There are many high-speed train projects in Europe and elsewhere in the world. These projects are now part of a context of sustainable development, and their ambition is primarily to limit, or even counter, the continuous growth of road transport for people. However, this primary ambition is accompa...

All authors who have collaborated in this thematic file are interested in environmental, social and political issues surrounding urban development in Brazil. The main idea that emerges from all articles is that measures taken by public authorities to address environmental concerns in Brazilian citie...

The impressive growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the last decade constitutes a challenge both for social studies on sociability and on ICT usage. It demands to put methodologies and sociological analysis that have mainly been developed for the study of face-to-face intera...

http://afhe.hypotheses.org/3008 the analysis of the economic concepts of crisis, growth and progress often faces, for ancient economies, on the one hand a lack of numerical sources and, on the other hand, the impression that these economies have stagnated over several centuries. However, the accumul...

Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in women. Therefore, there is an urgent need to characterize the molecular players involved in the etiology of breast cancers, progression and resistance in order to develop new therapeutic alternatives to improve t...

economic outlook in Russia: Specialists speak in the general jamhaha of the media and experts from the standard think-tanks of the loan to think (here an example). They sent their analyses to the Russian government. We will decrypt the guidelines of the report resulting from the scientific advice se...

The relative success of the fight against inflation and excessive attention over the short period tend to mask trend developments in developed economies. The political consensus on the idea of restoring the “big balances” means that the reasons for the continuing rise in unemployment in Europe — a f...

The Moroccan State’s strategy since independence has been aimed at limiting the weight of cities and maintaining rural rural areas in the countryside by means of a rural spatial planning and equipment policy, a refusal of industrialist choice. Despite this proactive attitude, public action has at th...

national audience The disparity of agricultural growth and intervention policies in favour of favoured areas. The guidelines for the common agricultural policy in this area. The various possibilities for change through the evolution of techniques and the renewal of local dynamics.

The 1984 negotiations and strike at General Motors in Canada are a turning point in the relations between US and Canadian unions. The different elements of the crisis are explained by the author who also raises possible consequences on the future of the Canadian labour movement.

Similar to most major Spanish cities, Pamplona organised its growth throughout the 20th century as high-density regular neighbourhoods, relegating the river Arga, its feeder source, to a secondary role. This situation was corrected from 1998 as a result of the establishment of the Arga Fluvial Park,...

Tuberculosis is caused by a group of phylogenetically close infectious agents forming the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, consisting of ten species. M. tuberculosis is a slow growing bacterium which form rough colonies. The complex also includes M. tuberculosis tubercle bacilli forming smooth ra...

more attractive (Law No 2015-990 of 6 August 2015 on growth, activity and equal economic opportunities, known as the Macron Law; I. riassetto, La société de libre partenariat, a new professional investment fund in the French collective management landscape, Bull. Joly Stock Exchange, Oct. 2015 No 10...

Etude de cas publiée à la Centrale de Cas et de Médias Pédagogiques (CCMP). Cette étude de cas porte sur la politique de marketing international menée par le groupe Inditex et la marque Zara. La création d'un nouveau business model, la fast-moving fashion, a permis au groupe de devenir le leader sur...

What do shareholders contribute to the financing of a company? What is the ratio between dividends paid and subscription of shares in cash? What changes is the fact that a company uses the public, that its shares are listed on the stock exchange? A systematic study of the subscription declarations o...

Social housing in post-Maoist China shows a complete paradigm shift from the 1990s onwards. Housing loses its status as a social benefit: attributed by companies (danwei) to their employees, it becomes a market good, whereas the construction sector is a major challenge for economic growth. A period...

Our team optimized the formulation of implantable medical devices for bone and cartilage tissue engineering. To that end, we based our work on nanostructured implants, either natural or synthetic, made in the laboratory by electrospinning process, to mimic bone extracellular matrix, and hydrogel of...

This dissertation studies urbanization and city growth in China. It is composed of tow parts. The first part begins with a review of theoretic models of urbanization in development economics, and then describes stylised facts of China's urbanization process. Problems of urban population measures, th...

The exponential growth in the use of the Internet as well as the emergence of new types of applications has increased the network’s constraints in terms f security. Fort the last several years, biometric techniques have proven their applicability and reliability in providing secure access to shared...

L’intensité et la fréquence des événements hydro-météorologiques extrêmes sont susceptibles d’évoluer notablement en région méditerranéenne du fait du changement climatique. Les projections climatiques concernant ces extrêmes restent certes incertaines, mais nos sociétés doivent se préparer à ces év...

During embryonic development, the major body plans of the plant are implemented. This process gives rise to a mature embryo which possess all the characteristics of a young seedling and is associated with a morphological change. These two processes are stereotyped in Arabidopsis thaliana embryo deve...

Introduction For many economists globalisation inevitably leads to the transfer of many productive activities to emerging countries. In developed countries, economic growth is low, the weight of industry is shrinking and the development of unsophisticated services is witnessing an ageing population....

iron has replaced bronze, but this development is not limited to a change of material. It is a key element of a profound change in the technical system of society and hence of society as a whole. The development of iron production has made it possible to generalise iron aron tools. This is arguably...

MADS-box transcription factors (TF) have been mostly characterized for their involvement of plant development such as floral organogenesis and flowering time. Some of them are involved in stress related developmental processes such as abscission, fruit ripening and senescence. Overexpression of the...

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