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Author: Gabriella Agné and Helena Larsson Title: Disability policy program – a case study of a municipals implementation of UNs Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Supervisor: Marianne Westring-Nordh Assessor: Ulf Drugge This study aims to examine how a small municipal in southern Sweden works with the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and examine the assistant officers knowledge about this work and user organizations inclusion and user involvement. The study operates from a qualitative approach based on the results of nine semi-structured interviews with local politicians, assistance officers and representatives from three different user organizations. The results show that the municipal has chosen to work with the implementation of the convention by creating policy programs for their departments through dialogue with user organizations, and by mapping the accessibility to public places. The results also show that the assistant officers have been given no information regarding the convention or the policy programs from their employers and instead operate from national legislations and prepositions. The user organizations feel that they were initially included in the process, but that their impact has later been removed due to structural reorganization.

Ce manuscrit présente les travaux menés pour proposer un flot de conception permettant d'implanter des processeurs RISP dans un circuit reprogrammable (FPGA). Après une description des différentes solutions envisageables pour réaliser des prototypes dans le domaine du traitement d'image, ce document décrit une méthode qui consiste à générer des modèles matériels de processeurs destinés au traitement d'images, avec des opérateurs taillés sur une application donnée. Un ensemble d'expérimentations utilisant des algorithmes courants permet d'évaluer les performances du flot de conception proposé. Le prototypage rapide d'un système biométrique sans contact, basé sur la reconnaissance de paumes a été aussi réalisé sur la plateforme de test.

La miniaturisation des composants, qui s'est engagée depuis l'avènement de l'électronique il y a plus de 50 ans, atteint aujourd'hui la dimension nanométrique, ouvrant la porte aux phénomènes quantiques. Ultime étape de cette miniaturisation, la boîte quantique, dans laquelle les électrons sont confinés dans les trois directions de l'espace, présente des propriétés remarquables, telles que l'augmentation du gap entre la bande de conduction et la bande de valence, ou la discrétisation des niveaux d'énergies. Autre conséquence du confinement, la forte interaction électron-électron régnant au sein de la boîte conduit à une énergie de charge importante, susceptible de bloquer l'entrée d'un électron dans la boîte sans apport d'énergie extérieur. Ce phénomène de blocage des charges est appelé blocage de Coulomb. Le transistor à un électron (SET), dispositif élémentaire tirant profit de ce phénomène, est pressenti pour quelques applications, comme la réalisation de fonctions logiques ou la détection de charge. Parmi les domaines concernés, la thermoélectricité, c'est-à-dire la possibilité de créer du courant électrique à partir d'une différence de température, s'intéresse de près aux dispositifs à un électron en raison de leurs niveaux d'énergie discrets qui conduisent à une très faible conductivité thermique. Ce travail présente le simulateur SENS (Single-Electron Nanodevice Simulation) développé dans l'équipe, et dont j'ai réalisé la partie destinée à la simulation du SET. Il s'appuie sur la résolution des équations couplées de Poisson et Schrödinger, nécessaire à la détermination des fonctions d'onde dans la boîte de silicium, elles-mêmes dépendantes des tensions appliquées aux électrodes. Les fréquences de transition tunnel sont ensuite calculées par la règle d'or de Fermi. L'étude approfondie du courant dans les SET permet d'extraire des diagrammes de stabilité en diamant, et démontre l'importance de paramètres tels que la taille de l'îlot, la dimension des barrières tunnel, la température et le nombre d'électrons occupant la boîte. L'étude du courant électronique et du courant de chaleur en présence d'une différence de température aux électrodes du SET est également faite pour juger de la pertinence de l'utilisation d'un SET en tant que générateur thermoélectrique, mais aussi comme étalon pour déterminer le coefficient Seebeck. Enfin, une étude du bruit de grenaille dans la double-jonction tunnel (SET sans la grille) est faite, démontrant le fort lien entre taux de transfert tunnel et bruit. En particulier, selon l'évolution des taux des transferts tunnel d'entrée et de sortie de l'îlot, pour un nombre d'électrons supérieur 2, il est possible d'observer une augmentation importante du bruit, qui devient alors super-Poissonien. L'étude de l'influence des paramètres géométriques démontre que le bruit de grenaille dépend essentiellement de la différence des épaisseurs de barrière tunnel.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the rights of internally displaced persons as well as finding out whose responsibility it is to maintain these rights. The questions being answered are: what policies, laws and conventions are addressing internally displaced persons in Somalia (mainly from within Somalia, UN and AU)? And; which principal similarities and differences in these documents are to find regarding what type of protection internally displaced persons can get? Whose responsibility is it to intervene if these rights and rules are not maintained? To answer these questions I have used a liberal-universal theoretical framework. The analysis is a describing case study of comparative nature between the Provisional Somalia Constitution, UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Kampala Convention. The result shows that there are many different rights of internally displaced persons in Somalia. Instead the problem seems to be based on the rights not being maintained in combination with the complex question of whose responsibility it is.

Ma thèse s’inspire des possibilités d’analyses que permet l’évocation de l’espace forestier en littérature. En étudiant La quête d’Alexandre d’Hélène Brodeur, L’Obomsawin de Daniel Poliquin et Un vent se lève qui éparpille de Jean Marc Dalpé, je montre que la forêt du Nord ne sert pas exclusivement de cadre à la diégèse, mais elle participe tantôt à la structure sémiotique de l’œuvre en suscitant les émotions des personnages, devient parfois personnage, et symbolise ailleurs une quête utopique. Ce travail se fonde sur l’approche géocritique, cette « manière de concevoir [la littérature] comme un espace imaginaire » et les travaux de Gaston Bachelard, de Robert Harrison, de Catherine Addison et de Margaret Atwood qui ont exploré les liens entre l’espace forestier et les significations qui lui ont été associées.

In this study two dimensional steel frames, reinforced with un-stiffened thin steel panels, are investigated. In the first part of the study, the strip model, a method for analyzing un-stiffened thin steel plate shear walls, was investigated. Sensitivity studies to investigate the influence of the number of strip members to be used to in the strip model and their angle of inclination were conducted. In the second part, responses of various un-stiffened steel plate shear wall systems to lateral loads were investigated. The influences of three major parameters were studied. These are the beam-to-column connection type, the boundary frame stiffness and the plate slenderness ratio (the ratio of the centerline column spacing to the thickness of the plate). In both parts nonlinear pushover analysis were performed with SAP2000 structural analysis program. In this study, the history of development, theory and advantages of un-stiffened thin steel plate shear walls and recommendations for this lateral load resisting system are presented.

Em dezembro de 2012, após treze anos, três mandatos de operações de paz e dois mandatos de missões políticas, a ONU se retirava do território do Timor-Leste de maneira bastante discreta. Fechava-se, naquele momento, um ciclo de participação da Organização na vida política e econômica daquele país, que se iniciara com os episódios de violência de 1999, quando milicianos pró-indonésia tentaram impedir o processo político de autodeterminação do povo timorense. Herdando um país com suas infraestruturas destruídas e mais de um quarto de sua população refugiada ou deslocada internamente, a ONU não apenas pacificou o território como também empreendeu ali um processo de Post-conflict Peacebuilding (PCPB), onde sua participação variou entre o exercício pleno de todos os poderes soberanos atinentes às funções de governo de qualquer Estado ao apoio de assessores altamente especializados em prol do governo independente do Timor-Leste. O balanço final dessa participação é positivo na medida que revela um país com estruturas governamentais consolidadas, formalmente democrático e com boas taxas de crescimento econômico. Por outro lado, o combate à pobreza, a consolidação da pacificação social, a necessidade de maior participação popular na política e a redução da dependência de sua economia em relação ao petróleo seguem sendo desafios não resolvidos e, em grande medida, externalidades provocadas pela própria ONU. / In December 2012, after thirteen years, three mandates of peace operations and two mandates of political missions, the UN withdrew from the territory of Timor-Leste in a rather discreet manner. At that moment, a cycle of the Organization's participation in the political and economic life of that country, which began with the 1999 episodes of violence, occurred when pro-Indonesian militiamen tried to impede the political process of self-determination of the Timorese people. Inheriting a country with its destroyed infrastructure and more than a quarter of its population refugee or internally displaced, the UN not only pacified the territory but also undertook a Post-conflict Peacebuilding (PCPB) process, where its participation ranged from full exercise of all sovereign powers pertaining to the government functions of any State to the support of highly specialized advisers for the independent government of Timor-Leste. The final balance of this participation is positive insofar as it reveals a country with consolidated government structures, formally democratic and good rates of economic growth. On the other hand, the fight against poverty, the consolidation of social pacification, the need for greater popular participation in politics and the reduction of dependence of its economy on oil remain unresolved challenges and, to a large extent, externalities caused by the UN itself.

Cette recherche se propose trois objectifs : il s’agit, premièrement, de dégager les représentations et les causes que les patients tunisiens attribuent à la pathologie cancéreuse. Deuxièmement, de déceler les croyances en matière de contrôle perçu pour ce qui est de l’évolution de la maladie. Enfin, de chercher l’effet direct, médiatisé ou modéré d’un ensemble de variables personnelles, médicales et environnementales sur le coping de ces patients. Les résultats auxquels nous avons abouti, au moyen d’une étude quantitative, mettent en évidence l’effet direct du niveau socio-culturel du patient sur le choix du coping centré sur le problème. Cet effet se trouve médiatisé partiellement par un Lieu de contrôle-médecin, un fort sentiment d’efficacité personnelle et une tendance vers l’optimisme. En outre, une étude qualitative a fait émerger des notions comme celle d’optimisme réaliste, du coping religieux et de la croyance en un monde juste. De tels résultats sont en faveur de la conception et de la mise en place de programmes de formation et de développement des ressources humaines afin de promouvoir le système de santé du pays. / This research proposes three objectives: the first one consists in bringing out the representations and the causes that the Tunisian patients attribute to the cancerous pathology. The second is to identify the beliefs concerning the perceived control of the disease evolution. Finally, the third objective is to seek the direct, mediate or moderate effect of a set of personal, medical and environmental variables on the coping of these patients. The results which we have come to, by means of a quantitative study, highlight the direct effect of the socio-cultural level of the patient on the choice of the problem-focused coping. This effect is partially mediated by a doctor-health locus of control, a strong personal perceived efficacy and a tendency towards optimism. In addition, a qualitative study has led to the appearance of notions such as realistic optimism, religious coping and belief in a just world. Such results support both the conception and the establishment of programs for the training and the development of human resources in order to promote the country's health system.

Esta tese objetiva compreender os modos pelos quais jovens soropositivos/as (des)aprendem a tornar-se pessoas que vivem com HIV/aids. Especificamente, esta tese visa a entender como estes/as jovens organizam e planejam suas vidas a partir do diagnóstico soropositivo e como lidam com os efeitos da soropositividade em seus corpos. Os campos teóricos que fundamentam a pesquisa – estudos de gênero e sexualidade, educação em saúde, estudos foucaultianos e estudos culturais pós-estruturalistas, com ênfase em trabalhos voltados para as discussões sobre juventudes – oferecem ferramentas para refletir sobre as formas pelas quais jovens que vivem com HIV aprendem a lidar com os atravessamentos da soropositividade nas suas vidas. O material empírico analisado na tese foi produzido a partir de entrevistas narrativas on-line, realizadas em programas de comunicação instantânea via internet, com 16 jovens soropositivos/as. O material empírico foi organizado e dividido em três eixos de análise: a soropositividade como processo educativo; corpo; e projetos de vida. Tal movimento analítico possibilita descrever e problematizar alguns dos efeitos da soropositividade na vida desses/as jovens: adesão ao tratamento; mudanças corporais; revelação do diagnóstico para familiares, amigos/as e parceiros/as sexuais e afetivos/as; necessidade de usar preservativo em todas as relações sexuais; prescrições clínicas de diversas ordens; planejamentos e projetos de vida e de futuro. Argumenta-se na tese que os/as jovens que vivem com HIV/aids são interpelados/as por diversas instâncias – entre as quais estão os serviços de saúde, as famílias e as escolas – a cuidarem de si e a se responsabilizarem por si mesmos e por seus parceiros e parceiras; por essa razão, desenvolvem diversas estratégias para aderir e resistir a essas instâncias, aprendendo, assim, a tornar-se pessoas que vivem com HIV/aids. / This thesis aims to understand how young seropositive people (un)learn to become people living with HIV/aids. Specifically, this thesis aims to understand how these young people organize and plan their lives after the HIV/aids diagnosis and how they deal with the effects of seropositivity on their bodies. The theoretical fields on which the thesis is based - gender and sexuality studies, health education, foucaultian studies and post-structuralist cultural studies, with emphasis on research about youths - offer tools to reflect on the way young seropositive people learn to deal with the circumstances of seropositivity in their lives. The empirical material analyzed in the thesis was produced from online narrative interviews conducted through instant messaging programs with 16 seropositive young people. The empirical material was organized and divided into three analytical categories: seropositivity as an educational process; body; and life projects. The analytical categories permit a description and discussion of the effects of seropositivity on the lives of these people including: treatment adherence; body changes; diagnosis disclosure to relatives, friends, affective and sexual partners; the necessity of using condoms in every sexual relation; clinical prescriptions of many kinds; plannings and life and future projects. It is argued that young seropositive people are challenged by several social institutions - such as health services, family and school - to take care of and be responsible for themselves and their partners. It further argues that, within this context, they develop several strategies to adhere and resist these institutions, thereby learning to become people living with HIV/aids.