Divergences et convergences dans les représentations du bilinguisme

L’article fait état du regard que posent des étudiants universitaires sur la dynamique des langues française et anglaise en Ontario et découle d’une étude sur les représentations sociales des langues en contact menée à l’Université Laurentienne (Ontario). Les résultats révèlent les convergences qui s’opèrent au chapitre de la définition que donnent les étudiants du bilinguisme, tout en faisant valoir les divergences qui sur­viennent dans les images qu’ils véhiculent, selon leur langue première.The paper sheds light on how a group of university students views the dynamic of English and French languages. Their social representations emerge from a study conducted at Laurentian University, in Ontario. They portray how students agree in their definition of bilingualism, but differ, depending on their first language, in how they conceive its social representation

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Student-Athletes’ Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Social Media

The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes and beliefs of student athletes towards social media. To address this question, student athletes completed a survey focused specifically on: the image they present on social media profiles, content included, and their thoughts on the social media education provided by their athletic department. Student athlete (SA) responses were also compared to non-athletes (NA) for a better understanding of social media profiles. Frequencies showed strong similarities in a number of content shared or not shared, like humorous photos (SA 74.1% and NA 73.3%) and sexy photos (SA 82.4% and NA 82.6%). Differences were also present in a Man Whitney U-test. The significant differences all scored below

A Pan-Canadian Narrative Review on the Protocols for COVID-19 and Canadian Emergency Departments

First described in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Canada identified its first positive COVID-19 patient on January 25th, 2020. The Canadian government and heath care system immediately started discussing how best to respond to this pandemic. It was hypothesized that potentially positive and confirmed positive COVID-19 patients would present to emergency departments across the country. It has now been over a year since the first positive patient was identified in Canada, and there has yet to be a narrative review that explores how Canadian emergency departments have responded to the novel COVID-19 virus. This narrative review will discuss measures that were taken thus far, including pre-hospital care, the use and implementation of virtual care, the importance of simulation training, protocols regarding patient screening at presentation to the emergency department, the use of personal protective equipment, and lastly rural emergency department response. This narrative review may be beneficial as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, by providing a concise summary of measures that were taken in various emergency departments across Canada to prevent the spread of the virus

Response of the Strongly-Driven Jaynes-Cummings Oscillator

We analyze the Jaynes-Cummings model of quantum optics, in the strong-dispersive regime. In the bad cavity limit and on timescales short compared to the atomic coherence time, the dynamics are those of a nonlinear oscillator. A steady-state non-perturbative semiclassical analysis exhibits a finite region of bistability delimited by a pair of critical points, unlike the usual dispersive bistability from a Kerr nonlinearity. This analysis explains our quantum trajectory simulations that show qualitative agreement with recent experiments from the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Improved Superconducting Qubit Readout by Qubit-Induced Nonlinearities

In dispersive readout schemes, qubit-induced nonlinearity typically limits the measurement fidelity by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when the measurement power is increased. Contrary to seeing the nonlinearity as a problem, here we propose to use it to our advantage in a regime where it can increase the SNR. We show analytically that such a regime exists if the qubit has a many-level structure. We also show how this physics can account for the high-fidelity avalanchelike measurement recently reported by Reed {\it et al.} [arXiv:1004.4323v1].Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure