Regard de quatre politiciens valaisans: quelles sont les diverses tendances politiques au sein des partis valaisans pour les structures d'accueil de l'enfance ?

Le cadre de fonctionnement, les normes et les conditions de travail dans les structures d’accueil de l’enfance sont édictées, de par le système législatif, par les politiciens suisses. Ainsi, toutes les améliorations, les exigences et les besoins de changements dans l’éducation de l’enfance doivent se faire en collaboration et se négocier avec le monde politique suisse. Ce travail a donc pour but de décrire les niveaux politiques qu’influent sur la petite enfance et de développer les opinions des quatre grands partis du canton du Valais qui sont : l’union démocratique du centre, le parti libéral radical, le parti démocrate-chrétien et le parti socialiste. Ce cheminement permettra d’identifier la provenance des directives concernant la petite enfance et les entités aptes à les modifier

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several authors have proposed the use of Social Norms programmes, where correcting misconceptions of what is considered normal behaviour lead to improved behaviours. There are a limited number of studies showing the effectiveness of such programmes for changing teenagers’ perception of smoking habits, and hence this paper reports on the results from one of the largest Social Norms programmes that used a variety of interventions aimed at improving teenagers’ perceptions of smoking. Design/methodology/approach: A range of interventions was adopted for 57 programmes in Year 9 students, ranging from more passive interventions such as posters and banners to more active interventions such as student apps and enterprise days. Each programme consisted of a baseline survey followed by interventions and a repeat survey to calculate changes in perception. A clustering algorithm was also used to reveal the impact of combinations of interventions. Findings: The study reveals three main findings: (i) the use of social norms is an effective means of changing perceptions (ii) the level of interventions and change in perceptions are positively correlated and (iii) that the most effective combinations of interventions include the use of interactive feedback assemblies, enterprise days, parent and student apps and newsletters to parents. Originality/value: The paper presents results from one of the largest social norm programmes aimed at improving young people’s perceptions and is the first to use clustering methods to reveal the impact of combinations of intervention

Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries

Background: Therapeutic footwear is recommended for those people with severe foot problems associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is known that many do not wear them. Although previous European studies have recommended service and footwear design improvements, it is not known if services have improved or if this footwear meets the personal needs of people with RA. As an earlier study found that this footwear has more impact on women than males, this study explores women’s experiences of the process of being provided with it and wearing it. No previous work has compared women’s experiences of this footwear in different countries, therefore this study aimed to explore the potential differences between the UK, the Netherlands and Spain. Method: Women with RA and experience of wearing therapeutic footwear were purposively recruited. Ten women with RA were interviewed in each of the three countries. An interpretive phenomenological approach (IPA) was adopted during data collection and analysis. Conversational style interviews were used to collect the data. Results: Six themes were identified: feet being visibly different because of RA; the referring practitioners’ approach to the patient; the dispensing practitioners’ approach to the patient; the footwear being visible as different to others; footwear influencing social participation; and the women’s wishes for improved footwear services. Despite their nationality, these women revealed that therapeutic footwear invokes emotions of sadness, shame and anger and that it is often the final and symbolic marker of the effects of RA on self perception and their changed lives. This results in severe restriction of important activities, particularly those involving social participation. However, where a patient focussed approach was used, particularly by the practitioners in Spain and the Netherlands, the acceptance of this footwear was much more evident and there was less wastage as a result of the footwear being prescribed and then not worn. In the UK, the women were more likely to passively accept the footwear with the only choice being to reject it once it had been provided. All the women were vocal about what would improve their experiences and this centred on the consultation with both the referring practitioner and the practitioner that provides the footwear. Conclusion: This unique study, carried out in three countries has revealed emotive and personal accounts of what it is like to have an item of clothing replaced with an ‘intervention’. The participant’s experience of their consultations with practitioners has revealed the tension between the practitioners’ requirements and the women’s ‘social’ needs. Practitioners need greater understanding of the social and emotional consequences of using therapeutic footwear as an intervention

Near-field scattering by dielectric spheroidal particles with sizes on the order of the illuminating wavelength

We present a theoretical study of electric field scattering by wavelength-sized spheroids. The incident, internal, and scattered fields are computed analytically by a spheroidal coordinate separation-of-variables solution, assuming axially incident monochromatic illumination. The main sources of possible numerical errors are identified and an additional point-matching procedure is implemented to provide a built-in test of the validity of the results. Numerical results were obtained for prolate and oblate particles with particular aspect ratios and sizes, and a refractive index of 1.33 relative to the surrounding medium. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the near-field in close proximity to the spheroids. It is shown that particles with sizes close to the incident wavelength can produce high field enhancements whose spatial location and extension can be controlled by the particle geometry

L’observation permanente du mouvement (Quand je lis Claude Simon, no 2)

Je me suis remis la semaine dernière à la lecture du Palace de Claude Simon, notant une certaine heure, livre en main accompagnant ma promenade dans le parc municipal, comment je m’y étais d’abord perdu. De cela, je dois parler : le moment où je reviens à la conscience du livre, après avoir perdu le sens de l’intrigue, en somme, quand je constate que je ne sais plus où j’en suis. Je tourne alors les pages dans le sens inverse, à la recherche de l’endroit à partir duquel je me suis égaré. Me v..

Vivement Malakoff

Grau, devant le centre de rééducation. PERSONNAGES : Milford : Père d’Eddy Mars. Patron de la scierie en faillite. Vient d’enterrer sa femme Violette. Eddy Mars : Fils de Milford et de Violette. Vigile au centre de rééducation de Grau. ¶Ami d’enfance de James Korb, en poste comme lui à Grau. Lascala : Fiancée à Eddy. Fille de Paradis, ex-comptable de la scierie. Cousine de James Korb. Cally : Sœur de James Korb. Internée à Grau. Violée par Milford au café du Pont. ACTE I Milford. Lasc..