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Speed dating is a mating system aiming to produce romantically connoted heterosexual encounters. It is meant for urban singles looking for a partner. It sets rounds of short dates with several opposite sex participants, each date lasting a few minutes. It shows social changes affecting conjugality. Brussels speed daters recall a normative frame made of soft and hard social injunctions that drives them to look for « the one who is going to stay, this time ». While the significant previous relationship is over and while the social network seems empty in terms of conceivable partner, the speed dating appears to be a safe mean to approach unknown people, in order to solve the modern injunction of the free choice of the spouse within a contradictory context that values both the nuclear family and the desiring mode. The article suggests a new vision on kinship as an anthropological issue. It also discusses Jean-Claude Kaufmann's sociological input on the sex/love inversion.
Keywords: Wauthier, choix du partenaire, exogamie, parenté, modernité, transformation sociale, sexualité, speed-dating, Wauthier, Mate Selection, Exogamy, Kinship, Modernity, Social Change, Sexuality, Speed-Dating, Wauthier, elección de pareja, exogamia, parentesco, Modernidad, transformación social, sexualidad, speed-dating
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In recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity with learners and providers, and thus MOOC providers have started to further enhance the use of MOOCs through recommender systems. This paper is a systematic literature review on the use of recommender systems for MOOCs, examining works published between January 1, 2012 and July 12, 2019 and, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first of its kind. We used Google Scholar, five academic databases (IEEE, ACM, Springer, ScienceDirect, and ERIC) and a reference chaining technique for this research. Through quantitative analysis, we identified the types and trends of research carried out in this field. The research falls into three major categories: (a) the need for recommender systems, (b) proposed recommender systems, and (c) implemented recommender systems. From the literature, we found that research has been conducted in seven areas of MOOCs: courses, threads, peers, learning elements, MOOC provider/teacher recommender, student performance recommender, and others. To date, the research has mostly focused on the implementation of recommender systems, particularly course recommender systems. Areas for future research and implementation include design of practical and scalable online recommender systems, design of a recommender system for MOOC provider and teacher, and usefulness of recommender systems.
Keywords: recommender system, massive open online course, MOOC, systematic review, implemented recommender system
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In the introduction to this special issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, Karol’Ann Boivin and Mylène Fréchette underscore the limited visibility of book supply chain intermediaries in the public sphere. As these intermediaries become more and more interesting to researchers, we must take their relative erasure from the public imagination into account. Who are these unsung heroes? What is the scope of their impact on the book as an object, and how do their actions fit in with those of other intermediaries within the book supply chain? These are the questions that guided this special issue, which focuses on the nature of collective action in the world of literature. In closing, they introduce the three articles featured in the special edition, penned by Mylène Fréchette herself, Philippe Rioux, and Maxime Bolduc.
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Early warning systems (EWS) are methods implemented in natural risk management. For many decades, they have been applied to all kinds of hazards, especially water-related and geological ones, but are rarely effective. In the last few decades, the Province of Quebec was hit by many water-related hazards (ice storms, inland and coastal flooding, coastal erosion, etc.). A lot of questions arose from stakeholders about the effectiveness of the response capacity of current systems. This paper underlines the main conditions that contribute to making EWS effective within a risk management approach using an exhaustive literature review. It further states key factors and constraints to their success and failures. Many factors, such as technical, administrative, and sociological, influence their operation. The alert communication and its non-appropriate response is the main constraint to an EWS success. To bring out the main contributors of an effective EWS in a risk management context, this document synthesises their constraints and underlines some success criteria. The operation of an effective EWS requires a holistic approach instead of simple linear communication networks solely based on technology, which generally forget to integrate the community into the entire process. While the main goal of an EWS is to minimize the risk affecting a population, lowering its vulnerability necessitates a locally adapted system. Moreover, linking scientific to traditional knowledge can contribute to focusing on real and concrete societal needs, and facilitates knowledge sharing among stakeholders. Such a collaboration can be accomplished through environmental monitoring. Ultimately, feedbacks from communities into the system are imperative to reduce vulnerabilities to natural hazards.
Keywords: Systèmes d'alerte précoce, aléas naturels, changements environnementaux, vulnérabilité, gestion des risques, Early warning systems, natural hazards, environmental changes, vulnerability, risk management
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This article makes a novel argument that governance of corporate environmental activities should recognize that the business corporation is an aesthetic phenomenon, including the environmental practices and communications undertaken in the name of “corporate social responsibility” [CSR]. Corporate identities and CSR practices are aesthetically projected through logos, trademarks, websites, the presentation of products and services, stylish offices, company uniforms, and other aesthetic artefacts. This corporate “branding” dovetails with the broader aestheticization of our pervasive media and consumer culture. Aesthetics has particular salience in CSR for influencing, and sometimes misleading, public opinion about corporate environmental performance. Consequently, in disciplining unscrupulous corporate behaviour, governance methods must be more responsive to such aesthetic characteristics. The green illusions of business communications create difficulties for regulation, which is better suited to disciplining discrete misleading statements about retailed products or trademarks rather than tackling the broader aesthetic character of business and the marketplace. The article suggests that non-state actors who are more sensitive to aesthetics can help to fill some of this governance void. The “counter-aesthetic” strategies of social and environmental activist groups can inject a subversive narrative that can help to unmask these green illusions. Although the history of such tactics suggests they probably have only a modest effect in challenging corporate deception, the law can assist by protecting public spaces from corporate marketing and sponsorship.