British discussions of French technical culture have often assumed, if not explicitly stated, contrasting ‘national styles’ : centralized, state-oriented, theoretically driven, and institutionally supported work in France ; dispersed, individualistic, empirically driven, school-shy practice in Brita...

International audience This document presents some insight which intends to question the reconfiguration of social and temporal-spatial relations and representations about sociality and uses of public space in youngsters and adults who live in the city of La Plata, Argentina. With this aim, we have...

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International audience This research relates to a 4-year study of the implementation of a financial and accounting internal control (FAIC) system in a medium-sized French university. More particularly, we examine the interactions between a new FAIC system and certain university actors to analyze the...

Despite numerous investments that have been made to increase access to education in sub-Saharan Africa, a noteworthy share of children drop out of school prior to completing primary education. To address this issue, this thesis examines the factors that drive education decisions in a rural risky env...

One way to understand the notion of Morphogenesis Unbound is to focus on the meso level of society, i.e. to look at society as an ‘organizational society’ and to think about the co-evolution of structure, agency and culture – the three dimensions of Archer’s sociology, analytically speaking – in tha...

The problem in Senegal is the following: how can we be infanticide? Since the tragedy of Euripide — because before this work we do not have an attestation of Act 1 — it is a facet of Médée that has become predominant and will mark all the myth’s recalitions, starting with that of the Latin Médée. Th...

International audience Background: Multiscale entropy (MSE) estimates the predictability of a signal over multiple temporal scales. It has been recently applied to study brain signal variability, notably during aging. The grounds of its application and interpretation remain unclear and subject to de...

EI Quintana Roo territory in south-eastern Mexico, on the border with Bel ice, was born in 1902. One of the recurrent difficulties of the territory was the lack of population and the measures taken to attract new inhabitants. And also to define these inhabitants. In this peripheral region, the popul...

In recent years, traditional coastal defense strategy has become increasingly unpopular as it is costly and lastingly scars the landscape with sometimes limited effectiveness or even adverse impact. Mimicking natural reefs, submerged breakwaters aims to protect the coast, decreasing wave energy thro...

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International audience The study of the organisation of metalworking in the Bronze Age is often limited to the study of bronze objects. Evidence of casting is rather scarce and by far not representative of metal masses known in the archaeological records.The discoveries made in Aubervilliers, Rue Sa...

Objective: The purpose of this research was to verify the determinants of the voluntary web-based disclosure of the Brazilian Bavarian sewerage companies.Basis: This is a study based on the theory of the Agency, the theory of referral, the theory of legality and the theory of political costs. Method...

The role and number of intermediaries involved in the process of artistic mediation tend to be all the more important as the art world becomes more autonomous, ruled by specific values, words and actions. This is particularly obvious in the case of contemporary visual arts, as this article demonstra...

International audience Weathering processes have been studied in detail for many natural building stones. The most commonly used analytical techniques in these studies are thin-section petrography, SEM, XRD and XRF. Most of these techniques are valuable for chemical and mineralogical analysis of the...

“L’Eurocratie”: the word exists in all languages and alphabets of the European Union. But beyond the more or less fantastic representations that this word conveys, be it parliamentarians, Commissioners, officials, permanent representatives, lobbyists and interest representatives, members of the Gove...

The study of more than 3 000 death inventories drawn up by Roman notaries between 1628 and 1732 gives an insight into the social condition of the holders of paintings, stamps and statues, but also the purpose they sought by bringing together such objects: affirmation of a religious faith, an interes...

'pbArticulated around three main structuring axes of political science — political strengths, attitudes and behaviours; identities, communities and citizenship; roles, regimes and institutions — this book aims to demonstrate the richness and vitality of comparative French-speaking politics and to gi...

An original study to produce bibliometric indicators on the scientific output of the inter-hospital-university regions of metropolitan France has been entrusted to the Observatory of Science and Technology by the two conferences of Directors-General and Chairs of the Medical Committees of Hospital a...

International audience Although recent studies have brought new insight into the mechanisms of spatial memory and cognitive strategies during navigation, most of these studies have concerned two-dimensional navigation and little is known regarding the problem of three-dimensional (3D) spatial memory...

until recently, social sciences have favoured a top-down approach to the state and administrations, for example through sociology of senior civil servants and research into the development and implementation of public service reforms. But what are the practices and representations of public services...

National audience Cet article aims to provide an insight into a dynamic that is still in its infancy but is part of the establishment of international migration governance (Lacroix and Desille 2018): what are the factors that explain the rise of city networks in migration? What are the different cat...

The mid-20th century American decline in income inequality has beencalled “the greatest leveling of all time,” despite a similarly unmatchedrate of economic growth. To establish this insight, pioneering researchhas tracked a century of top income shares. However, limitations inthe historical data ha...

Developments in technology have not only transformed aspects of our daily life, but they have also impacted the way in how illicit transactions are organised, such as illicit drug supply and demand. This book focuses on illicit drug transactions through drug marketplaces on the dark web, also called...