After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects...

The establishment of a World Heritage Site based on mixed criteria combines objectives relating both to the preservation and the promotion of natural and cultural systems. They may profoundly transform both the relationships to these places and the places themselves. This thesis addresses these dyna...

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[ES]. This work is carried out at TORRECID S.A in Alcora, province of Castellón. This company is a multinational chemical company that supplies products mainly to the glass and ceramics sectors. Products are traded internationally, which requires compliance with the legislation of the country of ori...

In cropland soils, plant residues and microorganisms are the main sources of organic matter. Soil organic matter (SOM) represents an important pool of carbon. Mineralisation of soil organic carbon is an important issue and studies on soil organic matter degradation and/or stabilisation showed contra...

when the period 1880-1914 of this Language History was dealt with, neither the data nor the tools were really missing for a statistical approach to lexicon. Materials amassed in Nancy were available in the raw state but also more elaborate summaries, such as the Frequency Dictionary, published in 19...

Since almost 20 years, the environmental characteristics of products have been one of the main drivers of innovation for manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment who are developing eco-design approaches based primarily on the ageing cycle analysis. From 1992, the first European directive...

Summary. Despite the significant impact of fraud, forensic audit investigations are carried out in a fragmented and dispersed manner. Due to the nature of the topic, its study is confusing. In this regard, the aim is to characterise the empirical approach in forensic auditing that investigators have...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public health problem with more than 120 million infected people and no treatment that can effectively counteract this virus to date. HCV was discovered in 1989, classified as a flaviviridae family and is the only representative of the genus hepacivirus. It is an e...

Adapted filamentous pathogens such as the oomycetes Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis (Hpa) and Phytophthora infestans (Pi) project specialized hyphae, the haustoria, inside living host cells for the suppression of host defence and acquisition of nutrients. Accommodation of haustoria requires reorganiz...

among the members of the monastic community, sometimes doubts, questions or adaptation difficulties arise. Temporary or definitive, they can lead to a challenge to engagement in the monastic career and sometimes lead to a return to secular life. Until recently, many Tibetan nonnes claimed that it is...

TEI or Encoding Initiative is an XML language for describing and exchanging digital texts, and in our case for bibliographic references. Three levels of description are possible using this language: ‘BIBL’, which brings together all the bibliographic elements. ‘biblStruct’ is based on predefined ele...

ABSTRACT The network of actin cytoskeleton is composed of actin filaments (F-actin) that are made by polymerisation of actin monomers and actin binding proteins. It is required for growth and morphogenesis of eukaryotic cells. The labelling of F-actin with constitutively expressed GFP-Talin (Kost et...

In 2008, Marseille was awarded the title of “European Capital of Culture” for 2013. Local decision-makers in Marseilli adopt a specific strategy by highlighting the socio-cultural shortcomings of the city in the face of its competitors. The process is successful and Marseille will join 97 other muni...

In this chapter, the determinants of spatial dynamics and the recomposition of nine agroforestry systems in Benin, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Kenya and Nicaragua are compared. The comparison is based on the analysis of data collected at parcel, farm, survey area and country level. An analysis grid identi...

International audience This collected volume analyses labelling as a political and economic operation. It gathers contributions that focus on various domains, including the agri-food sector, the construction sector, eco-labelling, retail, health public policies and the energy sector, considering the...

It is in a context of growing concern about globalisation that consumers have recently expressed expectations of economic ethics, with a view to sustainable development, assuming that long-term development can only be sustainable if it is able to integrate economic profitability, respect for the env...

[summary of the book] This collective book provides ethnographic insights into the electoral mobilisation logic from Nicaragua to Turkey, France and the United States. By choosing an entry ‘from the bottom’ and looking at ‘campaigning’, this series gives a look at political exchanges and transaction...

International audience The practice of usage labels or language labels dates back to the first lexicographical studies in the early seventeenth century. Since then it has moved from value judgments to consolidated labels and, more recently, to symbols. Traditionally, non-standard units are labelled...

Article published under the title ‘Constitutive and Mundane Versions of Labeling Theory’, in Human Studies, vol. 1, No 3, July 1978, pp. 269-288, translated from English by Kamel Boukir and Louis Quéré and reproduced with the kind authorisation of this magazine.

Aim of study: The application of three analytical methods (fatty acids: FA, tocopherols: TOC, and isotope ratio: ISO) to distinguish the feeding type received by Iberian pigs during the fattening stage.Area of study: This distinction is very important for the labelling of Iberian high-quality produc...

International audience In French secondary education, classroom exclusion is a routine treatment of disciplinary problems which contributes to school dropout. This article looks at the teaching practice of excluding students from class and their charge through school life services in three priority...

The phenomenon of propaganda as an expression of collective persuasion is linked to the very birth of war clashes, becoming as effective as the weapons themselves. After being employed during World War I, the Spanish civil war will be the main field of experimentation. All available resources were u...

Our thesis concerns the study of the penal colonization of the French Guiana by one relegated interned in the penal colony of Saint-Jean-du-Maroni. The law on the banishment of the recidivists voted May 27th, 1885 entails the exile for life within a colony of delinquents and criminal recidivists. Fr...

Framing has been widely shown to affect decision making. In this paper, we investigate experimentally whether, and to what extent, cooperative behaviour in a Game of Chicken may be impacted by a very basic change in the labelling of the strategies. Our within-subject experimental design involves two...