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The aim of this paper is to identify the texts and domains that business translators usually translate from French into Spanish and vice versa. First, we briefly review the literature on business translation (surveys conducted among professional translators and studies written by scholars in the context of French and Spanish). Although this review gives us an indication of, for example, the kind of documents or domains to which some translator trainers expose their students, or the position of business translation among other types of translation such as legal, technical or literary translation, it does not give us an in-depth understanding of the Spanish market. For this reason we conducted a survey to find out more about business texts and domains. We present our survey-based study, describe the participants and identify the texts and domains that are most often translated. The results point to differences not only in the texts and domains, but also as far as the language combinations are concerned. The results are thus useful in helping translator trainers both to design specialised business translation courses or course modules and as the basis for further research on contrastive analysis of business genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on investigations and inquiries conducted in France during the Middle Ages. According to the article, investigations replaced ordalies, or judgment by God, and judicial duels toward the end of the 12th century. The author discusses various publications and studies related to Middle Age investigations such as the paper "L'Enquête au Moyen Âge," published by Claude Gauvard in 2008. Topics include an explanation of the meaning of the word investigation (inquirere in Latin), the purpose of investigations, and a closer look at the role, identity, and appointing of administrative investigators by French Kings such as King Louis IX. Also discussed are the interrogations and the credibility of witnesses.

Using professional knowledge in building scientific knowledge; a comparative analysis of several case studies. This paper results from cross-disciplinary reflection by social and biotechnical researchers engaged in surveys with experts from the agriculture and nature spheres: farmers: technical advisors, managers of nature conservation programmes and biologists. The purpose was to analyse the way professional knowledge is used by researchers to enrich their body of scientific knowledge. How professional knowledge is used depends in part on each scientific discipline, but far more on the final research aims. We first identified three ideotypes based on whether professional knowledge is used (1) in a comprehensive way to understand its origins, (2) to build new biological knowledge complementary to the one produced on an experimental basis, or (3) to build operational knowledge to help professionals manage their problems. A cross-analysis of the survey methods used then led to discussing the nature of the scientific knowledge developed from professional knowledge and the innovative potential of such surveys. Finally the heuristic potential of surveys is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Background: This paper presents the results from France of a prospective, cross-sectional, international survey conducted among patients and physicians to identify symptom perception and the impact of allergic rhinitis on health-related quality of life. Methods: Data about the presence, severity and impact of symptoms were recorded by 504 patients and matched with data from their physicians. Health-related quality of life was assessed using the Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire. Results: According to the physicians’ assessments, a large proportion (71%) of patients had moderate or severe disease, persistent disease (48.3%), and comorbidities such as asthma (32.3%) and anxiety (19%). Persistent disease was present in 55.3% of patients with perennial allergic rhinitis and 44.9% with seasonal allergic rhinitis. Physicians tended to underestimate the incidence of some symptoms reported by the patients, most notably cough, headache, and itchy eyes. Health-related quality of life was negatively correlated with disease severity and number of symptom-free days. Allergic rhinitis had a significantly greater impact on patients with more persistent disease compared with those with intermittent disease (2.0±1.3 versus 1.8±1.2; p <0.05); nevertheless, 73.9% of patients with intermittent disease reported some impairment of their daily life. Conclusions: Allergic rhinitis remains a significant health problem in France due to the high prevalence of moderate or severe, persistent disease in patients presenting during routine care as well as to the impact of the disease on health-related quality of life. Patients and physicians differed significantly in their perception of disease severity and in the reporting of some symptoms, including ocular symptoms and cough. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

When we consider aesthetics in human relationships with the physical environment as addressed in scientific literature, two leading approaches emerge. On the one hand aesthetics would appear to be the prerogative of a distanciated look and linked to the notion of "extraordinary". On the other, aesthetics would be so immersed in "ordinary life" that it finally dissolves in it and vanishes behind other leading values, such as utilitarian ones. This is particularly obvious in studies of local people's aesthetical experiences. In this paper, we argue that there could be a third way between these two approaches to understanding the aesthetical dimension of human relationships with the environment. We analyzed semi-directive interviews with people in two contrasted situations: mountain hikers in the Pyrénées and holiday-makers in the Sensée marshes of northern France. We point out that aesthetics in people's relationships with their physical environment may be seen as manifesting the tension between ordinary and extraordinary. This enables us to perceive the importance of the political dimension of aesthetics, whether visible (experience of a place explicitly incorporates the social relationships that take place in it) or concealed behind an aesthetical experience that appears to be very direct, material and autonomous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Par l’étude comparée de la trilogie Dans leur travail de John Berger et de la Trilogie des rives d’Emmanuelle Pagano, cet article entreprend de penser la relation entre « attention » et « impli­­cation », dans une écriture attachée aux représentations du monde agricole et de la nature. L’enquête, la recherche, la documentation sont autant de procédés qui permettent de faire communauté, rassemblant l’auteur, les lecteurs et les protagonistes du récit. Une poétique de la veille, de l’astreinte se développe, à mettre en regard aux pratiques actuelles du terrain, en anthropologie notamment. With a comparative study of John Berger’s trilogy Dans leur travail and Emmanuelle Pagano’s Trilogie des rives, this paper aims to reflect on the link between ‘attention’ and ‘implication’ in a writing that is attached to agrarian and natural representations. Investigation, research and documentation are tools to create a community that gathers the author, readers and the characters of the story. A poetic of a developing vigil and on-call duty are to be balanced with actual practices within the field, especially within anthropology.

In an approach inspired by the sociology of Howard S. Becker, the paper questions the cognitive significance of three works of nonfiction (The Lifespan of a Fact, by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal ;6/5, by Alexandre Laumonier ; Somaland, by Eric Chauvier), characterized by the centrality they give to inquiry both as an engine for narrative and as a form of knowledge. It builds the structure of an ideal-type that accounts for these works’ project of capturing the contemporary world: constant overflowing of the investigator by uncertainty and opacity, contamination of reality by fiction, increased reflexivity of the process of inquiry. Taking advantage of a hybrid framing that maintains strong constraints of documentary cross-matching while multiplying “impressions of fiction”, the texts studied here invent literary devices that are adjusted to their scope. These features make them good discussion partners for social sciences, opening up new perspectives for writing and exchanges with (non)fiction as an instrument of knowledge.

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In the French vocational training based on sandwich courses, the mainstream separate academic and practical knowledge. Although it’s well known that theories are as much practical as the practices, the training designers seems enable to mix the twice. Dewey tell us to abolish dualism as object/subject, mind/body, etc. But most of vocational trainers, most training companies are used to prepare training frameworks based on academic or practical knowledge. The take of this paper is to show that the breaking of dualism is possible. Taking the physiotherapist vocational training as an example, we show the benefit of using the potential of the work situation to cross valuation and inquiry to design new training frameworks. Our method is a qualitative on work analysis as a training situation. The three main findings concern the inquiry, which reveled three ways of valuation: prizing the condition of a patient, guiding the diagnose, deliberate on the best way between cure and care.

The article offers information on collective activity in an organization which is based on the pragmatist language of habit. It mentions that by the adoption of pragmatist theories of habit and inquiry, collective activity is analyzed as a discursive process. It also presents a case study related to the implementation of an integrated management information system which reveals that organizational changes show habits and discursive coherence.

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While reflexivity has been seen as an essential skill in the humanities for several decades, the engineering sector is starting to investigate about this skill, as an interesting way of professionalization. But the lack of shared culture of reflexivity, as well as students’ interest for exact sciences coupled with their difficulties in considering their own action as an objet to be thought, make it difficult to design pedagogical devices aiming at enhancing reflective abilities. In this paper, we want to draw a picture of agricultural engineering students’ reflective abilities by analysing written reflections they produced about their learning practices and process during a study course on economic and financial analysis. We found very different levels of reflexivity, similarly to what is described in the humanities. Some students do write rich reflections, while others have difficulties in involving themselves in projective activities and, more noticeably, in inquiry-based learning enabling them to question their own ways of thinking. We identify different levers to enhance reflexivity: expressing oneself using incarnated speech positions, reinforcing one’s curiosity towards oneself and towards others, and facing difficulties or unprecedented situations. This work can be read as a theoretical and practical proposal to give substance to the reflexivity concept and to provide input for pedagogical reflection.