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Paris West University Nanterre La Défense

EducationParis, France
About: Paris West University Nanterre La Défense is a education organization based out in Paris, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Finite element method. The organization has 895 authors who have published 1430 publications receiving 21712 citations.


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TL;DR: The question of whether narrative structures the human experience of time, but does it also organise our musical experience? as mentioned in this paper investigates the question: does it organize the musical experience in the narrative process itself.
Abstract: Narrative structures the human experience of time, but does it also organise our musical experience? Behind this question lies another one, which concerns the narrative process itself: does it belo...

8 citations

01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: Vatin et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed how the intellectual itinerary of the founder of French labor sociology, who was shaped by the political trauma experienced by his generation, has lastingly affected this discipline.
Abstract: Georges Friedmann (1902–1977) is known as the founder, following WW II, of a “sociology of humanist work”. Before the war, he was a Marxist intellectual, close to the Communist Party, who L To do so, mechanization (machinisme), a key concept in the first part of Friedmann’s writing, is scrutinized. This concept came not from Marx but from Michelet’s Romantic conception of history, with which Friedmann was familiar. Adresse e-mail : vatin@u-paris10.fr (F. Vatin). Sociologie du travail 46 (2004) 205–223 www.elsevier.com/locate/soctra © 2004 Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves. doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2004.03.005 admired the young Soviet Union. How this political and ideological itinerary affected his sociology of labor, has never been systematically analyzed. To do so, “machinism” (mechanization), a key concept in the first part of Friedmann’s writing, is scrutinized. This concept came not from Marx, but from Michelet’s romantic conception of history, with which Friedmann was familiar. Following the war, it was given up for the pair “natural/technical milieu”; but this shift in vocabulary did not radically alter Friedmann’s views. Questions arise about how the intellectual itinerary of the founder of French labor sociology, who was shaped by the political trauma experienced by his generation, has lastingly affected this discipline. © 2004 Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves. Mots cles : Friedmann (Georges) ; Humanisme ; Machinisme ; Marx (Karl) ; Marxisme ; Michelet (Jules) ; Sociologie (histoire de la)

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TL;DR: The in-depth study of public reports and interviews carried out with main actors involved in the reform shows the hazards of the process, starting with unresolved issues and the tensions resulting from the reforms.
Abstract: In France, electronic administration has become an emblem of State and Civil service modernization. For a better understanding of the way in which Information Technology (IT) has gradually become part of the somewhat traditional effort at French State modernization, this paper will analyse the processes involved in the construction of a complete and coherent project. The in-depth study of public reports and interviews carried out with main actors involved in the reform shows the hazards of the process. Revealing the ways and means in which IT has an influence on modernization enhances understanding of the nature of the changes sought. This paper provides an opportunity to take into account the players' viewpoints, starting with unresolved issues and the tensions resulting from the reforms. The final part of the paper focuses on the so-called Bercy reforms.

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TL;DR: This study investigated the effect of motor action performed to produce the response in a recognition task when this action is compatible with the affordance of the objects that have to be recognised, and showed a robust effect of compatibility between objects affordance and response hand.
Abstract: Embodied approaches of cognition argue that retrieval involves the re-enactment of both sensory and motor components of the desired remembering. In this study, we investigated the effect of motor action performed to produce the response in a recognition task when this action is compatible with the affordance of the objects that have to be recognised. In our experiment, participants were first asked to learn a list of words referring to graspable objects, and then told to make recognition judgements on pictures. The pictures represented objects where the graspable part was either pointing to the same or to the opposite side of the "Yes" response key. Results show a robust effect of compatibility between objects affordance and response hand. Moreover, this compatibility improves participants' ability of discrimination, suggesting that motor components are relevant cue for memory judgement at the stage of retrieval in a recognition task. More broadly, our data highlight that memory judgements are a function of motor components mappings at the stage of retrieval.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a specific Independent Component Analysis (ICA) model for describing the extreme fluctuations of asset prices is introduced, stipulating that the distributions of the ICs are heavy tailed (i.e., with power law behavior at infinity).
Abstract: This paper is devoted to the application of the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) methodology to the problem of selecting portfolio strategies, so as to provide against extremal movements in financial markets. A specific ICA model for describing the extreme fluctuations of asset prices is introduced, stipulating that the distributions of the ICs are heavy tailed (i.e., with power law behavior at infinity). An inference method based on conditional maximum likelihood estimation is proposed for our model, which permits to determine practically optimal investment strategies with respect to extreme risk. Empirical studies based on this modeling are carried out to illustrate our approach.

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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202331
2022252
2021146
2020131
2019116
201896