Entre déracinement et émancipation : l’expérience des jeunes autochtones pris en charge par la protection de la jeunesse

L’application forcée des services de bien-être à l’enfance aux populations autochtones a eu des conséquences néfastes sur les jeunes autochtones et leur famille. Actuellement au Canada, ces jeunes sont surreprésentés dans les systèmes provinciaux de protection de l’enfance. Inspirée de la sociologie de l’expérience de Dubet (1994), cette étude s’intéresse aux significations que les jeunes autochtones donnent à leur expérience de prise en charge afin que les interventions soient pensées en fonction du sens qu’ils donnent à leur réalité. S’inscrivant dans une méthodologie qualitative, sept récits de vie ont été récoltés auprès de jeunes autochtones âgés entre 18 et 24 ans, ayant vécu une prise en charge et résidant en milieu urbain. L’analyse des témoignages a permis de faire ressortir trois types d’expérience de prise en charge : les résistants, les résignés et les résilients. L’intervention de la protection de la jeunesse représente pour ces jeunes une mesure de protection qui leur a permis de se soustraire de conditions de vie difficiles. Toutefois, leur regard se nuance pendant la prise en charge : la protection peut être vue comme « partielle », « banale » ou « totale » selon l’effet de déracinement, de détachement ou d’émancipation lié au placement. Les résultats démontrent, d’une part, que la protection de la jeunesse constitue une réponse à la pauvreté chez les populations autochtones et, d’autre part, que les liens des jeunes autochtones avec leur milieu d’origine sont essentiels si on veut favoriser leur bien-être.

Evaluating the probability and the impact of a failure in GMPLS based networks

In this paper, we define a new scheme to develop and evaluate protection strategies for building reliable GMPLS networks. This is based on what we have called the network protection degree (NPD). The NPD consists of an a priori evaluation, the failure sensibility degree (FSD), which provides the failure probability, and an a posteriori evaluation, the failure impact degree (FID), which determines the impact on the network in case of failure, in terms of packet loss and recovery time. Having mathematical formulated these components, experimental results demonstrate the benefits of the utilization of the NPD, when used to enhance some current QoS routing algorithms in order to offer a certain degree of protection

Plant variety protection in developing countries: A view from the private seed industry in India

Many developing countries are currently engaged in designing and implementing plant variety protection systems. Encouraging private investment in plant breeding is the key rationale for extending intellectual property rights to plant varieties. However, the design of plant variety protection systems in developing countries has been dominated by concerns regarding the inequities of a plant variety protection system, especially the imbalance in the reward structure between plant breeders and farmers. The private seed industry, a key stakeholder in plant variety protection, appears to be playing only a peripheral role in the design of the intellectual property rights regime. This paper explores the potential response of the private seed industry in India to plant variety protection legislation based on a survey of major plant breeding companies. The survey finds that the private seed industry in India is generally unenthusiastic about the legislation and plant variety protection is likely to have only a very limited impact on their research profile and expenditures on plant breeding. Measures designed to curb the 'excessive' profits of breeders, farmers' rights provisions and poor prospects for enforcement of rights are seen to be seriously diluting breeders' rights, leaving few incentives for innovation. If the fundamental objective of plant variety protection is to stimulate private investment in plant breeding, then developing countries need to seriously address the question of improving appropriability of returns from investment.

Real-time context-aware network security policy enforcement system (RC-NSPES)

The major technical objectives of the RC-NSPES are to provide a framework for the concurrent operation of reactive and pro-active security functions to deliver efficient and optimised intrusion detection schemes as well as enhanced and highly correlated rule sets for more effective alerts management and root-cause analysis. The design and implementation of the RC-NSPES solution includes a number of innovative features in terms of real-time programmable embedded hardware (FPGA) deployment as well as in the integrated management station. These have been devised so as to deliver enhanced detection of attacks and contextualised alerts against threats that can arise from both the network layer and the application layer protocols. The resulting architecture represents an efficient and effective framework for the future deployment of network security systems.

Data mining for monitoring and managing systems and networks

Guest Editorial

Um algoritmo para estimação de estado em alimentadores de distribuição de energia elétrica com base no método da soma de potências

Most algorithms for state estimation based on the classical model are just adequate for use in transmission networks. Few algorithms were developed specifically for distribution systems, probably because of the little amount of data available in real time. Most overhead feeders possess just current and voltage measurements at the middle voltage bus-bar at the substation. In this way, classical algorithms are of difficult implementation, even considering off-line acquired data as pseudo-measurements. However, the necessity of automating the operation of distribution networks, mainly in regard to the selectivity of protection systems, as well to implement possibilities of load transfer maneuvers, is changing the network planning policy. In this way, some equipments incorporating telemetry and command modules have been installed in order to improve operational features, and so increasing the amount of measurement data available in real-time in the System Operation Center (SOC). This encourages the development of a state estimator model, involving real-time information and pseudo-measurements of loads, that are built from typical power factors and utilization factors (demand factors) of distribution transformers. This work reports about the development of a new state estimation method, specific for radial distribution systems. The main algorithm of the method is based on the power summation load flow. The estimation is carried out piecewise, section by section of the feeder, going from the substation to the terminal nodes. For each section, a measurement model is built, resulting in a nonlinear overdetermined equations set, whose solution is achieved by the Gaussian normal equation. The estimated variables of a section are used as pseudo-measurements for the next section. In general, a measurement set for a generic section consists of pseudo-measurements of power flows and nodal voltages obtained from the previous section or measurements in real-time, if they exist -, besides pseudomeasurements of injected powers for the power summations, whose functions are the load flow equations, assuming that the network can be represented by its single-phase equivalent. The great advantage of the algorithm is its simplicity and low computational effort. Moreover, the algorithm is very efficient, in regard to the accuracy of the estimated values. Besides the power summation state estimator, this work shows how other algorithms could be adapted to provide state estimation of middle voltage substations and networks, namely Schweppes method and an algorithm based on current proportionality, that is usually adopted for network planning tasks. Both estimators were implemented not only as alternatives for the proposed method, but also looking for getting results that give support for its validation. Once in most cases no power measurement is performed at beginning of the feeder and this is required for implementing the power summation estimations method, a new algorithm for estimating the network variables at the middle voltage bus-bar was also developed

An efficient Hopfield network to solve economic dispatch problems with transmission system representation

Economic dispatch (ED) problems have recently been solved by artificial neural network approaches. Systems based on artificial neural networks have high computational rates due to the use of a massive number of simple processing elements and the high degree of connectivity between these elements. The ability of neural networks to realize some complex non-linear function makes them attractive for system optimization. All ED models solved by neural approaches described in the literature fail to represent the transmission system. Therefore, such procedures may calculate dispatch policies, which do not take into account important active power constraints. Another drawback pointed out in the literature is that some of the neural approaches fail to converge efficiently toward feasible equilibrium points. A modified Hopfield approach designed to solve ED problems with transmission system representation is presented in this paper. The transmission system is represented through linear load flow equations and constraints on active power flows. The internal parameters of such modified Hopfield networks are computed using the valid-subspace technique. These parameters guarantee the network convergence to feasible equilibrium points, which represent the solution for the ED problem. Simulation results and a sensitivity analysis involving IEEE 14-bus test system are presented to illustrate efficiency of the proposed approach. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Interactive system for placement and coordination of overcurrent protective devices

In this paper, an expert and interactive system for developing protection system for overhead and radial distribution feeders is proposed. In this system the protective devices can be allocated through heuristic and an optimized way. In the latter one, the placement problem is modeled as a mixed integer non-linear programming, which is solved by genetic algorithm (GA). Using information stored in a database as well as a knowledge base, the computational system is able to obtain excellent conditions of selectivity and coordination for improving the feeder reliability indices. Tests for assessment of the algorithm efficiency were carried out using a real-life 660-nodes feeder. © 2006 IEEE.

Social health protection for the elderly in the English-speaking Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Simulation environment of distance protection with ATP and foreign models

This paper presents an interactive simulation environment for distance protection, developed with ATP and foreign models based on ANSI C. Files in COMTRADE format are possible to generate after ATP simulation. These files can be used to calibrate real relays. Also, the performance of relay algorithms with real oscillography events is possible to assess by using the ATP option for POSTPROCESS PLOT FILE (PPF). The main purpose of the work is to develop a tool to allow the analysis of diverse fault cases and to perform coordination studies, as well as, to allow the analysis of the relay's performance in the face of a real event. © 2011 IEEE.

The role of insurance in social protection

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The rights-based approach to social protection in Latin America: From rhetoric to practice

This paper aims to contribute to developing the normative framework for rights-based social protection systems and discusses lessons learned in some emblematic programmes implemented in Latin America which have sought to advance a rights approach. The paper emphasizes the added value of the rights-based approach and describes the normative content of the right to social security. It then describes the basic elements of a rights-based approach and examines how it is operationalized in the design, implementation and evaluation of landmark social protection programmes in the region. The paper seeks to demonstrate that, despite the large gap that still exists between the rhetoric of a human rights approach and its implementation in specific policies, there have been significant achievements in some countries in Latin America. It argues that some of the good practices in the region can serve as policy examples to follow elsewhere. The paper concludes with a number of public policy recommendations with a view to consolidating the rights perspective in social protection programmes.

Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. The book’s discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Detecção, classificação e quantificação automática de variações de tensão de curta duração para aplicação em análise de pós-operação em sistemas de energia elétrica

A análise de ocorrências no sistema de energia elétrica é de fundamento mportância para uma operação segura, e para manter a qualidade da energia elétrica lornecida aos consumidores. As concessionárias do setor de energia elétrica usam equipamentos, chamados registradores de perturbação (RP's), para monitora diagnosticar problemas nos sistemas elétrico e de proteção. As formas de onda normalmente analisadas nos centros de operação das concessionárias, são aquelas geradas por eventos que quase sempre causam a aocrtul je linhas devido a operação dos relés comandados pelos dispositivos de proteção .Contudo, uma grande quantidade de registros armazenados que podem conte informações importantes sobre o comportamento e desempenho do sistema elétricl jeixa de ser analisada. O objetivo desse trabalho é usar os dados disponíveis nos centros de ontrole, operação das concessionárias de energia elétrica obtidos pelos RP's, para classificar e quantificar de forma automática sinais que caracterizem problemas de qualidade da energia, quanto a variações de tensão de curta duração: afundamentos, elevações e interrupções. O método proposto usa a transformada wavelet para obter um vetor característico para as tensões das fases A, B e C, e uma rede neural probabilística para classificação. Os sinais classificados como apresentando variações de curta duração são quantilicados quanto a duração e amplitude, usando-se as propriedades da análise nultiresolução da decomposição do sinal. Esses parâmetros, então, irão formar uma Jase de dados onde procedimentos de análise estatística podem ser usados para gerar relatórios com as características da qualidade da energia. Os resultados obtidos com a metodologia proposta para um sistema real são também apresentados.

Planejamento de sistemas de proteção contra descargas atmosféricas para unidades habitacionais de baixa renda

A presente pesquisa tem como finalidade fazer um levantamento do perfil de ocorrência de descargas atmosféricas nos municípios de Belém, Ananindeua e Marituba, no período de 1991 até 2011 com o objetivo de determinar as características de ocorrência de raios nesses municípios, bem como identificar quais fatores precisam ser observados e/ou identificados com o intuito de se realizar um adequado planejamento de sistemas de proteção contra descargas atmosféricas em empreendimentos habitacionais de baixa renda construídos pelo programa de aceleração do crescimento do governo federal, mais precisamente no conjunto habitacional Taboquinha, localizado no bairro do Cruzeiro em Icoaraci. A partir da análise comparativa realizada com dados de detecção de raios provenientes da rede de detecção de raios STARNET, dados de ocorrência de raios provenientes do sensor LIS instalado a bordo do satélite TRMM, bem como de dados provenientes da norma NBR 5419, concluiu-se que o presente conjunto habitacional necessita da instalação de um sistema de proteção contra descargas atmosféricas em virtude do registro de ocorrências de sinistros envolvendo a incidência direta de descargas atmosféricas, bem como de seus efeitos secundários. Ao final do trabalho de pesquisa são apresentados tópicos de discussão associados a conclusões sobre o perfil de ocorrência de raios na presente região de estudo que são explicitadas pela norma NBR 5419, fatos estes que podem vir a prejudicar o patrimônio público, bem como os cidadãos comuns e suas edificações.