Les dispositifs d'entreprise en direction des familles
This research provides an overview of the facilities proposed by French companies to help their employees, not only to reconcile work and family life, but more widely in the fulfillment of their parental responsibilities. The commitment of companies is strongly framed by the legislation and by the conventional regulations, and the companies' support comes from various sources: Human resources departments, collective bargaining and works councils. The research also captures how work-life balance facilities are bargained. The first part of the report is devoted to the findings of quantitative analysis while the second part describes the diverse provisions enabling employees to improve their parental duties based on a qualitative study. The third part examines the content of some innovative collective agreements on work-life balance and parenthood. In the last part of the report, different commitment regimes are identified with respect to the combination of practices from the social partners within the company, taking account of the contrasted commitment of the trade unions in this issue, as also of the constraints due to the size of the company, the characteristics of the workforce, the profile of the employer and the cultural and historical background of the company.
Concilier travail et famille: Le rôle des acteurs France-Québec
How to preserve at the same time fruitfulness and high activity rates in our developed countries in order to ensure the replacement of the generations and the renewal of the working population? By the urgent installation of measures of conciliation between work and the family, as the European Union and OECD recommend it. But, in regard with the crisis of our modes of Welfare state any more, the governmental impulses are not enough. This is why the "intermediate" actors the such companies, the municipalities, associations, the trade unions, etc, take over. This work shows in a concrete way their actions and analyzes the new fashions of governance thus set up: the French model founded on institutions which are partners of the State; the model from Quebec preaching the initiatives of actors as citizens.
Super-resolution of overlapped waves in time and frequency domain in a directional borehole radar measurement
The Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm is modified in order to resolve multiple waves and to estimate reflection points in 3-D space. This algorithm is suitable for directional borehole radar with a circular dipole array antenna. Making use of the spatial frequency difference of acquired array signals, the signals are decorrelated, and the 3-D MUSIC algorithm is applied. The time domain signals of the singlehole array-type borehole radar are used in order to form a measurement vector in the MUSIC algorithm. A computer simulation confirms that the proposed algorithm may estimate the directions of arrival (DOA) for three signals. Applying the proposed algorithm to field experiment data successfully estimates the DOA of a reflected wave from a fracture in rock.