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Sous un regard analytico-comparatif, cette réflexion se préoccupe de la question de la diversification de l’économie de la République Démocratique du Congo. Elle part de la comparaison des indicateurs macroéconomiques du pays, en prenant en compte les tendances africaine et mondiale des exportations et des importations, en vue de ressortir le potentiel que la RD. Congo viserait pour capter des fonds dans les échanges internationaux. L’étude aboutit à la conclusion salon laquelle, la RD. Congo aurait la possibilité de relancer sa croissance grâce à la diversification de sa production et de ses exportations par la mise en place d’une politique permissive des exportations et des importations. Certes, elle informe qu’outre les produits miniers, le pays possède une liste de 25 produits prioritaires non miniers aptes à quintupler les valeurs des exportations, soit 52,2 milliards sur cinq années. Voilà, pourquoi, l’étude plaide pour des politiques économiques cohérentes (son Plan d’industrialisation, la stratégie nationale de promotion des exportations et de diversification de marché (SPED), par exemple), qui doivent soutenir la trilogie: Production-Transformation-Commerce.

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Cette étude affirme que tous les Etats, peu importe leur puissance et leurs moyens financiers ne sont pas à mesure d’assurer de manière souveraine et autonome leur propre sécurité. Elle conclut que l’efficacité de la sécurité et de défense collectives de la Sadc notamment passera à l’amélioration de son cadre organique d’abord et à l’adoption d’une doctrine sécuritaire qui s’alignerait sur le modèle de l’Otan qui ferait de la solidarité sécuritaire une base morale obligatoire à l’interne et à l’externe.

L’auteur décrit et analyse l’ensemble des récits connus de la dispersion du peuple tetela à partir d’un lieu mythique originel où les trois fils de l’ancêtre Onkutshu, Ngandu, Njovu et Watambolo, se sont séparés. Dans chacune des neuf variantes, la scission résulte d’un conflit. En comparant entre elles toutes les versions, deux mythèmes récurrents s’en dégagent, chacun mettant en scène une cause différente de la querelle à l’origine de la séparation : l’impossible partage de la tête de l’antilope mboloko, d’une part, et le difficile choix du successeur au chef, d’autre part. Aujourd’hui, les groupes lignagers se réclamant des trois fils d’Onkutshu sont dispersés à travers tout le territoire. De même, les deux mythèmes menant à la scission sont souvent associés dans une seule et même version, symbolisant ainsi la manière dont les Tetela ont à la fois triomphé des bouleversements environnementaux et ont adopté de nouvelles structures politiques et rituelles.

• A novel performance benchmarking methodology is proposed for large number of bus ACs. • Autoencoder-based similarity measurement method is proposed to identify comparable peer samples. • Statistical analysis-based trend and change detection algorithms are designed to identify anomalous operation. • Experiments are conducted on groups of field operating bus ACs for validation. Bus air conditioners (ACs) are responsible for providing a comfortable cabin environment for passengers. Identifying the bus ACs with degraded performance from a large number of city buses is a critical and challenging task in the development of smart cities. This study developed a data-driven benchmarking methodology to detect anomalous operations with degraded energy performance from a large number of bus ACs. For each target AC to be benchmarked, its similar operation data in other ACs, termed comparable peer samples, are first identified by a Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) autoencoder-based similarity measurement method. The comparable peer samples are then used to develop a LSTM network-based reference model for predicting the power consumption of the target AC. A key energy performance indicator termed power consumption ratio (PCR) is defined for the target AC as the ratio of its measured power to the predicted power. Statistical analysis-based trend and change detection algorithms are designed to identify a trend or change of PCR over a few days for anomalous detection. To validate the benchmarking methodology, two fault experiments were conducted in field-operating bus ACs, and the results show encouraging potentials of the proposed methodology for health monitoring of a large number of ACs serving the city bus fleet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on GenUrb's comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women's everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to engage women living in neighbourhoods characterized by underdevelopment and economic insecurity. While existing conditions of precarity trouble the before-and-after terminology of Covid-19, across the five cities the narratives of women's everyday lives reveal shifts in spatial-temporal orders that have deepened gendered and racial exclusions. We find that limited mobilities and the different and changing dimensions of production and social reproduction have led to increased care work, violence, and strained mental health. Finally, we also find that social reproduction solidarities, constituting old and new circuits of care, have been reinforced during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article targets the reasons that are behind behaviour orientation in the vaccination process against COVID-19. The data we are using come from the Flash Eurobarometer 494, collected in May 2021. The key dependent variable puts together vaccination intentions (soon, later on in 2021, undecided, later, never) and the fact of being vaccinated or not. A multivariate and multilevel analysis confirms the validity of an extended theory of planned behaviour in explaining the orientation to the vaccination against COVID-19. The space patterning of the behaviours is highly marked by differences among Old versus the New Member States of the European Union, clusters of countries, urban versus rural areas, and also by a function of trust in relevant institutions, and customs of using vaccination to cope with different diseases as an adult. New questions and hypotheses are generated by multiple comparisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing the performance of international organizations (IOs) in a comparative manner is of high importance. Yet IOs differ remarkably, which renders comparisons difficult. This article examines IO output productivity as an important precondition for IOs to have effects on their members (outcome) and on the ground (impact). We distinguish between the number and volume of IO policy outputs and measure both productivity components for ninety-eight IOs. Drawing on Easton's system theory, we derive several hypotheses on how input, throughput, and feedback loop factors impact output productivity and examine them with quantitative methods. This reveals that input matters as IOs with more member states are likely to have broader meeting agendas and a higher number of items on the negotiation agenda, which furthers the output productivity of IOs. Throughput matters as well as. Whereas IOs with high meeting frequencies give delegates more opportunities to negotiate and pass policies, which increases the number and volume of outputs, the access of non-state actors to negotiations slows down the decision-making process, which reduces IO output productivity. Finally, with respect to the feedback loop, this article shows that transparent decision-making exerts an accountability pressure on delegates, which has a positive effect on IO output productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rural schools take different forms in each country and develop common and divergent teaching practices in comparison to urban schools. In Spain we have different types of schools and this constitutes a complex reality. However, we hardly have comparative studies between regions that show the peculiarities of the different types of schools available. In this article, which adopts a quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (in-depth interviews) design, we analyse the similarities and differences that exist between the dynamics of teaching in rural schools in the north (Cantabria) and in the south of Spain (Huelva). The results compare four variables (environment, schools, teachers, students and families) in three types of schools (teaching practice, curriculum development, teaching materials and attention to diversity). The conclusions show contrasts with regard to innovation, attention to diversity or teaching staff; and similarities in curricular aspects such as the tendency to use textbooks or the dynamics of teaching within the different types of rural schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media play a key role in informing public opinion during refugee crises. Representations of refugees in the media shape public understanding of what a 'refugee' is and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude. Although extensive literature has examined representations of refugees in news media, few systematic comparative investigations look at discourses across types of immigration countries. In this article, the author compares news coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK, to consider how media discourse is affected by a nation's historical relationship with and current policies of immigration. The author follows existing literature in arguing that the dominant discourses in the newspapers racialize refugees through a 'victim–pariah' couplet, and further argues that this shared model of racialized representation serves the particular nation-building projects and asylum regimes in the two countries. In addition, a comparison between coverage in newspapers that represent divergent political orientations shows that news stories that attempt to 'give voice' to refugees are more prevalent in the more left-leaning newspapers in both countries. Nonetheless, these attempts to 're-humanize' refugees do not invalidate the Orientalist image of refugees as passive victims without agency and history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The legalization of cannabis has necessitated a debate about the specific public or private places in which the consumption of cannabis should be lawfully allowed. Relevant federal, and state or provincial, laws governing the public consumption of cannabis as of April 2020 were retrieved through primary legal research in LexisNexis and official government websites. Across various states and provinces within the United States and Canada, three types of cannabis-related regulatory regimes have emerged. Quebec has adopted the most restrictive type of regulatory framework. Quebec generally prohibits the smoking or vaping of cannabis in both indoor and outdoor public places, by extending the restrictions on the use of tobacco and alcohol products to cannabis consumption. Slightly less restrictive are jurisdictions such as Ontario and British Columbia, which allow cannabis consumption in most outdoor public spaces, such as streets or parks. Certain local-level jurisdictions within the US states of California and Colorado have adopted the least restrictive local-level regulatory regime, by authorizing the operation of indoor cannabis consumption sites at certain fixed locations or within mobile spaces. The degree to which private consumption is allowed or prohibited also varies widely. An individual who lives or works in a jurisdiction such as Quebec that has prohibited the smoking or vaping of cannabis in almost all public places will be left with limited spaces in which to consume inhalable cannabis products. By contrast, a non-medical cannabis user who lives in Colorado, which authorizes on-site consumption at certain licensed establishments, has far more options to consume inhalable cannabis outside of the home. In this article, we will examine a range of federal-, state- or provincial-, and local-level laws that regulate cannabis consumption in certain public and private places and consider some of the potential public health and safety implications of these laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing popularity of the radical right, much research has tried to explain the motives of voters. Less attention has been paid to the motives of people to become radical right activists – specifically young people, a group with a high tendency to join right-wing parties. Within the context of the internationalisation of the radical right, this article draws on 28 narrative interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021 with young radical right activists in Poland and Germany, two countries with considerably different political and discursive opportunity structures. We propose to recognise a new motive for becoming involved in political activism: career-oriented individual self-realisation in Germany, as opposed to fulfilling a duty to the nation in Poland. While we identify two different types of radical activism within the different contexts – the (nationalist) anti-establishment populist career type in Germany and the (nationalist) anti-political intellectualism/elitism type in Poland – they both point to the normalisation of the radical right in the two countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article a pour objectif principal de soumettre à discussion une resignification du mot appropriation afin d’amplifier son horizon de compréhension. Pour ce faire, nous procéderons tout d’abord à une analyse morphologique et plus particulièrement sémantique. Ensuite, nous nous immergerons dans la littérature qui concerne ce concept par le biais de certains auteurs renommés. Pour conclure, nous proposerons d’ouvrir le débat sur son usage dans le domaine de la didactique des langues-cultures, notamment, du Français Langue Étrangère (FLE). Il convient de préciser que nous adopterons une perspective personnelle en tant qu’enseignant de langues-cultures au Mexique ; c’est pour cela que cette recherche a opté pour une méthodologie centrée sur le paradigme qualitatif à partir d’une analyse comparative conceptuelle afin de dévoiler l’évolution de la signification de ce concept dans l’histoire des idées.

• A new type of waste heat utilization mode of GEHP is proposed: auxiliary heating. • The character of auxiliary heating with waste heat recovery is researched. • The effects of two utilization modes of engine waste heat are compared. • The energy-saving advantage of system decreases with the increase of waste heat ratio. Gas engine-driven heat pump (GEHP) is attracting increasing interest owing to the high heating efficiency and energy-saving. However, the waste heat from engine is mostly used to directly heat domestic hot water. In this study, a new type of waste heat utilization mode of GEHP was proposed: auxiliary heating. The heating capacity, gas consumption, waste heat recovery and compression ratio of water-source GEHP system with waste heat auxiliary heating mode was studied. In addition, the effects of two utilization modes of engine waste heat domestic hot water (mode Ⅰ) and auxiliary heating (mode Ⅱ) on the thermodynamic parameters were compared. The results indicated that the system efficiency was decrease with engine speed. Even in high speed operation, the primary energy efficiency (PER) of the system was more than 1.55. Under the same range of condenser water inlet temperature, the COP of mode Ⅰ was in the range of 4.71–4.95, and that of mode Ⅱ was in the range of 5.17–5.67. The energy saving and emission saving were also researched. Compared with mode Ⅰ, mode Ⅱ had higher efficiency and less pollution to the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: Le circuit du médicament est un élément central de l'organisation d'un établissement de santé. L'objectif principal est de décrire le circuit du médicament dans deux centres hospitaliers universitaires (un français et un canadien), identifier et discuter les similitudes et différences. Méthode : Il s'agit d'une étude descriptive transversale de type qualitative menée d'août à septembre 2019. Deux établissements pédiatriques de santé ont été identifiés, soit l'hôpital universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades (HUNEM) à Paris, France et le centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ) à Montréal, Québec, Canada. À partir d'une séance de réflexion collective, nous avons développé une grille d'analyse incluant 22 items qui caractérisent le profil de chaque établissement, 23 liés au profil de la pharmacie à usage intérieur et 20 autres décrivant les étapes du circuit du médicament. Les membres de l'équipe de recherche de chaque établissement de santé ont complété le contenu de la grille, revu et commenté les réponses de l'autre établissement. Nous avons indiqué pour l'ensemble des items les similitudes ou différences entre les deux établissements. Résultats : Parmi les différences, on note un nombre de pharmaciens (36,4 vs 15 en équivalent temps plein) et de préparateurs en pharmacie (50 vs 23,3 en équivalent temps plein) deux fois plus élevé, une dispensation nominative et la préparation d'un plus grand nombre de doses dans un format prêt à l'emploi pour le personnel infirmier et un droit de prescription des pharmaciens au CHUSJ. À HUNEM, on observe un périmètre d'activité plus important, des dépenses plus importantes (95 vs 17 millions d'euros) et une robotisation davantage déployée. L'étude met en évidence 11 similitudes et 9 différences sur les 20 étapes du circuit du médicament. Conclusion : Il s'agit d'une étude décrivant le circuit du médicament dans deux centres hospitaliers universitaires : un canadien et un français. Il existe autant de similitudes que de différences entre les deux centres en ce qui concerne les services et soins pharmaceutiques. Il est difficile de comparer la pratique pharmaceutique au sein de deux établissements de santé provenant de deux pays, compte tenu du grand nombre d'éléments et de termes qui diffèrent. Ce type de comparaison nous paraît utile pour favoriser une meilleure compréhension des pratiques entre la France et le Canada. Elle peut également contribuer à favoriser l'évolution des services et soins dans chaque pays en profitant des données recueillies. D'autres échanges sont toutefois nécessaires afin d'évaluer les retombées des approches mises en place dans chaque pays. The drug circuit is central to the organization of a health facility. Objective : The main objective is to describe the drug circuit in a French and Canadian university hospital center, identify and discuss similarities and differences. Method : This is a qualitative cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from August to September 2019. Two pediatric health establishments have been identified, namely Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital (HUNEM) in Paris, France and the University Hospital Center Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From a brainstorming session, we developed an analysis grid including 22 items that characterize the profile of each institution, 23 items related to the profile of the indoor pharmacy and 20 others items describing the steps of the drug circuit. Research team members from each health facility completed the grid content, reviewed and commented on the other institution's responses. For all items, we indicated the similarities or differences between the two hospitals. Results : Among the differences were a number of pharmacists (36.4 vs 15) and pharmacy technicians (50 vs 23.3) twice as high, a nominal dispensing and the preparation of the largest number of doses in a ready-to-use format for nurses and a prescription right for pharmacists at the CHUSJ. In HUNEM, there was a greater scope of activity, larger expenses (95 vs 17 million euros) and more extensive robotization. The study highlighted 11 similarities and 9 differences over the 20 steps of the drug circuit. Discussion-conclusion : This is a study describing the drug circuit in two university hospitals: a Canadian and a French. There are as many similarities as differences between the two centers in terms of pharmaceutical services and care. It is difficult to compare pharmaceutical practice in two healthcare facilities from two countries, given the large number of elements and terms that differ. This type of comparison seems useful to us for promoting a better understanding of the practices between France and Canada. It can also help foster the development of services and care in each country by taking advantage of the data collected. However, other exchanges are necessary in order to assess the impact of the approaches implemented in each country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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