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Food for Thought : ethnographie et rhétorique selon Jean Paulhan
Authors: Milne Anna-Louise
Published: January 2012

"Food for Thought": Ethnography and Rhetoric According to Jean Paulhan

In "Heart of Darkness" Conrad both uses this expression literally and inverts it — thereby doing to a cliché within an end of the 19th century novel concerned with colonial relations precisely what Paulhan, in a move both individual and modern, recommends doing to clichés in "Les Fleurs de Tarbes", whose context is the critique of 19th century ethnographic thought.
Du rôle de la phantasia au théâtre et dans le roman
Authors: Richir Marc
Published: January 2012

Of the Role of Phantasia in Theatre and in the Novel

Husserl distinguishes clearly between imagination (Einbilfung) and Phantasie, for which we will use the Greek phantasia; the former involves an intentionally represented (either concretely or in the mind) object, which therefore has a kind of presence, whereas the latter is diverse, changing, and above all exists without any kind of presence. The way the public understands the actor to represent a character therefore depends on phantasia (because the actor is not an imagined character, nor is he himself when acting badly); and the reading of novels, even more so.
Phénoménologie et fiction
Authors: Clémens Éric
Published: January 2012

Phenomenology and Fiction

The quest for "the thing itself cannot avoid battling against the metaphysical tendency of language. Fiction is a way to avoid this lure of language — but not any fiction: to open onto the real, a work of fiction cannot aim to lie, cannot be unreal, and must be either of a hypothetical nature, which opens up its temporal dimension, or of a comparative nature, which opens it up spatially.
Poétique et phénoménologie : le point de vue et la perception
Authors: de Chalonge Florence
Published: January 2012

Poetics and Phenomenology: Point of View and Perception

Point of view can be understood either as a form of access to consciousness, in which case it stays a manifestation of the subject at work in story-telling and as such underpins Genette's narratological reflection; or it is the way in which a subject inserts him/herself in the world, in which case point of view links phenomenology and language as perception.
En mémoire de la poésie
Authors: Rey Jean-Michel
Published: January 2012

In Memory of Poetry

The Vita Nuova is based on the principle that writing calls forth further writing, which calls forth further writing. . . Among writers deeply influenced by Dante, Mi- chelet stands out for understanding that Dante's poetry depended on his listening to all the voices before and around him; while Osip Mandelstam brings out Dante's relationship to painting.
Cosí figurando il Paradiso : paraphrase du peintre
Authors: Marcheschi Jean-Paul
Published: January 2012

Cosi figurando il Paradiso: Paraphrase of the Painter

How to paint paradise? Dante's quest leads from the darkness and heaviness, beyond despair, beyond even the gay despair reached y other great writers into a form of luminous grief, which is what painting Paradise is about - and which some

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painters - Cezanne, Matisse at Vence - achieve.
La singularité sandienne : de Jacques à Valvèdre
Authors: Massardier-Kenney Françoise
Published: January 2012

Sand's Singularity: From "Jacques to Valvèdre"

Thirty years apart, Jacques and Valvèdre both reassert the sentimentalist tradition of the 18th century, discredited by its link to Jacobinism (Jacques) but necessary to re-linking life and art, and to relocating the feminine.
Teverino, ou le moyen de liquider un gros roman avec un petit
Authors: Savy Nicole
Published: January 2012

"Teverino", Or How To Finish Off a Big Novel With a Small One

"Teverino" is a short novel, a "fantasy" written a year after the two years spent on "Consuelo", with an identical ideological system. Why this recreation then? Is it a question of leftovers, of answers to find to unanswered questions?
Sand et le roman épistolaire : variations sur l'historicité d'une forme
Authors: Planté Christine
Published: January 2012

Sand and the Epistolary Novel: Variations on a Form's Historicity

In her first epistolary novel,"Jacques" (1834), Sand deliberately chose a form then marked as feminine and passé, thus avoiding a fetishism of form; the form later, in the sixties, also invokes Sand's literary and social history.
Le génie narratif des Contes
Authors: Didier Béatrice
Published: January 2012

The Narrative Genius of the "Contes"

In the tales first told to her grandchildren, Sand manifests the versatility and genius of the genre (oral origins, suppleness of the moral) and specifically uses it to show that the fantastic of fairies and talking dogs is a metaphor for all that is marvellous in nature.
Épreuve avant la lettre : George Sand et l'autobiographie renversée
Authors: Jack Belinda
Published: January 2012

Trial Before the Letter: George Sand and Autobiographical Reversal

The relationship between life and art is fascinating, and was so to Sand; under Sainte-Beuve' s influence, she lived to the full to make better art; but she also seems to have used art to anticipate on life. Did not Proust, despite his disdain for both Sainte-Beuve and "François le Champi", use that pastoral incest to sanction his own feelings - as well as his vocation?
Icônes récrites. Georges Schehadé / Lorand Gaspar
Authors: Tritsmans Bruno
Published: January 2012

Rewritten Icons. Georges Schehadé/Lorand Gaspar

For Ricoeur, literature is the destiny of writing separated from myth. Icons, which are, in Greek or Russian, not painted but written, and whose particularity is to exactly coincide with sacred myth, can represent an inaccessible limit for writing — a transcendent, utterly symbolic writing. And yet Ricoeur compares poetic writing at its least referential, at its most opaque, with icons... The role of icons in the works of Georges Schehadé and Lorand Gaspar shows that the icon, like the myth, has over time become opaque, lost its referential transparency, while still representing the permanently disappointed aspiration of literature to myth; thus their poetics seem to compensate the loss of meaning by rewriting icons, in particular through the work of the artisan as depicted by Gaspar.
Ce que l'on ne peut imiter et que l'on ne peut apprendre, ou ce que les arts poétiques français de la Renaissance « montrent au doigt » (l'exemple de J. Peletier du Mans et de quelques autres)
Authors: Monferran Jean-Charles
Published: January 2012

That Which Cannot Be Imitated and That Which Cannot Be Learnt, or that which French Renaissance artes poeticae "point out" (J. Peletier du Mans and a few others)

It is in artes poeticae, despite their apparently normative goals, that one can find instances of a reflection upon singularity in Renaissance authors; indeed, Peletier du Mans' prescriptions are brief precisely so as to preserve the individual poet's possibility of singularity.
Style et traduction au XVIe siècle
Authors: Dobenesque Étienne
Published: January 2012

Style and Translation in the 16th Century

From "Sébillet's arspoetica" to Peletier du Mans', through Du Bellay's "Def- fence", the understanding of the nature of translation changes drastically, mainly through the emergence of a conceptualisation of a text's individua- tion — a fact of language, or a fact of discourse? The issue of translation has been defined by this conceptual shift since then.
Styles ou style ? L'invention du singulier dans la réflexion rhétorique classique
Authors: Noille-Clauzade Christine
Published: January 2012

Styles or Style? The Invention of Singularity in Classical Rhetorical Thought

Reflection on the notion of style since Plato has gone from forgetting its philosophical origin in favour of listing procedures defining styles, to the emergence in the 18th century of style as personal truth, a notion dependent on interpretation, through the indecisions of Lamy's 1675 "La Rhétorique ou l'Art de parler".
Écrire singulièrement au siècle des règles et du Dieu caché
Authors: Clément Bruno
Published: January 2012

Singularity of Writing in the Century of Codes and a Hidden God

An anachronistic issue requires thinking about its theoretical stakes, as well

as its historical relevance, which is guided by hindsight. What emerges from various reflections from the Classical age is that the notion of indivi- duation in writing is itself a prerequisite to the notion of a literary history and of a literature.
Analyse de fragment d'une pièce de théâtre
Authors: Vinaver Michel
Published: January 2012

Analysis of a Fragment of a Play

Vinaver analyses a fragment of one of his own plays, "La Demande d'emploi" (1971), an analysis that shows how the text creates its own modalities of performance, is performance.
L'Augmentation de Georges Perec, ou le visage caché
Authors: Nichet Jacques
Published: January 2012

Georges Perec's "L'Augmentation", or the Hidden Face

Perec's first foray into theatre is a radio play; Nichet' s staging includes a reminder of this nature as pure oral text by including a seventh actor, representing the spectator, buffeted by the text.
Un texte pour la scène : Les félins m'aiment bien
Authors: Ollivier Alain , Rosenthal Olivia
Published: January 2012

A Text for the Stage: "Les Félins m'aiment bien"

Alain Ollivier staged Olivia Rosenthal 's first play, first requesting rewrites, then inviting her to attend rehearsals. Both give an account of the passage from text to stage.
Esthétiques chorales de la disparition
Authors: Mégevand Martin
Published: January 2012

The Choral Aesthetics of Disappearance

In the nineties, a number of performances - Peter Sellars' Persians, Olivier Py's "Requiem pour Srebenica" and Groupov's "Rwanda 94" — and of theatrical texts — Gabily's "Violences", Lagarce's "J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne", and Kermann's "La Mastication des morts", explore the problematics of death and disappearance through the use of different modalities of the theatrical chorus.
Les Manuscrits de théâtre. Essai de typologie
Authors: Thomasseau Jean-Marie
Published: January 2012

The Theatrical Manuscript. A Tentative Typology

Theatrical manuscripts have long been a matter of indifference to theatre specialists, and one of embarrassment to geneticists. One of the reasons for these difficulties is the multiplicity of the theatrical manuscript. The present proposed typology identifies thirteen relevant types.
Pour quelques paillettes en plus... Le funambule de Jean Genet et l'image poétique du mouvement
Authors: Caron Pascal
Published: January 2012

For A Few More Sequins... Jean Genet's Le Funambule (tightrope artist) and the Poetic Image of Movement

Jean Genet classified this text as a poem, yet it is anthologised as either a text of criticism or one on aesthetics; nonetheless, if read tightly as a poem, it reveals itself to be both poem as movement, movement of the poet following a thread itself brought to life by movement, and a poetics of art as movement.
Les manifestes symbolistes
Authors: Illouz Jean-Nicolas
Published: January 2012

Jean-Nicolas Illouz

Symbolist Manifestoes

The manifestoes published in increasingly popular venues from Hugo's death (1885) on, culminating with Moréas' s, show that writers understood that modes of legitimacy were changing and that public programmatic proclamations had become necessary, a historical evolution confirmed by the series of avant-gardes since then; at the same time, part of symbolism was about trying, in a stance also often reproduced, to construct legitimacy from within its own field of activity.
Lire le nom propre de fiction au XVIIe siècle
Authors: Denis Delphine
Published: January 2012

Interpreting Proper Names in 17th Century Fiction

Proper names in 17th century fiction create different "interpretative communities" inasmuch as they are susceptible of varied levels of readings, from the pedantic to the naïve, a choice either left to the reade, as with La Fontaine's Le Songe de Vaux, or ferociously directed, in some allegorical novels.
Le récit et son discours impliqué : La Petite Roque de Guy de Maupassant
Authors: Mitterand Henri
Published: January 2012

Narration and its Implied Discourse: Little Roque l

Discourse analysis is limited in its scope for socio-criticism unless brought to account for the totality of a singular discursive system — including narrative. Applied to Little Roque this shows, beyond explicit social discourse, the neurotic fear of nature embedded in the cultured main character's breakdown — and in Maupassant.
EXTERNAL BALLISTICS TASK MODELLING FEATURES / IŠORINĖS BALISTIKOS UŽDAVINIO MODELIAVIMO YPATUMAI
Authors: Pincevičius Albertas , Jonevičius Vaclovas , Baušys Romualdas
Published: January 2012

Based on the solutions of an external ballistics task, tables are made for firearms and tables or computer control programs for heavy weapons. If you shoot in a mountainous area where the height difference between gunner and target can be about a hundred meters, defined skills for firing are necessary. We can make specific tables of firing with firearms in mountainous areas. Mortars are relatively simple and inexpensive weapons, and therefore their management has never been computerised. We have shown that this deficiency can be corrected. The programs described above calculate the required parameters very quickly.

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Remiantis išorinės balistikos uždavinio sprendimais, šaulių ginklams sudaromos lentelės, o sunkiesiems ginklams – lentelės arba kompiuterinės valdymo programos. Jeigu šaudoma kalnuotoje vietovėje, kur aukščių skirtumas tarp šaulio ir taikinio siekia net šimtą metrų, reikia konkrečių įgūdžių. Galima sudaryti specifines šaudymo šaulių ginklais kalnuose lenteles. Minosvaidis yra santykinai paprastas ginklas, todėl jo valdymas nebūna kompiuterizuotas. Parodyta, kad šį trūkumą galima pataisyti. Aprašytos programos per kelias dešimtis sekundžių suskaičiuoja reikiamus parametrus.
La diversité culturelle dans l'industrie de la musique enregistrée en France (2003-2008)
Authors: Bourreau Marc , Moreau François , Senellart Pierre
Published: January 2012

Résumé L’industrie musicale française est en crise depuis le milieu des années 2000. Les ventes ont chuté alors même que le processus de numérisation des contenus se développait. Comment apprécier l’incidence sur la diversité culturelle de la production et de la consommation d’une filière en crise ? Fondée sur l’approche d’Andrew Stirling, la mesure de la diversité culturelle est analysée selon trois dimensions : la variété produite et consommée, l’équilibre des ventes entre les différents titres et la disparité des albums et des artistes écoutés. L’analyse révèle la baisse du poids des majors au profit des petits et gros producteurs indépendants, elle apporte des éléments de réponse sur l’effet de levier des ventes en ligne (hypothèse de la longue traîne) et sur l’appréciation de la diversité dans la part des ventes réalisées en grandes surfaces spécialisées.
Pratiques culturelles, 1973-2008
Authors: Donnat Olivier
Published: January 2012

Résumé L’analyse rétrospective des cinq éditions de l’enquête Pratiques culturelles réalisées depuis le début des années 1970 met en lumière quelques grandes tendances d’évolution : l’augmentation massive de l’écoute de musique et la généralisation de la culture d’écrans, le recul de la lecture d’imprimés, l’essor des pratiques artistiques en amateur et la hausse de la fréquentation des établissements culturels. Elle souligne l’ampleur du renouvellement des pratiques culturelles, la féminisation et le vieillissement des publics, mais elle vient aussi rappeler que les dynamiques générationnelles liées à la diversification de l’offre tant publique que privée et aux profondes mutations de la société française doivent souvent composer avec les pesanteurs qui entravent le processus de démocratisation.
La « mère » de toutes nos batailles
Authors: de Durand Étienne
Published: January 2012

Résumé De nombreuses tendances stratégiques et tactiques trouvent leur origine dans la guerre du Golfe de 1991. Utilisant de manière innovante munitions de précision ( pgm s) et capteurs de pointe, le conflit a fait émerger une version modernisée et solide de « l’Air Power ». En dépit d’un résultat militaire très favorable, Desert Storm a aussi mis en évidence plusieurs défauts opérationnels : la campagne aérienne s’est révélée incapable de détruire le régime irakien, ses systèmes de communication, ses lanceurs de Scud ou la Garde républicaine. Les caractéristiques stratégiques de la guerre et leurs implications sont encore moins appréciées : une coalition totalement dirigée par les États-Unis, privant ainsi les alliés de leurs responsabilités ; une lutte inégale poussant les adversaires futurs à recourir à l’asymétrique et aux adm  ; enfin une incapacité à transformer le succès militaire en victoire durable. Pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, le nouveau modèle de guerre né en 1991 s’est ainsi imposé à nous jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Une plage trop loin ?
Authors: Lasconjarias Guillaume
Published: January 2012

Résumé Dans l’histoire des opérations amphibies, la guerre du Golfe appartient au modèle d’une action de démonstration : laisser croiser au large des côtes saoudiennes une armada portant des unités de Marines aurait contribué à fixer un nombre conséquent de divisions irakiennes, contribuant ainsi au succès de la manœuvre terrestre de Desert Storm . Une analyse détaillée pondère cette réalisation : qu’il s’agisse de la surestimation des défenses irakiennes, de l’angoisse des pertes possibles, de l’incapacité à éviter le danger des mines, cette action amphibie se limite alors à des raids et des feintes. Mais la vertu principale de cette opération tient à la grande réversibilité d’une force agissant comme une réserve opérative dans la main du chef interarmées. Et cela conduira aussi les forces navales américaines à transformer leur doctrine.
Les tirailleurs sénégalais dans la Grande Guerre et la codification d'un racisme ordinaire
Authors: Saletes Jean-Loup
Published: January 2012

Résumé L’article retrace de façon très synthétique les débats suscités par le recrutement indigène avant la Grande Guerre autour du livre de Mangin La Force noire , les résistances armées en aof suscitées entre 1914 et 1918 par les quatre vagues de recrutement et les ponctions économiques, et le rôle de Blaise Diagne nommé par Clemenceau commissaire de la république. Puis il évoque les conditions d’utilisation des 200 000 tirailleurs sénégalais sur les fronts européens, orientaux et africains, établit un bilan des pertes et définit les représentations ancrées dans les inconscients collectifs par les innombrables images de la propagande qui ont codifié un racisme ordinaire.
Réenchanter le rêve européen ?
Authors: Lefebvre Maxime
Published: January 2012

La crise européenne est d’abord une crise de gouvernance : l’UE élargie n’a pas de structure institutionnelle efficace et légitime. Elle questionne aussi une identité européenne qui s’impose de moins en moins aux logiques nationales. Au-delà, la crise affecte gravement le moral des Européens : le projet européen dans son ensemble paraît usé. Ce projet ne pourrait rebondir qu’en se redéfinissant autour des notions de politisation, de subsidiarité, de solidarité et de différenciation.
Schengen : une crise en trompe l'œil
Authors: Guiraudon Virginie
Published: January 2012

La convention de Schengen est souvent vue comme un succès symbolique de la construction européenne, et la crise de 2011, après l’arrivée en Italie de migrants tunisiens, comme la mettant en cause. Conçue initialement pour faciliter la circulation dans le grand marché unique, Schengen a d’abord servi à renforcer les frontières extérieures de l’Union dans une logique sécuritaire et intergouvernementale. En dépit d’échanges parfois acides, la crise de 2011 n’a rien changé à cet état de fait.
Dynamiques et stratégies de démocratisation
Authors: Hermet Guy
Published: January 2012

La décolonisation ouvre la phase contemporaine de la démocratisation. Les années 1970 et 1980 en Amérique latine, puis les événements de la fin des années 1980 en Europe du centre et de l’Est étendent progressivement l’espace des régimes multipartites. Les années 1990 introduisent la notion de réconciliation, qui appuie la démocratisation sur l’acceptation d’un passé commun. La question de savoir si les révolutions arabes déboucheront sur un élargissement de l’espace démocratique demeure ouverte.
BALANCE CONTROL DURING LEVEL WALKING IN CHILDREN WITH SPASTIC DIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY
Authors: Chang Chu-Fen , Wang Ting-Ming , Lo Wei-Ching , Lu Tung-Wu , Hong Shih-Wun , Huang Chih-Hung , Shieh Jeng-Yi , Huang Shier-Chieg
Published: January 2012

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have been reported to have various levels of deficits in balance control, which can be described using the relationship between the body's centre of mass (COM) and the centre of pressure (COP). This study aimed to investigate the balance control of children with spastic diplegic CP during level walking. The COM-COP inclination angles and angular velocities, as well as temporal-spatial variables from 12 children with spastic diplegic CP (seven girls and five boys, aged 12.4 ± 4.4 years) and 12 normal controls (eight girls and four boys, aged 11.2 ± 4.4 years) were obtained using a motion analysis system and two forceplates. With compromised balance control as a result of neuromusculoskeletal pathologies, the CP group walked with reduced walking speed and stride length (p < 0.05), but increased stride time and step width (p < 0.05), indicating reduced gait efficiency. They also showed significantly reduced anterioposterior COM-COP inclination angles and angular velocities (p < 0.05), but increased mediolateral COM-COP inclination angles and angular velocities (p < 0.05) when compared to the normal controls. The latter phenomenon may be related to an increased risk of falling in these patients. Therefore, it appears that programs and/or devices for preventing falls are needed for children with spastic diplegic CP.
EVALUATION OF DUAL-SPECTRUM IR SPECTROGRAM SYSTEM ON INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA (IDC) BREAST CANCER
Authors: Lee Chia-Yen , Chuang Ching-Cheng , Hsieh Hsin-Yu , Lee Wan-Rou , Lee Ching-Yen , Shih Shyang-Rong , Lee Si-Chen , Huang Chiun-Sheng , Chang Yeun-Chung , Chen Chung-Ming
Published: January 2012

Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) is one of the most frequently diagnosed breast cancers. IDC accounts for about 8 out of 10 of all invasive breast cancers. While early detection of breast cancer is essential for the reduction of death rate, there may be already more than 107 cells in a breast cancer when it can be observed by X-ray mammogram. In contrast, the passive IR spectrogram proposed by Szu et al. was shown to be promising in detecting breast cancers several months ahead of mammogram. With energy readings from two IR cameras, middle wavelength IR (MIR, 3–5 μm) and long wavelength IR (LIR, 8–12 μm), dual-spectrum IR (DS-IR) spectrogram may be computed by using the deterministic neighborhood-based blind source separation algorithm developed by Szu et al..4–7 To evaluate the performance of the DS-IR spectrogram on detection of IDC, a DS-IR spectrogram hardware system is built and a sub-pixel super-resolution registration is developed to implement the deterministic neighborhood-based blind source separation algorithm. Clinical tests have been carried out with the approval of Institutional Review Board of National Taiwan University Hospital. From August 2007 to June 2008, 35 patients aged between 30–66 (average age 49) with IDC breast cancers were recruited in this project. The results demonstrate that 62.86% of success rate for IDC detection may be achieved with the cross-sectional data. Longitudinal study shows that breast cancers may be detected more accurately by cross-referencing s1 maps of multiple time-points.
A MULTISCALE PHASE FIELD METHOD FOR JOINT SEGMENTATION-RIGID REGISTRATION — APPLICATION TO MOTION ESTIMATION OF HUMAN KNEE JOINT
Authors: Eslami Abouzar , Esfandiarpour Fateme , Shakourirad Ali , Farahmand Farzam
Published: January 2012

Image based registration of rigid objects has been frequently addressed in the literature to obtain an object's motion parameters. In this paper, a new approach of joint segmentation-rigid registration, within the variational framework of the phase field approximation of the Mumford-Shah's functional, is proposed. The defined functional consists of two Mumford-Shah equations, extracting the discontinuity set of the reference and target images due to a rigid spatial transformation. Multiscale minimization of the proposed functional after finite element discretization provided a sub-pixel, robust algorithm for edge extraction as well as edge based rigid registration. The implementation considerations of the proposed method, including memory usage, convergence rate and effects of parameters selection, was discussed and its efficacy was examined in a comprehensive set of synthetic, phantom and clinical experiments. It was found that the proposed joint segmentation-rigid registration method provides improved results, in comparison with the currently available methods which are often based on maximizing images similarities, especially when the reference and target images are of different qualities. A high registration accuracy was obtained when estimating the knee joint kinematics through MR images taken at different joint configurations. It was concluded that the proposed method can be effectively used in applications where 3D image registration of rigid objects is concerned, e.g. for estimation of the motion parameters of human joints.
VESTIBULAR AFFERENTS POPULATION ACTIVATED BY VARIOUS MODES FOR ELICITING OCULAR AND CERVICAL VESTIBULAR-EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS
Authors: Wang Shou-Jen , Jaw Fu-Shan , Young Yi-Ho
Published: January 2012

This study compared cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs and oVEMPs) between air-conducted sound (ACS) and bone-conducted vibration (BCV) modes to determine whether these two stimulation modes activate the same population of primary vestibular afferents. Fifteen healthy subjects underwent cVEMP and oVEMP tests using ACS stimuli at 127 dB pe SPL and BCV stimuli at 128 dB force level. The characteristic parameters of cVEMPs and oVEMPs were compared between ACS and BCV modes. The mean p13 and n23 latencies of ACS-cVEMPs were significantly longer than those of BCV-cVEMPs. Likewise, the mean nI and pI latencies for ACS-oVEMPs were also significantly longer than those for BCV-oVEMPs. There was no significant difference in the mean amplitude of cVEMPs between the ACS and BCV modes. However, comparing the oVEMP amplitude, a relationship: (Amplitude of BCV-oVEMP) = 2.3 x (Amplitude of ACS-oVEMP) was demonstrated. In conclusion, the population of primary vestibular afferents activated by ACS and BCV stimuli is similar for cVEMPs. In contrast with oVEMPs, BCV mode activates more number of primary vestibular afferents than ACS mode does. In interpreting oVEMP and cVEMP results, stimulation mode should be checked first.
GRASP COORDINATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR ROBOT-AIDED UPPER EXTREMITY REHABILITATION
Authors: Podobnik Janez , Novak Domen , Munih Marko
Published: January 2012

This paper explores grasping in robot-aided upper extremity rehabilitation, with a special focus on reaching and grasping exercises and the coordination between load force and grasp force. Six healthy subjects and two hemiparetic subjects performed "pick and place" movements with a haptic robot and virtual environment. These movements were segmented into three phases: grasping, transport and release phase, and the correlation between grasp and load force was calculated over the entire movement and within each phase separately. Results show that the subjects employ same basic mechanism of grasp and load force coordination during a virtual task as in real situations. However, the grasp and load force are partially decoupled due to the nature of the grasping device and the complexity of the task. Furthermore, the coordination is different in different phases and also depends on the level of impairment as well as the level of active support by the rehabilitation robot. The first hemiparetic subject, who can perform reaching movements but cannot open the hand, thus has a lower correlation between grasp force and load force than healthy subjects only in the release phase while the second hemiparetic subject, who has little arm mobility, has a lower correlation in all three phases. Thus, the current work provides basic empirical knowledge that can serve as a basis for future research and for the design of robot-aided reaching and grasping tasks.
Improving Interoperability of 3D Geographic Features via Geographic Managed Objects
Authors: Faus Jaume Domínguez , Wen Wan
Published: January 2012

This paper presents a method to improve the interoperability of 3D geospatial features from the perspective of data representation, with an emphasis on the interoperability of advanced functions associated with 3D models, such as thematic functions, interaction capabilities, and dynamics. The central concept of the proposed method is to express geospatial features in the form of managed objects, which carry both functions and data of 3D geospatial features in an object oriented and platform-independent manner with the support from virtual machine mechanism. Unlike any conventional data representation method that maintains the data and functionality separately; this method allows the features to carry their own executable functions by themselves in order to achieve the interoperability on a feature’s level. A use case is also provided in this paper to demonstrate the presented method. In this use case, different applications can simply fetch the 3D features and run their functions without the need to know what they can do beforehand.
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Facilities Management (FM)
Authors: Arayici Yusuf , Onyenobi Timothy , Egbu Charles
Published: January 2012

Facilities Management (FM) as the total management of all services supports the core businesses of an organisation in a building. However, today’s buildings are increasingly sophisticated and the need for information to operate and maintain them is vital. Facility Managers have to acquire, integrate, edit, and update diverse facility information ranging from building elements, fabric data, operational costs, contract types, room allocation, logistics, maintenance, etc. However, FM professionals face challenges resulting in cost and time related productivity, efficiency and effectiveness losses. Building Information Modelling (BIM), that seeks to integrate the building lifecycle, can provide improvements and help to overcome those challenges. Thus, the paper explores how BIM can contribute to and improve the FM profession. It uses the MediaCityUK project as a case study, which is a regeneration project aiming to attract media institutions locally and worldwide and establish itself as an international centre for excellence. For this purpose, the key FM tasks are identified and a BIM model for the new university building in MediaCityUK is developed and experimented with the FM tasks by a group of FM experts. As a result, the paper explains how BIM can support FM tasks in an itemised manner.
The Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of ERP in Nanjing Manufacturing SMEs
Authors: Chen Xi , Techakittiroj Rapeepat
Published: January 2012

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in companies can be implemented to Multi National Corporation (MNC), Larger Enterprise, and Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). In China, 99% of all companies can be categorized as SMEs. With a decade of high-speed economy development after entering the 21st century, traditional Chinese SMEs want to find a new management model to improve work efficiency and increase business opportunities. This study finds the factors affecting the diffusion and successful implementation of ERP in Chinese Nanjing manufacturing SMEs. It will lead to the conclusion that ERP investment and implementation, which could be used as project guideline by the management of SMEs or companies that adopt ERP in intend to implement them. The objective is to provide Nanjing’s SMEs implementing ERP with knowledge about ERP implementation factors.
IT Outsourcing Strategies
Authors: Ravi Siva Prasad , Jain Ravi Kumar , Song Wei
Published: January 2012

Several studies pertaining to outsourcing in the banking and financial services sector in developed countries show a gradually growing trend of outsourcing among banking and financial organizations, both in terms of nature and scope of activities outsourced. Outsourcing of Information Technology (IT) services to achieve competitive advantage has become a key part of the organizational strategies in the banking industry. However, not many studies focus on outsourcing trends and practices of banking industries in developing countries like India and China. The present paper investigates the trends in IT outsourcing (ITO) practices among the private and public sector banking institutions in India and makes a comparative analysis of these practices with reference to four importantt dimensions of outsourcing, shoring, sourcing, engagement and duration.
Virtue, Privacy and Self-Determination
Authors: Stamatellos Giannis
Published: January 2012

The ethical problem of privacy lies at the core of computer ethics and cyber ethics discussions. The extensive use of personal data in digital networks poses a serious threat to the user’s right of privacy not only at the level of a user’s data integrity and security but also at the level of a user’s identity and freedom. In normative ethical theory the need for an informational self-deterministic approach of privacy is stressed with greater emphasis on the control over personal data. However, scant attention has been paid on a virtue ethics approach of information privacy. Plotinus’ discussion of self-determination is related to ethical virtue, human freedom and intellectual autonomy. The Plotinian virtue ethics approach of self-determination is not primarily related to the sphere of moral action, but to the quality of the self prior to moral practice. In this paper, it is argued that the problem of information privacy should be reconsidered in the light of Plotinus’ virtue ethics and his notion of self-determination.
Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism in Online Courses
Authors: Asunka Stephen
Published: January 2012

This study used design-based research approaches to investigate student plagiarism in an online course, with the objective of determining the instructional interventionist strategies that can help students avoid the practice in online courses. Twenty eight (28) undergraduate students who were engaged in a semester-long online course in Educational Technology at a private university in Ghana participated in the study. Drawing on relevant learning and related theories, the study implemented different learning activities pertaining to plagiarism at regular intervals during the semester, and then subsequently analyzed students’ individual and group course writings for evidence of plagiarism. Findings reveal that regular and varied instructional interventions helps students reduce and eventually avoid plagiarism in the online learning environment. Students were also found to plagiarize to a much lesser extent when they worked in groups than when they worked individually. Implications of these findings for the design and management of online learning courses in higher education are briefly discussed.
The Development of Educational Environment Suited to the Japan-Specific Educational Service Using Requirements Engineering Techniques
Authors: Terawaki Yuki , Takahashi Yuichi , Kodama Yasushi , Yana Kazuo
Published: January 2012

This paper describes an integration of different Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) of two Course Management Systems (CMS) called Sakai and the Common Factory for Inspiration and Value in Education (CFIVE). First, when the service of CMS is provided campus-wide, the problems of user support, CMS operation and customization of CMS are clarified from past experience. Additionally, various Japanese specific educational practices are reviewed. The candidate CMSs are selected by using proposed methods at Requirements Engineering (RE) research community. Finally, in order to consider possible application of these CMSs, the running environment of different two CMSs are discussed, and the integration of different RDBMS on two CMSs is described.
E-Research Ethics and E-Planning
Authors: Buchanan Elizabeth A.
Published: January 2012

This paper examines the issues of boundaries in the increasingly complex work of e-research in general, and moves towards specific examples relevant to e-planning disciplines. It uses a framework of “research ethics 2.0,” and interrogates models of research ethics in novel research environments. Research ethics 2.0 as a framework forces us to move away from rigid models, monochronistic ways of thinking about ourselves in relation to research, to others, and to our environments, broadly conceived. Transformative research demands transformative models of research ethics.
Urban Planning 2.0
Authors: Anttiroiko Ari-Veikko
Published: January 2012

This article addresses the challenges to urban planning, which is a social activity that affects the development of urban communities and helps them to cope with the challenges posed by the global-local and real-virtual dialectic. The approach to planning is influenced by an emerging creativity and knowledge-sharing culture that has an inherent connection to global and digital transformations. Such a transformation is giving urban planning a new look, which is depicted in the concept of Urban Planning 2.0. In this article this paradigm shift is explained and illustrated with a special view to identifying the ways Web 2.0 tools can be utilised in urban planning. The fundamental question emerging in the critical evaluation of Urban Planning 2.0 is how citizen-oriented practices of Planning 2.0 relate to formal decision-making within the representative system of government and professionally and technocratically oriented planning practices of city governments. There is some evidence to suggest that the new Web 2.0 tools make the difference in open, inclusive and creative contexts, where their optimal deployment requires a paradigm shift in urban governance and planning.
Sensors and Crowdsourcing for Environmental Awareness and Emergency Planning
Authors: Chun Soon Ae , Artigas Francisco
Published: January 2012

This paper proposes a participatory open environmental planning framework where environmental monitoring, environmental awareness and response planning combine high-tech sensors and “crowdsourcing” (with humans serving as a kind of sensor) to shift environmental planning away from government-centric planning. The authors present a prototype system of an open platform that has been initiated at the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission as a shared service for the regional municipal governments’ environmental emergency planning and response. It includes modules such as ocean surge flood alerting, air quality and water quality alerting, citizen incident reporting, forums and citizens’ volunteer resource sharing. Sending notifications to mobile devices and merging distributed sensor measurements with observations from the field to create a higher level of awareness about the local environment may be the beginning of a more effective way to solve long-term environmental problems.
Is there a Place for Casual Games in Teaching and Learning?
Authors: Daloukas Vasilis , Rigou Maria , Sirmakessis Spiros
Published: January 2012

Currently casual games feature as the most dynamically developing section of the videogames industry and compared to the more complicated and technologically advanced hardcore games, are characterized by simple rules and game play, do not require long time commitment or special skills on the part of the player. They also have comparatively low production and distribution costs on the part of the producer. This paper investigates the potential of using casual games for student assessment using an educational variation of the widely known game of Snakes and Ladders, implemented for this purpose. The game was received positively by students, as well as teachers participating in its evaluation leading to the conclusion that casual games with the ease and flexibility they offer provide interesting potential for deployment in educational settings.
Design and Implementation of a Zero-Knowledge Authentication Framework for Java Card
Authors: Patel Ahmed , Kalajdzic Kenan , Golafshan Laleh , Taghavi Mona
Published: January 2012

Zero-knowledge authentication protocols are an alternative to authentication protocols based on public key cryptography. Low processing and memory consumption make them especially suitable for implementation in smart card microprocessors, which are severely limited in processing power and memory space. This paper describes a design and implementation of a software library providing smart card application developers with a reliable authentication mechanism based on well-known zero-knowledge authentication schemes. Java Card is used as the target smart card platform implementation based on the evaluation of the Fiat-Shamir (F-S) and Guillou-Quisquater (G-Q) protocols under various performance criteria are presented to show the effectiveness of the implementation and that G-Q is a more efficient protocol.
An Empirical Investigation of Total Quality Management in Libya
Authors: Shibani Abdussalam , Soetanto Robby , Ganjian Eshmaiel , Sagoo Amrit , Gherbal Nawal
Published: January 2012

Rapid socio-economic and technological changes have urged the implementation of new approaches to procure construction projects. Total Quality Management (TQM) is one of the approaches that contribute towards ensuring that projects are being delivered to the stakeholder requirements. This study identifies critical success factors (CSFs) that affect the implementation of TQM in the Libyan Construction Industry (LCI) and develops guidelines which help companies implement and maintain quality management systems. To achieve these aims, the research employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. Based on a thorough review of literature, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 200 managers. Data from 130 completed questionnaires were then analysed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), which reveals the internal structure of the data in a way that explains the dimensions of TQM implementation in LCI. The results identify five reliable and valid TQM dimensions, namely organisation management, communication to improve quality, training and development, employee involvement and recognition, and culture. Supported by relevant literature and interviews with a number of managers, they provide the basis for developing the guideline for successful implementation of TQM in Libyan construction companies.
Anchoring Corporate Innovation Communities in Organizations
Authors: Bansemir Bastian , Neyer Anne-Katrin , Möslein Kathrin M.
Published: January 2012

Whereas literature in the area of open innovation considerably advances the understanding of innovation community mechanics, little is known about how innovation communities need to be anchored within organizations to unleash the creative potential of employees. To contribute to this discussion, this article focuses on the still understudied link among organizational integration and its influence on innovation activities and outcomes of corporate innovation communities. Additionally, it identifies distinct types of transition strategies to anchor organizational integration of corporate innovation communities. To attain this aim structuration theory is applied. Multiple in-depth case studies allow insights into antecedents of and transition strategies for corporate innovation communities. Results demonstrate that 1) cultural and structural integration are major antecedents for innovation activities and outcomes of corporate innovation communities, and 2) transition strategies offer valuable patterns to alter organizational integration.
New Technological Solutions for Recycling Spent Tire Rubber
Authors: Lucignano Carmine , Quadrini Fabrizio
Published: January 2012

To recycle spent tires, the combination of powder comminution and compression molding of resulting powders (without virgin rubber or linking agent) is an efficient solution to produce rubber components with good mechanical properties. Previous studies showed the feasibility of this recycling technology but new efforts are necessary to increase the rubber part size and complexity as well as to find new industrial applications. In this study, some important technological aspects of direct powder molding have been analyzed for the first time: the ability of giving a complex shape to the rubber part or performing secondary works to improve aesthetics and functions.
An Observation on Least Action Principle in Classical Mechanics Oriented on the Evaluation of Relativistic Error Concerning the Measurements of Light Propagating in a Liquid
Authors: Massaro Alessandro , Massaro Piero Adriano
Published: January 2012

The authors prove that the standard least action principle implies a more general form of the same principle by which they can state generalized motion equation including the classical Euler equation as a particular case. This form is based on an observation regarding the last action principle about the limit case in the classical approach using symmetry violations. Furthermore the well known first integrals of the classical Euler equations become only approximate first integrals. The authors also prove a generalization of the fundamental lemma of the calculus of variation and we consider the application in electromagnetism.
Impedance-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Metal-Protective Coating Evaluation
Authors: Yu Ronghua , Zhou Qixin , Wang Yechun , You Chao
Published: January 2012

Researchers have been focused on the influences of flowing fluid on the corrosion of bare metals, but there is little emphasis on the degradation of metal-protective coating. Evaluating the metal-protective coating usually uses the Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) method. EIS is a technique used for evaluating coating permeability or barrier performance based on the electrical impedance of coating. This paper presents a new impedance-based wireless sensor network for metal-protective coating evaluation. This wireless sensor network consists of two parts: impedance-based wireless sensor nodes and a wireless data base that are equipped with a network analyzer (AD5933) and a RF transceiver (CC1111/CC1110). In the experiment, there are three coating panels immersed in flowing deionized water (DI water) and one coating panel immersed in stationary DI water. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed wireless sensor network is capable to evaluate the coating degrading.
AC Magnetic Measurements on Superconductors
Authors: Laurent Philippe , Fagnard Jean-François , Vanderbemden Philippe
Published: January 2012

This work describes the design and realisation of an apparatus to measure simultaneously the AC magnetic properties and the temperature distribution on the top surface of bulk superconducting samples (up to 32 mm in diameter) in cryogenic conditions (temperature range 78-120 K). First the authors describe the experimental set-up used for simultaneous thermal and magnetic characterization of the sample. Next, the authors describe the practical considerations required for generating the large AC magnetic fields, possibly in the presence of DC fields. Then the authors present the data acquisition system allowing both temperature and magnetic data to be recorded at high a sampling rate." The performances and limitations of the system are discussed.