Management of the assisted instruction environment in economic higher education

The world has entered the Knowledge Age. Information Technology is gradually turning the world into an Information Highway Network. The development of technology has greatly accelerated the international flow of information, capital and commodities and speeded the growth of economic integration. At the same time, the cycle of technological development and commercialization is becoming shorter and shorter [Zhouying, 1999]. Information technology is bringing rapid and profound changes to higher education, as it has to virtually every process in our society. Productivity often suffers because is difficult and timeconsuming to conduct a team effort. A portal solution base on SharePoint Portal Server can greatly facilitate the process of bringing knowledge teachers together as a team to achieve educational goals by providing a single point to access: automated essential day-to-day email communication, management of contacts, calendars, and instant messages, shared facilities to allow small teams of teachers to contribute to team and project-focused Web site, track tasks and events, shortened web-publishing cycles by linking collaboration and publishing processes.colaborative platforms, web courses, online evaluation

Ionesco auteur et inspirateur. Regards croisés sur la traduction-adaptation en roumain de la pièce de théâtre Qui est ce Ionesco ?, de Richard Letendre

Parole dite ou jouée ? Texte ou représentation scénique, le théâtre est, indéniablement, un art qui fait de la parole sa matière première. Écrite ou dite sur la scène, cette parole doit « fonctionner » dans une égale mesure lors de la lecture ou dans l’actio scénique. De même, la traduction du texte dramatique n’engage pas seulement un savoir-lire et -interpréter le texte, mais aussi un savoir-imaginer le texte dit sur scène. Si l’on est d’accord qu’en règle générale le traducteur doit être u..

Management of the assisted instruction environment in economic higher education

The world has entered the Knowledge Age. Information Technology is gradually turning the world into an Information Highway Network. The development of technology has greatly accelerated the international flow of information, capital and commodities and speeded the growth of economic integration. At the same time, the cycle of technological development and commercialization is becoming shorter and shorter [Zhouying, 1999]. Information technology is bringing rapid and profound changes to higher education, as it has to virtually every process in our society. Productivity often suffers because is difficult and timeconsuming to conduct a team effort. A portal solution base on SharePoint Portal Server can greatly facilitate the process of bringing knowledge teachers together as a team to achieve educational goals by providing a single point to access: automated essential day-to-day email communication, management of contacts, calendars, and instant messages, shared facilities to allow small teams of teachers to contribute to team and project-focused Web site, track tasks and events, shortened web-publishing cycles by linking collaboration and publishing processes

The Romanian version of the Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR)

The Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR) is a new parent/patient-reported outcome measure that enables a thorough assessment of the disease status in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We report the results of the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the parent and patient versions of the JAMAR in the Romanian language. The reading comprehension of the questionnaire was tested in 15 JIA parents and patients. Each participating centre was asked to collect demographic, clinical data and the JAMAR in 100 consecutive JIA patients or all consecutive patients seen in a 6-month period and to administer the JAMAR to 100 healthy children and their parents. The statistical validation phase explored descriptive statistics and the psychometric issues of the JAMAR: the three Likert assumptions, floor/ceiling effects, internal consistency, Cronbach\u2019s alpha, interscale correlations, test\u2013retest reliability, and construct validity (convergent and discriminant validity). A total of 310 JIA patients (11.9% systemic, 21.6% oligoarticular, 31.9% RF-negative polyarthritis, 34.6% other categories) and 100 healthy children, were enrolled in six centres. The JAMAR components discriminated well healthy subjects from JIA patients except for the health-related quality of life psychosocial health subscales. All JAMAR components revealed good psychometric performances. In conclusion, the Romanian version of the JAMAR is a valid tool for the assessment of children with JIA and is suitable for use both in routine clinical practice and clinical research

Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Background: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, from 1990 to 2021. Methods: The GBD 2021 risk factor analysis used data from 54 561 total distinct sources to produce epidemiological estimates for 88 risk factors and their associated health outcomes for a total of 631 risk–outcome pairs. Pairs were included on the basis of data-driven determination of a risk–outcome association. Age-sex-location-year-specific estimates were generated at global, regional, and national levels. Our approach followed the comparative risk assessment framework predicated on a causal web of hierarchically organised, potentially combinative, modifiable risks. Relative risks (RRs) of a given outcome occurring as a function of risk factor exposure were estimated separately for each risk–outcome pair, and summary exposure values (SEVs), representing risk-weighted exposure prevalence, and theoretical minimum risk exposure levels (TMRELs) were estimated for each risk factor. These estimates were used to calculate the population attributable fraction (PAF; ie, the proportional change in health risk that would occur if exposure to a risk factor were reduced to the TMREL). The product of PAFs and disease burden associated with a given outcome, measured in disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), yielded measures of attributable burden (ie, the proportion of total disease burden attributable to a particular risk factor or combination of risk factors). Adjustments for mediation were applied to account for relationships involving risk factors that act indirectly on outcomes via intermediate risks. Attributable burden estimates were stratified by Socio-demographic Index (SDI) quintile and presented as counts, age-standardised rates, and rankings. To complement estimates of RR and attributable burden, newly developed burden of proof risk function (BPRF) methods were applied to yield supplementary, conservative interpretations of risk–outcome associations based on the consistency of underlying evidence, accounting for unexplained heterogeneity between input data from different studies. Estimates reported represent the mean value across 500 draws from the estimate's distribution, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) calculated as the 2·5th and 97·5th percentile values across the draws. Findings: Among the specific risk factors analysed for this study, particulate matter air pollution was the leading contributor to the global disease burden in 2021, contributing 8·0% (95% UI 6·7–9·4) of total DALYs, followed by high systolic blood pressure (SBP; 7·8% [6·4–9·2]), smoking (5·7% [4·7–6·8]), low birthweight and short gestation (5·6% [4·8–6·3]), and high fasting plasma glucose (FPG; 5·4% [4·8–6·0]). For younger demographics (ie, those aged 0–4 years and 5–14 years), risks such as low birthweight and short gestation and unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing (WaSH) were among the leading risk factors, while for older age groups, metabolic risks such as high SBP, high body-mass index (BMI), high FPG, and high LDL cholesterol had a greater impact. From 2000 to 2021, there was an observable shift in global health challenges, marked by a decline in the number of all-age DALYs broadly attributable to behavioural risks (decrease of 20·7% [13·9–27·7]) and environmental and occupational risks (decrease of 22·0% [15·5–28·8]), coupled with a 49·4% (42·3–56·9) increase in DALYs attributable to metabolic risks, all reflecting ageing populations and changing lifestyles on a global scale. Age-standardised global DALY rates attributable to high BMI and high FPG rose considerably (15·7% [9·9–21·7] for high BMI and 7·9% [3·3–12·9] for high FPG) over this period, with exposure to these risks increasing annually at rates of 1·8% (1·6–1·9) for high BMI and 1·3% (1·1–1·5) for high FPG. By contrast, the global risk-attributable burden and exposure to many other risk factors declined, notably for risks such as child growth failure and unsafe water source, with age-standardised attributable DALYs decreasing by 71·5% (64·4–78·8) for child growth failure and 66·3% (60·2–72·0) for unsafe water source. We separated risk factors into three groups according to trajectory over time: those with a decreasing attributable burden, due largely to declining risk exposure (eg, diet high in trans-fat and household air pollution) but also to proportionally smaller child and youth populations (eg, child and maternal malnutrition); those for which the burden increased moderately in spite of declining risk exposure, due largely to population ageing (eg, smoking); and those for which the burden increased considerably due to both increasing risk exposure and population ageing (eg, ambient particulate matter air pollution, high BMI, high FPG, and high SBP). Interpretation: Substantial progress has been made in reducing the global disease burden attributable to a range of risk factors, particularly those related to maternal and child health, WaSH, and household air pollution. Maintaining efforts to minimise the impact of these risk factors, especially in low SDI locations, is necessary to sustain progress. Successes in moderating the smoking-related burden by reducing risk exposure highlight the need to advance policies that reduce exposure to other leading risk factors such as ambient particulate matter air pollution and high SBP. Troubling increases in high FPG, high BMI, and other risk factors related to obesity and metabolic syndrome indicate an urgent need to identify and implement interventions

LE CORPS FANTASTIQUE A L’ŒUVRE

La représentation du corps dans le récit fantastique s’inscrit dans le double mouvement de construction et de brouillage d’univers qui définit la poétique du fantastique. Le corps féminin, imaginé, rêvé, fantasmé, « réélisé » est intimement lié tant à une thématique fantastique de l’excès (l’amour sexuel sous ses formes excessives) qu’à une rhétorique du subodoré et de l’obscenus mise au service de la séduction au surnaturel manifestée dans le corps même du texte. Notre démarche suppose implicitement un processus de « sémiotisation » du corps, considéré comme signe dont la valeur indicielle fait partie intégrante du projet de brouillage des limites si cher au fantastique. L’ambiguïté du corps de Biondetta, femme-homme, femme-diable dans Le Diable amoureux de Cazotte ou le corps morcelé dans La Chevelure de Maupassant forment le corpus de notre analyse

L’objet fantastique à la limite entre situation initiale et complication

Le présent article se propose de faire l’analyse de l’objet dans la syntaxe du récit fantastique, notamment lorsque celui-ci apparaît à la limite entre deux séquences narratives : la situation initiale et la complication. Nous considérons que l’apparition de certains objets à cet endroit stratégique du récit fantastique leur confère une fonction particulière au niveau de la progression du récit, en ce sens que l’objet devient générateur de l’action et donc générateur de fantastique.Notre approche est comparative, le corpus étant construit de récits fantastiques français et roumains, tels L’Intersigne de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam et La hanul lui Mânjoală de Ion Luca Caragiale, car l’article s’inscrit dans un projet plus large d’analyse du fantastique au XIXe siècle

Adjuvants et opposants de l’amour dans le récit fantastique

Le présent article se propose de traiter du thème de l’amour (si cher au récit fantastique, surtout l’amour dans ses formes extrêmes, associé souvent à la mort) du point de vue de l’organisation, au niveau du récit, du conflit engendré par l’amour. Les deux récits choisis comme support de notre analyse nous ont permis la structuration de l’article en deux parties, l’une portant sur la figure du prêtre, respectivement de la sorcière, l’autre traitant de deux éléments ambivalents : le feu et l’eau (parfois en tant qu’instruments employés dans les pratiques religieuses/magiques)

LITTÉRALISATION DU FIGURÉ ET (DÉ)MONSTRATION FANTASTIQUE. « VÉRA » ET « SĂRMANUL DIONIS » (LE PAUVRE DIONIS)

Les figures jouent dans le fantastique un double rôle: au niveau textuel et au niveau fictionnel. L’usage textuel du langage figuré est certes une propriété du discours littéraire en général, une caractéristique plutôt commune des textes littéraires mais aussi une marque stylistique individuelle qui tient au style propre de tel ou tel écrivain. L’intérêt au discours figuré dans le fantastique vient du fait que le fantastique y trouve conjointement sa matérialisation textuelle et fictionnelle.Le discours figuré est porteur de valences à effet spécial dans le récit fantastique, puisqu’il est chargé de mettre devant le lecteur la possibilité de l’impossible, de revêtir le texte d’un manteau magique qui mette le lecteur en contact avec le mystère, l’inexplicable, le bizarre, le magique.Dans ce travail nous allons nous arrêter sur une situation spéciale qui met en jeu la littéralisation du figuré au niveau macrofictionnel où la monstration fantastique devient aussi démonstration fantastique

Le fantastique roumain. une diachronie possible

Dans le présent aricle nous nous arrêtons sur le fantastique roumain au XIXe siècle, en tant que situation générique, et sur la possibilité d’une approche diachronique. Notre étude fait partie d’un projet plus ample des diachronies du fantastique dans deux espaces littéraires différents – en France et en Roumanie, à partir de la théorie de la réception : réception de deux étrangers, Hoffmann et Poe, en France, et réception des récits autochtones en Roumanie. Nous nous appuyons sur la démarche diachronique d’Ioan Vultur, qui identifie deux étapes dans l’apparition et l’évolution du fantastique roumain