Through play children develop sensory, motor, cognitive, communication and social skills. Children with physical disabilities, who have a limited access to play, may experience negative impacts on these aspects of development. Using robots to manipulate play objects can contribute to the children’s independence, social and cognitive development. The interface with which the children control the […]

About 65 percent of organizations worldwide have talent management (TM) practices in place, with 5 to 10 percent of their employees being identified as a talent annually. Seemingly unhindered by a lack of empirical evidence, in recent years organizations have decided to include more and more employees in their talent pools, with the goal of […]

This study explores the unintended outcomes that have emerged following the performance management interventions enforced by university boards and the government on academics in the United Kingdom. To understand how these unintended outcomes are caused or controlled by universities, social learning and social contagion theories are used to analyze the contextual conditions that influence the […]

Studies on the personality-performance relationship have traditionally focused on relating stable individual differences in behaviour, thought, and emotion (i.e., personality traits) to stable individual differences in performance. Whereas this approach has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the relationship between personality and performance, it is at odds with a recent call in the literature to conceptualize […]

Depuis le début des années 2000, les conditions d’accès aux droits dans la société d’installation des résidents étrangers ont été reconfigurées dans l’objectif affiché de s’assurer de leur « bonne » intégration comme préalable indispensable à l’acquisition du statut de citoyen. Dans le but de comprendre ce que ces reconfigurations font aux frontières de la […]

What makes cancer so lethal is the ability of tumor cells to migrate from one organ to another through the blood circulation. Typically, cancer cells first detach from primary tumors, and then enter the blood vessels to be carried over long distances. At the target site, the tumor cells attack the blood vessel walls cover […]

The student will conduct research as part of the FCRF project Ecourban Neighbourhood Outcomes in France and Canada: Toward greater validity in comparative international urban research. Based in Paris at Université Paris I (La Sorbonne), the student will interact with and collect data from government representatives at the City of Paris and the relevant federal […]