EyeSchool: an educational assistive technology for people with disabilities - Passing from single actors to multiple-actor environment

International audienceSince 2005, public policy in France has strongly been encouraging young people with disabilities inclusion within the regular school system. This has found a direct application through technical innovation, intended to help students being more independent within their learning activities. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to underline the manner in which using assistive information and communication technologies may improve the inclusive education for people with disabilities. The case study we present underlines the complexity of the social world into which the use of a precise assistive tool takes it place

Connectivité spatiale et diversité des espèces: Mise en place d’un réseau de conservation dans le Parc National du Mercantour

La thématique des forêts anciennes et des forêts matures a été au cœur du séminaire physique du GT Forêt-Eau, avec l'organisation le 27 octobre 2015 d'une journée d'échanges et de visite, associant une douzaine de partenaires (INRA, IRSTEA, Purpan, RNF, FPNR, CBNMC...). Au delà, PNF [Parcs Nationaux de France] continuera à suivre les différents projets en cours, menés par des Parcs nationaux ou d'autres partenaires, et à envisager d'autres projets collectifs pour aller plus loin dans la connaissance des forêts anciennes et matures

Effect of a Simple Information Booklet on Pain Persistence after an Acute Episode of Low Back Pain: A Non-Randomized Trial in a Primary Care Setting

Mass-media campaigns have been known to modify the outcome of low back pain (LBP). We assessed the impact on outcome of standardized written information on LBP given to patients with acute LBP.A 3-month pragmatic, multicenter controlled trial with geographic stratification.Primary care practice in France.2752 patients with acute LBP.An advice book on LBP (the "back book").The main outcome measure was persistence of LBP three months after baseline evaluation.2337 (85%) patients were assessed at follow-up and 12.4% of participants reported persistent LBP. The absolute risk reduction of reporting persistent back pain in the intervention group was 3.6% lower than in the control group (10.5% vs. 14.1%; 95% confidence interval [-6.3% ; -1.0%]; p value adjusted for cluster effect = 0.01). Patients in the intervention group were more satisfied than those in the control group with the information they received about physical activities, when to consult their physician, and how to prevent a new episode of LBP. However, the number of patients who had taken sick leave was similar, as was the mean sick-leave duration, in both arms, and, among patients with persistent pain at follow-up, the intervention and control groups did not differ in disability or fear-avoidance beliefs.The level of improvement of an information booklet is modest, but the cost and complexity of the intervention is minimal. Therefore, the implications and generalizability of this intervention are substantial.ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00343057

TemPO : towards a conceptualisation of pathology in speech and language therapy

International audienceTemPO (TEMporalité, Pathologie orthophonique, Ontologie) is an attempt to transform a draft conceptual model created for the French orthophonie/speech and language therapy (SLT) community into an ontological resource focusing on language and communication pathology. It is interdisciplinary (SLT, linguistics, terminology and descriptive logic) and focuses on temporality as an entry point. It is part of a 3 step project aiming at harmonising European SLT terminology in order to facilitate communication about language pathology. The first step was to extract some characteristics using semantic and syntactic analyses, the second one is the creation and validation of the ontology (TemPO) and it will be followed by a larger multilingual terminological project at a European level

Construction collaborative d’une ressource termino-ontologique pour le domaine de l’orthophonie fondée sur la temporalité

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Effets de la continuité forestière sur les assemblages de coloéptères saproxyliques volants dans les ilots boisés des paysages agricoles

International audienceAncient forests are of considerable interest for strategies for biodiversity conservation. However, in European forest landscapes fragmented and harvested for a long time forest continuity might be no longer a key driver for flying organisms such as saproxylic beetles. In a study based on paired samples (n = 60 stands, p = 180 traps) of ancient and recent forests, we investigated the effects of forest continuity on saproxylic beetle assemblages in two French regions. Mean species richness was significantly related with deadwood volume in ancient forests, but not in recent forests. This loss of relationship between assemblages and their environment suggests that dispersal limitation is at work, at least for some species. Forest continuity had a significant effect on mean species richness and on the mean number of common species, but not on rare species. Forest continuity had a significant effect on assemblage composition in one out of the four cases tested. In both regions, we identified species associated with either recent or ancient forests. Finally, mean body size of species was significantly smaller in recent forests compared with ancient ones, as was their tree diameter preference, despite a higher volume of large deadwood in recent forests. These results lend support to using forest continuity as a criterion to identify sites of conservation importance, even in highly fragmented landscapes

Cartographie historique : outil clé pour caractériser la continuité temporelle: Application à des travaux en écologie forestière

National audienceLes faibles capacités de dispersion de certaines espèces végétales ou animales conduisent à penser que l’ancienneté de l’état boisé est un facteur déterminant pour expliquer la structure actuelle des communautés d’espèces forestières. C’est ce que veut vérifier le projet de recherche Distrafor dans lequel les outils de la géomatique sont mis en œuvre sur des données cartographiques représentant la couverture forestière aux XIX et XXI siècles. Nous proposons d’identifier et cartographier les polygones de forêts à ces deux périodes. Puis par croisement spatial et application d’une analyse multicritère, nous soumettons aux écologues un plan d’échantillonnage stratifié sur les forêts tenant compte de la dépendance temporelle et spatiale et sur lequel des mesures de biodiversité seront effectuées

Constitution d’un corpus de référence en orthophonie, issu de la base ISTEX (libres de droits) en langue française et anglaise : rapport technique

Ce corpus a été constitué dans le cadre du projet 2019 MOCOLANG-O, subventionné par le pôle scientifique CLCS (Connaissance, Langage, Communication, Sociétés) de l’Université de Lorraine, la Fédération Nationale des Orthophonistes, l’ATILF et le CH de Bar-le-Duc. Les membres en sont Frédérique Brin-Henry (chef de projet), Rute Costa (NOVA CLUNL, Lisbonne), Sylvie Desprès (LIMICS, Paris), Sabine Barreaux (INIST, Nancy), Anne Dehêtre (FNO, Paris). Clémentine Arnicot (M2 Orthophonie), y a participé en tant que vacataire annotatrice. Le projet MOCOLANG-O vise la mise au point d’un modèle opérationnel (format OWL) structurant les concepts relatifs aux troubles rencontrés en orthophonie (affectant le langage, la communication et les fonctions oro-myo-faciales). Eminemment interdisciplinaire, il allie orthophonie, linguistique, terminologie et logique de description, et introduit la temporalité comme propriété centrale des concepts. Cette ressource ontologique appelée TemPO (TEMporalité, Pathologie orthophonique, Ontologie) se construit à partir de caractéristiques essentielles issues d’analyses sémantico-syntaxiques précédemment publiées (notamment le projet OrthoCorpus 2015/2017). Le modèle sera éprouvé en le testant avec une terminologie pilote trilingue et un corpus de textes de spécialité issus de la plateforme ISTEX (https://www.istex.fr). En permettant la création et la validation d’une ontologie, il représente une étape d’un projet plus large consacré à la terminologie européenne multilingue en orthophonie, visant à faciliter la communication impliquant les professionnels de santé et leurs patients.Ce document relate les étapes nécessaires à la constitution du corpus ISTEX /MOCOLANG-O. Ce corpus est destiné à tester la ressource ontologique TemPO, en fournissant des exemples de contextes d’utilisation d’une liste pré-établie de termes diagnostiques dans un corpus élargi et bilingue. Il a été rédigé par F Brin-Henry [Resp], et Clémentine Arnicot [Ann], et relu par Sabine Barreaux [IE]

Fear-avoidance beliefs about back pain in patients with acute LBP.

International audienceOBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with acute low back pain (LBP) and to identify features of patients and general practitioners (GPs) associated with patients' fear-avoidance beliefs. METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in primary care practice in France. A total of 709 GPs completed a self-administered questionnaire assessing fear-avoidance beliefs [the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ)] and 2,727 patients with acute LBP completed a self-administered questionnaire assessing pain, perceived handicap and disability (on the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale) and fear-avoidance beliefs (on the FABQ). RESULTS: Patients' FABQ mean scores were 16.8+/-5.0 for physical activities (FABQ Physical) and 19.5+/-10.9 for occupational activities (FABQ Work). From multivariate analysis, the following factors were associated with patients' FABQ Phys and Work scores: having a GP with a high rating on the FABQ Phys (P=0.0001 and 0.02 for FABQ Phys and Work, respectively), no sport practice (vs. occasional: P=0.0003 and 0.03; vs. usual/competition: P=0.0001 and 0.004), disability score (Quebec) (P=0.0001 for both FABQ scores), and pain intensity (P=0.0012 and 0.0013). CONCLUSIONS: High levels of fear-avoidance beliefs occur early in LBP patients, and key messages on this topic should probably be delivered at a very early stage of the disease