Competitiveness of Port-Cities: The Case of Marseille-Fos - France

This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the port of Marseille-Fos, an analysis of the impact of the port on its territory and an assessment of policies and governance in this field. It examines declining port performance over the last decades and identifies the principal factors that have contributed to it. The effect of the ports on economic and environmental questions is studied and quantified where possible. The value added of the port cluster of Marseille-Fos is calculated and its interlinkages with other economic sectors and other regions in France delineated. The paper outlines the impact of the ports? operations, and shows how their activities spill over into other regions than the one in which the port of Marseille-Fos is located. The major policies governing the ports are assessed, along with policies governing transport and economic development, the environment and spatial planning. These include measures instituted by the port authorities, as well as by local, regional and national governments. Governance mechanisms at these different levels are described and analysed. Based on the report?s findings, recommendations are proposed with a view to improving port performance and increasing the positive effects of the port of Marseille-Fos on its territory

Addressing Women : Gender, Credit and the Periodical in Eighteenth-Century England

Die Dissertation untersucht englische Wochenschriften des frühen achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses steht eine Zeitschrift namens The Female Tatler, welche drei Mal pro Woche in London von 1709 bis 1710 erschien. Als erste Zeitschrift in der Geschichte des Journalismus wendet sie sich explizit an ein weibliches Lesepublikum. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, welche Strategien angewendet werden, um eine neue Leserschaft nicht nur zu erreichen, sondern dauerhaft an das Blatt zu binden. Dabei spielt die Bezugnahme zum prominenten Vorgänger The Tatler eine besondere Rolle, denn als Wegbereiter und Mitbegründer des Genres der »Essay Periodicals« übt dieser großen Einfluss auf das Journal aus. Vom Tatler als Parasit belächelt und degradiert, emanzipiert sich der Female Tatler von seinem Vorgänger, dem er offenkundig Respekt zollt. Die Arbeit zeigt, wie sich der Female Tatler durch »rhetorical femininity«, durch eine explizit weibliche Pragmatik, von seinem omnipräsenten Vorgänger abhebt und so eine Nische im Zeitschriftenmarkt erfolgreich zu besetzen vermag

Premières données sur le site de Marseillon (Banos, Landes) : un nouveau gisement Solutréen de plein air en Chalosse?

The Chalosse region, and more particularly the area around Audignon, is well-knwon for a long time for its richness in lithic raw materials and archaeological industries. In this paper, we report the results of an archaeological survey carried on around the Laudon river in Banos (Landes). This work leads useful informations on the Upper Paleolithic settlement of the area concerned. Following previous work undertaken by P. Lafitte, we discover a numerous lithic assemblage including tools and cores. We report a preliminary study and a first chrono-cultural interpretation of the industry. We more particularly discuss the hypothesis that the assemblage could well represent a very early Solutrean occupation, an interpreation that needs to be more precisely tested.La Chalosse, et en particulier le secteur correspondant à l'anticlinal d'Audignon, est depuis longtemps connue pour sa richesse en matières premières siliceuses et l'abondance des traces d'occupations préhistoriques. Une prospection thématique conduite au printemps 2006 sur la commune de Banos (Landes) apporte de précieuses informations sur l'occupation de la région au Paléolithique supérieur. Poursuivant les travaux de P. Lafitte, inventeur du site de Marseillon, une abondante industrie lithique comprenant de nombreux outils et nucléus a été réunie. Une analyse préliminaire est ici présentée ainsi qu'un premier essai d'interprétation de l'industrie en termes chronoculturels. Celle-ci discute notamment de la possibilité qu'une partie de l'industrie corresponde à une occupation du Solutréen, et plus précisément à une phase très ancienne de ce techno-complexe, information qui reste toutefois à vérifier et préciser

MALDI imaging and in-source decay for top-down characterization of glioblastoma

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User Satisfaction Evaluation of the EHR4CR Query Builder: A Multisite Patient Count Cohort System

The Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (EHR4CR) project aims to develop services and technology for the leverage reuse of Electronic Health Records with the purpose of improving the efficiency of clinical research processes. A pilot program was implemented to generate evidence of the value of using the EHR4CR platform. The user acceptance of the platform is a key success factor in driving the adoption of the EHR4CR platform; thus, it was decided to evaluate the user satisfaction. In this paper, we present the results of a user satisfaction evaluation for the EHR4CR multisite patient count cohort system. This study examined the ability of testers (n=22 and n=16 from 5 countries) to perform three main tasks (around 20 minutes per task), after a 30-minute period of self-training. The System Usability Scale score obtained was 55.83 (SD: 15.37), indicating a moderate user satisfaction. The responses to an additional satisfaction questionnaire were positive about the design of the interface and the required procedure to design a query. Nevertheless, the most complex of the three tasks proposed in this test was rated as difficult, indicating a need to improve the system regarding complicated queries