5914 résultats pour "nonne"

• 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...

• La coopération et la solidarité internationale sont-elles dissociables d'un appui à la bonne gouvernance ?

  En ce qui concerne la gestion publique, le PNUD vise à :Renforcer la transparence et de l'intégrité économique, notamment par l'harmonisation de la législation nationale avec les Conventions internationales de lutte contrela corruption,Renforcer la responsabilité des fonctionnaires grâce au renforcement des capacités des organes de contrôle législatif et judiciaire en vue de l'exercice plein et effectifde leur pouvoir. Cette initiative renforce également l'Etat de droit.Instaurer un pluralisme i...

• Native Americans of North America.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Faut-il être libre pour être heureux ?

• 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...

• Astronaut - astronomy.

  Every operation during a flight is important and interesting, but many might be boring to an observer. Much of an astronaut’s job is entering computer instructions,preparing samples, making measurements, recording data, fixing what breaks, and adjusting the checklist when something unexpected happens. Sometimes astronautsretrieve or repair satellites, rendezvous or dock with other spacecraft, and do important emergency repairs. The adaptability of the human crew is crucial to the successof missi...

• Toronto - geography.

  now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...

• Toronto - Geography.

  now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...

• Pour penser librement devons nous rejeter ce que nous apprennent les autres ?

  « Par méthode, j'entends des règles certaines et faciles, grâce auxquelles tousceux qui les observent exactement ne supposeront jamais vrai ce qui est faux, etparviendront sans se fatiguer en efforts inutiles, mais en accroissantprogressivement leur science, à la connaissance vraie de tout ce qu'ils peuventatteindre. » « Règles pour la direction de l'esprit » (IV). La méthode garantit donc : q La certitude (l'élimination de l'erreur) ; q La facilité et l'économie d'efforts ; q...

• Chine

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DONT, pronom relatif.

  conquête et de l'usurpation, 1813, page 157. · [Dont après ponctuation forte] : Ø 3.... ce royaume, dont les productions, si elles étaient à leur maximum, alimenteraient la moitié de l'Europe; dont les laines suffiraient aux manufactures de France et d'Angleterre; dont les bestiaux, employés en salaison, produiraient un revenu immense; ce royaume, dis-je, ne fait aucun commerce. Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde (MILET DE MUREAU) tome 2, 1797, page 61. · [Le pronom relatif peut introduire...

• Persian Gulf War.

  to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...

• Persian Gulf War - History.

  to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...

• Persian Gulf War - U.

  to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...

• Scramble for Africa.

  additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...

• histoire du droit

• Tanzania - country.

  The population of Tanzania (2008 estimate) is 40,213,162, giving the country an overall population density of 45 persons per sq km (118 per sq mi). Yet the populationdistribution is irregular, with high densities found near fertile soils around Kilimanjaro and the shores of Lake Malawi, and comparatively low density throughout much ofthe interior of the country. In the late 1960s and 1970s the Tanzanian government resettled most of the rural population in collective farming villages as part of i...

• il etait une fois un vieux couple heureux

  Qu’y a-t-il de plus fascinant et de plus inquiétant que des ruines récentes qui furent des demeures qu’on avait connues au temps où la vallée vivait au rythme des saisons du labeur des hommes qui ne négligeaient pas la moindre parcelle de terre pour assurer leur subsistance? Ces maisons de pierre sèche, bâties sur le flanc du roc à quelques mètres seulement au-dessus de la vallée, ne sont plus qu’un triste amas de décombres, domaine incontesté des reptiles, des arachnides,...

• Trinidad and Tobago - country.

  III PEOPLE The history of Trinidad and Tobago is reflected in the makeup of its population, among the most ethnically diverse in the Caribbean. Blacks of African ancestry andAsians of Indian ancestry each make up about 40 percent of the population. The remainder is mainly of mixed ancestry, although there are also small groups of peopleof Chinese, European, South American, and Middle Eastern descent. The ethnic diversity of Trinidad and Tobago owes its origins to slavery and its abolition. Afr...

• les alternatives à la crise en grèce

• !... Et puis d'abord qu'elle insistait, t'es pas encore assez

  comprendre monpoint devue etmoins queçalui plaisait monpoint devue. Ensomme onsecomprenait plusdutout. Elle endevenait commeenragée àl’idée quejepouvais penservraiment ceque jedisais, quec’était rienqueduvéritable, du simple etdu sincère Elle croyait enplus quec’était toiqui me poussais à foutre lecamp... Voyantalorsqu’elle meretiendrait pasenme faisant hontedemes sentiments elleaessayé deme retenir d’uneautremanière. — Va pas croire Léon,qu’elle m’aditalors, quejetiens àtoi, àcause desaffaires...

• Livre du professeur 4eme hatier

• Représentant les trois quarts de l'humanité, les pays du tiers-monde ont à surmonter les difficultés propres au sous-développement : surpopulation, malnutrition, archaïsmes économiques et sociaux.

  sixième environ à la production mondiale. Les manifestations d'une pauvreté structurelle y sont multiformes : 800 millions d'individus souffrent de la faim ou de la malnutrition, un enfant sur six meurt avant l'âge de cinq ans, et près d'un milliard d'adultes sont analphabètes. Les indicateurs du sous-développement ont été maintes fois décrits : une couverture sanitaire et une espérance de vie faibles, un taux d'analphabétisme élevé, une consommation alimentaire par habitant inférieure à 2...

• Le Bonheur

• Moon - astronomy.

  B Volcanic Features Maria, domes, rilles, and a few craters display indisputable characteristics of volcanic origin. Maria are plains of dark-colored rock that cover approximately 40 percent ofthe Moon's visible hemisphere. The maria formed when molten rock erupted onto the surface and solidified between 3.16 billion and 3.96 billion years ago. This rockresembles terrestrial basalt, a volcanic rock type widely distributed on Earth, but the rock that formed the maria has a higher iron content an...

• l'art, illusion de la vérité ?

  La philosophie de l'art commence avec Platon par une condamnation. Il faut renvoyer lespoètes hors des murs de la Cité. Socrate rejette les discours écrits pour privilégier laparole, et la peinture n'est tenue que pour une imitation dégradée et inférieure d'uneréalité par ailleurs déjà imitée des Idées. Par ailleurs, poésie, peinture et musique nesont pas sensées exprimer la beauté. Si l'art est condamnable, c'est qu'il est fondé surla mimêsis, l'imitation. Les choses sont, et elles sont ce qu...

• Définition: AGIR, verbe.

  BENJAMIN HENRI CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Journaux intimes, septembre 1814, page 409.  11. Jamais un banquier ne bavarde : il agit, pense, médite, écoute et pèse. Ainsi, pour avoir bien l'air d'un banquier, ne dis rien, ou dis des choses insignifiantes. Éteins ton oeil égrillard et rends-le grave, au risque de le rendre bête. HONORÉ DE BALZAC, Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau, 1837, page 168.  12. GEORGE. — Fallait-il imprimer une tache à mon nom? MONSIEUR MERCIER. — I...

• plasticité du sublime

• National Parks and Preserves.

  Some ibex raised in Italy’s 700 sq km (220 sq mi) Gran Paradiso National Park (1922) were transferred to aid herd restoration elsewhere in the country. Switzerlandreturned lynx to Swiss National Park to keep red deer populations in check. The growth of national parks also enabled many European countries to restore forests thathad given way to industrialization by the early 20th century. Africa’s wildlife was hunted heavily from the late 19th century well into the 20th century. By 1920 big-game h...

• First Americans.

  bones and artifacts helped 19th-century archaeologists establish the age of ancient human encampments in Europe. Yet, search as they might, American archaeologists found no comparable evidence of a Pleistocene-era human presence. But several sites revealed stone artifacts thatsome scholars believed looked similar to the ancient stone tools found in Europe. On the basis of this similarity, these experts claimed the American artifacts must be asold. By the 1890s, however, other scholars had challe...

• First Americans - Canadian History.

  bones and artifacts helped 19th-century archaeologists establish the age of ancient human encampments in Europe. Yet, search as they might, American archaeologists found no comparable evidence of a Pleistocene-era human presence. But several sites revealed stone artifacts thatsome scholars believed looked similar to the ancient stone tools found in Europe. On the basis of this similarity, these experts claimed the American artifacts must be asold. By the 1890s, however, other scholars had challe...

• Sydney (Australia) - geography.

  blocks in the eastern suburbs and around railway stations elsewhere; and homes on large lots in the outer suburbs, especially those to the northwest. For publichousing, the state government built a number of high-rise apartment blocks in run-down inner suburbs after World War II (1939-1945). These housing projects weresoon deemed unsuccessful and were discontinued because they fostered crime and other social problems. More recently, public housing has taken the form of separateor semidetached ho...

• Bangladesh - country.

  F Environmental Issues Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a serious threat to public health in Bangladesh. Until the 1970s, many of Bangladesh’s people became sick from drinkingpolluted water drawn from surface rivers. Aid agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) built shallow wells throughout the country to help provide asafe source of drinking water to Bangladesh’s poor. In the 1990s, however, it was discovered that many of these wells were contaminated by arsenic, a...

• China - country.

  North China lies between the Mongolian Steppe on the north and the Yangtze River Basin on the south. It stretches west from the Bo Hai gulf and the Yellow Sea to theeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Administratively, North China includes Beijing and Tianjin municipalities; Shandong and Shanxi provinces; most of Hebei, Henan,and Shaanxi provinces; and portions of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Gansu provinces. Humans have lived in the agriculturally rich region of Nor...

• Russian Revolutions of 1917 (Histoire) .

  as Marxists. They believed that the working class—with its struggles to organize trade unions and to bring about political reforms of benefit to the majority ofpeople—would become the primary force for revolutionary change. The Russian Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1898. By 1903,however, the RSDLP had split into two factions. The faction called the Bolsheviks (from the Russian word for “majority”), led by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, favored a more centralized a...

• World Energy Supply.

  In the 1990s, oil production by non-OPEC countries remained strong and production by OPEC countries rebounded. The result at the end of the 20th century was aworld oil surplus and prices (when adjusted for inflation) that were lower than in 1972. Experts are uncertain about future oil supplies and prices. Low prices have spurred greater oil consumption, and experts question how long world petroleum reservescan keep pace with increased demand. Many of the world’s leading petroleum geologists beli...

• Ice Hockey.

  Each period begins with a face-off at the blue dot at center ice. During the face-off one player from each team lines up at the dot with the stick blade on the ice. After the referee drops the puck, the two players attempt to gain possession of it. Quick hands and strength are essential qualities for players participating in the face-off. Once the puck is dropped, it is in play until an official’s whistle stops it, a goal is scored, or time expires. The team on offense tries to move the puck f...

• Mars (planet) - astronomy.

  The Martian core is probably much like Earth’s, consisting mostly of iron, with a small amount of nickel. If other light elements, particularly sulfur, exist there as well, thecore may be larger than presently thought. From studying Earth’s magnetic field and core, scientists theorize that the motions of the liquid rock in Earth’s core generateits magnetic field. Mars does not have a significant magnetic field, so scientists believe that Mars’s core is probably solid. However, spacecraft data in...

• Franklin D.

  Roosevelt entrusted his campaign management to the journalist Louis McHenry Howe. Howe, a genius at politics, performed brilliantly. Henceforth, Roosevelt and Howewere to be almost inseparable, and Howe, a wizened and colorful little man, guided the political fortunes of the Hyde Park aristocrat. B Assistant Secretary of the Navy Even before his reelection to the New York legislature, Roosevelt had entered the national political arena by taking part in the campaign of Governor Woodrow Wilson of...

• Franklin D.

  Roosevelt entrusted his campaign management to the journalist Louis McHenry Howe. Howe, a genius at politics, performed brilliantly. Henceforth, Roosevelt and Howewere to be almost inseparable, and Howe, a wizened and colorful little man, guided the political fortunes of the Hyde Park aristocrat. B Assistant Secretary of the Navy Even before his reelection to the New York legislature, Roosevelt had entered the national political arena by taking part in the campaign of Governor Woodrow Wilson of...

• Petite histoire de la subjectivité

• Egypt - country.

  Egypt has a wide variety of mineral deposits, some of which, such as gold and red granite, have been exploited since ancient times. The chief mineral resource ofcontemporary value is petroleum, found mainly in the Red Sea coastal region, at Al ‘Alamayn (El ‘Alamein) on the Mediterranean, and on the Sinai Peninsula. Otherminerals include phosphates, manganese, iron ore, and uranium. Natural gas is also extracted. D Plants and Animals The vegetation of Egypt is confined largely to the Nile Delta,...

• j-j rousseau la nouvelle heloise

• Suffit-il d'écrire des vers pour être poète ?

• L'accord des hommes sur une idée peut il etre un critere de vérité ?

• p uis l es philolog ues du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle.

  Les s o us-e ntr é es d éta il le nt l 'h is to ir e d u m ot, q ui e st tr a ité e c o m me c elle d es e ntr é es p rin cip ale s. E n o utr e , c es m ots s e co nd s p euv ent à le ur to ur ê tr e à l 'o rig in e d e d ériv és, e ux -m êm es c o m menté s. Les a rtic le s c o m ple x es p euv ent d onc s e l ir e c o m me d es « a rb re s généalo g iq ues » – e t d 'a il le urs , q uelq ues s c hém as m até ria lis e nt c ette str u ctu re d ans l 'o uv ra g e. Les d ériv és o...

• Pour philosopher, faut-il commencer par douter de tout ?

  conceptualiser, à connaitre les principes. "Pour examiner la vérité il est besoin une fois en sa vie, de mettretoutes choses en doute autant qu'il se peut." René Descartes. Comment puis-je savoir que ce que je pense est vrai ? Je croisdétenir des preuves. Pour approcher de la vérité de l'être, uneréflexion sur le savoir semble le meilleur moyen. En soumettant sonentendement à l'expérience du doute hyperbolique, c'est-à-dire ensuspendant son jugement sur l'ensemble de ses perceptions...

• La vérité est-t-elle toujours ce qui correspond à la réalité? ?

  « La France est hexagonale ». A la question : « cette phrase est-elle vraie ou fausse ? », on pourrait, aprèsavoir confronté l'énoncé avec les faits, répondre « oui ». Mais la question (« est-ce vrai ou non ») et laréponse (oui ou non) sont toutes les deux simplistes, explique Austin. Pour ceux qui ne recherchent qu'uneconnaissance simpliste et générale de la géographie de la France, cette question et cette réponse peuventconvenir, mais elles ne conviennent absolument plus dès le moment où l'on...

• L'explication de termes, d'expressions ou de phrases d'un texte économique

  -- -- ------------ 1 ° Les term es ou expressions simples appartenant au vocabulaire é conomique et dont l 'explication exige un savoir économique préalable Indépendamment de l a précision, de la clarté et de la concision tou­ jo urs nécessaires, les explications de termes o u d'expressions ressorJissant à ce groupement supposent, avant tout , des c onnaissances et un savoir sûrs. Exe mples Qu'entend-on par investissement ? 1 1 1 L'investissement est l'...