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Back to the Drawing Board: Reviving RAMSA's EuroDisney Narratives.
No full textpeer reviewedThe Walt Disney Company’s EuroDisney resort and hotels represent a distinctive strand of post-modernist architecture, where corporate storytelling and narrative design intersect. Understanding architects’ intents in this context is crucial for conservation debates, particularly when meaning is embedded in narrative rather than form alone. This paper argues that oral history should be approached not merely as testimonial supplement but as a methodological tool for retracing post-modernist narratives.
Within this framework, and drawing on Gérard Genette’s narratology, oral history operates at the narrative level where intentions are articulated and meaning structured. Using interviews with Robert A.M. Stern and his EuroDisney project leads, this study retraces the narratives behind the Newport Bay Club Hotel, Hotel Cheyenne, and Espace EuroDisney (1992), revealing how Stern’s firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), negotiated design ambitions with Disney’s corporate storytelling.
By “going back to the drawing board” with original designers, oral history supports conservation approaches that respect both narrative and form. If modern heritage values also lie in “essence” rather than only in “substance” (Allan, 2015), then post-modern heritage values may reside in its narrative ambitions, making these recovered stories essential for meaningful intervention
Usage des états affectifs des congénères pour palier aux changements environnementaux [Pre-print]
No full textpeer reviewedAs a result of human-induced environmental change, animals increasingly face challenges that differ from those encountered throughout their evolutionary history. Whilst this has caused dramatic declines for many species, some can persist by gathering information to reduce uncertainty, thereby minimising risks and exploiting new opportunities. The strategic use of social information can be particularly useful in enabling such uncertainty-reduction. Here, we argue that the behavioural and affective states of others provide vital social information for animals to guide evaluations of risks and opportunities. Specifically, attending and responding to indicators of others’ affective states through processes such as emotional contagion may facilitate information transmission. For instance, when exposed to a novel, ambiguous anthropogenic stimulus that could indicate either an opportunity or a threat, animals may use social information about others’ affective states to decide whether to approach or avoid the stimulus. To increase immediate and long-term benefits, individuals might also alter their social behaviour and information use flexibly based on critical early-life experiences, the socio-ecological context, or the behaviour and states of associates in the social network. Finally, given that an individual’s affective state can influence how it copes with changing environments and makes appropriate decisions, we argue that there is a need for greater synergy between animal welfare and conservation efforts. Bridging the gap between ensuring individual-level welfare and population-level resilience will be crucial for ethical policies to protect wild animals responsibly in the face of human-induced rapid environmental change
Financial protection in health care across the West African Economic and Monetary Union: a multidimensional analysis
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Validation of supercritical fluid chromatographic methods
No full textpeer reviewedMethod validation is the process of proving that an analytical method is acceptable for its intended purpose. The present chapter defines the validation criteria described in regulatory documents, especially focused on the ICH Q2(R2) and Q14 effective in 2024. Despite the abundance of guidelines, the conclusion about method validity remains confused. In this context, the state-of-the-art validation methodology named total error, or combined approach, is briefly explained as the methodology that should be followed for all method validations. Finally, a review of literature presents quantitative development and validation of supercritical fluid chromatography methods considering a wide range of applications and analytical fields
The impact of arabinose side chains on the swelling volume, water absorption, and thermal stability of peach gum polysaccharide
Full text linkpeer reviewedAiming to reveal the impact of side chains of peach gum polysaccharides (PGP) on its swelling ability, series PGP samples with different branching ratio (BR) (1.11–0.42) were prepared via α-L-arabinofuranosidase (10, 20, 40 μL) and trifluoroacetic acid (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 h) hydrolysis. Through characterization to the features of their branched structure, it showed that the debranched PGP samples retained the arabinogalactan body structure, presenting smaller MW, less extended molecular chains, and less cross-linking between PGP molecules. Methylation analysis indicated that enzymatic and short time acidic treatment mainly degraded the side chain of PGP, protecting the main chain from destruction. The swelling volume of PGP samples decreased from 0.43 cm3 to 0.08 cm3 with the decreasing BR. However, dynamic vapour sorption profiles revealed that the water absorption ability of PGP was not reduced with the degradation of side chains. This was explained by the changes of PGP network structure and improvement of thermal stability after debranching. This work provided novel knowledge for understanding “structure-property” relations of the arabinose side chains to the swelling properties of PGP.12. Responsible consumption and production3. Good health and well-bein
Life cycle assessment
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Générer les Vivants, Cartographie du concept de gène et de ses prétentions.
No full textComme discipline scientifique et outil technique, la génomique occupe aujourd’hui une place prépondérante dans les élevages. Que ce soit pour répondre aux enjeux climatiques ou aux problématiques de rentabilité agricoles, elle propose de compléter, orienter, voire corriger les choix de sélection réalisés dans les fermes, et ce à partir d’une représentation génétique des animaux qu’elle concourt à produire. À partir du cas de l’élevage bovin et plus particulièrement de celui de la race Bleu-Blanc-Belge, cette thèse vise à retracer de manière critique l’histoire du concept de gène. Le but étant de décrire et analyser les raisons du succès du gène comme capable, non seulement de dire la vie, mais aussi d’imprimer à son cours une direction. La thèse pose donc comme phénomène à explorer la capture, par la génétique/génomique, des manières de qualifier les vivants. En d’autres termes, elle vise à clarifier les effets d’une forme de « génétisation des savoirs sur la vie » (Holloway et al., 2009) sur les façons de penser la vie et de décrire les organismes à partir du cas des animaux d’élevage.
Par ailleurs, l’enjeu de ce travail est aussi de dépasser cette ‘génétisation des sciences du vivant’ en soulignant toutes les ambiguïtés inhérentes au concept de gène, et notamment celles logées dans son rapport à la matière et à sa réification comme ADN. La thèse cherche en ce sens à aboutir, pour en explorer les conséquences possibles, à la proposition d’une nouvelle conception du gène, plus proche de son sens étymologique tenant d’un acte de génération. Un gène par conséquent résolument écologique et processuel.The Body Societal: Unfolding Genomics Infrastructure in Cattle Livestock Selection and Reproductio
Commentaire sur l’interprétation de l’alinéa 2 de l’article 162 de la Constitution de la République démocratique du Congo à la lumière de l’Arrêt R. Const. 532 du 3 novembre 2017 de la Cour constitutionnelle
No full texteditorial reviewedCet article analyse l’interprétation de l’article 162, alinéa 2, de la Constitution de la République démocratique du Congo par la Cour constitutionnelle, qui s’est déclarée compétente dans l’Arrêt R. Const. 532 du 3 novembre 2017 pour contrôler tout acte réglementaire, y compris ceux pris sur habilitation législative. L’analyse montre que cette lecture élargie brouille la distinction entre le contrôle de constitutionnalité et le contrôle de légalité, empiétant ainsi sur les compétences du juge administratif. Seuls les actes réglementaires autonomes, directement fondés sur la Constitution, devraient relever du juge constitutionnel, tandis que les actes dérivés doivent demeurer soumis au contrôle de légalité. L’étude préconise une révision de la loi organique n° 13/026 du 15 octobre 2013 portant organisation et fonctionnement de la Cour constitutionnelle pour clarifier cette répartition et préserver l’équilibre entre les juridictions constitutionnelle et administrative.This article analyzes the Constitutional Court’s interpretation of Arti-cle 162, paragraph 2, of the Congolese Constitution, which declared itself com-petent in Judgment R. Const. 532 of November 3, 2017, to review all regula-tory acts, including those taken under legislative authority. The analysis shows that this broad interpretation blurs the distinction between constitutional review and legality review, thereby encroaching on the jurisdiction of the administra-tive judge. Only autonomous regulatory acts directly based on the Constitution should fall within the jurisdiction of the constitutional judge, while derivative acts must remain subject to legality review. The study recommends a revision of Organic Law No. 13/026 of October 15, 2013, on the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court to clarify this division and preserve the balance between constitutional and administrative courts