L'article 107 de la Loi sur la faillite et les droits des différents créanciers

Section 107 of the Bankruptcy Act of Canada establishes an order of collocation of creditors in a bankruptcy which comes in conflict with the order of collocation set out in many provincial statutes, and in particular, with that set out in the Quebec Civil Code for privileges. This has resulted in numerous court debates between creditors and trustees of the bankruptcy as between different categories of creditors who have seen their rank either lowered or elevated by the application of section 107. In the first part of this article, the author examines the categories of creditors concerned by this inversion, being mainly : the landlords, the Crown and Workmen's Compensation Boards. The second part of this article focuses on conflicts between secured creditors under provincial law and preferred creditors under the Bankruptcy Act. The author emphasises the differences that evolved between Quebec case law and the case law of other provinces particularily as to the scope of application of section 107 when there is a conflict between a secured lender and a lien claimant affected by section 107, on property of the bankrupt in which the trustee in bankruptcy has little or no interest

Alien Registration- Cordeau, Lionel (Sanford, York County)

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Les homicides entre délinquants : une analyse des conflits qui provoquent des règlements de comptes

Certain conflicts between offenders over their illicit activities end in the murder of one of the protagonists. These homicides are refered to as settling of accounts. This article examines why and under what circumstances offenders choose to solve their differences by a settling of accounts. Three categories of conflicts between offenders were identified. The 444 cases of settling of accounts ending with 531 victims that occured in Quebec from 1970 to 1986 were analyzed within those categories. The findings indicate that these homicides occured in cases where the stakes were very high. This study also shows why certain criminal activities and certain illicit markets give rise to more settling of accounts than others

Alien Registration- Cordeau, Napoleon F. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints

This article addresses the well-known Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), in the special case where the demand of a customer consists of a certain number of two-dimensional weighted items. The problem calls for the minimization of the cost of transportation needed for the delivery of the goods demanded by the customers, and carried out by a fleet of vehicles based at a central depot. In order to accommodate all items on the vehicles, a feasibility check of the two-dimensional packing (2L) must be executed on each vehicle. The overall problem, denoted as 2L-CVRP, is NP-hard and particularly difficult to solve in practice. We propose a Tabu Search algorithm, in which the loading component of the problem is solved through heuristics, lower bounds, and a truncated branch-and-bound procedure. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated through extensivecomputational experiments

Minimum Phase noise of an LC oscillator: Determination of the optimal operating point of the active part

International audienceIn this paper, we describe an original method for determining the optimal operating point of the active part (transistor) of an LC oscillator leading to the minimum phase noise for given specifications in terms of power consumption, oscillation frequency and forgiven devices (i.e.,transistor and resonator). The key point of the proposed method is based on the use of a proper LC oscillator architecture providing a fixed loaded quality factor for different operating points of the active part within the oscillator. The feedback network of this architecture is made of an LC resonator with coupling transformers. In these conditions, we show that it is possible to easily change the operating point of the amplifier, through the determination of the turns ratio of those transformers, and observe its effect on phase noise without modifying the loaded quality factor of the resonator. The optimal operating point for minimum phase noise is then extracted from nonlinear simulations. Once this optimal behavior of the active part is known and by associating the previous LC resonator, a design of an LC oscillator or VCO with an optimal phase noise becomes possible. The conclusions of the presented simulation results have been widely used to design and implement a fully integrated LC differential VCO on a 0.35µm BiCMOS SiGe process

Rich vehicle routing with auxiliary depots and anticipated deliveries: An application to pharmaceutical distribution

We present and solve a rich vehicle routing problem based on a practical distribution problem faced by a third-party logistics provider, whose aim is to deliver pharmaceutical products to healthcare facilities in Tuscany. The problem is characterized by having multiple depots, a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles, flexible time windows, periodic demands, incompatibilities between vehicles and customers, a maximum duration for the routes, and a maximum number of customers per route. A multi-start iterated local search algorithm making use of several neighborhoods is proposed to solve the problem. The algorithm has been tested on a large number of instances and obtained good results, both on the real case study and on a number of artificially generated instances

A Survey of Attended Home Delivery and Service Problems with a Focus on Applications

The research field on Attended Home Delivery (AHD) and Attended Home Service (AHS) problems has experienced fast growing interest in the last two decades, with the rapid diffusion of online platforms and e-commerce transactions. The COVID-19 pandemic has just fostered that interest, raising further challenges, opportunities and shortcomings that have to be tackled to answer the need for innovative methodologies as well as new policy actions. The aim of this work is to provide an extensive literature review on the state of the art for AHD and AHS problems, with a particular focus on real-world applications. A discussion of promising future research directions is also provided

2.4 GHz antenna array using vector modulator based active phase shifters for beamforming

International audienceThis study presents the analysis and the experimental results of a 2.4 GHz antenna array using vector modulators working as active phase shifters for beamforming. With the use of such an active phase shifter, a continuously controlled 360° phase shifting range can be achieved leading to an efficient beamforming architecture. To show the robustness of this system, a theoretical analysis is first performed in order to quantify the impact of vector modulators I/Q mismatch on the obtained gains and phase shifts. In the same way, the impact of the vector modulators noisy command voltages is also quantified by system simulations. The experimental results of the 2.4 GHz vector modulators show a maximum relative gain error close to 2.5% and an absolute phase error less than 3°. The measured 1 dB output compression point is -6 dBm. Measurements of the prototype including an array of four 'patch' antennas controlled by the vector modulators were also performed in an anechoic chamber. The results show good agreement between measured and theoretical radiation patterns

A 2.4 GHz active phase shifter architecture for smart antennas control

International audienceThis paper aims at developing the bases of a smart radio-communication prototype, able to modify the radiation patterns, both on emission and reception, according to the needs of the communication. Smart antenna is a well-known concept, allowing to increase the quality of the transmission and spectral efficiency. To control the radiation patterns, algorithms used in smart antenna techniques require precise amplitudes and phases generation. In this paper, vector modulators working as active phase shifters will be used in order to synthesize such amplitudes and phases. A theoretical analysis will be performed in order to quantify the impact of vector modulators mismatches on the synthesized amplitudes and phases. Furthermore, measurements of radiation patterns generated by a prototype at 2.4 GHz will be presented