Travailleurs sociaux métamorphosés en clown, à la rencontre des personnes en situation de handicap

Cette recherche a pour objectif de faire découvrir aux lecteurs une pratique peu connue : le clown en institution également appelé clown relationnel. Dans ce travail, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement aux travailleurs sociaux qui ont entrepris une formation au sein de l’association Auguste, et qui interviennent auprès de personnes en situation de handicap mental et psychique. Dans un premier temps, la partie théorique permet de se familiariser avec le personnage du clown, et de comprendre en quoi consiste l’approche du clown relationnel. Dans un deuxième temps, le travail de recherche expose les rôles et les fonctions des métiers qu’exercent les personnes interviewées afin d’établir un parallèle entre leur profession et leur pratique de clown. Dans un troisième temps, les différents types de handicap dont souffrent les personnes accompagnées sont explicités. La partie théorique s’achève avec la thématique de la communication qui met en avant les enjeux auxquels les professionnels sont confrontés pour communiquer avec des personnes qui ont de lourds handicaps. En ce qui concerne la partie analytique, les entretiens avec les clowns rencontrés donnent un aperçu de l’impact que peuvent avoir leurs interventions. Ils soulignent les difficultés rencontrées lors des interventions, ainsi que les limites de cette approche. Plusieurs mettent également en évidence les apports personnels et professionnels retirés de cette démarche. Pour conclure, différentes pistes d’action destinées aux professionnels du social, aux étudiants en travail social, aux enfants ou adolescents placés en foyers, aux adultes qui vivent en institution pour diverses problématiques, ainsi qu’aux personnes âgées seront proposées. Si elles vont parfois au-delà de la démarche du clown relationnel, elles découlent toutefois des réflexions menées tout au long de ce travail. Cette recherche a notamment mis en lumière un phénomène important concernant l’impact de la présence des clowns auprès de personnes atteintes d’autisme. En effet, si certaines reçoivent la visite des clowns avec joie, pour d’autres cela est très difficile à vivre. Les clowns interviewés ne s’accordent pas sur la pertinence d’intervenir auprès de ces personnes. Effectivement, certains ont pris la décision de ne pas rencontrer ce type de population lors de leurs interventions, alors que d’autres leur rendent visite. Ceci nous amène à ce questionnement, formulé par l’un des clowns interviewés : Faut-il proposer une formation spécifique aux clowns qui souhaitent intervenir auprès de personnes atteintes de troubles autistiques

Preface: The Second Generation of Second Amendment Law & Policy

Over 70% of China’s domestic oil production is obtained from nine giant oilfields. Understanding the behaviour of these fields is essential to both domestic oil production and future Chinese oil imports. This study utilizes decline curves and depletion rate analysis to create some future production outlooks for the Chinese giants. Based on our study, we can only conclude that China’s future domestic oil production faces a significant challenge caused by maturing and declining giant fields. Evidence also indicates that the extensive use of water flooding and enhanced oil recovery methods may be masking increasing scarcity and may result in even steeper future decline rates than the ones currently being seen. Our results suggest that a considerable drop in oil production from the Chinese giants can be expected over the next decades

Coalbed Methane Development in Indonesia: Design and Economic Analysis of Upstream Petroleum Fiscal Policy

Due to increasing demand for natural gas in Indonesia, the Government now promotes exploration for coalbed methane (CBM). Currently, Indonesia has 453 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of CBM reserves. However, CBM development in the country is still in the exploration phase, with significant under-investment. To attract investors, a tailored Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) regime is required. Based on a combination of Factor Analysis (FA), Discounted Cash Flows (DCF) and Parameter Sensitivity Analysis, the research explores an optimal scenario of a company’s share of revenue that optimised CBM development contracts. We find that a combination of 5 years straight line depreciation (SLD), 5% First Tranche Petroleum (FTP), 78% Contractor Share (CS) and 35% income tax best spreads the risk of CBM development and exploitation between the government and the contractor. This combination is a more suitable PSC regime for developing CBM in an early stage of the industry. Therefore, the Government must cede some taxes during exploration to incentivise CBM development. Three PSCs regimes are thus required to fully develop and exploit CBM, including exploration, transitional and exploitation phase PSCs which better match contractor risks and returns and ensure reasonable certainty of contractor cost recovery

Solvent Exfoliation of Electronic-Grade, Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus

Solution dispersions of two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP), often referred to as phosphorene, are achieved by solvent exfoliation. These pristine, electronic-grade BP dispersions are produced with anhydrous, organic solvents in a sealed tip ultrasonication system, which circumvents BP degradation that would otherwise occur via solvated oxygen or water. Among conventional solvents, n-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP) is found to provide stable, highly concentrated (~0.4 mg/mL) BP dispersions. Atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy show that the structure and chemistry of solvent-exfoliated BP nanosheets are comparable to mechanically exfoliated BP flakes. Additionally, residual NMP from the liquid-phase processing suppresses the rate of BP oxidation in ambient conditions. Solvent-exfoliated BP nanosheet field-effect transistors (FETs) exhibit ambipolar behavior with current on/off ratios and mobilities up to ~10000 and ~50 cm^2/(V*s), respectively. Overall, this study shows that stable, highly concentrated, electronic-grade 2D BP dispersions can be realized by scalable solvent exfoliation, thereby presenting opportunities for large-area, high-performance BP device applications.Comment: 6 figures, 31 pages, including supporting informatio

Bp stars in OrionOB1 association

A total of 85 CP stars of various types are identified among 814 members of the Orion OB1 association. We selected 59 Bp stars, which account for 13.4% of the total number of B type stars in the association. The fraction of peculiar B type stars in the association is found to be twice higher than that of peculiar A type stars. Magnetic field are found in 22 stars, 17 of them are objects with anomalous helium lines. No significant differences are found between the field strengths in the Bp type stars of the association and Bp type field stars. We identified 17 binaries, which make up 20% of the total number of peculiar stars studied which is the standard ratio for CP stars.Comment: Proceedings of IAUS 30

Long-term Blood Pressure Prediction with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks

Existing methods for arterial blood pressure (BP) estimation directly map the input physiological signals to output BP values without explicitly modeling the underlying temporal dependencies in BP dynamics. As a result, these models suffer from accuracy decay over a long time and thus require frequent calibration. In this work, we address this issue by formulating BP estimation as a sequence prediction problem in which both the input and target are temporal sequences. We propose a novel deep recurrent neural network (RNN) consisting of multilayered Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, which are incorporated with (1) a bidirectional structure to access larger-scale context information of input sequence, and (2) residual connections to allow gradients in deep RNN to propagate more effectively. The proposed deep RNN model was tested on a static BP dataset, and it achieved root mean square error (RMSE) of 3.90 and 2.66 mmHg for systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) prediction respectively, surpassing the accuracy of traditional BP prediction models. On a multi-day BP dataset, the deep RNN achieved RMSE of 3.84, 5.25, 5.80 and 5.81 mmHg for the 1st day, 2nd day, 4th day and 6th month after the 1st day SBP prediction, and 1.80, 4.78, 5.0, 5.21 mmHg for corresponding DBP prediction, respectively, which outperforms all previous models with notable improvement. The experimental results suggest that modeling the temporal dependencies in BP dynamics significantly improves the long-term BP prediction accuracy.Comment: To appear in IEEE BHI 201

Superficieibacter electus gen. nov., sp. nov., an extended-spectrum β-lactamase possessing member of the enterobacteriaceae family, isolated from Intensive Care Unit surfaces

<p>Two Gram-negative bacilli strains, designated BP-1(T) and BP-2, were recovered from two different Intensive Care Unit surfaces during a longitudinal survey in Pakistan. Both strains were unidentified using the bioMerieux VITEK MS IVD v2.3.3 and Bruker BioTyper MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry platforms. To more precisely determine the taxonomic identity of BP-1(T) and BP-2, we employed a biochemical and phylogenomic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain BP-1(T) had the highest identity to Citrobacter farmeri CDC 2991-81(T) (98.63%) Citrobacter amalonaticus CECT 863(T) (98.56%), Citrobacter sedlakii NBRC 105722(T) (97.74%) and Citrobacter rodentium NBRC 105723(T) (97.74%). The biochemical utilization scheme of BP-1(T) using the Analytic Profile Index for Enterobacteriaceae (API20E) indicated its enzymatic functions are unique within the Enterobacteriaceae but most closely resemble Kluyvera spp., Enterobacter cloacae and Citrobacter koseri/farmeri. Phylogenomic analysis of the shared genes between BP-1(T), BP-2 and type strains from Kluyvera, Citrobacter, Escherichia, Salmonella, Kosakonia, Siccibacter and Shigella indicate that BP-1(T) and BP-2 isolates form a distinct branch from these genera. Average Nucleotide Identity analysis indicates that BP-1(T) and BP-2 are the same species. The biochemical and phylogenomic analysis indicate strains BP-1(T) and BP-2 represent a novel species from a new genus within the Enterobacteriaceae family, for which the name Superficieibacter electus gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is BP-1(T) (= ATCC BAA-2937, = NBRC 113412).</p