23 research outputs found
Complexité d’une langue isolante : exemple du co-verbe en vietnamien
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Regulatory interaction in court-based resolution of inheritance disputes in Vietnam
No full textThere is considerable scholarly interest in understanding how state law interacts with non-state regulations in guiding disputes. Vietnam provides a useful case study, as its dispute resolution system is undergoing unprecedented change. Despite the introduction of modern law and state institutions, entrenched customs continue to shape the way people deal with and conceptualise social problems. This research investigates the complex interaction of law and customs in the courtroom by developing a detailed empirical study of inheritance litigation in Vietnam. Inheritance disputes are an important topic to study as they are central to family structures and provide glimpses into how dispute resolution is evolving in a rapidly changing society.
The study moves beyond the doctrinal approach to legal research, since no established legal doctrines governing cases exist in Vietnam. It draws on the interpretive tradition and embraces a social constructionism approach. This approach does not assume that law orders disputes; instead, law is treated as a locus of social contest and construction. The aim of this research is to unravel how inheritance law and customs compete and sometimes coordinate with each other to guide judicial resolutions.
The study uses systems theory and discourse analysis as an analytical framework. It draws insights from systems theory into how different regulatory systems, such as state law and social customs, co-exist, interact, and co-evolve with each other in ordering inheritance disputes. Discourse analysis is used as a methodological tool to evaluate how the main actors (judges, lawyers, disputants) in inheritance disputes communicate with each other.
The study examines courtroom discourse by looking into the regulatory preferences of the main actors. It also investigates how the organisational and epistemological structures of the Vietnamese civil justice system shape courtroom communication. The study finds that customs prevail over law in guiding inheritance disputes. Limited judicial power and the absence of legal fictions that might convert custom into law contribute to this outcome. Overall, law and customs are not co-evolving. Although regulatory hybridity emerges where both law and customs do not provide clear guidance, such hybridity does not generate broadly applicable norms. The courts resolve disputes on behalf of the state, but they neither enhance the law’s authority nor bring law and customs into a meaningful dialogue.
The study also identifies the weakness of institutions in promoting the co-evolution of inheritance law and customs. Legal education and lawyers’ associations are not functioning effectively because of both structural constraints and the boundaries set by the political-legal epistemology. Given these limitations, the study predicts that a tradition of legal reasoning that converts custom into law is unlikely to emerge in the Vietnamese civil justice system in the near future. Normative syncretism, rather than law, is more likely to fill the regulatory vacuum. For the broader society, the study suggests that inheritance law and customs will continue to co-exist instead of co-evolving
Enseignement des prépositions françaises aux apprenants vietnamiens : enjeux didactiques et traductionnels
No full textInternational audienceLa communication envisage le rôle et l’importance du sens dans l’acquisition des prépositions françaises par les apprenants vietnamophones du FLE
Enseignement des prépositions françaises aux apprenants vietnamiens : enjeux didactiques et traductionnels
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Representation learning of writing style
No full textInternational audienceIn this paper, we introduce a new method of representation learning that aims to embed documents in a stylometric space. Previous studies in the field of authorship analysis focused on feature engineering techniques in order to represent document styles and to enhance model performance in specific tasks. Instead, we directly embed documents in a stylometric space by relying on a reference set of authors and the intra-author consistency property which is one of two components in our definition of writing style. The main intuition of this paper is that we can define a general stylometric space from a set of reference authors such that, in this space, the coordinates of different documents will be close when the documents are by the same author, and spread away when they are by different authors, even for documents by authors who are not in the set of reference authors. The method we propose allows for the clustering of documents based on stylistic clues reflecting the authorship of documents. For the empirical validation of the method, we train a deep neural network model to predict authors of a large reference dataset consisting of news and blog articles. Albeit the learning process is supervised, it does not require a dedicated labeling of the data but it relies only on the metadata of the articles which are available in huge amounts. We evaluate the model on multiple datasets, on both the authorship clustering and the authorship attribution tasks
Organizational Culture Factors Affect Employees’ Organizational Commitment: A Research in Ho Chi Minh City Logistics Enterprises, Vietnam
No full textResearch aims: The research aims to evaluate several factors of organizational culture affecting the organizational commitment of employees in logistics enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).Design/Methodology/Approach: The data were collected based on a survey of respondents who were employees working at logistics enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City. The collected data, consisting of 227 survey questionnaires, were described through statistical analysis, checking Cronbach’s Alpha reliability assessment, employing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and testing the fit of the research model. Research findings: The results showcased that five components had a statistically significant impact on an employee’s organizational commitment, including (from high to low impact in order) consistency in governance policy, communication within the organization, training and development, rewards and recognition, and teamwork.Theoretical contribution/Originality: The study contributes to and supplements the array of organizational culture topics related to the commitment of employees at companies.Practitioner/Policy implication: The research contributes to the logistics companies' understanding of how to improve the organizational culture to maintain the loyalty of employees in the organization.Research limitation/Implication: The research limitation is that only Ho Chi Minh City logistics enterprises were chosen for the survey. However, there are many cities in Vietnam where logistics companies are located. Thus, the other research can be implemented in other regions in Vietnam and other countries for future studies
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE MAGNETIC IMMOBILIZATION TO DETERMINE PAPP-A IN HUMAN SERUM
No full textThe novel magnetic method used to immobilize the primary antibody in 96-well polystyrene plates was investigated to determine the pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), one of the most important protein markers in pregnancy. The optimal conditions for the immobilization are 20 μL magnetic nanoparticles (0.72 mg/mL), 2μL primary antibody (30 μg/mL) and one-step process. The total reaction time is 40 minutes 30 ºC. The calibration curve was established and the linear range shows upto 2090 mU/L. The LOQ and LOD are 7.2 and 24.0 mU/L, respectively. The reaction is non-specificity for other pregnancy hormones such as hCG and aFP even at a high level. The Passing & Bablok regression showed the linear relationship and the agreement between new and reference method, a = 1.00 (0.97 to 1.02), b = 22.07 (-73.10 to 117.24), R2 = 0.999, p<0.001. The Bland-Altman plot also showed the high concordant. The new method can be used to determine PAPP-A in the serum sample with mild conditions, simple and time-saving reaction, high sensitivity and selectivity and comparable results with the commercial method.The novel magnetic method used to immobilize the primary antibody in 96-well polystyrene plates was investigated to determine the pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), one of the most important protein markers in pregnancy. The optimal conditions for the immobilization are 20 μL magnetic nanoparticles (0.72 mg/mL), 2μL primary antibody (30 μg/mL) and one-step process. The total reaction time is 40 minutes 30 ºC. The calibration curve was established and the linear range shows upto 2090 mU/L. The LOQ and LOD are 7.2 and 24.0 mU/L, respectively. The reaction is non-specificity for other pregnancy hormones such as hCG and aFP even at a high level. The Passing & Bablok regression showed the linear relationship and the agreement between new and reference method, a = 1.00 (0.97 to 1.02), b = 22.07 (-73.10 to 117.24), R2 = 0.999, p<0.001. The Bland-Altman plot also showed the high concordant. The new method can be used to determine PAPP-A in the serum sample with mild conditions, simple and time-saving reaction, high sensitivity and selectivity and comparable results with the commercial method
Health and access to health services of rural-to-urban migrant populations in Viet Nam
No full textViet Nam has increasing internal migration since the Renovation (Doi Moi) in 1986. Migration flows – particularly rural-to-urban migration – have positive and negative effects to migrants, their family, and socio-economics in their places of origin and of destination. On the one hand, migration is an opportunity for improving wages of migrants, for ensuring economic security of their family, and for contributing to social and economic developments of the country. On the other hand, migration bears risks to migrants – especially health-related risks – and pressures on infrastructure development and social services at destinations. Many studies on health issues of migrants suggested that rural-to-urban migrants are more vulnerable to ill-health and have less access to health services than non-migrants. However, studies up to date did not use population-based and comparative approaches between migrant and non-migrant populations nor validated study tools. The studies of this dissertation examined the health status of non-migrants and 03 groups of rural-to-urban migrants: migrants working in industrial zones (IZ), migrants working in private small enterprise (PSE), and seasonal migrants. In addition, studies have assessed the access to health services and identified barriers to the access of migrants.
The dissertation used a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach in four subsequent study phases. Phase 1 analyzed secondary data from the 1989, 1999, and 2009 national censuses to characterize trends and patterns of rural-to-urban migration in Viet Nam. We could show that inter-provincial migration flows have changed dramatically over time. There was an increase in relative and absolute migration flows, an inversion of the male-female ratio with higher proportions of women in 2009 than in previous years, and a decrease in the average age of migrants. We could also confirm the relationship between migration and provincial socio-economic status (i.e. monthly income per capita) and urbanization (i.e. proportion of urban population). These findings reflect an unequally growing labor market in Vietnamese provinces. The increase of migration flows challenges the national health system to ensure access to health care services and health insurances, as well as to develop health services adapted to these populations.
In Phase 2 we have evaluated the health status of migrants by using the Short Form 36 version 2 (SF-36v2). The SF-36v2 is a validated and widely used health status assessment form. In this phase, we have also compared health status and the access to health services of migrants with those of non-migrants. Findings confirmed the reliability of the Vietnamese SF-36v2. Findings also showed that seasonal migrants were more likely to have physical ill-health than other groups, while migrants working in IZ were more likely to have mental ill-health than non-migrants and other migrant populations. Health insurance registration was an important factor related to the utilization of health care services and migrants were less likely to use health services than non-migrants in the same municipalities.
Among migrant populations, seasonal migrants had the lowest health service utilization frequency. Indeed, low income is the main obstacle of the utilization of health care services for seasonal migrants. The outcomes of this are that they pay less attention to their health, attend in available health programs at the destination, and are less health care insured. These, in return, encourage self-treatment of seasonal migrants.
Findings from Phase 1 and Phase 2 also showed that female migrants accounted for the highest proportion of the whole migrant population. They faced many health risks, particularly reproductive health of female migrants working in IZ. Phase 3, therefore, focused on the evaluation of access to health services for reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among female migrants working in IZ. Findings of this phase showed that health insurance was an important factor influencing the utilization of health services, but also social-cultural factors such as traditional norms – that integrate reproductive health problems with sexual relationship. The latter led to shame of female migrants to seek health services for RTIs and other reproductive health services. Finally, in Phase 4, we have designed an intervention proposal for improved utilization of reproductive health services for female migrants aged 18-49 working in IZ in Viet Nam. This intervention program will use available resources and should increase health insurance coverage and their application to reproductive health care services of female migrants. It also aims to increase knowledge of these health issues and possibilities of the access to health care services of female migrants.
Based on the findings of my dissertation, I could formulate recommendations for future interventions and research, for policy makers, health service providers at destination, employers of migrants, and migrants. Briefly, policy makers should recognize that migrants are vulnerable to ill-health, including both physical and mental health. For specific interventions such as reproductive health (e.g. RTIs) they are a priority group. Health service providers should integrate adapted health programs for migrants into their routine health programs, for example, periodic gynaecological examination programs, expanded program on immunization (EPI), and other health promotion programs – which better ensures sustainability of intervention programs. Employers should comply with laws of social and health insurance for employees, especially migrant employees. Moreover, they should strengthen the capacity of their health care units and collaborate with local health systems to provide health care services to migrant employees. Finally, migrants should register for temporary residence at the destination because this will provide them rights in accessing social and health services. Also, they should have knowledge about benefits of health insurance and available kinds of health insurances. Migrants should have better access to health promotion programs and pay more attention to their health
Trend Analysis of Maximum and Minimum Temperature in Can Tho City, Viet Nam
No full textCan Tho City is located in the middle of the Mekong Delta, where the effects of climate change have been and will continue to be considerable. According to climate change predictions, the city is one of five regions that could be affected. In this study, we conducted analysis of trends of Tmax and Tmin over 39 years using monthly temperature in Can Tho City. We employed a Box plot, Mann–Kendall test, and Sequential Trend Analysis (SMK). Tmax and Tmin increased for all 12 months from 1984 to 2022, with Sen’s slopes of 0.45°C/decade and 0.29°C/decade, respectively. Although Tmin shows a slower rate of increase than Tmax, the increase in Tmin indicates that the temperature in Can Tho has risen
