La pratique de l'orientation dans les organisations: un champ d'intervention à développer pour les conseillères et les conseillers d'orientation

Nous voilà rendus à l'aube du troisième millénaire. Que de changements se sont produits depuis la révolution industrielle. Selon plusieurs auteurs cités par Defrenne et Delvaux (1990), nous sommes maintenant arrivés à la société postindustrielle que certains appellent la société super-industrielle, la post-civilisation, la société technétronique, la société technicisée et, pour Defrenne et Delvaux (1990), il s'agit de la société de l'incertitude. Pour eux, elle est une réplique du chaos planétaire où l'organisation se fait, se défait et se refait, jamais tout à fait semblable. Il nous apparaît important de définir ce que nous entendons par "organisation". Il s'agit d'un «groupement, association en général d'une certaine ampleur, qui se propose des buts déterminés» (Dictionnaire Petit Larousse, 1993) comme les organisations privées, publiques et para-publiques. Dans les organisations, ce véritable chaos se traduit par des processus de restructuration où l'on accorde souvent davantage d'importance à l'organisation et ses structures, et ce au détriment des individus qui y travaillent. Il en résulte une perte du potentiel des travailleurs, ce qui occasionne un déficit au plan des ressources humaines dont on ne soupçonne pas les conséquences pour l'organisation et les individus. Les propos qu'entretiennent les deux auteurs sont assez éloquents à ce sujet: «Les points de repères disparaissent sans être remplacés par d'autres, imprévus et imprévisibles, ils s'avèrent impuissants à faire face au changement, dont les composantes non gérées deviennent synonymes de facteurs de désordre. C'est pourquoi l'univers professionnel et la vulnérabilité des travailleurs reproduisent la fragilité de l'organisation. Ce désordre se traduit à l'intérieur des entreprises par des vécus désadaptatifs et des conduites dysfonctionnelles, de tous genres au travail. Ils entraînent des coûts psychologiques, sociaux, financiers et économiques importants. Ils peuvent aller jusqu'à ruiner les politiques, les stratégies et détruire l'image de l'organisation. À l'extérieur, les faits divers rapportent des incidents qui témoignent de fautes de gestion ou de spéculations douteuses, dévoilent les carences en matière d'intervention efficace, placent l'ensemble des entreprises dans un environnement mouvant et mutant par rapport auquel elles sont sommées de se réajuster perpétuellement.» (Defrenne et Delvaux 1990, p. 23) Cette société de l'incertitude, que nous décrivent ces deux auteurs, n'est pas sans conséquences pour les différents acteurs des organisations face à de futurs scénarios multiples, irréversibles et imprévisibles, engendrant des coûts dont on ne peut soupçonner l'ampleur. Devant de tels changements, la plupart des travailleurs vivront des transitions au cours de leur vie personnelle et professionnelle. Le conseiller d'orientation, un travailleur faisant partie de ce monde en mutation, est lui aussi touché. Il voit sa pratique se modifier, ses champs d'intervention traditionnelle se transforment peu à peu et d'autres commencent à s'ouvrir. À la différence de bien des travailleurs, le conseiller d'orientation possède des compétences et des connaissances qui lui seront très utiles dans un tel contexte de changement. En outre, il pourra les mettre au service des organisations aux prises avec de nouveaux besoins organisationnels engendrés par la société postindustrielle. Comme il devient impératif de tenir compte de plus en plus des besoins de l'individu dans une nouvelle gestion des ressources humaines, on ne doit pas seulement gérer les effectifs mais l'on doit également les développer et les mobiliser autour d'objectifs communs que sont ceux de l'organisation et des individus. Pour en arriver à mobiliser les travailleurs et les gestionnaires autour d'une même vision de l'organisation, certaines pratiques dans la gestion des ressources humaines doivent être renouvelées et appuyées par des programmes de développement de carrière, de formation de la main-d'oeuvre, d'aide aux transitions personnelles et professionnelles et par le développement des politiques de gestion des ressources humaines. Un grand défi demeure pour les organisations: comment faire face à de tels changements qui affectent à la fois la culture de l'organisation, les politiques, les méthodes de travail, les relations entre les travailleurs et le personnel cadre. Tout se bouscule pour eux à une vitesse qui est hors de contrôle, d'où l'importance pour les dirigeants de s'ouvrir à de nouvelles formes de gestion et de s'entourer de professionnels spécialisés dans les problématiques de l'individu au travail. La présente étude vise à tracer le portrait de la situation actuelle au Québec concernant la pratique des conseillers d'orientation dans les organisations. Ce document se divise en trois parties. Dans un premier temps, vous prendrez connaissance au chapitre 1 de la problématique dans laquelle vous retrouverez des informations concernant l'historique et l'évolution de la profession de conseiller d'orientation au coeur des transformations du marché du travail. Au chapitre 2, nous abordons la méthodologie utilisée pour la réalisation de cette enquête. Au chapitre 3, nous terminons enfin par l'analyse des résultats et l'interprétation. Cette consultation menée auprès des conseillers pratiquant dans les organisations, à titre soit d'employé, soit de consultant, nous a permis de recueillir plusieurs données concernant leurs caractéristiques, leurs pratiques et leurs besoins. Pour terminer, nous vous faisons part de nos conclusions.

O riso em Bufólicas: o incompossível se fez ordem

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo a análise da obra Bufólicas, da escritora Hilda Hilst. Por intermédio do emblema dos contos de fadas, a escritora constrói sete poesias que narram a passagem da vida das personagens de cunho feérico. Observa-se que nelas surge uma visão de mundo peculiar, suscitando um riso multifacetado, demiúrgico, criador, existencial, de modo a zombar dos valores primordiais cultuados pela sociedade ocidental contemporânea. Assim, analisaremos as personagens com base na descrição de suas características marcantes, as quais são pautadas pela obscenidade, tendência à caricatura e tons de risibilidade. Tais características rompem com paradigmas na medida em que reinventam as histórias canônicas que fazem parte do imaginário ocidental. Esse estudo estrutura-se em três planos: no primeiro deles, a poeta é apresentada conjuntamente com a peculiaridade de sua obra, enfatizando-se os momentos mais representativos de sua escrita. A seguir, faremos a análise das obras que tratam do riso. Ao evocar os conceitos que remetem ao riso de zombaria, definido por Vladímir Propp e a comicidade carnavalizada, teorizada por Mikhail Bakhitin, a intenção é a de demonstrar a sua inter-relação assim como a complementaridade. E por fim, adentraremos no mundo de Bufólicas, de forma a investigar a leitura paródica elaborada pela autora, que expulsa a linguagem do seu espaço celestial e instaura o caos, com suas múltiplas possibilidades de leitura nas tessituras cômico-sérias.

Entropy feature extraction of EEG signals for automatic person identification

The use of human brain electroencephalography (EEG) signals for automatic person identi cation has been investigated for a decade. It has been found that the performance of an EEG-based person identication system highly depends on what feature to be extracted from multi-channel EEG signals. Linear methods such as Power Spectral Density and Autoregressive Model have been used to extract EEG features. However these methods assumed that EEG signals are stationary. In fact, EEG signals are complex, non-linear, non-stationary, and random in nature. In addition, other factors such as brain condition or human characteristics may have impacts on the performance, however these factors have not been investigated and evaluated in previous studies. It has been found in the literature that entropy is used to measure the randomness of non-linear time series data. Entropy is also used to measure the level of chaos of braincomputer interface systems. Therefore, this thesis proposes to study the role of entropy in non-linear analysis of EEG signals to discover new features for EEG-based person identi- cation. Five dierent entropy methods including Shannon Entropy, Approximate Entropy, Sample Entropy, Spectral Entropy, and Conditional Entropy have been proposed to extract entropy features that are used to evaluate the performance of EEG-based person identication systems and the impacts of epilepsy, alcohol, age and gender characteristics on these systems. Experiments were performed on the Australian EEG and Alcoholism datasets. Experimental results have shown that, in most cases, the proposed entropy features yield very fast person identication, yet with compatible accuracy because the feature dimension is low. In real life security operation, timely response is critical. The experimental results have also shown that epilepsy, alcohol, age and gender characteristics have impacts on the EEG-based person identication systems.

Grupo Tá na Rua – do caos ao método

Dissertação submetida à Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teatro - especialização em Teatro e Comunidade

Poéticas ficcionais e percursos imaginários em City of glass de Paul Auster

Nas três narrativas que constituem The New York Trilogy – City of Glass, Ghosts e The Locked Room – Paul Auster emprega e desconstrói os elementos convencionais do romance policial, elaborando uma investigação recorrente da natureza, função e significado da linguagem, mas também da solidão, do encerramento e da problemática da identidade. A produção narrativa de Auster evoca fantasmas logocêntricos tradicionais (como a presença, a realidade e a verdade), que fazem eco do princípio de indissolubilidade entre palavra e significado, apenas para lograr esta identidade através de uma orientação textual para a marcação da ficcionalidade e consequente reforço dos efeitos de significação ilusórios. Auster altera os mecanismos logrando as expectativas do leitor em relação ao epílogo e à transparência textual, que um pacto mimético faria pressupor. O espaço vazio resultante confere ao texto uma liberdade plurissignificativa que dispersa todas as certezas e veicula o poder da criação do caos. Sob a aparência de fluência narrativa, a escrita de Paul Auster esconde uma subversão das premissas básicas da literatura realista e dos signos referenciais, numa poética auto-reflexiva ficcionalizada sobre a estruturação de universos imaginários.

Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was in the throes of immense social, political and cultural upheaval. The effects of rapid industrialization, rising capitalism and urbanization, as well as the trauma wrought by revolution and war, reverberated through all levels of society and every cultural sphere. In the aftermath of the 1905 revolution, amid a growing sense of panic over the chaos and divisions emerging in modern life, a portion of Russian educated society (obshchestvennost’) looked to the transformative and unifying power of music as a means of salvation from the personal, social and intellectual divisions of the contemporary world. Transcending professional divisions, these “orphans of Nietzsche” comprised a distinct aesthetic group within educated Russian society. While lacking a common political, religious or national outlook, these philosophers, poets, musicians and other educated members of the upper and middle strata were bound together by their shared image of music’s unifying power, itself built upon a synthesis of Russian and European ideas. They yearned for a “musical Orpheus,” a composer capable of restoring wholeness to society through his music. My dissertation is a study in what I call “musical metaphysics,” an examination of the creation, development, crisis and ultimate failure of this Orphic worldview. To begin, I examine the institutional foundations of musical life in late Imperial Russia, as well as the explosion of cultural life in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution, a vibrant social context which nourished the formation of musical metaphysics. From here, I assess the intellectual basis upon which musical metaphysics rested: central concepts (music, life-transformation, theurgy, unity, genius, nation), as well as the philosophical heritage of Nietzsche and the Christian thinkers Vladimir Solov’ev, Aleksei Khomiakov, Ivan Kireevskii and Lev Tolstoi. Nietzsche’s orphans’ struggle to reconcile an amoral view of reality with a deeply felt sense of religious purpose gave rise to neo-Slavophile interpretations of history, in which the Russian nation (narod) was singled out as the savior of humanity from the materialism of modern life. This nationalizing tendency existed uneasily within the framework of the multi-ethnic empire. From broad social and cultural trends, I turn to detailed analysis of three of Moscow’s most admired contemporary composers, whose individual creative voices intersected with broader social concerns. The music of Aleksandr Scriabin (1871-1915) was associated with images of universal historical progress. Nikolai Medtner (1879-1951) embodied an “Imperial” worldview, in which musical style was imbued with an eternal significance which transcended the divisions of nation. The compositions of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) were seen as the expression of a Russian “national” voice. Heightened nationalist sentiment and the impact of the Great War spelled the doom of this musical worldview. Music became an increasingly nationalized sphere within which earlier, Imperial definitions of belonging grew ever more problematic. As the Germanic heritage upon which their vision was partially based came under attack, Nietzsche’s orphans found themselves ever more divided and alienated from society as a whole. Music’s inability to physically transform the world ultimately came to symbolize the failure of Russia’s educated strata to effectively deal with the pressures of a modernizing society. In the aftermath of the 1917 revolutions, music was transformed from a symbol of active, unifying power into a space of memory, a means of commemorating, reinterpreting, and idealizing the lost world of Imperial Russia itself.

Jaka wizja edukacji wyłania się z transhumanistycznego chaosu?

Transhumanism is a philosophy whose essence is to use technology to overcome biological limitations of the man and improve the human condition. This overcoming and improvement are understood as freeing the man from illnesses, ageing processes, and achieving the state of full happiness, permanent, top excitement, as well as replacing many organs (and the entire body at some point) with artificial elements (better than the original ones). Transhumanism calls for maximum development and popularization of technology so that the above-mentioned full overcoming and human improvement could occur as soon as possible. This paper presents basic transhumanism ideas, stress the vision of education created within this philosophy and shows transhumanist projects (Clouds over Sidra, Eyeborg, VEST and BrainGate) that can transform education.

Teolog fundamentalny wobec ataku Przypadku, Nieokreśloności, Prawdopodobieństwa, Dwuznaczności, Wieloznaczności?

Postmodernizm prezentuje postawę akceptacji Nieładu, Chaosu i Przypadku. Czy istnieje moż- liwość dialogu z taką postawą? Postmodernizm powstaje jako bunt na pograniczu filozofii i estetyki. Kontestuje zastany Ład. Sprzeciwia się kartezjańskiemu Cogito ergo sum oraz podziałowi na res cogitans i res extensa. Jest to ruch kulturowy, który nie ma jeszcze swojego ostatecznego wyrazu. Jest on ciągle postrzegany jako proces przechodzenia od starego do nowego Ładu. Taki brak dookreślenia budzi niepokój i sprzeciw. Teologia fundamentalna jest badaniem granic i dialogu. Stoi na progu, więc ma obowiązek rozeznać ludzki niepokój w akceptacji otaczającego świata. Musimy zapytać, dlaczego człowiek akceptuje ten Nieład?

Trajectory prediction uncertainty modelling for Air Traffic Management

The anticipated growth of air traffic worldwide requires enhanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) technologies and procedures to increase the system capacity, efficiency, and resilience, while reducing environmental impact and maintaining operational safety. To deal with these challenges, new automation and information exchange capabilities are being developed through different modernisation initiatives toward a new global operational concept called Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), in which aircraft trajectory information becomes the cornerstone of advanced ATM applications. This transformation will lead to higher levels of system complexity requiring enhanced Decision Support Tools (DST) to aid humans in the decision making processes. These will rely on accurate predicted aircraft trajectories, provided by advanced Trajectory Predictors (TP). The trajectory prediction process is subject to stochastic effects that introduce uncertainty into the predictions. Regardless of the assumptions that define the aircraft motion model underpinning the TP, deviations between predicted and actual trajectories are unavoidable. This thesis proposes an innovative method to characterise the uncertainty associated with a trajectory prediction based on the mathematical theory of Polynomial Chaos Expansions (PCE). Assuming univariate PCEs of the trajectory prediction inputs, the method describes how to generate multivariate PCEs of the prediction outputs that quantify their associated uncertainty. Arbitrary PCE (aPCE) was chosen because it allows a higher degree of flexibility to model input uncertainty. The obtained polynomial description can be used in subsequent prediction sensitivity analyses thanks to the relationship between polynomial coefficients and Sobol indices. The Sobol indices enable ranking the input parameters according to their influence on trajectory prediction uncertainty. The applicability of the aPCE-based uncertainty quantification detailed herein is analysed through a study case. This study case represents a typical aircraft trajectory prediction problem in ATM, in which uncertain parameters regarding aircraft performance, aircraft intent description, weather forecast, and initial conditions are considered simultaneously. Numerical results are compared to those obtained from a Monte Carlo simulation, demonstrating the advantages of the proposed method. The thesis includes two examples of DSTs (Demand and Capacity Balancing tool, and Arrival Manager) to illustrate the potential benefits of exploiting the proposed uncertainty quantification method.

Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay

The introduction of delays into ordinary or partial differential equation models is well known to facilitate the production of rich dynamics ranging from periodic solutions through to spatio-temporal chaos. In this paper we consider a class of scalar partial differential equations with a delayed threshold nonlinearity which admits exact solutions for equilibria, periodic orbits and travelling waves. Importantly we show how the spectra of periodic and travelling wave solutions can be determined in terms of the zeros of a complex analytic function. Using this as a computational tool to determine stability we show that delays can have very different effects on threshold systems with negative as opposed to positive feedback. Direct numerical simulations are used to confirm our bifurcation analysis, and to probe some of the rich behaviour possible for mixed feedback.

Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: active soma and compartmental tree

Understanding the mode-locked response of excitable systems to periodic forcing has important applications in neuroscience. For example it is known that spatially extended place cells in the hippocampus are driven by the theta rhythm to generate a code conveying information about spatial location. Thus it is important to explore the role of neuronal dendrites in generating the response to periodic current injection. In this paper we pursue this using a compartmental model, with linear dynamics for each compartment, coupled to an active soma model that generates action potentials. By working with the piece-wise linear McKean model for the soma we show how the response of the whole neuron model (soma and dendrites) can be written in closed form. We exploit this to construct a stroboscopic map describing the response of the spatially extended model to periodic forcing. A linear stability analysis of this map, together with a careful treatment of the non-differentiability of the soma model, allows us to construct the Arnol'd tongue structure for 1:q states (one action potential for q cycles of forcing). Importantly we show how the presence of quasi-active membrane in the dendrites can influence the shape of tongues. Direct numerical simulations confirm our theory and further indicate that resonant dendritic membrane can enlarge the windows in parameter space for chaotic behavior. These simulations also show that the spatially extended neuron model responds differently to global as opposed to point forcing. In the former case spatio-temporal patterns of activity within an Arnol'd tongue are standing waves, whilst in the latter they are traveling waves.

Random matrix theory eta aplikazioa kaos kuantikoan

[eus] Gradu amaierako lan honetan ausazko matrizeen teoriari, RMT-ri, buruzko sarrera orokor bat egiten da ondoren aplikazio fisiko bat emateko. Teoriaren aplikazioa egiteko Kaos kuantikoa deritzon fisikaren arloa erabiliko da. Lehenik eta behin, RMT-ren kontzeptu batzuk azalduko dira helburutzat lehen auzokideen distantziaren distribuzioaren espresio lortzea izanik. Izan ere, distribuzio honek erakutsiko baititu Kaosak kuantikoki uzten dituen aztarnak. Bigarren kapituluan, aplikazio fisikoa azalduko da. Lehenengo Kaosean RMT nola aplikatzen den ikusiko da, ondoren adibide batzuen bidez argituz, eremu magnetiko batean dagoen hidrogeno atomoa eta billar kuantikoak izenarekin ezagutzen diren sistemak, batik bat.

Towards a predictive model of Ca²⁺ puffs

We investigate key characteristics of Ca²⁺ puffs in deterministic and stochastic frameworks that all incorporate the cellular morphology of IP[subscript]3 receptor channel clusters. In a first step, we numerically study Ca²⁺ liberation in a three dimensional representation of a cluster environment with reaction-diffusion dynamics in both the cytosol and the lumen. These simulations reveal that Ca²⁺ concentrations at a releasing cluster range from 80 µM to 170 µM and equilibrate almost instantaneously on the time scale of the release duration. These highly elevated Ca²⁺ concentrations eliminate Ca²⁺ oscillations in a deterministic model of an IP[subscript]3R channel cluster at physiological parameter values as revealed by a linear stability analysis. The reason lies in the saturation of all feedback processes in the IP[subscript]3R gating dynamics, so that only fluctuations can restore experimentally observed Ca²⁺ oscillations. In this spirit, we derive master equations that allow us to analytically quantify the onset of Ca²⁺ puffs and hence the stochastic time scale of intracellular Ca²⁺ dynamics. Moving up the spatial scale, we suggest to formulate cellular dynamics in terms of waiting time distribution functions. This approach prevents the state space explosion that is typical for the description of cellular dynamics based on channel states and still contains information on molecular fluctuations. We illustrate this method by studying global Ca²⁺ oscillations.

Nueva York: ¿sueño o pesadilla?

Fondo Margaritainés Restrepo

El legado de los flujos migratorios hacia la península de Crimea entre 1860 – 1991 en la crisis política de 2014

La presente investigación propone un análisis sobre la crisis política de Crimea en 2014 a partir del influjo que las migraciones desde Rusia han tenido en la historia reciente. Así, a partir de la evaluación de algunos de los momentos de inmigración más representativos en los últimos dos siglos (1860, 1928 y 1991) se vincula el proceso de construcción de la identidad de los inmigrantes -transversal en diferentes periodos históricos en Crimea- con el desarrollo de los eventos de 2014. Lo anterior permite identificar un cierto legado de la migración hacia Crimea en el desarrollo de la crisis, cuyo resultado principal ha sido la anexión de facto de Crimea a Rusia. Ésta no habría sido posible sin el particular ánimo de afinidad con la idea de Rusia –o Russianness- de la mayoría de los habitantes de la península, cuya presencia en la región se explica en parte, a través de los procesos migratorios antes descritos.