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Perception des acteurs sociaux oeuvrant au sein des entreprises d'économie sociale du comté de Kent (sud-est) du Nouveau-Brunswick sur l'extraction du gaz de schiste
Get PDF"L'objectif de cette recherche est de mieux comprendre comment la perception du risque et le cadrage (framing) sont utilisés par les membres d'organismes d'économie sociale pour concevoir l'exploitation possible du gaz de schiste dans le comté de Kent."statement of responsibility: Timothy Bell.thesis: Thèse (M.É.E. Études de l'environnement ) -- Université de Moncton, Faculté des études supérieures et de la recherche, 2013.bibliography: Comprend des réf. bibliogr.: f. 106-118 f.reproduction: Également disponible sur microfiches et en version électronique. Les pages contenant des informations personnelles ne sont pas reproduites
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Consumer Credit in Canada: A Regulatory Patchwork
No full textVu l’accès illimité au crédit à la consommation et son utilisation accrue qui en résulte au Canada, et compte tenu de l’abandon progressif par le gouvernement fédéral de toute réglementation à cet égard depuis le début de la Confédération, les provinces et territoires ont progressivement adopté des lois provinciales et territoriales de protection des consommateurs visant à réglementer le secteur du crédit à la consommation et à protéger les consommateurs vulnérables.
Un examen des cadres législatifs provinciaux et territoriaux actuels régissant le crédit à la consommation révèle des divergences et des limites importantes. Compte tenu de l’expansion du secteur du crédit à la consommation et de la vulnérabilité inhérente des consommateurs, le présent article confirme la nécessité et l’urgence de renforcer la protection financière des consommateurs et propose des pistes de réforme possibles.
Il est recommandé que le Parlement réaffirme sa compétence fédérale prépondérante sur la question des intérêts afin de mettre en œuvre un cadre national complet en matière de crédit à la consommation et de promouvoir un secteur du crédit durable et responsable tout en veillant à ce que les consommateurs canadiens soient non seulement mieux protégés contre les pratiques de prêt abusives et usuraires, mais aussi mieux équipés pour accroître leur santé et leur bien-être financiers.udemauteur: Micheline Gleixne
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Consumer Credit in Canada: A Regulatory Patchwork
No full textWith unlimited access and consequent increased use of consumer credit in Canada and the federal government’s gradual abandonment of consumer credit regulation since Confederation, Provinces and Territories have progressively enacted provincial consumer protection legislation aiming to regulate the consumer credit industry and protect vulnerable consumers.
A review of current provincial and territorial legislative frameworks governing consumer credit reveals significant discrepancies and limitations. Given the expansion of the consumer credit industry and the inherent vulnerability of consumers, the article confirms the need and urgency of strengthening financial consumer protection and provides possible avenues of reform.
It is recommended that Parliament reassert its paramount federal jurisdiction over interest to implement a national comprehensive consumer credit framework in order to promote a sustainable and responsible credit industry while ensuring that Canadian consumers are not only better protected from abusive and predatory lending practices but better equipped to increase their financial health and well- being.
Vu l’accès illimité au crédit à la consommation et son utilisation accrue qui en résulte au Canada, et compte tenu de l’abandon progressif par le gouvernement fédéral de toute réglementation à cet égard depuis le début de la Confédération, les provinces et territoires ont progressivement adopté des lois provinciales et territoriales de protection des consommateurs visant à réglementer le secteur du crédit à la consommation et à protéger les consommateurs vulnérables.
Un examen des cadres législatifs provinciaux et territoriaux actuels régissant le crédit à la consommation révèle des divergences et des limites importantes. Compte tenu de l’expansion du secteur du crédit à la consommation et de la vulnérabilité inhérente des consommateurs, le présent article confirme la nécessité et l’urgence de renforcer la protection financière des consommateurs et propose des pistes de réforme possibles.
Il est recommandé que le Parlement réaffirme sa compétence fédérale prépondérante sur la question des intérêts afin de mettre en œuvre un cadre national complet en matière de crédit à la consommation et de promouvoir un secteur du crédit durable et responsable tout en veillant à ce que les consommateurs canadiens soient non seulement mieux protégés contre les pratiques de prêt abusives et usuraires, mais aussi mieux équipés pour accroître leur santé et leur bien-être financiers
Consumer Credit in Canada: A Regulatory Patchwork
Get PDFWith unlimited access and consequent increased use of consumer credit in Canada and the federal government’s gradual abandonment of consumer credit regulation since Confederation, Provinces and Territories have progressively enacted provincial consumer protection legislation aiming to regulate the consumer credit industry and protect vulnerable consumers.
A review of current provincial and territorial legislative frameworks governing consumer credit reveals significant discrepancies and limitations. Given the expansion of the consumer credit industry and the inherent vulnerability of consumers, the article confirms the need and urgency of strengthening financial consumer protection and provides possible avenues of reform.
It is recommended that Parliament reassert its paramount federal jurisdiction over interest to implement a national comprehensive consumer credit framework in order to promote a sustainable and responsible credit industry while ensuring that Canadian consumers are not only better protected from abusive and predatory lending practices but better equipped to increase their financial health and well- being.
Vu l’accès illimité au crédit à la consommation et son utilisation accrue qui en résulte au Canada, et compte tenu de l’abandon progressif par le gouvernement fédéral de toute réglementation à cet égard depuis le début de la Confédération, les provinces et territoires ont progressivement adopté des lois provinciales et territoriales de protection des consommateurs visant à réglementer le secteur du crédit à la consommation et à protéger les consommateurs vulnérables.
Un examen des cadres législatifs provinciaux et territoriaux actuels régissant le crédit à la consommation révèle des divergences et des limites importantes. Compte tenu de l’expansion du secteur du crédit à la consommation et de la vulnérabilité inhérente des consommateurs, le présent article confirme la nécessité et l’urgence de renforcer la protection financière des consommateurs et propose des pistes de réforme possibles.
Il est recommandé que le Parlement réaffirme sa compétence fédérale prépondérante sur la question des intérêts afin de mettre en œuvre un cadre national complet en matière de crédit à la consommation et de promouvoir un secteur du crédit durable et responsable tout en veillant à ce que les consommateurs canadiens soient non seulement mieux protégés contre les pratiques de prêt abusives et usuraires, mais aussi mieux équipés pour accroître leur santé et leur bien-être financiers
Strengthening Financial Consumer Protection in Canada: The Evolutionary Path Towards a National Consumer Credit Code
No full textWith the exponential growth and greater accessibility of consumer credit, households in Canada are experiencing increasing levels of indebtedness and financial distress. Despite the permeation of credit in our everyday lives, vulnerable financial consumers are often victims of predatory and abusive lending practices of the consumer credit industry, leading to overindebtedness and even bankruptcy. To encourage and inspire legislative reform to better protect financial consumers and modernize the regulatory framework, this dissertation critically analyzes the evolution of consumer credit regulation in its historical, social and economic context.
The research reveals a rich history of consumer credit federal statutes since Confederation. Despite their questionable effectiveness to protect financial consumers, statutes regulating pawnbroking, money-lending, small loans, consumer loan companies and banks framed the evolution of the consumer credit industry until the 1960s. Future reforms were tempered by the restrictive constitutional interpretation given by the Supreme Court of Canada to the federal jurisdiction over interest in 1963, which created uncertainty in Parliament’s authority to regulate the industry and resulted in the gradual abandonment of federal consumer credit regulation. Filling this void, provinces progressively enacted a vast array of provincial consumer protection legislation to regulate the consumer credit industry and protect vulnerable consumers. Federal legislation was limited thereafter to the enactment of a criminal interest rate and the regulatory framework of federally regulated financial institutions and the consumer credit products and services they offered. The research further revealed gradual regulatory reforms of the financial services industry and the recent strengthening of federal consumer protection provisions and the mandates of federal consumer protection authorities.
The thesis confirms that the consumer credit regulatory framework in Canada remains an ineffective and fragmented patchwork of statutes and regulations divided among 3 levels of governments in 13 jurisdictions. With Parliament’s refusal to legislate to the full limit of its power in relation to consumer credit, the thesis further confirms the federal constitutional jurisdiction to regulate this growing industry and proposes a new comprehensive national legal framework regulating the entire consumer credit industry as well as enhanced consumer protection provisions to better protection financial consumers and prevent consumer overindebtedness
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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