Transfert tri-dimensionnel de l'eau dans le bois au-dessus du point de saturation des fibres avec condensation de la vapeur d'eau. Modelisation et experimentation

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LES MUTATIONS TYPO MORPHOLOGIQUES DES OASIS DE LA MICRO REGION DU ZAB GHARBI -CAS DE L’OASIS DE TOLGA

LA TRANSFORMATION DES OASIS EN VILLES ET LE PASSAGE DU RURAL A L’URBAIN DONT TOLGA FUT L’ECHANTILLON REPRESENTATTIF DE LA REGION DU ZAB GHARBI SE JUSTIFIE SUR POLITIQUE URBAINE REGIE PAR L’ETAT SUITE AU METAMORPHOSE QUE SUBISSAIT LA STRUCTURE SOCIALE DE LA REGION ET L’EVOLUTION DU CADRE PHYSIQUE ENGENDRANT POUR SA PART L4EXODE VERS CES NOYAUX. LOBJECTIF PRIMORDIAL EST DE COMRENDRE LES MECANISMES DE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE QUI ONT FAIT DE CETTE VILLE UN CEBTRE DE GRAVITE DE TOUTE LA REGION DU ZAB GHARBI

Measuring effectiveness of mitigation strategies in infrastructure projects

Risk management in large infrastructure projects is an integral methodology for delivering project goals. While the identification and quantification of risks are common practices contributing to risk management approaches, the prevention and mitigation of these risks often lay in the hands of the organization’s ability to define action items. These action items mitigate the risk by reducing or eliminating the consequences and/or the probability of occurrence of these uncertain events. This process however is often not clear, and mitigation strategies are often not implemented successfully. We put forward questions regarding effectiveness of risk management tools to measure the success of these mitigation strategies. If an organization can establish methods to measure the effectiveness of the mitigation actions applied to their projects, they could use this as a tool to adjust and adapt to future projects based on collected data and lessons learned. Presently, it is uncommon to collect specific data about applied mitigation strategies. When faced with a new project, an organization relies on experiences provided by Subject Matter Experts and available information documented in lessons learned. Risk management tools do not currently propose methods to collect metrics on mitigation strategies and their effectiveness applied to large infrastructure projects. This thesis investigates pragmatic methods which could be applied to existing risk management processes to implement tracking of mitigation strategies and measuring their perceived effectiveness. We established identification and categorization of processes similar to those set out in identifying risks, implementing a systematic way to categorize actions in their intended application. This provides a foundation for recording data about these applied mitigation actions, categorizing actions into mitigation strategies. A live library of actions can be populated, updating it as the success/failure of mitigation actions are realized. This library is a tool to collect mitigation strategy metrics based on the real time evolution of project information and/or data from past projects. We can then assign probability distributions to the metrics of mitigation components. In using Bayesian updating of beliefs in probability distribution form, the belief of a given mitigation strategy and corresponding action can be updated to effectively mitigate the given risk.Applied Science, Faculty ofCivil Engineering, Department ofGraduat

Denuncian a un centro geriátrico por negarse a practicar la eutanasia en Belgica. Traducción al castellano de información facilitada por el Institut Européen de Bioéthique

Incoherente resolución judicial que penaliza con un multa de seis mil euros a un centro geriátrico de Lovaina, tras la negativa del mismo a practicar la eutanasia a Mariette Buntjens, enferma de cáncer terminal, alegando los médicos de este hospital, tres razones en contra de la práctica de la eutanasia: 1ª) no pudieron dirigirse y dialogar con la enferma, ya que lo impidieron los familiares; 2ª) incumplimiento de los requisitos establecidos por la normativa vigente respecto a la práctica de la eutanasia; 3ª) motivos religiosos; 4ª) convicciones dentológicas profesionales

Traducción del francés al castellano de ‘El final de la vida: aclaración terminológica’ (Institut Européen de Bioéthique, de Bruselas, un referente frente al desmán y la violencia de la eutanasia)

Entre las grandes iniciativas que está llevando a cabo el Instituto Europeo de Bioética, con sede en Bruselas, que con tanto celo dirige el jurista italiano Toni Romano, está precisamente la de poner de relieve una serie de conceptos claves que conviene, según el citado Instituto, resaltar frente a la confusión reinante en la terminología al uso, clarificando lo que es el suicidio médicamente asistido, el fin de la vida, la eutanasia, los cuidados paliativos, la sedación paliativa, la sedación terminal, el encarnizamiento terapéutico, los cuidados paliativos integrales, la última opción, el castigo supremo, etc. En definitiva, “mors omnia solvit”. O, mejor dicho, como recordaban los docentes de la primera Facultad de medicina del mundo, la Escuela salernitana, “contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis” o de forma más clara: “tristitia iura necis nulla medela fugat”. El problema de muchos facultativos médicos es que no se aperciben del dicho clásico de que la soberbia partió rauda y veloz a caballo, pero regresó a pie. La clase médica otrora respetable en grado superlativo ahora se ha llenado de unos cuantos indeseables que profanan el juramento hipocrático