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Coaches' reflections on the meaning and value of Masters athletics
2019
Masters sport is a growing social movement offering the opportunity to participate in competitive sports in later life. Although many studies have explored Masters athletes' experiences, little is known about how other actors in the sport subcultures construct meaning in Masters sport and whether their stories work to support or hinder participation. Our study explored the cultural narrative resources and life scripts surrounding sport and ageing that coaches draw upon in two European countries, England and Finland, where sport policy has put different emphasis on elite sport and sport for all. We analysed interviews from 23 athletics (track and field) coaches (8 women) to understand how th…
The association between Mediterranean Diet Score and glucokinase regulatory protein gene variation on the markers of cardiometabolic risk: an analysi…
2014
Consumption of a Mediterranean diet (MD) and genetic variation in the glucokinase regulatory protein (GCKR) gene have been reported to be associated with TAG and glucose metabolism. It is uncertain whether there is any interaction between these factors. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to test the association of adherence to a MD and rs780094 (G>A) SNP in theGCKRgene with the markers of cardiometabolic risk, and to investigate the interaction between genetic variation and MD adherence. We studied 20 986 individuals from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk study. The relative Mediterranean Diet Score (rMED: range 0–18) was used to assess MD adher…
Améliorer l'école
2006
06003; "L'idée que l'école peut s'améliorer n'est pas qu'un acte de foi. Les recherches empiriques en sciences sociales mettent en évidence que l'école agit à partir d'un contexte social qui en détermine fortement les effets mais que, dans un contexte semblable, certaines approches pédagogiques, certains établissements, certains systèmes éducatifs produisent des effets différents : des élèves faibles moins faibles, des inégalités sociales moins élevées. La recherche en sciences sociales peut contribuer à cette amélioration de plusieurs façons, à la condition de se rappeler que la transformation radicale de l'école n'est pas possible, que les obstacles rencontrés par les élèves ne sont pas d…
La régulation de l'éducation en France et dans les pays anglo-saxons. Une comparaison
2004
The autonomy of the schools increased in most educational systems for the last twenty years. So, educational systems had to implement regulation policies in order to orient the action of the agents towards the nation's aims. While England and the United States implemented a regulation by results (incentives linked to school's or teacher's results), France relies on a regulation by process (incentives to implement ‘pedagogical forms' which are supposed to be relevant). These two policies are described, then they are confronted with regard to their internal coherence and tensions, with in mind the question of the French model being a viable one, able to offer an option to the anglo-saxon mode…
Hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer : less is more
2019
In a recently published multi-center randomized controlled trial ( New England Journal of Medicine 2019;380:152-162) Christophe Mariette and colleagues compared open transthoracic esophagectomy to hybrid esophagectomy (open thoracic phase, laparoscopic abdominal phase) for patients with resectable cancer of the middle or lower third of the esophagus (MIRO trial) (1).
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*
2021
Abstract: Comparative penologists have described neoliberal and social democratic jurisdictions as though they exist at opposite ends of a continuum of inclusion and exclusion, and as though neoliberal states are inactive and social democratic states are invasive. This article, which is based on more than 129 interviews with men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway, uses Cohen's work on inclusion and McNeill's typology of rehabilitative forms to complicate this simplistic binary. It argues that the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales was demanding but exclusionary; it imposed strict legal restrictions on these men during and after their imprison…
Papers on the Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Remains. John Ruskin, Gilbert Scott e la Carta inglese della Conservazione (Londra, 1865)
2019
Il contributo tratta l'evoluzione storico-teorica del Restauro nel Regno Unito durante il XIX secolo, rilevando i fondamentali contributi che condurranno per la prima volta alla diffusione di una carta del Restauro, ovvero i "Papers on the Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Remains", pubblicata a Londra nel 1865. La ricerca si avvia chiarendo il significato che Edward August Freeman aveva paradossalmente assegnato al termine "conservazione" e, attraverso il supporto di documenti originali e nuove traduzioni, evidenzia il contributo fondamentale di George Gilbert Scott nella riformulazione conservativa degli obiettivi del restauro degli antichi edifici, con molti riferimenti alle idee di …
Home advantage? Decomposition across the freshwater-estuarine transition zone varies with litter origin and local salinity
2015
Expected increases in the frequency and intensity of storm surges and river flooding may greatly affect the relative salinity of estuarine environments over the coming decades. In this experiment we used detritus from three contrasting environments (marine Fucus vesiculosus; estuarine Spartina anglica; terrestrial Quercus robur) to test the prediction that the decomposition of the different types of litter would be highest in the environment with which they are associated. Patterns of decomposition broadly fitted our prediction: Quercus detritus decomposed more rapidly in freshwater compared with saline conditions while Fucus showed the opposite trend; Spartina showed an intermediate respon…
Teachers in secondary schools: evidence from TALIS 2013
2014
En ligne sur https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322910/RR302_-_TALIS_report_NC.pdf; The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), led by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), provides new information on the views and practices of lower secondary teachers and their headteachers and on how these vary across countries. England participated in TALIS for the first time in 2013 the only part of the UK to do so. The survey included over 30 other countries or parts of countries.This national report for England is published simultaneously with the OECD's first international report on TALIS 2013. It complements the OECD's re…