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Some studies have shown that professors who benefited from teaching training modified certain of their practices. Our research aims to measure certain effects of teacher training on new university professors’ practices, and to answer the following question: does intensive training have observable effects on teaching practices? To do so, we observed twelve Québec and French professors, six who received such training and six who did not. Our initial results suggest that short-term training has little effect on practices observed in the classroom, and that integration of evaluation, knowledge transfer and the development of a reflective capacity are the least observed acts.

Street networks shape the urban layout that structures the city spaces and delineates homogeneous urban areas. We focus on the study of urban morphology from a structural analysis of the streets’ network. The work on a geographic model allows formalizing mathematically the street network by using graph theory. The structural analysis of street networks is very useful because it usually produces additional (hidden) semantic information and allows the enrichment of spatial data.The aim of this work is to perform some characterization of the urban fabrics using exclusively street networks as input data. Indeed, the structural properties of streets networks create several effects such as continuity, separation, centrality, proximity, connectivity, symmetry, and adjacency into the urban space.We work on an urban primal graph. On the basis of this real urban graph, we implement two additional artificial graphs. The first one is a “Delaunay triangulated network” and the second one is a “minimum spanning tree”. These graphs correspond to two extreme network morphologies delimiting a morphological continuum. The three graphs are then analyzed using shortest path algorithms. They all have been processed on both a topological and a geometric ways so as to extract some structural and multi-centrality indicators (closeness and betweenness centralities).The results produce some semantic information on the structure of urban fabric. They allow us to emphasize some specific morphological urban structures (organic zones, suburban tree structures) and some urban salient features (main roads and ring roads).

Cet article propose d’explorer les statuts accordés aux compositeurs contemporains dans les premières années du XXe siècle en France, en comparant deux périodiques au format et aux lectorats très différents : d’un côté Musica (1902-1914), premier magazine musical français lancé par Pierre Lafitte, destiné à un lectorat issu de la bourgeoisie, essentiellement féminin et pratiquant la musique en amateur ; de l’autre, Le Mercure musical (1905-1906), une « petite revue » d’avant-garde dont la ligne éditoriale et les réseaux de circulation sont à l’opposé de ceux de Musica. Il s’agit de comprendre comment le format de ces deux périodiques a influencé la façon dont est conçu et véhiculé un objet commun, soit la grandeur culturelle des compositeurs contemporains. Il ressort que Musica mise sur le vedettariat et présente presque seulement des compositeurs déjà connus, alors que Le Mercure musical met principalement en avant des artistes émergents, souvent en marge ou en conflit avec les institutions officielles, en utilisant une rhétorique avant-courrière du génie qui sera un jour reconnu.

Depuis Les enfants d’Athéna , qui connurent une fulgurante échappée hors du cercle des Hellénistes, le lectorat de Nicole Loraux est très composite. Porteur d’intérêts très divers, il est parfois enclin à parcelliser son œuvre : le politique, l’histoire, le théâtre, le genre… Cet article est une invitation à refaire le chemin parcouru par l’auteure en sa compagnie et à construire sa biographie intellectuelle dans sa totalité. Since the publication of Les enfants d'Athéna , which was a dazzling breakthrough beyond the circle of Hellenic scholars, the readers of Nicole Loraux have adopted different standpoints. Involved in various fields of knowledge, they are sometimes inclined to segment her works: politics, history, theater, gender… This article is meant to entice the readers to size up the full scope of the writer's research so that her intellectual biography may be conceived as a whole.