Laurence Bherer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1360805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laurence Bherer |
| NOMBRES | Laurence |
| APELLIDO | Bherer |
| FIRMA | BHERER L |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2258-8194 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Prefrontal engagement predicts the effect of museum visit on psychological well-being
Recent research suggests that museum visits can benefit psychological well-being by reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety. However, these reported relaxing effects remain inconsistent between studies. Shedding light on the underlying cerebral mechanisms of museum visits might support a better understanding of how it affects psychological well-being. This study aimed to investigate the prefrontal engagement evoked by artwork analysis during a mu…
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts
While there is a growing interest in citizen-led initiatives, there is still no consensus on how to situate them, especially in relation to state institutions. On the one hand, citizen-led initiatives are seen as being co-opted by formal institutions in a context of austerity. On the other hand, these initiatives are often presented as “spaces of resistance” to neoliberalism, or as political acts of reclaiming the city. Mapping and tracing urban …
Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise
Les frigos collectifs
Cet article rend compte de l’émergence d’une pratique discrète de gestion des surplus alimentaires : le stockage et la redistribution depuis les frigos collectifs. Pour ce faire, il s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique conduite entre 2016 et 2020 dans les villes de Montréal et de Québec. Il montre que ces pratiques s’insèrent dans les interstices du circuit classique de redistribution alimentaire pour proposer une gestion alternative des surpl…
Acute Effects of a Maximal Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test on Cardiac Hemodynamic and Cerebrovascular Response and Their Relationship with Cognitive Performance in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are prevalent in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Among people with T2D aged over 70 years, up to 45% might have cognitive dysfunction. Cardiorespiratory fitness (V ̇O 2 max) correlates with cognitive performances in healthy younger and older adults, and individuals with cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The relationship between cognitive performances, V ̇O 2 max, cardiac output and cerebral oxygena…
Internationalization practices in Quebec universities
What Is Informal Participation
The politics of third actors
Public participation professionals (PPPs) are individuals hired to design, implement, and facilitate participatory forums. Since PPPs are seen as third actors who ensure that dialogue between sponsors and citizens in these forums is fair and open, perceived impartiality is important to their profession. While studies on the impartiality of PPPs have mostly focused on their interactions with citizens in these kinds of forums, less attention has be…
Introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organise various forms of collaboration between governments and citizens that elsewhere have been conceptualised as interactive governance. We explore the main pressures that facilitators face and how these are negotiated in deliberative forms of policy-makin…
How and Why Patients Adhere to a Prescribed Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Background. Adherence to cardiac rehabilitation remains a challenge despite established evidence that engaging in regular exercise is a strong preventive measure to experiencing a second cardiac event. A recent study found a six-month cardiac rehabilitation program to be effective for facilitating regular exercise behavior among patients diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome. The purpose of this study was to conduct a phenomenological investigat…
Bridging the Gap between Research and the Community
The application of interventions to enhance mobility in ecological settings remain understudied. This study was developed to evaluate the feasibility of training methods in a community centre and to evaluate their impact on mobility outcomes. Fifty-four participants were randomized to one of three 12-week training programs (three times/week): aerobic (AE), gross motor abilities (GMA) or cognitive (COG). Feasibility was evaluated by calculating ad…
Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Long-Covid-19 Patients with Persistent Breathlessness and Fatigue
(1) Background: Cardiopulmonary and brain functions are frequently impaired after COVID-19 infection. Exercise rehabilitation could have a major impact on the healing process of patients affected by long COVID-19. (2) Methods: The COVID-Rehab study will investigate the effectiveness of an eight-week cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program on cardiorespiratory fitness (V ̇O 2 max) in long-COVID-19 individuals. Secondary objectives will include func…
Expertise and Participatory Governance
The need for democratic control of the application of expert knowledge is a common refrain in debates on the democratization of policy making. However, there has been relatively little attention empirically to how expert knowledge is integrated into local participatory processes. This paper analyzes how the assessments of local officers and external consultants are incorporated in a diversity of local participatory processes in Spain between 2007…
Facilitating Exercise Habit Formation among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients
The experimental group showed an increase in weekly moderate-to-vigorous level physical activity, M = 228.20 mins (SD = 112.45), compared with the control group, M = 151.17 (SD = 112.22), d = 0.61. The experimental condition also showed greater use of routine consistency (experimental: M = 4.60 (SD = 0.548); control: M = 3.76 (SD = 1.62)) and cue usage (experimental: M = 3.60 (SD = 0.471); control: M= 2.60 (SD = 0.398)) over the control condition…
A Comparison of the Effect of Physical Activity and Cognitive Training on Dual-Task Performance in Older Adults
The results show that physical and cognitive training can help enhance dual-task performance by improving different aspects of the task, suggesting that different mechanisms are in play
Developing the Public Participation Field
This article examines how independent bodies for public participation (IBPPs) can initiate a convergence around practices among actors in the public participation field, especially sponsors of participatory arrangements and the associated participation firms. As IBPPs have the public resources and legal authority to independently organize participatory arrangements, they can play a coordinating role in the public participation field. A comparison…
Public engagement and its practitioners
Association between Statin Use and Balance in Older Adults
Background: Several medications have been associated with an increased risk of balance deficits and greater likelihood to sustain a fall, representing a large health and economic issue. Statins are regularly prescribed to prevent strokes and heart attacks, but their impact on balance is unknown. The aim of this paper was to determine whether statin use is associated with poorer balance performances in older adults. Methods: All participants, one …
Cardiorespiratory Fitness Mediates Cognitive Performance in Chronic Heart Failure Patients and Heart Transplant Recipients
We compared cognitive profiles in chronic heart failure patients (HF), heart transplant recipients (HT) and healthy controls (HC) and examined the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (V ̇O 2peak ), peak cardiac output (CO peak ) and cognitive performance. Stable HT patients ( n = 11), HF patients ( n = 11) and HC ( n = 13) (61.5 ± 8.5 years) were recruited. Four cognitive composite scores targeting different cognitive functions were co…
Synergistic Effects of Cognitive Training and Physical Exercise on Dual-Task Performance in Older Adults
Results suggest that the combination of cognitive and physical training protocols exerted a synergistic effect on task-set cost which reflects the cost of maintaining multiple response alternatives, whereas cognitive training specifically improved dual-task cost, which reflects the ability of synchronizing concurrent tasks
Physical Exercise Training Effect and Mediation Through Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Dual-Task Performances Differ in Younger–Old and Older–Old Adults
Results are discussed in terms of the mechanisms supporting DT performance improvement following physical exercise training in older adults
Quarante ans de participation publique en environnement, aménagement du territoire et urbanisme au Québec
En près de 40 ans, les revendications pour plus de participation et de transparence, ainsi que la diffusion du principe de développement durable ont profondément transformé les secteurs de l'environnement, de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme. Au fil des décennies, divers types de dispositifs de participation publique ont vu le jour dans ces deux secteurs d'activité qui ont permis de démocratiser le rapport gouvernants / gouvernés et …
The Participatory Democracy Turn
The Professionalization of Public Participation
Participatory Democracy Turn
The participatory democracy turn
Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and techniques have been at the core of decision-making processes in a variety of sectors of society and of policy domains around the world – a phenomenon
The promise for democratic deepening
Participatory processes (PPs) implemented around the world in the last 20 years have not led to critical social transformations, as was expected when participatory democracy was first projected. However, this kind of democratic innovation has continued to proliferate. In this context, the political effects of PPs must be examined more closely to understand their influence in deepening, or not, democracy. Based on six Spanish cases, the study focu…
Benefits of Physical Exercise Training on Cognition and Quality of Life in Frail Older Adults
Physical exercise training leads to improved cognitive functioning and psychological well-being in frail older adults
Analyse écologique des déterminants de la participation électorale municipale au Québec
Au Canada, la participation électorale à l’échelle municipale est plus faible qu'aux autres échelles de gouvernement et les raisons susceptibles d'expliquer ce moindre engagement sont encore mal connues. À partir des taux de participation à la mairie aux élections de 2005 et de 2009 dans l'ensemble des municipalités du Québec (n = 949), la recherche teste 15 hypothèses explicatives de la participation électorale municipale. Les résultats montrent…
The Diversity of Public Participation Tools
The objective of this article is to understand the relations of complementarity and competition between participation mechanisms, a topic that has as yet attracted little empirical investigation, although there is discussion on this issue in the public participation literature. We study the cases of Montreal and Quebec City, where, since the amalgamations in 2002, a public assembly/referendum process has been added to the participation tools alre…
What Is Informal Participation
Successful and Unsuccessful Participatory Arrangements
The objective of this article is to explore some of the reasons for the growing number of participatory arrangements at the local level. An approach in terms of governance allows us to examine the underlying patterns of logic that induce public authorities to develop new policy tools such as participatory arrangements. Our study focuses on a medium-sized French city, Bordeaux, where eight types of relatively weak participatory arrangements have b…
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts
While there is a growing interest in citizen-led initiatives, there is still no consensus on how to situate them, especially in relation to state institutions. On the one hand, citizen-led initiatives are seen as being co-opted by formal institutions in a context of austerity. On the other hand, these initiatives are often presented as “spaces of resistance” to neoliberalism, or as political acts of reclaiming the city. Mapping and tracing urban …
Faire la politique soi-même
La littérature sur l'engagement militant a caractérisé les transformations récentes du militantisme comme faisant partie d'un processus de « personnalisation du politique ». Pour des raisons structurelles et/ou culturelles, les citoyens engagés développeraient un nouveau rapport au politique, recherchant une satisfaction personnelle dans leur engagement. Nous proposons une lecture alternative, interprétant plutôt cette transformation comme dudo-i…
Age-Related Differences in Response Preparation
This study explored the ability of younger and older participants to use a variable preparatory interval (PI) to enhance reaction time (RT) performance. In Experiment 1, 30 seniors and 15 young adults completed simple and choice RT tasks with short and long variable PIs. RT decreased with increasing PI duration in both younger and older adults, but the PI effect was larger in elderly individuals. The results of Experiment 2 (20 seniors and 20 you…
Participatory Democracy, Decentralization and Local Governance
The intent of this article is to reflect on the notion of empowered participatory governance in order to gain a better understanding of the institutional contexts and parameters that encourage a more participative democracy, and thereby bring to light the political mechanisms that contribute to broadening the decision-making process. The example we consider is theMontrealParticipativeBudget (PB). We focus on the impact of decentralization, more s…
L'apolitisme municipal
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur.L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
Developing the Public Participation Field
This article examines how independent bodies for public participation (IBPPs) can initiate a convergence around practices among actors in the public participation field, especially sponsors of participatory arrangements and the associated participation firms. As IBPPs have the public resources and legal authority to independently organize participatory arrangements, they can play a coordinating role in the public participation field. A comparison…
Public engagement and its practitioners
Physical Functioning Is Associated With Processing Speed and Executive Functions in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
These results suggest that cognition is related to simple performance-based physical tests and highlight the importance of intervention studies aimed at enhancing cognitive and physical functioning in older adults
The Spatial Puzzle of Mobilising for Car Alternatives in the Montreal City-region
Scholars have recently advocated going beyond a fetishism for one spatiality to consider a diversity of socio-spatial relations in the study of political mobilisation. The objective of this article is to propose an operationalisation of the four spatialities framework (networks, scale, place and territory) and use it in an investigation of the mobilisation for car alternatives in the Montreal city-region. The approach is to start with the spatial…
Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise
The politics of third actors
Public participation professionals (PPPs) are individuals hired to design, implement, and facilitate participatory forums. Since PPPs are seen as third actors who ensure that dialogue between sponsors and citizens in these forums is fair and open, perceived impartiality is important to their profession. While studies on the impartiality of PPPs have mostly focused on their interactions with citizens in these kinds of forums, less attention has be…
Introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organise various forms of collaboration between governments and citizens that elsewhere have been conceptualised as interactive governance. We explore the main pressures that facilitators face and how these are negotiated in deliberative forms of policy-makin…
Quarante ans de participation publique en environnement, aménagement du territoire et urbanisme au Québec
En près de 40 ans, les revendications pour plus de participation et de transparence, ainsi que la diffusion du principe de développement durable ont profondément transformé les secteurs de l'environnement, de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme. Au fil des décennies, divers types de dispositifs de participation publique ont vu le jour dans ces deux secteurs d'activité qui ont permis de démocratiser le rapport gouvernants / gouvernés et …
Limited Benefits of Heterogeneous Dual-Task Training on Transfer Effects in Older Adults
Heterogeneous training showed modest advantages over homogeneous training. Results also suggest that transfer effects on dual-task cost induced by training take place early on in the post-training session. These findings provide valuable insights on benefits arising from variability in the training protocol for maximizing transfer effects
Note De Recherche
Age-Related Differences in Response Preparation
This study explored the ability of younger and older participants to use a variable preparatory interval (PI) to enhance reaction time (RT) performance. In Experiment 1, 30 seniors and 15 young adults completed simple and choice RT tasks with short and long variable PIs. RT decreased with increasing PI duration in both younger and older adults, but the PI effect was larger in elderly individuals. The results of Experiment 2 (20 seniors and 20 you…
Le cheminement du projet de conseils de quartier à Québec (1965-2006)
Les fondements de la démocratie locale s’appuient généralement sur une idéologie selon laquelle la participation des citoyens est plus facile à cette échelle. Dans cette optique, les municipalités sont des « démocraties naturelles » exemptes de conflit. Or, l’introduction d’instances participatives amène à revoir ce postulat d’apolitisme. En retraçant plus de quarante ans de la vie municipale à Québec, cet article démontre comment l’idée de conse…
La ville
La ville : laboratoire des enjeux démocratiques contemporains. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (La ville : laboratoire des enjeux démocratiques contemporains) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Le débat public
Le débat public : une expérience française de démocratie participative, Martine Revel, Cécile Blatrix, Loïc Blondiaux, Jean-Michel Fourniau, Bertrand Hériard Dubreuil, Rémi Lefebvre (dir.), Paris: La Découverte, 2007, 412 pages. - Volume 41 Issue 4
Local Democracy under Siege
A High Level of Physical Fitness Is Associated With More Efficient Response Preparation in Older Adults
This study assessed the relationship between cardiovascular fitness and temporal preparation in elderly persons. 110 older adults (aged 60-69 or 70-79 years) were sorted into low- and high-fit groups based on aerobic fitness level estimated with a walking test. Response preparation processes were assessed with reaction time tasks in which short (1, 3, 5 s) and long (5, 7, 9 s) preparatory intervals varied randomly. The results suggest a better ab…
Successful and Unsuccessful Participatory Arrangements
The objective of this article is to explore some of the reasons for the growing number of participatory arrangements at the local level. An approach in terms of governance allows us to examine the underlying patterns of logic that induce public authorities to develop new policy tools such as participatory arrangements. Our study focuses on a medium-sized French city, Bordeaux, where eight types of relatively weak participatory arrangements have b…
La métropolisation et ses territoires
Souvent associe a la formation d’un environnement politique coherent, la region metropolitaine apparait plutot comme une mosaique de territoires autonomes potentiellement en conflit les uns avec les autres. Du quartier a l’arrondissement, de la municipalite a la communaute metropolitaine, le phenomene de metropolisation met en opposition ces territoires tout en complexifiant les structures politiques et en accentuant les tensions entre les differ…
Les élections municipales au Québec
Quel est l’état de la démocratie municipale québécoise ? Comment se déroule la politique à l’échelle locale? Quelles sont les forces politiques en présence ? Dans cet ouvrage, une équipe interdisciplinaire de chercheurs explore cette question en dressant le portrait politique des plus grandes villes du Québec aux lendemains des élections municipales de 2009. Dans le domaine des études électorales, contrairement aux autres paliers de gouvernement,…
Les relations ambiguës entre participation et politiques publiques
L’objectif de cet article est de tracer un bilan des études consacrées à la participation dans le champ d’analyse de l’administration et des politiques publiques (APP). Même si la participation publique peut potentiellement renouveler le cadre d’action des acteurs des politiques publiques, l’APP s’est relativement peu intéressée à ce nouveau phénomène. Les analyses sont consacrées principalement à : 1) des discussions prescriptives sur les besoin…
Élections Municipales au Québec
Benefits of Physical Exercise Training on Cognition and Quality of Life in Frail Older Adults
Physical exercise training leads to improved cognitive functioning and psychological well-being in frail older adults
The Diversity of Public Participation Tools
The objective of this article is to understand the relations of complementarity and competition between participation mechanisms, a topic that has as yet attracted little empirical investigation, although there is discussion on this issue in the public participation literature. We study the cases of Montreal and Quebec City, where, since the amalgamations in 2002, a public assembly/referendum process has been added to the participation tools alre…
L'apolitisme municipal
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur.L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
Participatory Democracy, Decentralization and Local Governance
The intent of this article is to reflect on the notion of empowered participatory governance in order to gain a better understanding of the institutional contexts and parameters that encourage a more participative democracy, and thereby bring to light the political mechanisms that contribute to broadening the decision-making process. The example we consider is theMontrealParticipativeBudget (PB). We focus on the impact of decentralization, more s…
Physical Functioning Is Associated With Processing Speed and Executive Functions in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
These results suggest that cognition is related to simple performance-based physical tests and highlight the importance of intervention studies aimed at enhancing cognitive and physical functioning in older adults
The Spatial Puzzle of Mobilising for Car Alternatives in the Montreal City-region
Scholars have recently advocated going beyond a fetishism for one spatiality to consider a diversity of socio-spatial relations in the study of political mobilisation. The objective of this article is to propose an operationalisation of the four spatialities framework (networks, scale, place and territory) and use it in an investigation of the mobilisation for car alternatives in the Montreal city-region. The approach is to start with the spatial…
Analyse écologique des déterminants de la participation électorale municipale au Québec
Au Canada, la participation électorale à l’échelle municipale est plus faible qu'aux autres échelles de gouvernement et les raisons susceptibles d'expliquer ce moindre engagement sont encore mal connues. À partir des taux de participation à la mairie aux élections de 2005 et de 2009 dans l'ensemble des municipalités du Québec (n = 949), la recherche teste 15 hypothèses explicatives de la participation électorale municipale. Les résultats montrent…
Limited Benefits of Heterogeneous Dual-Task Training on Transfer Effects in Older Adults
Heterogeneous training showed modest advantages over homogeneous training. Results also suggest that transfer effects on dual-task cost induced by training take place early on in the post-training session. These findings provide valuable insights on benefits arising from variability in the training protocol for maximizing transfer effects
Faire la politique soi-même
La littérature sur l'engagement militant a caractérisé les transformations récentes du militantisme comme faisant partie d'un processus de « personnalisation du politique ». Pour des raisons structurelles et/ou culturelles, les citoyens engagés développeraient un nouveau rapport au politique, recherchant une satisfaction personnelle dans leur engagement. Nous proposons une lecture alternative, interprétant plutôt cette transformation comme dudo-i…
The participatory democracy turn
Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and techniques have been at the core of decision-making processes in a variety of sectors of society and of policy domains around the world – a phenomenon
The promise for democratic deepening
Participatory processes (PPs) implemented around the world in the last 20 years have not led to critical social transformations, as was expected when participatory democracy was first projected. However, this kind of democratic innovation has continued to proliferate. In this context, the political effects of PPs must be examined more closely to understand their influence in deepening, or not, democracy. Based on six Spanish cases, the study focu…
The Professionalization of Public Participation
Participatory Democracy Turn
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