Nitrogen in the ISM and circumstellar environments 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE ISOTOPIC RATIO OF NITROGEN As seen in the previous chapter the isotopic ratio of nitrogen may be key to disentangling the mystery of the heritage of the protosolar nebula. To be able...

An economic comparison of adaptation strategies towards a drought-induced risk of forest dieback

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Material and methods Some definitions Characterization of drought and risk According to the IPCC (2002), drought is defined as “a phenomenon that occurs when precipitation is significantly below normal recorded levels and that...

What is miscalibration and why is it important to economists?

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Incentives to Learn Calibration This chapter is a joint work with Guillaume Hollard. Introduction In the past decades Economists and Psychologists documented a long list of bi-ases, i.e. substantial and systematic deviations from...

Maintaining the Point Correspondence in the Level Set Framework 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Geometric representation of deformable models Many different geometric representations have been proposed in the deformable models literature. The interested reader may refer to [105] for a thorough review. Often, these representations are divided...

A NURBS-based Topology Optimisation Algorithm 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Additive Layer Manufacturing Technology ALM has experienced an important spread in the last decades and several technologies have been developed. Each technology is suited for a speci c application and for well-de...

Inside the Cloud: Random Number Generation 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Contributions Characterization of Real-Life PRNGs under Partial State Corruption From a theoretical viewpoint, we formally extend the security model of [DPR+13], to capture the behavior of a PRNG against an attacker that has...

Direct and Reverse Estimates of Returns to Scale 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Direct and Reverse Estimates of Returns to Scale1 Introduction Increasing returns to scale are of great importance for numerous macroeconomic models (see for example, Farmer and Guo, 1994, and Jones, 2005). However, there...

Buyer’s discretionary power and the selection of efficient firms 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Horserace betting in France The betting market on horseraces in France is exclusively a pari-mutuel system1. The concept of pari-mutuel consists in pooling together all bets corresponding to a race and a bet...

Improvement of the Viscous Penalty Method for particle-resolved mulations  

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Improvement of the Viscous Penalty Method for particle-resolved simulations This chapter is the article [26] authored by M.-A. Chadil, S. Vincent and J.-L. Estivalezes Abstract A numerical study of the parameters controlling the...

Regeneration restores the diversity and the pattern of sensory organs in the legs of Parhyale

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Regeneration restores the diversity and the pattern of sensory organs in the legs of Parhyale Abstract Many animals have the ability to regenerate parts of their body that have been injured or amputated,...