Les mots pour dire le goût: une construction historique et culturelle?

in Verine, Bertrand (Ed.) Dire le non-visuel (2014)

Intentionality as Disposition

E-print/Working paper (2014)

Avaliação da Qualidade de Vida Infantil: O Inventário Sistémico de Qualidade de Vida para Crianças

in Psicologia, Reflexão e Crítica = Psychology, Reflection and Criticism (2014), 27(2),

Introduction: Children’s quality of life evaluation has specific methodological aspects. Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Child Quality of Life Systemic ... [more ▼]

Introduction: Children’s quality of life evaluation has specific methodological aspects. Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Child Quality of Life Systemic Inventory (CQLSI), which is based on an innovative conceptual and methodological approach to quality of life self-assessment, namely by being interactive and playful, having a psychometry which operates several scores and allowing an analysis of each domain of life. Methods: 120 Portuguese children, from 8 to 12 years old. Results: Internal consistency of the four scores of the CQLSI (State, Goal, Rank and Gap) is satisfactory; all scores have their own specificity. Data show convergent validity. On the other hand, no satisfactory factorial structure was found. Conclusion: Feasibility and psychometric adequacy of the CQLSI Portuguese version seems demonstrated. [less ▲]

Cuando la Historia se hace historia: (re)creación de Pancho Villa por Nellie Campobello en los Apuntes sobre la vida militar de Francisco Villa (1940)

in Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana (2014), 43

The X-ray under-luminosity of the O-type supergiants HD16691 and HD14947 revealed by XMM-Newton

in New Astronomy (2013), 25

The members of the scarce category of Of^+ supergiants present properties that are intermediate between regular O-stars and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Significant similarities between these transitional stars ... [more ▼]

The members of the scarce category of Of^+ supergiants present properties that are intermediate between regular O-stars and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Significant similarities between these transitional stars and WN-type objects are now clearly established, at least in the visible and near-infrared domains, pointing to common stellar wind properties. In this study, we report on the first dedicated X-ray observations of HD16691 (O4If^+) and HD14947 (O5f^+), revealing a soft thermal spectrum in agreement with the expected X-ray emission from a single O-type star. However, the X-ray luminosity of our targets is slightly lower than expected for single O-type stars, suggesting that the particular properties of their stellar wind has also a significant impact on the X-ray emission of these objects on the way to the WN category. We argue that the X-ray under-luminosity of HD16691 and HD14947 may be interpreted as the signature in X-rays of the intermediate stage between O and WR stars, as a consequence of enhanced wind density. [less ▲]

Un dernier Poe

in Alcools. Actes du XVIe colloque des Invalides (2013, November)

Dosages quantitaifs de principes actifs dans les formes solides par spectroscopie proche infrarouge: Application pratique au test d'uniformité de teneur des comprimés

Conference (2013, October 03)

L'augmentation du nombre de dosages à réaliser dans l'industrie pharmaceutique conduit à rechercher des méthodes alternatives. La spectroscopie proche infrarouge répond précisément à cette demande en ... [more ▼]

L'augmentation du nombre de dosages à réaliser dans l'industrie pharmaceutique conduit à rechercher des méthodes alternatives. La spectroscopie proche infrarouge répond précisément à cette demande en permettant des dosages rapides, non destructifs et respectueux de l'environnement. Le texte publié dans SFSTP Pharma Pratiques en 2010 énonçait la méthodologie à suivre pour développer une technique de dosage de substance active dans une formulation solide de type comprimé par spectroscopie proche infrarouge. Il est apparu intéressant d'illustrer et de compléter les différentes étapes de cette méthodologies au travers d'exemples. [less ▲]

Le Dieu de Maman Olangi. Ethnographie d'un combat spirituel transnational

Book published by Academia/L'Harmattan (2013)

Avec le « combat spirituel » du couple Olangi (Congo-Kinshasa), l’Afrique centrale revisite le pentecôtisme évangélique et offre une triangulation inédite d’un mouvement aujourd’hui séculaire et ... [more ▼]

Avec le « combat spirituel » du couple Olangi (Congo-Kinshasa), l’Afrique centrale revisite le pentecôtisme évangélique et offre une triangulation inédite d’un mouvement aujourd’hui séculaire et transnational. Une approche ethnographique translocale au plus proche des réalités vécues sur le terrain (Bruxelles-Kinshasa) a permis à l’auteur de rendre compte des imaginaires et des pratiques à l’œuvre dans un espace-temps du religieux qui a généré un ethos spirituel de combat. L’ethnographie des conversions au « Dieu de maman Olangi » révèle une radicalité singulière. Le combat comporte un enjeu fort d’émancipation de la parenté et de la famille. Elle est vécue comme un poids d’obligations à honorer davantage qu’un principe de solidarité qui prend ici des allures de dernier mythe africain. Ce combat spirituel est en prise directe avec l’expérience irréductible de la colonisation ainsi qu’avec les épreuves non moins irréductibles de l’expérience migratoire. Il trouve aujourd’hui à s’exercer dans n’importe quel lieu de la planète où quelques uns de ses disciples sont installés et contribue au développement d’une résilience dans laquelle l’idéologie dominante, capitaliste, fonctionne à plein régime. [less ▲]

Ticks of the trade: technical analysis self-justified

Conference (2013, October)

As opposed to fundamental analysis, financial chartism (or technical analysis) is based on the assumption that future movements of a traded asset can be inferred from past regularities. In spite, or maybe ... [more ▼]

As opposed to fundamental analysis, financial chartism (or technical analysis) is based on the assumption that future movements of a traded asset can be inferred from past regularities. In spite, or maybe by virtue of its lack of scientific grounds, it enjoys an ever-growing popularity among amateur traders, as countless websites provide free, simple and powerful tools for making professional-looking charts and even automate the detection of trends. Though technical analysts account for the validity of chart patterns in terms of market psychology, constructivist explanations also abound among trading communities: it is all as if economic agents reflexively used technical analysis as a means of coordination on the market. Markers like moving averages and trend lines serve as self-referent indicators whose efficacy only gets reinforced as more agents use it as pivotal points. Performativity is the technical analyst’s most natural language: explicit mentions to mechanisms such as the self-fulfilling prophecy or the Keynesian beauty contest are the only justifications s/he needs. Some chartists even claim their discipline does not contradict the efficient-market hypothesis: if prices already reflect all past publicly available information, one may skip the hassle of dissecting balance sheets or mastering pricing models, focusing instead on candlestick or diagram patterns which, by conjecture, contain all the necessary information to explain price movements. Drawing on the comparative analysis of nonprofessional trading blogs, our paper examines how these major epistemic modes of justification of technical analysis have come to support each other, in a context of proliferation of charting tools. [less ▲]

Les acteurs des cultes isiaques et leurs images. Bilan historiographique et perspectives

Conference (2013, September 23)