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The reform of the Cameroonian prison system : between colonial inheritance an...
Cameroon is a mosaic of tribes which become muddled or entangled, between others, by the game of alliances being translated by the concern of to “live together”. With... -
Development of posterior diencephalic neurons enlightens a switch in the pros...
Neurons expressing melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) are observed in the vertebrate posterior hypothalamus, from lampreys to humans. These neurons are involved in... -
Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy: towards Magnetism
The purpose of this work was to develop a ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) set-up that could be used to study magnetic objects at the nanometer scale... -
Search for (exotic) strange matter in the STAR and ALICE experiments with the...
Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions offer the possibility to create conditions of temperature and density that could lead nuclear matter to a state of deconfined... -
Short echo time MR Imaging of the lungs : methods and applications for experi...
In this work, ultra-short echo time (UTE) MR imaging of the lungs is presented as a way of detecting pulmonaryMRI signal, thus providing an opportunity to develop new... -
Utilisation de B pour la vérification de spécifications UML et le développeme...
The coupling of object-oriented approaches with the B method makes improvement the activities of software specification and development. The B method provides... -
New functions of p21Cip1 in cytoskeletal dynamics of human mammary epithelial...
CDKN1A gene was initially identified as a target of the tumor suppressor p53. The ability to inhibitcyclin-dependant kinase and PCNA activities confers to its product,... -
Acoustic radiation of a periodic structure of finned-coil type : Application ...
The prediction of noise from outdoor units of heat pumps, partly coming from finned coils, is an important industrial issue. The major obstacle to the study of finned... -
Simplified modeling and accelerated resolution strategy in nonlinear dynamics...
Power plants turbo-generator sets are large rotating machines of more than 50 meters long and weight several hundred tons. During normal operation of such a machine,... -
A model and its counter : comanagement of the Waza and Benue biosphere reserv...
The co-management of protected areas can be approached through an innovativemodel making it possible to improve the conditions of the people surrounding theprotected... -
Génétique de l'utilisation des produits d'origine végétale chez la truite arc...
Nowadays, aquaculture contributes to half of the aquatic products intended for human consumption. The composition of aquafeeds strongly evolved in the past 30 years.... -
Political agreements in the resolution of internal armed conflicts in Africa
Since some decades, Africa is «the most destabilized strategic area of the plane. » the issue of armed conflicts represent a real «African puzzle» as well for local... -
From study of planktonic trophic networks of Charente Maritime marshes to ind...
Charente-Maritime marshes represent hydraulic systems on which available data on thewater quality are limited, preventing a good management of these ecosystems. As... -
Experimental and finite element analysis of the static and vibration behaviou...
The aim of this work is to investigate the effects of debonding lengths on the static, fatigue, linear and nonlinear vibration behaviour of sandwich materials. First,... -
Resource and joined management of karstic mountain water : climat change impa...
The subalpine and jura middle mountains are composed of a many karstic systems characterized by small size and area. For local towns, these systems can represent the... -
Experimental study and numerical simulation of the plastic deformation of zir...
There is only few experimental data in the literature on the zirconium single crystals and no constitutive laws for this single crystal material are provided. The goal... -
Impact of drying on adherence properties between a coating mortar and a subst...
The quality of adherence between a coating mortar and its substrate, such as building front wall, depends on environmental conditions. Especially, the restraint of the... -
Variational methods : Applications to image analysis and to Frenkel-Kontorova...
This thesis is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to the study of image restorationand the second part is devoted to the study of a Frenkel-Kontorova model...
