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The French countryside has a diverse geography, economy and social composition. The rural renewal observed since the 1970s and 80s is equally diverse, as are the...

Biomass burning plays a pivotaI role on atmospheric chemistry by serving as a source of many important trace gases such as reactive compounds (CO, hydrocarbons,...

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 against New York and Washington, D.C., the term of « terrorism » took a dominating place in the American political speech....

Development of bioassays has become the matter of intense research in the field of molecular diagnostic. Biodetection techniques have been drastically used in...

I did my PhD in Particle Physics with the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) team from Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet at Ecole Polytechnique. The subjects of my study are the...

Date de rédaction: 2012

The purpose of this thesis is to develop statistical tools to initialize and to calibrate dynamic stochastic microsimulation models, starting from their application to...

In this work, we design and make high peak power pulsed fiber lasers operating around 2 µm. The first part of this work is dedicated to the study of gain-switched...

Using a narrow-band resonant fluorescence spectra from a nano-cell with a thickness of L= [lambda]/2, and VSOP resonances formed at a thickness L =[lambda] ([lambda]...

In France, since the seventies, the photography is the focus of much attentions. The appear exhibitions to enhance the medium and to legitimize it as artistic...

Within the context of high-speed machining, the different steps of the free-form elaboration process are at the origin of errors leading to quality decreasing of the...

Most of the plants are mostly vertical and straight on all or a part of their aerial systems. To reach this postural shape, stems display complex movements related to...

A new approach for the measure of urbanization in Europe allows to redefine urban features that are often being put forward to characterize the continent. The original...

Optics represents an elegant and reliable solution to generate high spectral purity microwave signals, especially the approach using the optoelectronic oscillator...

The costs associated with sensory evaluation increase with the number of panelists to be enrolled. Classical power computation can be used to derive the minimal number...

This dissertation describes the synthesis of new components for ballistic protection with the assistance of flash sintering. Indeed, the objective is to associate two...

Local organizations have witnessed the changes in French rural areas for over a century. Long ignored, they are currently in demand in the implementation of government...

During the execution of object-oriented applications, several millions of objects are created, used and then collected if they are not referenced. Problems appear when...

The objective of this work is to propose reliable, efficient and fast methods for minimizing convex criteria, that are found in inverse problems for imagery. We focus...

Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinarity field that has appeared in the beginnings of 2000's. This thesis proposes a theoretical history of neuroeconomics. The...