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This thesis deals with the search for electroweak production of the top quark (single top in $s$ and $t$ <br />channels) in ppbar collisions at the Tevatron in...

Metallic materials are more and more used in severe conditions with particularly strong request for improving their behavior in aggressive environment and especially...

The loss of the corrosion resistance of the alloy 600, a nickel base alloy, during the oxidation in pressurized water reactor (PWR) has been demonstrated by many...

Wave attraction in counter-propagating waves systems is a general phenomenon that was first established in Physics in the context of the attraction of the polarization...

The context of this work is space mechanics. More precisely, we aim at computing low thrust transfers in the Earth-Moon system modeled by the circular restricted...

This thesis deals with the problem of dynamic modeling and identification of passenger cars. It presents a new method that is based on robotics techniques for modeling...

In the context of outdoor mobile robotics, concepts of localization and perception are central to any achievement. Also, the work in this thesis improves an existing...

As novel engineered nanoparticles such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are extensively used in nanotechnology due to their superior properties, it becomes...

Mass customization (MC) has become a reality and an important strategy for survival in today's economy. It is defined as producing customized products at a cost...

Magnetic colloidal suspensions are used in numerous practical applications. However, their structural and dynamical properties are hardly known, particularly under an...

Austenitic-ferritic stainless steels are supplied since about 30 years only, so they are yet not well-known. Their behaviour in cyclic plasticity was studied under...

The autopilot called OCTAVE (Optic flow based Control sysTem for Aerial VEhicles) is based on the hypothesis made in the 50s according to which an insect could...

Immigrant(s') children are the purveyors of a family tongue and culture which differ from that of the host country and its education system, when in fact, family...

A technique to produce images from heterogeneous structures or objects buried in a medium - such as ground or walls - relies on the measurement of diffracted field...

Fungi are common microbial contaminants of indoor environments. Many studies have demonstrated their role in the partial or total degradation of materials they...

Emotion is inseparable from cognitive processes and therefore plays a major role in decision making. As a result, it is becoming increasingly important in today's...

Persistent currents in a ring threated by a magnetic flux is one of the most basic properties of mesoscopic physics. In the presence of a magnetic flux, a mesoscopic...

Over the last decades, peridotite xenoliths brought up by kimberlites and basalts have largely and critically contributed to the understanding of the physical and...

The ITER Cable-In-Conduit Conductors (CICC) are composed of an assembly of pure copper wires and composite superconducting strands (with embedded brittle Nb3Sn...

In Europe, there's now a trend for the standardization of national family laws.This is closely linked to the increase of sources. The Council of Europe’s right, the...