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Analysis of the dynamical coupling between the urban canopy and the turbulent atmospheric surface layer – URBANTURB
More than 50% of the world population currently lives in urban areas and this proportion is expected to keep increasing during the next decades due to the fact that most of the population natural growth will be absorbed in cities (World Urbanization Prospects, The 2011 Revision Highlights, United Na
Collaborative Creation of Contents and Publishing using Opportunistic networks – C3PO
Social networks put together individuals with common interests and/or existing real-life relationships to share information. They quite always rely on a stable, centralized network infrastructure and a user will always be provided with the same services no matter of its current context. By contrast,
Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages – ELLAf
ELLAF proposes the creation of a website dedicated to the documentation and research on literatures in African languages, whatever their sociolinguistic status. Literary texts will be presented on the website as excerpts or full texts, with a French and/or English translation, following a common pr
Literary Creativity and Biological Knowledge in the 19th Century – BIOLOGRAPHES
The word ‘biology’, invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, marked the formation of a new object of study, which immediately aroused a keen interest among specialists in other disciplines as well as writers. French literature very quickly seized upon the biological sciences, used them w
A Generic Model of Computation Framework for Model Execution and Dynamic Analysis – GeMoC
GEMOC focuses on three design and simulation issues that must be handled effectively for the construction of complex systems: - Consider various concerns. Multiple stakeholders are involved in the design process, each with a specific domain expertise. Stakeholders express their perspective with the
Active liquid-liquid interfaces – ILLA
ILLA is a fundamental project combining for the first time synthesis of a «reporter« extractant, non linear optics spectroscopy (SHG) coupled with surface tension measurements, reflectivity measurements and simulations (molecular dynamics) on similar systems. Beyond studies on «static« planar and cu
Regulatory and functional evolution upon gene duplication – EVOGENDUP
Our genomes contain multiple copies of a given gene: this phenomena is at the basis of the gene families, where each member often performs different functions. Our specific objective is to understand the molecular mechanisms that determine their functional divergence over time. The challenge is to u
MOde LOcking and Solitons in SEmiconductors – MOLOSSE
Semiconductor light sources are often used in pulsed regimes in which they emit trains of spikes and these regimes are both of technical and fundamental interest. In certain conditions, each of these spikes can be described as a «solitary wave« or «soliton«, a surprising wave packet which does
Water resource management in the Eastern Mediterranean: the example of Alexandria and its water system – GEOMAR
Our objective is to understand palaeohydrological changes in the region of Alexandria in terms of natural and anthropogenic forcing agents. We would like to answer the following questions: (1) How were the freshwater resources exploited in the desert and deltaic areas of Alexandria’s hinterland? (2)
Spatio-Temporal Analysis by Recognition within Complex Images for Remote Sensing of Environment – ASTERIX
Following the growth of multisource data with high spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, the problem of complex image information mining in remote sensing of environment becomes a great challenge, with many potential applications raising. However, there is no or only a few methodological fram
