Depuis une trentaine d’années, des Églises pentecôtistes portées par des communautés en migration ou issues de celles-ci ont fait leur apparition dans la capitale européenne. Leur implantation et leur succès grandissants vont de pair avec l’intensification des flux migratoires de ces trois dernières décennies en provenance d’Afrique sub-saharienne et d’Amérique Latine. Cette thèse entend explorer l’enchevêtrement entre l’expérience religieuse et le parcours migratoire des acteurs pentecôtistes euro-africains et euro-latinoaméricains à Bruxelles. Dans ces espaces, les convertis travaillent collectivement à réaliser la transformation encouragée par le scénario religieux qui consiste à appliquer le « plan parfait de Dieu » dans leur vie. Porteurs d’ambitions missionnaires, les fidèles donnent des contenus inédits à leur posture identitaire en redéfinissant la place qui leur est assignée dans le contexte de la Belgique postcoloniale. L’affiliation religieuse joue comme un marqueur de distinction, processus qui est particulièrement saillant dans le domaine de la sexualité et des rapports de genre entretenus à l’intérieur même des assemblées./During the past thirty years, Pentecostal churches, mostly composed by followers from Subsaharan Africa and Latin America, blossomed in Brussels. Their presence and growing success go hand in hand with the intensification of the migratory flows, the last three decades, from these two continents. This thesis investigates the relationship between the religious experience and the migratory route of the euro-African and euro-Latin-American Pentecostal actors in Brussels. In these meeting spaces, the converts work collectively to realise the transformation process encouraged by the religious scenario which consists in applying the perfect " plan of God " to their life. Carriers of missionary ambitions, the believers give new contents to their identity by redefining the place which is assigned to them in the context of post-colonial Belgium. The religious membership operates as a marker of distinction, a process which is particularly striking in the field of sexuality and gender relation maintained within the assemblies.

The IEEE 802.11a has become the mainstream protocol used in modern wireless communication system due to its high propagation rate of data (54 Mb/s). To meet high propagation rates, the communication devices used in IEEE 802.11a protocol usually present a high conversion gain and a high linearity (denoted as third order intercept point, IIP3). The IIP3 of conventional up- and down-conversion mixers are only about 0 dBm and -5 dBm, which fail to achieve a high propagation rate of data. This thesis utilizes the TSMC 0.18 £gm CMOS technology to design and fabrication up- and down-conversion mixers with very high linearity for IEEE 802.11a application. The proposed high-linearity up-conversion mixer with 1.01 mm ¡Ñ 0.85 mm chip size and its wide bandwidth (5~6 GHz) is well suited for IEEE 802.11a application. To enhance the linearity and bandwidth, a transconductor stage with gm-boosted structure, a switch stgae with LO-body grounded structure and a load stage with shunt peaking structure are adopted in this research. Under 5.2/5.4/5.8 GHz operating frequencies, the implemented up-conversion mixer demonstrates a high conversion gain of 6.8/7.1/6.3 dB and a high linearity of 8.9/9/13.2 dBm, respectivly. In addition, a moderate consuming power (6.86 mW) of such mixer can be achieved at 1.2 V supply voltage. On the other hand, this thesis also designed and fabricated a high-linearity down-conversion mixer with chip size of 1.02 mm ¡Ñ 0.86 mm and 5.2 GHz center frequency. To improve the linearity and isolation and reduce the high-order noise, a transconductor stage with dual-gate structure and a load stage with RC-tank structure are adopted in this research. According to the EM-simulation resutls, the proposed down-conversion mixer presents a moderate conversion gain of 6 dB and a high linearity of 0.8 dBm. Additionly, a moderate consuming power (6.75 mW) of such mixer can be achieved at 1.8 V supply voltage.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Seminary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-149).

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 144-150.

Thesis (M.A.)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-123).

Thesis (M.A.)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-123).

Thesis (Ph.D. in Anthropology)--S.M.U. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 16, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-12, Section: A. Adviser: Caroline Brettell. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Seminary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-149).

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