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Territory and Spatial Mechanism in Action: a Possible Barrier to Youth Employment/La dynamique territorial et spatial en action: un possible obstacle à l’emploi chez les jeunes
No full textIn this brief paper we will consider space
and territory in general, taking into
consideration at the same time rural and
urban areas. Although our focus will be
on the barriers to employment for youth,
it is important to recognize that
territories also have a positive influence
(for example through social ties,
networks) on labour market integration
and more generally on individual and
social development
L’intégration socioprofessionnelle des jeunes en difficulté socio-économique et l’importance des initiatives locales
No full textEn adoptant des perspectives diverses, issues de différentes disciplines (linguistique, traductologie, analyse du discours, littérature, sociologie, urbanisme, étude du paysage, géographie, histoire, etc.) et en s’inspirant dʼapproches théoriques actuelles, les participants se sont penchés sur le thème du bien-être en ville. Les travaux ont débordé largement de l’approche médico-sociale que sous-tend le titre du colloque et dans laquelle on évalue avec intérêt les effets d’une politique sur le bien-être des citoyens. C’est aussi sous l’impulsion des paradigmes identitaires que nous avons approfondi le thème que nous nous sommes donné. Il nous semble en effet que l’étude du vivre ensemble implique de se pencher sur les paradigmes constitutifs de l’identité, à la rencontre desquels l’individu se confronte au croisement des différences linguistiques, culturelles et sociales qui enrichissent et font battre le cœur de la société. Lʼouvrage comprend les contributions de Paola Puccini, Dino Gavinelli, Paolo Molinari, Marco Alberio, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Maurizio Bergamaschi, Harold Bérubé, Anna Giaufret, Jean-François Plamondon, Sophie Bienvenu, Cristiano Felice, Sherry Simon et Gerardo Acerenza
Covid 19 : Quels effets sur le travail et l’emploi
No full textLa pandémie de COVID 19 a eu un effet très fort et négatif dans plusieurs secteurs de la
société et de l’économie au Québec, au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde.
Comme nous allons le montrer dans cette introduction, ainsi que dans chacun des
articles de ce numéro, la pandémie semble avoir exacerbé des inégalités déjà présentes
sur le marché du travail et de l’emploi. Elle a en fait agi comme accélérateur de certains
processus structurels déjà en cours et mis en évidence les incongruités et problèmes
associés aux transformations socioéconomiques en cours depuis trente ou quarante
ans, comme la mondialisation et le modèle de développement tel qu’il a été jusqu’à
maintenant pensé et mis en place. En raison de sa force de frappe et de son impact
global (nonobstant les différences nationales et territoriales), cette crise met donc en
évidence les transformations au sein des principales sphères sociétales (État, marché,
famille/communauté) et à l’intersection de celles-ci. Elle influe également sur les
chaînes de production, dont elle a mis en évidence les fragilités et les ruptures.
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L’innovazione sociale tra sviluppo territoriale e trasformazione sociale: il caso del Québec
No full textThe paper aims at analysing the role of social innovation processes within territorial development. Departing from a theoretical examination of the concept of social innovation, the analysis deals with the relations between socially innovative processes and territorial dynamics. In particular, through the analysis of the case of Québec, characterized by a heterogeneous network of socioeconomic and institutional actors, the paper examines the mobilization of collective capacities and its consequences in terms of social change
Le cas des entreprises d'insertion au Québec : une innovation en économie sociale pour le sou-tien de l'emploi des jeunes?
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Les territoires ruraux de l’est du Québec à l’épreuve de la Covid19. Marginalisation et exclusion sociales des personnes aînées ?
No full textSince the beginning of the pandemic, the elderly have been identified as being among the most
at risk of developing complications in case of contamination by the Covid-19 virus. In Quebec,
as in many parts of the world, specific measures have been put in place to protect them,
focusing on limiting physical and social contacts, with repercussions on their social and
psychological well-being. In this article, we are particularly interested in the situation
experienced by seniors in rural areas and seek to highlight the socio-territorial effects of this
health crisis on the elderly by identifying, on the one hand, the deleterious effects that
accentuate their vulnerability and, on the other hand, the protective and supportive measures
that enable seniors to cope with this pandemic. Based on a qualitative analysis, our article
highlights several possible approaches to the complex relationship between crisis, aging and
territory, taking into consideration simultaneously the feeling of belonging, access to resources
and services, solidarity, and the participation of people in the dynamics of their living
environment. While several factors, such as geographic characteristics, community and family
solidarity, and volunteer involvement, made the lives of seniors easier during the pandemic,
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others made them more vulnerable. Among them, the feeling of a gap between the measures
taken and the reality experienced, the reinforcement of difficulties in accessing care and
services as well as the weakening of the operations of the territories due to the massive loss of
volunteers aged 70 and over, forced to limit their activities
A reduced-order model for the preliminary design of small-scale radial inflow turbines
No full textPower production from waste heat recovery represents an attractive and viable solution to contribute to the reduction of pollutant emissions generated by industrial plants and automotive sector. For transport applications, a promising technology can be identified in bottoming mini-organic Rankine cycles (ORCs), devoted to heat recovery from internal combustion engines (ICE). While commercial ORCs exploiting turbo-expanders in the power range of hundreds kW to several MW are a mature technology, well-established design guidelines are not yet available for turbines targeting small power outputs (below 50 kW). The present work develops a reduced-order model for the preliminary design of mini-ORC radial inflow turbines (RITs) for high-pressure ratio applications, suitable to be integrated in a comprehensive cycle optimization. An exhaustive review of existing loss models, whose development pattern is retraced up to the original approaches, is proposed. This investigation is finalized in a loss models effectiveness analysis performed by testing several correlations over six existing geometries. These test case turbines, operating with different fluids and covering a wide range of target expansion ratio, size, and gross power output, are then employed to carry out the validation procedure, whose results prove the robustness and prediction capability of the proposed reduced-order model
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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