Forest cover mapping is an essential tool for forest management. Detailed maps, characterizing forest types at a régional scale, are needed. This need can be fulfilled by médium spatial resolution optical satellite images time sériés. This thesis aims at improving the supervised classification procé...

The aim of this paper is to make some remarks on the seventeenth-century bilingual vocabularies of Spanish and indigenous American languages. These vocabularies were composed by missionaries who had the practical needs of evangelization in mind. I will comment on the lexicographic purposes of these...

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If the afflatus of computers has marked the activities of archivists, as we are reminded in this issue about the founding of the Archives de la critique d’art (ACA) in 1989, the development of computer technology, and data-processing, has also transformed the practice of art criticism and the activi...

Discovering frequent episodes over event sequences is an important data mining task. In many applications, events constituting the data sequence arrive as a stream, at furious rates, and recent trends (or frequent episodes) can change and drift due to the dynamical nature of the underlying event gen...

The study which one will present door on "the French diplomacy and the Mediterranean interests' maghreban". It proposes to draw up an assessment of various aspects of the co-operation between France and the States of the Maghreban in particular the three countries of the "central Maghreb" (Morocco,...

Through the example of Naples, this thesis analyses the importance of kinship in the upper class residential location and mobility in a Mediterranean city. Though many studies have stressed the importance of a family residential proximity cultural model in Southern European countries, the forms of t...

This article proposes a review of recent econometric studies which have made use of the disaggregated statistics of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States concerning open positions on oil derivatives markets by type of player. The more detailed distinction between “comm...

national audience The work presented in this paper focuses on the development of a very low-cost hardware and software solution enabling, through low-speed network infrastructures, the multiplication of long-range, reliable, robust (therefore amarino) sensors, autonomous, miniature, discrete, to wor...

Groundwater pollution by chlorinated organic compounds is a major problem. Actually, these particularly toxic pollutants, permanently degrade soil and groundwater quality. Their dispersion (by solubilization and volatilization) from the pollution source zone can generate large contaminants plumes.Ch...

Since the comparative perspective is -Durkheim, it was stressed in time — at the heart of the sociological approach, the works that come under this banner spontaneously attract the attention of sociologists. And this attention is often disappointed because, by way of comparison, we often just juxtap...

This text, which presents some financial and fiscal aspects of the three main types of sub-national governments in Canada (provinces/territories, regional/urban/municipal and school), concludes that there is no significant tax competition but that there is fiscal diversity. There is a trend towards...

The use of Internet technology has changed the way people interact rendering face-to face and verbal communication a trend of the past. Thus, a new world has been created for young people, who send emails, visit websites, use webcams, chat rooms and instant messaging through social media for communi...

International audience This article concerns a relatively unknown phenomenon in marketing that has become, however, extremely popular among older adults: legacy writing. While the writing of "ego-documents" has been the subject of many studies in gerontology, sociology and, above all, literature, re...

[ES] On a global level road accidents lead to a large number of deaths and injuries as well as large economic losses due to different factors such as human, vehicle and infrastructure. Conventional roads are highly vulnerable because of the road safety characteristics they have along their journey a...

A decade after the discovery of echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4)-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (EML4-ALK) rearrangements in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), several inhibitors have gained regulatory approval, and their sequential use has deferred platinum-based chemotherapy to...

What semantics should we attribute to mass expressions like wisdom and love, which are derived from gradable expressions (wise, to love)? We first examine how these expressions are used, then how they are interpreted in their various uses. We show in particular that, just like with ordinary concrete...

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over the last 20 years, few tourist destinations in the world have built a success as fast as Marrakesh. To such an extent that the ‘Moroccan destination’ is often indissociable from that of the ‘red city’; Marrakesh’s case is unique in the world. Behind this achievement, a will and political commit...

<p>Drug-Abuse Treatment Outcomes Study (DATOS) is a prospective study designed to determine the outcomes of adult drug abuse treatment delivered in typical, stable, community-based programs and to provide comprehensive information on continuing and new questions about the effectiveness of drug abuse...

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International audience Topics in a text corpus include features and information; visualizing these topics can improve a user's understanding of the corpus. Topics can be broadly divided into two categories: those whose meaning can be described in one word and those whose meaning in expressed through...

After an introduction to the issue of document typology in the digital world, the author examines the current relationship between the data, documents and transactions linking them. He concluded that the mixing of data and documents could only be processed from an archival point of view by using wor...

Portuguese Network of Heritage of Humanity — UNESCO Historical Centre of Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores Date of registration: 1983 criteria: (IV) (vi) Situated in the island of Terceira in the Azores archipelago, the city was a mandatory port of call from the 15th century to the advent of the steam...

International audience The purpose of this paper is to understand why people shop at small retailers in their community. The authors investigate the influence of consumers’ civic commitment, measured at behavioural and perceptual levels, on small-retailer patronage (SRP). Design/methodology/approach...