As an environment, the modern university setting is diverse and subject students to numerous challenges and opportunities that prepare them to enter careers, build families, and grow as an individual. Yet what a student experiences in college differs greatly and is shaped by internal and external factors in their environment, including campus participation, college self-efficacy, depression and stress. Prior research indicates the impact of family on how a student expresses each of these variables (Schmidtgall, King, Zarski & Cooper, 2000; Bradbury & Mather, 2009; Hannum & Dvorak, 2004; Kenny & Donaldson, 1991; Lopez et al, 2001; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2006). However, there is one area of the family that has been scarcely studied in terms of campus experience influence: family communication patterns (FCPs). The present study sought to investigate this connection. Utilizing a survey-based design, 253 student participants were asked questions to identify the amount of conversation and conformity orientation present in their family unit, as well as levels of campus participation, college self-efficacy, depression and stress. Results indicated that conversation and conformity orientation in families were positively correlated with campus participation. Conversation orientation led to higher feelings of college self-efficacy and lower feelings of stress and depression. Conformity orientation had no correlation with experiencing stress or depression. The current study suggests that family communication does indeed influence multiple areas of a student's college experience, though conversation-oriented communication has a greater positive influence. Having a positive and communicative family environment allows students to get involved, lowers their risk of experiencing mental issues, and equips them to feel confident in their environment. However, the obedience and uniformity found in conformity orientation families instills structure in a student, which may help them avoid distractions and stay focused on schoolwork (Koerner & Fitzpatrick, 1997).

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This study considers the nature of the relationship between explicit stigma, athletic identity, and over-conformity to sports ethics and their impact on intercollegiate athlete’s negotiation of medical treatment, which refers to help-seeking behavior. This study potentially offers stakeholders insight into a broader view of college athletes’ ability to make decisions on how they take care of their bodies and to create a healthier environment for players to seek help for their physical/mental/emotional health. Statistical analysis included a review of descriptive statistics and binary logistics regression to explore the relationships among the independent variables consisting of over-conformity to sports ethic, athletic identity, explicit stigma, gender, and race, and testing the hypothesis about the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable, help-seeking behaviors. The sample was drawn from the athletic departments of a Midwestern NCAA Division I Research Institution and a self-report design was used. Convenience sample of 607 collegiate athletes representing 15 athletic teams was identified. The call for the study was disseminated by email and the survey was completed by the xxxx participants on Qualtrics. SPSS (29.0.2, 2023). Four assessment tools (Conformity to Sport Ethic Scale, Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, and Attitude towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Short) was done by the researcher. There are currently 498,165 collegiate student-athletes (278,998 male and 219,177 female), with an average of 452 total collegiate athletes per institution (258 male and 200 female) (NCAA, 2022). This collegiate student-athlete population is considered the “elite athlete” population, only consisting of 6% of the 8 million high school student-athletes that participate in the collegiate athlete population (NCAA, 2022). Because of the physical nature of sports, many of these athletes experience injuries resulting in temporary or chronic pain. (Amorose & Anderson-Butcher, 2007)The socialization process surrounding pain perception for athletes begins in early adolescence when young athletes learn that it is acceptable and even expected that they play through pain. and these behaviors may persist over the years (Stoddart et al., 2022). A sports culture influences these behaviors and can lead to health-damaging behaviors, including denial of injury, ignoring injury, and failure to seek medical or mental health treatment when needed. Health-damaging behaviors experienced by college athletes can lead to the need for psychological and rehabilitative services. Despite there being a clear need for help-seeking in college athletes, it has been reported that college athletes underutilize help-based services due to: lack of time, concerns around confidentiality and information being leaked to the public, fear of being misunderstood by health care providers, and some athletes not recognizing the need to seek help (Hilliard et al., 2022; López & Levy, 2013; Moore, 2017; Moreland et al., 2018). This study was constructed upon the hypothesis that factors including athletic identity, over-conformity to the sports ethics, and the experience of explicit stigma; influence athletes' help-seeking behaviors for physical or psychological issues.

This dissertation explores how logic duality, that is the coexistence of two institutional logics in an industry, affects firm strategic behaviors, and how in return firm strategic behaviors contribute (or not) to maintain logics segregated. Theoretically, I investigate the liability firms face when entering industries governed by a different logic, the wayincumbent organizations respond to the conformity demands of logic foreigners, and the determinants of firm-level institutional capital. Empirically, I study investment funds, filmmaking organizations and production firms in the French film industry (1987-2008), and find strong support for the proposed theory. By revealing strategies available to firms in dual-logicsettings and highlighting sources of institutional capital, this study contributes to the strategic management literature. The result is also a contribution to our understanding of why industries resist the "inexorable push towards homogenization" predicted by new institutional theory. By shedding light on the positive and negative effects of logic duality for firms, this work has also implications for practice.

The objective of this project was to contribute to deepen the piece of knowledge about swi¬rling movement of the water in the hydraulic power plants’ water intakes, especially in case of the Swirl Turbine. The vortexes mostly occur near outflow holes in the bottom or walls of water tanks. Collectively they are called inflow vortices. According to the form they take they can be divided into four main categories. By the model research on hydraulic power plants’ inflow it is generally concerned on determination enough infallible conditions, under which the pulling-in of the air by a vortex into an inflow does not happen. For this purpose has been in the Fluid engineering laboratory projected and realized an experimental device enabling observation of creation, spread and extinction of the inflow vortices.

Dans le contexte économique et compétitif actuel, ce qui permet aux entreprises de se distinguer c'est leur réactivité à fournir des produits de plus en plus complexes sen répondant à des besoins toujours plus diversifiés. Pour faire face à cette exigence de réactivité et malgré ces contraintes, les approches d'ingénierie intégrée sont apparues pour une meilleure gestion du cycle de vie des produits. Dans ce contexte la prise en compte des variabilités et leurs interdépendances a été démontrée comme étant indispensable à l'amélioration des performances (coût, risque, qualité, …). Ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'élaboration d'un plan d'inspection optimal pour : la maîtrise de ces variabilités et leurs effets sur le comportement du produit, l'usage et les fonctionnalités de celui-ci. Pour cela un cadre méthodologique pour la co-conception des activités de contrôles de conformités et celles de suivi de fabrication a été formalisé. Ce cadre permet une prise de décision opérationnelle grâce à l'utilisation des outils opérationnels et assure la satisfaction des objectifs stratégiques (réduction des coûts, amélioration de la qualité, augmentation de la productivité, …). Suite à une synthèse approfondie de la littérature relative à la planification la qualité et de l'amélioration (conjointe) de la performance, les outils AMDEC, KC flowdown, et Activity Based Costing (ABC) ont été retenus. Cependant ces outils présentent certains manques à combler et ont fait donc l'objet de certaines modifications (adaptations) pour convenir au mieux aux besoins du cadre méthodologique proposé. L'intégration d'AMDEC et de KC flowdown a abouti à un nouvel outil nommé ACDE (Analyse de la Causalité, des Défaillances, et leurs Effets). Ainsi l'adaptation d'ABC à l'estimation de coût de la qualité par « Quality-Driven ABC » a été proposée. L'application de ces derniers a été proposée dans le cadre de la planification d'inspection « au juste nécessaire ». / In the current economic and competitive environment, what distinguish the companies is their reactivity to provide increasingly complex products with increasingly diverse needs. To achieve this reactivity despite constraints, integrated engineering approachs have been emerged to better manage and organize the product life cycle. In this context, it is essential to take into account the characteristics' variations and their interdependencies to improve the performance (cost, risk, quality ...). This thesis was devoted to the generation of an optimal inspection plan including process variations monitoring and product variations control. A methodological framework for the co-conception of product control and process monitoring activities has been formalized and validated. This framework allows operational decision-making by the intervention of operational tools and ensures the satisfaction of strategic objectives (cost reduction, improved quality, increased productivity ...). FMEA, KC flowdown, and Activity Based Costing (ABC) were selected following a comprehensive literature review on quality planning and performance improvement. However, these tools present some lack to fill up and therefore are subjected to certain adaptations in order to best fit the needs of the proposed methodological framework. Integration of FMEA and KC flowdown resulted in a new tool called ACDE. As well the adaptation of ABC to estimate the cost of quality by "Quality-Driven ABC" was proposed. The application of these latter has been proposed to limit the inspection planning to “bare essentials activities.