"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...

L’article cherche à analyser l’origine de la très grande disparité des estimations du célibat en milieu agricole dans la littérature scientifique française en s’intéressant à la construction statistique et sociologique de ce phénomène. Les différences de définition de la...

<alinea/> From the early 1990s ?evidence-based medicine? (EBM) was formalized to promote the most judicious use possible of available knowledge by practitioners, the word ?evidence? referring simultaneously to factual evidence, empirical corroboration, and proof. The tenets of EBM spread to other...

We investigate a gravitational system in dimension one, started from some "uniform" random initial data. In Section 2, a connection is established with the additive coalescent. An hydrodynamic limit is obtained in Section 3 and it suggests a new construction of the standard additive coalescent....

[paper in French]This paper aims to understand the disparity of the estimations of farmer’s celibacy through many French scientific publications. This inquiry has been focused on the statistical and sociological construction of celibacy and agriculture. The differences in the definition of...

Le monde agricole a longtemps été caractérisé par une relative fermeture sur lui-même. Fermeture professionnelle qui laisse peu de place aux nouveaux entrants d’origines sociales diverses, fermeture conjugale avec un choix relativement circonscrit aux filles d’agriculteur et restreint...