798 research outputs found
Lise Boisseau, Michel Daigneault, David Urban : Dialogue(s)
No full textThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition by three artists whose practices question abstract painting. In his formal and pictorial analysis of the works, author Lussier underlines how the term “abstract paintings” (in the plural) is more appropriate for describing the genre today. Beaudoin adopts the viewer’s perspective and claims that painting remains relevant and innovative despite the rise of new media practices. Texts in French and English. Bio-bibliographies of the artists; list of works. 5 bibl. ref
A proposal for a study of motive processing
No full textThis was a contribution to the Cognition and Affect project that led to the Ph.D. thesis of the first author (Luc P. Beaudoin). This paper was mostly written by the first author, although it is based on and develops ideas of the second author. The nursemaid scenario was first described by the second author (Sloman, 1986). The first author was in the process of implementing the model described in the paper.Thanks to Aluizio Arujo, Peter Greenfield, Inman Harvey, Tim Read, Edmund Shing, Sharon Wood, and Shiu Yuen for reading and commenting on drafts. The first author was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom, and FCAR of Quebec
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
CASTING Contradictive LANDSCAPES: a thesis by sarah catherine beaudoin
No full textThis thesis aims to bring functionally obsolescent architectural elements to the forefront of design analysis, in the pursuit of architectural character over typology. The analysis is not of buildings, but rather how their recognizable ordinary elements can adopt alternate personalities, identities, and attitudes to the landscapes in which they inhabit.
Here, the understanding of what it means to be “ordinary” is critical. The ordinary is always leftover, comedown, fallen. In this, it is seen that we do not remember ordinary typologies, but rather the everyday features and characters that make up their compositions. This thesis seeks to draw on this idea of legibility through the use of projective character.
In this Thesis Prep analysis the author argues for characters with the contradictory qualities, claiming obsolescence is merely a call for the employment of character mis-calibrations.With this in mind, the research focuses on the chimney: a globally recognized architectural element on the verge of functional obsolescence. Here the research aims to propose a fictional landscape composed of projective characters, arguing that the formal and didactic qualities of the architectural chimney promote new and contradictory narratives, with the power to assert their familiar image across novel visual landscapes. Thus, the overarching goal of this thesis is to create a new conversation in what it means to preserve or reframe a visual architectural landscape of obsolescence
La réforme des institutions centrales. Quelques jalons
No full text« In this article the author envisages and studies the reform of the Senate, of the House of Commons and of the Supreme Court of Canada ; the function of the Governor General is also considered. A suggestion is made for introducing a system of mitigated proportional representation in the House of Commons, as proposed by the Pepin-Robarts report of January 1979. The authors analyses the advantages and disadvantages of an elected Senate, of a Senate whose members are appointed by the federal government or by the federal and provincial governments, of a second House which would constitute a House of the Provinces ; the author is aganist an equal representation of the provinces in the Senate. Professor Beaudoin favours a specialized constitutional Court of Canada, although he considers that such a reform is very unlikely to happen ; however, he adds that in any case, the Supreme Court is de facto a constitutional court to a certain extent. He recommends that the principle of dualism be more visible. Finally, the author describes how the function of Governor General has evolved since 1926, and outlines the role that the Governor General may play in normal and anormal times.
Identification of Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) at the Nelson District Rod and Gun Club’s Feeding Station, Kootenay Pass, British Columbia
No full textRecreation, Fish and WildlifeWildlife identification is a requirement for multiple wildlife studies. The majority of identification methods used is invasive. Invasive identification methods can cause excessive stress and injury to the animal. Photo identification has been used as a non-invasive wildlife identification method. We tested the reliability of photo identification on a population of rocky mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) at the Nelson District Rod and Gun Club’s feeding station located on the Kootenay Pass. These bighorn sheep are habituated to humans, which makes it easy to take photographs. Last season (2018/2019) students from Recreation Fish and Wildlife at Selkirk College studied the bighorn sheep at the same feeding station and determined that photo identification works well short term. We took photographs of the sheep in the
2019/2020 season, and matched them with the photographs taken in the 2018/2019 season to determine if photo identification is a reliable method for long term studies. With the photographs from both seasons we studied the population dynamics of the herd too. There were 18 different sheep identified in the 2018/2019 season and 14 in the 2019/2020 season. Six of the bighorn sheep photographs from 2019/2020 were confidently identified with photographs from
2018/2019 (33% of 2019/2020’s sheep). Because these sheep usually return to the feeding station season after season, these results indicate that photo identification is not a reliable method for long term studies. The population dynamics were quite similar between seasons. These sheep do not behave like a wild unhabituated herd, but there were some similarities, like their migration pattern. Photo identification works well short term with habituated bighorn sheep, but it will be a challenge to make it work for a long term study and/or in the wild
SJU Class of 2004 Commencement Celebration
No full textMay 9, 2004 One-Hundred Forty-Seventh Year
Abbey & University ChurchSaint John\u27s University Mr. Thomas Beaudoin was the guest speaker and Michael Marschel was the student speaker
The Bougrine Zn-Pb deposit, the largest salt diapir-related Mississippi Valley-type deposit in the Eastern Maghreb salt diapir province, Tunisia
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Je te dégoûte comme un souvenir d'enfance ; suivi de Hiatus : l’espace abstrait dans Comment nous sommes nés de Carole David
No full textMémoire en recherche-créationJe te dégoûte comme un souvenir d’enfance est un recueil de poésie qui explore l’incarnation trouble de sa sujet dans le monde du capitalisme hégémonique. Ce monde, tantôt inhospitalier tantôt serein en apparence, l’atteint par les yeux. Puis, il s’inscrit dans la matérialité du reste de son corps à la fois réceptif et tendu. Son rapport physique et psychologique à la sexualité ouvre une fenêtre sur la possibilité de résonance avec autrui, une connexion partielle et momentanée. Pourtant, l’être-au-monde, aussi complexe et épanouissant puisse-t-il potentiellement être, est ankylosé par l’impératif de la mort qui impose une fin à son expérience. L’essai s’intéresse, conjointement à la création, à l’aliénation des sujets poétiques qui naviguent dans les espaces déliquescents de l’Amérique néo-libérale dans Comment nous sommes nés de Carole David. Il lit ces lieux par le prisme du paysage subjectif (Collot, 2005) et de l’américanité littéraire, expérience continentale intime et angoissante (Nepveu, 1998 ; Lapierre, 1995). Produits sociaux éminemment politiques, ces lieux du poème, espaces abstraits (Lefebvre, 1974), s’y révèlent comme des instruments à la pensée et au pouvoir dans la production d’un champ spatial aliénant. Surplombés par le spectre de l’apocalypse, les poèmes de Comment nous sommes nés enchevêtrent la vie et la mort. Ils dépeignent de manière lucide un univers composite dans lequel l’exceptionnalisme humain laisse place aux dialogues entre espèces. Les espaces sympoïétiques (Haraway, 2020) du recueil m’apparaissent enfin comme tentaculaires, entrelacés.I repel you like a childhood memory is a collection of poetry that explores the troubled incarnation of its subject in the world of hegemonic capitalism. This world, sometimes inhospitable sometimes serene in appearance, passes through her eyes first. Then, it is inscribed in the materiality of his body both receptive and tense. Her physical and psychological relationship to sexuality opens a window on the possibility of resonance with others, a partial and momentary connection. Yet the being-in-the-world, however complex and fulfilling it may be, is stifled by the imperative of death that imposes an end to its experience. The essay is jointly concerned with the creation and alienation of poetic subjects navigating the deliquescent spaces of neo-liberal America in Comment nous sommes nés by Carole David. It reads these places through the prism of subjective landscape (Collot, 2005) and literary Americanity, an intimate and agonizing continental experience (Nepveu, 1998; Lapierre, 1995). These places of the poem, abstract spaces (Lefebvre, 1974), reveal themselves as instruments of thought and power in the production of an alienating space field. Overlooked by the spectrum of apocalypse, the poems of Comment nous sommes nés tangle life and death. They lucidly depict a composite universe in which human exceptionalism gives way to dialogues between species. The spaces of sympoiesis (Haraway, 2020) of the collection appear in the end as sprawling, interlaced
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