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It is the purpose of this dissertation to examine in detail those types of dramatic performances in the period 1580-1660 which were not conditioned by the exigencies of a regular theatre and a paying audience, academic and, to a certain extent, court productins have been omitted in order to concentrate attention on less thoroughly investigated branches of the subject.

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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’élargir au cadre multicultures la spécification des technologies de production tenant compte de la spécificité des pesticides. Cela permettra d’une part d’estimer la productivité marginale des pesticides et d’autre part de voir les conséquences de la caractérisation que l’on adopte pour modéliser les pesticides sur le niveau de cette productivité marginale. Nous partons de l’observation que les analyses empiriques essayant d’extraire la productivité marginale des pesticides se heurtent au manque de cadre théorique permettant d’analyser les exploitations agricoles multicultures. Ces études, pour contourner cette limite, soit agrègent les différents outputs pour se ramener au cas d’un seul produit, soit se limitent uniquement aux cas monocultures et/ou aux procédures d’estimation non paramétriques, procédures qui ne permettent pas l’incorporation des inputs luttant contre les ravageurs, soit passent par l’estimation d’une fonction de coût en utilisant les prix. Cette observation nous a motivé à mettre en place un cadre d’analyse adapté aux exploitations multicultures. Cela permettra de mieux comprendre le rapport des agriculteurs à cette substance. Les résultats de nos estimations montrent globalement, sur notre zone d’analyse d’Eure-et-Loir, que les exploitants agricoles utilisent de manière sous-optimale les pesticides. Ce résultat traduit d’une certaine façon l’effet de la réglementation des pesticides : les politiques publiques mises en place pour faire diminuer l’usage des pesticides ont des effets sur les décisions de production des agriculteurs d’Eure-et-Loir. / The main goal of this thesis is to enlarge to the multi-crops framework the specification of production technologies that account for the specificity of pesticides. This allows, on one side, the estimation of the marginal productivity of pesticides and on the other side to investigate the impact of the considered characterisation of pesticides on the level of their marginal productivity. We start form the observation that the current empirical analyses, trying to extract this marginal productivity of pesticides face the lack of an appropriate multi-crops framework. These studies, to get around this problem, either aggregate the different outputs to come down to the case of one crop (output), or use non parametric estimation techniques, whose drawbacks is not to handle the damage reducing input, or pass through the estimation of a cost function using the inputs price information when they are available. This observation motivates the setting up of an appropriate framework for the analysis of multi-crops farms. This enables us to well understand the intensity of farmers’ relation to this input. The results of our analysis show that the Eure-et-Loir’s farmer level of pesticide use is under-optimal. This result highlights somehow the effects of the regulation of pesticides: public policies setting up to lower the use of pesticides impact significantly the production decisions of Eure-et-Loir farmers.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University

Ce travail de thèse, le premier pour la Sardaigne consacré entièrement à la production sur silex, offre un regard nouveau sur les assemblages en pierre taillée du Néolithique, mettant en lumière la manière dont les différentes phases de la production lithique sont mises en place, depuis l'acquisition de la matière première jusqu'à l'obtention de produits finis. Cela sur la durée et sur une aire géographique vaste. D’autre part, il permet de reconstruire le comportement des néolithiques par rapport à ce matériel et, par rapport aux autres ressources lithiques exploités durant l’arc chronologique analysé, l’obsidienne en particulier. / In Sardinia the use of siliceous raw materials for the production of chipped stone artifacts is frequent in prehistory, although to varying degrees in relation to the areas and periods analyzed. These lithotypes, characterized by different qualities, have a great variability and a wide spread over the entire region. This work presented a summary of the diachronic variations in lithic flint production during the Neolithic, focusing on the one side, to describe their typological and technological features and, on the other side, to illustrate the variations in the raw material selection behaviors occurred in this period.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Thesis production book of William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers, directed by Robert R. Lehan. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree requirements, Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts, June 1963.

The relationship between France and Hollywood is rooted in a deep history that dates to the late 1800s. French Cultural elites and policymakers have regulated Hollywood to prevent the American ideals that are depicted in Hollywood movies from infringing on French culture, restricting free trade distribution practices to limit audiences' accessibility of imported, non-French media. These import regulations have strengthened French exceptionalism, which is an ideal that recognizes France as being superior to any other culture, region, or market. Yet, the impacts of globalization and the rise of technology have shifted media consumption habits and forced France to regulate new modes of distribution, like digital streaming platforms, to continue to protect the French culture, film industry, and commerce. In 2014, when Silicon Valley-based streaming platform Netflix, entered France, the principles of French exceptionalism impacted the reception of the Hollywood-focused platform. Policymakers imposed a tax system which requires internationally based streamers to invest in the French media industry. Netflix invested their tax into local language, teen productions to target a demographic whose ideals were less rooted in French exceptionalism. Additionally, Netflix utilized the affordances of Instagram to visually appeal to teen users when marketing the local language productions Mortel (2019-2021) and Vampires (2020-). Netflix capitalized on the French teen audience in order to gain a foothold within this culturally and economically protected market.