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Le repas à l'hôpital et ses enjeux identitaires
2015
International audience; The pleasure of meal’s sharing is very important for French consumers.Indeed, pleasure is explicitly claimed and quoted as an inherent dimension of anymeal. So, pleasure participates in the food balance and is a necessary component ofsociability.With this inmind, pleasure and health are not contrary, but closely linked.Nevertheless, in hospitals, food seems to be reduced to the ingestion of nutrients,and the meal’s sharing is not considered. However, the commensal context has aninfluence on the patient’s consumption (Hartwell and al. 2013). Based on this report,we led an investigation in several hospital departments to rethink themeal’s care ofhospitals to fight agai…
Civil society participation in international decision making: recent developments and future perspectives in the indigenous rights arena
2012
This article focuses on key issues and recent developments concerning indigenous peoples' involvement in international decision making affecting their rights and interests. Based on a human rights-based approach to participation, it suggests that while a number of positive steps have been taken to allow indigenous peoples the possibility to take part to, and influence, relevant intergovernmental decision-making processes, there's a need to provide their own self-governing institutions and organisations with a more influential status than that granted to civil society organisations (CSOs) generally, whereby they can exercise different levels of participatory rights, depending upon the nature…
Trade And Environment: A Historical Perspective
2015
Abstract The relation between international trade and environmental and social issues has deep historical roots, having been manifest ever since the first industrial revolution. Ironically, the expansion of industrial activities marked, besides the exit from economic backwardness, the commencement of an inexorable war of men against nature. Concomitantly industrialization laid the groundwork for an explosive increase in international trade, which made the latter responsible for increasing environment degradation and social rights infringement. The removal of trade barriers in the first decades after the Second World War as well as the subsequent regulation induced by globalization rendered …
Dose calculation in biological samples in a mixed neutron-gamma field at the TRIGA reactor of the University of Mainz
2010
To establish Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) for non-resectable liver metastases and for in vitro experiments at the TRIGA Mark II reactor at the University of Mainz, Germany, it is necessary to have a reliable dose monitoring system. The in vitro experiments are used to determine the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of liver and cancer cells in our mixed neutron and gamma fi eld. We work with alanine detectors in combination with Monte Carlo simulations, where we can measure and characterize the dose. To verify our calculations we perform neutron fl ux measurements using gold foil activation and pin-diodes . Material and methods . When L- α -alanine is irradiated with ionizing …
Effect of weather conditions on somatic cell score in Sicilian Valle del Belice ewes
2010
Mastitis susceptibility of Valle del Belice ewes from the south of Sicily to temperature, humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, sun hours, air pressure, wind-speed and wind-direction measured by a public weather station was investigated using 65,848 test-day somatic cell score (SCS) records of 5,237 ewes. All weather parameters had an effect on SCS in a regression approach. Extreme values of maximum and minimum temperaturehumidity indices resulted in increased SCS. Higher precipitation, solar radiation and sun hours resulted in increased SCS, whereas higher air pressure and wind speed resulted in reduced SCS.
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman: How to Turn the Word into Flesh
2017
Deceased in January this year, the Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has left an extremely rich scholarly legacy. In one of his last academic interviews, he refers to the key issues which had been the subject of his in-depth analysis for many years. Bauman starts with reflections on the gap between political authority and power. Next, given his long-standing research into ‘liquid modernity’, he focuses on the vitality of capitalism, which has now adopted a lighter, consumer form. Another thread of the interview is Bauman’s own research attitude, which he refers to as ‘sociological hermeneutics’. It is characterized by his reluctance to use any ‘-isms’ and a profound mistrust of all…
Mācīšanās darbavietā Solvay Business Services Latvia
2019
Maģistra darba „Mācīšanās darbavietā Solvay Business Services Latvia” autore ir Lāsma Saliņa. Darba apjoms ir 81 lappuses. Tajā ir izmantotas 5 tabulas; 30 attēli; 62 literatūras avoti un 5 pielikumi. Šī darba mērķis ir izpētīt, kā Solvay Business Services Latvia (turpmāk tekstā- SBS Latvia) darbinieki uztver mācīšanos darbavietā un kādas ir viņu vajadzības šajā jautājumā. Darbam izvirzīti šādi uzdevumi: 1. Analizēt teoriju atbilstoši izvēlētajai tēmai un sagatavot analīzes rezultātu pārskatu; 2. Veikt uzņēmuma darbinieku aptauju un interviju; 3. Apkopot, analizēt un raksturot iestādē veikto apsekojumu rezultātus; 4. Izdarīt secinājumus. Lai varētu izvērtēt mācīšanos darbavietā tika izstrād…
Rachats d’actions annoncés versus rachats réalisés:une analyse du découplage sur le marché français - Announced share repurchase versus repurchase sh…
2011
(VF)Notre analyse originale porte sur la pertinence des explications des rachats d’actions en confrontant les motivations des rachats annoncés au faible taux de rachats effectifs mesuré sur le marché français. Nous mobilisons les principales explications théoriques des rachats d’actions et nous proposons une étude empirique de plusieurs centaines de programmes de rachats afin de justifier l’intention volontaire des dirigeants de ne pas engager des rachats importants en dépit de ceux annoncés provoquant ainsi un découplage. Nous montrons que certaines entreprises ont une probabilité plus élevée de provoquer ce découplage en rachetant plus faiblement leurs propres actions. Ce sont les entrepr…
Public Discourse on Human Trafficking in International Issue Arenas
2015
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to better understand how the complex problem of human trafficking is addressed in international debates. How the discussion about human trafficking develops and how it is debated ultimately influences how the decision-making process unfolds. In order to understand the formation of public policy and laws, therefore, it is important to study the debate that occurs prior to decision making. This analysis focuses on the narratives used by major, well-established human rights and political actors that argue for necessary actions to be undertaken — such as the formation of new policies and laws in the European Union — as an attempt to protect citizens of the…
Mobilità dei reati nello spazio transfrontaliero e nuovi confini delle norme penali: verso una giurisdizione “a geometria variabile”?
2018
The actual empirical reality, in which the most important criminal manifestations are articulated according to modalities which cross the territorial frontiers of the States, imposes new normative solutions which - in the attempt not to leave 'pockets' of impunity - can redraw the traditional boundaries of the criminal regulations. In a context pervaded by international interventions of criminalization of the most serious forms of manifestation of crime (above all, the Palermo Convention and its Protocols), there is, first of all, at the domestic level, a change of the same territorial paradigm of the criminal law, which adapts the exercise of jurisdiction according to "variable geometries"…