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Représentation des NURBS par Systèmes Itérés de Fonctions
2018
International audience; Les Systèmes Itérés de Fonctions (IFS) sont un outil standard pour la génération de formes fractales. Les IFS controlés (CIFS) en sont une extension pour la création de formes fractales à dessein industriel. Un des avantages de cette approche est la possibilité de représenter des surfaces standards comme les surfaces de Bézier, Splines, et de subdivision. La représentation des surfaces par un unique formalisme facilite leur manipulation et la gestion des interactions comme par exemple la construction de raccords entre deux surfaces de natures différentes. Dans cet article, la formulation des B-Splines Rationnelles Non-Uniformes (NURBS) dans le formalisme des CIFS est…
Design, modelling, and analysis of a large floating dock for spar floating wind turbine installation
2020
Installation of floating wind turbines at the offshore site is a challenging task. A significant part of the time efficiency and costs are related to the installation methods which are sensitive to weather conditions. This study investigates a large floating dock concept, which can be used to shield a floating wind turbine during installation of tower, nacelle, and rotor onto a spar foundation. In this paper, the concept is described in detail, and a design optimisation is carried out using simple design constraints. Hydrodynamic analysis and dynamic response analysis of the coupled system of the optimum dock and spar are conducted. Two spars of different sizes are considered, and the motio…
Innovative electronic lithography using self-assembly films in order to modify material surfaces at nanometric scale
2013
The concept of electon beam decomposition has been developed in order to create smaller patterns than those achieved by conventional lithographic methods. This work aimed to go further about this concept through a separation of the involved mechanisms in order to better understand them and thus reach a better control of process.A device was designed and a protocol was defined where the first stage is the adsorption at cryogenic temperature of metal-carbonyl compounds. The adsorbate is then decomposed by a focused electron beam and fragmentation residues are removed through annealing allowing the deposit reorganization. The study of the different steps of the elaboration method was followed …
EXAFS and XANES analysis of oxides at the nanoscale
2014
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Managing a boreal forest landscape for providing timber, storing and sequestering carbon
2015
Human well-being highly depends on ecosystem services and this dependence is expected to increase in the future with increasing population and economic growth. Studies that investigate trade-offs between ecosystem services are urgently needed for informing policy-makers. We examine the trade-offs between a provisioning (revenues from timber selling) and regulating (carbon storage and sequestration) ecosystem services among seven alternative forest management regimes in a large boreal forest production landscape. First, we estimate the potential of the landscape to produce harvest revenues and store/sequester carbon across a 50-year time period. Then, we identify conflicts between harvest re…
Redox signaling in acute pancreatitis
2015
Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory process of the pancreatic gland that eventually may lead to a severe systemic inflammatory response. A key event in pancreatic damage is the intracellular activation of NF-κB and zymogens, involving also calcium, cathepsins, pH disorders, autophagy, and cell death, particularly necrosis. This review focuses on the new role of redox signaling in acute pancreatitis. Oxidative stress and redox status are involved in the onset of acute pancreatitis and also in the development of the systemic inflammatory response, being glutathione depletion, xanthine oxidase activation, and thiol oxidation in proteins critical features of the disease in the pancreas. On th…
Perioperative management of hypertensive neuroblastoma: A study from the Italian Group of Pediatric Surgical Oncologists (GICOP)
2017
Background: Hypertension (HT) is rarely reported in patients affected by Neuroblastoma (NB), and management guidelines are lacking. Clinical features and perioperativemedical treatment insuchpatientswere reviewed to1) ascertain whether a shared treatment strategy exists among centers and 2) if possible, propose some recommendations for the perioperative management of HT in NB patients. Methods: A retrospectivemulticenter surveywas conducted on patients affected by NBwho presented HT symptoms. Results: From 2006 to 2014, 1126 children were registered in the Italian Registry of Neuroblastoma (RINB). Of these, 21 with HT (1.8%) were included in our analysis. Pre- and intraoperative HT manageme…
CSR practices in professional sport clubs : towards a new model of legitimization?
2012
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), developed in the US throughout the second half part of the 20th century, is the application of the principles of sustainable development in businesses. Formerly used by the multinational sector only, the concept of CSR has spread nowadays over a large kind of organizations including French professional sports clubs. The purpose of this research is to show, in the continuity of neoinstitutionnalism, that CSR practices in these organizations are primarily answering to goals of legitimating, aiming to make their activities viable towards the expectations of their environment stakeholders. Suggesting a framework, and applying it to four case…
Mn, Fe, Zn and As speciation in a fast-growing ferromanganese marine nodule
2004
The speciation of Mn, Fe, As and Zn in a fast-growing (0.02mm/yr), shallow-marine ferromanganese nodule has been examined by micro X-ray fluorescence, micro X-ray diffraction, and micro X-ray absorption spectroscopy. This nodule exhibits alternating Fe-rich and Mn-rich layers reflecting redox variations in water chemistry. Fe occurs as two-line ferrihydrite. The As is strictly associated with Fe and is mostly pentavalent, with an environment similar to that of As sorbed on or coprecipitated with synthetic ferrihydrite. The Mn is in the form of turbostratic birnessite with ~;10 percent trivalent manganese in the layers and probably ~;8 percent corner-sharing metal octahedra in the interlayer…
Far-off-resonance averaging of dipolar interactions in solids
1997
Abstract The far-off-resonance performance of several line-narrowing sequences is investigated. Both theoretically and experimentally, it is found that transverse relaxation times, dominated by dipole–dipole interactions, are most effectively prolonged not only on-resonance but also for certain, generally large, resonance offsets. These correspond to a situation when, during the basic pulse separation, the frequency offset rotates the toggling-frame Hamiltonian by multiples of 180°. The implications of these results for the study of macroscopic translational diffusion using static-field-gradient NMR are discussed.