The word ‘sovereignty’ provides a forceful example of the social power of language as an
organic instrument playing a leading role in the continuous and continuing process of creating
and transforming human reality. The paper examines a pivotal episode in…

Les contraintes de l’enseignement de la langue et de la traduction médicales résultent non
seulement de la complexité de la matière, mais aussi de la conjugaison de deux facteurs
antagonistes : d’une part, les acquis préalables des étudiants sont hétérogènes;…

Ce rapport de recherche porte sur une étude s’intéressant au transfert des connaissances tacites chez les gestionnaires, c’est-à-dire le partage de ces connaissances et leur utilisation informelle, durant une situation de coordination dans un service municipal.
La thèse est…

This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile setting with fixed probabilities. In addition, we extend…

Les cours de traduction spécialisée ne peuvent prendre en charge l’enseignement de
l’ensemble des notions composant un domaine. Nous proposons d’extraire des domaines
de spécialité des noyaux conceptuels constitués, par exemple, des principes sur lesquels
se fonde une discipline ou…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

We consider entry-level medical markets for physicians in the United Kingdom. These markets experienced failures which led to the adoption of centralized market mechanisms in the 1960's. However, different regions introduced different centralized mechanisms. We advise physicians who do not…

BACKGROUND:Global health research is essential for development. A major issue is the inequitable distribution of research efforts and funds directed towards populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. This imbalance is fostering major attempts at redirecting research to the health…

BACKGROUND:Phylogenetic analyses based on datasets rich in both genes and species (phylogenomics) are becoming a standard approach to resolve evolutionary questions. However, several difficulties are associated with the assembly of large datasets, such as multiple copies of a gene per…

BACKGROUND: Many people who have suffered a stroke require rehabilitation to help them resume their previous activities and roles in their own environment, but only some of them receive inpatient or even outpatient rehabilitation services. Partial and unmet rehabilitation needs…