112 résultats pour "convertie"

• Samuel de Champlain.

  From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...

• Samuel de Champlain - explorer.

  From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...

• Kidney.

  secretion. An additional function of the kidney is the processing of vitamin D; the kidney converts this vitamin to an active form that stimulates bone development. Several hormones are produced in the kidney. One of these, erythropoietin, influences the production of red blood cells in the bone marrow. When the kidney detectsthat the number of red blood cells in the body is declining, it secretes erythropoietin. This hormone travels in the bloodstream to the bone marrow, stimulating theproducti...

• Pascal, Blaise - philosophie.

  Ses travaux ont porté sur la pesanteur, le vide et la pression, l'hydrostatique ( voir Fluides, mécanique des), la géométrie, l'arithmétique, les probabilités et les mathématiques. Dès son Essay pour les coniques (1640), Pascal utilisa la méthode projective pour déduire les propriétés des coniques du théorème sur l'hexagramme. À la suite de Torricelli, disciple de Galilée, il se livra à l'étude de la question du vide : « la nature a horreur du vide » pensait-on depuis le Moyen Âge. En 16...

• Pensées sur la religion

• MALRAUX André : sa vie et son oeuvre

  dans le logement surplombant l'épicerie familiale de Bondy. Il fréq uente le collège, puis, à dix-sept ans, décide de prendre en main sa propre éducation. Pas­ sionné d'art, élève au musée Guimet et à l'école du Louvre, ce lecteur insatiable apprend le sanskrit. Il gagne sa vie dans le commerce des livres d'occasion, et cette activité l'introduit auprès d'intellectuels chevronnés (Gide, Max Jacob, Reverdy) qui l'encouragent à écrire : la revue...

• Turbine.

  steam turbine has supplanted the reciprocating engine as a prime mover in large electricity-generating plants and is also used as a means of jet propulsion. Steam turbines are used in the generation of nuclear power and in nuclear ship propulsion. They operate with fuel-fired boilers for power generation. In cogenerationapplications requiring both process heat (heat used in an industrial process) and electricity, steam is raised at high pressure in the boiler and extracted from the turbineat th...

• Honey Bee - biology.

  B Reproduction and Development The queen controls the sex of her offspring. When an egg passes from her ovary to her oviduct, the queen determines whether the egg is fertilized with sperm from thespermatheca. A fertilized egg develops into a female honey bee, either worker or queen, and an unfertilized egg becomes a male honey bee, or drone. The queen lays the eggs that will develop into more queens in specially constructed downward-pointing, peanut-shaped cells, in which the egg adheres to the...

• Ecology.

  an input of nutrients exceeding the capability of the ecosystem to process them. Nutrients eroded and leached from agricultural lands, along with sewage and industrialwastes accumulated from urban areas, all drain into streams, rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These pollutants destroy plants and animals that cannot tolerate theirpresence or the changed environmental conditions caused by them; at the same time they favor a few organisms more tolerant to changed conditions. Thus,precipitation filled...

• Ecology - biology.

  an input of nutrients exceeding the capability of the ecosystem to process them. Nutrients eroded and leached from agricultural lands, along with sewage and industrialwastes accumulated from urban areas, all drain into streams, rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These pollutants destroy plants and animals that cannot tolerate theirpresence or the changed environmental conditions caused by them; at the same time they favor a few organisms more tolerant to changed conditions. Thus,precipitation filled...

• Star (astronomy) - astronomy.

  absorbing the missing colors of light. For example, the set of dark lines made by hydrogen includes a dark red line, the set of dark lines made by sodium includes a pairof dark yellow lines, and the set of dark lines made by iron includes lines of nearly every color. Each element in the gaseous outer layer of a star produces its ownparticular pattern of dark spectrum lines, depending on the temperature and pressure of the gas. Astronomers have observed spectrum lines, or spectra, for hundredsof...

• Le mot "feu" dans l'oeuvre de DESCARTES

  pourquoi ils ne font point le même étant mis en poudre ; ni de ce qu'il se fond assez facilement sur le feu quand il est entier, en considérant qu'il y a plusieurs parties d'eau douceenfermées entre les siennes ; car d'autant qu'elle ne se tire que par la violence d'un fort grand feu, ou du sel pur, ou du sel mêlé avec quelque autre corps fortsec et fort fixe, comme de la brique qui ne sert qu'a l'empêcher de se fondre : il est évident que ses parties sont les mêmes qui ont auparavant composé le...