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Anticipatory Postural Adjustments and kinematic arm features when postural stability is manipulated
2018
International audience; Beyond the classical paradigm that presents the Anticipatory Postural Adjustments (APAs) as a manner to create forces that counteract disturbances arising from the moving segment during a pointing task, there is a controversial discussion about the role APAs to facilitate the movement and perform a task accurately. In addition, arm kinematics features are classically used to infer the content of motor planning for the execution and the control of arm movements, The present study aimed to disentangle the conflicting role of APAs during an arm-pointing task in which the subjects reach a central diode that suddenly turns on, while their postural stability was manipulate…
Effect of soil management and weed controlm on the diversity and establishment of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis colonisation in Mediterranean clim…
2006
International audience
Pleasure or health: Do children have to choose?
2017
International audience; Pleasure from eating is known to be a strong predictor of children’s food choices. Yet, children’s food preferences generally do not align with dietary recommendations, children rate energy-dense foods as the most liked and vegetables the least liked. In order to incite children to adopt a healthy diet, parents, caregivers, and national campaigns put forward nutritional arguments. However, there is limited research regarding the impact of the level of nutritional concern on children’s food choices, especially compared to pleasure-oriented goals. This talk is an overview of the research work I have conducted during my PhD, and explores the relationships between childr…
A web-based and mobile intervention with brochure support providing complementary feeding guidelines to first-time parents in France: Randomized Cont…
2023
Purpose: In light of the latest epidemiological and nutritional knowledge and scientific evidence supporting responsive feeding, the French feeding guidelines for 0-3 years were recently updated and nationally disseminated through a brochure and media campaign by Santé publique France. Moreover, smartphone apps become increasingly popular and is likely relevant to provide timely information across development to inform parents about child feeding practices but their effect is seldom evaluated. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to investigate whether the provision of guidelines through an app and a brochure (vs. brochure alone, usual service) results in healthier parental feeding p…
THÓI QUEN NGƯỜI TIÊU DÙNG VIỆT NAM VÀ VAI TRÒ CỦA THỰC PHẨM TƯƠI
2020
This paper presents findings of a consumer survey carried out in Vietnam. the survey has been implemeted in two steps : qualitative and quantitative. The main profile of respondants are women, urban consumers, age from 24 - 39, office workers. The results provide an overall view on the criteria of choice in food buying decision. Concretely, sensorial factors like observing, touching, smelling play a very important role in food choice, more than trust on the vendor or certifcation of a third party like the Government. the consumer appreciates fresh food, assimilating to nutritional value, health and quality of the meal. However, there seems to be a generational difference between two generat…
Olfactory identification capacities in novice and wine experts
2010
International audience
Development of Food Preferences and Appetite in the First Years
2016
International audience; Infants are born equipped to ingest nutrients, but have to learn how, what and how much to eat. This must occur early, because the mode of feeding evolves dramatically, from ‘tube’ feeding in utero to eating table foods with the family. Eating habits established during early years contribute to the development of subsequent eating habits. Therefore, it is fundamental to understand the most important early periods for the development of eating habits and the drivers of this development. Here we will focus on the first three years of postnatal life. Several characteristics of the eating experience contribute to drive infant’s eating and to shape preferences and energy …
Spilling the beans: The development of conceptual knowledge about food and its links with food rejection in young children (3-7-years-old)
2021
Insufficient dietary variety in children leads to significant nutrient deficiencies and health issues, both in childhood and later life (DeCosta et al., 2017). Cognitive mechanisms, such as categorization and conceptual knowledge, play an important role in understanding and appropriately accepting or rejecting foods (Mura Paroche et al., 2017). The food domain lends itself to many concepts and categories, such as taxonomic (i.e., lamb is meat), thematic (i.e., lamb goes on a plate), or script (i.e., lamb is eaten at dinner). Such knowledge aids accurate recognition, understanding, and appropriate interaction when confronted with foods situated in context. If conceptual knowledge is underdev…
« Mais qui êtes-vous donc, Monsieur Charles Nodier ? »
2020
Biographical note addressing all aspects of the intellectual and artistic life of Charles Nodier (1780-1844), the reasons for his exclusion from the Pantheon of French Letters from his death until the second half of the 20th century and the most recent signs of its gradual rebirth.
Etude de l'évolution du potentiel génétique de populations bactériennes dégradant l'atrazine
2011
Atrazine, one of the most used herbicide to control the development of weeds in crop, has led to the contamination of the environment. Repeated exposure to this herbicide resulted in the emergence of microbial populations able to degrade atrazine and to use it as a nitrogen source for its growth. These microbial populations are responsible for accelerated biodegradation of atrazine (BDA), a key ecosystemic service diminishing the persistence of this herbicide in the environment. The aim of this PhD work was to study genetic and physiological mechanisms responsible for functioning and improving of this ecosystemic service. We applied an experimental approach starting from genes to communitie…