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Étant donné l’enjeu que représentent les inégalités hommes-femmes dans le travail, interroger les mécanismes du dysfonctionnement de l’entrepreneuriat féminin paraît judicieux. Inscrire cette recherche dans le temps long permet d’étudier les représentations sociales liées à l’entrepreneuriat féminin « en train de se construire et de se diffuser » afin d’en saisir les pesanteurs. Pour cela, nous décidons d’interroger la fiction en tant qu’élément de construction des représentations de l’entrepreneuriat dans la société. Nous convoquons la littérature du xixe siècle, française, anglaise et allemande, pour donner à voir comment se façonnent les identités entrepreneuriales féminines. Notre thèse est que l’ancien récit est toujours à l’oeuvre dans nos sociétés contemporaines, empêchant les femmes de réaliser des carrières de dirigeantes similaires à celles des hommes. Les romans sélectionnés sont traités comme des études de cas à partir desquels nous avons identifié les rôles qu’il était possible de proposer à l’imagination de la lectrice et du lecteur. Nous avons développé le constat que le roman contemporain des révolutions industrielles, en s’intéressant au monde économique, n’a pas dédaigné le rôle des femmes et avons détaillé comment les femmes pouvaient avoir accès à la direction des entreprises, du moins dans la fiction romanesque.

Cet article rappelle les principaux points qui marquent les propositions de changements législatifs qui ont cours dans de nombreux pays. En montrant ainsi le type de transformations en train de se produire, il permet de mieux cerner le contexte médical et social qui conduit à poser la question de l’euthanasie. Une dernière partie expose les principaux arguments utilisés dans le débat ainsi que leurs forces et faiblesses. Enfin, il montre qu’aucun argument n’est entièrement convaincant mais que chacun renferme des richesses dont il faut tenir compte pour que les mourants soient respectés comme des personnes humaines.

The history of California is in many ways a story about water, and the outsized effect that droughts, floods, and seasonal precipitation rates have had on the political and economic development of the state over the past 170 years. This thesis uses discourse analysis of historical and ongoing negotiations that have been presented in federal and state reports, narratives, case laws and legislation to explore how the discourse around water politics has been shaped in the state. From this, an antiessentialist environmental history develops around the relationship between overdrafted groundwater basins in the Central Valley and the agriculture industry located there. Finally, this thesis explores what the future of a waterscape built during the capitalization of modern society may look like as we move towards a new regime of nature.

Frontiers are dynamic regions of integration and exclusion where identity and culture are negotiated. The relationships between the heartlands of the North American Southwest and many of its resulting frontiers have been explored; however, very little work has been done to characterize this dynamic in the far “northern periphery,” the Fremont region. Despite over a hundred years of research and a material culture with distinct Southwest origins, it is still not clear how interaction between Fremont and the greater Southwest influenced and shaped identity and culture on this northern frontier. Extreme changes occurred in the Fremont region around A.D. 1000 when painted ceramics, along a suite of Southwestern-looking material and behavioral traits accompanied a significant population increase in the Fremont region. This dissertation uses a multi-scalar approach to explore this why these changes occurred at this critical juncture and how they impacted Fremont social identity. This project explores the production, distribution, and use of Fremont painted pottery at three scales to better articulate Fremont within their broader regional context and create a more robust understanding of what ‘Fremont’ means. The results of this multi-scalar analysis suggest that Fremont painted designs are closely related to the design horizons produced in the Northern San Juan and Cibola/Chaco regions during the A.D. 900s and early 1000s, possibly arriving in the region via migration. These designs were adapted to create a distinctive Fremont design style that remained relatively static for nearly 300 years. Painted pottery was primarily produced in two areas but was widely distributed across the Fremont region. Peoples across the region used painted pottery in similar contexts, most commonly associated with integrative communal structures. When these results are situated within the social, demographic, and historical context of the northern Southwest, they suggest that during the Late Fremont Period, the Fremont region became a dynamic frontier of the northern Southwest where people maintained a shared social identity. The designs painted on Fremont pottery signal both a heritage in and separation from the greater Southwest.

System log files are filled with logged events, status codes, and other messages. By analyzing the log files, the systems current state can be determined, and find out if something during its execution went wrong. Log file analysis has been studied for some time now, where recent studies have shown state-of-the-art performance using machine learning techniques. In this thesis, document classification solutions were tested on log files in order to classify regular system runs versus abnormal system runs. To solve this task, supervised and unsupervised learning methods were combined. Doc2Vec was used to extract document features, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based architectures on the classification task. With the use of the machine learning models and preprocessing techniques the tested models yielded an f1-score and accuracy above 95% when classifying log files.

Migratory trajectory and oral history of English-speakers in the city of Pau

The paper studies how various shades of love respond to precarity in anarchic times by comparing the narrative representation of the aftermath of the Partition of the British colonized Subcontinent into independent countries of India and Pakistan in 1947 with particular focus on Sikh-Muslim relationships in Punjab as presented in Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan and Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story “Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat.” Employing Judith Butler’s concept of precarity, the paper analyzes how both the writers sketch precarity in partition times ensuing in post-Partition communal violence and effacement of love. The selection of the texts is significant because Singh presents precarity in the multi-ethnic village of Mano Majra whereas Manto presents the city of Amritsar on fire, thus encompassing rural and urban life. Both the texts gradually unleash how the love between communities fades away precipitated by the increasing violence while personal love unflinchingly last even during the times of anarchy, irrespective of communal and religious differences. Jugga who is a Sikh by ethnicity sacrifices his life for his Muslim beloved Nooran and Gurmukh Sing assigns the responsibility of his unflinching gratitude for Mr Abdul Hayee to his son after his death. Whereas before the Partition personal and communal commitments were equally strong, the divergence takes place between the two due to the precarity after Partition that rifts communities apart but personal love remains resilient to socio-political pressures.

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