Choisir des cas exemplaires. La Strategic litigation dans la lutte contre les discriminations à l’emploi en Belgique

in Déviance et Société (2014)

Strategic litigation is one of the methods used by equal opportunity agencies in Europe to promote rights. Looking at the organizational level, this article aims to show how and under which circumstances ... [more ▼]

Strategic litigation is one of the methods used by equal opportunity agencies in Europe to promote rights. Looking at the organizational level, this article aims to show how and under which circumstances strategic litigation is deemed relevant to fight employment discrimination in Belgium and on which grounds and arguments exemplary cases are chosen. The article also highlights possible changes in the mobilizations of courts and the judicial arena. [less ▲]

Associative learning of Nasonia vitripennis Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) to methyldisulfanylmethane

in Journal of Forensic Sciences (2014)

Traditional methods of volatile detection used by police typically consist of reliance on canine olfaction. However, dogs have some limitations such as cost of training and time of conditioning. The ... [more ▼]

Traditional methods of volatile detection used by police typically consist of reliance on canine olfaction. However, dogs have some limitations such as cost of training and time of conditioning. The possibility of using parasitic wasps for detecting explosives and narcotics has been developed. Moreover, wasps are cheap to produce and can be conditioned with impressive speed for a specific chemical-detection task. We examined the ability of Nasonia vitripennis Walker to learn and respond to methydisulfanylmethane (DMDS), a volatile discriminator of cadaver. The training aimed to form an association between an unconditioned stimulus (pupae) and the conditioned stimulus (odor source). After the training, the time spent of conditioned wasps in the DMDS chamber was measured. Statistical analysis showed that the increasing concentrations involved an increase in the time spent in the chamber containing DMDS. This study indicates that N. vitripennis can respond to DMDS, which provide further support for its development as a biological sensor. [less ▲]

Les mots du goût. Lieux communs et réécritures

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

Intentionality as Disposition

E-print/Working paper (2014)

De l'alimentation à la médecine : l'utilisation du vin dans les papyrus littéraires grecs et latins relatifs à la cuisine et à la médecine

in de Haro Sanchez, Magali; Boudon-Millot, Véronique (Eds.) « Des grains et du vin dans l’Antiquité : entre aliments et médicaments ». Journée d’étude organisée le 17 mai 2013 à Paris, Maison de la Recherche (2014)

Unlike the Egyptians who produced and consumed wine and beer from the earliest times, the Greeks and Romans are known mainly as producers and drinkers of wine. This paper attempts to address the question ... [more ▼]

Unlike the Egyptians who produced and consumed wine and beer from the earliest times, the Greeks and Romans are known mainly as producers and drinkers of wine. This paper attempts to address the question of the use of wine in cooking and medical recipes on Greek and Latin literary papyri from Egypt (IV/III BC – VI/VII AD). Do these texts manifest a local influence through mentions of Egyptian wine or beer or do they refer only to Greek (after the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC) and Italian (after the annexation to the Roman state in 30 BC) wines? Furthermore, this study lists the properties and functions ascribed to wine(s) in these writings. [less ▲]

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 ▲]

WASP-71b: a bloated hot Jupiter in an 2.9-day, prograde orbit around an evolved F8 star

in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2013), 552

We report the discovery by the WASP transit survey of a highly-irradiated, massive (2.242 +/- 0.080 MJup) planet which transits a bright (V = 10.6), evolved F8 star every 2.9 days. The planet, WASP-71b ... [more ▼]

We report the discovery by the WASP transit survey of a highly-irradiated, massive (2.242 +/- 0.080 MJup) planet which transits a bright (V = 10.6), evolved F8 star every 2.9 days. The planet, WASP-71b, is larger than Jupiter (1.46 +/- 0.13 RJup), but less dense (0.71 +/- 0.16 {\rho}Jup). We also report spectroscopic observations made during transit with the CORALIE spectrograph, which allow us to make a highly-significant detection of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. We determine the sky-projected angle between the stellar-spin and planetary-orbit axes to be {\lambda} = 20.1 +/- 9.7 degrees, i.e. the system is 'aligned', according to the widely-used alignment criteria that systems are regarded as misaligned only when {\lambda} is measured to be greater than 10 degrees with 3-{\sigma} confidence. WASP-71, with an effective temperature of 6059 +/- 98 K, therefore fits the previously observed pattern that only stars hotter than 6250 K are host to planets in misaligned orbits. We emphasise, however, that {\lambda} is merely the sky-projected obliquity angle; we are unable to determine whether the stellar-spin and planetary-orbit axes are misaligned along the line-of-sight. With a mass of 1.56 +/- 0.07 Msun, WASP-71 was previously hotter than 6250 K, and therefore might have been significantly misaligned in the past. If so, the planetary orbit has been realigned, presumably through tidal interactions with the cooling star's growing convective zone. [less ▲]

Corps commun et rupture anthropologique dans la schizophrénie

Conference (2013, November)

S’agissant d’une référence qui demeure incontournable en psychologie clinique et en psychopathologie, nous proposons de partir du cadre psychanalytique. Nous ferons le constat de difficultés tant ... [more ▼]

S’agissant d’une référence qui demeure incontournable en psychologie clinique et en psychopathologie, nous proposons de partir du cadre psychanalytique. Nous ferons le constat de difficultés tant théoriques que techniques concernant les notions d’espace, de temps et, plus fondamentalement, concernant le corps qui est cantonné à sa disposition hystérique. Par ailleurs, nous verrons que la phénoménologie permet de penser ce corps en tant que fondement de notre identité et de notre relation à l’autre. Il s’agit d’une donnée implicite qui n’est pas interrogée, une « sentinelle silencieuse » pour reprendre les propos de Merleau-Ponty. À partir de là, nous pourrons exposer en quoi la problématique schizophrénique se situe au niveau d’une rupture anthropologique quant à la manière de vivre son corps. Nous développerons également la différence qu’il y a entre le corps-pour-soi et le corps-pour-autrui et celle entre le corps paranoïde et le corps paranoïaque. Enfin, en guise de mise en perspective, nous développerons les concepts deleuzien de territorialisation et de ritournelle et montrerons en quoi le clinicien, s’il a à prendre en compte le corps de son patient dans sa réflexion, doit avant tout accepter de mobiliser son propre corps, de toucher son patient, de l’observer et de se laisser toucher par lui. [less ▲]