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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]

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]