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Impact of texturing on sliding wear behaviour of UHMWPE
Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is a material widely used as bearing material in joint prostheses whose durability depends on its chemical and... -
Multicast and Broadcast in wireless OFDM systems
The OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system uses multiple sub-carriers for data transmission. Compared to the single-carrier scheme, the OFDM... -
Croissance, mise en ordre chimique et relaxation des contraintes épitaxiales ...
The relaxation of strain in epitaxial FePd films, grown by MBE, has been studied thanks to RHEED, TEM and STM. The preferential relaxation by microtwins in well L10-... -
Infinitesimal and asymptotic behavior of some relativistic stochastic flow
We study some Lévy processes with values in the isometry group of Minkowski, De Sitter and Anti-de-Sitter space-times. The isometry group is seen as the frame bundle... -
The Catholic Reformation in the Diocese of Toulouse (1590-1710)
The diocese of Toulouse, located in Languedoc and Gascony, suffered significant destruction during the Wars of Religion. One-third of the religious buildings were... -
Finite subgroups of the extended Morava stabilizer groups
The problem addressed is the classification up to conjugation of the finite subgroups of the (classical) Morava stabilizer group S_n and the extended Morava stabilizer... -
Unified study of partial differential equations of elliptic type governed by ...
The aim of this work is the study of complete elliptic differential equations of second order with operator coefficients in a Banach space X. A concrete application of... -
Supply chain management under availability & uncertainty constraints
Supply chain management involves a wide range of activities. Among most of them, uncertainty exists inherently and always brings some consequence not expected.... -
Multi-Model Approach for State Observation and Fault Diagnosis dedicated to N...
This PhD Thesis is devoted to the stability study of singular systems represented by a multi-model approach. Some observers are synthesized for robust estimation with... -
Application of flow control by pulsed jets on a bluff body
This manuscript describes the research conducted within the CARAVAJE project (" Contrôle de l'AéRodynAmique externe des Véhicules Automobile par JEts pulsés ", i.e.... -
Global Imbalances, Equilibrium Exchange Rates and Stock-Flow Consistent Model...
Since the mid-1990s, we observe a global increase of current account imbalances. In 2007, before the climax of the financial crisis, they reached 2% of world GDP in... -
TRANSITION OF DEEPGEAGE IN THE SUPERCONDUCTING VORTEX NETWORKS: STUDY BY DIGI...
In this work we study the depinning and the dynamics of disordered elastic systems which de nes a broad class of systems from interfaces (like magnetic or... -
Nominal designation of events : study and automatic extraction in texts
The aim of my PhD thesis is the study of nominal designations of events for automatic extraction. My work is part of natural language processing, or in a... -
Essays in the political economy of inflation
This dissertation titled “Essays in the Political Economy of Inflation” is comprised of three papers which study the problem of inflation from a... -
A control architecture for complex systems, based on multi-agent simulation.
Complex systems are present everywhere in our environment: internet, electricity distribution networks, transport networks. This systems have as characteristics: a... -
Poetics of the "savage" : practice of tattooing in the modern world
Ancient as it may be the popularity for tattoo does not seem to wane in the West. Indeed, we can find a great number of tattoo studios, exhibitions or magazines in our... -
Citizens Media Education in Italy during Transition to Second Republic
The first chapter summarises and anticipates most of the research topics. Paragraphs 1 and 2 show the surprise and perplexity of some pre-eminent liberal-democratic... -
Internal waves generated over an oceanic ridge : from the laboratory to the o...
Internal tides are involved in the Meridional Overturning Circulation energy balance. The ongoing debate on the relative importance of the mechanical and... -
Design of a low noise, limited area and full on-chip power management for CMO...
What are the elementary particles and how did the universe originate are the main driving forces in the high energy physics. In order to further demonstrate the... -
Analyse du répertoire bilingue sarde-italien en milieu urbain
Our research concerns the qualitative analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversations, recorded in an urban environment in Sardinia (Italy). More precisely, our data...
