Ce mémoire en recherche-création s’articule en deux parties, soit un roman et un essai. La résilience des corps, roman à double narration, met en scène Clara et Romain, un couple dont l’avenir est ébranlé par une grossesse surprise. Dans les chapitres s’alternent les voix des deux personnages, tant dans le passé que dans le présent. La voix de Clara se démultiplie, elle qui souffre de schizophrénie. L’essai Femmes sans enfant : une impossibilité? Analyse de La lune dans un HLM de Marie-Sissi Labrèche et d’Un léger désir de rouge d’Hélène Lépine répond à un questionnement soulevé durant l’écriture du roman, soit « Une femme peut-elle dire, sans se justifier, qu’elle ne veut pas d’enfant? ». Les romans La lune dans un HLM de Marie-Sissi Labrèche et Un léger désir de rouge d’Hélène Lépine sont analysés avec une perspective féministe, de façon à faire ressortir la thématique du refus de la maternité dans le discours et dans les actes des personnages. / This master’s thesis in research and creative writing is divided in two parts – a novel and an essay. The former, La résilience des corps [The Resilience in Us], is a dualnarrative novel told from the perspectives of Clara and Romain, a couple whose plans for the future are turned upside-down by an unexpected pregnancy. Through the chapters, the protagonists take turns in the narrator’s seat, going back and forth between their past and present, while Clara’s voice multiplies under the grip of schizophrenia. The essay, titled Femmes sans enfant : une impossibilité? Analyse de La lune dans un HLM de Marie-Sissi Labrèche et d’Un léger désir de rouge d’Hélène Lépine [Women Without Children: An Inconceivable Prospect? An Analysis of Marie-Sissi Labrèche’s La lune dans un HLM and Hélène Lépine’s Un léger désir de rouge], answers a question that arose in the writing process of La résilience des corps: can a woman say « I do not want children » without having to justify her choice? Both novels are analyzed from a feminist perspective as to highlight the theme of motherhood in the characters’ words and action.

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Pulmonary TNFa concentration and wall thickness after on- versus off pump cardiac surgery

The present study puts forward two models which examine the relationship between at home at school variables of (1) engagement in shared and independent reading and (2) access to print with reading achievement. Participants were fourth grade English speakers from Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia), New Zealand, England, and USA. Data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) questionnaires and reading achievement test were used to design the two models, and Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to analyze the data where students (Level-1) were nested within classrooms (Level-2). The results of the Engagement in Reading Model demonstrate that activities of shared reading at home and at school did not statistically significantly relate or related negatively with reading achievement. Parents helping their children with school readings emerged as the strongest negative predictor of reading achievement in the entire model. However, the relationship between how often participants talked with their families about what they read on their own and reading achievement was positive. Additionally, independent reading at school, reading for fun at home, and reading printed material (books and magazines) at home predicated reading achievement positively; reading for homework did not predict reading achievement; and reading for information and reading on the internet at home predicted reading achievement negatively. The results of the Access to Print Model demonstrate that while access to books and other reading material at home related positively with reading achievement, access to books and other reading material at school did not overall relate to students’ reading achievement. Additionally, access to the library, generally, did not relate to reading achievement; and when statistical significance was found it was not replicated in all or even most of the countries. Based on the results of the present study, it is recommended that fourth graders be given ample opportunities to read books of their own choosing independently at school, and to develop students’ habits and motivation to read for leisure during their free after school time. Additionally, children should be provided with ample access to reading material at home which is geared towards their interests.

Pulmonary TNFa concentration and wall thickness after on- versus off pump cardiac surgery

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The doctoral thesis is concentrated on housing as selected manner to convert the released textile factories. In the first part was attention given to history which confirmed the high recovery factor of Brno´s industrial past to reuse. Next part was focused on analysis of the XXth century forms of collective housing, especially the loft housing, to characterize the perspective habitation in selected factories. Finally was the contemporary housing observed through three specific aspects to aim the conversion of Brno´s textile factories.