Highlighting the social dimension of the relationship in China’s public diplomacy practice: toward a global engagement?

International audiencePh.D. research theme: Highlighting the social dimension of the relationship in China's public diplomacy practice: toward a global engagement

Panda engagement" in China's digital public diplomacy

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Polyphonic contents and monophonic core: Comparing Chinese diplomatic Twitter accounts in Ottawa and Brussels for public diplomacy

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Panda seems like a new “cat” : China’s digital panda public diplomacy on Twitter: affective sign, image promotion, and the permanent Chinese diplomat

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De la diplomatie du peuple à la diplomatie publique : les pratiques chinoises du wai xuan de Mao à Xi

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Le renouveau des formes de la diplomatie et du lobbying de la Chine en Afrique à l'ère numérique

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Personalized Estimate of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting: Development and External Validation of a Nomogram in Cancer Patients Receiving Highly/Moderately Emetogenic Chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is presented in over 30% of cancer patients receiving highly/moderately emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC/MEC). The currently recommended antiemetic therapy is merely based on the emetogenic level of chemotherapy, regardless of patient's individual risk factors. It is, therefore, critical to develop an approach for personalized management of CINV in the era of precision medicine.A number of variables were involved in the development of CINV. In the present study, we pooled the data from 2 multi-institutional investigations of CINV due to HEC/MEC treatment in Asian countries. Demographic and clinical variables of 881 patients were prospectively collected as defined previously, and 862 of them had full documentation of variables of interest. The data of 548 patients from Chinese institutions were used to identify variables associated with CINV using multivariate logistic regression model, and then construct a personalized prediction model of nomogram; while the remaining 314 patients out of China (Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) entered the external validation set. C-index was used to measure the discrimination ability of the model.The predictors in the final model included sex, age, alcohol consumption, history of vomiting pregnancy, history of motion sickness, body surface area, emetogenicity of chemotherapy, and antiemetic regimens. The C-index was 0.67 (95% CI, 0.62-0.72) for the training set and 0.65 (95% CI, 0.58-0.72) for the validation set. The C-index was higher than that of any single predictor, including the emetogenic level of chemotherapy according to current antiemetic guidelines. Calibration curves showed good agreement between prediction and actual occurrence of CINV.This easy-to-use prediction model was based on chemotherapeutic regimens as well as patient's individual risk factors. The prediction accuracy of CINV occurrence in this nomogram was well validated by an independent data set. It could facilitate the assessment of individual risk, and thus improve the personalized management of CINV

Diplomatie publique et voix diplomatiques chinoises à Bruxelles et Ottawa sur Twitter : la fabrique d’une polyphonie harmonieuse

International audienceThe netnographic analysis of the tweets published by two Twitter accounts of Chinese diplomats based in Brussels and Ottawa in 2017 which, highlights the polyphonic efforts of Chinese diplomacy in its publishing strategy on digital social media. These diplomatic accounts embody a modern and friendly kind of public diplomacy that renews the genre of propaganda. They may be perceived as such by international public and political leaders. Beijing may continue to rely on self-censorship mechanisms and censorship devices that frame and prescribe perfectly smooth and harmonious Chinese diplomatic discourses. These polyphonic tweets begin and allow promising conversations, and they improve China’s image, building a more humane – less scary – illustration of this “Major-Country” power. These Twitter accounts are therefore the emerging tip of Chinese soft power strategies.L’analyse netnographique des tweets publiés par les deux comptes Twitter des diplomates chinois à Bruxelles et à Ottawa en 2017 met en évidence les efforts de polyphonie de la diplomatie chinoise dans sa stratégie de publication sur des médias sociaux numériques. Ces comptes diplomatiques incarnent une diplomatie publique moderne et sympathique qui renouvelle le genre de la propagande et qui est la pointe émergée des stratégies de soft power chinois. Pékin continue à s’appuyer sur des mécanismes d’autocensure et des dispositifs de censure qui encadrent et prescrivent des discours diplomatiques chinois parfaitement lisses et harmonieux. Cette dimension stratégique est sans doute bien perçue par les publics et dirigeants étrangers. Pour autant, ces comptes autorisent des débuts de conversations et humanise l’image de l’hyper-puissance chinoise

La communication stratégique des musées français sur le réseau social Weibo

International audienceThrough semi-structured interviews with diplomats and museum communication professionals and a netnographic analysis of Weibo’s posts published by French museums between 2016 and 2017, this article provides a theoretical overview of the changes in strategic communication and French cultural diplomacy at the digital era. Why and how do French museums launch communication projects in Chinese social media? How do French museums’ communication strategies on Chinese social media contribute to the attractiveness of these museums in China’s public sphere ? Does these pratices could be seen as a form of place branding, or even track-II and cultural diplomacy of France?Grâce à des entretiens semi-directifs avec les diplomates / les professionnels en communication muséale et l’analyse netnographique des posts de Weibo publiés par les musées français entre 2016 et 2017, cet article appréhende, d’un point de vue théorique, les mutations de la communication stratégique et de la diplomatie culturelle française à l’ère digitale. Pourquoi et en quoi les musées français lancent-ils les projets communicationnels dans les médias sociaux chinois ? Dans quelle mesure les stratégies de communication des musées français sur les médias sociaux chinois participent-elles conjointement à l’attractivité de ces musées auprès des publics chinois et à une forme de communication stratégique territoriale, voire de diplomatie parallèle culturelle de la France

Strangeness Enhancement in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV

We report new STAR measurements of mid-rapidity yields for the $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^{0}_{S}$, $\Xi^{-}$, $\bar{\Xi}^{+}$, $\Omega^{-}$, $\bar{\Omega}^{+}$ particles in Cu+Cu collisions at \sNN{200}, and mid-rapidity yields for the $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^{0}_{S}$ particles in Au+Au at \sNN{200}. We show that at a given number of participating nucleons, the production of strange hadrons is higher in Cu+Cu collisions than in Au+Au collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. We find that aspects of the enhancement factors for all particles can be described by a parameterization based on the fraction of participants that undergo multiple collisions