Étude longitudinale de l’impact de la satisfaction envers les avantages sociaux novateurs sur l’intention de rester chez les travailleurs du secteur des technologies de l’information et des communications

The objective of this thesis is to understand the impact of satisfaction with innovative benefits on the intention to stay of the information and communications technology industry (ICT) workers. In order to investigate this question, a general research hypothesis was presented based on a literature review and on Blau’s social exchange theory (1964) and Maslow’s theory of needs (1943). The general research hypothesis states that satisfaction with innovative benefits increases intention to stay through time. The data used in this thesis were collected as part of a larger research on the relationships between compensation, training and skills development and attracting and retaining key employees. The longitudinal data come from an office located in Montreal of a major international company from the ICT sector. The study population consists of workers newly hired between April 1st, 2009 and September 30th, 2010. The results confirm the research hypothesis showing that satisfaction with innovative benefits increase intention to stay through time. Among the various innovative benefits studied, the results indicate that it is the satisfaction with the gym at work that best predicts intention to stay of workers. Other innovative benefits significantly related to intention to stay are the games library, the lounge, the medical clinic and the library in the workplace. Also, longitudinal analyses reveal that it is mainly the differences between the individual characteristics of the employees who best explain intention to stay than the differences across time of the same worker. This thesis concludes by discussing the best way for industrial relations managers to use the results in order to retain their employees. Then, the limits of the study and some directions for further research are also presented.

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'ocean Pacifique : composée sur les journaux et les communications du Capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses Officiers, qui, en août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-trois, y ont fait naufrage sur l'antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes orientales /

La obra completa consta de dos volúmenes.

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'ocean Pacifique : composée sur les journaux et les communications du Capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses Officiers, qui, en août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-trois, y ont fait naufrage sur l'Antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes orientales /

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Zapiski Nauchno-issledovatelʹskogo instituta matematiki i mekhaniki i Kharʹkovskogo matematicheskogo obshchestva. Communications de l'Institut des sciences mathématiques et méchaniques de l'Université de Kharkoff et de la Sociéte mathématique de Kharkoff. Série 4.

Titles also in Russian, Ukrainian and French.

De la syphilisation et de la contagion des accidents secondaires de la syphilis : communications à l'Académie nationale de Médecine par MM. Ricord... [et al.], avec les communications de MM. Auzias-Turenne et C. Sperino à l'Académie des Sciences de Paris et à l'Académie de Médecine de Turin

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Manuel du tanneur, du corroyeur, de l'hongroyeur et du boyaudier : contenant tout les améliorations, perfectionnemens et découvertes que ces arts ont subis tant en France que dans létranger; rédigé d'aprés les communications, notes et documens de mm. Sallernon, Grouvelle, Duval, Dessables, Payen, Labarraque, etc. ... /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 27936.13.

Nouvelle relation de la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807, composée d'après les pièces du dépôt de la guerre, les communications des généraux français, et les écrits les plus estimés.

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In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1948 : American Communications Association, C.I.O., Joseph P. Selly, etc., et al., appelants v. Charles T. Douds, individually and as regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, second region, on appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York : brief for appellee.

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Experimental evaluation of the performance of 2×2 MIMO-OFDM for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

In this paper, a novel 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) testbed based on an Analog Devices AD9361 highly integrated radio frequency (RF) agile transceiver was specifically implemented for the purpose of estimating and analyzing MIMO-OFDM channel capacity in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) environments using the 920 MHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. We implemented two-dimensional discrete cosine transform-based filtering to reduce the channel estimation errors and show its effectiveness on our measurement results. We have also analyzed the effects of channel estimation error on the MIMO channel capacity by simulation. Three different scenarios of subcarrier spacing were investigated which correspond to IEEE 802.11p, Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T)(2k) standards. An extensive MIMO-OFDM V2I channel measurement campaign was performed in a suburban environment. Analysis of the measured MIMO channel capacity results as a function of the transmitter-to-receiver (TX-RX) separation distance up to 250 m shows that the variance of the MIMO channel capacity is larger for the near-range line-of-sight (LOS) scenarios than for the long-range non-LOS cases, using a fixed receiver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion. We observed that the largest capacity values were achieved at LOS propagation despite the common assumption of a degenerated MIMO channel in LOS. We consider that this is due to the large angular spacing between MIMO subchannels which occurs when the receiver vehicle rooftop antennas pass by the fixed transmitter antennas at close range, causing MIMO subchannels to be orthogonal. In addition, analysis on the effects of different subcarrier spacings on MIMO-OFDM channel capacity showed negligible differences in mean channel capacity for the subcarrier spacing range investigated. Measured channels described in this paper are available on request.

Les TIC en information et orientation professionnelles un soutien au developpement de compétences transversales

À l'instar de la Réforme de l'éducation qui a lieu actuellement au Québec, deux éléments viennent alimenter le but et la raison d'être de cette recherche: l'abandon des cours de choix de carrière dans la grille-matière et le développement des compétences informatiques. Ces deux éléments relèvent des compétences transversales devant être construites par l'élève. L'objectif de cette recherche était de cerner l'efficacité du recours à des environnements informatiques en tant qu'outils de construction de compétences spécifiques et ainsi proposer aux jeunes une nouvelle méthode pour acquérir leur autonomie vocationnelle. L'échantillon était composé d'élèves de quatrième et cinquième secondaire. Suite aux traitements des données et aux analyses du discours des élèves, nos résultats démontrent comment les participants ont atteint certaines compétences transversales d'ordre méthodologiques et intellectuelles salutaires à leur choix de carrière. L'apport des technologies de l'information et des communications a été démontré et des pistes de recherches subséquentes ont été suggérées.

Non-uniform microstrip antenna array for RX DSRC communications

The urgent need to mitigate traffic problems such as accidents, road hazards, pollution and traffic jam have strongly driven the development of vehicular communications. DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) is the technology of choice in vehicular communications, enabling real time information exchange among vehicles V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) and between vehicles and infrastructure V2I (Vehicle-Infrastructure). This paper presents a receiving antenna for a single lane DSRC control unit. The antenna is a non-uniform array with five microstrip patches. The obtained beam width, bandwidth and circular polarization quality, among other characteristics, are compatible with the DSRC standards, making this antenna suitable for this application. © 2014 IEEE.

Printed nonuniform antenna array for WI-FI sectorized communications

Wireless networks have joined to the sports venues, offering to the public a set of facilities, such as the access to email, news, and also to use the social networking, uploading their photos. New challenges have emerged to provide Wi-Fi in this densely populated stadiums, such as increasing capacity and coverage. In this article, an access point antenna array to cover a sector of a stadium is presented. Its structure, designed in a low cost material allows to reduce the total manufacturing costs, an important factor due to the large number of antennas required in these venues. The material characteristic, the broad bandwidth of operation (300 MHz), along with to the low side lobe levels, important to reduce interference between sectors, makes this antenna well-positioned for wireless communications in these particular locals. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:2037-2041, 2015.