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In the current VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) context, digital echnology has the potential to support SME value creation and to help develop their resilience in achieving strategic objectives. It is now possible, using Industry 4.0 technologies, to measure productivity supported by management control tied to sustainable practices. Given that the digital technology shift has only been implemented by a minority of SMEs in Quebec and considering that the technological maturity of regional SMEs, particularly in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, remains to be defined, this study aims to innovate with an analysis model of the level of digital technology maturity incorporating an index of sustainable practices for SMEs.
Keywords: Audit, Assessment, auto-audit, self-readiness assessment, maturité numérique, maturity levels, industrie 4.0, industry 4.0, PME, SME
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Keywords: perceptions, culture des jeunes, enseignement des arts au secondaire, stratégies pédagogiques d’intégration à l’enseignement
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We propose to characterize the organization of the French digital university, examining its processes of manufacture, operation and governance by interrogating the concept of rhizome, developed in 1980 by Deleuze and Guattari. By French digital university, we mean the digital technologies that underpin the operation and management of higher education. This article aims to describe the various organizational forms observed (associations, public interest groups, consortiums, public institutions ...), as well as their interactions, adopting a categorical approach in a bid to make this deeply organic organization intelligible as it develops discretely through the interaction of the actors who make it up. The analysis of this dynamic allows us to grasp the complexity of the French university digital ecosystem and to understand how the players involved collaborate, interact and influence the evolution of the system, thus forming a form of new governance. Using interviews conducted over the past two years and information gathered formally and informally, we examine the mechanisms of this ecosystem, highlighting the modes of action of the various players, including universities, technology companies and public bodies. This approach offers a rhizomic perspective on the evolution of digital technology in French higher education.
Keywords: organización rizómica, organisation rhizomique, rhizomic organization, universidad digital, numérique universitaire, digital university, gouvernance publique, public governance, gobernanza pública, university, universidad, université, digital mutations dynamics, dinámica de las mutaciones digitales, dynamique des mutations numériques
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Saint-Jean-Eudes is a neighbourhood located between the Chicoutimi and Jonquière district limits in he city of Saguenay. Situated between the Rio Tinto plant and the Saguenay River, it has undergone many changes in recent years. Since it is one of the last neighbourhoods in the city of Saguenay to have preserved the characteristics of a working-class sector until the 2000s, it is a case of interest for studying and understanding the transformations of a working-class neighbourhood. This text presents the results of qualitative research carried out in urban sociology. The study allows us to observe how the social and economic changes that have occurred in recent decades have modified social relations in this urban area and have transformed the lifestyles of the inhabitants as well as their perceptions of the industrial environment of the neighbourhood.
Keywords: Saint-Jean-Eudes, Saint-Jean-Eudes, social transformation, transformation sociale, working-class, classe ouvrière, urban sociology, sociologie urbaine
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We have identified three points that demonstrate the normative influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on intellectual property law. First, the application of intellectual property law to AI is going to be conditioned by the ethical and legal norms that frame the use of AI. Second, AI is a tricky innovation to bring into the intellectual property fold because of its evolving nature. Its introduction into the field of intellectual property law inexorably leads to the transformation of the main notions of this law, and in particular the notions of protectable creation and protected creator. Thirdly, it appears from the above that intellectual property law has not yet been adapted to AI. On the other hand, outside of intellectual property law, several rules have already been adopted to foster the development of AI. In particular, they aim to make accessible the data necessary for AI to function. Finally, intellectual property law, as it exists today, does not seem to be the regime chosen to foster AI technologies.
Keywords: droit d’auteur, copyright, European law, droit européen, creation, création, IA, AI, patent, brevet, données, data, données ouvertes, open data
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The Mousterian site of Pech de l’Azé IV is located in Carsac (Dordogne) in the Perigord region of southwest of France, very near the town of Sarlat. The site was excavated during the 1970s by F. Bordes but it was never well published. In 2000 we published a study of the lithics from Bordes’ excavations. From 2000 to 2003 we conducted new work at the site to re-study the stratigraphy in order, to better understand the site’s formation processes, and to obtain dates from the sequence. We present here some initial results on the geology, a description of the stone tool industries, and some initial ESR dates (the dating program is still in progress). A detailed micro-and macroscopic study of the eight main stratigraphic levels shows that the sandy deposits come from a vast cave system that likely includes all the sites of Pech de l’Azé (I, II, and IV). The lowest level, which is characterized by dark, organic sediments, is particularly interesting. It includes within it multiple combustion zones that show evidence of having been subsequently trampled and perhaps emptied. Though the deposits come from a temperate climate, the sediments of anthropogenic origin are nevertheless well conserved. Macroscopically, there are traces of solifluction in the sequence, but the micromorphological analysis shows practically no evidence of a cold climate. As for the lithic industries, the new collection is in general comparable to that of Bordes. Nevertheless, there are some new elements including the presence of Quina technology in the upper part of the sequence.
Keywords: Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian, Neanderthal, micromorphology, geology, archaeology, site formation processes, lithic industries, human remains, restes humains, Paléolithique moyen, Moustérien, Néandertal, micromorphologie, géoarchéologie, processus de formation des sites, feu, taphonomie, industrie lithique
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Access to healthcare services remains a major issue in Quebec. The development of technologies in the healthcare field now provides interesting opportunities to improve access to healthcare services. The objective of this study is to show the opportunities of e-health technologies for improving access to healthcare services in Quebec, more specifically in remote areas. This study shows that e-health technologies provide advantages for both patients and healthcare professionals, and that e-health technologies can improve access to healthcare services in rural areas. This study also identifies certain barriers that must be overcome to enhance healthcare services for Quebec’s population.