NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Indicateurs de la performance des soins infirmiers ambulatoires : une scoping review

Background : The quality and safety of nursing care vary from one service to another (OMS [WHO], 2000). We have only very limited information on the quality and safety of nursing care in outpatient settings, as this area of practice is expanding. Objectives : We want to make available, from the scientific literature, a group of indicators, potentially sensitive to nursing, to evaluate the performance of nursing care in outpatient settings and to integrate them into the theoretical framework of Dubois, D’Amour, Pomey, Girard, and Brault (2013). Methods : We conducted a scoping review (Davis, Drey, & Gould, 2009; Levac, Colquhoun, & O'Brien, 2010) in three databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE and EMBASE) and the bibliography of selected articles. For a total of 116 articles, we selected 22. Results : The results allow to extend the theoretical framework of Dubois and al. (2013) to ambulatory nursing units, to identify indicators, potentially sensitive to nursing care, in the ambulatory settings, as well as enhance their surroundings with the addition of seven new indicators. Conclusions : Our work contributes to offer to nurses and managers in ambulatory nursing units, selected indicators, potentially sensitive to nursing, to evaluate their performance. For researchers, it presents a state of knowledge on this construct and a framework with theoretical foundation for future research in ambulatory settings. This work opens an unexplored field, where further work could be conducted.

Keyphrases: Processus infirmiers, Performance measurement, Ambulatory care, Nursing care, Quality of care, Nursing structure, Nursing processes, Nursing sensitive outcomes, Quality indicators, Literature Review
Les effets de la distance physique sur les processus attentionnels sont dépendants de la similarité distracteur-cible : étude à partir des potentiels reliés aux évènements

Visual attention is a cognitive process that improves the limited capacity of the visual system by prioritising the processing of information within the attended area of the visual field. Using the event-related potentials method, components associated to such cognitive processes can be extracted from electroencephalographic activity. The N2pc, a lateralized component characterised by a negative deflection between 180 – 300 ms post-stimulus in the posterior electrodes of the hemisphere contralateral to the attended visual hemifield, reflects processes associated to the deployment of visuospatial attention. Previous studies have identified numerous factors, both from bottom-up and top-down influences, capable of modulating this component. The present study expands our understanding of attention on the processing of information from within and between receptive fields in the extrastriate visual cortex. Particularly, the present study shows that attention can be dissociated from salient items when these are dissimilar to the target and that their influence is eliminated when this particular item is located within the same receptive field as the attended item. Additionally, this study recognizes the influence of early and late target-filter processes on attentional selection.

Keyphrases: N2pc, Distance, Visuospatial attention, Target-Template, Similarity
Une sociologie du nationalisme vécu en Flandre

This master thesis, in contrast to most studies concerning the nation and its various phenomena, does not focus on the emergence of a form of community or the effects of nationalism on our political institutions. It rather studies the experienced meanings, the feelings of national belonging and how they can be expressed and experienced. By focusing on how people live and talk about their national affiliation, the aim of this research is to understand how citizens of a given community represent their national belonging and build themselves as national subjects.  Using semi-structured interviews and exploring family memory, it has been possible to observe and understand everyday nationalism in Flanders. This form of nationalism is not necessarily strongly asserted or even noticeable; it is integrated in the lives of individuals. Studying this specific form of nationalism allows the researcher to identify and explain how people make sense of those so-called national elements integrated into everyday life. It also gives a glimpse of what the national imagination is in the experienced meanings of a specific population and how it can be projected by the holders of this identity. By studying this aspect of national belonging, it has been possible to sketch out a portrait of representations of the nation in a way that has been so far little explored. Hence, a most unusual form of socialization to a national community has been identified in Flanders: socialization to a discourse of victimisation and oppression. By deliberately considering themselves as part of a line whose ascendants were dominated and despised, the Flemishs make sense of the genuine qualities and specificities that they identified as properly Flemish, but most of all, it allows them to refer themselves as the “best Belgians”.

Keyphrases: nation, lived nationalism, Flanders, Belgium, families' memory, national belonging
Économie de la perversité baudelairienne. Une lecture de Donner le temps de Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida only wrote one book on Baudelaire, entitled Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money (1991). With special focus on a number of other texts, including “The Bad Glazier” (Baudelaire), The Imp of the Perverse (Edgar Allan Poe), “Counterfeit Money” (Baudelaire) and Memoirs of the Blind (Derrida), this analysis clarifies the relations linking the poet to the philosopher, particularly with regard to the question of perversity, or rather, in Poe’s words, perverseness. Bound up in event logic, the two notions of perversity and gift can explain one another and their repercussions are far-reaching both in the texts and in literature itself.

Keyphrases: Jacques Derrida, Perversion, Perversity, Perverseness, Gift, Deconstruction, French Literature of the 19th Century, Philosophy, Given Time
The Influence of Parental Socialization of Emotions on Emotional Experience in Adulthood: An Exploratory Study

Emotion regulation is a psychobiological function that may be disrupted by childhood environmental factors, but little empirical research has explored the long-term impacts of parenting behaviors on emotional life. This study examined the contribution of parental socialization of emotions on adult emotional life, as conceptualized by: 1- types of emotion that are experienced on a regular basis (trait emotions) and 2- one’s relationship to these emotions (alexithymia). Two-hundred-and-eight university students were surveyed with the Emotion Socialization Questionnaire (QSE), which retrospectively assesses participants’ recall of five parental attitudes toward emotional expression: four unreceptive (lack of emotional communication, indifference, hostility and distress) and one receptive (fostering cognitive articulation of emotions). The 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Differential Emotions Scale IV (DES-IV) assessed adult emotional life. An environment characterized by generally unsupportive attitudes was strongly associated with negative trait emotions and alexithymia in adulthood. Parental distress and indifference may possibly play a significant role in the emergence of long-term dysphoria (co-occurring, undifferentiated negative emotions). Results also suggest evidence of overlapping properties between alexithymia and undifferentiated dysphoria.

Keyphrases: Emotion regulation, Emotional development, Socialization, Parental attitudes, Trait emotions, Alexithymia, Dysphoria
Interactions sociales et réseaux sociaux en économique : modélisation et estimation

This thesis includes three essays on social interactions in economics, both from a theoretical and applied perspective. The first essay (chapter 2) focusses on the (theoretical and empirical) study of a network formation process in small economies characterized by the fact that individuals have homophilic preferences and a time constraint. The second essay (chapter 3) is focussed on the study (mostly empirical) of a network formation process in large economies characterized by the fact that distant individuals have approximately independent behaviours. The last essay (chapter 4) is an empirical study of peer effects in education for Quebec high-school teenagers. The structural method used allows for the identification and estimation of the endogenous peer effect and the exogenous peer effects, while controlling for the presence of common shocks.

Keyphrases: Social interactions, Social networks, Network formation, Peer effects
Gender differences on two dimensions of perfectionism among gifted children

Recent research suggests that some components of perfectionism can be detrimental to psychosocial well-being, but others can be positive to adjustment. The present investigation was designed to compare the prevalence of negative and positive components among gifted boys and girls. Two dimensions of perfectionism, Self-oriented and Socially-prescribed Perfectionism, were examined in a sample of 49 children between 7 and 11 years old. Contrary to our predictions, there was no significant difference in the prevalence of both dimensions between boys and girls. Implications for future studies are discussed.

Keyphrases: dimensions, perfectionism, gender, dimensions, gifted, children, adjustment, maladjustment, self-oriented perfectionism, socially-prescribed perfectionism
La victimisation en milieu scolaire : une analyse des facteurs individuels, contextuels et environnementaux

Context and goals. This study proposes an ecological framework model for understanding school violence. The goals of this research are to; 1) assess the effect of individual, contextual and environmental factors on the risk of victimization, 2) verify the existence of interaction between the different factors.   Methods. The pupils of 16 elementary schools from the great Montreal metropolitan participated in a self-reported survey pertaining to different aspects of violence at school. Firstly, descriptive analyses were conducted to portray school violence. Secondly, a general hierarchal linear model was used to estimate the effects of individual, contextual and environmental variables on the risk of victimization.   Results. The results of multi-level analyses show that individual, contextual and environmental variables have an effect on the probabilities of being victim of verbal, physical or online violence. Thus, the more delinquent students are also those who report more prior cases of victimization. These results are not entirely attributable to individual characteristics, however. The risk of victimization is lessened when “guardians” interfere in order to put an end to the conflict, as well as when victims defend themselves. Finally, the risk of victimization is lower in schools with a greater number of students.   Interpretation. The results suggest that many aspects unrelated to victims and delinquents make it easier to comprehend the process of victimization at school. The role of guardians as well as the size of schools are important elements to the etiology of violent behaviour.

Keyphrases: Violence, School, Guardian, Supervisor, Ecological perspective, Multilevel
Les sciences sociales devraient-elles être neutres? : le rôle des chercheurs(ses) face à la normativité du discours éthique et politique, de Weber à Putnam

The objective of this Master’s thesis is to understand axiological neutrality, not as an epistemological requirement, but rather as an educational ideal. Max Weber proposes a science based on factual description, in which making value judgements is excluded. For the author, it is preferable to distinguish between descriptive and evaluative judgements so as to preserve the intellectual autonomy of students. As it would be contrary to the principle of autonomy to allow the professor to influence and convince students, in a biased manner, as well as to adhere to certain normative themes, Weber proposes a mechanism to prevent a professor from influencing students in an inappropriate way. Contemporary criticism of axiological neutrality, specifically by Sen and Putnam, sees the criteria of neutrality as a rejection of the interlacing logic of facts and values. They criticize the so-called subjectivity of values and, by doing this, defend an enriched view of science where ethical values are present. Weber has never defended the idea that it was impossible to do an analysis that is both descriptive and normative. However, one must ask where normative aspects are expressed, and make sure that all conditions are present so that a normative discussion truly results in objectivity.

Keyphrases: influence, institution, philosophy, normativity, neutrality, authority, influence, private use of reason, fact/value dichotomy, thick ethical concept
Les réactions affectives à un évènement corporatif et les attitudes au travail

This research aims to determine the impact of affective reactions related to a corporate event on the attitudes of employees of a financial institution with regards to the organization and the organizational change. Specifically, we wish to determine whether employees’ positive or negative affective reactions to a corporate event enhance or diminish their affective organizational commitment, their desire to collaborate within the organizational change, and their expected satisfaction towards the organizational change. Based on data collected through an electronic survey at three separate times, our longitudinal study confirms some of our assumptions. First, positive affective reactions to a corporate event enhance the desire to collaborate within the organizational change and anticipated satisfaction regarding this change a few days after the corporate event while negative reactions have the opposite effect. The results show that emotional reactions associated to the corporate event do not influence the attitudes of the employees one week after the event with the exception of positive affective reactions enhancing the desire to collaborate within the change.

Keyphrases: Collaboration, Satisfaction, Affective states, Affective reactions, Organizational change, Corporate event, Affective organizational commitment, Collaboration, Satisfaction
Hybridité religieuse dans deux congrégations charismatiques à Montréal

This thesis concerns the religious hybridities between Catholicism and Pentecostalism in two congregations in Montreal. Faced with the gaps in the research regarding the influence of Catholicism on Neopentecostalism, we have compared certain strategies of a multi-ethnic Charismatic Neopentecostal Church with the strategies of a Latin American Catholic Charismatic community, in order to explain how these hybridities manifest in the congregations. Some hybridities are found in the adaptation of these communities to the Quebec context and in the adaptation of the Gospel and the religious practices that mark the process of integration of immigrants into the congregations and the host society. The charismatic communities become epicenters of ethnic groupings in which we can observe continuities, transformations and cultural innovations. In my field work in these two groups, I have found evidence regarding the influence of Catholicism on the Neopentecostalism and vice versa, as well as syncretic interpenetrations.

Keyphrases: Adaptation, Religious, Hybridities, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Neopentecostalism, Charismatic, Renewal, Strategies, Adaptation, Integration
Égalitarisme et Banque centrale

Inflation has been decreasing in rich countries since the beggining of the 80’s. The creation of new monetary institutions in the western world is, partly at least, responsible for this fall. This Master’s thesis examines the relation beetween the ideal of economic equality and two important monetary institutions: Central bank conservatism and political independance. Can egalitarians support, I ask, the conservatism and the political independance of a central bank?  This work is divided in three parts. We, first, present a credible definition of what egalitarism is. We examine the relation that exists beetween inflation and egalitarianism. Finally, we analyse and criticize the theoretical foundation of political independance and monetary conservatism. We conclude that egalitarianism cannot determinate, by itself, the moral quality of monetary institutions. Egalitarians can defend central bank political independance and conservatism, but to do so they have to accept controversial economic premisses.

Keyphrases: Inflation, Central bank, Monetary policies, Egalitarianism, Political independance, Libertarianism, Growth, Utilitarianism, Conservatism
Les écrits du Sous-Commandant Marcos, vers une réhabilitation de la fonction heuristique et critique de l'utopie

This thesis focuses on the heuristic and critical character of the utopian discourse, as it will be demonstrated through the Subcomandante Marcos’ writings, which present an exemplary case of the mechanisms at play in the utopian discourse. Starting with the operational definition of utopia as an expression of a social imagination resulting from a utopian practice whose function would be to criticize the ideological nature of spatiotemporal representations imposed by the dominant order and, subsequently questioning the contemporary dominant order and the spatial nature of its hegemony with the help of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey’s works, the objective will be to demonstrate how, in his texts, Marcos produces an alternative representational space in which a mechanism of neutralization of oppositions (Louis Marin), an epoché, a judgment suspension occur, that is the only condition of possibility for overcoming the dominant order constraints in the realm of discourse and representations.

Keyphrases: Henri Lefebvre, Louis Marin, utopia, Subcomandante Marcos, neozapatism, representations, ideology, social space, neutral, dignity
L’intégration de la spatialisation en composition acousmatique et de son interprétation en concert

This thesis is about the integration of spatialization in acousmatic music as well as its performance in concert. These researches were conducted during a Music Master in Composition at the Faculté de musique de l’Université de Montréal. A historical overview of compositions with spatial considerations as main musical parameter will allow to situate my work within this artistic practice. Different implementations and propositions of spatialization that have been used (as well as the principal locations dedicated to this form of activity) from the beginning to this day will be discussed. I will then put the emphasis on spatial writing in my creative works. Furthermore, I will contextualize my musical background and of my constant interest in musical spatialization. I will demonstrate that, with better access to powerful, yet simple and efficient technologies, spatialization in electroacoustic music can be integrated before and after the creative process. A wide array of techniques and tools can provide methods for spatial writing, thus I will examine how the compositional approach of my work’s methodologies incorporates these during the creative process. I will conclude with the analysis of the work composed during my MM, which will also reiterate the highlights of this research. Finally, I will give my very own reflections and observations on this project.

Keyphrases: Composition, Musique, Spatialization, Acousmatic, Music, Interpretation
L'économie criminelle de la Camorra et la pratique discursive des différents points de vue dans Gomorra de Roberto Saviano

This thesis will study the Italian literary phenomenon Gomorra, viaggi nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della Camorra. First, the focus will be on the text's hybrid nature and implications and also on its literary and intellectual inspirations (such as Truman Capote, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Leonardo Sciascia). Secondly, we will take a closer look at the structure of the novel's narrative and its literary details, in order to reveal the different processes used by Roberto Saviano to convince the reader. Interwoven in this book's central plot, we will find a main obsession: the need to understand.    Lastly, we will discuss the question of the great power treated in this novel, the one of a criminal organisation transformed by the revelations made throughout the story. These revelations will allow us to draw interesting comparisons between organized crime and merchant capitalism. For this part, we will refer to Guy Debord's La société du spectacle, and to Hannah Arendt's work on the question of totalitarianism. All of these elements will allow us to discuss the different perspectives within the narrative's framework, and more precisely, the figure of the narrator/author/character that gives Saviano's novel anthropological qualities, in the form of an ethnofiction (Augé).

Keyphrases: Roberto Saviano, Hybridation, Organized crime, Hybridization, Totalitarianism, Point of view
A poetics of apprehension : indeterminacy in Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson and Caroline Bergvall

This thesis investigates the poetics of three very different female poets, whose works nevertheless are characterized as both indeterminate and radical: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), and Caroline Bergvall (b. 1962). Dickinson and Stein are Anglo-American, while Bergvall is of French-Norwegian descent yet writes in English, but all three fracture the conventional syntactic structures of the English language in their poetics. This move bears both aesthetic and political implications. In this thesis, I read the indeterminacies of their poetics through Lyn Hejinian’s notion of description as apprehension, which figures writing as a mode of knowing rather than a means of recording something the poet already knows. The temporality of epistemology in their work is thus the present tense of writing; thinking is concomitant with it. Following Hejinian, I contend that it is this temporality that, in making writing open to the vicissitudes, hesitations, reprisals, unexpected events, errors, and the torsions of affect, perturbs determination.    The first chapter explores apprehension in Gertrude Stein’s work through her career-long commitment to the present tense of writing: perception occurs concurrently with composition. The second chapter, on Dickinson, hinges on the anxious dimension of apprehension, in which unease, in thwarting or repressing a thought, suspends its understanding. Indeterminacy figures as language claimed by an experience it can’t itself claim. Finally, the last chapter considers the linguistic indeterminacies of Say Parsley, where Bergvall stages the apprehension of language itself in using indeterminacy as a poetic strategy to determinate ends, placing the possibilities, uncertainties and responsibilities of apprehension onto the reader or spectator.

Keyphrases: Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, Caroline Bergvall, American poetry, Apprehension, Indeterminacy, Post-modern poetry, Modern poetry