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In 2013, Bernard Friot published Peintures pressées ("Hurried Paintings"), subtitled "un musée imaginaire" ("an imaginary museum"). This article analyzes how Bernard Friot views his paper museum as a twofold composition, with esthetic and didactic perspectives. Within a carefully considered layout, Bernard Friot presents a collection of art reproductions alongside texts of various genres, which playfully show children how to take in artwork and navigate the museum space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context: Virtual reality is used in many courses and in multiple ways in medical pedagogy, but not in critical appraisal learning. Aim: To evaluate the usability and interest of virtual reality in this reflective teaching context. Methods: Sixteen third year of physiotherapy students' at the University of Limoges were taught critical appraisal of an article with virtual reality. Questionnaires asked them about their feelings, side effects (VRSQ), usability of the system (SUS) and user experience (AttrackDiff 2). A critical appraisal worksheet was completed by the students after reading a scientific article, and then completed after the virtual reality session, giving two formative scores. The students' learning path in the virtual experience was analyzed. Results: Learners scored significantly higher after viewing the virtual reality module (13.1 ± 3.0 and 14.3 ± 3.1 respectively, p < 0.05). Students described the tool as motivating, allowing them to focus and facilitating better understanding of a scientific study. Usability and attractiveness of the virtual reality module was satisfactory, despite the presence of some adverse effects. Conclusion: Virtual reality seems to be an interesting tool to use in the context of critical appraisal learning, and it can be deployed at distance in e-learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Used by managers and scientists, the term "paper park" describes protected areas that are considered ineffective on the basis of either their performance or the resources available. An international comparative analysis of 13 marine protected areas has made it possible to reconstruct the thwarted institutionalisation processes of six of them, identified as "paper parks". The analysis reveals three determinants of these situations, then three ideal-types of institutional configurations. We propose a definition of paper parks that takes into account the place-based resources generated by the institutionalisation, resources that can potentially be activated for the benefit of the resilience of a place-based conservation policy which, depending on the case, takes various forms. The concept of "institutional bricolage" is mobilised to analyse the mechanisms of resilience: this leads to operational and then theoretical deductions, relating to the cross-analysis of the processes of bricolage, conflict and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of twelve learning reviews from four institutional contexts, involving the initial and in-service training of primary and secondary school teachers and mentors in French-speaking Switzerland. The theoretical framework is based on a cultural-historical approach and identifies phenomena affected by reflective writing and contributing to professional development, such as identity development and regulatory systems. The paper tackles the following questions: How does the writing of learning reviews contribute to professional development? What is the content of these written accounts? What dimensions of the training process does this writing reveal? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thanks to the Arendt/Hannah Arendt Papers (LC) collection, it is possible to discern the geological strata and to grasp the palimpsest of Eichmann's text in Jerusalem in the precision of its transformations, which are not trivial. The materials available for analysis include the following: 1. The articles from The New Yorker (1963); 2. The first draft of the work (1963); 3. The final draft of the first edition (1963); 4. The corrections for the British edition (Faber and Faber 1963); 5. The answer to Samuel Grafton's questions, which was not published (1963); 6. The interview with Thilo Koch at the beginning of 1964; 7. The German translation revised by the author (1964); 8. The interview with Günter Gaus (1964); and 9. The American edition revised and expanded (1965). To this inventory we can also add the distortions of the citations of the text itself in American and European critiques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The upper Rhône valley (cantons of Valais and Vaud, W Switzerland) is currently being colonized by the Short-toed Snake-Eagle. This bird of prey, characterized by a slow life history strategy (one egg per clutch, one annual clutch, late sexual maturity and marked longevity) bred successfully for the first time in Switzerland in 2012, while reproduction became regular since 2015. This paper describes the recent demographic growth and spatial expansion of this small population and discusses various aspects of its ecology. In 2022 and 2023, there were already six breeding pairs. Since 2012, a total of 27 breeding events have been recorded that yielded 20 fledglings, with a maximum of 6 in 2023. A better conservation status as well as global warming are likely the main causes of this spatio-demographic expansion, which has also been reported in other areas of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to study the transformations in Quebec's political culture brought about by the debates surrounding the patriation of the Constitution proposed by Ottawa in the wake of the 1980 referendum on sovereigntyassociation. Specifically, it seeks to trace the changes in the way actors approached the constitutional debates once the Parti Québécois government lost the initiative to the Liberal government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Bridging the gap between a politician-centred and a civil society-centred approach, this paper sheds new light on the interactions between pressure groups and elected officials in the context of constitutional debates. As a broad and complex subject, Quebec's political culture is undergoing at least two major transformations, catalyzed by the "crisis" of the patriation of the Constitution. First, section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives a particular color to the Quebec language debate and crystallizes the opposition between supporters of unilingualism and bilingualism, in addition to giving concrete expression to the intertwining of linguistic and constitutional issues. Second, the decline of the dualist ideal, which has been undermined for years by some Quebec sovereignists, ethnocultural community groups, and Indigenous people, is being precipitated by the patriation project in general and the "Night of the Long Knives" in particular. The decay of this structuring representation of the Quebec political field is giving way to a new one, the "distinct society.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with an optimization problem of determining the maintenance units and age‐based inspection schemes to minimize the expected maintenance cost rate and satisfy a target system availability for multi‐indenture systems that have a modular structure with redundant units. Failures of primary components directly lead to system failures and can therefore be identified and maintained immediately, while failures of redundant components need to be identified by inspections. And the designated maintenance units need to be replaced during maintenance. By constructing the dual structure of the fault tree, we present a failure path enumeration method, based on which the system availability and expected maintenance cost rate models considering maintenance time are derived. For redundant units, two types of inspection policies are considered in our models: one is the corrective maintenance (CM)‐based inspection policy, and the other one is the age‐based inspection (PM) policy, inspections are performed at failures or age h, depending on which occurred earlier. A heuristic algorithm is proposed to find the reasonable maintenance units and inspection intervals simultaneously, and its performance is also compared and analyzed. Several numerical examples are studied to investigate the effect of parameters on optimal solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of metadata on the identification of special collections, particularly games, in academic library discovery tools. Effective identification of these resources is closely linked to the quality of the metadata describing them, as well as to the technological characteristics of the system used.In order to optimize this identification, the cataloging of the games collection of the Laboratoire ludique de l'Université du Québec à Montréal has added the descriptors of the ESAR system, a controlled vocabulary specialized for games. A brief presentation of the ESAR system will be given to better understand its particularities compared to traditional thesauri and to better underline its interest for games indexing. These descriptors can now be encoded in MARC format in subject fields, thus opening up the possibility of fully exploiting their discovery potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I will prove the existence of two filtrations of the cohomology of line bundles on SL3/B. The first one is a two-step filtration that exists for H¹(μ) and H²(μ) if μ is in the Griffith region. The second one exists for all Hi (μ), and is similar to the p-filtration that has been considered by Jens Carsten Jantzen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context and background African countries have undertaken vast and increasingly ambitious initiatives in recent years to promote land registration in order to secure land tenure and ownership rights. In theory, recognition of property rights should boost agricultural productivity and food security. However, empirical evidence of the link between land security, agricultural productivity and the food security of households remains ambiguous Goal and Objectives: It is against this backdrop that this research aims to study the effect of land tenure security on agricultural productivity and food security of farm households, based on evidence from Togo, and then by extension to ECOWAS countries. More specifically, it aims to (i) identify the determinants of land tenure security of farm households, (ii) analyze the effect of land tenure security on agricultural productivity and food security of farm household by gender. Methodology: The paper relies on Oaxaca and Blinder's decomposition technique and its nonlinear extension with the Propensity Score Matching Method (PSM) for robustness with data mainly from the Harmonized Households Living Conditions Survey (EHCVM) of Togo and selected ECOWAS countries realized in 2018-2019. Results: Empirical results reveal that being a woman reduces the probability of obtaining a document securing one's plot of land. However, the human capital of the head of household increases the probability of holding a land title. They reveal gender-based inequalities in agricultural productivity and food insecurity among farming households. However, holding a title deed to secure one's plot of land is expected to reduce this inequality by improving agricultural productivity and food security among farming households. The results confirm the need to develop land markets to facilitate the transfer of land, as part of measures to improve agricultural productivity and household food security in ECOWAS countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the narrative sources dealing with a unique phenomenon in early Islam: the passage of part of the Arabic-speaking Iyād group into Roman service. Abbasid-era authors (132/750-333/945) locate and date the defectors in the context of the conquests (futūḥ) of the Roman and Sassanian Middle East by earlier Arab-Muslims (c. 10/632-20/642). We highlight the contradictions, inconsistencies and anachronisms of the versions, and focus especially on their tendency to actually deal more with migration from Iraq to northern Syria than from northern Syria to Byzantine Anatolia. Thus, we propose an alternative scenario: the Iyād gradually settled in the northern military district (ǧund) of Homs, in ex-Roman Syria-Mesopotamia during the first/seventh century. Considering the similar events involving emigrant, defector and rallied units during the Umayyad period (40/661-132/750), as well as the frequent shifts of the frontier in the border zone (ṯuġūr), we suggest that the Iyād, like many groups driven out and conscripted into the region by both the Byzantines and the Umayyads empires, may have passed repeatedly into the service of both. Eventually, the rigidification of geographical, political and confessional borders transformed such opportunistic and/or forced movements, although still attested, into unnatural apostasies. However, this context prevailed in the writing of the narrative sources on their primordial flight to the "land of the Romans". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his commentary on the Qurʾān, Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī makes use of various traditional and rational sciences, among them legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh). This science plays a primary role within his exegetical device, since he draws from it many notions and arguments that allow him to propose new interpretations or to refute the opinions issued by his predecessors. The present paper aims to study the contribution of legal theory to al-Rāzī's exegesis. Our purpose is to show how this author uses the hermeneutical rules borrowed from the science of uṣūl al-fiqh and the benefits he derives from them, especially in the debates opposing him to other commentators of the Qurʾān. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this paper, we explore plurilingual and intercultural communication’s situations in a medical context from the point of view of epistemic injustices (Fricker, 2007). Using narrative explicitative interviews on two situations (concerning birth and death), described by two intercultural mediators, we analyze their practices and highlight what they do to ensure that non-native speakers’ voice is listened to and believed. Our study contributes, on the one hand, to highlighting certain aspects related to epistemic injustices in intercultural communication, and on the other hand, to rethinking critically the relations between the ontologies underlying the relationship to the other, to the body and to health, mobilized in medical institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

against a backdrop of transformations in the employment market, career changes are on the rise. This paper explores the subject's experience of this transition, seen as an « in-between » situation. It highlights the need for support during this transition. The professional position adopted by support workers who use the biographical narrative is presented here as that of a craftsman, working alongside the person receiving support to construct the meaning of their life story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against St. Augustine's position, Thomas Aquinas claims that man can teach his own science to someone else. His theory on the teaching of science is developed in Summa Theologica, I, q. 117, a. 1 and in Quaestiones disputatae de veritate, q. 11, a. 1. This paper aims to explain, considering this doctrine, why Aquinas admits the Aristotelian thesis of Metaphysics, I, according to which the distinctive mark of science is that it can be taught. I argue that, according to Thomas, science can be taught, in the one hand, because of its derivative nature and, on the other because it is grounded on certain principles that are both true and evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transforming Landscapes, Manipulating images, collected from the papers and discussions of the research workshop organized by Alexander Streitberger and Anne Reverseau on the 9th of December 2022 at the WIELS (Brussels). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context and background In the last few years, Blockchain technology has been taking the world by a storm. While it is true that its success has increased with the emergence of the Bitcoin, the world is becoming increasingly aware that the Blockchain is promising heaps in record keeping and transaction management. Land tenure and administration is no exception. Several initiatives have been undertaken to comprehend the extent of Blockchain's potential for land governance system. This paper falls under the scope of that study. Goal and Objectives This paper has set out to understand Blockchain and its operating mechanisms in order to determine its contribution to the issues challenging our land tenure systems. In addition, this study has also strived to delimit a framework for the Blockchain implementation in the land sector and create models of this implementation on various levels. Methodology This research and its findings are based on bibliographic research, a benchmark analysis as well as expert opinions and consultations. Results Land governance is an interesting field of deployment for Blockchain. Indeed, the technology can replace traditional record keeping methods, such as written registries and databases, to manage and track records and documentation insuring they remain unchanged and authentic. It also allows different stakeholders to work together in an automated and efficient framework involving smart contracts and unique digital signatures. Moreover, it can also redefine property into digital tokens exchangeable on the Blockchain. With the careful analysis of the framework of its implementation, Blockchain is as capable of improving current systems and addressing their issues and complicated procedures, as it is of completely redefining their visions and pushing process reengineering. In both cases, Blockchain is an IT solution that reinforces land security and responds to requirements of land systems that traditional solutions still fail to meet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Passive sentences have been traditionally analyzed in French by descriptive studies in the aim of elucidating the use of the auxiliary verbs être and se faire (Tesnière 1988; Le Goffic 1993; Riegel et coll. 1994; Le Bellec 2014). In Spanish, the formally equivalent auxiliary verbs are ser and hacerse but their use is not concurrent since hacerse is semantically restricted to express beneficial actions (e.g., Se hizo masajear la espalda, He had his back massaged). The goal of our paper is to compare –in spoken French and Spanish– the grammatical and lexical means used in the topicalization of non-volitional patients involved in unpleasant actions. Our results showed that French speakers produced 59.3% of passive sentences, whereas Spanish speakers showed a preference to conceptualize the Patient-victim as an accusative within active voice sentences (37.5%). Concerning the passive sentences produced by each group, French speakers showed an overt preference for the auxiliary se faire (78.9%), whereas in Spanish the Patient-victim's topicalization was most frequently marked by a Latin-derived prepositional object complement (58.8%). Our paper indicates that the topicalization of a Patient-victim is a distinctive typological feature between French and Spanish, and suggests the salience of passive-perspective conceptualizations in French for the semantic domain of unpleasant actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Au cours des deux dernières décennies, le libre accès a pris de l’importance à travers le monde. Toutefois, son adoption au Canada est à la traîne par rapport à d’autres pays. À l’aide des données de Dimensions et Érudit, cet article donne un aperçu de la diffusion en libre accès au Canada, en se concentrant sur l’effet des institutions, de la langue et du financement. Les articles en français et ceux des universités québécoises sont plus susceptibles d’être en libre accès, tandis que ceux des établissements axés sur le génie sont moins susceptibles d’être disponibles en libre accès. En ce qui concerne les bailleurs de fonds, ceux en sciences de la santé ont une conformité plus élevée au libre accès. L’article conclut en discutant des différences disciplinaires dans la diffusion en libre accès, de la faible conformité aux mandats de libre accès au Canada et du rôle d’Érudit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on an empirical survey of rancher commitment in environmental programs in Southern Arizona, this paper analyzes the evolution of rangeland conservation practices and more broadly of natural resources management in semi-arid areas of the American West. Far from the image of the cowboy conquering and destroying the wilderness, which some environmental organizations still convey, it shows how ranchers get involved in ecological practices, enabling us to consider their social (re)valorization as conservation entrepreneurs empowered to co-produce ecological knowledge. In this perspective, the survey shows, (1) the way in which nature conservation programs no longer valorize the planning of 'wilderness areas', but rather collaborative programs based on working landscapes and, (2) the conditions for valorizing a kind of cowboy ecology that might contribute to the renewal of natural resource management and practices dedicated to nature conservation. The scientific originality of this paper is thus to outreach a 'political ecology of ranching', showing how the valorization of rancher knowledge and know-how fits into the renewal of rangeland ecological science and socio-economic transformations. It demonstrates that this ecological acknowledgment of ranching is due to the specific knowledge of the ranchers, which contributes solutions for the preservation of biodiversity that seem adapted to the environmental constraints of semi-arid areas. More broadly, it invites us to revisit the way in which cowboy ecology is now supported by administrative agents (and even environmentalists) to face ecological risks other than grazing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The World Health Organisation is positioning universal access and equity of care as criteria for assessing the performance of health systems. The United Nations is in favour of Universal Health Coverage, a 2030 objective. In France, it has been proposed to redefine the Aide Médicale d'État (AME), arguing that it would save budgetary resources. People in an irregular situation would have access to healthcare only for urgent medical situations. The state of health of all new arrivals is worrying, with a high incidence of physical and mental health problems. Among them, illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable. Only a small proportion of those eligible for the AME are reported to have opened their entitlements. This position paper explores the interactions between the universal right to health and the vulnerability of migrant populations. It proposes that primary healthcare should take care of these vulnerable populations, applying the principles of proportionate universalism, "outreach and doing-with". It warns that a reduction in the AME care would increase the number of people refusing care and worsen the state of health of the populations concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the discourse marker in "dire" dis voir and its Spanish correspondent oye tú. We will look at the distributional and semantic-pragmatic values of dis voir in contemporary French, in order to verify its function in discourse. We will also provide a diachronic analysis that explains the traces of the old verbal locution. Contrary to what we might think, the Spanish equivalent does not start with a verb of saying but with the verb oír 'hear' – which also involves the interlocutor through the imperative and the second person singular – oye tú. We will see how, through a process of pragmaticalisation, the markers dis voir and oye tú cannot be considered strictly speaking as markers of speech or perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our essay is entitled : « The Response of man to his metaphysical condition in The Rebel by Albert Camus. » The paper attempts to unveil the response of man to his metaphysical condition in the absurd world. Camus's philosophy depicts the irresolvable emptiness of man in his futile search for meaning and clarity in his existence. Man is perplexed and as such, runs to God, gods and goddesses, powers and principalities for help. His perplexity and futile search for meaning and help in his existence through metaphysical and telelogical creation constitute the problem of this study. As a response to this unabridged gap of the irresolvable emptiness, man in Camus's work is nehelist. He denies God, gods and goddesses and other powers that never find a lasting solution for his quest for meaning and clarity in the absurd world. We have adopted the analytic method to unfold mans response to his metaphysical condition. Our fundamental objective is to show how man in Camus's work takes a metaphysical revolt to react to his endless cycle of his futile search for meaning in the absurd world. The essay has adopts the philosophy of absurdity to human confrotation in the search of meaning and clarity. In addition, the essay has adopted the sociological approach to look at man's relationship with his universe. We have discovered that man in Camus's universe has taken a metapysical revolt as a response to his endless cycles of futile search for meaning and clarity. He is nihilist and confrontational. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A singular Romanian writer, often considered a precursor of the avant-garde, Urmuz (1883-1923) left a complex representation of time in his work. Alongside chronological temporality, we find the elements of a more complex temporal imaginary, which is essentially critical of notions of progress. The paper proposes a close reading of the prose endings, to underline the particular aspects of the representation of time: the integration of destruction, its indefinite continuity, its positioning in relation to the future. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's reading of the Epistle to the Romans, we highlight the messianic character of the time represented in Urmuz's prose. Through an analysis of the linguistic dimensions of temporal expressions, as well as an analysis of the relationship between time and the imaginary of filiation, we attempt to discuss the possibility of a critique of modernity and what we might call, with a notion borrowed from François Hartog, an alternative regime of historicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time when national education professionals are being asked to take "trans" students into account in the school environment, scientific papers on adults within the school is timidly emerging in the field of trans studies in education. As heuristic as these studies may be, it must be noted that this research very often considers academic actors as a monolithic entity, depriving the reader of a finer understanding of the difficulties they face. In PE, an eminently gendered discipline where norms are (de)constructed in action, are teachers true "out-of-peer" educators when it comes to welcoming a "trans" student? This article suggests investigating the place and role of teachers in this discipline in the light of the "trans issue" by placing their practices in perspective with those of their colleagues in the French national education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetic principles defined by Aristotle in his Poetics gave birth to an aesthetic tradition which dominated Western culture and literature up until the twentieth century. All his successors believed that, in order to achieve literary value and public acclaim, a text should comply with criteria such as unity of the subject (mythos), harmony of the parts (taxis), clear inclusive meaning (dianoia), etc. - in other words, structure. However, many authors departed from this ideal and gave free rein to their fantasy, conceiving plethoric, multi-layered, anarchic works, which tended to be, most often than not, excluded from the literary canon. During the twentieth century, with the modern and then the postmodern turn, not only the practical creative Aristotelian rules, but also the very idea of structure was contested. In this paper I make a survey of some of the main critical thinkers who opposed Aristotle’s model of closed works: M. Bakhtin, C.-L. Strauss, J. Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, U. Eco, F. Moretti, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les transformations socio-éducatives que le monde a connues pendant et au lendemain de la Covid-19 ont exigé une nouvelle pensée professionnelle, une grande mobilité des outils numériques, une orientation vers la mise en oeuvre des processus de socialisation et de professionnalisation de l'individu, l'humanisation et la démocratisation du processus pédagogique. En effet, l'école est appelée à adapter et repenser sa structure et ses pratiques pour permettre aux individus d'accomplir leurs actuelles et futures fonctions dans la société. À cet égard, les réalisations professionnelles et sociales d'une personne dépendent largement des compétences professionnelles et des compétences de communication en particulier. Les compétences en communication constituent des compétences importantes des acteurs en action (enseignant et apprenants). Elles assurent l'accomplissement des fonctions de la communication pédagogique, le contenu de l'activité pédagogique et donnent une idée du niveau de culture professionnelle et communicative de ces acteurs éducatifs. L'introduction des outils numériques, didacticiels ou en ligne (plateformes) dans la communication pédagogique, a généré de nouvelles pratiques et un changement de relation enseignant-apprenant. Dans cette communication, nous étudierons le rapport des TIC à la communication pédagogique à l'ère et post COVID-19, ainsi que la relation enseignant (tuteur) et l'apprenant dans une communication pédagogique médiatisée en classe de langue. Et ce, en s'appuyant sur des enquêtes et des rapports des recherches menées dans le contexte marocain. The socio-educational transformations experienced by the world during and in the aftermath of Covid-19 have called for new professional thinking, a high degree of mobility for digital tools, an orientation towards the implementation of processes for the socialization and professionalization of the individual, and the humanization and democratization of the pedagogical process. Indeed, schools are called upon to adapt and rethink their structure and practices to enable individuals to fulfill their current and future roles in society. In this respect, a person's professional and social achievements largely depend on professional skills and communication skills in particular. Communication skills are important competencies for actors in action (teachers and learners). They ensure the fulfillment of pedagogical communication functions, the content of pedagogical activity and give an idea of the level of professional and communicative culture of these educational actors. The introduction of digital tools, whether courseware or online (platforms) in pedagogical communication, has generated new practices and a change in the teacher-learner relationship. In this paper, we will study the relationship between ICT and pedagogical communication in the post COVID-19 era, as well as the teacher (tutor) and learner relationship in mediated pedagogical communication in the language classroom. All this is based on surveys and research reports carried out in the Moroccan context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biocontrol (biological control) and "biocontrôle" (which can be translated into English as "Bioprotection") are concepts of crop protection that have common points but also have their specificities. The former has been known since the 1880s, while the latter appeared in the French landscape in the 2010s. In recent years, there has been regular confusion in the terms and interpretations of these concepts, which are not of the same nature: biocontrol is defined by strategies and "biocontrôle" by products. This paper therefore aims to respond to a need for clarification: it contributes to distinguishing the perimeters and contents of these concepts, to pointing out certain abusive comparisons and to proposing semantic clarifications. It reviews the English and French terms related to biocontrol and "biocontrôle" (Bioprotection) at the European level. Finally, the paper discusses the role and relevance of the two concepts in agroecological crop protection (ACP). Conservation biocontrol has a central place in ACP, as it is based on a systemic and preventive approach to crop pest risks. While some bioproducts are promising for the prevention of pest risks, many of them are part of a curative approach, similar to the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, with the same types of commercial spin-offs for the agro-industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Angolan Portuguese, the word xinguilamento refers to possession by the ancestral Ilundu spirits whose manifestation is exhibited through dance. This paper examines the xinguilamento dance practiced at ritual offerings to the sea in Luanda (Angola’s capital), which are often ordered by public entities. Expanding upon the ambiguity of the word xinguilamento – which both refers to the spirit possession and to its imitation – the paper suggests that even the imitations respect some key aspects that insure ritual efficacy, rather than arguing about a distinction between these two kinds of actions. The ethnography of these offerings will indeed be a pretext to presenting a local theory that possession is less defined as a state of altered consciousness than as a potentiality inherent to genealogy. This genealogic potentiality also explains the political efficacy of the offerings themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the representation of Lizzie Borden in true-crime and crime-fiction prose texts, as well as in a stage production. It centers on the hypothesis of sociocultural aspects which constitute the accounts written about her and feminist readings. Regardless of genre, these narratives portray Lizzie Borden in various ways--from a female tormenter to a guilt-free spinster. Both true-crime books and crime-fiction novels, together with the ballet, are modified by sociocultural factors and are also subject to intertextuality. In addition, the lines between fiction and non-fiction literary works of primary concern are blurred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Western culture and literature have been moulded, in their main aesthetic conceptions and creative practices, by Aristotle’s principles. Starting from his seminal text Poetics, ancient, medieval, and modern (from Renaissance to the twentieth century) aesthetics, poetics, rhetorical and grammatical theories have reiterated, amplified, adapted and reshaped the concepts of imitation (mimesis), subject (mythos), meaning (dianoia), order (taxis), unity of the whole and harmony of the parts, etc. On this basis, they demanded that literary works should have - as a prerequisite of aesthetic value and artistic success - a structure, a unitary composition, a centred form, a logos, a cogito, a synopsis or any other formal pattern. This brought about the exclusion from the canon of the works failing to complain with these criteria. In this paper I retrace the Aristotelian tradition, from Horace, Cicero and Quintilian to Beda and Dante, from Minturno and Scaliger to du Bellay and Boileau, from Sydney, Dryden and Pope to Mathew Arnold, the Chicago School and Northrop Frye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) is worldwide renowned as the principal author (with Ernesto Rossi) of the Ventotene Manifesto (1941), whose second edition (1944), prefaced by Eugenio Colorni, is one of the founding documents of the European Union. Less known is the width and depth of Spinelli's thought, not only as a political theorist of supra-national democracy and institutional designer of a possible European Federation but also as a philosopher of civilization and history. While the sources of his federalism have been largely investigated, much less have those of his more comprehensive philosophy. This paper discusses, on a philological basis, the dialogue Spinelli certainly has with some of Max Scheler's writings while going into this dialogue more in-depth, in a philosophical more than philological attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the time of the fragile Weimar Republic, when the crisis of parliamentary democracy was accompanied by a "frightening massification of life" and of public opinion, Scheler posed a challenge: How to achieve a cultural and spiritual transformation that can contribute to a true rebirth of Germany and Europe? If this renaissance is to be achieved, Germany and Europe must be examined as a whole, and the ideas underlying their institutions must be renewed. Cosmopolitanism and the age of integration - for example the integration of rationalism, which has traditionally characterized Europe, and irrationalism, of which the "revolt of pulsions" is, according to Scheler, an eloquent testimony - impose this renewal. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the possible "costs and benefits" of a Freudian-inspired sublimation from a Schelerian perspective, with particular attention to the problem of Bildung. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the seminar on «Feminism and Decoloniality. Brazil, Latina America, and Africa» both organized by «Groupe de Recherche et d'Etudes des Noirs en l'Amérique Latine" (University of Perpignan) and Grupo Feminismos e Decoloniade (Universitdade Federal sa Paraibas), coordinated by Victorien Lavou and Luciana Calado Deplagne. On the one hand, «gendered sulternity» is based on a dialectic that questions subjectivity, submission, and other forms of discrimination against women, especially in terms of races. On the other hand, the decolonial feminist reflection founded on the concept of Coloniality of power (Annibal Quijano) calls for various theorital approaches from great Latino-American feminists, among which the Brazilian critics Sueli Carneiro, Leila Gonzalez, and Maria Lugones. An Afro-feminist perspective also comes with Awa Thiam, Mariama Bâ, and Fatou Sow. All this said, this paper analyzes the discourse produced by a new generation of feminist writers in an Afro-Caribbean angle with Saeta The poems from Yolanda Arroyo, and in an Afro-Sub-Saharan perspective with Dear Ijjaewele or A Manifest for a Feminist Éducation From the nigerian writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This article finally examines in the same trend the Gabonese writer and psychologist Sylvie Akiguet-Bakong's La Dette (The Debt). From which narrative process, or how do these female writers with different trajectoiries write on the experience of women who are victims of multiple domination? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current environmental, political, economic, and social context makes the management of energy resources, electricity in particular, a central issue. European energy policies require the deployment of smart grids to reduce energy consumption. From this strategy emerge smart-grid interfaces that allow households to consult their electricity consumption in near real-time. The underlying assumption is that information leads to action. However, this link is not automatic, and raises the question of the appropriation of these technologies. This paper proposes to study the process of appropriating smart-grid interfaces through the prism of the instrumental approach. A longitudinal study was conducted over 3 years (2016-2018) as part of the SOLENN experimental smart-grid, on a sample of 36 households. The aim was to answer the following questions: are smart-grid interfaces used? If so, how, for what purposes, and with what effect on electricity consumption? The results reveal the obstacles to appropriation, what encourages this process and how it has been achieved. The analysis also shows that, even if the use of interfaces leads to new knowledge, electricity consumption information alone is not sufficient to influence individual energy-saving behaviours. The findings suggest that we need a broader design of the technologies, and energy policies to a greater, for the instrumental genesis and the development of the individuals' power to act in the energy transition field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the economic efficiency of flood protection strategies to aid funding decisions of public bodies. The Brague river is a 68 km2 catchment located on the Mediterranean Sea shore in South East France. It experienced disastrous flash floods triggering costly damages and casualties in the communities of Biot and Antibes. Several possible flood protection strategies using conventional civil engineering measures or Nature-based solutions were tailored mixing engineering and participatory approaches. They were then assessed in terms of i) protection efficacy and avoided damage using numerical modelling, ii) environmental gains or alterations using an indicator on the morphological quality of the river, and iii) willingness-to-pay of the citizens for the various strategies, assessed both by top-down transfer methods, as well as by interviews of about 400 citizens. A dual cost-benefit analysis (CBA) was finally tailored to help the various decision makers involved in the management of the catchment in the context of the Gemapi law (management of aquatic environments and flood protection). A top-down CBA was performed to help national and regional stakeholders decide whether they would support the strategies. In the meantime, a bottom-up CBA was performed to capture the local perception of hazards, the social acceptability of various mitigation measures and to help the basin managers decide on the relevant strategy to be implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses, in these times of contestation of conventional agriculture and vertical planning, how a specific way of governing water scarcity for agricultural irrigation in the Marais poitevin area is structured. From the analysis of the elaboration of management schemes to the development of substitution reserves, the aim is to reveal the extent to which public action initiatives and the resulting developments oscillate between managing water scarcity by reducing its abstraction for irrigation, and maintaining an image of its seasonal abundance through the use of substitution reserves. The first part of this paper discusses how water management is ruled by the development of management schemes These schemes organise the management of water from the perspective of its summer scarcity based on two main measures: creation of substitution reserves to store the "abundant" winter water, reduction of the volumes that can be abstracted during the low-water period. Then, in a second step, based on two projects aimed at developing substitution reserves, the article analyses the trajectories of these two projects and their differentiating factors in terms of conflict, namely project governance, political context, timing and compensatory measures [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper approaches the teleological doctrine of sciences in Husserl's phenomenology. Divided into two main parts, the article initially deals with the double movement of sciences: the possibility of returning to a demonstrated knowledge and the growing advance, guided by the general teleological idea of "authentic science". In the second part, the paper approaches the evolution of the natural sciences through the elaboration and permanent confirmation of its hypotheses, in an infinite progress of achievements towards an "infinitely distant" pole. The paper also highlights the phenomenological meaning of this progress, as well as its propaedeutic implications in Husserl's phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Algeria is one of the important countries that has a race track in line with the trend of quality of life and sustainable development, through the enactment of many laws and legislation that direct the residential production process and the sustainability of the urban environment, and urge directing the production process towards quality after the long approach towards the quantitative path that had previously prevented access to it. This research paper intends to assess the quality of life, as well as its repercussions on the population, in the medium-sized city of Oum El-Bouaghi, an area fit for implementing national and urban policies. Here, housing is considered one of the most important elements of urban development, and the paper proposes various recommendations that would help achieve the continuity of life within residential neighbourhoods and improve the relationship of residents with said neighbourhoods, as well as the latter's sustainability, together with everything related to framing the field, where the results showed the presence of several urban problems in the constituent elements of the neighbourhoods and a lack of efficiency in the housing field. This has a negative impact on the quality of life and triggers a division in the reactions of the residential community within these neighbourhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drug-induced acute pancreatitis (AP) associated with tigecycline (TGC) is considered a rare complication (incidence between 1, and 1%). In this paper, we report five cases of AP occurring after the administration of TGC in septic patients hospitalized in intensive burn care in Tunisia over 9 years. The diagnosis of AP was based on clinical and/or biological signs. Among 303 cases treated with TGC, AP occurred with an incidence of 1.65%. The mean age was 28±6 years. Only one patient had a history of chronic alcoholism. The prescribed dose was 200 mg as a loading dose, followed by 100 mg twice a day. The time to onset of symptoms after initiation of TGC was 5.4 days [2-7]. PA was suspected due to abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting (n=2), occlusive syndrome (n=1) and fortuitously increased pancreatic enzymes in 2 patients under mechanical ventilation. The mean lipase level at diagnosis was 447 IU ± 135 IU (4.5 to 10 times the normal). All the aetiologies of AP were ruled out, including gallstones, hypercalcemia, hypertriglyceridemia, trauma and infections. The mean time to symptom resolution after stopping TGC was 4±2 days [5-7] and to the normalization of pancreatic enzymes it was 9 days [2-20 days]. In conclusion, clinical and biological monitoring was necessary in patients treated with TGC in order to avoid severe forms, especially in at-risk patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year 2022 is marked by the arrival in France of an epidemic of mpox. This disease mainly affects men who have sex with men (MSM). This population has historically mobilized on issues of sexual health through the AIDS epidemic. This paper questions the mobilization of MSM facing mpox and the use of public health knowledge from the fight against HIV/AIDS. It seeks to question the ability to create a memory of the fight against epidemics in a community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the role of municipalities in the development and vitality of Francophone minority communities. The municipality can be of particular importance to Francophones in minority settings given the growing role of municipalities in cultural, recreational and socio-economic areas, as well as the fact that local government is the only level of government where Francophones outside Quebec may form the majority or represent a significant demographic weight. This paper reports on the main findings of a survey of municipalities across the country with a Francophone population of 6% or more or member of a Francophone or bilingual association. The results focus on practices, as well as some of the factors explaining them, around the themes of Francophone weight and power, language status, languages of communication, languages of service and Francophone spaces, and public recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the short poem De quattuor temporibus anni and the possible date of its composition. The quatrain, which was preserved in codex Phillippicus 1694 and in manuscript Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale 1275, appears within the critical apparatus to poem 864 of Riese’s edition of the Anthologia Latina and in Wernsdorf’s Poetae Latini minores. Almost nothing is known about this piece of work and the few scholars who have shown interest in proposing a date for it have been undecided between an earlier and a later production. Closer scrutiny of the evidence at our disposal, bringing together elements taken from the structure of the text itself, as well as from other Latin poems, allows us to draw clearer conclusions and identify a period between the end of the first century AD and the beginning of the fifth century AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the discreet presence of the topos of therapeutic laughter in the Essays even though Montaigne resorts to facetiousness as an anti-therapy and a striking and salutary philosophical exercise. Montaigne not only multiplies facetious outbursts against doctors and medicine (II, 37), he also insinuates a form of cynical self-medication and develops forms of joyful prophylaxis, replacing an illusory art of healing with a playful pedagogy of knowledge, teaching us how to live and die, which he implements in the therapeutic fiction of diversion (III, 4) and in the paradoxical praise of gravel (III, 13). Do these paradoxical therapeutic games not address an issue of philosophical purging of errors of judgment, and therefore reveal subversive implications, from cynical demystification to Epicurean pharmacopoeia? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to analyse the therapeutic effects of laughter, as they are developed in the representations of the street theatre troupe of the Girard brothers, better known as the Tabarin troupe, who had great success in Dauphine Square, near the Pont Neuf in Paris, at the beginning of the 17th century. The tabarinades, beyond their mercantile feature (their initial and main goal was to sell false remedies, the Girard brothers being thus charlatans), had also an important facetious feature, trying to heal the troubled soul of people living difficult times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's goal is to examine the topos of curative laughter, by means of the digital humanities. Is this idea truly specific and recurrent throughout the early modern collections of merry tales? To determine if this is the case, we used a freeware corpus analysis toolkit to check on various peritexts, that head 89 jestbooks, 158 comic literary works, and 311 serious works, published in French between the end of the XVth century and 1699. We carried out a quantitative and qualitative study about the way the lexicon linked to health, cure and medicine is used in each corpus. We could thus highlight the specificity of collections gathering jests and merry tales. It does not lie only in the claim that relaxation is good for health (a claim they share with all comic works), but also and more precisely in the recurrent use of the word melancholy, for commercial purposes and legitimation of pleasure. Specific as well is the link between pseudo-medical considerations and other practical tips about the uses of a book designed for collective consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on a musical and choreographical analysis of the piece JARDIN DE SCULPTURES ÉPHÉMÈRES (2020) by Marie Chouinard, which was composed over a series of musical excerpts from composer Louis Dufort’s album, Into the Forest. After thoughts on the special circumstances during which the creation of JARDIN became a video streaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of the work’s musical content is presented. The various elements of the choreography that define its structure are described through the succession of 84 ephemeral sculptures. First, the sculptures are classified in three main categories (pointy, round, and balanced) which divides JARDIN into seven sections. Moments of simultaneity, antagonistic positions, and arrangements of lines and angles emphasize key moments of the work, often corresponding with the musical material. Finally, the article concludes with a reflection on the analogies and isomorphisms between dance and music in this piece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]