In its aim to explore some of the concrete consequences of regional renewal, this paper deals with the question to what extent dramatic structural transformation and renewal in Swedish regions is paralleled by favourable developments of household income, employment growth and value added total growth. We stud ied the period 1978 to 2004, building on previous research concerning the regional consequences of the dramatic technology-shift process that has been taking place in Sweden. Long-term changes in the relationships between Swedish regions are analysed by establishing conceptual connections between regional long-term economic transformation and welfare. It is argued that there are time- lags as well as systemic spatial asymmetries when it comes to technology- induced restructuring, overall regional economic growth, employment creation, and income growth. We used data from the DEVIL (Databases of Evolutionary Economic Geography in Lund) combined with additional data sets from Statistics Sweden. (authors' abstract) / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

An aspect of the Romance languages that defies neat linguistic analysis is tense usage. In particular, students of Romance languages as well as grammarians have found it difficult to provide a consistent explanation for the imperfect - preterite opposition. Two main points of contention concern (i) the question of whether the two forms have an inherent aspectual content and (ii) the structure and role of lexical aspectual information in determining the overall meaning of a sentence. While the attempts at explaining French and Spanish usages of the imperfect and the preterite are numerous, hardly any work has been done in the interpretation of Romanian data. Furthermore, a general assumption that the same form - function opposition holds across Romance languages has led to cross-linguistic differences rarely being examined. I argue that the imperfect and the preterite do have an inherent aspectual content. However, in opposition to previous accounts, I maintain that the preterite does not provide a ‘closed’ viewpoint and that an atelic eventuality described by the verb phrase in the preterite can continue up to the present moment. I propose a description of the imperfect - preterite opposition that includes finer distinctions of lexical aspect based on its constituent stage structure. These finer lexical aspectual distinctions allow the identification of an area of divergence in the use of the two forms in French, Spanish, and Romanian: the preterite was found to be used more widely with states in Romanian than in French and Spanish.

Through a study of the work of three important writers, this thesis engages with the traumatic memories of the second half of the twentieth century in Czechoslovakia in order to highlight the value of literature in widening critical understandings of the continuing legacy of this complex era, which was dominated by totalitarian regimes under the Communist governments which gained control after the upheaval of the Second World War. Whilst these years were not unilaterally traumatic, many lives were dramatically affected by border closures and by the experience of living under a regime that maintained control through methods including confiscation of property, surveillance, arbitrary imprisonment, show trials, and executions. Many of the stories of this era could not be published openly because of censorship, and the persecution of intellectuals led to a wave of emigration, during which a number of writers moved to France. Using theories of trauma, exile, illness, and of self and other, this thesis opens up a dialogue between the work of three writers who engage, albeit from very different perspectives, with this little-explored intersection between Czech and French. The first chapter explores Daniela Hodrová's translated Prague trilogy as a first-hand witness to her nation's dispossession and as a form of resistance to the deletion of memory. The second chapter considers the painful transgenerational legacy of the era as it plays out in the work of bilingual writer Jean-Gaspard Páleníček. Chapter Three considers the ways in which the Prague novels of established French author Sylvie Germain negotiate the fine line between an appropriation of the stories of the other and a moral responsibility to bear witness. By bringing these authors together for the first time and locating their work within French Studies, my work foregrounds the need for Western criticism to pay attention to other valuable voices who can contribute to our understandings of the traumatic experience that has shaped modern history.

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier le développement communicationnel multimodal des jeunes enfants français âgés de 18 mois à 3 ans et demi. Nous nous concentrons donc autant sur l'apparition et le développement des gestes et des combinaisons bimodales alliant un geste et un (ou plusieurs) mot(s) que sur celui de la langue et tâchons d'étudier le rôle du geste dans les étapes précoces de l'acquisition du langage. L'intérêt de cette recherche est qu'elle fait un pont entre (1) les recherches sur la gestualité du jeune enfant durant la période pré-verbale ainsi que sur son entrée dans la période verbale (l'arrivée des énoncés à un mot et deux mots dans ses productions) et (2) les recherches sur l'enfant d'âge scolaire (6 ans et plus) et l'adulte, qui communiquent tous deux en utilisant leur langue maternelle et des gestes co-verbaux. Notre corpus est constitué de 154 vidéos de jeunes enfants en train de jouer avec un ensemble ludique comportant une maison et des personnages en situation de jeu triadique (en présence d'un adulte). Notre premier objectif consistait à vérifier l'hypothèse que la production des gestes communicationnels et l'émergence des combinaisons bimodales annonce l'arrivée des énoncés à deux mots (comme cela a été déjà montré pour les enfants italiens et américains). En fait, il apparaît que ce processus s'étend au-delà des énoncés à deux mots, car ces combinaisons geste+Xmots apparaissent toujours avant les énoncés X+1mot. Il semble donc que le geste joue un rôle dans le développement des verbalisations enfantines avant d'être utilisé comme co-verbal chez l'enfant plus âgé et chez l'adulte. Notre second objectif consistait à observer, qualitativement, l'évolution des conduites communicatives lors de situations de jeux triadique, et plus précisément à voir sur quelles ressources communicationnelles s'appuie l'enfant pour exprimer des suites d'événements (scripts liés à son activité ludique) qui nécessitent non pas une seule, mais deux ou plusieurs prédications. Là encore, il apparaît que les gestes et les combinaisons bimodales sont intégrées aux premières tentatives de verbalisation. Ce travail confirme que le geste joue bien un rôle dans le développement linguistique enfantin. Une meilleure connaissance de ces gestes nous permettra donc une meilleure connaissance du développement de l'enfant et nous aidera à repérer plus efficacement et plus précocement les troubles développementaux de l'enfant. De plus, s'il existe déjà des indices pour mesurer le développement des performances linguistiques, cette recherche soulève la question de la création d'un indice pouvant mesurer les performances communicationnelles multimodales enfantines, c'est-à-dire la création d'un indice prenant en compte l'intégralité des ressources sémiotiques mobilisées par l'enfant et pas seulement la langue. / The aim of this thesis is to study the development of multimodal communication in young French children aged from 18 months to 3 years and a half while acquiring the French language. We will focus on the emergence and development of gestures, gesture-word combinations and language and will try to understand the role of gesture in the early stages of language acquisition. The interest of this research is that it fills the gap between (1) research on the young child first gestures during the pre-verbal period and the period during which he begins to acquire his mother tongue (the appearance of one-word and two-words sets in his productions) AND (2) research about older children (age 6 and older) and adults who both communicate using their mother tongue and co-speech gestures. Our corpus is composed of 154 videos of young children playing with an adult and a house game set (triadic situation). Using these data, we first wanted to test the hypothesis that the production of communicative gestures and the emergence of gesture-word combinations both predict the production of two-words speech in young children (as it has already been shown for Italian and American children). In fact, our results point to a more general developmental scheme with gesture+Xwords combination always preceding the upcoming of X+1words verbal utterances. Gesture use does play a role in the development of language at early stages as well as at later stages, when the child begins to produce long sentences (composed of more than two words) and combines them with co-speech gestures. Our second objective was to observe qualitative changes in the child's communicative behavior in a triadic situation, and more precisely to study the communicative resources the child uses to express sequences of events (scripts related to playful activities) which require not one, but two or more predicates. Again, it appears that gestures and bimodal combinations are integrated within the first attempts to produce verbalizations. This work confirms that gesture use does play a role in language development. A better understanding of these gestures will allow us a better understanding of child development and help us to identify earlier and more effectively developmental disorders in children. In addition, if there already is an index to measure the development of language performance, this research questions the creation of an index that can assess the multimodal communicative performance, that is to say the creation of an index taking into account all the semiotic resources mobilized by the child and not just verbal language.

Cette thèse apporte un éclairage esthétique sur un ensemble de romans polyphoniques du canon francophone contemporain. Des formes de féminisme autour du prophète de l’islam dans Loin de Médine d'Assia Djebar aux formes de l’individualisme dans un village guadeloupéen dans Traversée de la mangrove de Maryse Condé en passant par les voix multiples de la créolité dans Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau, ces romans sont engagés dans des stratégies littéraires novatrices. Or les études postcoloniales ont laissé dans l'ombre le travail des formes qui est pourtant le mode opératoire de la pensée littéraire. Il faut donc remédier à ces lacunes par une analyse narratologique et stylistique des techniques de représentation du discours et de la pensée. En dégageant les formes et les enjeux de la relation fascinante qui se joue entre la parole de l’autre et les voix narratives, notre thèse apporte une contribution attendue dans les études francophones autant que dans les théories narratives.Trois pensées majeures nourrissent cette recherche : d’abord le concept de contrepoint d’Edward Saïd, envisagé dans sa dimension dialogique, ensuite la vision sociale du langage chez Voloshinov/Bakhtine qui préside aux développements sur le dialogisme, enfin l’approche politique de la littérature de Jacques Rancière, qui donne un tout nouvel éclairage aux désormais traditionnels bénéfices de l’« estrangement ». C’est ainsi sans quitter la zone ténue où se rencontrent formes esthétiques et formes sociales que ce travail traverse les débats les plus actuels des études francophones. / This dissertation casts an aesthetic light on a selection of polyphonic novels from the Francophone contemporary canon. From the forms of feminism around the prophet of islam in Far from Madina by Assia Djebar, to the multiple voices of Créolité in Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau, to the forms of individualism in a Guadeloupean village in Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé, these novels are involved in innovative literary strategies. Nonetheless, postcolonial studies left in the shadow the work of forms that is yet the operatory mode of literary thought. To bridge this gap, we need a narratological and stylistic analysis of the techniques of representation of speech and thought. By disentangling the forms and the stakes of the fascinating relationship that is at work between the other’s speech and narrative voices, my dissertation brings a welcomed contribution to Francophone studies as well as to narrative studies.Three major thoughts foster this research: first the concept of counterpoint of Edward Said, seen in its dialogical dimension, the social approach to language in Voloshinov/Bakhtin, that presides to developments on dialogism, and the political approach to literature of Jacques Rancière, that casts a new light on now traditional benefits of “estrangement”. It is thus, without leaving the tenuous zone where esthetic forms meet social forms that my dissertation spans the most actual debates in Francophone studies.

« Kem », « sôcôla », « actisô », « sơ mi », « cà ra vát », « cao su », « buýt », « ampli », « xăng », « xi măng », etc.. Ces mots vietnamiens sonnent-ils plus ou moins français ? Une partie du lexique de la langue vietnamienne vient du français qui a marqué le Vietnam de sa présence par la colonisation française durant environ un siècle (XVIIIe-XIXe) en Indochine en général et au Vietnam en particulier. Aujourd’hui, le régime colonial relève d’ouvrages historiques mais ces traces francophones perdurent encore dans les usages linguistiques actuels au Vietnam. Toutefois, ces ressources sociolinguistiques, qui ouvrent un riche potentiel en matière linguistique et culturelle, sont ignorées en didactique du français aux apprenants vietnamiens. Dans le but de vérifier l’importance de ces éléments, notamment à travers leur perception sociale par les Vietnamiens à l’heure actuelle, une enquête sociolinguistique a été réalisée sur le terrain. Les propositions didactiques présentées par la suite permettent de confirmer que la mise en avant de ces ressources francophones ou d’origine francophone au Vietnam constitue un facilitateur d’appropriation du français dans ce pays et ouvre vers une dynamique didactique plurilingue. / « Kem », « sôcôla », « actisô », « sơ mi », « cà ra vát », « cao su », « buýt », « ampli », « xăng », « xi măng », etc.. These Vietnamese words sound more or less French ? A part of vocabulary of the Vietnamese language comes from French which marked Vietnam from its presence by the French colonization for about a century (XVIII-XIX) in Indochina in general and in Vietnam in particular. Today, the colonial regime raise from history books but these French traces persist still in actual linguistic uses in Vietnam. However, these sociolinguistic resources, opening a rich potential for linguistic and cultural material, are ignored in teaching French to Vietnamese learners. In order to verify the importance of these elements, particularly through their social perception by the Vietnamese currently, a sociolinguistic survey was conducted in the field. Didactic proposals then presented permit to confirm that the highlighting of these French or French origin resources in Vietnam is a facilitator of appropriation of French in this country and opens to a dynamic multilingual didactic

In general we know that the fixed point locus of a 1-dimensional additive linear algebraic group,G_{a}, action over a complete nonsingular variety is connected. In thesis, we explicitly identify a subset of the G_{a}-fixed locus of the punctual Hilbert scheme of the d points,Hilb^{d}(P^{2} / 0),in P^{2}. In particular we give an other proof of the fact that Hilb^{d}(P^{2} / 0) is connected.

This thesis investigates the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum, in its relation to setting, symbolic meaning and its afterlife. Crucial to the discussion is the ancient art of memory, through which the Colosseum&rsquo / s ambivalent role as a means of Imperial power is elucidated. Equally important, the buildings&rsquo / iconographic connotations are studied in terms of the architectural orders employed on the fa&ccedil / ade. The Colosseum&rsquo / s extended use and its later emblematic significance comprise the concluding discussion of the thesis.

This paper describes the analytical work done by modelling and evaluating a thermal shock in a WWER-440 reactor pressure vessel due to an emergency case. An axial oriented semielliptical underclad/surface crack is assumed to be located in the core weld line. Threedimensional finite element models are used to compute the global transient temperature and stress-strain fields. By using a three-dimensional submodel, which includes the crack, the local crack stress-strain field is obtained. With a subsequent postprocessing using the j-integral technique the stress intensity factors KI along the crack front are obtained. The results for the underclad and surface crack are provided and compared, together with a critical discussion of the VERLIFE code.

In Analogie zum Pilotprojekt für den 5. Block vom KKW Saporoshje - WWER-1000/W-320 - wurde für die beiden WWER-440/W-213 Blöcke vom KKW Rovno eine verbesserte betriebliche Überwachung eingerichtet. Dazu werden dem Vor-Ort-Inspektor am KKW Standort und der Aufsichtsbehörde in Kiew einmal pro Minute 55 aktuelle sicherheitsrelevante Parameter pro Block und 7 standortspezifische Parameter zur Erfassung und Bewertung mittels moderner technischer Mittel on-line zur Verfügung gestellt. Die zur Ausstattung des Arbeitsplatzes des Vor-Ort-Inspektors unbedingt benötigten Ausrüstungen wurden unter Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Anforderungen des KKW Rovno spezifiziert, beschafft und der ukrainischen Seite unentgeltlich überlassen. Bei Funktionstests Ende 1998/Anfang 1999 wurden Datensätze aus dem lokalen Rechnernetz des KKW Rovno fehlerfrei nach Kiew übertragen und auf einem Rechner im Informations- und Krisenzentrum in Form von Tabellen, Grafiken und Schemata dargestellt.