Géohistoire environnementale : contours sémantiques et conceptuels. Discussions sur les héritages et patrimoines reconnus aux zones humides fluviales by Delphine Gramond

“…The recent strategies of management of wetlands, aiming to maintenance or to the reconquest of these ecosystems, focus on the ecosystemic functions - translated into terms of ecosystems services according to the Millenium Ecosystem Assesment conceptual Framework - on the one hand, and by underlining more and more strongly on the other hand the values, in particular the heritage values, that we can recognize to them; this approach, broadly utilitarian, asks the question of the natural environment readjustement potentiality and de facto requires to interpret their(s) “trajectories” put rhythm into by biophysics and humans dynamics, which have temporalities and spatialities quite complex and intricate. …”
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En forêt domaniale du Flamand by Yogan Muller

“…After demonstrating the existence of a “geohistorical” link between Flandre, Médoc and the notion of the landscape, we reflect on the interlocking utilitarian and iconic dimensions of the forest through its emblematic maritime pine by using our photographs. …”
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Un point de vue critique : La Finlande, vers un modèle éducatif néolibéral ? by Luc Leguérinel

“…We shall finally try to demonstrate in what this pragmatic system, the real ambition of which has been to replace knowledge with competencies of a utilitarian type, is only the hotbed of what is being set up within the very core of the universities in order to meet the requirements of the liberal market economy dominated by science and economic development.…”
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Theranos: the Ethics of Innovation and Deception in Healthcare Technology by Edgar Manuel Cambaza

“…Utilizing a multi-faceted ethical analysis—incorporating utilitarian, deontological, virtue ethics, and rights-based perspectives—this study explores the failures of corporate leadership in adhering to professional and ethical obligations. …”
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NORDIC COOPERATION IN CULTURE AND EDUCATION by V. S. Vodopyanov

“…Thus, it performs an important utilitarian function by serving the needs of the common labour market in the Nordic region, which faces challenging problems, such as low birth rates and aging of the population. …”
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Étude paléodémographique et utilisation du feu à Hili N, une sépulture collective en fosse de la fin de l’âge du Bronze ancien aux Émirats Arabes Unis by Esther Gatto, Gautier Basset, Sophie Méry, Kathleen McSweeney

“…The significance of these fires - ideology, ritual, utilitarian – is unknown. We can only confirm that these fires were not intended to burn all the bones, nor a particular individual.…”
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Le care en éducation et la posture éthique de l’enseignant : une place pour la valeur-actitude altruisme ? by Tommy Terraz

“…The article consists to consider the linkages between the focused sensitivity to particular, defended by the ethics of care, and abstract universalism of utilitarian and deontological moral reasoning. We reflexively propose a particular model: a measured virtue ethics for teachers built around value-actitude altruism (EIVVAA in french) in order to allow the emergence of the student as a person. …”
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Patrimonialisation de la nature et dynamiques touristiques : spécificités et singularités d’un « modèle » chinois contemporain by Sylvine Pickel Chevalier, Benjamin Taunay , Philippe Violier

“…The reason is the importance of the external non-utilitarian gaze of the spectator, which is contemporary of the birth of a new way of travelling: the pleasure trip. …”
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La régulation des goûts by Christian Barrère

“…Hedonic dimension of attitude is often dominant rather than utilitarian one (Holbrook and Hirschman, 1982; Spangenberg, Voss et Crowley, 1997; Addis et Holbrook, 2001). …”
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Motivators for using on-demand vehicle sharing services in Brazil by Fábio Violin

“…The five major regions of Brazil were considered in this research, totaling 2150 interviews, indicating the existence of fourteen motivators for use involving the economic, social, environmental, and technological dimensions, however, only six variables comprise the structuring nucleus of demand and are based on an element of economic order (Reduced Tariff), one of a socioeconomic nature (Expectation of Benefits) and four technological drivers (Technological Availability, Convenience of Time and Boarding in addition to Data Security), which figure as utilitarian indicators, corroborating the results of international studies and contrasting those that signal hedonistic elements as relevant. …”
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Réhabiliter l’Homme avec la technologie by Stéphane Simonian

“…The first one, functionalist approach or "utilitarian", aims at knowing what an artifact can do; the second to an artifact can understand. …”
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Media immersion and acceptance of technologies: Exploring the influence of virtual reality, video, and photo-based presentations using the case of air taxis by Mikael Bagratuni, Jan Silberer, Patrick Planing, Patrick Müller

“…These findings highlight the usefulness of both emotional and utilitarian factors when considering technology acceptance and, therefore, the potential of VR to increase user engagement despite a lack of impact on immediate usage intention. …”
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Looking closer: the eastern gate of the Early Bronze Age fortifications on Zyndram’s Hill and its relation to ritual practices by Marcin S. Przybyła, Jan Ledwoń, Magdalena Makiel, Aleksandra Wójcik

“…Various features of this structure suggest that its function was not purely utilitarian, instead being to some extent related to ritual practices. …”
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The Older Gamer in Games Studies: Marginalised or Idealised? by Wu Huan, Guo Chen

“…These compulsory systems not only put older gamers and disabled gamers into a passive treatment-receiving position but also exclude them from a non-utilitarian style of game playing. Moreover, we recognise there are images of so-called ideal game players in current studies about older gamers and disabled gamers. …”
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Responsabilité sociale des entreprises et diversité des capitalismes by Michel Capron, Pascal Petit

“…The ethic goals of the first phase have first been replaced by utilitarian considerations in a second phase then followed by the will to assess in terms of sustainable development the activity of the firms in respectively the environmental, social and economic fields. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…Few of these women realised their aspirations, and it was not until the late twentieth century, when knitting became recognised as an art form rather than a simple utilitarian craft, that fictional characters like Mrs Brown could achieve status and independence.…”
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Lutter contre la pollution lumineuse by Dany Lapostolle, Samuel Challéat

“…The first, obeying an anthropocentric utilitarian rationale, is part of the “economicization” of the environment in the line of shallow ecology. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…There are two ways of interpreting it: a poetical reading, that denies the text an object, and an utilitarian reading, that forces out of it a series of names limiting its “effect of illimitation” (Jean Cohen), though questioned by narrative irony. …”
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The University as a Being-historical Object: the Experience of M. Heidegger by M. B. Mitlyanskaya

“…The main signs of the era of the “decline of metaphysics” are the primacy of form over content, the “factory” production of university personnel and products of scientific activity, the rejection of comprehension as an urgent necessity and the total domination of the utilitarian approach to knowledge. Heidegger has no formed positive project to overcome the current state of affairs. …”
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Dal dono al souvenir. Pratiche del dare e avere tra economia del turismo e cultura dell’ospitalità by Lucilla Rami Ceci

“…The dynamics of knowledge are confused with those of the exchange and solicit reflections on the meaning of the gift and its utilitarian implications. The ethnographic and iconographic documents, collected by the author of the speech, during more ten years of research in South Jordan illustrate how the repertoire of cultural productions, narrative and objects is taking place into the global economic circuits. …”
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