NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Using computer tablets to assess preference for videos in children with autism

Using computer tablets, we assessed preference for videos in five children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Then, we provided access to most preferred and less preferred videos contingent on sitting on one of two chairs within a concurrent schedule design. All participants spent consistently more time sitting on the chair associated with the video selected the most often during the preference assessment, indicating that practitioners may use the tablet-based assessment procedure to identify potential video reinforcers for children with ASD in applied settings.

Keyphrases: Autism, Preference assessment, Reinforcer, Tablet, Video
Using the dual-criteria methods to supplement visual inspection: An analysis of nonsimulated data

The purpose of our study was to examine the probability of observing false positives in non-simulated data using the dual-criteria methods. We extracted data from published studies to produce a series of 16,927 datasets and then assessed the proportion of false positives for various phase lengths. Our results indicate that collecting at least 3 data points in the first phase (Phase A) and at least 5 data points in the second phase (Phase B) is generally sufficient to produce acceptable levels of false positives.

Keyphrases: Data analysis, Dual-criteria method, False positive, Single-case designs, Type I error
L’e-mentoring dans les programmes de soutien clinique des nouvelles infirmières diplômées

Un programme national de soutien clinique pour les infirmières avec peu d’expérience a été mis en place en 2008 mais, à l’heure actuelle, aucun cadre de référence n’a été publié pour le mentorat. Certains établissements ont introduit récemment les technologies de l'information et de la communication au mentorat. Les avantages sont très prometteurs et pourraient permettre d’optimiser les programmes existants.  Ce travail dirigé à analyser la possibilité d’introduire l’e-mentoring dans les programmes de soutien clinique des nouvelles infirmières diplômées au Québec. Une recherche d’écrits scientifiques a été est effectuée dans les principales bases de données associées aux soins infirmiers. La recension des écrits et l’analyse ont été structurées selon les étapes du modèle de mentorat structuré de Single et Muller (1999) (planification, structure, évaluation). L’analyse a permis d’émettre une proposition d’e-mentoring formelle comprenant les éléments des principales étapes et les conditions favorables à considérer pour l’implantation d’un tel projet. A national clinical support program for nurses with little experience was put in place in 2008 but, at present, no frame of reference have been published for mentoring. Some institutions have recently introduced information and communication technologies (ICTs) to mentoring. The benefits are very promising and could optimize existing programs. This guided work consists of analyzing the possibility of introducing e-mentoring into the clinical support programs of new nurses graduating in Quebec. A search for scientific literature was done in the main databases associated with nursing. Literature review and analysis were structured according to the steps of the structured mentoring model of Single and Muller (1999) (planning, structure, evaluation). The analysis made it possible to issue a formal e-mentoring proposal including the elements of the main stages and the favorable conditions to be considered for the implementation of such a project.

Keyphrases: infirmier, mentorat, mentor, en ligne, virtuel, ordinateur, électronique, e-mentoring, mentor, nursing, e-mentoring, online, virtual, computer, electronic
L’évaluation archivistique du patrimoine culturel immatériel au regard des technologies numériques

Ce travail de recherche propose une réflexion préliminaire sur les techniques de préservation, et, par extension, sur l’évaluation archivistique du patrimoine culturel immatériel, appelé quelques fois « patrimoine vivant », et ce au regard des technologies numériques. À partir d’une brève revue de la littérature sur le sujet, la recherche tente d'amorcer cette réflexion en partant du point de vue qu’il est tout à fait possible de procéder à une évaluation archivistique du patrimoine culturel immatériel, au même titre qu’on le ferait pour n’importe quel autre type d’archives, dans la mesure où celui-ci doit d’abord être consigné sur un support physique facilitant sa conservation. La réflexion s'est construite à partir de l’analyse d’un exemple bien précis, celui du projet Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archives. Ce projet fait usage de la technologie « capteur de mouvements 3D » (3D motion capture) pour documenter l’enseignement des arts martiaux traditionnels chinois dans un but de préservation de ces traditions de combat. En outre, les conclusions font valoir que les technologies numériques ne permettent peut-être pas de tout préserver du patrimoine vivant, à commencer par les rapports humains qui sont au cœur de la transmission d’une tradition.

Keyphrases: Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Évaluation archivistique, Technologies numériques, Arts martiaux, UNESCO, Patrimoine vivant
Pharmacogenomics of blood lipid regulation

Blood lipids are important modifiable risk factors for coronary heart disease and drugs target different lipid fractions. Considerable efforts have been made to identify genetic variants that modulate responses to drugs in the hope of optimizing their use. Pharmacogenomics and new biotechnologies now allow for meaningful integration of human genetic findings and therapeutic development for increased efficiency and precision of lipid-lowering drugs. Polygenic predictors of disease risk are also changing how patient populations can be stratified, enabling targeted therapeutic interventions to patients more likely to derive the highest benefit, marking a shift from single variant to genomic approaches in pharmacogenomics.

Keyphrases: CETP, PCSK9, Cholesterol, Pharmacogenomics, Drug development, Dalcetrapib, Triglycerides
The French noun phrase in preschool children with SLI: morphosyntactic and error
analyses

We studied spontaneous speech noun-phrase production in eight French-speaking children with SLI (aged 5;0 to 5;11 months) and controls matched on age (4;10 to 5;11 months) or MLU (aged 3;2 to 4;1 months). Results showed that children with SLI prefer simple DP structures to complex ones while producing more substitution and omission errors than controls. The three groups also showed distinct error patterns. Children with SLI appeared to have difficulty with phonological processes involved in liaison, elision, and contraction, whereas control children tended to make more lexical errors. These data support models of reduced morphosyntactic and syntactic abilities in this population, and suggest that morphophonological processes should also be integrated into descriptive models of SLI.

Keyphrases: Specific language impairment, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Noun phrase, Determiner phrase, French
Dossier Rodéo

Les documents, textes et vidéos ci-dessous se rapportent à l’analyse des données collectées lors des rodéos de Montréal et de St-Tite de l’été 2017. Ils constituent une étape charnière de la démarche que j’ai entamée il y a quelques mois sur la base du protocole entériné par la Cour supérieure du Québec le 16 juin 2017 (Honorable Stephen W. Hamilton, Cour supérieure du Québec, district judiciaire de Montréal, Dossier no 500-17-098815-171) aux termes duquel un droit d’accès illimité aux installations et aux êtres animaux m’a été conféré.  Un rapport d’analyse de plus de 600 page écrit par le Dr Jean-Jacques Kona-Boun, DMV, MSc, DACVAA, se trouve maintenant entre les mains du Comité consultatif sur le bien-être et la sécurité des êtres animaux utilisés dans les activités de rodéo constitué par le ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec sur la base du jugement en question. Le Comité a maintenant le mandat d’en étudier la portée à la lumière de la nouvelle Loi sur le bien-être et la sécurité de l’animal (RLRQ. c. B-3.1) et de faire les recommandations qui s’impose au gouvernement du Québec.  La population québécoise est en droit de s’attendre du gouvernement du Québec qu’il assure le respect de sa propre loi. À défaut, ce dernier devra assumer les conséquences de ses décisions. Les défenseurs du droit animalier sont maintenant suffisamment organisés pour défendre la cause qui est la leur en usant de toutes les ressources légales et judiciaires à leur disposition.

Keyphrases: Droit animalier, Rodéo, Bien-être et sécurité de l’animal, Analyse vétérinaire
Wear protection without surface modification using a synergistic mixture of molecular brushes and linear polymers

We describe the design of lubricating and wear protecting fluids based on mixtures of bottlebrushes (BB) and linear polymers solutions. To illustrate this concept we used hyaluronic acid (HA) - a naturally occurring linear polyelectrolyte, and a water soluble synthetic BB polymer. Individually, these two polymers exhibit poor wear protecting capabilities compared to saline solutions. Mixture of the two polymers in pure water or in saline allows to drastically increase wear protection of surfaces over a wide range of shearing conditions. We demonstrate that this synergy between the BB and HA polymers emerges from a strong cohesion between the two components forming the boundary film due to entanglements between both polymers. We show that this concept can be applied to other types of linear polymers and surfaces and is independent of the chemical and mechanical properties of the surfaces.

Keyphrases: Biolubrication, Wear resistance, Bottle-brush polymer, Surface forces, Hyaluronic acid
ERPs and task effects in the auditory processing of gender agreement and
semantics in French

We investigated task effects on violation ERP responses to Noun-Adjective gender mismatches and lexical/conceptual semantic mismatches in a combined auditory/visual paradigm in French. Participants listened to sentences while viewing pictures of objects. This paradigm was designed to investigate language processing in special populations (e.g., children) who may not be able to read or to provide stable behavioral judgment data. Our main goal was to determine how ERP responses to our target violations might differ depending on whether participants performed a judgment task (Task) versus listening for comprehension (No-Task). Characterizing the influence of the presence versus absence of judgment tasks on violation ERP responses allows us to meaningfully interpret data obtained using this paradigm without a behavioral task and relate them to judgment-based paradigms in the ERP literature. We replicated previously observed ERP patterns for semantic and gender mismatches, and found that the task especially affected the later P600 component.

Keyphrases: Semantics, Auditory language processing, Gender agreement, Task effects, ERPs
Bile acid-based drug delivery systems for enhanced doxorubicin encapsulation: Comparing hydrophobic and ionic interactions in drug loading and release

Doxorubicin (Dox) is a drug of choice in the design of drug delivery systems directed towards breast cancers, but is often limited by loading and control over its release from polymer micelles. Bile acid-based block copolymers present certain advantages over traditional polymer-based systems for drug delivery purposes, since they can enable a higher drug loading via the formation of a reservoir through their aggregation process. In this study, hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions are compared for their influence on Dox loading inside cholic acid-based block copolymers. Poly(allyl glycidyl ether) (PAGE) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) were grafted from the cholic acid (CA) core yielding a star-shaped block copolymer with 4 arms (CA-(PAGE-b-PEG)4) and then loaded with Dox via a nanoprecipitation technique. A high Dox loading of 14 wt% was achieved via electrostatic as opposed to hydrophobic interactions with or without oleic acid as a cosurfactant. The electrostatic interactions confer a pH responsiveness to the system. 50% of the loaded Dox was released at pH 5 in comparison to 12% at pH 7.4. The nanoparticles with Dox loaded via hydrophobic interactions, did not show such a pH responsiveness. The systems with Dox loaded via electrostatic interactions showed the lowest IC50 and highest cellular internalization indicating the pre-eminence of this interaction in Dox loading. The blank formulations are biocompatible and did not show cytotoxicity up to 0.17 mg/mL. The new functionalized star block copolymers based on cholic acid show great potential as drug delivery carriers.

Keyphrases: Bile acids, Doxorubicin, pH-responsive, Drug delivery systems
Entre le son et la cloche, l'air cristallin

Quel est le rôle de la médiation et du medium dans les structures perceptives des êtres humains? En refusant le cloisonnement du débat philosophique sur la phénoménologie de la perception de langue allemande des années 1920, Heider déplace le centre de la réflexion philosophique au-delà des oppositions classiques entre homme et monde, esprit et sens, sujet et objet. À travers la problématisation de la notion de médium, Heider nous amène à reconsidérer nos modalités d’appréhensions du monde, en développant une théorie phénoménologique de la médiation fondée sur le concept de milieu perceptif. Which is the role of mediation and medium in human beings perceptual structures? Refusing the compartmentalization of the philosophical debate on the Germanophone phenomenology of perception in the 1920s, Heider shift the core of the philosophical reflection on the subject beyond classical opposition between man and world, intellecte and senses, subject and object. Questioning the notion of medium, Heider brings us to reconsider our ways to perceive the world, developing a phenomenological theory on mediation, based on the idea of perceptual milieu.

Keyphrases: Medium, Médiation, Phénoménologie, Perception, Milieu, Médias, Medium, Perception, Milieu, Heider, Fritz, Corps
Du mot juste au mot rare. Dictionnaires et glossaires dans l'oeuvre d'Hubert Aquin et Jacques Poulin

[...] entre la dérive poulinienne et le baroque aquinien existe, pour citer le philosophe Daniel Klébaner, « la paradoxale ressemblance de deux opposés à l' extrême ». L'un est à la recherche du mot juste, l'autre du mot rare. Or, cette quête qui se déploie en sens inverse aboutit au même résultat : l'impossibilité de trouver le mot adéquat - celui qui, en adhérant au réel, permettrait de sortir de l'espace clos du dictionnaire.

Keyphrases: Aquin, Hubert, Dictionnaire, Glossaire, Poulin, Jacques, Littérature québécoise, Lexique, Vocabulaire
L'île aux chats. Incursion dans l'archipel félin de Jacques Poulin

Dans son plus récent recueil d'essais, le romancier et essayiste, Yvon Rivard, laisse entendre que « personne n'est une île ». Nul doute qu'il a raison, s'il entend par là des personnes humaines. Mais quand la personne ou le personnage, mieux, la persona est un chat, le constat ne va plus de soi. Encore moins s'il s'agit du chat poulinien. En effet, chez Jacques Poulin, dont l'oeuvre est peuplée de félins à peine « domestiques », le chat est une île, un monde en soi qui côtoie celui, grégaire, des humains, avec lequel il entretient des liens distendus mais constants. A l'image de cet animal solitaire, mi-sauvage mi-domestique, le protagoniste poulinien et, le plus souvent, sa compagne du moment, sont des êtres félins à la fois affectueux et indépendants, paradoxalement fidèles et infidèles.

Keyphrases: Poulin, Jacques, Chat, Littérature québécoise, Animal
Robust design in monotonic matching markets : a case for firm-proposing deferred-acceptance

We study two-sided matching markets among workers and firms. Workers seek one position at a firm but firms may employ several workers. In many applications those markets are monotonic: leaving positions unfilled is costly as for instance, for hospitals this means not being able to provide full service to its patients. A huge literature has advocated the use of stable mechanisms for clearinghouses. The interests among workers and firms are polarized among stable mechanisms, most famously the firm-proposing DA and the worker-proposing DA. We show that for the firm-proposing DA ex-ante incentive compatibility and ex-post incentive compatibility are equivalent whereas this is not necessarily true for the worker-proposing DA. The firm-proposing DA turns out to be more robust than the worker-proposing DA under incomplete information when incentives of both sides of the market are important.

Keyphrases: Many-to-one matching market, Stability, Incomplete information, Monotonic responsive extensions, Robust mechanism design
Convergence des technologies de l’information : plaidoyer pour une nouvelle normativité des communications dans l’espace UEMOA

Le rapprochement des secteurs de la téléphonie, de l’Internet et de l’audiovisuel du fait de la convergence des technologies de l’information (TI) suscite de nombreux questionnements juridiques relatifs à l’adéquation de la réglementation et de la régulation. Ainsi, la présente étude propose une lecture du droit de l’espace Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africain (UEMOA) sous le prisme de la convergence. En premier lieu, elle s’interroge sur l’adéquation des cadres juridiques tant communautaire qu’étatiques vis-à-vis de cette mutation technologique et l’opportunité de maintenir le modèle normatif actuel qui consiste à faire cohabiter différents cadres juridiques et organes de régulation pour des activités de plus en plus intégrées. En second lieu, prenant la mesure de la constante évolution des TI et l’avènement des phénomènes de globalisation et de modialisation et s’inspirant des pratiques dans l’espace Union européenne et au Canada, l’étude qui se veut prospective soumet quelques grandes lignes d’une nouvelle normativité des TI. Elle propose une rédifinition du cadre réglementaire ainsi qu’une modification du statut des organes de régulation des TI.  Mots-clés : technologies de l’information, convergence, autorité de régulation, autorité administrative indépendante, régulation, communications électroniques, globalisation, mondialisation The combination of the telephony, Internet and audiovisual sectors due to the convergence of information technology (IT) raises numerous legal questions concerning the adequacy of the legal framework. Thus, the present study proposes a reading of space law West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) under the prism of convergence. Firstly, it questions the adequacy of the regulations at both Community and state level take into account this technological change, and the advisability of maintaining the current normative model of bringing together different legal frameworks and regulators for more and more integrated activities. Secondly, taking into account the constant evolution of IT and the advent of the phenomena of globalization and inspired by practices in the European Union and Canada, the prospective study subjects some major Lines of a new IT normativity. It proposes a revision of the regulatory framework as well as a modification of the status of the IT regulatory bodies. Keywords : information technology, convergence, regulatory authority, independent administrative authority, regulation, electronic communications, globalization

Keyphrases: Technologies de l’information,, Convergence, Autorité de régulation, Autorité administrative indépendante, Régulation, Communications électroniques, Globalisation, Mondialisation, Convergence, Information technology, Regulatory authority, Independent administrative authority, Electronic communications, Globalization
I see so I feel : coping with workplace violence among victims and witnesses

BACKGROUND: Workplace violence is a serious concern for workers’ mental health and well-being in high risk work sectors. OBJECTIVE: This study examined victims’ and witnesses’ experiences after exposure to workplace violence, and the types of helps they used to cope with the violent event. METHODS: Workers (n = 211) from five different work sectors participated in our study. Multiple mediation analysis was used to investigate the indirect effects through psychological and work consequences on victims’ vs. witnesses’ differential likelihood of using formal, paraformal and informal helping. RESULTS: Results showed that workplace violence has detrimental effects on both victims and witnesses, with direct victims were more negatively affected psychologically and at work than witnesses. The indirect effect through psychological difficulty after experiencing workplace violence was significant in predicting formal helping. The indirect effect through reduced work functioning in predicting paraformal helping was also significant. No significant indirect effect was found in predicting informal helping. CONCLUSIONS: Both victims and witnesses used multiple types of helping to cope with the violent event. This study has practical implications on management and clinical practices for better organizations of resources in helping victims and witnesses to cope with workplace violence.

Keyphrases: Workplace aggression, Workplace violence, Psychological consequences, Work functioning, Coping
How do social Interactions with a significant other affect PTSD symptoms? : an empirical investigation with a clinical sample

Social support and coping are both related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, but the mechanisms underlying their relationships remain unclear. This study explores these relationships by examining the perceived frequency of supportive and countersupportive interactions with a significant other in PTSD patients. Ninety-six participants with PTSD were recruited and completed questionnaires assessing social interactions, ways of coping, and PTSD symptoms. Associations of social interactions (r2 = 4.1%–7.9%, p < .05) and coping (r2 = 15.9%–16.5%, p < .001) with symptoms were independent, and suggested a direct association between social interactions and PTSD. Countersupportive interactions were more associated to symptoms than supportive interactions. Our findings suggest the development of psychotherapies that integrate social support interventions.

Keyphrases: Anxiety, Coping, Depression, PTSD, Social support, Symptoms