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Les représentations des métiers par les jeunes : entre résistances et avancées
2007
Representation of professions among youngsters : from resistance to progress. On the basis of a survey of 1149 pupils, this article sheds light on their representations of professions. Diverse world visions are expressed according to individual characteristics of these youngsters. A vast majority of female high school students, especially those in scientific and industrial fields, tend to have a non-gendered approach to professions, whereas boys' gendered stereotypes resist and persist. Youngsters' writings also reveal how much women's and men's traditional roles persist. "Maternity, softness and understanding" are the words associated to women's professions, whereas "strength, resistance a…
The logic of the gift and the bonding value: a new perspective for business management
2011
PurposeThis paper aims to conceptualize business relationships so as to include in these dimensions of both gift and gratuity, to develop the concept of “bonding value”, and to offer some ideas for the use of this within firms.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyses the concept of “bonding value”, distinguishing it from the concepts of “exchange value” and “use value” that are normally used in business, and attempts to investigate its practical implications.FindingsThe paper shows how evaluating both the relationships within the organization and between firm and stakeholders in terms of “bonding value” can have effects on the economic, organizational and social aspects of a firm's act…
Hyper-mobile migrant workers and Dutch trade union representation strategies at the Eemshaven construction sites
2016
The EU regulatory regime and employers’ cross-border recruitment practices complicate unions’ ability to represent increasingly diverse and transnationally mobile workers. Even in institutional contexts where the industrial relations structure and labour law are favourable, such as the Netherlands, unions struggle with maintaining labour standards for these workers. This article analyses Dutch union efforts to represent hyper-mobile construction workers at the Eemshaven construction sites. It shows that the nexus of subcontracting, transnational mobility, legal insularity and employer anti-unionism complicate enforcement so that even well-resourced unions can, at best, improve employment c…
The Worst Record in Europe?: A Comparative Analysis of Industrial Conflict in Spain
2001
Since the transition to democracy, Spain has recorded the highest strike rate of EU countries. Drawing on a comparison with Franzosi's analysis of strikes in Italy, this article seeks to explain the high number of working days lost in Spain by reference to the role of sectoral bargaining, the instability of corporatist relations, solidaristic features of worker representation and Spanish society, and the development of industrial action by unions outside the main confederations. It is suggested that the pattern of industrial conflict reflects the limited strategic options available to Spanish trade unions and Spanish employers' ambivalence toward industrial relations institutions. The arti…
Nordic subsidiaries in the Baltic States: is model transfer possible?
2011
PurposeThis research seeks to ask to what extent model transfer in employee relations (in terms of employee representation, participation and workplace bargaining) occurs between Nordic and Baltic countries from the principal firm to the subsidiary. It also looks into explanations as to why model transfer occurs – or does not occur – from the perspective of the Nordic industrialist's labour management strategy.Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study comprising three clothing manufacturers and three engineering shops in different Baltic States: Estonia (population 1.4 million), Latvia (2.3 million) and Lithuania (3.4 million). These production sites have headquarters in three Nordic …
Using Cellular Automata for feature construction - preliminary study
2007
When first faced with a learning task, it is often not clear what a good representation of the training data should look like. We are often forced to create some set of features that appear plausible, without any strong confidence that they will yield superior learning. Beside, we often do not have any prior knowledge of what learning method is the best to apply, and thus often try multiple methods in an attempt to find the one that performs best. This paper describes a new method and its preliminary study for constructing features based on cellular automata (CA). Our approach uses self-organisation ability of cellular automata by constructing features being most efficient for making predic…
A special class of uncoupled and quasi-homogeneous laminates
2001
Abstract This paper deals with two main problems in laminate design: the search for uncoupled and quasi-homogeneous laminates. Using the polar representation method, the authors show the existence of a particular class of mathematically exact solutions to these two problems. An important feature of these solutions is that they are independent of the orientations of the layers. In fact, these orientations are not fixed by the method, and each solution determines in reality only a stacking sequence, where each layer belongs to a group of plies having the same orientation. The orientations remain undetermined, and it is up to the designer to fix them. In any event, whether the laminate is unco…
"Table 1" of "Search for resonant top plus jet production in ttbar + jets events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV"
2013
Upper limits of the cross sections and couling (g_R) in the WPRIME colour singlet model.
Essere prospettici. Be perspective
2012
La scienza della rappresentazione per le sue preponderanti finalità applicative offre interessanti occasioni per promuovere sempre più nuove e specifiche ricerche. L’indagine di Laura Inzerillo sulle implicazioni geometrico-proiettive da applicare per una sempre più appropriata costruzione di immagini dell’Architettura e dell’Ambiente, rileva il possesso di una chiara impostazione teorica ed una pregevole versatilità discorsiva nel campo delle immagini prospettiche. In particolare modo apprezzo lo sforzo di sviluppare i metodi grafici indipendentemente dal dominio della rappresentazione digitale; lo sviluppo di un metodo che consente di ottenere facilmente la prospettiva da punti di vista c…
Barbara Sokołowska Brukalski. Graphic Analysis of the House on Niegolewskiego Street
2017
The project analyzed in this paper by the critical and digital redrawing is the House on Niegolewskiego Street of 1927–28, designed by Barbara Sokołowska for her and her husband, Stanislaw Brukalski, inspired by the Neoplasticism ideas, the paintings of Mondrian and De Stijl. In its details the house seems to recall that one in Utrecht by G.T. Rietveld of 1924, with a very large living room, a studio overlooking a double height and a spiral stair connecting the two floors into one space defined by translated planes and pure volumes.