Les personnes ayant un trouble mental sont reconnues à risque d’exclusion du marché du travail (MESS, 2008) et elles présentent des taux alarmants de non-emploi : les plus élevés parmi tous les groupes ayant des incapacités (NAMI, 2011). Objectif : Mieux comprendre l’intégration au travail des personnes ayant un trouble mental qui ont recours à l’organisme ÉquiTravail. Méthodologie : Cette étude qualitative est basée sur des entrevues individuelles auprès de sept travailleurs ayant un trouble mental. Un informateur-clef d’ÉquiTravail a aussi été rencontré. Le cadre conceptuel est celui des forces de Rapp et Goscha (2012). Résultats : Cinq thèmes émergent de l’analyse : les motivations à travailler, les éléments influençant l’obtention d’un emploi, ceux influençant le maintien en emploi, les services d’intégration en emploi et enfin, le fonctionnement social et l’emploi. Les propos de l’informateur-clef complètent et appuient la plupart des résultats. / People with mental illness frequently have difficulty integrating into the employment market (MESS, 2008). They have the single highest unemployment rates among all groups of people with disabilities (NAMI, 2011). Objective: This study aims to increase our understanding of the integration of people with mental illness into employment by interviewing people who benefitted from “ÉquiTravail” employment services. Methodology: This qualitative study is based on seven interviews with workers suffering from mental illness. An “ÉquiTravail” staff-member was also interviewed. The conceptual framework is the strength based model of Rapp and Goscha (2012). Results: The results were categorized into five themes: the motivation to work, the elements that affected them when obtaining a job, the factors that influence maintaining their employment, the work integration services and their level of social functioning.

Les services d’aide à l’emploi ont évolué au fil du temps et diffèrent d’un endroit à l’autre. Le Québec présente un modèle dit mixte, où les clients sont dirigés soit directement en emploi, soit vers une formation académique. Malgré l’éventail des services d’aide à l’emploi, les résultats ne semblent pas toujours concluants. Les services sont-ils adaptés aux besoins des clients? Comment sont-ils octroyés et qu’en pensent les intervenants qui les offrent? C’est ce que je cherche à explorer, en recueillant les propos des intervenants œuvrant au sein de centres locaux d’emploi (CLE). La présente étude vise à comprendre les dynamiques associées à la fonction d'accompagnement vers l’emploi mise en œuvre par ces professionnels dans le cadre de leur travail auprès des jeunes de 18-24 ans en difficulté d’insertion. Elle cherche à identifier les facteurs caractérisant les pratiques mises en œuvre auprès des jeunes adultes utilisateurs des services publics de l'emploi.

En las últimas décadas, el problema de la inseguridad ciudadana es uno de los más prioritarios en América Latina. De manera particular en el Perú ha adquirido relevancia posicionándose en la agenda del gobierno como uno de los problemas públicos con mayor prioridad de ser atendidos. El Estado peruano ha puesto en marcha desde el año 2003 un sistema de medición de la seguridad pública con un rol preponderante en la elaboración de políticas públicas de crimen y seguridad: El Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Ciudadana (SINASEC). El SINASEC posee una estructura multisectorial, el componente de gestión de la información ha sido el más descuidado. Esto resulta preocupante debido a que la generación, acopio y administración de la estadística en crimen y seguridad constituyen uno de los pilares principales de las políticas públicas, no solo han llevado a orientar erradamente este tipo de políticas, sino también a hacerlas, reactivas antes que preventivas. La hipótesis de la que partimos en este estudio es que los problemas de gestión de la información como insumo para la elaboración de Políticas Públicas de Crimen y Seguridad en el Perú entre los años 2012 y el 2014 se dan en dos niveles. Un primer nivel se da dentro de las instituciones que generan la información que alimenta el SINASEC y que se vienen dando por la ausencia de criterios metodológicos rigurosos en la creación de indicadores para medir el crimen y la inseguridad. Un segundo nivel se da a partir de la inadecuada articulación sectorial de la data producida, lo cual no solo implica que se termine optando por la estadística generada solo por una institución, sino que las políticas en materia de crimen y seguridad arrastren el sesgo y las deficiencias en la construcción de indicadores de la institución que generó esta. / Tesis

La implementación de una estrategia no siempre sigue un camino llano, en la mayoría de ocasiones el camino se encuentra lleno de obstáculos; y para poder sortearlos es imperativo efectuar análisis previos a su puesta en marcha; así como cuestionarnos si efectivamente la vía a seguir es el más adecuada, lo que implica un estadio previo que nos permita, luego de la evaluación de opciones, tomar la que creemos es la mejor decisión en aras de obtener los resultados que deseamos. / Tesis

S.R. Kulkarni and S.K. Mitter. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13). / Cover title. / Research supported by the U.S. Army Research Office. DAAL03-86-K-0171 Research supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. AFOSR 89-0276 Research supported by the Department of the Navy under an Air Force Contract. F19628-90-C-0002

SILVA NETO, Antônio Sabino da. A disputa pelo troféu da segurança pública: uma análise sobre os policiais militares nas eleições de 2014 no Ceará. 2016. 138f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-20T15:09:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_assneto.pdf: 2095860 bytes, checksum: 0b104eaa41c1b46c66febfb466d9956b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-01T11:12:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_assneto.pdf: 2095860 bytes, checksum: 0b104eaa41c1b46c66febfb466d9956b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-01T11:12:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_assneto.pdf: 2095860 bytes, checksum: 0b104eaa41c1b46c66febfb466d9956b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / The research topic of this work is situated in the analysis of the construction of military police leaders in the space of Ceará policy. Specifically, I want to understand how in 2014, military police used their experiences in the police to consolidate a political capital able to secure the support of the vote to a legislative Ceará. In seeking to shed light on this period, you can see that the "political time", a time when the social coercion is eminently emblematic for voters to be revealed from the membership by voting to any of the factions in dispute, the state of Ceará shown a space full of social conflict. Among most candidates, these disputes are inserted into the charges pronounced in soapbox about the reputation of other candidates for the post. It is important to note that these events represent the way the campaign strategies in this "space policy" are built. Thus, to understand the strategies used for achieving the accession of the vote by police in the electoral period, the study monitored the daily lives of some of the military candidates to the legislature, especially Captain Wagner Sousa, Colonel Francisco Bezerra and cable Flávio Sabino, with interviews of applicants, advisors and members of the police associations, in order to understand how these have developed strategies for the achievement of the membership vote on their campaigns. / O tema de pesquisa desse trabalho está situado na análise da construção de lideranças policiais militares no espaço da política cearense. Especificamente, pretendo compreender como no ano de 2014, policiais militares utilizaram de suas experiências na polícia para consolidar um capital político capaz de conseguir a adesão do voto a um cargo legislativo no Ceará. Na busca de lançar luzes sobre este período, é possível observar que no "tempo da política", momento em que a coerção social é eminentemente emblemática para que os eleitores se manifestem a partir da adesão por meio do voto a alguma das facções em disputa, o estado do Ceará se mostra um espaço repleto de conflitos sociais. Entre a maioria dos candidatos, estas disputas estão inseridas nas acusações pronunciadas em palanque sobre a reputação dos demais postulantes ao cargo. É importante frisar que estes acontecimentos representam a maneira como as estratégias de campanha neste "espaço da política" se constroem. Desta forma, para compreender as estratégias utilizadas para a conquista da adesão do voto por policiais no período eleitoral, o referido estudo acompanhou o dia a dia de alguns dos candidatos militares ao legislativo, especialmente do Capitão Wagner de Sousa, do Coronel Francisco Bezerra e do Cabo Flávio Sabino, com a realização de entrevistas entre os candidatos, assessores e membros das associações de policiais, com o intuito de compreender como estes elaboraram as estratégias para a conquista da adesão do voto em suas campanhas.

No / Greene was Team Leader for this applied research project for the UK (DFID), commissioned on the basis of his extensive recent research on community security and justice issues in numerous fragile states including Ethiopia. He was lead author for the research and the Report. The work is original, rigorous and based on extensive new field work and primary data collection. It had high impact: in 2012 on the basis of this Report the UK (DFID) established a major (over £20 million) community security and justice programme with Ethiopia, designed according to our findings and recommendations.

Le modèle de l’intolérance à l’incertitude (M-II) et le modèle de la régulation émotionnelle dysfonctionnelle (M-RED) sont deux modèles validés du trouble d’anxiété généralisée (TAG). La thèse est composée de deux articles qui s’intéressent aux liens entre ces deux modèles et la tendance à s’inquiéter. L’article 1 examine les contributions des deux modèles à la prédiction de la tendance à s’inquiéter, de même que les relations entre leurs variables. Quatre cent cinquante adultes francophones ont rempli des questionnaires évaluant les variables du M-II, les variables du M-RED et la tendance à s’inquiéter. Des corrélations simples et des régressions linéaires ont été réalisées. Les résultats montrent que chacun des modèles contribue de façon indépendante à l’explication de la tendance à s’inquiéter. Ils montrent aussi que le M-II est associé à une meilleure puissance explicative que le M-RED. Parmi les variables des deux modèles, l’orientation négative face aux problèmes, l’intolérance à l’incertitude et l’utilisation de stratégies inadaptées de régulation de ses émotions apparaissent comme les meilleurs prédicteurs de la tendance à s’inquiéter. Ces trois variables sont fortement corrélées les unes avec les autres. L’article 2 présente un nouveau modèle du TAG, qui stipule que l’intolérance à l’incertitude favorise le développement d’une orientation négative expliquant à la fois les réactions inefficaces face aux problèmes et celles face aux émotions. Deux cent quatre adultes francophones ont rempli des questionnaires mesurant les variables du M-II, l’accès limité à des stratégies de régulation de ses émotions et la tendance à s’inquiéter. Une analyse de médiation a d’abord confirmé que l’accès limité à des stratégies de régulation de ses émotions constitue un médiateur partiel de la relation entre l’intolérance à l’incertitude et la tendance à s’inquiéter. Un modèle d’équations structurelles, qui intègre le double rôle de l’orientation négative au M-II, a ensuite été testé. Son ajustement se montre excellent et supérieur à un modèle alternatif. Les résultats de cette étude appuient une conceptualisation du TAG qui intègre au M-II une orientation négative face à ses émotions. Les implications théoriques et cliniques des résultats des articles sont discutées dans la thèse. Mots clés : trouble d’anxiété généralisée, tendance à s’inquiéter, intolérance à l’incertitude, difficultés de régulation des émotions. / Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive worry. The Intolerance of Uncertainty Model (IUM) and the Emotion Dysregulation Model (EDM) are both well established models of GAD. The thesis is made of two articles which investigate relationships between IUM, EDM and worry in non clinical samples. The first article studied the independent and overlapping contribution of IUM and EDM to prediction of worry as well as relationships between the two models. Four hundred and fifty French adult speakers completed self-reported measures of IUM, EDM and worry. Simple correlations and linear regressions were conducted. Results showed that each model accounted for unique variance to prediction of worry. They also revealed that IUM’s contribution was stronger than EDM’s. Among processes of IUM and EDM, negative problem orientation, intolerance of uncertainty and maladaptive emotional management responses were the strongest predictors of worry. Analyses revealed that these processes are highly correlated between each other. The second article introduced and tested a new GAD model which integrates maladaptive emotional management responses in IUM. This model suggests that intolerance of uncertainty contributes to a negative orientation which influences ineffective reactions about both problems and emotions. Negative emotion orientation could explain the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in GAD. Two hundred and four French adult speakers completed self-reported measures of IUM, limited access to emotion regulation strategies and worry. Analyses confirmed that limited access to emotion regulation strategies partially mediate the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and worry. A structural equation model, which integrates the double role of negative orientation, was tested and compared with an alternative model. Fit of proposed model was excellent and superior of alternative model’s fit. Results support our new GAD conceptualization. Theoretical and clinical implications of these two articles are discussed in the thesis. Keywords : Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Worry, Intolerance of Uncertainty, Emotion Dysregulation

Biodegradable, biocompatible polylactide (PLA) synthesized from renewable resources has attracted extensive interests over the past decades and holds great potential to replace many petroleum-derived plastics. With no loss of biodegradability and biocompatibility, we highly toughened PLA using a novel bioelastomer (BE)–synthesized from biomass diols and diacids. Although PLA and BE are immiscible, BE particles of ∼1 μm in diameter are uniformly dispersed in the matrix, and this indicates some compatibility between PLA and BE. BE significantly increased the cold crystallization ability of PLA, which was valuable for practical processing and performance. SEM micrographs of fracture surface showed a brittle-to-ductile transition owing to addition of BE. At 11.5 vol%, notched Izod impact strength improved from 2.4 to 10.3 kJ/m2, 330% increment; the increase is superior to previous toughening effect by using petroleum-based tougheners.

No / Effective integrated water management is a key component of the World Water Vision and the way in which aspirations for water equity may be realized. Part of the vision includes the promotion of sustainability of water systems and full accountability for their interaction with other urban systems. One major problem is that “sustainability” remains an elusive concept, although those involved with the provision of urban wastewater systems now recognize that decisions involving asset investment should use the “triple bottom line” approach to society, the economy, and the environment. The Sustainable Water Industry Asset Resource Decisions project has devised a flexible and adaptable framework of decision support processes that can be used to include the principles of sustainability more effectively. Decision mapping conducted at the outset of the project has shown that only a narrow range of criteria currently influence the outcome of asset investment decisions. This paper addresses the concepts of sustainability assessment and presents two case studies that illustrate how multicriteria decision support systems can enhance the assessment of the relative sustainability of a range of options when decisions are being made about wastewater asset investment.