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“I’M LUCKY” . . . TO HAVE FOUND CHILD CARE: EVOKING LUCK WHILE MANAGING CHILD CARE NEEDS IN A CHANGING ECONOMY
Authors: Albanese Patrizia , Farr Tanya
Published: June 2016

This research1 looks at the impact of the rise of women’s non-standard, service sector employment on gender roles, identities and relations, and compares the complex task of finding and managing formal and informal non-parental child care in rural and semi-rural communities in two policy jurisdictions (Ontario and Quebec) in the Ottawa Valley. It seeks to understand the ways in which the neo-liberal reconfiguration of local economies impact on the experiences of employed, non-urban women with young children – mitigated by provincial policy decisions – through documenting the strategies they adopt to cope with challenges when managing this family-market-state nexus. This paper specifically focuses on mothers’ use of the notion of “luck” in describing how they found and managed their unique child care needs. Luck, in the psychological literature, is often treated as either an external, unstable, and uncontrollable cause, or an internal personal attribute. This paper shows that its use and invocation in response to questions about finding and managing child care has to do with gendered perceptions of control and power(lessness) over social circumstances related to geography, government policies, and changing, and at time precarious, economic/labour market circumstances.

 
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE ISSUE
Authors: White Jennifer , Pacini-Ketchabaw Veronica
Published: June 2016

This is the first special conference issue to be published by the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies. It brings together keynote talks, a roundtable conversation, peer-reviewed conference papers as well as a book review. Most of the contributions included here were featured at the Child and Youth Care in Action III Conference, Leading Conversations in Research, Practice and Policy, which took place in Victoria, British Columbia, April 28 to 30, 2011. As the co-chairs of this conference, it gives us great pleasure to introduce this special conference edition of the IJCYFS.
ART PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE WORLDS
Authors: Clark Vanessa
Published: June 2016

This paper explores the possibilities of arts practice in early childhood education. Building on her master’s thesis, the author presents both a doing – her experimentation with arts practice in two early childhood centres – and an argument: that art may present an opening onto possible worlds. The author builds these worlds in relation to her theoretical framework: an immanent relational materialist onto-epistemology. Viewed through this lens, art’s possible worlds have the potential to traverse, mix, and disrupt binaries that maintain marginalized positions. Art practice from this intersection of rupture is both intensely creative and deeply political.
BECOMING-MUSIC: A DESCRIPTION OF AN IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC THERAPY OUTREACH APPROACH
Authors: Smith Jeff
Published: June 2016

The following paper is a description of a music therapy outreach program that drew upon the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, narrative therapy, and response-based practice to provide a creative anti-oppressive service to under-housed youth living in Coast Salish and Straight Salish territory (more commonly advertised as Victoria, British Columbia). The author provides examples from his work with a composite character called Pete.
CHILD AND YOUTH CARE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PEDAGOGY, PRACTICE, AND POLICY (2011)
Authors: Raby Rebecca
Published: June 2016

Child and Youth Care: Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy is an edited collection that importantly contributes to critical, postfoundational analyses of child and youth care. Child and youth care covers a broad, multifaceted range of professional practice that is powerfully positioned to reproduce and/or challenge singular truths and social inequalities in work with young people and their families, thus pointing to the importance of critical reflection. Contributors to this collection are primarily faculty and graduate students from the Department of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada, who also share a wealth of practical experience in the child and youth care field. These authors draw on a range of theoretical approaches including postmodernism, poststructuralism, governmentality studies, postmarxism, queer theory, feminism, and postcolonialism. The chapters link such theory to personal teaching, research experiences, and literature review to draw attention to, and problematize, features of modernist practice in child and youth care.
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEMAND FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
Authors: Tade Oludayo , Aderinto Adeyinka A
Published: June 2016

The employment of domestic servants is a common phenomenon in Nigeria, where vulnerable children are internally trafficked to work as domestic servants in affluent urban households. While scholars have investigated the push factors aiding the demand for child domestic servants in West Africa, attempts to understand the dynamics underlying the demand are scarce. Hence, this study investigated factors that propel demand for domestic servants in Oyo State. The data were generated using both the quantitative and qualitative methods. The results show three categories of employers: newly married women, married women with grown-up children, and isolated widows and grandparents. The demand is driven by role dualism, workload, and the need for companionship. The incipient decline in the extended family structure of social exchange system (fostering) and preference for “outsiders” rather than family members justify the demand for and use of domestic servants. The study recommended welfare programmes targeted at demanding households and an intervention strategy for the trafficked children. 
FAMILY PROBLEM-SOLVING: HOW DO FAMILIES WITH ADOLESCENTS MAKE DECISIONS?
Authors: Molinari Luisa , Everri Marina
Published: June 2016

In the present study, we adopt an observational method for the analysis of family members’ interactions during a problem-solving task. The specific focus of our work is to put the family as a whole beneath the lens of observation, as well as to analyze how the parents and the adolescent separately contribute to the task solution. Twenty-eight non-clinical families with adolescents (13 to 16 years old) were filmed in their homes during a problem-solving task. Family interactions were analyzed according to four observational measures: family efficiency, family communication, family climate, and family participation. Three different patterns of family decision-making are described: families that control (high efficiency, calm family climate, collaborative participation), families that surrender (low efficiency, tense family climate, individual participation), and families that struggle (intermediate efficiency, serious family climate, alternated participation). Theoretical and practical implications in terms of everyday ways of dealing with problems in families with adolescents are discussed.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON CRIME PREVENTION WITHIN THE ALBERTA CONTEXT
Authors: Winterdyk John
Published: June 2016

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies is distinctive on a number of levels. First, not all the articles speak directly to families and/or children, as is the case with virtually all articles that appear in this journal. But they do all speak to the issue of crime prevention that directly and/or indirectly impacts families, children, and the community at large. Second, the articles were all funded by the Mount Royal University Centre for Criminology and Justice Research (CCJR) through a grant that was received from the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General of the Province of Alberta. The CCJR represents the first Centre of its type in Alberta. Third, in addition to being funded solely through the same organization, the articles all represent an effort to bridge theory and practice and speak to the importance of exploring and supporting alternatives to conventional criminal justice response mechanisms.
EXITING GANGS: EXAMINING PROCESSES AND BEST PRACTICE WITHIN AN ALBERTA CONTEXT
Authors: MacRae-Krisa Leslie
Published: June 2016

Gangs and gang-related crime have been an increasing concern in Alberta in recent decades. Gang exit strategies have been identified in the Alberta Gang Reduction Strategy (Government of Alberta, 2010) as a key activity in reducing gang-related violent crime and violence in the province. The purpose of this article is to explore available academic and gray literature on gang exit to support the development of gang exit interventions in the province. Findings from the review point to the diversity and complexity of gang involvement and membership, and the consequent need for multi-dimensional approaches to gang exit. Exit programs must address the root causes of membership, and identify and address barriers to pro-social activities. The complexity of gang membership also requires a strategic approach to programming that includes single case management, intensive training, and targeted outreach, as well as multiple systems involvement. Importantly, as Alberta moves forward with its Gang Reduction Strategy, systematic, comprehensive research studies on the “gang problem” in Alberta and its associated impact on the community are vital for the development of effective intervention strategies.
THE GRANDE PRAIRIE PACT PROGRAM EVALUATION: DISCREPANCY BETWEEN MODEL EVALUATION PRACTICE AND CONSTRAINED REAL WORLD EVALUATION OF CRIME PREVENTION IN SMALL COMMUNITIES
Authors: Hincks Crystal , Miller Anne , Pauls Monica
Published: June 2016

This article discusses and demonstrates the discrepancies between ideal, theoretical program evaluation processes and real world evaluation practice, which is constrained by numerous and varying factors. The article describes the real world experience of Mount Royal University’s Centre for Criminology and Justice Research researchers in conducting an evaluation of the Police and Crisis Team (PACT) in Grande Prairie, Alberta, including a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. PACT, which partners an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer with a mental health professional, represents a blend of secondary and tertiary crime prevention and attempts to diminish crime in the community by addressing the risk factors of individuals with mental health concerns (creating trust with individuals, increasing awareness of resources, and decreasing stigmatization in the community). PACT also specifically targets those individuals with mental health issues who are in contact with the law to try to decrease recidivism and increase community safety. Challenges were present in the evaluation due to the time frame, staff turnover, program start-up issues, and confidentiality and sensitivity of the program focus. Despite the challenges, the CCJR team completed an evaluation including a forecast SROI, identifying several successes, challenges, and recommendations for change.
RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ELDER SIBLINGS’ VERSUS PARENTS’ ACCEPTANCE AND BEHAVIORAL CONTROL TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT OF YOUNGER SIBLINGS IN TURKEY
Authors: Rohner Ronald P. , Varan Azmi , Koberstein Nicholas
Published: June 2016

This study explores the differential contribution of elder siblings' versus parents' acceptance and behavioral control to the psychological adjustment of younger siblings in Turkey. One hundred eighty younger siblings (M = 12.38 years) in intact nuclear families with at least one older sibling (M = 15.79 years) responded to four self-reports. Results of simple regression analyses showed that younger siblings' perceptions of odler siblings, mothers', and fathers' acceptance (but not behavioral control) each made a unique contribution to the psychological adjustment of the younger siblings. Hierarchical regression analyses, however, showed that younger brothers' perceptions of older sisters' acceptance did not make a unique contribution to the boys' adjustment. But all other sibling pairs did contribute uniquely to the adjustment of younger siblings.
“DU CARRÉ ROUGE AUX CASSEROLES”: A CONTEXT FOR YOUTH-ADULT PARTNERSHIP IN THE QUÉBEC STUDENT MOVEMENT
Authors: Blanchet-Cohen Natasha , Warner Alan , Di Mambro Giulietta , Bedeaux Christophe
Published: June 2016

This article utilizes duoethnography, a collaborative research methodology, to examine the divergent experiences of students and professors in the 2012 Québec student movement. Ignited by the government’s announcement of its intention to increase tuition fees, this youth-led movement caused an unprecedented stirring of ideas, emotions, and actions. Through personal narratives, we identify four aspects of a youth-led movement for social change, and reflect on their meaning in our lives in realizing youth-adult partnerships in the context of emancipatory approaches. They are: (a) the benefit of experiential versus classroom education; (b) the nurturing effect on youth empowerment of providing structures and spaces for youth-led processes; (c) the need to align youth emancipatory theory with practice, especially in systems which regularly resist change; and (d) the unexpectedly powerful impact of youth stereotypes, especially those delivered through mainstream media, and the difficulty of overcoming them. We also identify the value of duoethnography to accentuate youth voices, strengthen adult-youth partnerships, and enrich the transformative learning of both youth and adults.
DILEMMAS OF PRACTICE IN THE ECOLOGY OF EMANCIPATORY YOUTH-ADULT PARTNERSHIPS
Authors: Roach Jeanette , Wureta Esayas , Ross Laurie
Published: June 2016

This article explores dilemmas that arise when using a participatory, experiential neighborhood problem-solving and planning program in settings that have different expectations and beliefs about youth and adults partnering in organizational and community decision-making. Using Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecology of human development and Wong, Zimmerman, and Parker’s (2010) pyramid of youth participation, a series of dilemmas are explored. These dilemmas include: negotiating challenges of power; scaling up youth-adult partnerships into organizational decision-making and governance; reconciling tensions between practices, principles, and values when disseminating a program from one organization to another; dealing with organizational events that occur outside the youth program; and succumbing to pressure to achieve funder-derived outcomes. Two insights emerge from the analysis of these dilemmas. First, young people embrace adult-provided structure when adults and young people are not ready to work in emancipatory youth-adult partnerships. Second, as we move toward emancipatory youth-adult partnerships, the developmental sphere of youth programs has to expand to include the activities, relationships, and roles that traditionally have been limited to organizational leadership and governance. Likewise the developmental sphere of the governing body has to incorporate the activities, relationships, and roles of what has typically been the youth program.
THE IMPACT OF YOUTH-ADULT RELATIONSHIPS ON RESILIENCE
Authors: Ungar Michael
Published: June 2016

Distinguishing between population-wide strengths and processes associated with youth resilience, this paper shows that engaging and transformative youth-adult relationships exert the greatest impact on youth who are the most marginalized. This pattern of differential impact demonstrates that the factors that contribute to resilience, such as engagement, are contextually sensitive. For youth with the fewest resources, engagement may influence their life trajectories more than for youth with greater access to supports. Case material and research that shows the link between resilience and engagement of youth with adults is discussed as a way to show that resilience is not an individual quality, but instead a quality of the interaction between individuals and their environments. The benefits of youth-adult partnerships are realized for marginalized youth when specific conditions that promote interactions that contribute to resilience are created.
A BRIDGE TO ALIEN-NATION: CONNECTING THROUGH HUMANITY, DIVERSITY, AND RELATIONSHIPS
Authors: Yuen Felice , Context(e Gabriell
Published: June 2016

This paper is a reflexive process that considers the practices of mainstream service providers that aim to support marginalized youth but unintentionally result in further oppression. To engage in this deconstructive exercise, we use a poem that was written in response to an activity done at a youth engagement workshop held in Montreal in June 2012. Coupled with existing literature and further reflections of a young person’s experiences with social service providers, we offer recommendations for meaningful and empowering ways to connect with alienated youth. These recommendations emphasize acknowledging the diversity of experiences, developing authentic relationships, and embracing the humanity that unites us all.
MOVING TOWARDS EMANCIPATORY PRACTICE: CONDITIONS FOR MEANINGFUL YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN CHILD WELFARE
Authors: Dupuis Jennifer , Mann-Feder Varda
Published: June 2016

What are conditions that facilitate the development of youth voice in child welfare? This article will build on current literature that emphasizes the critical importance of treating youth in the care of the public system as valued resources and agents of change in their own lives who can contribute to effective service delivery. A focus will be on comparing principles of youth empowerment and the general purpose of child welfare systems in Canada and the United States. Challenges to the implementation of this model will be highlighted and recommendations to facilitate its execution at the individual, organizational, and policy development levels of our youth serving agencies will be made.
HELPING CHILDREN WITH HOME EDUCATION: HOW HOME EDUCATION CAN ENABLE GOOD EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUT-OF-HOME CARE
Authors: Gribble Karleen , English Rebecca
Published: June 2016

Children who experience maltreatment in their families may be placed in out-of-home care. A large, and increasing, number of children are being raised in these settings in Australia. The history of maltreatment that children in out-of-home care have experienced results in a variety of educational challenges. It is generally believed that schools are best placed to serve the educational needs of these children. However, there is extensive evidence that schools are unable to facilitate learning success for many children in out-of-home care. This paper argues that because home education can provide a low- stress environment and individually tailored learning, it can be an effective method of education for children and young people in out-of-home care. A case study of a home-educated child in out-of-home care is presented.
A PROPOSED PILOT STUDY OF A GRATITUDE PRACTICE PROGRAM TO INCREASE GRATITUDE AMONG EDUCATORS: THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF GRATITUDE PRACTICE TO INCREASE WORK ENGAGEMENT AND BUFFER AGAINST AND DECREASE BURNOUT
Authors: Wandell Jasmin
Published: June 2016

Burnout in educational settings is an international issue. Drawing on practitioner experience in Flexi schools for disenfranchised young people and the methods of positive psychology, this paper outlines a gratitude practice program (GPP) as a proposed intervention to address burnout within Flexi schools. The proposed intervention comprises a full-day workshop and 10 weekly group coaching sessions that aim to develop gratitude practice among teachers. The intention of the paper is to consider the GPP’s capacity to increase gratitude and the potential benefit of the program to participants. This proposed pilot study will be delivered to 14 educators in a single school. A pretest-posttest, multi-method design of evaluation will be presented and discussed. The GPP’s capacity to increase gratitude will be evaluated utilising a gratitude questionnaire. A focus group will be used to ascertain the benefit of the program. It is predicted that the GPP will increase gratitude and will be found beneficial by participants. The potential of the GPP to increase work engagement is discussed in terms of future studies. This proposed pilot study offers a practical intervention that can potentially address the real-world problem of burnout in alternative educational settings.
Temporary Families? the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program and the Neoliberal Regime of Immigration Governance in Canada
Authors: Chen Xiaobei , Xiaohan Thorpe Sherry
Published: June 2016

The Canadian government has introduced a series of policy changes to various immigration programs since 2008. This paper focuses on the revamping of the parent and grandparent (PGP) sponsorship program and the introduction of new measures such as the Super Visa. Using Foucauldian analytical tools and drawing on Bacchi’s (2009, 2012) method of studying policy as problematizations, we first historicize the problematization of the family in immigration policy. Second, we refute the government’s representation of immigration under the PGP program problems as essentially a transparent “problem of math,” that of too many applicants overwhelming the system. Finally, we analyze neoliberal technologies of immigration governance and their impact on citizenship formation and struggles. Who counts as family, we argue, has been biopolitically determined in Canadian immigration policy. Family members are recognized as such when it suits the needs of the state. The latest changes in family sponsorship policies objectify potential parents and grandparents reunification applicants, seeing them as human liabilities that pose risks to the Canadian population because of their advanced age. The new measures deploy a neoliberal regime of governance that discriminatorily responsibilizes the family, marketizes regulation, and maximizes the state’s control of the border and of the population. 
Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobilities
Authors: Nyers Peter
Published: June 2016

The study of the political agency and subjectivity of refugees and
migrants has become an increasingly important topic within migration studies. Migration involves struggles around fundamental social and political issues, namely mobility, residence, and citizenship rights. Expressions of this struggle can be found in local actions against detention, deportation, and other border controls; campaigns for regularization and status; the revival of sanctuary cities; and global struggles for freedom of movement. However, the traditional concepts and frameworks of migration do not adequately take into account the full dynamic range of migrant practices of political subject-making. This article analyses the “autonomy of migration” literature within migration studies and critically assesses whether the concepts from this perspective can be mobilized to understand the political agency and subjectivity of migrants. While the autonomist approach to migration makes vital and dynamic contributions to our understanding of migrant political agency, its dismissal of citizenship as an exclusionary concept would benefit from a more nuanced approach.
Articulations of Motion
Authors: Tambunan Andri
Published: June 2016

Andri Tambunan is a photojournalist based in Indonesia whose photographic essays work as catalysts for social change. In Tambunan’s words, “Beyond the act of recording, my aim as a photographer is to tell a story that voices the truth, evokes empathy, and ultimately moves people into action. Having a camera in my hand gives me both a rare privilege and a profound responsibility. Though the act of taking an image is instant, a photograph is capable of making a lasting impact.”
Análisis económico de la minería (carbón y oro) 2007-2010 en Colombia
Authors: Vargas Castaño Juan David , Manrique Cabezas Diego Alejandro
Published: June 2016

El problema de investigación fue conocer la minería como una actividad económica compleja y determinar cómo afectan las variables de explotación minera al índice de desarrollo humano (IDH). Se abordó desde la teoría neoclásica microeconómica. Cuatro puntos fueron analizados: la participación del estado en la renta minera, las implicaciones sociales, presencia institucional en la minería y finalmente dinámicas ambientales. Dicha actividad, acapara terrenos productivos y dispone de los recursos hídricos, deteriorando mantos vegetales en las cordilleras nacionales. Añádase que el carbón y el oro exportados, esencialmente son concesionados a multinacionales que dejan parte de las ganancias, y un pasivo de sostenibilidad al país. Lo anterior es explicado por la ausencia institucional. Se encontró que el (IDH) es afectado negativamente por una variable relacionada a la producción minera; positivamente por dos. Finalmente, las conclusiones muestran la ineficiencia institucional en el manejo estatal de los recursos naturales, obviando los costos ambientales.

 
Aproximación a la noción de ciudadanía en la contemporaneidad* How understand today the citizenship?
Authors: Muñoz Cardona Ángel Emilio
Published: June 2016

El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar el concepto de ciudadanía dentro de la sociedad contemporánea. Reflexionar acerca de los beneficios sociales que implica el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el fomento de los sentimientos de simpatía para el reconocimiento del otro como persona humana sintiente e igual. Desde un análisis inductivo, se busca explicar cómo a partir de la ética situacional, generada por las amenazas de las economías de mercado, los individuos tienden a validar prácticas sociales de atropello al otro. Son ejemplo de desequilibrios sociales que se ocultan bajo los denominativos de ciudadanía. Ausencias culturales de respeto por el otro, que pueden ser controladas y desestimuladas con la formación y el fomento universal de los sentimientos de amor y de respeto al ser humano, por el simple hecho de ser humano. Sentimientos que, a manera de conclusión, son más fácilmente propagados a través del uso generalizado de páginas web y las redes sociales. De imágenes y gestos. En otras palabras, el respeto por el otro es fruto de la unión social cada vez más amplia. Es el reconocimiento de una ciudadanía universal más allá de lo territorial o cultural, por cuanto tiene relación con las acciones humanas naturales; a través de las cuales se expresan los diferentes imaginarios de búsqueda en calidad de vida, felicidad para sí mismo y del grupo familiar.

 

 
Medición de las influencias económicas y sociales del microcrédito en la calidad de vida
Authors: Villada Medina Hernán Darío , Rodríguez David Esteban , Rendón García Juan Fernando
Published: June 2016

Este trabajo presenta un modelo para la medición del impacto del microcrédito en la calidad de vida en Colombia. El modelo se construye a partir de la comparación entre las variables económicas y sociales más utilizadas dentro de la literatura sobre impacto de microcrédito y la base presentada y oficiada por el Dane con la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida (ECV). En los resultados se muestra una relación de variables para cada indicador, se obtienen las bases teóricas de creación de una encuesta, los indicadores que se alimentan de dichas variables y sus análisis estadísticos pertinentes. Los resultados presentados tienen en cuenta que la metodología teórica es aplicable de manera práctica usando los parámetros que ya están descritos por el Dane, lo cual permite condicionar poblaciones y espacios de estudio más centrados y flexibles permitiendo medir varias ciudades o varias entidades financieras de toda la nación, además, los resultados se pueden analizar econométricamente para determinar cuáles de los indicadores y sus parámetros tienen influencia en la calidad de vida dependiendo de las poblaciones analizadas.

 
Algunas aproximaciones históricas al concepto de ciudadanía
Authors: Ceballos Ruiz Paula Andrea , Benavides Vanegas Laura Alejandra , Gutiérrez Giraldo Vanessa , Cano Rodríguez Nathalia
Published: June 2016

El presente artículo constituye parte del marco teórico que han realizado, en torno al concepto de ciudadanía, los investigadores del semillero de investigación en formación ciudadana y cultura de la legalidad “Sophia”. Se abordan sucintamente las consideraciones más significativas que se han construido sobre el concepto de ciudadanía, desde su nacimiento en la antigüedad y la versión de la modernidad consolidada, finalmente, en la democracia liberal. Este recorrido se ha realizado desde una perspectiva ontológica, epistemológica, antropológica y política del concepto. Finalmente se presenta un esbozo de las características del contexto en el cual se está reconfigurando el concepto heredado de la modernidad, así como los retos éticos y políticos que nos propone esta época para el futuro, con la recuperación de la ciudadanía como participación. Con lo anterior, se espera contribuir a la reflexión sobre el problema de la formación ciudadana en perspectiva histórica.

 
La responsabilidad penal para adolescentes: abordaje social de las sanciones en el departamento de Risaralda
Authors: Andrade armijo Deiner Stiwar , Zape Ayala Karen Stephany , Gallo Díaz Luis Miguel
Published: June 2016

El presente artículo es resultado del Proyecto de Investigación Colciencias denominado Población Juvenil del Departamento de Risaralda: Criminalidad Vs Prevención y Sanción, se ejecutó durante el periodo de julio 2014 a julio 2015. Los objetivos de la investigación fueron los de realizar un estudio comparativo entre las sanciones impuestas a los adolescentes en conflicto con la ley penal en el distrito judicial de Pereira, entre los años 2008 y 2013, e implementar jornadas de capacitación acordes con el programa de prevención, Risaralda: un territorio de prevención del delito. La investigación fue del tipo socio jurídico con un enfoque mixto y tuvo un abordaje social. Se utilizaron tres técnicas de investigación, revisión documental, encuesta y entrevista semi estructurada. Por último se presentan los resultados de la participación de hombres y mujeres en la comisión de delitos entre los años 2008 y el 2013; los delitos de mayor incidencia y las sanciones que más se impusieron en dicho periodo. Igualmente se presentan los resultados de jornadas de capacitación en población adolescente escolarizada, sobre el conocimiento de estrategias de prevención de la delincuencia juvenil. 

 
Características del suelo en los cultivos de cafés especiales del municipio de Calarcá - Colombia
Authors: Andrade Adriana Lucía , Cerón Chacón Victor , Gómez Duque Juan Ricardo , Hormiga García Deisy Natalia , Mejía Giraldo Luis Miguel , Torres Valenzuela Laura Sofía
Published: June 2016

La producción de café es un renglón económico de importancia significativa en Colombia, que cobra cada vez más relevancia por la declaratoria de la UNESCO de “Paisaje Cultural Cafetero Colombiano”, generando oportunidades para el sector productivo, pero también implica nuevos retos asociados a la calidad del café que le permita acceder a los mercados especializados, destacando la dinámica económica creciente de los cafés especiales. Existe una relación entre las prácticas agronómicas – incluyendo el origen y características del suelo - y la respuesta de la bebida en taza  y la perfilación con relación a la expresión de los cafés especiales definidos por la SCAA (Specialty coffee assotiation of America). Por lo anterior, en este proyecto se realizó una clasificación de los suelos de la región de Calarcá (pH, materia orgánica, elementos mayores, clase textural, hierro y aluminio). A partir de análisis multivariado se encontraron dos tipologías de suelo determinados principalmente por el pH, concentración de calcio y los niveles de aluminio del suelo, así como el uso de semisombra, siendo parámetros relevantes para de dicho tipo de café.

 

 
Erigir, habitar, investigar: modos del arte público para ciudades culturalmente sostenibles
Authors: Buchard De La Hoz Armando
Published: June 2016

La concepción de la ciudad sostenible se ha ampliado a través de tener en cuenta su sostenibilidad cultural, lo cual genera la necesidad de ahondar en su estudio  como hecho estético. Hecho que se sustenta en la doble condición de espacio de representación manifiesta en la arquitectura y en sus vivencias manifiestas en  la estructura urbana. El erigir, el habitar y el investigar el arte público, se presentan como formas de modelamiento de lo ciudadano a partir del manejo del arte en el espacio público por diferentes actores de la institucionalidad pública o privada representativa de la ciudad.

 
El Método de Análisis Bioclimático, un ejemplo de aplicación
Authors: Noguera Londoño Ella Lorena
Published: June 2016

El Semillero de Investigación de Bioclimática, tiene como objeto la formulación de estrategias de diseño bioclimático, como respuesta a la caracterización climática de diferentes regiones. Fundamentados en el método de Análisis Bioclimático, diseñado por Víctor Olgyay (1910-1970) se presenta un reporte sobre el cual se hacen recomendaciones arquitectónicas.
Más allá de compartir reportes particulares, el propósito del Semillero es crear una cartilla (en construcción) que sirva para el desarrollo del diseño arquitectónico. Esta actividad se convierte en una fuente de información técnica que permite conocer detalladamente el comportamiento climatológico de un lugar y así, establecer las estrategias bioclimáticas para el diseño con las condiciones de confort termo fisiológico (Givoni).
El estudio bioclimático se interesa por aspectos que benefician el medio ambiente y a los individuos. Por ejemplo, al hacer los hábitats más eficientes respecto a consumo energético se reduce la producción de gases de efecto invernadero y los costos de las facturas de servicios públicos. Y no menos importante, la implementación de modelos de proyectos para condiciones climáticas específicas repercute en el confort termo fisiológico de los seres humanos, es decir, en la mejora de sus condiciones de vida. En el fondo, la investigación nace de la creciente preocupación por contribuir a la sustentabilidad planetaria desde la arquitectura.

 

 

 

 
Reactividad de la co-combustión carbón-lodo
Authors: Gallego Ocampo Heidy
Published: June 2016

Con el fin de darle un aprovechamiento energético al lodo generado en una PTAR, se estudió la reactividad de la combustión de una mezcla carbón-lodo, buscando la competitividad como combustible y la reducción de su impacto sobre el medio ambiente.  Se emplearon técnicas termogravimétricas como fuente central para el análisis de la reactividad del lodo y las mezclas carbón–lodo, agrupadas en proporción 1:9, 3:7, 7:3, 9:1, 1:1 utilizando siempre carbón del Valle del Cauca.  El lodo fue calentado previamente a 105°C con el fin de evitar que los microorganismos presentes desdoblaran la materia orgánica y alteraran sus condiciones fisicoquímicas.  Se determinaron las energías de activación media ponderada, Em, estableciendo así la correlación entre los eventos térmicos y parámetros cinéticos.  Los perfiles de combustión mostraron eventos térmicos bien diferenciados para el lodo y el carbón, la mezcla carbón–lodo presentó eventos predecibles derivados de la caracterización de ambos combustibles.  El lodo tratado individualmente presentó una alta reactividad (Em de 47.46 KJ/mol), muy superior a la del carbón (Em de 134.69 KJ/mol), lo que alienta su uso como combustible.  De las mezclas analizadas, la que presenta mayor reactividad es la mezcla 1:9 (carbón-lodo) con Em de 48.16 KJ/mol, y la que presenta menor índice de reactividad es la 9:1 con Em de 144.59 KJ/mol.  A mayor valor de MV/CF se obtiene el menor valor de Em indicando esto una mayor reactividad y viceversa.

 
Instructions for Authors
Authors: Regtien Paul P.L.
Published: June 2016

The paper contains instructions for authors of articles for Acta IMEKO. It can be used as template for new submissions. Authors are encouraged to follow the instructions as described in this template file to produce their manuscript. This abstract should be composed in a way suitable for publication in the abstract section of electronic journals, and should state concisely what it is written in the paper. Important items are the aim of the research, the basic method and the major achievement (also numerically, when applicable). The length should not exceed 200 words.
Welcome to ACTA IMEKO
Authors: Daponte Pasquale
Published: June 2016

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Concept of mobile lab for electric vehicle systems research and testing
Authors: Vrazic Mario , Kovacic Marinko , Dzapo Hrvoje , Ilic Damir
Published: June 2016

When one wants to research different systems (measurement, control, etc.) on electric vehicles it is useful to have some sort of test bed for researched system. In order to enable such research at the closest way possible to real thing, the design and large part of actual realization was already made on an actual electric vehicle that should pass homologation and be able to drive among other cars. That vehicle with all its present and designed future research possibilities will be presented here.
Variability and uncertainty of Track Circuit band-pass modeling for interference evaluation
Authors: Mariscotti Andrea
Published: June 2016

When evaluating track circuits (TC) interference, the latest normative approach indicates the use of band-pass filters that emulate the TC receiver response. The rms value of the output, when compared to the interference limit, indicates whether a specific signal might create interference or not. The implementation of the filter has some degrees of freedom and needs thus to be characterized in terms of added uncertainty to the interference evaluation process. The latter is relevant to safety, strictly related to the incorrect assignment of the status of the track section monitored and protected by the TC itself. When giving a definitive answer about the immunity of a specific TC and the compatibility with the tested rolling stock, it is thus necessary to completely evaluate the uncertainty associated to the chosen model and to the related signal processing operations, even if - it is recognized - their influence may be considered of second order with respect to infrastructure and rolling stock non-idealities.
Challenges and perspectives of regional cooperation within COOMET - The Euro-Asian Regional Metrology Organization
Authors: Neyezhmakov Pavel , Sommer Klaus-Dieter
Published: June 2016

The creation of the metrological infrastructure providing traceable results of the measurement is one of the major tasks of COOMET member-countries from Central Asia and to Caucasian Region. COOMET successfully cooperates in developing the basic metrology infrastructures of these countries. In accordance with strategic aims COOMET also supports metrological knowledge transfer and developing technical competence for innovations and scientific research. For the purpose of implementing joint research projects a TC 5 was established. Cooperation within TC 5 aims at activating the NMIs of COOMET member countries in the global integration process in science, technology and high-end manufacturing.
Digital demodulator unit of laser vibrometer standard for in situ measurement
Authors: Oota Akihiro , Nozato Hideaki , Kokuyama Wataru , Kobayashi Yoshinori , Takano Osamu , Kasai Naoki
Published: June 2016

To establish an easy-to-use traceability system for laser vibrometers in vibration acceleration standard, a highly accurate reference standard is required. In this study, we investigated the measurement reliability of a commercial laser vibrometer with an analog demodulator. The results confirmed a large measurement deviation from nominal sensitivity values due to characteristics of the analog demodulator. To reduce such deviation, a high-accuracy digital demodulator, which can be utilized as a reference standard, was developed. The experimental results confirmed the improved measurement accuracy of the developed digital demodulator.
Capacitive facial activity measurement
Authors: Rantanen Ville , Kumpulainen Pekka , Venesvirta Hanna , Verho Jarmo , Spakov Oleg , Lylykangas Jani , Vetek Akos , Surakka Veikko , Lekkala Jukka
Published: June 2016

A wide range of applications can benefit from the measurement of facial activity. The current study presents a method that can be used to detect and classify the movements of different parts of the face and the expressions the movements form. The method is based on capacitive measurement of facial movements. It uses principal component analysis on the measured data to identify active areas of the face in offline analysis, and hierarchical clustering as a basis for classifying the movements offline and in real-time. Experiments involving a set of voluntary facial movements were carried out with 10 participants. The results show that the principal component analysis of the measured data could be applied with almost perfect performance to offline mapping of the vertical location of the facial activity of movements such as raising and lowering eyebrows, opening mouth, raising mouth corners, and lowering mouth corners. The presented classification method also performed very well in classifying the same movements both with the offline and the real-time implementations.
A study of Savitzky-Golay filters for derivatives in primary shock calibration
Authors: Nozato Hideaki , Bruns Thomas , Volkers Henrik , Oota Akihiro
Published: June 2016

This manuscript reports the result of an investigation into two types of digital filters for numerical differentiation of the displacement signal in the case of primary shock calibration of accelerometers. The first is a difference method with a 4th-order Butterworth low-pass (4th BW) filter; the other is a Savitzky-Golay (S-G) filter, which applies a moving polynomial approximation. The computational comparison was applied to low and high amplitude shocks using known excitation functions. Each sum of residuals was compared for the optimized conditions of the 4th BW and S-G filters. The results of computer simulation indicated that the S-G filters exhibited better performance for the derivatives than the 4th BW filters. In addition, an analytical comparison using experimental vibration data also indicated that the S-G filters exhibited better derivative characteristics than the 4th BW filters.
Theoretical, physical and metrological problems of further development of measurement techniques and instrumentation in science and technology
Authors: Hofmann D. , Tarbeyev Y. V.
Published: June 2016

This is a reissue of a paper which appeared in ACTA IMEKO 1979, Proceedings of the 8th IMEKO Congress of the International Measurement Confederation, "Measurement for progress in science and technology", 21.-27.5.1979, Moscow, vol. 3, pp. 607-626.

Common interest of both metrologists and representatives of science and technology in constant improvement of measurements as well as general trends in the development of research in the field of metrology, measurement technology and instrumentation at the present-day stage are shown. Problems of general metrology, of improving systems of units and standards ("natural" standards in particular) are considered in detail.
Impact of modern instrumentation on the system of basic concepts in metrology
Authors: Jaworski J. M. , Bek J. , Fiok A. J.
Published: June 2016

This is a reissue of a paper which appeared in ACTA IMEKO, Proceedings of the 11th Triennial World Congress of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), "Instrumentation for the 21st century", 16.-21.10.1988, Houston, pp. 125-134.

The paper is devoted to the new system of basic concepts in metrology which better fits to the development of contemporary instrumentation and measurement science. The existing concepts are confronted with the current needs; their modifications or new concepts are proposed. In particular the concepts of quantity and measurement method have been broadened and generalised. The proposed system is based on understanding of measurement as an experiment of parameter identification of the model of the measured object. One of the most important new concepts introduced here is the concept of measuring metasystem which comprises not only instrumentation but also the measured object, a "measurement interface" between the object and instrumentation and the operator.
The measurement chain and validation of experimental measurements
Authors: Moffat R. J.
Published: June 2016

This is a reissue of a paper which appeared in ACTA IMEKO 1973, Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Measurement Confederation, "Measurement and instrumentation", 17.-23.6.1973, Dresden, vol. 1, pp. 45-53.

The paper witnesses the sophisticated discussion that, well before the publication of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), was active in the measurement science community around the subject of error and uncertainty, and its consequences on the structure of the measuring process and the way it is performed.
Measurement and meaningfulness
Authors: Van Brakel J.
Published: June 2016

This is a reissue of a paper which appeared in ACTA IMEKO 1985, Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Measurement Confederation, "New measurement technology to serve mankind", 22.-26.4.1985, Prague, pp. 319-333.

The question raised in this paper is: What is the meaning of a statement in which reference is made to measurements? Measuring a property of a system produces numbers. The question can be made more specific by considering the following aspects of these numbers: validity and purpose of numbers to be obtained; accuracy and stability of numbers obtained; possibility of obtaining numbers; meaningfulness of relations between numbers obtained; relation to numbers representing other properties; what is arbitrary and what not in what the numbers denote; in short: what do the numbers obtained in measurement signify.
Calibration of Capacitance Diaphragm Gauges with 1333 Pa full scale by Direct Comparison to Resonant Silicon Gauge and Static Expansion System
Authors: Yoshida Hajime , Komatsu E. , Arai K. , Kojima M. , Akimichi H. , Kobata T.
Published: June 2016

Two capacitance diaphragm gauges (CDGs) with 1333 Pa full scale, with a heated sensor head and an unheated one, respectively, were calibrated by three different methods; direct comparison to a resonant silicon gauge calibrated by a pressure balance, direct comparison to a CDG with 133 Pa full scale calibrated by a static expansion method, and the static expansion method. The calibration results of the three calibration methods show good agreement within their claimed uncertainties. Calibrated higher pressure points of CDGs by the pressure balance and lower pressure ones by the static expansion system are linearly interpolated within the calibrated uncertainty. Here, compensation of the thermal transpiration effect is important when a CDG is used with a heated sensor head.
Simplified Measurements of the Humidity Coefficient of Torque Transducers in Calibration Laboratories
Authors: Brüge Andreas
Published: June 2016

Several simple methods to test the humidity influence on the sensitivity of torque transducers are examined. Their suitability for use in calibration laboratories and important influences are discussed. The equivalence of former determinations of the humidity effect with extensive methods to the simplified methods is demonstrated.