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Interprofessional education (IPE) has been a key area of research and teaching practice for the past twenty years in both university and practice settings in the health sciences and social psychology. IPE training opportunities arise when students from multiple health professions interactively learn together about interprofessional collaboration and how to improve care outcomes for the community at large. It has been proven that the design of care is of higher quality when healthcare professionals understand each other's respective roles, facilitating their communication and teamwork. However, this type of pedagogical approach to interdisciplinary training is fraught with problems, such as communication barriers, synchronization of schedules and logistics, as well as the compartmentalization of professions, which can lead to prejudice despite the educational efforts made. What's more, these courses are attended by large cohorts of initial university trainees, and their pedagogical design may lack authentic anchors, thus diminishing the ability of individuals to mobilize interprofessional collaboration in care partnerships. This article proposes a theoretical model based on an enhanced capability approach, including the use of pedagogical design for student success, to design this type of training by overcoming.

Keywords: agentivité, agentivity, capabilities, capabilités, interprofessional collaboration, collaboration interprofessionnelle, design pédagogique, educational design, éducation supérieure, higher education, health sciences pedagogy, pédagogie en sciences de la santé, partenariat patient, patient partnership, interprofessional education, éducation interprofessionnelle, student success, réussite étudiante

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

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

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.

The Cité-Jardin du Tricentenaire, a residential enclave located near the Olympic Stadium in East End Montreal, has been undergoing a population and real estate market transformation. For the past 25 years, there has been a substantial increase in the market value of residential properties, that is also associated with socio-demographic, economic and architectural changes. In 2009, an urban planning tool was adopted to control changes that the residents wish to apply to their properties. However, the implementation of these architectural regulations has led to the emergence of different visions between the long-established residents and the newer ones. In order to better understand the dynamics at work, we conducted a survey with all the residents of the Cité-Jardin in 2019. This article provides the context in which the bylaws were implemented, and the results of our study.

Keywords: Cité-jardin du Tricentenaire, Cité-Jardin du Tricentenaire, increase in the market value of residential properties, augmentation de la valeur des propriétés, PIIA, PIIA, urban planning tool, outil d’urbanisme, Plan d'implantation et d'intégration architecturale

House prices in the United States stir up worries because in less than a decade, they have exceeded the record high reached before the subprime crisis. Those worries have inspired this paper of which the aim is to highlight the robust determinants of house prices in the United States after the Great Recession. Thus, based on the economic literature and data availability, 12 potential determinants of house prices have been selected. Those monthly data covering the period from July 2009 – date at which the American economy came out of recession – to April 2019, are studied using the approaches of extreme bound analysis developed by Leamer and Leonard (1983) and by Sala-i-Martin (1997) respectively. The results show that construction spending, rent inflation, mortgage rate, real estate loan, economic activity and quantitative easing are robust determinants of house prices. Except for quantitative easing, the determinants highlighted in this paper are regularly cited in the literature because they are related to the fundamentals of the real estate sector. Thus, the irrational exuberance that could be associated with the current evolution of house prices in the United States might be due to the quantitative easing programs implemented by the Federal Reserve.