Une ombre planant sur les démocraties étrangères

Cet article étudie comment le succès économique chinois en arrive à avoir un impact négatif sur les libertés civiles et la démocratie en Occident et pourquoi l’interdépendance croissante entre l’économie mondiale et la Chine permet à cette dernière d’influencer les positions politiques de grandes démocraties, alors que le contraire n’est pas possible. À partir de cas concrets, il montre comment la diplomatie chinoise joue sur les relations économiques avec certaines grandes démocraties pour les amener à infléchir leur politique notamment à l’égard du dalaï-lama. Il souligne également à quel point les enjeux du marché chinois rendent les multinationales plus vulnérables aux pressions de Pékin tandis que les intérêts financiers internationaux amènent à coopérer avec un appareil répressif afin de limiter les libertés, en Chine ou ailleurs. Il défend enfin l’argument suivant lequel, avec la fin de la guerre froide, la nouvelle économie politique associée à la globalisation explique la montée en puissance d’une forme de diplomatie dictatoriale

From the Great Rock to the Eastern Islet

Based on the examples of protest movements that took place in the villages of Taishi and Dongzhou, the article explores the limits of "citizen engagement" in China today

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

Although China has undergone profound changes since economic reforms and marketisation were introduced in the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still represents a niche surviving from before this period, not only in politics but also in many other dimensions of life in China. This simple fact has for a long time been virtually ignored, intentionally or not, in academic studies on China, as most of the energy in the field is, reasonably, devoted to following the fast-changing refor..

Engagement citoyen et gouvernance locale en Chine

À partir de l’exemple des mouvements de protestations qui ont eu lieu dans les villages de Taishi et de Dongzhou, l’article propose une réflexion plus large sur les limites d’un « engagement citoyen » en Chine aujourd’hui

From the Great Rock to the Eastern Islet

Based on the examples of protest movements that took place in the villages of Taishi and Dongzhou, the article explores the limits of "citizen engagement" in China today

Engagement citoyen et gouvernance locale en Chine

À partir de l’exemple des mouvements de protestations qui ont eu lieu dans les villages de Taishi et de Dongzhou, l’article propose une réflexion plus large sur les limites d’un « engagement citoyen » en Chine aujourd’hui

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (eds.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (eds.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London, Routledge, 2009, 308 pp. This is a timely collection of mostly solidly-researched papers addressing a number of significant questions in understanding contemporary China. Readers may expect too much, however, if they read the book because it is about “legitimacy” and authored by scholars who are Max Weber’s countrymen. The volume under review has difficulties meeting..

Thomas Heberer et Gunter Schubert (éd.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China : Institutional Change and Stability

Thomas Heberer et Gunter Schubert (éd.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China : Institutional Change and Stability, Londres, Routledge, 2009, 308 p. Cette publication attendue réunit une série d’études précises et rigoureuses autour de problématiques essentielles à la compréhension de la Chine contemporaine. Toutefois, ni le thème annoncé - la « légitimité » -, ni le fait que les auteurs soient des compatriotes de Max Weber ne doivent abuser le lecteur : l'ouvrage satisferait difficilement..

A breeze energy harvesting of vibration caused with a cantilevered piezoelectric beam

The researches of wind energy harvesting have been more and more popular in recent years. In the paper, a vibration energy caused by a breeze is harvested with a cantilevered beam using a piezoelectric patch. When a swaging fan applies a breeze environment, the alternating voltage generates from the piezoelectric patch. Moreover, by designing a full wave rectifier, the alternating voltage from the piezoelectric patch is transformed as a DC voltage. Through some experiments, the amplitude of the alternating voltage is about 2.70 V and its frequency is 2.60 Hz (the first natural frequency of the cantilevered beam). And the gained DC voltage is about 2.45 V and can be made a luminous diode be on. These experimental results indicate that vibration energy caused by the breeze can be harvested with a full wave rectifier

Wearable sensor devices can automatically identify the ON-OFF status of patients with Parkinson's disease through an interpretable machine learning model

IntroductionAccurately and objectively quantifying the clinical features of Parkinson's disease (PD) is crucial for assisting in diagnosis and guiding the formulation of treatment plans. Therefore, based on the data on multi-site motor features, this study aimed to develop an interpretable machine learning (ML) model for classifying the “OFF” and “ON” status of patients with PD, as well as to explore the motor features that are most associated with changes in clinical symptoms.MethodsWe employed a support vector machine with a recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) algorithm to select promising motion features. Subsequently, 12 ML models were constructed based on these features, and we identified the model with the best classification performance. Then, we used the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and the Local Interpretable Model agnostic Explanations (LIME) methods to explain the model and rank the importance of those motor features.ResultsA total of 96 patients were finally included in this study. The naive Bayes (NB) model had the highest classification performance (AUC = 0.956; sensitivity = 0.8947, 95% CI 0.6686–0.9870; accuracy = 0.8421, 95% CI 0.6875–0.9398). Based on the NB model, we analyzed the importance of eight motor features toward the classification results using the SHAP algorithm. The Gait: range of motion (RoM) Shank left (L) (degrees) [Mean] might be the most important motor feature for all classification horizons.ConclusionThe symptoms of PD could be objectively quantified. By utilizing suitable motor features to construct ML models, it became possible to intelligently identify whether patients with PD were in the “ON” or “OFF” status. The variations in these motor features were significantly correlated with improvement rates in patients' quality of life. In the future, they might act as objective digital biomarkers to elucidate the changes in symptoms observed in patients with PD and might be used to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with PD