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Major international organizations guide the curricular orientations to be followed by European universities. The idea behind this orientation is to tackle major societal challenges by responding, among other things, to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We examine the curricula content related to the internalization of master’s degrees through the participation in European programs. We note the risks of weakening scientific references linked to the fragmented modes of calls for projects and the risks of referring to a single model, between benchmarks, exchanges of good practices, and unequal access to funding. This raises issues of reorganization of international power hierarchies through university systems and once again questions diversity and multiculturalism in curricula.
Keywords: Higher education, Enseignement supérieur, curriculum, curriculum, objectifs de développement durable, sustainable development goals, power, pouvoirs, multiculturalism, pluriculturalisme, diversity, diversité
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In order to contextualize our article « Le dessin e(s)t l’œuvre : Collections dessins et œuvres plastiques de la Cinémathèque française » published in this issue, we have conducted interviews with two participants, hoping to highlight the relationship between painting and cinema. They have had an opposite background - Florence Miailhe, as a painter who became a film director of "animated painting"; Solweig von Kleist as a film director who then turned to pluridisciplinary arts and experimental animation. These dialogues are a testimony to Cinémathèque française's desire to integrate in its collection elements that are between the arts.
Keywords: painting animation, peinture animée, animation, cinéma d’animation, special collections, non-film, creative process, processus créatif, live animation performance, live animation performance, engraving on film, gravure sur pellicule
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In March 2020, Quebec was struck hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. This disaster, which was to last over three years, had multiple effects, particularly in urban and regional planning. The overall objective of this article is to learn what were the perceptions and reactions of planners working within regional county municipalities (RCMs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the general feeling of renewed interest in rural areas and outdoor activities, several negative effects have been noted such as housing crisis, reduced mobility and weakening of the commercial fabric. These impacts were perceived as significant, regardless of the location of the RCMs. Despite this, most professionals working in RCMs that participated in the study seem to consider that the planning documents in use met the territorial dimensions of the health disaster.
Keywords: Urban planning, Urbanisme, development, aménagement, MRC, MRC, COVID-19, COVID-19, Quebec, Québec
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During their career, police officers have the opportunity to move into various specializations specific to the police function, including crime scene units, i.e. units bringing together specialized police officers responsible for inspecting and investigating crime scenes. This particular function requires knowledge that is distinct from more traditional police knowledges, insofar as it implies knowledge of the physicochemical principles of transfer and persistence of traces specific to forensic science. However, we still know little about how crime scene examiners acquire such knowledge, and how they value the ones they acquire through training (explicit knowledge) and practice (tacit knowledge). The present study therefore seeks to explore the processes by which Quebec crime scene examiners construct specialized knowledge relevant to crime scene inspection. The results suggest the marked predominance of experiential learning and informal professional socialization over formal learning for crime scene examiners. In this sense, such results invite further empirical investigation into the actual mechanisms of knowledge construction and their effects on the beliefs and performance of crime scene examiners.
Keywords: Crime scene investigation, Investigation de scène de crime, Socialisation professionnelle, professional socialization, Formation policière, police training, Savoirs explicites, explicit knowledge, Savoirs tacites, tacit knowledge
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Coastal floods are commonly associated to meteorological local storm conditions and well-known storm surge phenomenon resulting from both reversed barometric effect and wind driven setup. The wave breaking plays a major role too in water level variation on the beach. It causes two kinds of water level changes: a static component called wave setup and an instantaneous one called swash or uprush. Those to phenomenon are responsible in certain case for more than 2/3 of total level rises above mean sea level. During Lenny and Omar hurricane circulation, the Martinique island west coast was considerably affected. Water levels reached during the two hurricanes circulation was reconstituted (hindcasting method) for North West Coast of de island, particularly for the district of St Pierre. Variation factors was decomposed and modeled with nesting method using ADCIRC hydrodynamic model for tide and meteorological surge. The propagation model SWAN and breaking wave model pCOULWAVE, was used to estimate wave setup and swash components. This work about decomposition of sea water variation level associated to reconstitution of floods limits by field inquest and evidences, point up the district vulnerability in front of strong hurricane swell. It also shows the necessity to consider all sea level variation factors in flood risk studies in terms of preventive documents and actions.
Keywords: submersion, houles cycloniques, surcote de vague, jet de rive, Mer des Caraïbes, Martinique, coastal floods, hurricane swell, wave setup, runup, Caribbean Sea, Martinique Island
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Background. Use of performance-enhancing drugs by young adults is a growing concern in public health, particularly for academic and sport organizations, postsecondary institutions and health authorities.Methods. A sample of 469 students between 18 and 24 years of age completed a survey on use of alcohol, tobacco and doping products and motivations for these practices. Multiple logistic regressions have been used to study associations between use of these products and socio-economic and academic variables.Results. Three quarters of students had consumed at least one doping product in the last year, other that alcohol, to improve physical or intellectual performance. This includes cannabis (25,0%), energy drinks (38,0%), protein and creatine supplements (22,0 %) and caffeine pills (13,0%). Findings demonstrate that students participating in league sports are more likely to consume alcohol and cannabis than students not in a league sport. Associations exist between ethnolinguistic group and use of alcohol, caffeine pills, energy drinks, as well as alcohol and energy drink mixes and alcohol and drug mixes. Most common motivations for use of these products are to reduce stress and stay awake.Conclusion. Prevention strategies are needed, targeting students according to ethnolinguistic origins, as practices differ among the diverse student populations in Canadian universities.
Keywords: performance intellectuelle et physique, alcool, tabac et drogues, boisson énergisante, minorité linguistique, ligue de sport, étudiants postsecondaires, intellectual and physical performance, substance use, linguistic minority, league sports, postsecondary students, rendimiento intelectual y físico, alcohol, tabaco y drogas, bebidas energizantes, minoría lingüística, liga de deportes, estudiantes postsecundarios
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Relatively new in the Quebec sociopolitical landscape, the notion of social acceptance is being gradually considered as a prerequisite for successful major infrastructure projects. Developers must demonstrate that impacted populations agree with their endeavour. Municipal elected representatives—and mayors in particular—are directly concerned by these dynamics, which are not without contradicting tensions. On the one hand, developers pressure the mayor to support their project and use their political leadership to actively promote it. On the other hand, citizens expect their mayor to remain neutral and favour the common good. All in all, mayors seem ill-equipped to consider projects and their stakeholders from a public good perspective, and to manage these processes with complete objectivity, especially when important financial compensations are involved. Based on the plural notion of legitimacy, we study these dynamics through the case of the development of a windmill farm in Saint-Valentin (Montérégie, Québec), which we compare to a project aimed at enlarging a landfill facility in Saint-Thomas (Lanaudière, Québec). In light of those two cases, we put forward that participatory mechanisms should be handed over to municipal elected representatives in order to develop a shared vision for planning their territory, within which future projects could be presented and discussed. We add that this vision should rely on the consideration of all the stakeholders' points of view on a given territory.