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The fight against poverty in the local dynamics of urbanization in Cameroon: the case of Yaoundé, is the theme that was submitted to our study. The many questions generated by the desire to solve the problem raised by such a topical subject led us to problematize by asking ourselves, what place does the fight against poverty occupy in the urbanization process? Does this place allow it to structure locally the perception of the actors of urban development and to orient (or give meaning to) public action? As an answer to this question, we have stated hypothetically that the fight against poverty is a reference point which is increasingly structuring the local urbanization process. Indeed, it is gradually being placed at the heart of urban development as a permanent concern of all the actors, and it harmonizes the various urbanization actions.

It is a book structured in two parts, which is a contribution to the efforts to develop non-formal apprenticeship systems in developing countries. It is an engineering guide to the design of apprenticeship systems and to the structuring of renewed apprenticeship training schemes integrated into vocational and technical training systems. In the first part, the author reviews the process and structuring elements of an apprenticeship training system integrated into the national vocational and technical training system. In the second part, the author addresses the complex issue of structuring apprenticeship training systems by describing experiences and models that he has already implemented in Senegal and that have enabled young people to be qualified and sustainably inserted into the labor market.The proposed and documented systems are flexible and constitute second chance schools, thus contributing to equal access to a standardized qualification for all. Finally, a set of recommendations are formulated to better respond to the need for competent human resources.

With the increasing expansion of Internet access and the migration of printed newspapers to the virtual medium, a new subject entered the scene in the production routines: the "prosumers". From the empirical perception of the mutations that occurred in the exercise of the journalism profession after the proliferation of technologies that allowed the advent of new supports for the freedom of information and, consequently, of expression. The contemporary citizen both consumes and produces the arsenal of information contained in the network. This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of participatory journalism by investigating how the news-values manifest themselves in citizen journalism. The speed of the transformations brought about by the Internet and the need to discuss issues that delimit the frontier between the journalist's role and that of the citizen.

The purpose of this book is to provide educational support for students of Technical Courses in Electronics, Electromechanics, Industrial Automation and Electrotechnics and Higher Education such as: Technologists and Electronic, Electrical, Mechatronic and Control and Automation Engineering, as well as technical reading for professionals and researchers. The book is a complementary work to the classic ones so that the reader understands the application of theory in practice through tables, figures and graphs, besides containing summarized material for electromagnetism professors, students and researchers. The texts are didactic, so that the reader will analyze and verify the main particularities of laboratory tests with the respective experiments and their justifications.

The city of Daloa has now reached the peri-urban villages of Sapia, Tagoura and Zakoua, and customary landowners are being asked to make their plots available. This study aims to determine the impact of the urban dynamics of Daloa on land management in the integrated villages of Sapia, Tagoura and Zakoua. The methodology adopted is based on the use of abundant literature on the subject, supplemented by field visits, interviews with city managers (Regional Director of Construction and Urban Planning, Mayor) and a questionnaire survey of landowners in Sapia, Tagoura and Zakoua. The new subdivisions are opening up on plots of land that have already been the subject of transactions, either between indigenous Bété and populations from outside the region (allochthones and natives), or between the Mayor's office and applicants for building lots. The subdivision operations and the sale of plots of land, supported by strong land speculation, lead to land disputes that weaken social cohesion.

The project starts with the assembly of the Hall effect sensors, which will allow the sensing of the electrical variables of interest in the electrical machines under test. Once the sensors are working, computational tools will be programmed through LabVIEW programming to perform computer monitoring using a data acquisition card. For the realization of this project we have Hall effect current and voltage sensors, which will be mounted on boards with screw terminals to configure the measurement capabilities of these sensors. There is also a 9 kVA three-phase power supply, which is programmable (it can handle 1 or 2 phases) and allows the injection of harmonic currents and voltages to the loads connected to it. On the other hand, there are single-phase and three-phase rotating electrical machines, as well as a three-phase transformer.

In Ecuador, 37% of the inhabitants belong to the rural area, which is established as a part of the marginal population, because it maintains the lack of access to the stable electrical network due to the late action of the state. Their main source of income is agriculture. The program of induction stoves in Ecuador was determined as a pioneer in the region, since the government in full investment process, carried out the infrastructure to obtain surplus electricity that would comply with supplying the national territory. The induction stoves program had a great merit in being promoted, but expectations were decreasing due to the risk of increasing the cost to the rural population, however, some did, even though they had less access to the stable electrical network. Induction stoves are a precedent that remains in oblivion for lack of resources to promote it so that it becomes attractive to all Ecuadorians. In economic terms for the population, the subsidy has not been equitable to the one currently maintained for liquefied gas.

This book tells a little about the history of the Kaingáng people of Santa Catarina, and their path in search of professionalization in the area of health. It contains the profile of the medium-level workers - nursing technicians - of the Xapecó Indigenous Land, in western Santa Catarina, and their educational and work process, considering Public Policies, Indigenous Health Policies and the technological educational process.

As an exercise in participatory research-innovation, supported by scientific results, this work was carried out as Juan Pérez Lamas' thesis for his doctoral degree in agricultural sciences. It describes the selection and implementation of a value chain management model in 20 agricultural entities engaged in the production of fruits, vegetables, oilseeds and honey. The initial production chain management model was diagnosed in each entity, according to technical-productive, organizational, economic, environmental and social dimensions. A baseline was defined for the 20 entities, which was compared with the results obtained after the application of the value chain. During implementation, 21 scientific results, 23 technological improvements and 25 innovations were introduced in co-innovation processes. Production increases were achieved in the four areas. The organizational, social and productive contribution of the new management model favored the application of agroecological practices. For the first time in the country, a Participatory Guarantee System was designed and applied to certify agroecology.

The history of art is marked by scandals: from Masaccio to the representation of body art, any change in the conception of the work causes scandal. This was true for six centuries in the Vatican and was always the case when Courbet was accused of threatening public order and the impressionists of having a deranged brain. Today, who better than Mapplethopre to present the scandal? From his nudes to his portraits and self-portraits, from his floral still lifes to his most famous and controversial subjects, Mapplethorpe is the artist who most defines scandal. Innovative and daring, his work continues to resonate after his untimely death in 1989. The artist's singular use of provocative, homoerotic and other themes have become commonplace in our culture and with dominant echoes in various fields (cinema, advertising...) What is scandal? What is it for? How is it provoked and for what purpose? And what can we learn from it when it is inspired by normality? Let's discover, through this research, the notion of scandal with our artist photographer Robert Mapplethope.

The use of platforms with educational content on the Internet, as a factor of innovation for teachers and students of higher education institutions, has increased in recent years. This has been due to increased awareness on the part of educators, who have seen the advantages of managing relevant information for students, hence it has recently become common to assign tasks that involve developing online activities through this type of platforms. Needless to say, additional situations such as the COVID-19 Pandemic are causing an increase in the use of educational platforms to provide educational services that address the need for learning in all sectors, including the higher education sector.

Reducing neonatal and maternal mortality is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The fight against low birth weight is one of the strategies to achieve these goals. The populations of the northern peripheral zones of Ouagadougou, which are informal, unserviced housing areas, were the targets of this study. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of longitudinal data collected between May 14, 2009 and May 14, 2012, with the objective of analyzing the factors associated with low birth weight in the northern peripheries of Ouagadougou. It included a total of 2919 births and the characteristics of their mothers as explanatory variables. To do this, descriptive (bivariate analysis with the cross-tabulation) and explanatory (multivariate analysis, in particular binary logistic regression) methods of analysis were used in this study.

Breast cancer is the first cancer in women, it represents the first cause of death worldwide and a major public health problem and a real emergency of intervention and care, one woman in nine will develop this disease during her life. Only an early and precise diagnosis improves the possibilities of treatment and increases the chances of a complete cure. In the case of a confirmed breast cancer, it is decisive for the success of the treatment to determine the type of tumor and the stage of the disease as soon as possible. Every practitioner will be confronted daily with the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of breast cancer. In order to help the physician in the management of this pathology, this book addresses the risk factors, the screening of breast cancer and its means, the clinical and radiological diagnosis, will spread on the various histological and immunohistochemical data which must imperatively exist for the therapeutic decision and predict the prognosis by the determination of the histological classification which will reflect the survival of the patients.

We studied how the psychometric credit evaluation in the process of granting credit to microentrepreneurs influences the profitability of a banking institution, specialized in microfinance, using the variables of effectiveness, efficiency and profit margin (gross, operating and net), to be contrasted with the content of the study. Likewise, such results will be useful for the financial institution to corroborate whether or not the implementation of such credit risk measurement methodology, since its launching, is favorably affecting its profitability ratios and, consequently, is aligned with the financial objectives of the business. It should be noted that the entity will also be able to know whether or not it is promoting financial inclusion in the country. This is in favor of self-employed workers who have no credit experience whatsoever and are eager to obtain loans for the development of their enterprises.

Having proposed in this book the description of the mechanisms governing the functioning of the advertising discourse, we believe to have facilitated also a critical reading of its numerous manifestations to which we are subjected daily, creating, in this way, the antibodies of the manipulation. An informed and wise interlocutor can better understand and defend himself against the more or less constraining language games, launched by a hegemonic speaker.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a major impact on the quality of life of patients. Its management remains a real challenge. The aim of our study is to evaluate the place of methotrexate in the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis in our Moroccan context. We obtained good results with a complete remission in 50% of the cases, with few side effects thanks to a regular follow-up of our patients, as well as their supplementation in folic acid. Biotherapies are as effective as methotrexate with fewer side effects, however their cost remains high and they are not reimbursed by social security. In our context, methotrexate remains the first-line treatment for moderate to severe psoriasis, it is an effective, low-cost and well-tolerated treatment.

Since its first description in 1916, the spectrum of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has broadened and it is currently used to refer to a group of acute autoimmune neuropathies with different clinical phenotypes. Its spectrum is dominated by the classical phenotype characterized by flaccid paraplegia or tetraplegia with a mostly ascending course.In this book, we have presented in a simplified way the basics of neurophysiology applied to the clinic, the pathophysiology of GBS and the contribution of the electroneuromyogram in case of clinical suspicion of GBS.

Every company, from its creation, has fixed assets in its patrimony in order to be able to carry out their activity. In the world of import-export, they occupy a very important place since their activity is based on the use of state-of-the-art equipment. But this very volatile technology pushes these companies to set up vast projects of investments in order to equip themselves with new materials more and more powerful to face the competition of this sector. As a consequence, the assets of these companies are strongly dominated by these fixed assets whose accounting management is becoming more and more difficult due to high frequency acquisitions. Their bad evaluation could cause serious worries to the company, in particular, the fiscal incidences and the questioning of its brand image. Therefore, an optimal management of fixed assets within these companies is necessary to avoid any problem.

The dissemination of information about exposure to asbestos, to the worker, to society and to the environment is an important way to avoid the expansion of diseases and deaths caused by this fiber. Therefore, this book intends to unveil the reality of asbestos in Brazil, emphasizing the environmental liabilities generated and the impact on health. Based on the main studies on the subject and the state of the art. The introduction briefly presents the general objective, the specific objectives, the hypothesis and the methodological process of the study. The first chapter deals with the debate on the surveillance of exposed and social control. The second chapter deals with the environmental liabilities of the asbestos industry and mining in Brazil, presenting and analyzing all the emblematic cases on the subject to date. The third chapter presents the debate on asbestos and environmental law, with specific legislation and the entire legal framework in which the problem under study is inserted. And, finally, the fourth chapter presents some final considerations and notes. It is hoped that this study will make clear the harmful effects of asbestos.

In Côte d'Ivoire, decentralization is a process that accelerated following the economic crisis of the 1980s and under pressure from donors. It is based on arguments of efficiency, rationality, responsiveness and its capacity to increase community participation. From the 2000s onwards, devolution has been deepened by the creation of several types of local governments and the transfer and distribution of powers from the state to them. However, the appropriation and implementation of these competencies are lacking, resulting in the fragmentation of the planning and coordination of local health activities, and a weakness in accountability mechanisms and quality of care. In short, the operationalization of the deconcentration/devolution pair in the health sector is a complex process that must be implemented in an incremental, participatory, mixed manner combining top-down and bottom-up approaches. It must take into account the interests of the various stakeholders through a participatory planning process and consensual coordination of local activities.

This book aims to address the packaging design in the relationship between content and container, and research formal and aesthetic features organized to generate attraction and desire for the consumer. The products, with their visual proposal and their symbolic functions, will serve as instruments to demonstrate their contexts in the consumer society, attributing values and generating meanings. It is intended, therefore, to reflect on consumption, according to the power of attraction and persuasion that the visual language of the packaging exerts on the consumer.

This manual is a small pocket book in which the operation of the four-stroke reciprocating engine is best explained. It contains six main parts including general information and the distinction between a gasoline engine and a diesel engine. In this manual, you will also find exercises that will allow you to better understand the engine and explain it as if you were the designer.

The communication of organizations, taken as a whole, is the composition of the acts of communication of organizations with themselves and with their external environments with regard to their functioning. For this reason, it is the undeniable proof of a living organization. This also lays the foundations of its unavoidable character in the various organizational activities. Economic intelligence, as an activity of collection, processing and dissemination of strategic information and reading of weak signals, as well as the interactions between actors of the same game, is not left out of this reality. This research work highlights the stakes of the management of the organizational communication in the various practices of Côte d'Ivoire Tourism, as regards economic intelligence. And that, vis-a-vis the problem of the absence of the management of the organizational communication in an approach of economic intelligence.

The monograph is a comprehensive study of the institute of criminal responsibility for bribery in the Republic of Belarus, taking into account foreign experience. The practical significance of the study is expressed in the fact that some of its proposals can be used to improve the legislation on criminal responsibility for bribery and the practice of its application by law enforcement agencies.

This book is first of all a tool to sensitize the Congolese masses who seem to ignore that access to the library is the beginning of the development of a nation and its people; and a contribution to the fear lurking in librarians-documentalists in their profession in front of the digital in a digitalized world in constant infobesity. Secondly, it aims to be an indispensable info-therapy against the growinginfodemia among community members in "post-COVID-19 libraries"; while demonstrating the contribution of these technologies within documentary institutions, in terms of offering new tools and new value-added services for a visibility-readability " outside the walls ". Despite this digital impulse, professionals trained in information and library sciences are still inevitable until the technological future says otherwise. However, digital technology has significantly affected information services, mainly the library, which is undergoing a transformation from a traditional library to a so-called hybrid (modern) library, despite some innovative shortcomings attached to it.

This book aims to shed light on the implementation of standardized transactional databases in a rigorous manner. By presenting the steps of the realization according to the approach proposed by the method of study and computer realization of the advanced systems. It is an R&D approach intended for professionals and researchers in computer sciences wishing to set up databases respecting the standards (FN). This approach starts with the identification of the needs of the final users of the database, continues with a systematic application of the steps of the approach proposed by the MERISE method and ends with an implementation of the database with a verification of the expected results of the database via the SQL queries.

Cancer is often seen as a long-term disease with insidious onset of symptoms and signs. However, there are often clinical conditions that require urgent evaluation and treatment. Most cancer emergencies occur early in the course of the disease and are related to the severity of the tumor process or the effects of chemotherapy drugs, but some may occur later in the course of treatment. Cancer patients should always be evaluated in the same way as patients without disease. A comprehensive clinical examination of each patient will help identify problems early on.This book reviews the medical conditions common to patients with malignant tumors. The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) clinical protocols and other current protocols for the management of emergency conditions in cancer patients are displayed.Each chapter is accompanied by a recommended reading list. Examples of clinical tasks with a step-by-step algorithm of actions are considered.The book will be useful to all physicians who nobly treat this disease.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of our study, we have first limited ourselves to the sociological Praxeology of KAMBAJI WA KAMBAJI, Kambajism, to which we have associated the theoretical and methodological bases borrowed from Biblical Exegesis, theological hermeneutics, kerygmatic homiletics and the pragmatics of religious knowledge, knowing that it is the nature of the object of study and the objectives of the researcher that determine the choice of the research method to use in a particular sociology. It was necessary for us, in the name of interdisciplinarity, to flesh out our methodological approach by extending Kambajian Praxeology to the discourse of theo-gnoséological power by relying on the two batteries of heuristic prerequisites so that each tendency would not be irritated but would usefully find its part in our analyses. This procedure has allowed us to arrive at the "Interdiscursive Theo-functional Praxeology" and to move towards the "Praxeological Sociology of Gnoseological Pragmatism" by incorporating the key axioms and principles of the Pragmatics of Communication.

The present work focuses on the characterization of the wastewater of the Cooperative Laitière du Maroc Oriental (COLAIMO) and to recommend an adequate treatment allowing its reuse, thus reducing the nuisance suffered by the receiving environment and also to remedy the loss of this water source in valorizable materials. The physico-chemical characterisation of the raw wastewater revealed that this liquid discharge is highly loaded with organic matter in terms of COD, which is 3900 mg O2/l, and 2300 mg O2/l of BOD5. Furthermore, the evaluation of the COD/BOD5 ratio = 1.69 underlines the biodegradable character of the COLAIMO wastewater, for which a biological treatment appears to be entirely suitable. Biological treatment processes are diverse, but after a comparative study of the different processes and a technical study evaluating the requirements of the cooperative, the "Sequential Biological Reactor (SBR)" process appears to be the most suitable for this type of industry and is the most efficient. For the implementation of a wastewater treatment plant, a study of the design of the plant before its realization is very interesting.

Life is a precious gift from the Creator to every living being. As far as man is concerned, the gift of life entrusted to him by God requires him to be more aware of its inestimable value and to assume responsibility for it. Is the human embryo a thing or a person? This question, which is often asked in Western societies to distinguish between "persons" who have dignity, and "things" or "goods" that have a "price", has begun, for decades, to influence African cultures, which are still traditionalist for the most part, in the area of the value to be accorded to human life in general and to nascent life in particular. It is therefore imperative to inventory not only the data of faith, but also the socio-cultural logics regarding the protection of human life and dignity. This is the quest that the author has set out to accomplish by taking a closer look at the Goun culture of southeast Benin.