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AbstractIn this excerpt from her book Sackbut Blues, Gayle Young outlines the story of early electronic music, and provides a window into a specific historical era when scientific and artistic innovation were strongly supported by the public and by public institutions. It is based on many interviews with colleagues of Hugh Le Caine as well as excerpts from written correspondence. The musical intentions of Le Caine's instruments are outlined, as well as the technical means of creating them. His early emphasis on touch-sensitive keys, and the simultaneous control of many different musical parameters, was evident in the 1948 sackbut, an instrument in which he used voltage control for the first time, making the sackbut the first analogue synthesizer. His 1955 composition Dripsody, made on his prototype multi-track, used a keyboard similar to that in the sackbut, but rather than control electronic tone generators, it controlled the playback speed of several reels of tape. For Le Caine, sound was the basic medium of music, whether electronic or sampled.
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The purpose of the present paper is to move closer to two registers of knowledge : SMEs' offshoring and SMEs' networks. In order to, the Uppsala model and isomorphism concept to highlight the role of networks, inter-organizational or interpersonal, on SMEs' offshoring decisions.This analysis of the literature will be confronted to a qualitative study realized on two SMEs belonging to the same network.The results shows that networks can encourage a SMEs' offshoring-induced via a mimetic isomorphism and can stop this strategy via a coercive isomorphism.
Keywords: Effet réseau, PME, Délocalisation, Modèle Uppsala, Isomorphisme, Network effects, SMEs, Offshoring, Uppsala model, Isomorphism, Efecto de red, PyME, Deslocalizacion, Modelo de Uppsala, Isomorphismo
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AbstractOne encounters in Slavic countries many movements that strive to resuscitate the traditions and beliefs of the pre-Christian epoch. This “pagan renaissance” poses the problem of the identification of the boundaries of the religious and the spiritual. More than an approach turned toward the past, these movements just as much illustrate certain forms of transgression of the social boundaries of common sense. In order to distinguish the forms taken by individual faith, we offer as inspiration the phenomenological approach of Alfred Schütz to examine the case of the figure of Žiarislav and the community of the Native Circle. We distinguish between ordinary faith, rooted in the common sense of collective intersubjectivity, and heroic faith, nourished in the romanticism of an imaginary and fantastic world.
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This paper seeks to verify whether two of the trends most often revealed in the educational science literature can be confirmed once again: 1) a shrinking of young people's interest in mathematics and sciences around the age of 14 to 16; and 2) the distancing of certain paths by some students, which might have led to the pursuit of a scientific career. The methodology deployed, qualitative in nature, led to the description and analysis of the content of nearly 500 reports of knowledge written by pupils in the third secondary enrolled in four different schools. The results obtained nuance these two major findings and rather reveal a strong internalization of school standards in general and the perceived usefulness of mathematics and sciences in particular.
Keywords: mathématiques, sciences, rapport aux savoirs, recherche qualitative, normes scolaires, mathematics, science, relationships to knowledge, qualitative research, school standards, matemáticas, ciencia, relación con el conocimiento, investigación cualitativa, estándares escolares
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This article explores the foundation of a French Canadian immigrant community in Palm Beach, Florida in the Post-war years. The arrival of an ever-growing contingent of tourists and snowbirds during the 1960s and 1970s transformed this community. Formerly focused on integration into American society, it now set out to create a francophone context well connected to French Canada. If economic imperatives often motivated this migration, the « fear » of winter also appears to be an element of continuity in French Canadian Florida.
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AbstractEconometrics of Competition between Differentiated Products: Theory and Empirical Methods. The evolution of the industrial concentration has lead to a change in the relationships between manufacturers and retailers. This paper focuses on the measure of market power and the analysis of the competitive interactions between manufacturers and retailers. The analysis of horizontal and vertical relationships is based on structural econometric methods. To measure the market power, price-cost margins at manufacturers and retailers levels are recovered from demand estimated parameters and different hypothesis of strategic interactions are tested. This paper proposes a survey of this literature where discrete choice models, such as multinomial logit models, the modelisation of strategic vertical interactions and non-nested tests for competing models are developped.
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In a society where workers are using psychoactive substances in their workplace, what type of prevention can we propose in order to limit the risks? The aim of this research is to contribute to the improvement of current prevention systems. This work is grounded within an Inter-company Occupational Health and Prevention Service (IOHPS). Data were collected during four prevention interventions in companies affiliated with the service. These interventions were documented to assist in the development of new collective and primary prevention approaches for substance use in the workplace. Developing preventive actions in the workplace requires collective and multidisciplinary collaboration between occupational health professionals and company stakeholders. Based on studies conducted on the analysis of mental health interventions in the workplace, our results confirmed the importance of the five essential conditions that facilitate the development of actions highlighted by Rouat (Rouat, 2010; Rouat et al., 2021). They also identified two additional conditions: the establishment of a common set of representations and the preexistence of a framework that facilitates prevention. We have identified a set of factors that can constrain these interventions. Thus, performance-driven approaches to occupational health, lack of support in implementing interdisciplinary projects, or the digitalization of relationships between occupational health stakeholders can influence the success of substance use prevention projects. Given that addictive behaviours intersect personal and professional spheres, we emphasize the importance of applying occupational and organizational psychology principles in this area of intervention.
Keywords: Conduites addictives, Addictive behaviour, Travail, Work, Prévention, Prevention, Santé au travail, Occupational health
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Research Framework: This article is based on a PhD research in socio-anthropology about the transmission of familial memory among Rwandans living in France. We are interested in the day-to-day kinship of orphans after the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Objectives: The objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of family reconfigurations in post-genocide Rwanda. We will see how the care of orphans has transformed the boundaries of kinship. Methodology: We conducted an ethnographic study based on a non-linear fieldwork from 2014 to 2019. We carried out semi-directive interviews with Rwandans living in France who were less than 20 years old in 1994, as well as with their family members, in France or in Rwanda. This was complemented with the development of kinship trees and with observations made during commemorations. Results: We document here several hosting situations for orphans after the Tutsi genocide: foster care, children's households and orphanages. The Rwandan government pursued family-based policy that aimed at “reunification” or placement in a family. We present configurations of households of care that may or may not involve relatives, or even protect themselves from them . Conclusions: The genocide provoked a crisis of orphans' care that impacted kinship relations, through acts of solidarity or hostility. Households of care and lines of transmission have seen their boundaries redrawn by affective and material exclusion and inclusion of orphans. Contribution: The article allows us to reinscribe kinship relations and everyday kinship in a given socio-economical and historical context, that of post-genocide Rwanda. It sheds light on the family and societal changes that occur in the aftermath of genocide.
Keywords: Orphelin, parenté, génocide, Rwanda, fratrie, prise en charge, famille, Orphan, kinship, genocide, Rwanda, siblings, care, family, Huérfano, parentesco, genocidio, Ruanda, hermandad, cuidado, familia
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In 1543 Claude Chappuys published Le Discours de la court, a long poem in praise of the court of Francis I. This text, a hybrid of moral allegory and enumerative discourse, recalls themes, structures, and poetic language that can be found in Guillaume de Lorris, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and above all, as I will argue, Marot, with whom Chappuys had collaborated earlier, for example in the context of the Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin. Yet at the same time, and more importantly, this article demonstrates that Chappuys’s poem, despite its non-controversial tone, can be read as an implicit rejection of key aspects of Marot’s heritage. Indeed, Chappuys condemns Marot’s polemical vein indirectly through the negative depiction of the Pasquin-L’Arétin duo, a clear figure of the satirical genre, and through veiled allusions to L’Enfer and the coq-à-l’âne poems. This presence of Marot in the intertext of an extremely consensual work written for Francis I is all the more significant when one remarks that the Discours was published just a few months after Marot’s flight to Geneva, in a renewed context of interconfessional tension; it constitutes, so to say, the poem’s flipside. Symptomatically, the only direct mention of Marot in the Discours is laconic, "Marot was here," and can be read in different ways. This article can be seen as a discussion of this short phrase and its resonances, with special attention given to its specific location in the carefully elaborated catalogue of the court that makes up the second half of the work. Generally speaking, the following offers an introduction to Chappuys’ poem and attempts to rehabilitate a work that has been neglected or read primarily in a political perspective.