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Raison et déraison de la loyauté familiale: un cas clinique

Le concept de loyauté appliquée à l'univers de la thérapie familiale est énormément tributaire de la pensée de Boszormenyi-Nagy. Il semble le placer dans un registre humaniste mais immanent. Si on se réfère à son origine étymologique, la loyauté implique l'obligation légale de tenir la parole donnée. Les enfants apprennent tôt à être loyaux. Leurs comportements réparateurs à l'égard des parents, même négligents ou violents, sont considérés comme l'expression d'une loyauté transmise. L'auteur s'interroge sur l'articulation entre une loyauté comme qualité morale du sujet qui choisit de se soumettre à la loi, à la parole donnée et un conditionnement obligé qui contraint le sujet à assumer des comportements « déraisonnables ». Les avancées de la neurobiologie permettent de répondre, tout au moins en partie, à une telle question. The concept of loyalty in the field of the family therapy is in debt to Boszormenyi-Nagy's work. According to his thought, loyalty commitment is the result of a humanistic but immanent believe. Etymologically, loyalty implies legal commitment to fulfill the promise. Children learn in their early years to be loyal. Reparations towards their parents, even if neglecting or violent, are considered the expression of a transmitted loyalty. The author questions the articulation between loyalty as a moral quality of the subject who chooses to accept the law and the given word, and a forced conditioning which brings the subject to adopt "un-reasonable" behaviors. Recent advances in neuroscience enable us to answer this question, at to some extent.

Modeling and mitigation of supply-demand mismatches

In this thesis, I develop analytical models to price the value of supply chain investments under demand uncer¬tainty. This thesis includes three self-contained papers. In the first paper, we investigate the value of lead-time reduction under the risk of sudden and abnormal changes in demand forecasts. We first consider the risk of a complete and permanent loss of demand. We then provide a more general jump-diffusion model, where we add a compound Poisson process to a constant-volatility demand process to explore the impact of sudden changes in demand forecasts on the value of lead-time reduction. We use an Edgeworth series expansion to divide the lead-time cost into that arising from constant instantaneous volatility, and that arising from the risk of jumps. We show that the value of lead-time reduction increases substantially in the intensity and/or the magnitude of jumps. In the second paper, we analyze the value of quantity flexibility in the presence of supply-chain dis- intermediation problems. We use the multiplicative martingale model and the "contracts as reference points" theory to capture both positive and negative effects of quantity flexibility for the downstream level in a supply chain. We show that lead-time reduction reduces both supply-chain disintermediation problems and supply- demand mismatches. We furthermore analyze the impact of the supplier's cost structure on the profitability of quantity-flexibility contracts. When the supplier's initial investment cost is relatively low, supply-chain disin¬termediation risk becomes less important, and hence the contract becomes more profitable for the retailer. We also find that the supply-chain efficiency increases substantially with the supplier's ability to disintermediate the chain when the initial investment cost is relatively high. In the third paper, we investigate the value of dual sourcing for the products with heavy-tailed demand distributions. We apply extreme-value theory and analyze the effects of tail heaviness of demand distribution on the optimal dual-sourcing strategy. We find that the effects of tail heaviness depend on the characteristics of demand and profit parameters. When both the profit margin of the product and the cost differential between the suppliers are relatively high, it is optimal to buffer the mismatch risk by increasing both the inventory level and the responsive capacity as demand uncertainty increases. In that case, however, both the optimal inventory level and the optimal responsive capacity decrease as the tail of demand becomes heavier. When the profit margin of the product is relatively high, and the cost differential between the suppliers is relatively low, it is optimal to buffer the mismatch risk by increasing the responsive capacity and reducing the inventory level as the demand uncertainty increases. In that case, how¬ever, it is optimal to buffer with more inventory and less capacity as the tail of demand becomes heavier. We also show that the optimal responsive capacity is higher for the products with heavier tails when the fill rate is extremely high.

Independencia y educación. Reflexiones en torno al Bicentenario

[spa]El trabajo que presentamos plantea una visión de la educación tras la llamada sublevación de los Pasquines que aparecieron en la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogotá en 1794. En el artículoanalizamos las propuestas quese ofrecieron por parte de lasautoridades coloniales para hacer frentea los problemasque afectaron al virreinato.Una de las soluciones propuestas para acabar con las opiniones adversas a la corona y al colonialismo pasaba por cambiar los sistemas educativos. Se pretendía volver al sistema anterior a la ilustración y a los nuevos filósofos ya que se temía que en España pasara lo que había sucedido en Francia. La Nueva Filosofía acabó cuestionando los derechos de la monarquía y el descontento social acabó con la vida del monarca y la proclamación de la república. Estas ideas pasaron a las colonias españolas donde algunos ilustrados comenzaban a pensar en repúblicas, poco definidas, cuestionando el orden monárquico. Para evitar el conflicto desde el arzobispado, y la Audiencia se propone acabar con los estudios de la Nueva Filosofía, cerrar las imprentas y la Biblioteca; así mismo, se propone intervenir en el catecismo de la doctrina para introducir preguntas y respuestas que refuercen el papel dela corona y la fidelidad de los súbditos. Este sistema de fidelización de súbditos será empleado posteriormente por las recientes repúblicas para incrementar el patriotismo entre los nuevos ciudadanos.