1,763 research outputs found
Role of Personality in Behavioral Responses to New Environments in Captive Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica)
No full textStudying personality in captive animals may enable the development of individual-based management decisions, which may improve animal welfare. Asiatic lions at London Zoo represent an opportunity to research an understudied species’ response to new environments since they have experienced social and physical changes, such as new enclosures and increased social interaction with humans. This project aimed to investigate the role of personality in behavioral responses to these changes. Lion personality questionnaires completed by keepers and direct focal animal observations were used to create personality profiles. Time budgets and enclosure use were determined and compared between control nights and event nights and between the lions’ previous enclosure and their new one. The results showed a lack of difference in time budget and enclosure use between control and social event nights, and the spread of participation index values revealed that the lions use their enclosures unevenly. Personality profiles identified various traits that could assist with individual-based management decisions. As the first study to assess Asiatic lions personality, this research contributes to the creation of consistent and valid methodology for evaluating captive animal personality that may improve husbandry and welfare protocols for individual lions, leading to the improved health and success of the species
Bilan socio-économique des pertes pour cause d’inondation de la rivière Saint-François
No full textWe are once again pleased to present an interesting article by our
collaborator Mr. Robert Viau. lt should be noted that the author takes
responsibility for the conclusions drawn in his study
Serge Tousignant : Ouragans, tempêtes matinales, lectures
No full textViau points to the suggestive nature of Tousignant's latest photographs by examining their relationship to intimacy and atmospheric phenomena. The author draws parallels between the artist's works, those of da Vinci and Turner, and a certain traditional pictorial practice. Biographical notes
Malherbe, Théophile de Viau, & Saint-Amant : a selection
No full textThis volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a modern reader. It is designed to fill the gap between scholarly complete editions and more general anthologies which are rarely able to devote much space to any one author. The present volume was prompted by the success that this poetry enjoyed with readers who were relative newcomers to French verse
Fernand Leduc
No full textViau provides a chronology retracing Leduc's activities from 1941 to 1968. Biographical notes. 8 bibl. ref
Jacques Hurtubise
No full textWhile considering Hurtubise's recent paintings, Viau unravels a reading of a work that draws on multiple traditions and exploits the motif of the labyrinth. Biographical notes
Author between "oeuvre" and "désoeuvrement" : Theophile de Viau until his trial
No full textCette thèse s’interroge sur la difficulté qu’on rencontre pour définir l’œuvre de Théophile de Viau (1590-1626). Ensemble disparate sur le plan formel et esthétique, l’œuvre semble pâtir de l’émergence tardive d’un auteur que le procès en libertinage a construit, pour une large part (1623-1625). L’étude menée ici consiste à aller au rebours d’une lecture qui ferait des écrits théophiliens un ensemble dirigé vers cette création artificielle d’un auteur. En prenant appui sur la production poétique antérieure au procès (circa. 1614-1623), cette thèse tente de définir le mouvement de dispersion apparemment contradictoire d’une trajectoire sociale, entraînée par le mouvement de ses publications, et celui d’une densification de l’écriture littéraire autour de pratiques saillantes. En effet, pour envisager les procédures réelles de l’œuvre de Théophile de Viau, pour en dégager les lignes de force et les points de rupture, le présent travail prend appui sur le concept de désœuvrement. Qu’il s’agisse des origines sociales et symboliques du poète, des tensions que soulève le service de plume, ou des ambiguïtés des positionnements littéraires du poète vis-à-vis de la culture de l’imitation et de la tradition rhétorique des lieux communs, tout porte à croire que l’identité poétique de Théophile de Viau s’est construite sur un mouvement paradoxal de dégagement à autrui effectué dans les lieux mêmes de l’altérité, au cœur de l’identité du poète.This thesis is concerned with the difficulty one encounters when trying to define the work of Theophile de Viau (1590-1626). The set of texts it consists in is heterogeneous both formally and aesthetically, and seems to suffer the late emergence of an author who was in a large part made by his trial for licentiousness. (1623-1625). My aim here is to go against the interpretation that considers theophelian writings as a unity directed towards the artificial creation of an author. By studying the poems written before the trial (around 1614-1623), this thesis aims at defining an apparently contradictory scattered social trajectory, led by the movement of his publications, as well as the densification of his literary writing around striking practices. Indeed, in order to consider the real processes at stake in Theophile de Viau’s work, in order to distinguish its lines of force and breaking points, the present study is based on the concept of désoeuvrement (deconstructing the concept of his oeuvre). Whether it be the social and symbolical origins of the poet, the tensions raised by his patronage, or the ambiguities of the literary positions of the poet regarding the culture of imitation and the rhetoric of common places, everything leads us to believe that Theophile de Viau’s poetic identity was built on a paradoxical movement of disengagement towards others carried out in the very places of otherness. Otherness is at the heart of the poet’s identity
Biomonitoring for occupational health risk assessment (BOHRA)
No full textBiological monitoring (BM or biomonitoring) deals with the assessment of individual human exposure, effect and susceptibility to occupational risk factors. It is a fundamental tool in occupational health risk assessment (OHRA) and occupational health practice (OHP) and it has become one of the most, if not the most active area in occupational health (OH) research today. From the few hundred BM papers published in the 80s, there are now several tens of thousand papers published in the peer review literature each year, and the trend is still rising exponentially. As a result, BM has become a priority for the Scientific Committee on Occupational Toxicology (SCOT) of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). Moreover, there has been a long-term interest in biological monitoring by other SCs of ICOH such as the Scientific Committees on Toxicology of Metals (SCTM) and on Rural Health (SCRH). Despite its current popularity, though, BM is not always correctly used or interpreted by those involved in OHRA or OHP. The present review has been prepared to fill this gap and to help preventing misuse and misinterpretation of data. Although the document is meant to be a reference primarily for those involved in OH research and/or practice, it might become of interest for a wider audience within and outside ICOH, including scientists, occupational physicians, industrial hygienists and occupational or public health professionals in general, involved in chemical risk assessment for occupational health. The mission of SCOT and also of other SCs of ICOH, such as SCTM and SCRH, is indeed to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge on biological monitoring and other relevant occupational toxicology aspects and to make them available and useful to the entire OH scientific community. All articles retrieved as of 3 January, 2007 as "Review" with the combined key words "biological monitoring" in PubMed from 2000 to 2007 have been scanned individually. This yielded a total of 1400 articles from a grand total of 2486 (excluding limitation on year of publication). When the title was related to human occupational biological monitoring, the abstract was read and its content was included. Articles outside the 2000-2007 time frame or that are not classified as "Review" in PubMed have also been included, when relevant. The review is in four parts: (a) the introduction, containing the basic principles and definitions of BM and the different types of biomarkers (BMK), their toxicological significance, practical use and limitations, (b) the methodological and analytical aspects of BM in exposed workers, (c) the interpretation and management of BM data, including a number of recommendations to be considered when planning, performing and interpreting BM results and, finally, (d) the ethical aspects of BM. A list of key references to relevant papers or documents has been included. The BM of specific chemicals or groups of chemicals is outside the purpose of the review. The document is aimed to represent the state of the art on biological monitoring in occupational risk assessment. We expect that reference to its content will be made, whenever appropriate, by those involved in occupational health practice and research when dealing with BM issues. The document is not meant, though, to represent a rigid nor a permanent set of rules and it will be periodically updated according to new developments and any significant advance in BM science. Any part of the document, therefore, is open to suggestions by scientifically qualified persons or institutions officially involved in BM and comments should be sent directly to the authors. A preliminary draft of the document has been presented at the 7th International Symposium on Biological Monitoring, Beijing, 10-12 September, 2007
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