The French Institute for Demographic Studies (French: Institut national d'études démographiques, INED) is a French research institute specializing in demography and population studies in general.
Competition entangles through nearly all aspects of contemporary life. It is inseparable from existence as we humans currently experience it. Yet, like any other conceptual construction, it has inherent potential to become otherwise. The purpose of the present paper is to propose intrapeting as an agential realist becoming of competition. Thinking through agential realism and posthumanist logics, two enmeshed agential cuts are offered. First, inspired by the concept of intra-action, the "com" in competition becomes "intra", creating intrapetition. Second, inspired by the concept of spacetimemattering, the "ition" in intrapetition becomes "ing", creating intrapeting. By agential cutting competition through alternative prefixing and suffixing, intrapeting entangles agential realist relationality and performativity, going from a static noun to a gerund that moves. In creating intrapeting as a relationally performative concept, we the authors propose affirmatively generative futurities for sporting, coaching, and living that are modal, dialethic, paraconsistent, and ententional.
Children's right to participate is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and embedded in Portuguese early childhood education and care (ECEC) curriculum policies. Nevertheless, constraints and barriers to the fulfillment of this right have been identified. Drawing on the Lundy Model, this study aimed to analyze the narratives of ECEC professionals, namely coordinators, teachers, and assistants, regarding participatory practices and conditions perceived as influencing children's participation. Findings from focus group interviews conducted with 25 professionals revealed that the four dimensions of Lundy's model (Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence) were present in professionals' narratives. Moreover, key enabling conducive conditions related to leadership and setting conditions, professional development, and participatory environment were identified. Findings also revealed that distinctive professional backgrounds and roles accounted for variability in professionals' narratives on participation practices and conditions. Implications are drawn on the need to target professional development initiatives involving all ECEC staff as a core contribution to close the gap between rhetoric and the practical implementation of children's participation rights.
Abstract Early life is a vulnerable period to environmental exposures that may be associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We investigated associations between prenatal and postnatal exposure to weekly averages of temperature and air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2) with autism screening scores (based on the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised version) in 12,139 2-year-olds from the French ELFE birth cohort. Exposures were based on daily outdoor predictions at 1 km resolution (200 m in large urban areas for temperature and NO2). Relationships were modeled with confounder-adjusted distributed lag nonlinear models and generalized linear models. Autism screening scores significantly increased following exposure to night-time heat throughout the beginning of the third trimester and possibly toward the end of pregnancy, even after adjusting for PM2.5 and PM10. During the postnatal period, night-time heat (months 2–7.5) and increased PM2.5 and PM10 exposures (months 7–11.5) led to higher scores in males compared to females. Conversely, night-time heat (months 17–20) led to higher scores in females. Our findings suggest that prenatal exposure to heat, but not air pollution, may be associated with early ASD risk indicators, while sex-specific effects of heat and PM exposure were observed in the postnatal period.
This research aimed to explore the influence of color saturation on brainwave patterns in both colorblind and non-colorblind individuals. Using electroencephalography (EEG) signals and the MUSE brain-computer interface (BCI), we investigated how different color saturation levels and intermittent gray stimuli affected physiological responses and perceptions. The overarching goal was to reveal the subtle yet significant role of color in human perception, preferences, and psychology, irrespective of individual awareness. We recruited 35 individuals, with 15 identified as colorblind and 20 as non-colorblind, aged between 18 and 60 years, with an average age of 32 years (SD=12.3). Participants were presented with 10 colors on a computer screen, occasionally supplemented with gray stimuli. Initially, colors were displayed at 50
