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Le phénomène de l'édition de scénarios cinématographiques dans l'espace éditorial québécois

During the last two decades, studies on the screenplay have increased greatly. However, very few theoreticians and historians studied the process of publication of screenplays. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how the publication of screenplays has developed in Quebec in the last hundred years and write it’s history.  By « publication of screenplays », we mean all texts written with the intention of permitting a film.  The texts studied here have to have a ISBN code. Considering a relatively small number of screenplays have been published, this dissertation also includes an inventory and analysis of publications that are written in relationship to a film such as novelizations and transcriptions of films. The different types of texts have been identified and classified according to a typology which is made up of four types of publications : the novelization, the transcription of the film, the published screenplay and the fictitious screenplay.

Keyphrases: Published screenplays, Paratext, Cinema, Quebec, History of
La sécurité collective dans l’unipolarité : 
la crise nucléaire iranienne

The main argument of our thesis is that a unipolar and non hegemonic structure of the international system furthers collective security.  After having shown that the present international structure is as such and having justified our neoliberal theoretical approach, we have adopted the interaction model of the Stackelberg leadership model to demonstrate that a conflicting cooperation between rational States, that are respectful of the international order, is possible, which allows them to overcome their collective action dilemma. This cooperation depends on the existence of shared interests, on the ability of the leader to foster cooperation among them, and on structural conditions as well, which enable the setting up of “a reciprocity strategy”. They, thus, form what we call as a “Stackelberg’s group”. With regard to the periphery follower, or defector, he should adjust to the mutual interest of the group, as defined by this latter, as well as cooperate and negotiate with it, under the pressure of sanctions or the use of force if necessary.  In the event of a successful negotiation, a Stackelberg equilibrium, furthered by the leader of the group, that is the unipolar and non hegemonic power, is then reached where cooperation between the members of the group, i.e. the States, allows them to get their share, that is a benefit from their mutual interest.       In our case study, the Stackelberg’s group includes the five permanent members of the U.N Security Council plus Germany, all acting under the US leadership.  Iran is a periphery follower suspected of defection, and the mutual interest is the international security against WMD proliferation.  Our empirical assessment shows that the respective conditions, which enable a reciprocity strategy within the Stackelberg’s group, are then met by its members, whereas those of Iran are still under negotiations.

Keyphrases: Leadership de Stackelberg, Iran, Collective Security, Conflicting cooperation, Stackelberg model leadership, Non proliferation, Cooperation costs, Reciprocity strategy, Multilevel games, International sanctions, Iran, Major powers
Écriture migrante et cinéma accentué au Québec : l’exil dans l’œuvre de Marilú Mallet

This master thesis explores exile in cinema and literature, especially through the work of Marilú Mallet, a Quebec filmmaker and writter exiled from Chile. The approach chosen  borrows both to the literary and cinematographic fields, and lets intervene writters and filmmakers as much as theoreticians. Through crossed views between writters and filmmakers, this master thesis describes how the issues of displacement, memory, identity, territory and language are recurrent in the works of authors in exile. It also questions the place of migrant authors within national literature and cinema, their contribution to the collective imaginative world and social debates and reflections. Through her work, Mallet tells her own experience of exile, as well as she testifies of what went on after the coup of 1973, leaving evidences to counter the official version of history.

Keyphrases: Marilú Mallet, Exil, Transculture, Immigration, Marilú Mallet, Exile, Accented cinema, Migrant literature, Cinema of Quebec, Transculture, Immigration, Political cinema, Chile
Dynamique de la biodiversité dans la Serra do Itajaí, Brésil : une approche bioacoustique de la conservation

Recent monitoring of plant and animal populations has led us to observe a significant loss of global biodiversity. The objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity for 2010 are to encourage environmental monitoring worldwide (CBD 2000). However, it is difficult to have an adequate portrait of the overall biodiversity of an area, because ecosystems are dynamic and evolving in both space and time. The choice of an indicator is therefore essential. This project proposes to use bioacoustics as an environmental indicator to monitor the animal biodiversity in tropical areas, in one of the most threatened biomes on the planet, the Mata Atlantica in Brazil. Our aim is to demonstrate that it is possible to relate biophony (sound events) to biological events (punctual animal species richness), i.e. to quantify songs produced by birds, insects and anurans singers and associate them to changes in biodiversity.  In  addressing this overall goal, three specific objectives were put forward: 1) compare the biophony and anthropophony of different landscapes, subjected to different levels of human occupation and conservation, in order to assess the human impact on the environment, 2) assess the spatial variability of biodiversity, as well as 3) its temporal variability. Results showed that biophony is representative of the biodiversity of an area, even under conditions of maximum biodiversity such as found in Brazil because there is a very strong positive relationship between these two variables. In addition, the results show a significant difference in the ratio anthropophony/biophony in environments subject to different human impacts. Disparate indices of relative power (dB / kHz) also reveal the importance of spatial and temporal variability of biodiversity, and therefore the importance of monitoring biophony in different environments and at different times to obtain an adequate portrait of a region’s biodiversity.

Keyphrases: Conservation, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Protected area, Indicator, Phenology
De combattants à ex-combattants : interprétations des ex-combattants des groupes paramilitaires colombiens sur leur participation au conflit armé

This paper studies the interpretations of the ex-combatants of the paramilitary groups United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia about their participation in the internal conflict. These discourses, created in a context of social reintegration, are used to discuss the recreation of the truth brought by the ex-combatants in post-conflict contexts. We analyzed the life stories of 18 ex-combatants who were part of the reintegration to civil life Program held in Bogota. Our interviewees have adopted a position of victims, creating discourses of legitimation of the violence in order to avoid the according responsability. In there, it suggests a normalization of violence, remembering the concept of the “banality of evil” brought by Hannah Arendt. Our interviewees have used the paramilitary rhetoric to justify violence. This rhetoric belongs to the psychological construction of the enemy by the groups and it reveals the role of language in the construction of a paramilitary culture. Although, we found that there are other interpretations that don’t concede and justify violence. There are different interpretations of their reactions in the contexts of mass violence. From there we discussed the notions of moral and legal guilty.

Keyphrases: Ex-combatant, paramilitary groups, Colombia, life history, testimony, banality of evil, moral guilty, social reintegration, post-conflict
La démocratisation au Togo et au Bénin : l'influence des stratégies des groupes d'opposition

Benin and Togo have much in common: both countries are former French colonies; throughout the 20th century, both have achieved a comparable level of economic development; both are characterized by a postcolonial history marked by coups d’états and waves of protestations in favour of democracy in the 1980s. Moreover, in both cases, these waves of protestations resulted in National Conferences and multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Yet, in spite of these similarities, only Benin has succeeded in establishing a democratic state. This thesis attempts to determine why this is the cases. By examining the influence of the opposition parties’ strategies in the overall transition process of Benin and Togo, one concludes that the degree of unity among opposition groups and the various compromises made with the government exerts a critical influence on the success or failure of democratic transitions.

Keyphrases: Togo, Democratic Transitions, Political Parties, Sub-Saharan Africa, Democratisation
La relation entre la formation des ressources humaines et la performance organisationnelle : l’effet modérateur du roulement du personnel

The first objective of the present research is to study the association between human resources training and organizational performance. The concept of human resources training, as considered in this study, includes two dimensions: intensity and incidence of training, respectively measured by the proportion of wage bills spent on training and the proportion of employees trained. The dimensions of organizational performance considered are the productivity and the financial profit. The second objective of this research is to study the moderating effect of the turnover in the relationship between training and organizational performance.  The data in the present study were collected by Jalette (1998) during his doctoral studies. This data contain information collected from the Federation of Desjardins establishments from Montreal and West of Quebec. A total of 288 establishments were considered for this study. Regression analyses were conducted to verify if each of our dimensions of training has an effect on each dimension of organizational performance. We also tested, with four regression analyses, the presence of a moderating effect of turnover in the relationship between human resources training and organizational performance.  The results of the present study indicate that the examined relations are more complex than they initially seemed to be. First of all, the effect of training on organizational performance was not significant or was contrary to our expectations. On the contrary, a significant moderating effect of turnover was identified in three regressions. In fact, the negative relation between intensity of training and financial profit is less pronounced in an environment where turnover is high compared to an environment where turnover is low. Also, in an environment where turnover is high, the relation between incidence of training and productivity is positive but it is negative in an environment where turnover is low. These two moderating effects are in the opposite direction than what we expected. However, our eighth hypothesis was verified : in an environment where turnover is high, the relation between incidence of training and financial profit is negative while it is positive in a context where turnover is low.

Keyphrases: Formation, Training, Intensity of training, Incidence of training, Organizational performance, Productivity, Financial profit, Turnover
L'apport des théories morales de la responsabilité pour penser l'imputabilité des crimes de guerre

My research starts from the statement that imputing an act on someone raises its own difficulties. But these difficulties are increased when it is a war crime that we have to attribute. Indeed, to whom does one accredit a crime when the context engages collective actions (battalions, crowds, resistant organizations) or when acts performed were ordered by superiors in the hierarchy ? How to consider the fact that the context of war can be disturbing or traumatizing for soldiers, without going so far as to excuse them of their crimes? And nevertheless, it is necessary to propose solutions, because the question takes on major importance, not only in regard to justice within international lawsuits, but also in the post-war general context. Indeed, the exactness of accusations, the visibility of legal methods and procedures are some of the many elements which acquire a particular impact on the efforts to settle a peace that will be as durable as possible. Furthermore, the establishment of responsibilities, at the individual level as well as at the States level, has to allow to understand what made possible crimes within an armed conflict and, therefore, to rethink elements of a possible prevention.

Keyphrases: Responsibility, Imputability, War crimes, war, International law
La détresse psychologique et les facteurs professionnels : étude du milieu policier

This thesis aims to study some occupational factors and their relationship with psychological distress. The main objective of this master's thesis is to determine the moderator effect of decision latitude (decision authority and skill level) on the relationship between psychological distress and occupational factors.   We use data from the Team for Research on Work and Mental Health (ERTSM). This research team collected the data during the month of December 2008 and January 2009. The sample consists of 410 workers whose ages range from 20 to 58 years. The multivariate analyses that we conducted allowed us to identify two occupational factors which are significantly associated to psychological distress. Those are psychological demands and the relationship with the supervisor.  The results of logistic regression analyses show that workers who have a good relationship with their immediate superior have a lower probability (0.91) of developing psychological distress. On the other hand workers with high psychological demands have an odds ratio 1.11 times greater than those with low demands of developing psychological distress. Contrary to the hypothesis put forward, police officers do not have a higher probability of developing psychological distress than clerical workers. Furthermore, moderating variables are not significantly associated with psychological distress.

Keyphrases: psychological distress, police officers, skill level, decision authority, relationship with supervisor
Mâle dans leur poids : une étude sur les variables explicatives de la préoccupation des hommes québécois avec surpoids à l'égard du poids

The purpose of this study was to explore different weight issues of men by using the « key determinants of the health and the well-being of men » established by Courtenay (2003). By interviewing 17 overweight men of Québec, different variables were examined that could possibly explain the preoccupation with their weight. According to these men, a typical masculine behaviour in the food choice and in the way of eating can be acknowledged and by traditional masculine standards, women often play an important role in this area. The health beliefs of men is often limited to the functionality of their body while the description of overweight is more based on their lived experience and less restrictive than the pure medical definition of health. Nevertheless, the social pressure of the ideal masculine body is felt by many men and makes them often dissatisfied with their body depending on the masculinity that is valued and the stigmatisation that they encounter. Men’s health concerns are predominant in the 30-45 age group and legitimize their desire for weight loss although given reasons may vary: health, appearance or well-being. Expression of emotional pain in weight issues is difficult for a lot of men and very often the traditional masculine values constitute a serious barrier to consulting for these kinds of problems. Health professionals in the future will therefore need to recognize the different characteristics of this masculinity and integrate them in their approach and communication with overweight men.

Keyphrases: Health determinants, Masculinity, Food habits, Men's behaviour, Health related beliefs, Health practices, Weight control, Body perception, Health care utilization, Discourse analysis
La "révolution agraire" de l’Écosse, 1755-1815 : une construction historiographique? : étude de cas sur l’Aberdeenshire

During the eighteenth century, Scotland underwent numerous structural changes that ultimately led to its entry into the Industrial Revolution. Concerning its historiography, there is an ongoing debate between two factions – named for the purpose of this study traditionalists and revisionists – in order to determine the validity of the “Agricultural revolution” notion of development. This study aims to explore both visions and to apply their conclusions to a particular region, in this case Aberdeenshire. Using the Old Statistical Account, one of the major documentary resources concerning Scottish modern history, we will try to demonstrate that the regional experience of development differs from the general assertions applied to Scotland. We will focus on land property, the impact of enclosures and the timeframe of the changes. Owing to its specific characteristics, we believe that the entry of Aberdeenshire into agricultural modernity followed the path of long-term structural changes, as favoured by the writers of the revisionist persuasion. In other words, this region did not experience but more or less adapted the new ideas and techniques to its own particular characteristics.

Keyphrases: Aberdeenshire, Aberdeenshire, Agriculture, Agriculture, Economical development, Old Statistical Account, Old Statistical Account, Scotland, XVIIIe siècle, XVIIIth century
Thomas d'Aquin et l'astrologie des corps

In spite of the theoretical and practical acceptation that medieval astrology is greeted with during the 13th century in the Latin world, its philosophically ambiguous nature is due, at least partly so, to the distinction made between mechanical arts and liberal sciences. Even more mysterious is the fact that it appears in Occident without having to violate the peripheries of Latin philosophy, as Christian as it could be. From a history of philosophy point of view, this rather smooth entrance seems to imply that the astrological project is always-already conceptually rooted in a philosophical context larger than itself, by which it validates its raison d’être. Through the study of Thomas Aquinas’ natural philosophy and metaphysics, this work demonstrates that medieval astrology could occur among the Christian world whenever the causal hierarchy of being brought forth by Arabic aristotelianism and Neo-Platonism walked hand in hand with the Christian theology of divine providence. From an aporia to another, the deconstruction of what any astrology presupposes therefore takes place, from which it becomes possible to properly understand both the rational and philosophical aspect of the astrological enterprise during the Middle Ages.

Keyphrases: Cosmology, Astrology, Natural Philosophy, Medieval philosophy, Thomas Aquinas
Exploration de la perception d’adolescents et d’experts sur les campagnes de sensibilisation et les programmes de prévention en sécurité routière pour adolescents

The goal of this qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study is to explore road safety experts and adolescents perceptions of current public awareness campaigns and road safety prevention programs aimed at adolescents, in order to find ways to prevent car accidents. Green & Kreuter’s Precede/Proceed Planning Model (2005) is the frame of reference used. A focus discussion group composed of eight adolescents and semi-directed interviews with three road safety experts were conducted. The results show very few similarities between the perceptions of adolescents and those of road safety experts. However, both agree on vital aspects of road safety, such as risk-taking during adolescence, and the involvement of parents and school environments. Also, the road safety experts comments were very similar to each other.  The results of this study are important for people responsible of prevention campaigns and people working with this clientele. It provides research avenues and action plans focused on the prevention of car accidents in order to decrease the number of car accidents involving young drivers.

Keyphrases: Adolescents, Car accidents, Adolescents, Experts in road safety, Prevention
L'étendue de la pratique chez les infirmières cliniciennes et les infirmières

The goal of this descriptive and interpretative study was to first describe the scope of nursing practice of registered nurses with a Bachelor’s degree in nursing and those with a nursing diploma in a medical and surgical unit of a regional hospital. The second goal was to identify the organizational factors that influence the scope of nursing practice in that unit. The framework that has been used is the Framework to Analyse Scope of practice, made for the College of Registered Nurses in Nova Scotia (CRNNS, 2005). According to that framework, the full scope of practice of the registered nurse is divided in 4 components: the nursing process, the professional nursing relationships, the leadership and the fonction of teaching and knowledge transfert. For this study, 8 interviews have been realized. The participants were: 3 nurses with a nursing diploma, 3 nurses with a bachelor’s degree and 2 administrators. The results seems to show that all the components of the nursing scope of practice seems to be used by the nurses with a Bachelor’s degree in nursing and those with a nursing diploma. But, the results seem to show that the nursing scope of practice is not fully extended in that unit. We remarked also that two elements of the nursing scope of practice, the leadership and the teaching and knowledge transfert, are more used by nursed with a Bachelor’s degree, compared to those with a nursing diploma. The principal factors which seem to influence the scope of nursing practice in this unit are the nursing workload and some components according to the work environment and to the composition and caracteristics of the nursing teams.

Keyphrases: Scope of nursing practice, Organizational factors, Nursing roles, Registered nurses