Von den interkulturellen Begegnungen zur Koexistenz in der Literatur am Beispiel von Der Weltensammler (2006) von Ilija Trojanow: Eine Analyse unter der Perspektive der neuen Weltliteratur

Zusammenfassung: Ziel dieses Artikels, der aus der Analyse des Romans Der Weltensammler des Schriftstellers Ilija Trojanow hervorgegangen ist, ist zu zeigen, dass es für den Ausländer möglich ist, mit den Völkern, denen er begegnet, zu koexistieren und seine Integration trotz der Unterschiede zu erleichtern. Die Fragen der interkulturellen Begegnungen und der Koexistenz sind daher für das Zusammenleben von entscheidender Bedeutung. In einem ersten Schritt wurden Begriffe wie Weltliteratur, Alterität, Verständnis für das Fremde und Koexistenz kultureller Unterschiede definiert. Anschließend wurde der Roman Der Weltensammler analysiert, um anhand einer hybriden Figur die Wege und Mittel zu identifizieren, durch die das Zusammenleben von Menschen mit unterschiedlichem kulturellem Hintergrund möglich sein kann. Die Anpassung an die kulturellen Werte des Anderen und deren Erlernen sind die von Ilija Trojanow bevorzugten Wege zu einer friedlichen interkulturellen Koexistenz

Effet du Conseil d’Administration sur la rentabilité des sociétés cotées dans l’espace UEMOA

Cet article analyse l’effet de l’efficacité du Conseil d’Administration – mécanisme interne de gouvernance d’entreprise – sur la rentabilité opérationnelle, économique et financière des sociétés cotées dans l’espace UEMOA (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine). Effectivement, l’efficacité du Conseil d’Administration est conditionnée par divers facteurs, dont les plus importants sont relatifs à ses caractéristiques. Ainsi cette étude prend en comptes des caractéristiques du Conseil qui ont été omis dans les études empiriques antérieures relatives au lien gouvernance – performance. Notre démarche empirique se base sur la méthode des régressions linéaires multiples en données de panel. L’échantillon comporte 35 sociétés cotées observées sur la période allant de 2019 à 2021. Les résultats ont montré une association positive entre l’efficacité du Conseil d’Administration et les rentabilités opérationnelle et économique mesurées respectivement par indicateurs MNC et ROA mais une relation négative avec rentabilité financière mesurée par l’indicateur ROE. Les résultats de l’étude impliquent notamment que l’efficacité des Conseils d’Administration de ces sociétés bien qu’acceptables ne sont pas optimales

Using exoskeletons to assist medical staff during prone positioning of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients: a pilot study

International audienceWe conducted a pilot study to evaluate the potential and feasibility of back-support exoskeletons to help the caregivers in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital of Nancy (France) executing Prone Positioning (PP) maneuvers on patients suffering from severe COVID-19-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. After comparing four commercial exoskeletons, the Laevo passive exoskeleton was selected and used in the ICU in April 2020. The first volunteers using the Laevo reported very positive feedback and reduction of effort, confirmed by EMG and ECG analysis. Laevo has been since used to physically assist during PP in the ICU of the Hospital of Nancy, following the recrudescence of COVID-19, with an overall positive feedback

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

INTRODUCTION Investment in Africa over the past year with regard to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing has led to a massive increase in the number of sequences, which, to date, exceeds 100,000 sequences generated to track the pandemic on the continent. These sequences have profoundly affected how public health officials in Africa have navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. RATIONALE We demonstrate how the first 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Africa have helped monitor the epidemic on the continent, how genomic surveillance expanded over the course of the pandemic, and how we adapted our sequencing methods to deal with an evolving virus. Finally, we also examine how viral lineages have spread across the continent in a phylogeographic framework to gain insights into the underlying temporal and spatial transmission dynamics for several variants of concern (VOCs). RESULTS Our results indicate that the number of countries in Africa that can sequence the virus within their own borders is growing and that this is coupled with a shorter turnaround time from the time of sampling to sequence submission. Ongoing evolution necessitated the continual updating of primer sets, and, as a result, eight primer sets were designed in tandem with viral evolution and used to ensure effective sequencing of the virus. The pandemic unfolded through multiple waves of infection that were each driven by distinct genetic lineages, with B.1-like ancestral strains associated with the first pandemic wave of infections in 2020. Successive waves on the continent were fueled by different VOCs, with Alpha and Beta cocirculating in distinct spatial patterns during the second wave and Delta and Omicron affecting the whole continent during the third and fourth waves, respectively. Phylogeographic reconstruction points toward distinct differences in viral importation and exportation patterns associated with the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants and subvariants, when considering both Africa versus the rest of the world and viral dissemination within the continent. Our epidemiological and phylogenetic inferences therefore underscore the heterogeneous nature of the pandemic on the continent and highlight key insights and challenges, for instance, recognizing the limitations of low testing proportions. We also highlight the early warning capacity that genomic surveillance in Africa has had for the rest of the world with the detection of new lineages and variants, the most recent being the characterization of various Omicron subvariants. CONCLUSION Sustained investment for diagnostics and genomic surveillance in Africa is needed as the virus continues to evolve. This is important not only to help combat SARS-CoV-2 on the continent but also because it can be used as a platform to help address the many emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats in Africa. In particular, capacity building for local sequencing within countries or within the continent should be prioritized because this is generally associated with shorter turnaround times, providing the most benefit to local public health authorities tasked with pandemic response and mitigation and allowing for the fastest reaction to localized outbreaks. These investments are crucial for pandemic preparedness and response and will serve the health of the continent well into the 21st century

watex: machine learning research in water exploration

Water exploration is a scientific domain mostly devoted to the hydro-geophysics field. For instance, geophysical methods such as direct-current, electromagnetic (EM), and logging are primarily used in companionship with pure hydrogeological techniques to propose the right location for drilling operations and determine the permeability coefficient (k) parameter. Unfortunately, despite this combination, unsuccessful, unsustainable boreholes are persisting and the k parameter collection remains difficult and costly thereby creating a huge loss for funders, geophysical and drilling ventures. watex library brings efficient algorithms and smart approaches to solve these issues. Indeed, the recovery of loss EM signals, the automatic location detection for drilling operations, the prediction of flow rate, and the mixture learning strategy using machine learning are some sustainable solutions developed by watex to reduce the numerous losses for future hydro-geophysical engineering projects

A Top-Down Approach for Automatic Dropper Extraction in Catenary Scenes

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Extraction automatique de pendules dans des images de caténaire

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Automatic Extraction of Droppers in Catenary Scenes

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