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LeBlanc, Ricahrd. "Habermas sans culottes." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50240.
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Leconte, Michel. "Codes sans répétition." Paris 7, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA07F073.
Full textSirois-Marcil, Justin. "L'érection sans prescription." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27378.
Full textKalmbach, Courtney Nicole Kalmbach. "Vamp Sans Amp." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470248833.
Full textArdeeff-Garé, Isabelle. "L'enfant sans filiation." Toulouse 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU10019.
Full textHow is it possible that a child can be deprived of family or parents? The first right of a child is obviously to know his parents. But some parents don't want to take care of their children. According to French law, those parents can abandon their children either before the birth of the child (in France, it's called "accouchement sous X") or after the birth, if the child is not 1 year old (what's called, in France, "abandon anonyme"). The thesis demonstrates that the opportunity that French law offers to the parents to abandon their children must be preserved, because it's a means to protect the child from abortion or murder. And those possibilities to abandon a child are not in opposition with international declarations about children's rights. However, the situation of a child deprived of family must be shorter than possible. So, French law gives the child the opportunity to be adopted. Some articles of French law also impose on the parents to take care of their children. But it's not a solution: it's useless to oblige a man or a woman to be a parent
Beldame, Yann. "Sans papiers, sans destin : essai d'ethnographie critique dans l'Espagne de l'immigration." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0419.
Full textDiop, Amadou Samba. "Sans-papiers, sans politiques ? : Contribution à une étude comparée du traitement public des sans-papiers en France et en Suède." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED075.
Full textDoes Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights not state that "All women and men are born and remain free and equal in rights"? Do non-discrimination as well as equal treatment of subject of law in court not constitute the core principles relating to the protection of human rights? Law and practices tend to not consider the so-called "undocumented migrants" as public service users, thus denying their legal personality. However, the respect of foreigners’ rights is an essential sign of the degree of protection and effectiveness of rights and freedoms in a country. In recent years, associations and organizations working for the respect of human rights have constantly emphasized the gap between the officially proclaimed rights and the rights actually exercised by foreigners on the European Union territory. Consequently, the problem of real harmonization and communitisation of European migration policies has arisen. This thesis put forward a contribution to a detailed and comparative analysis of the public treatment of undocumented migrants in France and Sweden. It’s is motivated by my personal experience of the issue dealing with foreigners’ law in Europe and insists on the mutation of the collective action through juridification and the Europeanization. The numerous difficulties encountered by the public authorities to promote a singular public policy specific to undocumented migrants draws a set of hypotheses that will help us to better understand and identify the problem
Amort, Joseph Scott. "Sans fin sans (endlessness): for guitar, seven wind instruments and double bass." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12470.
Full textROUXIN, HELENE. "Essai d'un regime sans cereales et sans lait dans la polyarthrite rhumatoide." Montpellier 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989MON11221.
Full textBehlouli, Abdeslam. "Simulation du canal optique sans fil. Application aux télécommunications optique sans fil." Thesis, Poitiers, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016POIT2308/document.
Full textThe context of this PhD thesis falls within the scope of optical wireless communications for applications in indoor environments. To discuss the performance of an optical wireless link, it is necessary to establish a characteristic study of the behavior of the optical wave propagation channel. This study can be realized by measurement or by the simulation of the channel impulse response. After describing the composition of an optical wireless link and reviewing existing simulation methods, we present our new simulation algorithms channel in realistic environments by focusing on their performances in terms of accuracy and their complexity in terms of computation time. These methods are based on solving the light transport equations by ray-tracing techniques associated with stochastic Monte Carlo integration methods. The classical version of these methods is the basis of three proposed simulation algorithms. By applying an optimization using Markov Chain, we present two new algorithms. A performance assessment of our simulation algorithms is established in mono and multi-antenna scenarios of our simulation algorithms. Finally, we present the application of these algorithms for characterizing the impact of the simulation environment on the performances of a visible light communication link. We particularly focus on the transmitter models, surface coating materials, obstruction of the user's body and its mobility, and the geometry of the simulation scene
El, Mahboubi Firdaous. "Stockage adaptatif pour noeud de capteur sans fil autonome et sans batterie." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU30218/document.
Full textEnergy autonomy is a major challenge in the massive deployment of wireless sensor networks in numerous applications. Energy harvesting and storage can serve as solutions to the autonomy issues. However, the harsh environment of certain applications requires a long lifetime since the use of batteries for storage is prohibited. We then resort to storage on ultra-capacitors. This type of storage has disadvantages that require a compromise between 3 factors: the fast charge of ultra-capacitors (low capacity), the maximum energy storage (strong capacity), and the maximization of stored energy utilization (low residual voltage). To meet these seemingly contradictory criteria, we propose three self-adaptive storage architectures. The first consists of a matrix of four identical ultra-capacitors, interconnected by switches, whose equivalent capacity adapts to the stored energy. The second and third architectures consist of two ultra-capacitors, one of low capacity and the other of large capacity, the difference between the two architectures being related to the number and type of switches used. The self-adaptive storage architectures that we propose include a suitable self-powered control circuitry to vary the apparent capacity of the device. In addition, each architecture allows a cold start with completely empty ultra-capacitors. These three architectures were first optimized through simulation, and then validated experimentally with discrete components. Finally, we implemented the self-adaptive storage architecture with two ultra-capacitors in a completely wireless measurement system, using an energy harvesting source and its associated electronics for its power supply, and demonstrated the relevance of this approach of reconfigurable storage. In conclusion, we deduce that the topologies can reach an efficiency of energy usage of up to 94.7% by employing discrete components, a value that could be further improved through the exploitation of a silicon integrated version for both the control circuitry and the ultra-capacitors
Guérin, Bonvoisin Françoise. "La Personne sans sujet." Rennes 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993REN20004.
Full textProsopagnosia is not an agnosia and is not limited to gaces. It is a part of a familiarity disorder. Familiarity and evocation are both involved in the memory. Memory, as any concept, is an identity and a unity. As an identity, in contemporary neuropsychologia, it is so global that it cannot be opposed to anything. It interferes with other processes and must be brought out of other processes properties. After, we still must separate it from history. Memory is not a scientific conceptual unity : amnesia does not exist alone, pure, but is always associated to other diseases (temporopastial disorientation for instance). The hypothesis defended in this thesis (according to J. Gagnepain's mediation theory) is that amnesia is part of a more global process which j. Gagnepain calls somasia : it is the border (frontier) of the body and the environnement (extrabody space) ; in other words, it creates the individual (both body and space). Normally, what Gagnepain calls person (that is ego or history) finds its origin in the biological individual but it is an excentration process. Asomasia which impaires the individual, deteriorates the dialectic between the individual and the person. It explains why amnesic patients have relation disorders. Several cases of asomasia are reported. It poses the question of unilateral neglect. Is there hemiasomasia?
Lucchelli, Juan Pablo. "Un fétichisme sans qualités." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082210.
Full textRichard, Théo. "Capteur sans électronique pour la surveillance sans fil de la santé des infrastructures maritimes." Thesis, Nantes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NANT4064.
Full textThe natural evolution of hydraulic concrete as well as the effect generated by pathogens (i.e. chloride ions) have a direct impact on the durability of reinforced concrete structures. This thesis project aims at implementing a new SHM approach to engineering structures. This approach is based on the development of a passive, autonomous and low-cost sensor, directly integrated into the concrete coating of the structures and communicating wirelessly with external interrogators. This technological solution aims at establishing a predictive maintenance process based on the monitoring of chloride penetration fronts and therefore of reinforcement corrosion. A preliminary phase of digital modelling and experiments allowed us to optimize the choice of the sensor topology. The first prototypes of drowned antennas insensitive to changes in the dielectric states of healthy and degraded concrete were produced. These antennas were then coupled to loads on the periphery of their radiating surfaces. These fillers are sensitive to chlorides. The combination of these two elements defines the architecture of the passive and autonomous sensor. The operating principle of the sensor is related to the length reduction of its load, which is in direct contact with chlorides due to corrosion. his degradation induces a change in the resonance frequency of the sensor, which acts as an indicator of degradation of the concrete coating. By reflecting the EM waves emitted from an antenna on the surface of the structure, it is possible to recover information about the corrosion state of the load. This defines the principle of our technological solution, without power supply and without integrated electronics. Finally, extensive experimental campaigns on laboratory-controlled concrete test bodies which represent the regional fleet of structures, enabled us to validate our approach
Moussa, Ali Abdouramane. "Diagnostic sans modèle a priori." Phd thesis, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00604090.
Full textCaron, André. "Transformation d'expressions relationnelles sans variables." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25523.pdf.
Full textGrenier, Karen. "AVEC OU SANS MOTIF(S)." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26019/26019.pdf.
Full textKrantz, Thomas. "Holonomie des connexions sans torsion." Nancy 1, 2007. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/SCD_T_2007_0030_KRANTZ.pdf.
Full textWe study the finite-dimensional Lie algebra representations in connection with their lattice of subrepresentations. We consider the case where the representation admits two pairs of supplementary invariant subspaces. We show that in this case the representation admits a canonical decomposition in three subrepresentations with well defined caracteristics. We strengthen the results for the situation where the representation admits a pair of supplementary invariant subspaces and an invariant reflexive form, respectively an invariant metric. In the geometric part we apply the preceding results to the study of the holonomy representations of a manifold equipped with a torsion-free connection or in particular a pseudo-Riemannian manifold. Finally we have a closer look at representations of type ‘direct sum of V and V dual’ or ‘V tensor the trivial representation of dimension 2’, which appear in this context, and we caracterize the torsion-free connections admitting a holonomy representation of this kind
Moutot, Gilles. "Adorno, un matérialisme sans images." Montpellier 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008MON30065.
Full textThis work aims to present the specificity of Adorno’s materialism. To that end, the issue of how commodity fetishism extends itself in advanced capitalism provides our point of departure. First considered in the dialogue with Benjamin in the 1930’s, this theme quickly appears as a critical instrument that Adorno uses, even as he refashions it, in a wide variety of fields: from aesthetics to epistemology to politics. So it is that the attention devoted to experiences of non-identity is materialist. Consequently, what is at stake in Adorno’s thought may be schematically set between two poles: that of suffering, which bears witness to an individuation damaged by the behavioral norms of a pathogenic socialization process, and that of aesthetic experience, wherein there emerges a relationship to difference as no longer measured against unity. This amounts to requiring that rationality be able to adjust its operations by means of sensitiveness to what Adorno calls “unregimented experience”. Thus, Adorno develops a rational critique of instrumental reason that is fully original. By paying attention to the somatic and psychological resonances – and dissonances – of subjectivation processes and social interactions, this critique particularly questions approaches that, following Habermas, claim to derive from the normative potential supposedly inherent in language and communication. Adorno’s call for the Enlightenment to subject itself to critical self-reflection maintains its implacable actuality – because it is so untimely
Suc, Bertrand. "Les hepatectomies sans transfusion sanguine." Toulouse 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990TOU31182.
Full textPernot, Denis. "La société sans personnalité morale." Besançon, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988BESA0001.
Full textIn french law, the companies are acknowledged moral status from the moment when they get registered in the trade and companies registers. The partnerschips (la societe en participation et la societe creee de fait) are exceptions, in so far as they are not subject to the legal necessity of publicity and to registration. In consequence, they do not constitute corporate bodies separate from the partners who from them. They have no patrimony of their own, no legal competency. The object of this work with its references is to study the legal requisites of these partnerships which, in their similarities, are so original
Vartin, Joel. "Cartes a memoire sans contact." Paris 11, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA112297.
Full textTonneau, Olivier. "Diderot : la philosophie sans fondement." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040049.
Full textDiderot, a materialist? We suggest he is first and foremost a moralist. Aware that “atheism is very close to a kind of superstition as puerile as the other” (to Mme de Maux, October 1769), he opposes religious fanatism but also the emergent scientism which turns sciences such history, sociology, biology and economy, into new dogmas. Book one: Diderot’s materialism is seen as the foundation of his thought because we expect him to legitimize his critique of the established order and to prevent the threat of immorality in a world without God. But many texts, especially the dialogues, show that criticism need not be founded on facts, and that the threat of immorality – largely illusory – could not be answered by a demonstration. The foundations of morals must be sought in practices and the will; their means is an educated reason; their finality is not given but constructed. Book two: “Strictly speaking, there is only one sort of causes: physical causes”. It follow that “freedom is a word empty of meaning” (to Landois, 29 June 1756). These axioms seem to destroy notions of responsibility and shared values: moral discourse refers to nothing real. But these consequences rest upon an impoverished conception of language, which Diderot always combated. The fondationaliste materialist refers language to the physical, but language ads to the physical and constitutes a form of life in which we see ourselves as free and responsible. This form of life must be protected; this demands that we renounce our craving for a factual foundation of values
Grenier, Karen. "Avec ou sans motif (s)." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/20530.
Full textPernot, Denis. "La Société sans personnalité morale." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37617505c.
Full textDaudemaine, Bréheret Colette Beaud Laurence. "Autisme une pensée sans langage ? /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://castore.univ-nantes.fr/castore/GetOAIRef?idDoc=19316.
Full textKrantz, Thomas Bérard Bergery Lionel. "Holonomie des connexions sans torsion." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://www.scd.uhp-nancy.fr/docnum/SCD_T_2007_0030_KRANTZ.pdf.
Full textLepavec, Cécile Grimaud Nicole. "Syndrome des jambes sans repos." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://theses.univ-nantes.fr/thesemed/PHlepavec.pdf.
Full textRanaivo, Anne-Sophie. "Sans domicile fixe et droit." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01D083.
Full textHomeless - people without "homes" and living in a situation of great precariousness and on the fringe of society - are a priori also on the fringe of law. However, the homeless are subjects of law. Therefore, they can be the subject of a legal study.This thesis aims to demonstrate that French positive law is conceived in such a way that it contributes very little to improve the situation of extreme precariousness of the homeless and even, conversely, it makes it worse. At First, the research shows that the rules of law provide only an ineffective protection to the homeless, despite they recognise many rights to guarantee a basic subsistence level, they are the bottom of a public policy dedicated to the fight against homelessness and they provide a framework for restrictive measures of freedom designed to protect the most vulnerable people. Then, in a second step, the research highlights that law is still applies to the detriment of the homeless. Reminiscent of the repression of the poorest, inherited from history, the law leads to increase the exclusion of the homeless or even to punish them.The study concludes on the observation of the persistent ambivalence of a society that mobilizes the law to protect the homeless and at the same time to protect itself from them
Bénit, Bernard. "Deleuze : la pensée sans image." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100002/document.
Full textIn his early works, Deleuze looks for a "thought without image", inseparable from the critique of the "image of thought", i.e. of representation. The problem, organizing Deleuze's philosophy, is the relation of thought with the image problem that is picked up and moved, from Nietzsche and phi/osophy to Difference and repetition. To "describe" the acts of a thought without image, Deleuze proceeds in three steps: "the starting point" is the criticism of the image of thought, the denunciation of representation and its presuppositions, which trap and distort the thought. "The real beginning" consists, therefore, in identifying the conditions, not of experience possible such in the representation, but the actual experience, which is a new image of thought that frees it from the representation. The representative image of thought, Deleuze substitute to a new image of thought which is the set of conditions for a thought without image. Finally, the third step, "the authentic repetition", is the update of a thought without image, sub representative. Far from being natural, given to a thinker of goodwill, like recognition, the thought without image is creation of thinking in thought, thought wild, nomadic, who was born without prior model, or likeness: it arises from the violent encounter with the sign that forces it to think. In other words, the thought without image, is the system of the simulacrum
SANGLA, IBAN. "Mitochondriopathies musculaires sans atteinte oculaire." Aix-Marseille 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AIX20802.
Full textLabrie, Christine. "Être femme sans être mère : histoires de Québécoises sans enfant nées entre 1930 et 1950." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/7975.
Full textGiuliani, Bruno. "Critique genealogique du discours biologique. Pour une biologie sans metaphysique et une bioethique sans morale." Nice, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995NICE2015.
Full textThe aim of the study to show that the so-called "scientific" concepts of biology are inherently linked, both in and through out its discourse, to an ideological interpretation of biological reality. One must therefore reconsider the key tenets of bioethics: "the respect for science " and "the respect for life". A methodological analysis of the distinctive scientific traits of discourse and the semantic ambiguities due to a naive use of language in the rhetoric os science, biology's epistemological status and the boundaries of its common scientific discourse are brought out. There follows a criticism of the improper hermeneutics of its fundamental concepts (genetic coding, natural selection, function, evolution, gene, enzyme, and so forth) in the rhetoric of biologists (from c. Bernard and darwin to monod, jacob, mayr, changeux, and so on), whose anthropomorphic, finalistic, semiologic and naturalistic interpretations appear to explain "the logic of life", when they actually overstep science's legitimate, methodological reductionism. Through a nietzchean genealogic analysis, the rhetoric of biology is then shown to bring a naturalistic ideology unconsciously into play the metaphysical and moral origin of which is symptomatic of its inability to fully acknowledge the structuring limits of science as a merely descriptive phenomenist discourse. Based upon a non-metaphysical ontology (lucretius, spinoza, nietzsche, heidegger, etc. ), a strictly materialistic philosophy of biology, rooted in the tragic approval of an immanent life in a world devoid of both nature and finality, thus constituting an epistemological alternative to the deluding naturalistic and finalistic discourse of biology. Finally, the concept of bioethics is reassessed against the mainstream nihilist, humanist. .
Hasegawa, Miki. ""We are not garbage !" : the homeless movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002 /." New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb412738877.
Full textZebdi, Mohamed. "Étude comparative des algorithmes de correction d'erreurs sans voie de retour pour la communication sans fil /." Trois-Rivières : Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2004. http://www.uqtr.ca/biblio/notice/resume/18186230R.pdf.
Full textTaibi, Ali. "Contribution à la conception et à l'étude d'un moteur sans balais et sans capteur de position." Besançon, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992BESA2007.
Full textZebdi, Mohamed. "Étude comparative des algorithmes de correction d'erreurs sans voie de retour pour la communication sans fil." Thèse, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2004. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/4732/1/000109830.pdf.
Full textMacabrey, Nicolas. "Alimentation et guidage linéaires sans contact /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1998. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=1840.
Full textKelif, Jean-Marc. "Modèle Fluide de Réseaux Sans Fils." Phd thesis, Télécom ParisTech, 2008. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00004761.
Full textJabri, Issam. "Gestion dynamique des topologies sans fils." Phd thesis, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00342847.
Full textSlimani, Hicham. "Protocoles coopératifs pour réseaux sans fil." Phd thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2013. http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/10309/1/slimani.pdf.
Full textZoss, Pascal. "L'ironie cynique : une subjectivation sans partage." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080072/document.
Full textThe performative art practices, especially those of sixties and seventies, present aform of political subjectivation within their excessive and body acts, which invites us toresume Ancient Cynicism’s « short route », out of the interpretations that were faithful to thephilosophical telos of « better life », « good » or « right ». This conjunction is a compelling callfor achieving, beyond the anecdotal or documentary report, a wider understanding of themateriality of acts, of their resistance to any reported lesson and, ultimately, to restesslyquestion their remainder.Furthermore, when grasping the social inclusion and exclusion as the result of cohesivenaturalization, of discrimination of natural abilities and inabilities, the actual testingof this solidarity reaches the core of the equalitarian question. Then, cynical acts draw theoutline which let consider the subjectivation within the constant withdrawal of the subjectfrom his normative or « police » assimilation. Irony relentlessly leaves its marks on this processby hiding the subject in the shadow of his acts, as the ploy of an identification to theincompetent nature of the excluded one. It is indeed by amplifying the exclusion’s naturalrepresentation, by giving it the biggest material density, that the cynicism subjectivationopens a gap between the belongings of included and excluded ones. And this gap, whichrelieves the author of any subjectivity, of the obligation to operate within the « police »regime of inequality, gives its place to the desire with no subject, that very one preciselypresupposed by the equality of subjects
Laniel, Valérie. "Des hommes hétérosexuels volontairement sans enfant." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37624.
Full textHervet, Christel. "Médecins sans frontières, 25 ans d'humanitaire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24854.pdf.
Full textRaynault, Marie-France. "Les principales pathologies des sans-abri /." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60005.
Full textCazeneuve, Christian. "Désarroi de l'enfance : l'enfant sans symptôme ?" Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01058794.
Full textClavard, Julien. "Trajectographie passive sans manoeuvre de l'observateur." Phd thesis, Université du Sud Toulon Var, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00805213.
Full textChen, Nina 1968. "Moving design for lives sans terre." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65464.
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How may design address the contemporary conditions of movement, relocation, and change? Today, 25 million Americans currently consider themselves to be free agents. That is, one out of six Americans have abandoned traditional jobs and are moving from company to company, unattached to any particular employer or institution. This may partly account for the higher numbers of people who out of opportunity or necessity are relocating themselves geographically at such frequency and consistency that the traditional notion of home associated with stasis or the act of settling is challenged. Such mobile conditions raise comp lex questions of identity, continuity and sense of property, and challenge the relationship to one's environs. Sans terre, which literally means "without ground", can also be taken to mean the ability to be at home everywhere. In questioning what the position of dwelling within mobility might be, the thesis embraces life sans terre as a positive potential, as a creative generative force. The exploration deliberately challenges the physical limits of the idea of home and tests the portability of its perception. Precedents of dwelling in motion exist. Models of inhabitation as portrayed by American Indians or nomadic tribes illustrate notions of expanded personal territory while involving the reduction of personal possessions. A proliferation of extended stay hotels now provide the role earlier caravanseri or monasteries once had. One modern medium yet to be explored, however, is the potential of current communication technologies. New relations to dwelling are now possible under conditions sans terre. This project attempts to channel technology into uses through which new associations and relationships between users, machines, nature, virtual life, physical beings, place, time, and space can be created . The thesis proposes that selecting the associations to form, positioning one thing relative to another may be considered equivalent to the act of dwelling, or the construction of one's home. The role of design is to strive to find ways to allow these self mandated connections to occur. Once this goal is accepted, it becomes clear that in formulating a response, a solitary object acting alone can in no way provide an adequate solution. The single question of dwelling and mobility requires an entire bag of answers, a whole kit of tools for inhabitation. Architecture as building alone is not sufficient. A building in this scheme can only be understood within the context of an ensemble, a system of instruments of various scales working together. In concert, the proposed solutions strive to radiate different pulsations of time, perspective and scale, pertinent to the dweller.
Nina Chen.
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Chauvin, Ronan. "Mesure du rythme respiratoire sans contact." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2014. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/147.
Full textIbrahim, Mahmoud. "Conception et optimisation d'Alimentations Sans Interruption." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAT053/document.
Full textThe design of Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) has been successively improved in recent years to achieve efficiency levels of around 95% while minimizing their footprint. The massive use of power electronics for these systems is led to focus all design efforts to increase both efficiency and power density. The constant developments in power electronics provide the designer many options, among them the multi-level and/or interleaved power topologies in order to reduce passive components size, the new technologies of semiconductor materials with the introduction of grand gap components and advanced technology on passive components materials. The choice between these options is a compromise to achieve the predefined objectives, particularly when other constraints appear to limit the space of possible solutions, including thermal aspect, technological limitations or EMI constraints. This work proposes the implementation of multi-objective optimization methodology for the design of power converters with all its constraints. This offers a quick tool to compare the different possibilities of design and to quantify the improvement provided to the converter. To do this, different topological and technological choices were studied with the development of multi-physics models. These models can take discrete variables as input. So, optimized converters could meet industrial requirements covered by real components and their datasheets. To do this, we first establish the different constraints imposed on the UPS within its environment. Identifying solutions to design is carried through a state of the art research in the field of power electronics. Generic models of power structures and discrete multi-physical models of the components are then developed based on analytical approaches by ensuring a good compromise between accuracy and speed of calculation. Finally, multi-objective and multi constraints optimization methodology is performed on the set of design choices to quantify the performances achieved by each of them. Experimental work has been essential for us to validate the models and optimal solutions. Based on the optimization results PFC converter of 4.2kW/L was built is its performance has been validated