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We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing these effects provide an indication of the...

Many records in environmental science exhibit asymmetries: for example in shallow water and with variable bathymetry, the sea wave time series shows front-back...

Magneto-Optical Traps have been used for several decades. Among fundamental mechanisms occuring in such traps, the magnitude of the multiple scattering is still...

L'article retrace l'évolution historique du "Besserungsstück" depuis sa création jusqu'à sa disparition au milieu des années 1830. Il montre comment les principaux...

As a typical dimensionality reduction technique, random projection has been widely applied in a variety of fields concerning categorization. The construction of random...

28 pages

Myrdal's works are usually analysed with a dual and separated point of view : on the one hand the methodological papers concerning the value problem and based on a...

I present some evidence showing that the advanced economies' banks were contributing in spreading the Euro-crisis to the emerging economies. For this purpose, I test...

Chapitre d'ouvrage (à paraître) - Titre ouvrage: "Natural hazards and risk reduction in Europe - from Science to Practice" - Editors: "J. Schanze, N. Bischof, H. Modaressi, J.M....

Le plan Borloo est une tentative de l'État central de rompre les compromis historiquement réalisés entre lui-même, les Départements, les associations et les organismes...

En partant du cas du RSA, généralement reconnu comme un pas supplémentaire vers une " autonomisation " des politiques au niveau local, nous interrogeons dans cet...

En parallèle des politiques sociales traditionnelles de l'emploi et de l'assistance publique mises en place dans les pays développés et face au débordement du social...

In this paper, we study the problem of lossless universal source coding for stationary memoryless sources on countably infinite alphabets. This task is generally not...

28 pages. Introduction was expanded and some minor mistakes were corrected. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, accepted

We present a new type of spline functions defined over a quadrangular mesh equipped with an equivalence relation, in such a way that physical spaces with a complex...

We study a particular class of complex-valued random variables and their associated random walks: the complex obtuse random variables. They are the generalization to...

In 1957 took place in Paris at the "Musée des Arts Décoratifs" the "exhibition of the collections of the oldest provincial museum," Besançon. The Museum of Besançon is...

Développement durable, responsabilité sociale, principe de précaution ou encore comité d'éthique, autant de phénomènes qui montrent que l'entreprise se doit d'être...

On présente dans cette brève note, quelques réflexions rapides sur la question démocratique dans le contexte général du plissement numérique du monde.

This paper develops a simple model showing how banks can increase the access to finance of small, risky firms by mitigating coordination problems among investors. If...