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Although Human Resources Management (HRM) examines the issue of people at work and their management from the angle of how best to serve an organization's performance, occupational health issues are still a blind spot in its research. Following the lead of Chakor, Abord de Chatillon, and Bachelard (2015 2 ) in their review of occupational health and safety research, we attempted to find out how scientific managerial approaches are constructed and how researchers in HRM position themselves with regard to occupational health. A sizeable corpus of texts - which were selected from three sources that were identified as representative of the management sub-discipline that is HRM - were subjected to both thematic content and descriptive statistical analyzes. We demonstrated the gradual empowerment of HRM researchers by building a managerial corpus for workplace health and we identified the salient features that characterize occupational health research in HRM in terms of research objects, methodologies, interdisciplinarity, and stances. This article concludes with a proposed research agenda for HRM scholars working on occupational health.
Keywords: gestion des ressources humaines, management, santé, travail, interdisciplinarité, human resources management, management, health, work, interdisciplinarity, gestión de recursos humanos, gestión, salud, trabajo, interdisciplinariedad
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Designed in the Cold War period, the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reveals the diverging interest of powers disposing of nuclear weapons and of those others States who nonetheless wished to make a civilian use of nuclear technologies. Thus, the IAEA is vested with a twofold mission-statement: on one hand to control the military dissemination of nuclear weapons and on the other the management of the sanitary risks for persons and property. Based on the observation of the Agency's culture and behaviour, the author maintains that the agency's failings in performing its mandate rest on an inadequate perception of its place within the international legal order and on a short-sighted understanding of the terms of its Statute. ln light of international law governing international organisations and their relations with States, the author presents five of those failings: (1) the absence of an effective autonomy from the Member-States; (2) a defective conception of the guaranties regime; (3) insufficient results in the application of safety norms; (4) a misunderstanding of the legislative assistance competence and (5) a lack of respect for the principles of independence of international officials. The author concludes that if the IAEA wants to be in a position to keep on playing its capital part in the post Cold War world order, it has to modernize both conceptually and factually its working practices, reform its institutional culture and restructure its action.
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The practice of concluding peace agreements and other political arrangements seems to be the preferred way to put an end to political crises or non-international armed conflicts. These agreements have become mechanisms for resolving crises outside the existing constitutional framework. The article resurrects the debate on the issue of the legal status of peace agreements and other political arrangements in light of the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the East African Community of States in the case of The East African Civil Society Organizations' Forum vs The Attorney General of Burundi and Two Others. The Court concludes that the Arusha Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Burundi is an international agreement. After analyzing the relevant doctrine and jurisprudence in international law, the author concludes that peace agreements, with a few exceptions, are not international agreements contrary to the Court's conclusion. They are subject to domestic law by the laws that incorporate them into the domestic legal order and under the status of negotiating-signatory parties without the legal capacity to conclude agreements governed by international law. The strong involvement and presence of subjects of international law such as States and international organizations as mediators, witnesses, observers, co-signatories, or guarantors of the implementation of the agreements does not have the effect of internationalizing them. The article concludes with reflections on the place and status of these agreements in domestic law.
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REAL USE OF EVERYDAY TECHNICAL OBJECTS BY THE AGED Maryline Specht, Jean-Claude Sperandio and Cecilia De la Garza This article first presents an ergonomie approach to everyday technical objects for the aged. It then studies the impact of ageing of all people, whether handicapped or not, on the use of technical objects. Finally, it gives the results of the first stage of a broad survey on processes of learning use of the Internet by the aged.
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La Ligne rouge de Hans Zimmer. Matrice d'un « nouvel Hollywood » électro-minimaliste et contemplatif
More informationThrough a comparative study of several films with a contemplative narrative context such as Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998), a score-matrix that marked a clear evolution in Zimmerian aesthetics, Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001), The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2006) “the most sophisticated synthesis of the influences of minimalism” (Berthomieu 2013, p. 698), to scores that Hans Zimmer composed for Christopher Nolan as Inception (2010) and Interstellar (2014), this article shows how Zimmer manages to impose a new musical trend in Hollywood by integrating a pared-down writing impregnated notably by the minimalism of Arvo Pärt to loops developed by synthesizers or electronic sounds: if tributes to works of Arvo Pärt are appropriate to highligh inner torment or dark meditation, Zimmer also takes up more general principles of this form of minimalism – often an immutable and infinitely repeated oscillation around a minor perfect chord – almost systematically mixed with this creative energy of hybrid timbres, to create another temporality bringing a form of ineluctable to the image while maintaining empathy and discreet synchronism as supports for the action (The Thin Red Line, Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Inception). The fifth – alone, in ostinato or repeated on a motif –, which is the quintessence of the Zimmerian tintinnabuli (beyond the perfect Pärtian agreement), emphasizes the suspended moment (The Thin Red Line, Hannibal, Interstellar), while a form of radicalization of this minimalism which sometimes goes as far as the negation of any melody, replaced by a single note, becoming abstract texture, or by a diatonic cluster in blend mode (The Da Vinci Code, Interstellar), evokes despair, death, or nothingness. Far from being a “world” which “is reduced to the emptiness of a present without a dream” (Berthomieu 2004, p. 75), Zimmer's electro-minimalist and contemplative writing, marked by a strong narrative coherence, is connected to the aesthetic program of the films for which it is intended.
Keywords: Zimmer, électro-minimaliste, minismalisme, contemplatif, Pärt, statique, électronique, synthétique, hybride, texture abstraite, matrice, épure, radicalisation, Zimmer, electro-minimalism, minismalism, contemplative, Pärt, static, electronic, synthetic, hybrid, abstract texture, matrix, outline, radicalization