Search results for "Comparative"

Childcare and parental work schedules: a comparison of childcare arrangements among Finnish, British and Dutch dual-earner families

2015

This study examined the association between parental work schedules and non-parental childcare arrangements among dual-earner families in Finland, the Netherlands and the UK. Data from the ‘Families 24/7’ web-survey were used, including 937 parents with children aged 0-12 years. Results showed a negative association between non-standard work and formal childcare across all countries. A similar association was found for using a combination of formal and informal childcare, whereas solely using informal childcare was not associated with work characteristics. Country differences showed that, compared with Finland, the probability of using formal childcare was lower in the Netherlands, whereas …

Education, training and the economy : preparing young people for a changing labour market

2006

Modelling analysis of centroid curves of olfactory habituation in humans

2020

Indexation en cours.; International audience; Previously published experiments established the time-course of olfactory habituation in humans, and extracted 3 centroid curves from clustering analysis that reflected high, middle and low habituation. The aim of the current theoretical study was to further analyse these previous experimental data by developing a mathematical modelling analysis designed for fitting the 3 curves from a general equation. After adjusting equation parameters for each curve, fitting equation outcomes on experimental data yielded high correlation coefficients of 0.9997 – 0.9995 – 0.9962, respectively. A model-based interpretation of olfactory-habituation centroid cur…

Biological nitrogen fixation for the 21st century

1998

The biodiversity of nitrogen-fixing organisms is huge. Taxonomic and phylogenetic research is needed to structure this diversity, to facilitate communication among scientists, and to increase our understanding of the evolution and biology of diazotrophs. Molecular tools for taxonomic and biodiversity studies of diazotrophic rhizobia, frankiae, cyanobacteria and bacilli are presented in sections 2 to 5. Sections 6 to 9 focus on problems with genus and species assignment.

Population Structure and Comparative Genome Hybridization of European Flor Yeast Reveal a Unique Group of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains with Few G…

2014

Wine biological aging is a wine making process used to produce specific beverages in several countries in Europe, including Spain, Italy, France, and Hungary. This process involves the formation of a velum at the surface of the wine. Here, we present the first large scale comparison of all European flor strains involved in this process. We inferred the population structure of these European flor strains from their microsatellite genotype diversity and analyzed their ploidy. We show that almost all of these flor strains belong to the same cluster and are diploid, except for a few Spanish strains. Comparison of the array hybridization profile of six flor strains originating from these four co…

Development of a knowledge graph framework to ease and empower translational approaches in plant research: a use-case on grain legumes

2023

Legumes, and especially pulses, are an important source of protein for food and feed, and are appreciated for their positive impact on the “one health”. However, their unstable yields and their susceptibility to biotic and abiotic stresses highlight the need for varietal improvement in order to increase the cultivated areas and productivity. With the advent of sequencing technologies, a large pool of genetic and -omics resources, heterogeneous at the inter- and intra-species scale, is emerging. Thus, it is important to capitalize on these scattered heterogeneous data to develop translational research to boost breeding projects and crop diversification. To meet this need, we undertook the de…

Contextes spatiaux et transformations du système de peuplement : approche comparative et prédictive

2012

International audience; Contextes spatiaux et transformations du système de peuplement : approche comparative et prédictive

Considering variations among regional case studies : settlement pattern and land use dynamic during antiquity

2018

International audience

Héritage(s) de Weimar. Eclairages historiques sur l'interdiction des partis politiques dans le droit constitutionnel allemand

2018

Tentative de comparaison de l'équité des systèmes éducatifs français et américain

2002

Hier werden drei Gerechtigkeitsprinzipien definiert, mit deren Hilfe versucht wird, das Gerechtigkeitsniveau des französischen und des amerikanischen Bildungssystems miteinander zu vergleichen, d.h. zu entscheiden, welches der beiden Systeme die Konkretisierung jedes dieser Prinzipien am stärksten begünstigt. Dabei wird berücksichtigt, dass sie durch die Rahmenbedingungen in den beiden Ländern - insbesondere die sozialen Ungleichheiten - mehr oder weniger stark beeinflusst werden können. Die drei Prinzipien lauten: Jeder muss bei Schulabgang über minimale Kompetenzen verfügen; die individuellen Kompetenzungleichheiten dürfen nicht das gleichberechtigte gesellschaftliche Miteinander beeinträ…