NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Effets secondaires métaboliques de l’olanzapine dans la schizophrénie : variables cliniques, structurales et fonctionnelles

Atypical antipsychotics are first line treatment options for schizophrenia.  Nevertheless atypical antipsychotics, such as olanzapine, are associated with metabolic adverse effects: weight gain, dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance. Mechanisms underlying these side effects are still poorly understood. This thesis represents a study of the evolution of biometric (body weight, BMI, abdominal circumference), biological (lipid profile, fasting glucose, insulin, leptin, ghrelin) and clinical parameters (positive, negative and general symptoms of schizophrenia as well as eating behavior measures) in schizophrenia patients treated with olanzapine during 16 weeks. Healthy subjects and schizophrenia patients passed structural and functional magnetic resonance examinations (one examination for healthy controls and two examinations for schizophrenia patients, one at the beginning and one after 16 weeks of olanzapine treatment) in order to identify cerebral regions where grey matter volumes or activations could be associated with metabolic side effects mechanisms. Our results confirm that various metabolic adverse effects emerged in our sample of patients during the 16 weeks olanzapine treatment. Eating behavior changes have also been associated with specific metabolic changes. Many associations have been found between cerebral volumes (e.g. bilateral hippocampi and précunei and right orbitofrontal cortex) and metabolic changes. Moreover, cerebral activations differences between healthy controls and schizophrenia patients, that were increased following olanzapine treatment, were also described in the amygdala, cerebellum and insulas, suggesting that neuronal mechanisms were involved in the development of metabolic disorders associated with atypical antipsychotics.

Keyphrases: olanzapine, neuroimagerie, schizophrenia, side effects, olanzapine, antipsychotics, appetite, neuroimaging
Les consortiums d'établissements offrant des services aux personnes ayant subi un traumatisme craniocérébral :  
étude de cas et proposition d’une hiérarchisation des dimensions de leur performance

Networks have been implemented in Québec to address the lack of coordination and integration of services provided to persons who sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The evaluation of the networks’ performance is hindered by the lack of a clear description of the networks and because the concept of network performance is poorly defined. The goal of this thesis is to conduct the necessary preliminary steps of network performance evaluation. We sought to: 1) describe the organizations, nature and quality of the links between organizations within an existing TBI network; 2) explore the perceptions of network constituencies about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of this organizational form; 3) report and compare network members’ perceptions of the importance of 16 dimensions of performance to include within an evaluation of TBI networks; 4) reconcile the various perceptions to propose a consensual hierarchy of performance dimensions. Social network analysis was used to describe a small network, with a moderate density, essentially organized around four organizations with high centrality. The constituents reported their network as having as many strengths as weaknesses. The major issues reported concerned the network’s Adaptation to its environment and Value maintenance. The representatives from 46 organization members of a TBI network felt that performance dimensions related to Goal Achievement were more important than those related to Process. The Capacity to attract the clientele, Continuity and the Capacity to adapt and meet client’s needs were the three most important dimensions, while the Capacity to adapt to requirements and tendencies and Quantity of care and services were the least important. TRIAGE groups enabled the constituents to reach a consensus about the importance of each dimension, and harmonized their different perspectives about network performance evaluation. Although much work remains, our research provides a solid basis upon which to pursue the network performance evaluation process towards optimizing TBI network services.

Keyphrases: Consortium, Performance, TRIAGE, EGIPSS, Traumatic brain injury, Network, Consortium, Performance, Evaluation, Social network analysis, TRIAGE, EGIPSS
Approche psycholinguistique des relations entre le traitement sémantique des mots et la rétention à court terme chez l’individu sain et dans la démence de type Alzheimer

For the past two decades, considerable efforts have been made in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology in order to improve our understanding of the interactions between different cognitive systems (executive functions, memory, language etc.). Evidence of short-term memory (STM) and language impairments in many clinical populations has lead some researchers to put forward an alternative to Baddeley’s working memory model (1986). Based on studies of aphasia, the psycholinguistic approach of STM postulated that word processing and maintenance refer to common processes. Specifically, the interactive activation model (N. Marin & Gupta, 2004; N. Martin & Saffran, 1997) predicts that STM capacities are in particular affected by the linguistic characteristics engaged during the test, and vary according to the nature of verbal items and recall modality, as well as word processing ability.  The goal of this thesis was to test some of these predictions by investigating the relationship between semantic treatment and STM in healthy adults (article 1) and dementia of Alzheimer Type (DAT) (article 2). In the first article, two experiments underline the influence of the associative links between words on the capacity to temporarily retain verbal information. Participants tend to wrongly recognize words associated with words from the list, reflecting an activation of the semantic network during temporary retention. This semantic contribution increases in a situation of articulatory suppression, a condition that limits the possibility to repeat lists during the task. The results of the second article indicated that recall modality influences differently the performance in STM of the elderly participants and those with DAT. These data in STM are compatible with a specific word processing impairment, also found in the group with DAT. The theoretical and clinical implications of these results are discussed. Limits and future research perspectives are also presented.

Keyphrases: short term memory, semantic memory, dementia of Alzheimer type, psycholinguistic models, false recognition
Étude des collisions proton-proton dans l’expérience ATLAS avec les détecteurs
ATLAS-MPX

The sixteen detectors forming the ATLAS-MPX network have been placed in different positions inside the ATLAS detector and its cavern at CERN in order to measure, in real time, the radiation fields produced by primary particles (beam protons) and secondary particles (kaons, pions, photons, protons) resulting from the proton-proton collisions. Films of polyethylene (PE) and lithium fluoride (6LiF) cover the detectors so as to increase their sensitivity to neutrons produced by the primary and secondary particles interacting with the materials present in the ATLAS environment. The tracks identification in an ATLAS-MPX detector is obtained with the algorithms of the MAFalda software (Medipix Analysis Framework) based on the libraries and data-analysis software ROOT. A study on the mistag rate and blob overlap was made by reconstructing the activities of 106Ru and 137Cs sources. The fast neutron detection efficiency was measured with the help of 252C f and 241AmBe sources (neutrons with an average energy of 2.13 and 4.08 MeV, respectively). The detection efficiency measured for neutrons produced by 252Cf et 241AmBe sources was calculated for the 6LiF and PE converters. It averaged at low and high energy respectively (0.8580 ± 0.1490)% and (0.0254 ± 0.0031)% for LiF and (0.0510 ± 0.0061)% and (0.0591 ± 0.0063)% for PE. A simulation of the neutron detection efficiency calculation in the MPX detector was carried out with the GEANT4 software. MPX data corresponding to the proton-proton collisions at 2.4 TeV and 7 TeV at the center of mass were analyzed. The detected flux of electrons and photons are particularly high in the MPX01 and MPX14 detectors because they are closer to the point of collision. Fluxes of neutrons were estimated using the measured detection efficiencies. A correlation with the luminosity of the LHC was established. We predict that for 14 TeV collisions at the center of mass, with a luminosity of 1034 cm^2*s^1, the number of particle detected by MPX01 and MPX14 respectively will be about 5.1x10^8 ± 1.5x10^7 and 1.6x10^9 ± 6.3x10^7.

Keyphrases: ATLAS-MPX, champ de radiation, LHC, neutron, CERN, ATLAS-MPX, radiation field, pixel detector, detection efficiency, LHC, luminosity, neutron, CERN
Le traitement juridique de la mère au foyer : le droit privé et le droit social de la famille québécois à l ’aune de l ’individualisme

Although researchers have given much attention to the growing importance of individualism in Quebec family law, it is unclear whether these conclusions refer to the same definition of the phenomenon. It is essential to understand the dynamic quality of this tendency, its characteristics as well as its relationship with the law. Using a socio- juridical approach, this thesis explores the phenomenon through three indicators. Specifically, we have undertaken to examine the individualization of Quebec ’s social family law and private family law in the case of the stay-at-home mother. Our analysis reveals that Quebec family law aims, acknowledges and concretly supports the autonomy of the stay-at-home mother very little. Our observations have rather highlighted a decrease in mesures and services that support her, a tendency that is related to the fiscalization, the contractualization and the important judiciary discretion characteristic of contemporary family law.

Keyphrases: Private family law, Social family law, Family, Stay-at-home mother, Mothering, Motherwork, Individualism, Individualization
L’évaluation du risque en fonction de l’âge : l’efficacité de l’évaluation structurée dans la prédiction de la récidive

Eight evaluation techniques demonstrating high risk sexual offenders has been taken upon 580 individual sexual offenders. They are among the VRAG, the SORAG, the RRASOR, the Static-99, the Static-2002, the RM-2000, the MnSORT-R ans the SVR-20. Also, the subjects have been quoted according to the PCL-R, which focuses on their mental health, however supporting the quotes by prediction and relaps (Gendreau, Little, et Goggin, 1996). With the ongoing measuring of the suitability of these instruments as well as the PCL-R, it will take a period of 25 years for the observance. As well, a group of subjects have been studied from the age they were let out of prison, to come up with conclusions differentiating the offenders aging 34 and less with the offenders aging 35 and older. The present work on this subject matter hopes to focus on three research objectives: 1) Describe the evolution of risk according to the age, 2) To study the common point between age, they type of offender, and their relaps, and 3) To compare the suitability of 9 instruments the predict 4 types of relaps according to their age. The study results suggest that age affects the level of risk posed by offenders. Furthermore, analyses of different types of recidivism indicate that the preferred type of victim offender also influences the level of risk. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Keyphrases: Sexual delinquency, Recidivism, Prediction, Risk assessment, Survival analyses, ROC curve
Que pensent les enseignants et les élèves du secondaire des TIC? : une étude des représentations sociales au Niger

In African countries in general, particulary in Niger, the computer begins to find out its way at school. This pedagogical and integration process of the communication and the information technologies is highly dependent on human, pedagogical and technological parameters. To result this process is to know the decisions and the attitudes of the actors of this school in presence of these technologies. From the social representations we can know how to think, to adopt and elucidate the daily fact of a group of individuals facing an object, in the present case, the ICT. Our investigation concerns the identification of the social representation that some teachers and students have engendered on the technologies of the information and the communication. Based on a mixed methodology, our results allowed us to write three contributions. In the first one we have investigated twenty teachers about some social parades on the attitude of the teachers towards the computer, on the risks of the computer at school and at last on its advantages. The whole of these social parades place in a prominent position the positive attitude of teachers facing the computer at school even if for some teachers, the computer is a tool that promotes the unwarranted attitude of students and is seen as a potential rival. The second objective is to know the social representation of ICT in students – Fifty (50) students coming from two schools has composed the population of our study. After submiting the conversation set down to an analyis, we come to some results that make obvious the social parades on the understanding of the ICT and on its usage in the outline of apprenticeship. Our research also had to determine if the social parades were linked to the ICT training and to its regulard usage. The results of the hypothesis test of the khi-2 show that the training of the ICT do not influence the emergence of the social representation.  The third objective, relies on the previous results, and deals with the construction of a measurement scale of the ICT’s social parades in some students. After working out the scale of measurement, it has been directed to two hundred and sixty-five (265) students of two high schools. The factorial analysis results show that the scale has a quite good internal coherence. The whole results prove that even though its using is very new in nigerien school, some social parades have been rised up the ICT. The content of these representations show the propositions attitudes to the ICT in positive the training.

Keyphrases: TIC, Niger, Social representations, ICT, Teachers, Students, Scale of attitudes
Intérêts et attentes légitimes : le mandat de protection, un contrat de choix

In the late 1980s, the legislator introduced an institution allowing an individual of full age and able to exercise his civil rights to entrust, in the event of his inability, his well-being, the administration of his patrimony and, in general, his protection to a trusty person. This institution is called the mandate given in anticipation of the mandator’s incapacity.  However, the onset of the mandator’s inability is a precondition to an accurate evaluation of his needs. This situation has led a certain doctrine, in order to safeguard the residual autonomy of the mandator, to invoke the principles governing the protective supervision of a person of full age. Unfortunately, without a specific provision to that effect, it appears that this pathway cannot be adopted.  Accordingly, this text attempts to demonstrate that the principles brought up by the Charter of human rights and freedoms and the general provisions governing contractual agreements under the Civil Code of Québec allows to ensure the protection of the mandator in respect of his interests and his legitimate expectations. This approach also reconciles the respect of the mandator’s residual autonomy, his wishes and his need of protection and ensures the effectiveness of the institution.

Keyphrases: Mandat, Protection, Mandate, Mandator, Mandatary, Protection, Inability, Incapacity, Autonomy, Interests, Legitimate expectations
Making Mountains out of Molehills: works for small ensembles and solo instruments

Abstract  The following document presents a collection of pieces all composed during a two-  year period. The first chapter consists of overviews of the earliest pieces, written for solo  instruments or small ensembles, while the second chapter is an in-depth analysis of the  most recent work, “Three Constructions in Heavy Metal” (a chamber piece for six  performers and conductor).  The pieces are presented in a chronological order to illustrate the evolution of the  compositional process as well as the way certain ideas are recycled and reused in new  contexts in different pieces.   As all the pieces are written for small ensembles, there is an emphasis on  maximizing the sonic potential available.  This takes places at the instrumental level and, as  analysis will show, at the level of the musical materials; nearly all the material in “Three  Constructions in Heavy Metal” can be traced in some way to the pieces presented in the  first chapter.                  Keywords: Music, composition, duality, chamber, texture, ensemble, instrumental

Keyphrases: Music, Composition, Composition, Duality, Chamber, Texture, Texture, Ensemble, Ensemble, Instrumental, Instrumental
Système de superposition arborescente et aspect soliste (le vibraphone et le bending tone) : éléments de détermination d’un langage musical personnel

This doctoral thesis involves the analysis, scores and sound recordings of several composed and improvised musical compositions recorded during the years 2009 – 2010. Its main objective is the development of elements determining a personal musical language. To achieve this objective, different tools were put in place such as the development of a flexible harmonic and melodic system and the expansion of the multitude of sound effects of the vibraphone, both achieved by mastering the “bending tone”. The body of this document is divided in two parts devoted to the elaboration of a system of superposition of the different changes that can be brought to the core element and the aspect of the soloist searching for flexibility, virtuosity and the diversity of sounds linked to this particular instrument. The concepts elaborated are supported by illustrations, score references and targeted musical examples including jazz and western classical styles.

Keyphrases: Composition, Vibraphone, Bending tone, Superposition, Moderne, Jazz, Music, Composition, Vibraphone, Bending Tone, Superposition, Modern, Jazz, Soloist
La ville criminelle dans les grands cycles romanesques de 1840 à 1860 : stratégies narratives et clichés

Our thesis studies Eugène Sue’s “Mystères de Paris” (1842-1843) and the “romans-feuilletons” that have tried to gain profit out of its success. The “urban mysteries” make use of repetition as a much-developed narrative strategy: they intend to differentiate themselves while repeating. Our thesis shines light on the manners in which clichés and agreed scenarios are used and modified to fictionalize the big city, according to an acute awareness to new realities, first of which are the discovery of the proletariat, the fascination with modernity, and the fear of urban criminality. Our thesis presents a panoramic shot of the cultural horizons convened by the urban mysteries, a typology of the criminal characters, and the scrutiny of the construction of the reader by the novel – and of the novel by the reader. This thesis reveals a poetics of the urban mysteries stemming from and anchored within a precise sociohistorical moment, yet endowed with considerable reach and surprising endurance.

Keyphrases: Roman, Études narratives, Cliché, Crime, Romanticism, Novel, Narrative studies, Sociocritics, Mass media, Cliché, Crime, City
Intégration linguistique des immigrants au marché du travail au Québec

This research aims to analyse the linguistic integration of Quebec’s immigrants to the labour market and the factors related to it. We have chosen to examine the usage of French by immigrants in the workplace. In 2007, about half of Quebec’s immigrants worked only or most of the time in French, a quarter of them used it regularly, and another quarter spoke it rarely or never while working.  Our analyses allow us also to estimate the gross and net effects of various factors concerning the usage of French by immigrants in the workplace. We show that a company’s linguistic dimension, the environment and the personal characteristic of oneself all have a major input on the choice of the work language. As far as the company is concerned, the language use by its managers has a direct effect on hiring policies and work procedures and thus determines in part the language spoken by its employees in the workplace.  The linguistic composition of an immigrant’s social network at work, including his immediate superior and his colleagues, also have an impact on the language he will use.  Consequently, the more francophone that he is in touch with at work and the more chances he has of speaking French. The personal characteristics of immigrants have to do with the language one has made his study in and one’s personal knowledge. The immigrants who already have a good knowledge of French will be more incline to use it at work than those who only know the basics. On the contrary, those who can speak good English will tend to use less French at work.  Other non-linguistic factors also influenced the language used at the workplace. They are: the geographical location of the enterprise, the origin of the immigrants, their profession, and their age at the arrival in Québec.

Keyphrases: Immigrant, Québec, Language of work, Linguistic integration, Immigrant, Quebec, Survey
Autopsie d'une oeuvre exquise : palimpsestes et réécritures chez Claude Mathieu

Claude Mathieu’s literary production, spanning from 1957 to 1965, differs quite a lot from the work of his contemporaries. Most often, they defend a modern nationalism and bring to the forefront Quebec’s society and territory. For his part, Mathieu discusses more general topics, such as time, art or erotism, inspired by French and foreign literature. This is rather original among Quebec writers of the 1960s. With this intertextual analysis, we seek to show the singularity of Claude Mathieu’s writing. We outline its main literary sources and influences in order to understand how he is inspired and how they guide his poetics. The analysis consists of two chapters. The first is devoted to the collection Vingt petits écrits ou le mirliton rococo. The texts studied are grouped into three sections, depending on the time of the references that support them, either Hellenic, classical or modern literature. The second chapter deals with La mort exquise, the most important work of Claude Mathieu. By analyzing the main pieces of this collection, we show how the influence of André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Jorge Luis Borges became larger than all the various references convened in the first collection of Mathieu’s short stories. We also show how these influences are absorbed and transformed to create an original writing.

Keyphrases: Claude Mathieu, Quebec literature, intertextuality, source criticism, fantasy literature, short stories