1975 résultats pour "thesis"

• New York - geography.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• New York - USA History.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• Mississippi - geography.

  The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...

• Mississippi - USA History.

  The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...

• Montana - geography.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Montana - USA History.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Social Psychology.

  During the 1960s, American psychologist Stanley Milgram studied a form of social influence stronger than conformity: obedience to authority. In a famous series ofexperiments that attracted controversy about human research ethics, Milgram put each of 1,000 subjects into a situation in which they were ordered by anexperimenter to administer painful electric shocks to a confederate (who did not actually receive any shocks). The subjects in these studies were led to believe that theywere acting as '...

• Rousseau: De l'origine de nos erreurs ?

  susceptibles de commettre des erreurs. Cependant, l'auteur avoue lui même, de manière implicite, que cetteconduite est impossible, notamment par l'emploi du conditionnel dans la dernière phrase du texte. Dans ce texte, le problème central posé est donc la recherche de la vérité, et plus particulièrement qu'est-ce quiest à l'origine de nos erreurs. On cherche à résoudre e problème dans le but d'atteindre le bonheur. On doit donctrouver une conduite à adopter. ROUSSEAU n'a été ni le premier,...

• Animal Courtship and Mating - biology.

  activity. These animals frequently copulate in water, and the penis helps transfer sperm before it is carried away by the currents Ostriches and rheas also contain apenis within the cloaca. Virtually all snakes and lizards display yet another variation of internal fertilization. Located in the tail are two penises, called hemepenes, which are covered by spinesand knobs that help lock it into place during mating. The male uses one hemepene at a time for copulation. Male salamanders secrete large...

• Seal (mammal) - biology.

  remote lakes by swimming thousands of kilometers up rivers from the Arctic Ocean. A few other species such as ringed seals and harbor seals have been found livingyear-round in lakes and rivers near the coasts of Russia, Canada, and Alaska. IV DIET OF SEALS Most seals eat fish and sometimes squid. The leopard seal, an Antarctic species, may have the most diverse diet of all, commonly hunting penguins and other seabirds,smaller seals, as well as fish, squid, krill (small shrimplike crustaceans),...

• Health Care System in Canada.

  With a few exceptions, provincial health plans cover all medically necessary services, so that patients need not pay directly for anything except so-called incidental costs.These incidental costs include items such as a patient’s private hospital room, unless it is specified by a physician, and transportation to the hospital. Provincial healthplans also do not cover some nonessential procedures, such as laser surgery for the eye, cosmetic surgery, procedures to reverse sterilization, and, in mos...

• Diabetes Mellitus.

  Once diabetes is diagnosed, treatment consists of controlling the amount of glucose in the blood and preventing complications. Depending on the type of diabetes, thiscan be accomplished through regular physical exercise, a carefully controlled diet, and medication. Individuals with Type 1 diabetes must receive insulin, often two to four times a day, to provide the body with the hormone it does not produce. Insulin cannot be takenorally, because it is destroyed in the digestive system. Consequent...

• Influenza.

  days and disappear in seven to ten days. However, coughing and fatigue may persist for two or more weeks. Death from influenza itself is rare. But influenza can aggravate underlying medical conditions, such as heart or lung disease. Invading influenza viruses produceinflammation in the lining of the respiratory tract, damage that increases the risk that secondary infections will develop. Common complications include bronchitis,sinusitis, and bacterial pneumonia, occurring most frequently in olde...

• le mythe de phedre

  de changer de voiles. Par ailleurs, Aphrodite serait apparue à Ariane pour la réconforter en lui annonçant la nouvelle de ses noces proches et la coiffer d'une couronne d'or que par la suite les dieux changeront en constellation pour plaire à Dionysos. Hésiode ( Théogonie ) ajoute qu'Ariane fut elle-même transportée au ciel, Zeus l'ayant rendue immortelle afin de complaire à Dionysos . ("Dionysos aux cheveux d'or, de la blonde Ariadne, de la fille de Minos, fit son épouse florissan...

• Galaxy - astronomy.

  Astronomers have obtained images of young galaxies using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope, which resides in an orbit high above Earth’satmosphere and thus avoids atmospheric interference. Photos from the HST show galaxies that are as far as 13 billion light-years away from Earth, which means theyformed soon after the universe formed about 13.7 billion years ago. The galaxies appear to be spherical in shape, and may be early precursors of elliptical and spiralgalaxies....

• Indian Music I INTRODUCTION Classical Dance of South India The southern Indian kathakali is a dance drama that dates from the 17th century.

  Sangita Ratnakara, was written in the 13th century. However, subsequent writers tended to focus on the emotional connotations of individual ragas, associating them with moods, performance times, colors, and deities, and grouping them in terms of families. The modern theoretical system began in the 16th century, when ragasbegan to be classified according to scale—72 in the Karnāṭak system and 10 principal ones in the Hindustani. The 72 mela, as the Karn āṭak scales are called, are derived thro...

• Valley.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Valley - Geography.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Introduction Ce texte de Bergson, extrait du chapitre IV de L’Evolution créatrice, a pour objet d’exposer la racine d’une illusion trop répandue en ce qui concerne notre rapport au réel.

  Mais qu’est -ce que cela signifie, que la réalité soit " comme " un perpétuel devenir ? Il nous faut, pour y répondre, regarder les lignes 2 et 3, qui sont une explicitation de la thèse de Bergson. En quelque sorte, nous av ons là une description de la réalité. La réalité est comme un perpétuel devenir, c’est -à-dire, qu’ " elle se fait ou elle se défait, mais elle n’est jamais quelque chose de fait ". Le " ou " nous semble ici connoter l’alternative : ou bien la réalité se fait...

• Leaf - biology.

  The mesophyll, sandwiched between the upper and lower epidermis, consists of many thin-walled cells that are usually arranged in two layers. The palisade layer is next to the upper epidermis. It consists of cylindrical cells that are packed closely together. Next to the palisade layer and making up most of the thickness of the leaf bladeis the spongy layer. The spongy layer consists of roundish cells that are packed loosely together and have numerous air spaces between them. In most plants t...

• Hardware (computer).

  Magnetic tape drives use magnetic tape similar to the tape used in VCR cassettes. Tape drives have a very slow read/write time, but have a very high capacity; in fact,their capacity is second only to hard disk drives. Tape drives are mainly used to back up data. Compact disc drives store information on pits burned into the surface of a disc of reflective material ( see CD-ROM). CD-ROMs can store up to 737 megabytes (MB) of data. A Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW)...

• Excerpt from Martin Chuzzlewit - anthology.

  But there is one other piece of evidence, bearing immediate reference to their close connextion with this memorable event in English History, which must carryconviction, even to a mind (if such a mind there be) remaining unconvinced by these presumptive proofs. There was, within a few years, in the possession of a highly respectable and in every way credible and unimpeachable member of the Chuzzlewit Family (for hisbitterest enemy never dared to hint at his being otherwise than a wealthy man...

• Bill of Rights.

  accused has the right to “confront”—that is, to cross-examine witnesses who testify against him or her at trial. Those accused also have a right to subpoena (compel)supporting witnesses to testify in court and to have a lawyer assist in their legal defense. G Seventh Amendment In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall beotherwise re-examined in any Court of the United Stat...

• Bill of Rights - U.

  accused has the right to “confront”—that is, to cross-examine witnesses who testify against him or her at trial. Those accused also have a right to subpoena (compel)supporting witnesses to testify in court and to have a lawyer assist in their legal defense. G Seventh Amendment In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall beotherwise re-examined in any Court of the United Stat...

• Explication d’un texte de Sartre, extrait de l’Etre et le Néant, sur la liberté

  nous imposent certaines actions comme manger, boire, dormir. D'autre part, le milieu dans lequel nous vivons comporte des règles, des normes à respecter, et le fait que nous soyons inclus dans ce milieu nous pousse à agir en conséquence. D'une certaine façon il détermine ce que l'on va devenir car on intègre ses aspects comme normaux et par habitude nous les suivons. La langue, la culture et l'Histoire de notre collectivité ne peuvent être occultées car elles ont bâties ce que nous somme...

• Belgium - country.

  European Union (EU) directives aimed at improving Belgium’s environmental conditions concern water treatment and water quality, both significant issues in such anindustrial center. Before these directives were issued, the Meuse River, a major source of drinking water, had become polluted from steel production wastes. Otherrivers were polluted with animal wastes and fertilizers. However, Belgium failed to meet EU targets set for the early 2000s for protecting its rivers from farm pollutionand for...

• Inca Empire - history.

  rediscovered the site in 1911.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Inca society was strictly organized, from the emperor and royal family down to the peasants. The emperor was thought to be descended from the sun god, Inti, and hetherefore ruled with divine authority. All power rested in his hands. Only the influence of custom and the fear of revolt checked the emperor’s power. The emperor had oneofficial wife, but he had many royal concubines and his children by these wives often numbe...

• Calliclès Platon le Gorgias

  Calliclès est un personnage fictif que Platon a mis en scène pour exposer ses idées et ses opinions. Il semble qu’à « l’état de nature » on puisse constater l’existence, et donc la possibilité d’un droit « naturel » appelé droit du plus fort. Cependant, cela semble injuste aux yeux de la loi. Mais qui pose les lois ? Pourquoi ? Et dans quels intérêts ? Tout d’abord, « les faibles », considérés comme « la masse des gens » représentent les classes sociales les plus fa...

• Dissertation sur Phèdre : plan détaillé à compléter 1 Le conflit avec les hommes.

  désespéré et qu'elle est atteinte d'un tels amour qu'elle voit Hippolyte comme un dieu. Ainsi toute la tragédie démarre à cause de la vengeance de Vénus. Vénus n'est pas la seul à se mêler à cette tragédie, Neptune intervient un court instant dans la pièce pour tuer Hippolyte à la suite des prières de Thésée. Mais après l'annonce de la mort d'Hippolyte au vers 1567 : « A ce mot ce héros expiré N'a laissé dans mes bras qu'un corps défiguré. » En apprenant la triste nouvelle Thésée se pla...

• Duck - biology.

  from water. When ducks feed they push their tongue against the top of their mouth to squeeze water through the lamellae, leaving the food behind. Mergansers arefish-eating ducks with slender bills that are notched on the edges like the blade of a saw. These saw-toothed beaks help the ducks catch and hold their slippery prey. VI COURTSHIP AND REPRODUCTION Ducks form pairs long enough to mate, but most species find new mates each year. In a few species, including buffleheads and whistling ducks,...

• Chemical Analysis - chemistry.

  inorganic reactions than by organic functional group chemistry. VII SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES Spectroscopy, or the study of the interactions of electromagnetic radiation with matter, is the largest and most nearly accurate class of instrumental methods used inchemical analysis and indeed in all of chemistry ( see Spectroscopy; Spectrum). The electromagnetic radiation (emr) spectrum is divided into the following wavelength regions: X ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radiowave....

• Pollination - biology.

  rapidly as in cross-pollination, because one plant with a beneficial gene can transmit it only to its own offspring and not to other plants. Self-pollination evolved laterthan cross-pollination, and may have developed as a survival mechanism in harsh environments where pollinators were scarce. IV POLLEN TRANSFER Unlike animals, plants are literally rooted to the spot, and so cannot move to combine sex cells from different plants; for this reason, species have evolved effectivestrategies for ac...

• African Theater I INTRODUCTION African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.

  The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...

• African Theater I INTRODUCTION African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.

  The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...

• Kant, explication de texte Les lumières

  crois raisonner càd, croire parce qu'une majorité crois. Et même lorsqu'il fuis volontairement le raisonnement, lorsque par paresse ou par lâcheté il va se maintenir dans cette opinion. L'auteur énonce maintenant le problème du texte en réfutant la thèse adverse : En effet il sous entend la question suivante : Si les hommes adhèrent à une l'opinion parce qu'une majorité d'autres hommes y adhèrent, Alors eux même sont incapable de prouver qu'il s'agit d'une opinion droite, et dans ce cas com...

• Greek Art and Architecture - history.

  powerful independent city-states. From 334 to 323 BC, Alexander the Great extended his father's empire into Asia Minor (now Turkey), Syria, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, and as far as India. D The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC) Although Alexander the Great extended Greek civilization far beyond the Greek mainland and the boundaries of the Aegean Sea, his empire did not survive his death in 323.After Alexander died, his generals and successors divided the empire into a number of kingdoms: Ptolem...

• Coronary Heart Disease.

  when a patient is at rest may indicate that the blood supply of the heart is not normal, and the ECG can often detect damage from a previous heart attack. In anexercise stress test, an ECG is recorded while a patient is performing physical activity such as walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bicycle. As the intensity ofexercise increases, the doctor looks for specific changes in the ECG that indicate the heart is not getting enough oxygen. In cardiac catheterization, a long, thin, flex...

• Venus (planet) - astronomy.

  level winds circle the planet at 360 km/h (225 mph), making a complete rotation in only four days. These winds are said to super-rotate because they travel muchfaster than the rotation of the planet itself. These high-speed winds cover the planet completely, blowing toward the west at virtually every latitude from equator topole. The motions of descending probes, however, have shown that the bulk of Venus’s tremendously dense atmosphere, closer to the planet’s surface, is almoststagnant. From th...

• Roman Mythology.

  Her temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome was a center for organizations of skilled craftspeople. According to tradition, in 509 BC the dynasty of Etruscan kings ended and the Roman Republic was founded. The republic was ruled by two chief magistrates, called consuls, who were elected by the people to one-year terms. During the time of the republic, the Capitoline temple became the most important public shrine of theRoman people and the focus of public worship. Each January, the new consuls offer...

• Relativity - astronomy.

  beta, for example, might be as large as 0.5, and the mass of the electron doubled. The mass of a rapidly moving electron could be easily determined by measuring thecurvature produced in its path by a magnetic field; the heavier the electron, the greater its inertia and the less the curvature produced by a given strength of field ( see Magnetism). Experimentation dramatically confirmed Einstein's prediction; the electron increased in mass by exactly the amount he predicted. Thus, the kinetic ener...

• From Bush v.

  legal requirements. This case has shown that punch card balloting machines can produce an unfortunate number of ballots which are not punched in a clean, complete way by the voter.After the current counting, it is likely legislative bodies nationwide will examine ways to improve the mechanisms and machinery for voting. B The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses astatewide...

• Français année de seconde

  Phèdre. Cette scène met par ailleurs en relief la double énonciation : les personnages de la scène 3 ne savent rien des aveux d'Hippolyte et les personnages de la scène 1 ne connaîtront pas les aveux de Phèdre. 3) Le rôle des confidents : Ils écoutent les personnages, ils protègent, prennent soin de leur protégés, leur posent des questions pour connaître leurs secrets, leur amour coupable, les confidents poussent à l'aveu leur protégé, les scènes 1et 3 ont la même structure...

• la doctrine chrétienne -PHILOSOPHIE MÉDIÉVALE (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  LA QUEREW DES UNIVERSAUX La querelle des universaux a animé le débat philosophique durant tout le Moyen Âge et a été particulièrement discutée par la scolastique entre le Xl' et le XlV' siècle . La question centrale porte sur la nature des idées générales: s'agit-il de pures conceptions de l'esprit sans réalité objective (thèse nominaliste, puis conceptualiste) ou bien d'essences ayant une existence réelle (thèse réaliste)? Le concept générique d'«...

• LE BRIGAND SINIS PUNI PAR THÉSÉE

• Dinosaurs.

  protected their necks. Ankylosaurus was about 33 feet (10 meters) long. ORNITHOPODS Ornithopods were once the most numerous plant-eating dinosaurs. There were many different kinds.Over time, ornithopods developed broad beaks. These later ornithopods are called duck-billed dinosaurs.Some ornithopods were small and ran fast. Others were huge. Iquanodon, for example, was 25 feet (7.5 meters) long. PACHYCEPHALOSAURS These dinosaurs walked on two feet. They had thick, dome-shaped skulls. Scienti...

• Peut-on ne pas être soi-même ?

  Transition : Ainsi, il semble que l'on soit toujours soi-même. Et cette thèse est soutenue par deux pointsfondamentaux :a) La connaissance de soib) L'affirmation de soi à l'égard des autres SECONDE PARTIE : Difficultés de la thèse soulevée en première partie Sous-partie 1 Argument : OR d'un point de vue philosophique, la connaissance de soi soulève une difficulté majeure - La connaissance suppose toujours deux choses : un SUJET CONNAISSANT et un OBJET CONNU. (repèreSubjectif/Ob...

• Faut-il être libre pour être heureux ?

  I- Première partie Idée générale : Dans cette première partie, nous allons développer la thèse du sens commun, qui relie la spontanément le bonheur à la liberté. Pourquoi cette thèse semble- t-elle s’imposer ? Quelles sont les présupposés philosophiques ? a) Naturellement, les gens assimile nt la liberté comme un droit privilégié , qui rend heureux la personne qui en jouit. En effet, la nature nous a offert un libre arbitre permet tant d’agir, de ressentir et de penser en respec...

• Explication de texte de Leibniz

  Cned –7PH00CTPA0113 2/8 Rappel concernant la présentation des devoirs, notamment pour le baccalauréat. Nous avons mis entre crochets, en tête de certains paragraphes, des titres ou des numéros dans le but de faciliter votre lecture en rendant plus manifestes laconstruction du devoir et l'ordre des idées c’est-à-dire de leur discussion. N'oubliez pas, cependant, que, dans vos propres copies, ycompris le jour du baccalauréat, vous ne devez pas utiliser ce procédé typographique ,qui n'est qu'u...

• Explication du texte de leibniz

  2/8 Rappel concernant la présentation des devoirs, notamment pour le baccalauréat. Nous avons mis entre crochets, en tête de certains paragraphes, des titres ou des numéros dans le but de faciliter votre lecture en rendant plus manifestes laconstruction du devoir et l'ordre des idées c’est-à-dire de leur discussion. N'oubliez pas, cependant, que, dans vos propres copies, ycompris le jour du baccalauréat, vous ne devez pas utiliser ce procédé typographique ,qui n'est qu'une aide pédagogique...

• Encyclopédie littéraire: Le roman à thèse