novices, intermediates, and experts in a semantically rich and complex domain, i.e. electronics trouble shooting, in relation to…

The thesis examines aspects of the construction of methylmercury as an authoritative object of knowledge for Chisasibi, a Cree community on the James Bay coast in northern Quebec. I describe the evolution of a particular set of spheres of exchange…

The present paper constitutes an attempt to establish the parameters between
specialized trends in approach, methods or aims, in order to place the analysis of
meaning within the boundries of objetivism and humanism, and to organize in
adequate epistemological channels…

This thesis tries to bring together al-Ghazali's thoughts about different aspects of education, scattered in numbers of works of different kinds and aims at presenting his educational theory in its complete picture. His life, his intellectual career, his mental crises,…

Expert and novice soccer players (N=140) from five different competition levels (inexperienced, provincial, regional, national and international levels) were examined for differences in procedural knowledge. A video-based test was developed recording four matches of the under-16 Spanish football final play-off.…