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Study of the hydromechanical behavior of PCB polluted sediment for a landfill...
Currently, river and lake sediments are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), to varying degrees of severity. PCBs are persistent micropollutants in the... -
Graphs of groups and co-hopfian groups
A group G is said to be co-hopfian if every injection from G to G is an automorphism. With the Bass-Serre theory, we give conditions for the fundamental group of a... -
Analysis of coastal flooding damage and assessment of induced costs on reside...
This PhD work aims at analysing damage and evaluating costs related to coastal flooding on residential buildings. The study is based on insurance data from two recent... -
Embedded and secure traceability : autonomous authentication of objects and o...
"Human-to-Machine" authentication is widely developed for modern telecommunications. A "Machine-to-Human" authentication will ensure the trusted human user about the... -
Larval fish assemblages in the lagoon of New Caledonia: spatio-temporal struc...
The understanding of the most influential factors on larval survival in the water column is crucial in order to predict local variations in fish abundances. This... -
A symbolic approach for the verification and the test of service choreographies
Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Such an application is made up of several... -
The Spanish refugee women in France (1939-1942) : women between subjection an...
The purpose of this PhD thesis is to give visibility to Spanish refugee women in France from 1939 to 1942 and bring them out of the shadow of their male companions. We... -
High Contrast Coherent Population Trapping Resonances in Cs Vapour Cells with...
This thesis reports the development of a simple-architecture laser system resonant at 895 nm used for the detection of high-contrast coherent population trapping (CPT)... -
Figures of the detective in contemporary american detective fiction
Contemporary American detective fiction both echoes and breaks with the 1930s-1950s golden age by taking over the codes and myths of hard-boiled and classic English... -
Effect of nominal convergence criteria on real side of economy in DSGE models
In this thesis we analyse a problem of the real economic adjustment between two countries, one of which is an emerging market and the other is a developed economy.... -
Readymade poetry, XX-XXIth century
Thèse rédigée de 2005 à 2010 -
Literacy in students fron 2nd year to 6th year with the Alouette test : how i...
The fall of the level of ability in literacy has often been brought to public attention, so we used the Alouette test (Lefavrais, 1967) to make a comparative study on... -
Conditions of emergence and spread of the electric car : an analysis in terms...
This PhD thesis aims to assess the features of the " window of emergence " of the contemporary electric car and thus, raises both theoretical and industrial issues.... -
Contribution to the understanding of the Cardiovascular System Modeling and P...
The arterial network of the cardiovascular system (CVS) is composed of two systems, the macrocirculation (elastic and muscular arteries) and the microcirculation... -
Contextual selection of continuous services applied to ambient robotics
Ambient robotics aims at introducing mobile robots in active environments where the latter provide new or alternative functionalities to those shipped by mobile... -
Relativistic Shock Waves : Structure, turbulence generation, particle acceler...
The formation and activity of compact objects such as Black Holes and Neutron Stars results in the ejection of ionized matter in the form of jets with velocities close... -
Set-Membership Approaches for Mobile Robot Localization
This thesis deals with mobile robot localization problems, and more precisely with the interest of a set-membership approach to those problems. Nowadays most of the... -
Reduced order methods applied to aeroacoustic problems solved by integral equ...
This thesis has two topics : numerical methods for acoustic wave propagation in a flow and reduced order models. In the first topic, we develop a coupled finite... -
Potentialities of cultivar mixtures to prevent epidemic progression of septor...
Increasing plant diversity within a crop by the use of cultivar mixtures is a strategy which allows to reduce severity of windborne diseases. Potentialities of this...
