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Le rôle de l'émotion dans la prise de décision intuitive : zoom sur les réalisa teurs-décideurs en période de tournage

La plupart des chercheurs s’accordent sur le fait que l’emotion est une caracteristique essentielle de la prise de decision intuitive (PDI), mais rares sont ceux qui ont etudie le phenomene de facon empirique. De ce fait, on ne sait pas precisement comment l’emotion interagit avec le processus de prise de decision. Cet article se propose de commencer a elucider le role de l’emotion dans la PDI par une etude empirique de type exploratoire portant sur les realisateurs de cinema en periode de tournage. Les resultats de l’etude montrent que la PDI peut etre influencee par trois types d’emotions : les emotions liees a une expertise sur la decision a prendre, les emotions liees a une experience emotionnelle anterieure sans lien direct avec la decision, ou les emotions spontanees sans lien avec une expertise ou une experience passee. Nous explicitons aussi les conditions d’elaboration d’une prise de decision rationnelle (PDR) ainsi que de la delegation de la prise de decision (DPD) qui remplacent parfois, et dans des circonstances bien precises, le processus de prise de decision intuitive. Nous concluons cet article en evoquant les implications tant manageriales que theoriques des resultats de cette etude.
Liberalism, Bad Samaritan Law, and Legal Paternalism

L'A. mesure la legitimite morale et theorique des lois dites du mauvais samaritain qui definissent le devoir d'assistance a une personne en danger. L'A. montre que ces lois ne peuvent etre promulguees par un systeme juridique liberal sans: 1) menacer son engagement a la neutralite, 2) alterer sa conception de l'autonomie, 3) saper son opposition a toute forme de paternalisme legal
AdS Braneworld Kaluza-Klein Reduction

We obtain new results for consistent braneworld Kaluza-Klein reductions, showing how we can derive four-dimensional N = 2 gauged supergravity “localised on the AdS4 brane” as an exact embedding in five-dimensional N = 4 gauged supergravity. Similarly, we obtain five-dimensional N = 2 gauged supergravity localised on an AdS5 brane as a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction from six-dimensional N = 4 gauged supergravity. These embeddings can be lifted to type IIB and massive type IIA supergravity respectively. The new AdS braneworld Kaluza-Klein reductions are generalisations of earlier results on braneworld reductions to ungauged supergravities. We also discuss analytic continuations to give a de Sitter gauged supergravity in four dimensions as a braneworld reduction from a fivedimensional de Sitter supergravity, which itself arises from a Kaluza-Klein reduction of type IIB∗ supergravity on the hyperbolic 5-sphere. 1 Research supported in part by DOE grant DOE-FG03-95ER40917
A molecular theory of cell survival.

A theory is presented to explain the effect of radiation on cell survival. The theory is based on the assumption that a double strand break in the DXA helix is the critical damage. The theory is derived from the radiation induced molecular bond breaks in the DNA strands and parameters are included to take account of various repair processes which may occur between the radiation event and the biological result. Implications of the theory with respect to RBE, the oxygen effect and radiological protection are mentioned and a fit of the theoretically derived expression to experimental data for 250 kV, X-rays and 15 MeV neutrons is presented. An appendix contains data which show that the enzymatic repair of single strand breaks in DNA is in accordance with the theoretical analysis of protracted irradiations and that a coherent analysis of the variation of radiation sensitivity in the cell cycle is in strong support of the primary assumption that a double strand break in the DNA helix is the critical damage leading to cell reproductive death.
An Experimental Evaluation of Specification Techniques for Improving Functional Testing

Numerous specification techniques have been proposed to improve the development of computer software. The present paper reports results from one experiment to compare the effectiveness of functional testing given three different sets of software specifications. Three groups of experienced programmers independently developed functional test cases for the same automated cruise control software. One group worked solely from a natural language description, one was given a graphical, real-time, structured analysis (RTSA) specification to augment the natural-language description, and a third was given, in addition to the English-language description and the RTSA specification, an executable specification. Two measures of performance were evaluated: 1) the degree of statement coverage achieved by the test cases created by each group and 2) the amount of time taken to create the test cases. No significant difference in performance was found among any of the groups for either of the measures. Individual differences in performance among the subjects were observed. Additional statistical tests were used to evaluate the effect of other factors on these individual differences. Such differences appear to be attributable to variations among the subjects in effort, ability, motivation, and understanding of the assignment. These results suggest that software engineering researchers should investigate people-related, management issues that, perhaps, provide the most significant, short-run influence on the performance of software engineers. 1 The author attends George Mason University as a doctoral student while employed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The work described in this paper was conducted during a doctoral seminar at George Mason.
Ethnocultural factors, resilience, and school engagement

In this article we examine how cultural and community factors interact with individual level factors to predict school participation. Participants were 497 Atlantic Canadian youth purposefully selected because of their concurrent use of more than one government service or community program at the time they were interviewed. Results revealed that contextual factors associated with resilience (e.g. cultural adherence and involvement in one’s community) affect school engagement more than individual or relational factors among this population. Furthermore, these contextual resilience factors showed a pattern of differential impact, with the greatest influence occurring in the lives of visible minority youth. Findings suggest that improvements in school engagement are likely to result from school-based efforts to enhance children’s experience of their culture and involvement in community activities. Sampling youth outside regular classroom settings and including meso- and exo-systemic factors in studies of school engagement may help to identify protective processes not previously discussed in the literature.
Aerial manipulator for structure inspection by contact from the underside

This paper presents an aerial manipulator consisting of a multirotor equipped with a robotic multi-link arm attached to the top of the multirotor body. This setup has strong potentialities for inspection of structures, since the arm is able to safely touching the structure surface with a sensor while flying, taking measurements from the underside for example in bridges. The paper presents the dynamic model of the system and the derivation of a nonlinear controller, which is tested in simulation. First flight experiments with prototype of the system are also presented.
State and Church in Education in Italy and France

To make a comparative study of any kind one has to satisfy the two following conditions: first, the things or situations to be compared must have a common basis of sufficient significance to give a starting point; secondly, the situations must differ in some important aspects to make comparison of any value. To compare, for instance, the activities of St. Francis and of Hitler, because both were Catholics and Europeans would be valueless as these features are
The Causal Influences of Attributions on Emotions: A Procedural Priming Approach

According to attributional theories of emotion, feelings of guilt presuppose that the causes of a negative event are located within the individual (internal attribution), whereas feelings of anger presuppose that the causes of the eliciting event are located outside the individual (external attribution). This study tested whether these attributions in fact exert the claimed causal influence on emotional experiences. The study employed a procedural priming technique in which neutral events were repeatedly attributed either to oneself (internal attribution) or to another person (external attribution). Subsequently, participants were exposed to a negative event that was ambiguous as to its causes. The results reveal that the prior repeated use of internal attributions enhanced the tendency to experience guilt, whereas the repeated use of external attributions enhanced the tendency to experience anger. These findings support the assumption that attributions exert a causal influence on emotions.
A compact printed triple-band MIMO/diversity antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications

A compact triple-band MIMO antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications is proposed. The MIMO antenna composes of two symmetric elements, each of which includes three branches: Br1, Br2 and Br3. These three branches yield three resonances, covering 2.4/3.5/5.5 GHz bands, respectively. An inverted-U neutralization line with four implanted branches improves the impedance bandwidth and the isolation. The isolation is finally higher than 20 dB in the whole band. The proposed MIMO antenna has a very small size of 31×31×0.8 mm3 on a cost-effective FR4 substrate. The parameters evaluating the diversity performance of the proposed MIMO antenna including ECC, MEG and DG has been investigated. Results show that the proposed antenna is promising for practical MIMO systems.
Balanced Scorecard--A Strategic Management System of the Higher Education Institution.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the comparative analysis of the Balanced Scorecards of four higher education institutions and aims to define the general framework of the Balanced Scorecard for the higher education institution which concerns: the structure and elements of the Balanced Scorecard; development of the Balanced Scorecards on the different levels of the management system of the higher education institution; definition of the main functions of the Balanced Scorecard which it performs in the process of the strategic management of the German higher education institutions. Balanced Scorecard is analyzed as a strategic management system that translates a higher education institution’s strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures that provides a framework for a strategic measurement and management system. Design/methodology/approach – The comparative content analysis of the Balanced Scorecards of one Austrian and three German higher education institutions – Johanes Gute.
Enhancing speaker authentication systems using circular hidden Markov models

In this work, the circular hidden Markov models (CHMMs) have been used to enhance the recognition performance of isolated-word text-dependent speaker authentication systems under the neutral talking condition. Our results show that CHMMs enhance the speaker authentication performance under such a condition compared to the left-to-right hidden Markov models (LTRHMMs). The average speaker authentication performance based on using CHMMs has been noticeably improved compared to that based on using LTRHMMs.
Marital Change Across the Transition to Parenthood

Recent studies of the transition to parenthood which advance understanding over to earlier, cross sectional and retrospective investigations are examined with regard to what they indicate about how marriages change that occur in marital activities/interactions and sentiments, design issues pertaining to this recent research are considered, specifically the need for and meaning of a childless comparison group. An analysis of studies which employ and do not employ such contrast groups indicates that across the transition household of labor becomes more traditional, couple leisure activities become less frequent, positive interchanges decrease whereas conflict increases, and overall satisfaction with the marriage and feelings of love for the spouse decline, especially in the case of wives. It is observed, however, that these changes are modest in magnitude (at least as currently measured) and probably represent the accentuation of changes that typically take place in marital relationships over time. The need.
Short-term load forecasting using regression based moving windows with adjustable window-sizes

This paper presents a regression based moving window model for solving the short-term electricity forecasting problem. Moving window approach is employed to trace the demand pattern based on the past history of load and weather data. Regression equation is then formed and least square method is used to determine the parameters of the model. In this paper, a new concept associated with cooling and heating degree is used to establish the relationship between electricity demand and temperature, which is one of the key climatic variables. In addition, Pearson's correlation has been employed to investigate the interdependency of electricity demand between different time periods. These analyses together with the data in the holiday period provide the supportive information for the appropriate selection of the window size. A case study has been reported in this paper by acquiring the relevant data for the state of New South Wales, Australia. The results are then compared with a neural network based model. The comparison shows that the proposed moving window approach with the different window sizes outperforms conventional neural network technique in small time scales i.e., from 30 minutes to 1 day ahead.
Effect of in vitro maturation of mouse oocytes on the health and lifespan of adult offspring.

BACKGROUND In vitro maturation of oocytes can, in some circumstances, provide an alternative approach to gonadotrophin-induced maturation in clinical settings. However, the consequences of these protocols on the long-term health of offspring are unknown. Here, the long-term health status and lifespans of offspring produced by in vitro maturation of mouse oocytes was compared with that of oocytes induced to mature in vivo using gonadotrophin treatment. METHODS Mouse oocytes were matured in vitro using both an established optimized system and in the absence of amino acids to produce a suboptimal condition for maturation. Oocytes induced to mature in vivo with gonadotrophins constituted the control group. All metaphase II oocytes were fertilized in vitro and transferred at the 2-cell stage to the oviducts of pseudo-pregnant foster mothers for development to term. Offspring were subjected to a wide variety of physiological and behavioral tests for the first year of life and natural lifespan determined. RESULTS There was no difference among the groups in lifespan or in most of the physiological and behavioral analyses. However, the pulse rate and cardiac output were slightly, but significantly, reduced in the optimized in vitro matured group compared with the in vivo matured group (P = 0.0119 and P = 0.0197, respectively). Surprisingly, these decreases were largely abrogated in the in vitro group matured without amino acids. CONCLUSIONS Evidence presented here using a mouse model suggests that the in vitro maturation of oocytes has minimal effects on the long-term health of offspring. However, a finding of slight reductions in pulse rate and cardiac output may focus future clinical attention.
Knowledge Transfer for Global Roles in GSE

This practice paper presents how a software engineering organization spread across three countries successfully transferred the knowledge of a few identified roles for a large mission-critical software system that had to conform to regulatory requirements. Multiple releases of the system have been delivered to customers over the 15 years it has been in the market. Each release of the product had a focus area. The competence availability for these focus areas was distributed. As a natural evolution of the globally distributed team, greater responsibility is devolved to a particular location, based on the availability of the competence at that location. Moving the increased responsibility to a location, created a global role, which did not exist earlier. Building the new role required a new skill, what is unique about a global role. Equipping the team members in the new skill was necessary to take up the roles effectively and quickly. The first step was the identification of the competence for a function/role, training for which may be imparted to another person, who will take over the function/role. This is followed by a process of knowledge transfer, which ensured that a person can take up a new global role from another location. Prioritization based on ease of knowledge transfer for different areas of work, that was found to be effective is described. This helped reduce possible problems that could occur due to incorrect or incomplete transfer of knowledge. The advantages by such knowledge transfer that resulted in new persons taking up global roles have outweighed its disadvantages. The practices described are generic and can be applied to any organization of similar size and complexity.
Neuroimaging and Mental Health: Drowning in a Sea of Acrimony

Some of the most vulnerable people in our society are put at risk by long-standing controversy concerning the clinical usefulness of functional neuroimaging for mental health disorders. Two new papers, out almost back-to-back in AJOB Neuroscience and Molecular Psychiatry, respectively, speak to these issues directly. In their article “The Puzzle of Neuroimaging and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Technology and Nosology in an Evolving Discipline,” published in this issue of AJOB Neuroscience, Farah and Gillihan describe how functional imaging techniques have revealed correlates for virtually every psychiatric disorder. The puzzle of neuroimaging and psychiatric diagnosis, according to the authors, is that this technology has not yet achieved an accepted role in psychiatric practice despite these successes (Farah and Gillihan 2012). In their article “Why Has It Taken So Long for Biological Psychiatry to Develop Clinical Tests and What to Do About It? ,” in Molecular Psychiatry, Kapur, Phillips, and Insel (2012) suggest a number of explanations for this puzzling state of affairs. According to the authors, the development of biological psychiatry has been slowed by the absence of a biological psychiatric nosology on the one hand, and limitations characteristic of much neuroimaging research in this area on the other. Specifically, they point to research that has yielded minimally differentiating findings across healthy and affected populations, and a general failure to replicate studies (Kapur, Phillips, and Insel 2012). The authors of both of these papers suggest strategies for moving forward. Farah and Gillihan focus on the need to close the gap between the categories and dimensions of current nosology and those suggested by imaging. Kapur and colleagues urge researchers in the field to focus on differences that have clinically meaningful effect sizes in relevant populations, rather than hypothesis rejection versus normal controls. They also call for longitudinal studies with standardized measures, together with the sharing of indi-
Comparison of eye movements in searching for easy-to-find and hard-to-find information in a hierarchically organized information structure

Finding information by successively selecting hyperlinks on web pages is a typical task performed on websites. A number of web usability studies have provided important insights about how web visitors carry out a search, and have concluded that "following information scent" is the fundamental process involved in the behavior. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the strength of information scent and web visitors'eye movements. Four web page types with different usability problems were considered. In an eyetracking experiment, eleven participants were asked to find an article on a simulated encyclopedia website by first selecting a heading from among nine provided headings, then selecting the appropriate topic link under the selected heading. The number of eye fixations, the duration of the fixations, and the task completion times were analyzed. The eye-tracking study reported in this paper added further insight to the knowledge gained from traditional web usability studies, in which visitors'performance are measured by the total number of clicks and task completion times. Website visitors'performance will not exhibit any differences in the initial heading selection stage irrespective of whether or not the pages have usability problems. However, performance will deteriorate in terms of the total number of fixations in the subsequent link selection stage when the web page has any kind of usability problem.
A novel block compressed sensing based on matrix permutation

Block compressed sensing (BCS) has great potential in image coding application for its low storage requirement and low computational complexity. However, in order to improve the reconstructed-image quality by eliminating block effect, joint reconstruction is used in the existing BCS algorithms. Thus, the computational complexity of those algorithms at decoder side is still high. To achieve a low complexity at both encoder and decoder sides while simultaneously improve the reconstructed-image quality, a novel BCS strategy with matrix permutation is introduced and investigated, in which matrix permutation is used prior to sampling to reduce the maximum block sparsity level of the 2D signal. Simulation results show that the novel matrix-permutation-based BCS approach gets a significant gain of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the reconstructed-images compared with the existing BCS approaches.
A shareable web service-based intelligent decision support system for on-demand business process management

The monitoring of business processes for performance measurement is challenged by the variety of inter and intra organisational units and information systems involved in the execution of these processes. In this paper we present a shareable, web service-based Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) for on-demand business process management, that we call the Solution Manager Service (SMS). The SMS allows organisations to outsource the collection, accumulation and transformation of information about their business processes from multiple distributed systems across multiple organisations in a centralised repository and share them among authorised parties, such as supply chain partners, clients or government agencies.
Towards the massless spectrum of non-Kähler heterotic compactifications

Fu and Yau constructed the first smooth family of gauge bundles over a class of non-Kahler, complex 3-folds that are solutions to Strominger’s system, the heterotic supersymmetry constraints with nonzero H-flux. In this paper, we begin the study of the massless spectrum arising from compactification using this construction by counting zero modes of the linearized equations of motion for the gaugino in the supergravity approximation. We rephrase the question in terms of a cohomology problem and show that for a trivial gauge bundle, this cohomology reduces to the Dolbeault cohomology of the 3-fold, which we then compute. e-print archive: http://lanl.arXiv. org/abs/hep-th/0605131 M. CYRIER AND J. M. LAPAN 1