Multilingual clients’ experience of psychotherapy

The present study focuses on the experiences of 182 multilingual clients who had been exposed to various therapeutic approaches in various countries. An on-line questionnaire was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. The analysis of feedback from clients with multilingual therapists showed that clients use or initiate significantly more code-switching (CS) than their therapists, and that it typically occurs when the emotional tone is raised. Gender was unrelated to CS frequency. CS is used strategically when discussing episodes of trauma and shame, creating proximity or distance. CS allows clients to express themselves more fully to the therapist, adding depth and nuance to the therapy. The therapist’s multilingualism promotes empathy and clients’ own multilingualism constitutes an important aspect of their sense of self. Multilingual clients benefit from a therapeutic environment where multilingualism is appreciated, and where they can use CS

Psychotherapy across languages: beliefs, attitudes and practices of monolingual and multilingual therapists with their multilingual patients

The present study investigates beliefs, attitudes and practices of 101 monolingual and multilingual therapists in their interactions with multilingual patients. We adopted a mixed-method approach, using an on-line questionnaire with 27 closed questions which were analysed quantitatively and informed questions in interviews with one monolingual and two multilingual therapists. A principal component analysis yielded a four-factor solution accounting for 41% of the variance. The first dimension, which explained 17% of variance, reflects therapists’ attunement towards their bilingual patients (i.e., attunement versus collusion). Further analysis showed that the 18 monolingual therapists differed significantly from their 83 bi- or multilingual peers on this dimension. The follow up interviews confirmed this result. Recommendations based on these findings are made for psychotherapy training and supervision to attend to a range of issues including: the psychological and therapeutic functions of multi/bilingualism; practice in making formulations in different languages; the creative therapeutic potential of the language gap

A cross-disciplinary and multi-method approach of multilingualism in psychotherapy

In this chapter Jean-Marc and Beverley will share their experiences of working with mixed methods in an under-researched area. As we shall see, her interest in larger sampling groups introduced her to some of the advantages of quantitative research. Together with Jean-Marc, who expands on the methods in detail in this chapter, Beverley was able to research multilingual therapy from several angles

The linear nature of pseudowords

Given a pseudoword over suitable pseudovarieties, we associate to it a labeled linear order determined by the factorizations of the pseudoword. We show that, in the case of the pseudovariety of aperiodic finite semigroups, the pseudoword can be recovered from the labeled linear order.The work of the first, third, and fourth authors was partly supported by the Pessoa French-Portuguese project “Separation in automata theory: algebraic, logical, and combinatorial aspects”. The work of the first three authors was also partially supported respectively by CMUP (UID/MAT/ 00144/2019), CMUC (UID/MAT/00324/2019), and CMAT (UID/MAT/ 00013/2013), which are funded by FCT (Portugal) with national (MCTES) and European structural funds (FEDER), under the partnership agreement PT2020. The work of the fourth author was partly supported by ANR 2010 BLAN 0202 01 FREC and by the DeLTA project ANR-16-CE40-000

Centraleta electrònica (ECU) configurable per al control de l’encesa i sistema d’injecció d’un motor de 4 temps

En competicions automobilístiques de nivell comarcal o provincial, molts dels equips que hi participen en l’actualitat, encara utilitzen dispositius mecànics (carburador) per fer la gestió de barreja d’aire i combustible. Això és degut a les limitacions de molts d’aquests dispositius de fabricació antiga i a la falta d’informació per poder fer una reprogramació en els dispositius més moderns. La falta de recursos econòmics també influeix en la utilització de dispositius mecànics. El Projecte Final de Carrera té per objectiu fer aquesta gestió del motor amb una unitat de control electrònica configurable per aconseguir un augment de potència, ja que els fabricants de motors limiten en un 25% aproximadament la seva potència per allargar la vida útil i fiabilitat d’aquests. En el nostre projecte, es permet gestionar l’encesa i l’injecció amb la particularitat que es pot modificar la cartografia de temps d’injecció de forma fàcil i eficaç, amb un software dissenyat especialment per aquest cas. El projecte desenvolupat comprèn l’estudi previ, selecció de material, estudi d’encesa i d’injecció original, selecció microcontrolador i material electrònic, programació microcontrolador, posada en funcionament, creació del software per la transferència i modificació de la cartografia original de temps d’injecció

DVFS governor for HPC: Higher, Faster, Greener

International audienceIn High Performance Computing, being respectful of the environment is usually secondary compared to performance: The faster, the better. As Exascale computing is in the spotlight, electric power concerns arise as current exascale projects might need too much power to even boot. A recent incentive (Exascale at maximum 20MW) shows that reality is catching up with HPC center designers. Beyond classical works on hardware infrastructure or at the middleware level, we do believe that system-level solutions have great potential for energy reduction. Moreover energy-reduction has often been neglected by the HPC community that focus mainly on raw computing performance. In the literature, energy savings is achieved mainly by two means: Either processor load is the only metric taken into account to reduce processors frequency and to ensure no impact on raw performances, Or processor frequency is managed only at task level outside the critical path. In this article we show that designing and implementing a DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) mechanism based on instantaneous system values (here network activity) can save up to 25% of energy consumption while reducing marginally performance. In several cases, reducing energy consumption also leads to an increase in performances because of the thermal budget of recent processors. This work is validated with real experiments on a Linux cluster using the NAS Parallel Benchmark (NPB)

Iterated periodicity over finite aperiodic semigroups

This paper provides a characterization of pseudowords over the pseudovariety of all finite aperiodic semigroups that can be described from the free generators using only the operations of multiplication and omega-power. A necessary and sufficient condition for this property to hold turns out to be given by the conjunction of two rather simple finiteness conditions: the nonexistence of infinite anti-chains of factors and the rationality of the language of McCammond normal forms of omega-terms that define factors of the given pseudoword. The relationship between pseudowords with this property and arbitrary pseudowords is also investigated.Projeto PTDC/MAT/65481/2006 financiado em parte pelo European Community Fund FEDERPrograma AutoMathA da European Science Fundation (ESF)Projeto Egide-Grices 11113YMFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT