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This article reports on the revival of the use of digital resources in Ivorian higher education since the first recorded case of coronavirus in March 2020. It first provides a reminder of the institutionalization of the policy development in Ivorian higher education. Then, it notes the possible impacts of the massive diffusion of digital university education in Côte d'Ivoire.

Keywords: Politique numérique, impacts anticipés, coronavirus, enseignement supérieur, Côte d'Ivoire, Digital policy, anticipated impacts, coronavirus, higher education, Côte d'Ivoire

Around the world, confinement measures imposed during the COVID‑19 pandemic have forced universities to shut down their campuses. Graduate students opted for online modalities to progress their academic writing projects, including theses and dissertations. In Canada, a non-profit organization named Thèsez‑vous implemented innovative digital strategies to support students in times of crisis. This article presents qualitative results obtained from 33 PhD students who have used said tools to continue their studies. A follow-on discussion focuses on existing digital learning environments and considerations for subsequent research.

Keywords: Pandémie, outils numériques, modalités virtuelles, cycles supérieurs, étudiants, rédaction académique, enseignement et apprentissage, Pandemic, digital tools, virtual modalities, higher studies, graduate students, academic writing, teaching and learning

This paper discusses the role of the DOBIS system at the National Library of Canada in the evolving library and information network in Canada. DOBIS is an on-line integrated library management system which has been developed by the National Library of Canada and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and is operated and maintained by the National Library of Canada. This system is used in a shared system/network mode by the National Library of Canada and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information to support their national services and also by the Library of Parliament and a growing number of Canadian federal government libraries to support their library operations. DOBIS has been operational since the fall of 1979. The DOBIS data base now contains over 2.3 million bibliographic records. Two of the major objectives of the National Library of Canada when it undertook the development of the DOBIS system were to facilitate library resources sharing across Canada, and to make the nation's information resources more readily accessible to all Canadians. In order to further fulfill these objectives, the National Library is now planning to use the DOBIS system and data base in its participation in the development of a decentralized Canadian library and information network, the goal of which is to get the right information where it is needed and when it is needed. The latest computer/communications technologies are being employed in this development. The basic development strategy involves linking together existing independently operating systems, one example being DOBIS, so that users of one system can have access to the services of the other interconnected systems. This strategy is called "open systems interconnection", or OSI, because the services of all the interconnected systems are open to one another.

Although the vulnerability of refugee women is a cornerstone of access to protection, it is rarely defined beyond its common-sense meaning - the risk of suffering harm. This article presents the results of an empirical research where 12 life histories were collected from Syrian refugee women responsible for supporting their families in Lebanon (7) and Québec (5). The analysis mobilized the concept of ambivalent vulnerability (Oliviero, 2016) and showed that women and their relatives were certainly exposed to forms of adversity, but also to transformative opportunities and to elements of continuity with their life trajectories.

Keywords: Femmes réfugiées, refugee women, responsabilité du soutien de la famille, family support, vulnérabilité, vulnerability, transnational feminism, féminisme transnational, Syrie, Syria, Lebanon, Liban, Québec, Québec

The adsorption of Victoria Blue Basic (VBB) dye on used cardboard (UC) was studied and compared to that on sawdust (SD). UC was characterized by several analytical techniques. The parameters influencing the reaction, such as pH, adsorbent dosage and contact time, were determined. The kinetic study revealed that the surface reaction fits a pseudo-second order model and that intra-particle diffusion is a determining step after the first minutes of contact. The influence of temperature on the adsorption allowed the determination of the thermodynamic parameters (ΔG°, ΔH° and ΔS°). Modeling of the experimental results predicted a spontaneous, endothermic sorption, the retention of which follows an unclear mechanism, between a monolayer and multilayer distribution on the UC. At pH 6, the adsorption capacity of the UC is 205 mg∙g-1, which is five times greater than that of SD.

Keywords: carton usagé, sciure de bois, Victoria Bleu Basique, adsorption, modélisation, used cardboard, sawdust, Victoria Blue Basic, adsorption, modeling

Our aim is to propose a typology of Crowdsourcing practice that can be used both for researchers and practitioners. We show that Crowdsourcing should not only be viewed as an original way to organize innovation; we propose a typology of CS practices based on the nature of the task which is crowdsourced. Three types of tasks are considered: simple task, creative task and problem solving. Our work offers a key to understand issues related to the business models of CS, such as the participants' motivation or trust relationships between the company and the crowd.

Keywords: crowdsourcing, innovation ouverte, externalisation, web 2.0, connaissance distribuée, crowdsourcing, Open innovation, outsourcing, web 2.0, distributed knowledge, crowdsourcing, innovación abierta, externalizacion, web 2.0, conocimiento distribuido

Since 2006, European translation agencies willing to work according to the EN 15038 standard on translation services have had to include revision in their process. However, the standard is not clear as to how revision has to be conducted and in particular, to the necessity of comparing source and target texts during the revision process. This observation lies at the basis of an ongoing research project on the impact of revision procedure on revision product and process. In this paper, a noncomparative revision procedure, named monolingual revision, will be compared to three comparative procedures: bilingual revision and two “double revisions,” i.e., a bilingual revision followed by a monolingual revision and a monolingual revision followed by a bilingual revision. The aim is to determine whether monolingual revision is efficient and if so, in what conditions and compared to which procedures. In the main study, the scores of 16 professional revisers, who had to revise four comparable target texts using one of the four procedures each time, have been compared as to quality of the revision (product), error detection potential, and process duration (process). An analysis of the variance (ANOVA) has shown that monolingual revision is not significantly less efficient than bilingual revision as to quality and error detection potential, but it does not take significantly less time either. In contrast, monolingual revision is significantly less efficient than double revisions, but it does take significantly less time.

Keywords: révision de traduction, procédures de révision, qualité de la révision, étude de processus, analyse statistique, translation revision, revision procedures, revision quality, process studies, statistical analysis

Keywords: cheminement doctoral, personnes étudiantes, agentivité collective, soutien, révision de programme