La place du design inclusif lors de l’élaboration d’une formation en ligne en milieu de travail

Quelle place est-elle faite au design inclusif dans la formation en ligne pour rejoindre des clientèles particulières? Ayant pour but de valider trois dimensions retenues sur le plan de l’utilisabilité de l’environnement d’apprentissage en ligne tenant compte du design inclusif, des études ont été menées auprès des personnes ayant des limitations cognitives PLCs (Sauvé, 2021; Sauvé et al., 2023) et des personnes aînées PAS (Sauvé et al., 2019; Kaufman et al., 2020; Sauvé, 2024). Chaque validation s’est fondée sur une approche centrée sur l’utilisateur (CCU) exigeant une approche collaborative avec des experts du domaine, les praticiens du milieu de même qu’avec les personnes qu’on souhaite desservir (Lamirande, 2021; Annereau, 2022). De plus, elle a été réalisée autant dans les phases de conception (recherche et rédaction de contenu) que celles du développement des solutions technologiques (maquette, version bêta et version alpha). Dans la présentation, nous aborderons notamment l’adaptation de l’interface graphique, les indicateurs de navigation, la lisibilité des textes, des images et des vidéos dans les pages-écrans et l’importance des textes lus pour soutenir la lecture des PLCs et les PAs qui souhaitent le développement de leurs connaissances et compétences numériques afin qu’elles s’intègrent plus rapidement au marché du travail

Eigenvalues of Toeplitz matrices emerging from finite differences for certain ordinary differential operators

This paper is devoted to the asymptotic behavior of individual eigenvalues of Hermitian Toeplitz matrices emerging from finite linear combinations with non-negative coefficients of the differential operators (−1)^k d^2k /dx^2k over the interval (0,1) after discretizing them on a uniform grid

A comparison of the next eigenvalue sufficiency test to other stopping rules for the number of factors in factor analysis

A plethora of techniques exist to determine the number of factors to retain in exploratory factor analysis. A recent and promising technique is the Next Eigenvalue Sufficiency Test (NEST), but has not been systematically compared with well-established stopping rules. The present study proposes a simulation with synthetic factor structures to compare NEST, parallel analysis, sequential x2 test, Hull method, and the empirical Kaiser criterion. The structures were based on 24 variables containing one to eight factors, loadings ranged from .40 to .80, inter-factor correlations ranged from .00 to .30, and three sample sizes were used. In total, 360 scenarios were replicated 1,000 times. Performance was evaluated in terms of accuracy (correct identification of dimensionality) and bias (tendency to over- or underestimate dimensionality). Overall, NEST showed the best overall performances, especially in hard conditions where it had to detect small but meaningful factors. It had a tendency to underextract, but to a lesser extent than other methods. The second best method was parallel analysis by being more liberal in harder cases. The three other stopping rules had pitfalls: sequential x2 test and Hull method even in some easy conditions; the empirical Kaiser criterion in hard conditions

Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development

In response to global environmental challenges, there has been a growing demand over the last century to develop the field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). While most research in the ESD field recognizes the importance of the cultural dimension, very few studies focus on interculturality. Despite its importance in promoting international cooperation and consensus, the development of intercultural competencies has not been consistently studied. This article examines the relationship between ESD and intercultural education by analyzing two pedagogical experiments with school groups in Guadeloupe and Quebec who worked synchronously and collaboratively on sustainable development themes. Our analysis shows that many competencies acquired during the experiments are characteristic of ESD, such as behavioral and emotional skills, including communication and empathy. This supports the idea that culture and interculturality can serve as a catalyst for ESD. Designing pedagogy based on interculturality can enhance the understanding of sustainable development issues and foster the development of crucial SD competencies

Histoire de la Faculté de pharmacie de l'Université Laval: 1924-2024

Depuis le 9 juin 2024, l’Université Laval peut s’enorgueillir de compter en son sein une Faculté de pharmacie héritière d’une tradition centenaire. Voilà en effet un siècle que le docteur Edwin Turcot, professeur de matière médicale et de thérapeutique et ex-doyen de la Faculté de médecine de l’Université Laval, a proposé au conseil universitaire la création d’une école de pharmacie. D’abord placée sous l’égide de Faculté des arts – qualifiée de « saladier » où l’on entassait tout ce qui ne touche pas à la médecine, au droit, à la théologie et à la philosophie – l’École obtient le statut de faculté en 1997. Dans ce livre commémoratif richement ornementé d’images d’archives, d’encadrés contenant des faits historiques connexes et de reproductions d’œuvres et de documents, les pharmaciens et auteurs Gilles Barbeau et Marthe Huot relatent les moments clés de cette évolution

Some observations on Erdős matrices

While characterizing 2 times 2 Erdős matrices is trivial, it is only recently that a complete characterization (up to equivalence) of 3 times 3 Erdős matrices was obtained. The result due to Bouthat, Mashreghi and Morneau-Guérin (2024) appears to have revived interest in the question raised by Erdős. Two new results were obtained in the article under evaluation. First, it is shown that, for n greater or equal to 4, there are (with some equivalence) a finite number of n times n Erdős matrices. If the demonstration provides an upper bound for the number of such matrices that is anything but sharp, it has the advantage of providing an algorithmic procedure for testing and generating Erdős matrices. By way of example, the author revisits the case of dimension n = 3. Although the results obtained in doing so are not original, the method used to obtain them has the advantage of being more revealing of the underlying dynamics. Second, a question raised by Bouthat, Mashreghi and Morneau-Guérin is resolved. It is shown that every Erdős matrix has rational entries. Finally, another interesting aspect of this article (which is independent of the other two) is that it proposes a natural generalization of Erdős' question

Shadowing Electronic Music DJs at Night : Ethical and Embodied Challenges

This paper proposes nocturnal shadowing as a multimodal, feminist and sensorial method to access embodied knowledge in high-intensity research contexts. Drawing on our ethnographic study of women* and non-binary DJs in Montreal’s nightlife scene, we explore how interviewing and observing at night calls for a profound methodological reconfiguration—one that takes seriously affect, embodiment, and the complex atmospheres of nocturnal cultural labor. Our project combines shadowing (Aumais & Vásquez, 2023), reflexive interviews (Alvesson & Sköldberg, 2009), and affective fieldnotes documented on-the-go in loud, dark, and fluid environments such as nightclubs, festivals, and informal gatherings. Influenced by feminist epistemologies (Ashcraft & Mumby, 2004), sensual ethnography (Warren, 2008, 2012), and affective methodologies (Gherardi, 2023; Pors, 2021), we reflect on the researcher’s entanglement with the field. We investigate how the body becomes both a research instrument and a site of knowledge production, and how senses—touch, hearing, smell, sight—are constantly mobilized and overstimulated. In these contexts, interviewing extends beyond verbal exchange: consent is dynamic, embodied, and fragile; data includes sound, light, crowd affect, and intoxication; relationships with participants are relationally immersive and often blur the lines between researcher and friend. Moments of dancing, hugging, or simply being-there (O’Grady, 2013) become part of a multimodal archive of the field, where vulnerability, fatigue, and emotional resonance shape what can be known and how it is known. We show how DJs manage sound, emotion, and flow as part of their performance of care, and how gendered power dynamics shape their artistic and social navigation. Simultaneously, we reflect on our own methodological negotiations: how to move unnoticed through a crowd, how to write fieldnotes in motion, how to interpret the researcher’s shifting role in emotionally charged environments. By incorporating post-qualitative approaches and focusing on embodied, affective, and non-verbal forms of data, our contribution resonates with the call of this special issue. We argue that nocturnal shadowing offers a valuable lens to study how knowledge emerges from bodies in motion and atmospheres in flux. It pushes interviewing into a space where words are not primary, and where sensemaking is necessarily multimodal, temporal, and felt. In doing so, we advocate for a feminist methodology that does not sanitize the research process but acknowledges its messiness, partiality, and intensity. Our work not only highlights the strategies of resistance and solidarity developed by minoritized DJs, but also calls for research practices that embrace the co-presence of affect, risk, and relation in the generation of situated, sensual knowledge