Suivant le parcours de leurs vies, les toxicomanes vivent le chaos ; ils n’arrivent pas à voir le bout du tunnel. Ils ne savent pas réfléchir d’une façon constructive, profiter des opportunités et d’élaborer des plans bien déterminés pour se réaliser. L’adoption du toxicomane de la gestion de soi peut contribuer à développer chez lui les capacités d’observation, de réflexion, d’analyse, de contrôle de soi… D’après les résultats obtenus, nous pouvons constater que : 1. Les toxicomanes ont plus de difficultés cognitives que les non toxicomanes. 2. Le sentiment de satisfaction personnelle chez les toxicomanes est plus bas que chez les non toxicomanes. 3. La stabilité émotionnelle positive chez les non toxicomanes est beaucoup plus grande que celle des toxicomanes 4. La stabilité émotionnelle négative chez les toxicomanes est plus développée que chez des non toxicomanes. La gestion de soi aide le toxicomane à intégrer le plaisir dans la vie relationnelle, comme elle peut l’aider à appliquer les qualités acquises et préparer de nouvelles expériences. / Following the path of their life, the drug addicts live the chaos; they fail to see the end of the tunnel. They don’t know how to think in a constructive way, to take advantages of opportunities and to develop plans well determined to be achieved. The adoption of the drug addicts self-management can help to develop his capacity of observation, reflection, analysis, self-control… Regarding the obtained results, we note the followings observations: 1. The drug addicts show more cognitive difficulties than the non addicts. 2. The addicts show less self satisfaction than non addicts. 3. The drug addicts show a much more positive emotional stability than non addicts. 4. The drug addicts show as well a more negative and developed emotional stability than non addicts. The self-management helps the drug addicts to integrate the pleasure in the relationships as it may help to apply the acquired qualities and to prepare new experiences.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Images captured in endoscopy examinations show some distortion, the radial is the most visible. The radial distortion appears in images due to lens used in endoscopes. When a doctor or researcher is analyzing a distorted image, he can not see the exact size of an organ, tumor or lesion, due the magnification in the center of the image and a contraction in the peripheral regions caused by such distortion. This paper aims to propose a new method for correction of radial distortion in endoscopic images. The proposed method is based on concepts of Morphing and Warping, which are techniques widely used in computer graphics to transform the image of one person to another or to cause objects deformations. The system presents the advantage of automatic application of these techniques, since the vast majority of correction algorithms need user interaction. The proposed method uses a pattern image, created for the calibration of the transformations that are applied to the images of endoscopy. The developed system receives the pattern image captured by endoscope, divides the image into a triangular mesh, make the matching of each triangle of the meshes and store the affine transformations of each triangular region of the mesh separately. After calibration, the affine transformations of each triangular region are used in real image of endoscopic examinations performed by the same endoscope used for calibration to correct the images. Finally, the method was compared with others in the literature and has been made quantitative and qualitative analysis with the results. / Imagens capturadas em exames de endoscopia apresentam algumas distorções, sendo a distorção radial a principal. A distorção radial surge na imagem devido ao sistema de lentes utilizado nos endoscópios. Quando um médico ou pesquisador está analisando uma imagem distorcida, não consegue perceber qual o tamanho exato de um órgão, lesão ou tumor, pois tal distorção causa uma ampliação no centro da imagem e uma contração nas regiões periféricas. Este trabalho tem como objetivo propor um novo método para a correção de distorções radiais em imagens de endoscopia. O método proposto baseia-se em conceitos de Morphing e Warping, que são técnicas bastante utilizadas em computação gráfica para transformar a imagem de uma pessoa em outra ou para causar deformações em objetos. O sistema apresentado tem como diferencial a aplicação automática destas técnicas, visto que a grande maioria de algoritmos que fazem uso delas funciona com interação do usuário. O método proposto utiliza uma imagem padrão, criada para a calibração das transformações que serão aplicadas nas imagens de exames de endoscopia. O sistema desenvolvido recebe a imagem padrão capturada por endoscópio, divide a imagem em uma malha triangular, faz a correspondência de cada triângulo desta malha com a malha da imagem padrão original e armazena as transformações afins em cada região da malha separadamente, transformando assim a imagem capturada na imagem original. Após a calibração, as mesmas transformações afins armazenadas para cada elemento triangular da malha são utilizadas em imagem reais de exames endoscópicos feitos pelo mesmo endoscópio utilizado na calibração, para corrigir a deformação. Por fim, o método desenvolvido foi comparado com outros da literatura e foram feitas análises quantitativas e qualitativas dos resultados obtidos.

This thesis discusses the charts and their teaching. I study in it how graphs are introduced at Czech schools, ie how graphical outputs of statistical survey (graph types, their relevance, their description, etc.) are presented in textbooks. Then I analyze examples from international research TIMSS and PISA engaged in graphs depending on the success of results of Czech pupils. It turned out that pupils have no problem with reading values from graph, while their creation or solving nonstandard given exercises makes large difficulties to pupils. Last but not least I test the ability of students correctly but also critically interpret graphs, ie whether pupils can consider if graphs present actual data or are deliberately distorted and modified. For this purpose I create questionnaire where I test through three exercises pupils of graduation classes from grammar school and vocational school and pupils of study with vocational certificate. Results of graduates from both schools were comparable. Grammar school pupils succeeded especially in solving complicated or complex tasks, vocational school pupils got better results at solving tasks that require only orientation in graph and reading values. Pupils of vocational programs reached approximately half worse results. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Abstract The study of speciation has been an area of primary interest in evolutionary biology from Darwin to the present day. Understanding the processes that give rise to new species requires knowledge on how reproductive isolation develops between diverging populations. An irreversible and therefore important component of reproductive isolation is intrinsic postzygotic isolation. Postzygotic incompatibilities often manifest themselves through hybrid inviability or sterility, and distort allelic transmission ratios in hybrid progenies. The genetic basis of such incompatibilities has often been found to be negative interactions between two or more loci, also known as Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities. During the last decade some genes involved in this type of incompatibilities have been identified, but especially in plants our knowledge remains scarce. In this thesis I examined whether intrinsic postzygotic isolation had developed between allopatric populations of a perennial, outcrossing plant; Arabidopsis lyrata. The studied populations of A. lyrata were found to be genetically highly differentiated. In F2 progenies of crosses between populations many molecular markers reveal non-Mendelian genotype ratios, that is, show transmission ratio distortion (TRD). By contrast, TRD was found to be nearly absent in progenies of within population crosses. The degree of TRD clearly increased with genetic distance between the crossed populations, and origin for TRD was often in F1 gamete formation, instead of F2 zygotic level. The genetic basis of TRD appeared due to interactions between nuclear loci, and between nuclear and cytoplasmic factors. In addition to transmission ratio distortion, reduced male fertility and cytoplasmic male sterility was found in the F2 hybrids between A. lyrata subspecies petraea and lyrata. Quantitative trait loci for reduced male fertility were polymorphic within populations, and dependent on cytoplasm. Thus, the findings in this thesis underline the role of cytonuclear interactions, and the possibility of development of genic incompatibilities through genomic conflicts due to divergence likely unrelated to local adaptation. / Tiivistelmä Lajiutumistutkimus on ollut yksi evoluutiobiologian suurimmista kiinnostuksen kohteista Darwinin ajoista nykypäivään. Jotta voisimme ymmärtää uusien lajien syntymiseen johtavia prosesseja, on ensin ymmärrettävä, miten lisääntymisisolaatio kehittyy erilaistuvien populaatioiden välille. Lajien välisten risteytysten jälkeläiset ovat usein steriilejä tai elinkyvyttömiä. Tämä perustuu kahden erilaistuneen populaation perimän yhteensopimattomuuteen. Tällaiset sisäsyntyiset hedelmöityksen jälkeiset yhteensopimattomuudet ovat tärkeä osa lisääntymisisolaatiota, sillä ne ovat peruuttamattomia. Ne aiheuttavat vääristymiä genotyyppien lukusuhteissa risteytysjälkeläistöissä. Posttsygoottisen yhteensopimattomuuden taustalla on usein kahden tai useamman geenilokuksen välinen negatiivinen interaktio, jota kutsutaan myös Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller -inkompatibiliteetiksi. Viime vuosikymmenen aikana on tunnistettu muutamia geenejä, jotka ovat mukana negatiivisissa interaktioissa, mutta kasveista tietoa geneettisistä tekijöistä on vielä vähän. Väitöstutkimuksessa selvitettiin onko geneettisiä posttsygoottisia yhteensopimattomuuksia kehittynyt kasvilajin sisällä (Arabidopsis lyrata) allopatristen populaatioiden välille. Tutkitut kasvipopulaatiot olivat geneettisesti hyvin erilaistuneita. Näiden populaatioiden välisten jälkeläistöjen genotyypeissä havaittiin yleisesti paljon mendelistisistä lukusuhteista poikkeavia lukusuhteita. Genotyyppejä tarkasteltiin myös populaation sisäisissä risteytyksissä, joiden jälkeläistöissä periytyminen oli lähes mendelististä. Väitöstutkimuksessa havaittiin, että mitä geneettisesti erilaisemmat populaatiot risteytettiin, sitä suurempi oli ei-mendelistisen periytymisen osuus. Tutkimukset osoittivat lukusuhteiden vääristyvän jo F1-hybridin tuottaessa sukupuolisoluja, eikä niinkään muodostuneissa uusissa F2-tsygooteissa. Taustalla olevien geneettisten yhteensopimattomuuksien havaittiin vaikuttavan tuman geenien välillä, mutta myös tuman ja soluliman geneettisten tekijöiden välillä. Mendelistisistä lukusuhteista poikkeamisen lisäksi tutkimuksessa havaittiin siitepölyn alentunut elinkyky ja solulimaan liittyvä koirassteriliteetti F2-jälkeläistössä A. lyrata alalajien petraea ja lyrata välillä. Lokukset, jotka vaikuttivat siitepölyn alentuneeseen elinkykyyn, olivat polymorfisia populaatioiden sisällä ja vuorovaikutuksessa soluliman geneettisten tekijöiden kanssa. Nämä tutkimustulokset korostavat tuman ja soluliman geenien vuorovaikutuksen tärkeyttä lajien välisten lisääntymisesteiden synnyssä. Ne myös osoittavat, että yhteensopimattomuus voi kehittyä mahdollisesti ilman luonnonvalinnan vaikutusta.

This thesis´ aim is to analyse the extension of the fuctionally separate entity approach  (FSEA) used in order to attribute a proper amount of profit to banks´ permanet establishment (PE) and the related implication in the authorised OECD approach (AOA). From a general perspective in fact, under the FSEA a PE is treated as being a separate entity from the head office, functions, assets, risks and funding shall be attributed as it was a separate legal entity. However, beyond the previous statement some general limitation of the FSEA and the particular nature of bank (and in general financial institutions) require a further reflection. Practically speaking: how far is the extension of this functional separate entity approach? Is it treatable as a complete separate company by itself? If not, how far is from the economic reality of the company? After a fisrt descriptive part, the author analysis the hybrid nature of the FSEA: acoording with his view traces of single entity approach are founded. However the hybrid nature of the FSEA is not per se a limitation but shall be considered as strength: the OECD´s approach grants a certain degree of flexibility and ability to adapt based on the context that on the other hand would have let the FSEA and the AOA be even more complicate.

The grid-connected photo-voltaic (PV) system is one of the most promising renewable energy solutions which offers many benefits to both the end user and the utility network and thus it has gained the popularity over the last few decades. However, due to the very nature of its invariability and weather dependencies, the large scale integration of this type of distributed generation has created challenges for the network operator while maintaining the quality of the power supply and also for reliable and safe operations of the grids. In this study, the behavioral impact of large scale PV system integration which are both steady and dynamic in nature was studied.  An aggregate PV model suited to study the impacts was built using MATLAB/Simulink.  The integration impacts of PV power to existing grids were studied with focus on the low voltage residential distribution grids of Mälarenergi Elnät AB (10/0.4 kV). The steady state impacts were related to voltage profile, network loss. It was found that the PV generation at the load end undisputedly improves the voltage profile of the grid especially for the load buses which are situated at farther end of the grid. Further, with regard to the overvoltage issue, which is generally a concern during the low load demand period it was concluded that, at a 50% PV penetration level, the voltage level for the load buses is within the limit of 103% as prescribed by the regulator excepting for few load buses. The voltage level for load buses which deviate from the regulatory requirement are located at distance of 1200 meter or further away from the substation. The dynamic impact studied were for voltage unbalancing in the grid, which was found to have greater impact at the load buses which is located farther compared to a bus located nearer to the substation. With respect to impact study related to introduction of harmonics to the grid due to PV system integration, it was found that amount of harmonic content which was measured as total harmonic distortion (THD) multiplies with integration of more number of PV system. For a 50 % penetration level of PV, the introduced harmonics into the representative network is very minimal. Also, it was observed from the simulation study that THD content are be less when the grid operates at low load condition with high solar irradiance compared to lower irradiance and high load condition.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1874 essay "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" (HL) presents ideas on how the past ought to be appropriated and how history ought to be written. His 1887 book "On the Genealogy of Morality" (GM) presents an account of the historical development of European morality. Given that Nietzsche appropriates the past through writing in GM, the question arises: does GM put into practice Nietzsche’s earlier ideas from HL concerning how the past ought to be appropriated through the writing of history? I argue that GM does indeed apply some of Nietzsche’s key ideas from HL. In particular, GM remains consistent with HL insofar as it appropriates the past unhistorically, makes use of the monumental and critical modes of history, and appropriates the past in a way that encourages the flourishing of an elite kind of human being. However, Nietzsche’s manner of appropriating the past in GM also diverges from what he espouses in HL. Whereas in HL he emphasizes the usefulness and desirability of forgetting and distorting the past, in GM he exhibits a more notable concern with knowing the truth about the past. I show that this difference in approach is due to the significant change that Nietzsche’s epistemology underwent between the writing of HL and the writing of GM. This difference in approach notwithstanding, the great virtue of illuminating GM through the lens of HL is that it allows us to see more clearly how a lack of concern with truth and knowledge plays a positive role in Nietzsche’s writing of the past in GM. It also helps us to understand why he appropriates the past the way that he does in GM. Just as in HL Nietzsche thought that the past ought to be appropriated in a way that encourages the activity of genius, his writing of the history of European morality in GM is undertaken with the intent to encourage the occurrence and activity of a select kind of human being, a kind of human being that Nietzsche values above all else.

L'augmentation des performances des futurs systèmes dynamiques nécessite la prise en compte des phénomènes physiques non linéaires. Cette thèse apporte un éclairage et des contributions sur deux sujets complémentaires liés aux phénomènes dynamiques non linéaires. Le mémoire de thèse est divisé en deux parties.La première partie porte sur les non-linéarités des amplificateurs de puissance dans le cadre d'applications destinées aux télécommunications ou à la diffusion audio-visuelle. Plusieurs méthodes de modélisation et de linéarisation des amplificateurs de puissance ont été conçues et discutées. Un banc de test a été développé afin d'évaluer les méthodes sur des amplificateurs réels. La robustesse de ces techniques à un mauvais alignement temporel des signaux ainsi que leur capacité à faire face à des artefacts spectraux ont été évaluées. Par ailleurs, nous avons effectué une étude théorique sur l'existence et la prise en compte de solutions multiples dans l'approche adaptative par apprentissage indirect. La deuxième partie traite des systèmes dynamiques non linéaires qui présentent des solutions chaotiques. Ces systèmes sont bien connus, mais les techniques d'identification de ces solutions manquent de fiabilité ou nécessitent une puissance de calcul importante. Dans cette thèse, plusieurs méthodes utilisant également le calcul parallèle sont présentées. Les systèmes à commande différentielle fractionnaire sont brièvement discutés. Il est aussi montré, qu'il existe des systèmes liés à des fonctions de transfert non linéaires avec quantification pour lesquels les méthodes d'analyse classiques échouent / In order to achieve better performance of modern communication devices, that have to be operated on its physical limits, the nonlinear phenomena need to be taken into the account. This thesis brings insight into two different subjects related with nonlinear dynamical phenomena. The thesis itself is divided into two parts : the first part is focused on the domain of nonlinear power amplifiers from the system point of view. Several methods for modelization and linearization of power amplifiers have been designed and discussed. A test-bench has been assembled in order to evaluate the proposed methods on real power amplifiers. Then the robustness to time misalignment in the system and the ability to deal with spectral artifacts in the system of presented methods have been evaluated. Also a theoretical study has been conducted on the existence and management of multiple solutions in the frame of adaptive indirect learning approach. The second part deals with nonlinear dynamical systems that are exhibiting chaotic solutions. Such systems are well known, but techniques for identifying reliable such solutions are either missing or are computational intense. In this thesis several methods using also parallel computing are presented. Systems with fractional differential order are briefly discussed. It is as well shown, that there exists systems related with quantified nonlinear transfer functions for which the standard analyzing methods fails

Este trabalho consiste em apresentar o desenvolvimento de um Smart meter, integrado a um analisador de qualidade de energia, para análise de distorções harmônicas, utilizando método de redes neurais artificiais embarcado em hardware. Tal Smart meter está incluído dentro dos conceitos de Smart Grid, que serão apresentados também neste trabalho. O intuito do desenvolvimento do Smart meter para análise de distorções harmônicas é auxiliar concessionárias de energia elétrica a identificar que tipo de carga o consumidor utiliza em sua residência, a fim de contribuir para a tomada de decisões apropriadas, tais como a diminuição da emissão de correntes harmônicas, demanda de energia, detecção de falhas no fornecimento de energia elétrica e faturas diferenciadas de acordo com a quantidade de harmônicas injetadas na rede elétrica. Adicionalmente, observou-se que o Smart meter desenvolvido pode ser ainda utilizado para detectar fenômenos de VTCD, como elevação, afundamento e interrupção de energia. Todo o processo de desenvolvimento do Smart meter é apresentado no decorrer desta tese de doutorado. / This thesis consists to present the development of a Smart Meter integrated to power quality analyzer for the analysis of harmonic distortion, using methods based on artificial neural networks in embedded hardware. This Smart Meter is included within the concepts of Smart Grid, which will be also presented in this work. The intention of the development of the Smart Meter for analysis of harmonic distortion is to assist utilities companies to identify what loads type the consumer uses at your residence in order to contribute for supporting decisions, such as reducing the emission of the harmonic currents, power demand and faults detection in electric energy supply and distinct bills according to the amount of harmonics injected into the power grid. In addition, it was observed that this developed Smart Meter can be even used to detect the VTCD phenomena, such as swell, sag and interruption of the energy supply. All development steps of this Smart Meter is presented in this doctoral thesis.

Geothermal energy is one of the oldest forms of energy on our planet. Its use by humanity dates back to the beginning of the ages. The forms of this energy gradually changed from the direct heat of the hot springs, through the heating of the buildings and the baths to the later use of superheated steam for industrial use. Nowadays, there is a large share of the use of large number of ground geothermal boreholes with heat exchangers drilled in the matrix. The geometric arrangement of such system has a considerable impact on its operation. Specific examples show that, unlike the design, actual boreholes in such system can often be drilled non vertically or even curved. These imperfections then usually deteriorate the thermal properties of the system. This thesis demonstrates the influence analysis of the borehole geometry distortion on the system thermal properties, it also informs about the development of a special measuring device designed to obtain information about the actual geometric shape of the investigated borehole and about the development of software for in situ rapid borehole system properties evaluation. The theoretical part of thesis contains the derivation of a simplified numerical model of heat conduction in the vicinity of the borehole system. Its results serve to compare the different borehole variants and the inaccuracy of borehole shaping. Using the simulations, the influence of inaccuracies in the borehole system on its thermal properties is demonstrated in several model configurations. This effect does not occur in a single borehole, but it is significantly visible in organized geothermal borehole systems. It may deteriorate system properties, but under certain circumstances its properties may improve. Verification of the results of these simulations was performed by the FEFLOW simulation software. In the practical part the development of a special instrument for measuring the shape of a geothermal energy borehole is documented. ....