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This conceptual paper aims to describe aging all over the place (AAOP), a federative framework for action, research and policy that considers older adults’ diverse experiences of place and life trajectories, along with person-centered care.

The framework was developed through group discussions, followed by an appraisal of aging models and validation during workshops with experts, including older adults.

Every residential setting and location where older adults go should be considered a “place,” flexible and adaptable enough so that aging in place becomes aging all over the place. Health-care professionals, policymakers and researchers are encouraged to collaborate around four axes: biopsychosocial health and empowerment; welcoming, caring, mobilized and supportive community; spatiotemporal life and care trajectories; and out-of-home care and services. When consulted, a Seniors Committee showed appreciation for flexible person-centered care, recognition of life transitions and care trajectories and meaningfulness of the name.

Population aging and the pandemic call for intersectoral actions and for stakeholders beyond health care to act as community leaders. AAOP provides opportunities to connect environmental determinants of health and person-centered care.

Building on the introduction of an ecological experience of aging, AAOP broadens the concept of care as well as the political and research agenda by greater integration of community and clinical actions. AAOP also endeavors to avoid patronizing older adults and to engage society in strengthening circles of benevolence surrounding older adults, regardless of their residential setting. AAOP’s applicability is evidenced by existing projects that share its approach.

For communities threatened by current or impending climate change, adaptation is becoming a necessity. Although little research has been done on human competences so far, this research shows that some appear to facilitate the adaptation process. The purpose of this multiple‐case study is to identify adaptive competences demonstrated by two groups of Canadian citizens: municipal employees in a coastal community and farmers.

As part of workshops based on a problem solving process, the two groups analyzed the impacts of climate change in their field of work and geographical area, chose a problem related to these impacts, suggested and then implemented adaptation measures. The municipal employees worked on sea level rise, whereas the farmers focused on poor soil quality, which makes it vulnerable to bad weather.

By thematically analyzing the verbatim transcripts of the workshops and by building narratives, the authors were able to identify similar adaptive competences in both groups: local knowledge, futures thinking, hindsight, risk prediction, critical thinking, decision‐making, and problem solving (highlighting key problem components, suggesting solutions, and identifying constraints). However, two competences were chiefly found in the group composed of farmers: optimism and openness to novelty.

This study is one of the first to lead to recommendations regarding the pedagogical support of citizens during an adaptation process to climate change. These recommendations might be helpful in many communities where adaptation to climate change is a pressing issue.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main assumption of a dynamic flux tube model and to define its rules of use.

The studied dynamic model lumps together all dynamic effects in the circuit by considering a single dynamic parameter. A physical meaning of this parameter as well as rules of use of the model are elaborated from analyses performed on several samples. A systematic comparison between experimental and calculated results allows to argue the conclusions.

The model gives accurate results when a weak heterogeneity of magnetic data exists, nevertheless, the saturation phenomenon enlarges the validity domain. By considering the losses separation assumption, the model allows to obtain separately an estimation of losses due to classical eddy currents and due to the wall motion effects.

The estimation of the model's parameter value is still empiric, a work is in progress on this subject.

The model's implementation in a flux tubes network allows to simulate the dynamic behaviour of industrial actuators having massive cores.

A physical interpretation of the parameter associated to the dynamic flux tube model is given. Rules of use of the model are also defined.

L'industrie du tourisme est florissante au Québec, puisqu'elle représente près de 2% du produit extérieur brut québécois et plus de 100'000 emplois à plein temps et parce qu'elle est marquée, surtout dans l'hébergement et la restauration, par une croissance annuelle de 12%, plus rapide que la plupart de celles des autres secteurs d'activité. Elle pourrait être encore plus dynamique et plus prospère si la formation supérieure en enseignement et recherche produisait un nombre suffisant de cadres et de chercheurs en tourisme, hôtellerie, restauration, loisirs et récréation. L'évolution technologique du Québec a été rapide et importante depuis 1960, de même que son ouverture sur le monde. Cette société a été largement urbanisée et de plus en plus orientée vers des activités tertiaires ou de services comme le tourisme qui se distingue par sa permanence et par une stabilité dans la croissance en raison de sa grande indépendance par rapport aux fluctuations de l'activité économique. L'activité touristique du Québec n'a cependant pas suffisamment d'experts et de personnel qualifié susceptibles d'améliorer sa position concurrentielle. D'où, la nécessité d'une formation supérieure orientée vers la décision, la prévision, la planification, l'aménagement et l'intervention touristiques. La complexité et la diversité du phénomène touristique sont analysées et expliquées en puisant dans les méthodes et les connaissances livrées par plusieurs disciplines: les sciences de la gestion dont le marketing, les sciences du comportement, la planification et l'analyse financière; l'économie dont l'analyse coût‐bénéfice, les transports et la prévision; l'histoire et la géographie, la sociologie, l'anthropologie, les sciences politiques et l'écologie. La formation supérieure en tourisme est exigeante et rigoureuse car caractérisée par la multidisciplinarité. La recherche touristique et ses résultats sont des supports indispensables à l'enseignement universitaire et aux gestionnaires d'un secteur d'activité qui peut et doit prendre une expansion considérable au Québec. La recherche touristique est à ses débuts, au Québec comme ailleurs, et présente en raison des programmes d'études supérieures à l'Université du Québec à Montréal des possibilités de développements théoriques forts utiles non seulement pour l'avancement des connaissances mais aussi pour l'amélioration des décisions d'ordre pratique en tourisme, dans les activités récréatives, le loisir, l'hôtellerie et la restauration.

This paper aims to describe the response of students to the shortage of materials at the Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Republic of Benin).

A survey was conducted with over 2,000 students of the Université d’Abomey-Calavi in 2014, and the data were analysed. The paper deals with two questions related to the university library services they use.

To satisfy their information and documentation needs, students visit several university library services even on different campuses.

The study recommends the setting up and the implementation of a long-term development plan for the University of Abomey-Calavi libraries.

The study describes the behaviour of students of a developing country when faced with a lack of relevant information and documentation resources.

The purpose of this paper is to set a relation through adaptive multi-level optimization between two physical models with different accuracies; a fast coarse model and a fine time consuming model. The use case is the optimization of a permanent magnet axial flux electrical machine.

The paper opted to set the relation between the two models through radial basis function (RBF). The optimization is held on the coarse model. The deduced solutions are used to evaluate the fine model. Thus, through an iterative process a residue RBF between models responses is built to endorse an adaptive correction.

The paper shows how the use of a residue function permits, to diminish optimization time, to reduce the misalignment between the two models in a structured strategy and to find optimum solution of the fine model based on the optimization of the coarse one. The paper also provides comparison between the proposed methodology and the traditional approach (output space mapping (OSM)) and shows that in case of large misalignment between models the OSM fails.

This paper proposes an original methodology in electromechanical design based on building a surrogate model by means of RBF on the bulk of existing physical model.

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, it highlights the importance of the presence of active teaching experiences in architecture courses. Such experiences can lead to an improvement in the teaching of technical disciplines, such as structural engineering. Second, it purports to demonstrate the relation and interaction between the active teaching strategy here presented and the learning outcomes required by the study programme.

The paper reports an active didactic experience (addressed to students of architecture and performed at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), from its conception to its development in the classroom with the students. The experience is reported by discussing the three main steps of which an active didactic experience should be composed: the stimulus, the practice and the discussion.

The experience seeks to find innovative methods to stimulate the study of structural engineering by students of architecture. Through this experience, based on the study of a square silicon pot mat, students are able to learn concepts related to the mechanics of structures. In addition, students find in their experience direct connections with structures of considerable architectural importance, such as the structure of the New National Gallery by Mies van der Rohe.

This experience is original in two aspects. First of all, the introduction of an active didactic experience to improve courses that are generally structured in a passive way. Second, in an era where the importance of numerical technology is growing, this experience goes in a different direction by choosing a low-tech but no less interesting approach.

This paper aims to examine whether being shown a testimony alleging that the perpetrator of a crime was influenced by an accomplice has an impact on the severity of the sentence given to this accomplice.

A total of 119 participants read the summary of a case of armed robbery. Two experimental conditions were adopted: the presence of a testimony suggesting the accomplice’s influence on the perpetrator in committing the crime (versus no testimony). The participants were then asked what sentence they would give the accomplice and what sentence they would have given the perpetrator of the crime, who had in fact already been sentenced. The participants rated items relating to the explanation for the crime (perception that the perpetrator had been manipulated by the presumed accomplice) and to the presumed accomplice’s intent to commit the crime.

The participants showed themselves to be harsher towards the presumed accomplice when they were shown the testimony about his influence, which reduced the disparity with the sentence they would have given to the perpetrator of the crime. Analyses of mediation show that the participants shown the testimony (as opposed to those who were not) were more likely to say that the presumed accomplice manipulated the perpetrator of the crime, leading them to be more likely to attribute to the accomplice the intent to commit the crime and to be harsher towards him.

The results of this research are discussed with a focus on naïve interpretations of influence in the very specific context of legal adjudication.

The purpose of this paper is to verify whether the horizontal grab bar for the toilet and the bathtub suggested by the Code du bâtiment du Québec conform to users’ preferences. Perceived effort, comfort and safety were considered.

In total, 31 adults and seniors using manual and powered wheelchairs were asked to test different grab bar configurations for both the toilet and bathtub. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate participants’ perceptions and preferences after the trials with each grab bar. Effort was measured using the ten-level Borg scale, while participants’ comfort and safety were assessed with a five-point Likert scale. Participants were finally invited to express an overall personal preference between the two grab bar used in each setup.

Participants showed preference for an L-shaped grab bar for the toilet, and a horizontal grab bar for the bathtub. The authors’ results differ from the recommendations of the barrier-free design standards of the province of Quebec’s construction code, which states that horizontal grab bars should be used for the toilet and bathtub.

This study suggest that despite the limited sample, there is an undeniable need for testing norms for public spaces, whenever is possible and has a direct effect on end-users, before publishing them.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between transformational leadership (TL), autonomy support management behaviors and employees’ psychological health.

A total of 512 Canadian workers assessed their immediate supervisor’s level of TL and autonomy support management behaviors. Participants also assessed their own psychological health through measures of psychological well-being and burnout at work.

Results from structural equation modeling indicate that TL is related to employee psychological well-being and burnout. This effect is fully mediated by more specific autonomy support and psychological control management behaviors. These results suggest that autonomy support and psychological control management behaviors may have a more proximal effect on employees’ psychological health than TL does. Also, managers’ leadership and behaviors appear to better predict employees’ psychological well-being at work than employee burnout.

Managers with a TL style employ more autonomy support and fewer psychological control behaviors, which makes employees happier and less burned out. Based on these results, leadership training programs would gain to focus on the development of more specific management behaviors among leaders, such as autonomy support, to enhance employees’ psychological health, especially their well-being.

This research expands understanding of the relationship between TL and the psychological health of employees by shedding light on the mediating role of autonomy support management behaviors in this relationship.