Cette thèse a pour objet l‘analyse des dénominations monoréférentielles (DM) dénommant des référents singuliers ─ lieu, personne, événement, institution ou produit de l‘activité humaine ─ dans un corpus établi à partir de guides touristiques consacrés à l‘Algérie. L‘analyse des données révèle un champ linguistique complexe et multilingue (arabe-français-berbère) où l‘auteur du guide est confronté aux problèmes posés par le transfert de dénominations idiosyncrasiques relatives à la réalité algérienne. Dans le cadre d‘une recherche impliquant une dimension nécessairement traductologique, nous effectuons une analyse morphosyntaxique et sémantico-référentielle de ces DM. Au terme de cette analyse qui met en évidence la complexité de ces formes appellatives, tant au plan de la forme qu‘à celui du sens, nous proposons des éléments susceptibles de contribuer à une nouvelle définition du nom ! propre. / This thesis aims to analyze uniquely-referring names which refer to singular referents indicating a place, a person, an event, an institution or a product of human activity in a corpus of tourist guide specific to Algeria. It is evident from the analysis that the issue of language contact poses a multilingual (Arabic – Berber – French) complexity in the linguistic field where the author is constantly confronted with idiosyncratic names that identify Algerian reality. In addition to translatological aspects, we conduct an analysis of morpho-syntactic and semantic-referential properties of these uniquely-referring names which highlights their formal and semantic complexity hence contribute towards new definition of proper names.

Cet essai explore les singularités du nom propre, à la fois propriété d’un x et désignateur de l’x nommé. Le nom porté par l’x n’est pas tout à fait le nom qui réfère à cet x, et l’on envisage la propriété dénominative « être appelé Npr » aussi bien d’un point de vue « ontologique » que d’un point de vue linguistique. La dissociation des deux « parties » du nom propre permet de reprendre la question de son « sens » (sens du nom propre qui réfère à l’x, signification du nom porté par l’x), avant que soient examinées certaines des constructions dites « modifiées » du nom propre. On essaie de montrer que trois types de concepts (individuel, dénominatif, non dénominatif) échelonnent un continuum qui mène du nom propre au nom commun.On propose également une analyse des noms propres du type « le Philosophe », « la Ville Lumière » ou « le Docteur angélique », qu’on considère habituellement comme des surnoms. Un examen diachronique du terme d’« antonomase » précède une réhabilitation de l’antonomase de nom commun destinée à identifier un seuil dénominatif en synchronie. / This essay explores the singularities of the proper name, which is both owned by x and refers to x. The name which x bears is not exactly the name that refers to that x and I’ll try to describe the denominative property « being called N » from an « ontological » as well as a linguistic point of view. The dissociation of the proper name’s two parts allows us to reconsider the question of its « meaning » (meaning of the proper name which refers to x and what the name that x bears signifies), before some proper names’ constructions, that are deemed « modified », are examined. I’ll try to show that three types of concepts (individual, denominative and non denominative) stratify a continuum that leads from proper names to common nouns.In a second time, I’ll try to analyze proper names such as « the Philosopher », « the City of Life » or « the Angelic Doctor », that are usually considered as nicknames. A diachronic study of the word « antonomasia » precedes a rehabilitation of the antonomasia of common noun, which aims at identifying a synchronic denominative level.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / The study aimed at identifying the current state of injury related care for Malawi super league football players. To achieve this the study determined the average time taken by soccer players in Malawi to return to active participation following an injury, identified the type of treatment received by football players, determined the management of football injuries by team doctors in Malawi, established the responsibilities of football coaches in the management of injuries in Malawi and established the financial and medical support received by football players after sustaining an injury

This work is concerned with the fluid dynamic processes and the associated loss of acoustic energy produced by circular apertures within noise absorbing perforated walls. Although applicable to a wide range of engineering applications particular emphasis in this work is placed on the use of such features within a gas turbine combustion system. The primary aim for noise absorbers in gas turbine combustion systems is the elimination of thermo-acoustic instabilities, which are characterised by rapidly rising pressure amplitudes which are potentially damaging to the combustion system components. By increasing the amount of acoustic energy being absorbed the occurrence of thermo-acoustic instabilities can be avoided. The fundamental acoustic characteristics relating to linear acoustic absorption are presented. It is shown that changes in orifice geometry, in terms of gas turbine combustion system representative length-to-diameter ratios, result in changes in the measured Rayleigh Conductivity. Furthermore in the linear regime the maximum possible acoustic energy absorption for a given cooling mass flow budget of a conventional combustor wall will be identified. An investigation into current Rayleigh Conductivity and aperture impedance (1D) modelling techniques are assessed and the ranges of validity for these modelling techniques will be identified. Moreover possible improvements to the modelling techniques are discussed. Within a gas turbine system absorption can also occur in the non-linear operating regime. Hence the influence of the orifice geometry upon the optimum non-linear acoustic absorption is also investigated. Furthermore the performance of non-linear acoustic absorption modelling techniques is evaluated against the conducted measurements. As the amplitudes within the combustion system increase the acoustic absorption will transition from the linear to the non-linear regime. This is important for the design of absorbers or cooling geometries for gas turbine combustion systems as the propensity for hot gas ingestion increases. Hence the relevant parameters and phenomena are investigated during the transition process from linear to non-linear acoustic absorption. The unsteady velocity field during linear and non-linear acoustic absorption is captured using particle image velocimetry. A novel analysis technique is developed which enables the identification of the unsteady flow field associated with the acoustic absorption. In this way an investigation into the relevant mechanisms within the unsteady flow fields to describe the acoustic absorption behaviour of the investigated orifice plates is conducted. This methodology will also help in the development and optimisation of future damping systems and provide validation for more sophisticated 3D numerical modelling methods. Finally a set of design tools developed during this work will be discussed which enable a comprehensive preliminary design of non-resonant and resonant acoustic absorbers with multiple perforated liners within a gas turbine combustion system. The tool set is applied to assess the impact of the gas turbine combustion system space envelope, complex swirling flow fields and the propensity to hot gas ingestion in the preliminary design stages.

The initial slow viscous growth of the Tollmein-Schlichting wave in a canonical boundary layer transition is absent in bypass and wake-induced transitions. Although there have been a great deal of studies pertaining to bypass transition in boundary layers, the underlying breakdown mechanism is not clearly understood and it continues to be a subject of interest. Similarly, a wake-induced transition caused by Karman wake in the freestream remains poorly understood. The breakdown in this case is caused by anisotropic disturbances containing large scale unsteadiness in the freestream. Differing view points among workers on the transition process have also added to the complexities. In this thesis, bypass and wake-induced boundary layer transitions studied experimentally towards understanding various flow breakdown features are reported. The measurements were made on a flat plate boundary layer in a low-speed wind tunnel. The particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique was extensively used. Various grids were used to generate nearly isotropic freestream turbulence. A circular cylinder was placed at different heights from the plate leading edge to generate Karman wake in the freestream. Two cylinders of different diameters were used to vary the Reynolds number(based on the cylinder diameter). The PIV measurements being simultaneous over a large spatial domain enabled to assess various spatial transitional flow structures. In the case of bypass transition, the streamwise velocity fluctuation, u, is found to exhibit some organized negative and positive fluctuations that dominate the flow during transition, and confirm the simulation results reported in the literature. These positive and negative u fluctuations are found to be associated with the streak unsteadiness. By conditional sampling of these positive and negative u fluctuations, we find that urms (root-mean-squaredof u)can be expressed as a linear combination of urms,f and urms,b,i.e. urms = a(urms,f + urms,b); ais constant, and the subscripts fand bdenote the positive and nega-tive ufluctuations, respectively. Both urms,f and urms,b arefoundto follow the non-modal growth distribution. The wall-normal results clearly show that an inclined shear layer is often associated with an organized structure of negative ufluctuations and an inflectional in-stantaneous velocity profile. These inclined shear layers appear to be similar to those in ribbon-induced transition. The turbulent spot precursor appears to be the vortex shedding from an oscillating in-clined shear layer. Interestingly, the normalized vortex shedding fre-quency is found to be Reynolds number invariant, as in the case of ribbon-induced transition. The present study also confirms the sim-ulated turbulent spot features, including a thin log-law at the break-down stage. The spanwise plane PIV results reveal the signature of streak secondary instability in the flow in terms of symmetric and anti-symmetric streaks oscillations. The initial growth of streak amplitude is followed by a slow decay. The maximum streak amplitude is well above30% of the freestream velocity. These two aspects provide support to the streak instability analysis reported in the literature. While the present wake-induced transition study provides some sup-port to the available numerical simulation and experimental results, some new results have also emerged. The measured sharp rise in the disturbance energy during transition is found to be closer to the simulated result, compared to the difference reported in the literature. The spanwise vortices in the early stage, as also seen in other experimental studies, deform leading to the formation of lambda structures, the signature of which is found by the linear stochastic analysis. With increased Reynolds number and decreased cylinder height from the plate, the physical size of the lambda structure is found to decrease. These lambda structures are often found to appear in a staggered manner in the spanwise plane, as in the case of sub-harmonic boundary layer transition. Although a sub-harmonic peak in the frequency spectra is reported in the literature, as also in the present study, the clear staggered pattern went unnoticed. Streamwise streaks are subsequently generated due to the mean shear stretching of these lambda vortices. The spanwise spacing of these streamwise streaks is found to be comparable with the recent simulation results. Also, these streaks are found to undergo somewhat sinuous-like oscillations, compared to the only varicose type oscillations reported in the literature. The streak amplitude is found to saturate at about 35% of the freestream speed. Here again an inclined shear layer in the wall-normal plane is associated with organized negative u fluctuations and an inflectional instantaneous velocity profile. The movement of the peak urms towards the wall is found to be due to the positive u fluctuation, which follows a hairpin-like structure. The inclined shear layers herein are associated with the lambda or a hairpin-like structure. As in a by-pass transition, an inclined shear layer, vortex shedding from it, the imprint of which is also found in the linear stochastic analysis are present. The normalized high frequency shed vortices is found to be Reynolds number invariant in the present wake-induced transition, as in ribbon-induced and bypass transitions. Compared to the re-cent suggestion that the parent-offspring mechanism is the governing self-sustaining mechanism in the boundary layer, the present study suggests that streak-instability mechanism is also present. The proper orthogonal decomposition(POD) analysis of the experimental data was carried out with an emphasis on the bypass transition case studied. The first few energetic POD modes are found to capture the dominant flow structures, i.e. the organized positive and negative u fluctuations. In the case of bypass transition, the first two energetic POD modes are self-similar, i.e. independent of the freestream turbulent intensity and the Reynolds number. An attempt is also made to construct a low-dimensional model with the POD eigenfunction modes to predict the qualitative dynamics of bypass transition. This has revealed the existence of a traveling disturbance in the bypass transition. On the whole, the present study shows some similar breakdown features in bypass and wake-induced transitions, although more studies in this regard are essential.

Dans la présente thèse nous étudions l'extraction d'arbres dans des graphes arêtes-coloriés.Nous nous concentrons sur la recherche d'arbres couvrants proprement arête-coloriés et faiblement arête-coloriés, notée PST et WST. Nous montrons que les versions d'optimisation de ces problèmes sont NP-Complete dans le cas général des graphes arêtes-coloriés, et nous proposons des algorithmes pour trouver ces arbres dans le cas des graphes arêtes-coloriés sans cycles proprement arêtes-coloriés.Nous donnons également quelques limites de nonapproximabilité. Nous proposons des conditions suffisantes pour l'existence de la PST dans des graphes arêtes-coloriés (pas forcément propre), en fonction de différents paramètres de graphes, tels que : nombre total de couleurs, la connectivité et le nombre d'arêtes incidentes dedifférentes couleurs pour un sommet. Nous nous intéressons aux chemins hamiltoniens proprement arêtes-coloriés dans le casdes multigraphes arêtes-coloriés. Ils présentent de l'intérêt pour notre étude, car ce sontégalement des arbres couvrants proprement arêtes-coloriés. Nous établissons des conditions suffisantes pour qu'un multigraphe contienne un chemin hamiltonien proprement arêtes-coloriés, en fonction de plusieurs paramètres tels que le nombre d'arêtes, le degré d'arêtes, etc. Puisque l'une des conditions suffisantes pour l'existence des arbres couvrants proprement arêtes-coloriés est la connectivité, nous prouvons plusieurs bornes supérieures pour le plus petit nombre de couleurs nécessaires pour la k-connectivité-propre. Nous énonçons plusieurs conjectures pour les graphes généraux et bipartis, et on arrive à les prouver pour k = 1. / In this thesis, we investigate the extraction of trees from edge-colored graphs. We focus on finding trees with properties based on coloring. Namely, we deal with proper and weak proper spanning trees, denoted PST and WST.- We show the optimization versions of these problems to be NP-hard in the general case of edge-colored graphs and we provide algorithms to find these trees in the case of edge-colored graphs without properly edge-colored cycles. We also provide some nonapproximability bounds.- We investigate the existence of a PST in the case of edge-colored graphs under certain conditions on the graph, both structural and related to the coloration. We consider sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of a PST in edge-colored (not necessarily proper) graphs with any number of colors. The conditions we consider are combinations ofvarious parameters such as : total number of colors, number of vertices, connectivity and the number of incident edges of different colors to the vertices.- We then consider properly edge-colored Hamiltonian paths in the edge-colored multigraphs, which are relevant to our study since they are also PST. We establish sufficient conditions for a multigraph to contain a proper edge-colored Hamiltonian path, depending on several parameters such as the number of edges, the degree of edges, etc.- Since one of the sufficient conditions for the existence of proper spanning trees is connectivity, we prove several upper bounds for the smallest number of colors needed to color a graph such that it is k-proper-connected. We state several conjectures for general and bipartite graphs, and we prove them for k = 1.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal a determinação da distância de estrelas pré-sequência principal em regiões de formação estelar próximas. A determinação precisa da distância individual das estrelas é necessária para obter os principais parâmetros físicos de cada estrela e para investigar a estrutura da Galáxia. Em particular, investigamos as regiões de formação estelar de Lupus e Ophiuchus que contém uma das associações mais ricas em estrelas T Tauri. A grande maioria das estrelas pré-sequência principal nessas regiões não foi observada pelo satélite Hipparcos devido à sua magnitude e também não têm paralaxe trigonométrica medida a partir do solo devido à distância em que se encontram. O procedimento aqui empregado para a obter a distância individual das estrelas baseia-se na estratégia de ponto de convergência e utiliza dados de movimento próprio e velocidade radial. Desenvolvemos uma nova versão do método de ponto de convergência que permite simultaneamente determinar a posição do ponto de convergência e selecionar os membros de um moving group. Partindo dos dados de movimento próprio e o novo método aqui desenvolvido investigamos as propriedades cinemáticas e realizamos uma análise de pertinência das estrelas em cada região estudada o que nos permitiu identificar um moving group com 114 estrelas em Lupus e 55 estrelas em Ophiuchus. Calculamos a distância para cada membro do grupo usando velocidades radiais publicadas, que foram complementadas com novas observações, e a velocidade espacial do moving grup para as estrelas com velocidade radial não conhecida. Calculamos as paralaxes com precisão de 1-2~mas o que implica em um erro relativo médio de 25% nas distâncias obtidas. Finalmente, investigamos as propriedades dos diversos subgrupos e a estrutura tridimensional dos complexos de nuvens em Lupus e Ophiuchus, concluindo que existem efeitos de profundidade importantes. Utilizamos os novos resultados de distância para obter os parâmetros físicos (luminosidade, massa e idade) das estrelas e o diagrama-HR de cada região de formação estelar considerada, confirmando a distribuição de idade diferente das duas subclasses de estrelas T Tauri. Os resultados aqui obtidos representam um primeiro passo no sentido de melhor entender a estrutura das regiões de formação estelar e os estágios iniciais da formação de estrelas e planetas. / The main objective of this work is to determine the distance of pre-main sequence stars in nearby star-forming regions. A precise determination of the distance to individual stars is required to accurately determine the main physical parameters of each star and the structure of the Galaxy. Here we investigate the Lupus and Ophiuchus star-forming regions that contain one of the richest associations of T Tauri stars. Most pre-main sequence stars in these regions were neither observed by the Hipparcos satellite due to their magnitude nor have any trigonometric parallax measured from the ground due to their distance. The procedure that we use here to derive the distance to individual stars is based on the convergent point strategy and makes full use of proper motion and radial velocity data. We developed a new version of the convergent point search method that simultaneously determines the convergent point position and selects the most likely members of a moving group. Based on proper motion data and our new method we investigate the kinematic properties and perform a membership analysis of the stars in each star-forming region considered that allows us to identify a moving group with 114 stars in Lupus and 55 stars in Ophiuchus. We calculate the distance of each group member using published radial velocities, which we supplemented with new measurements, and the spatial velocity of the moving group for the remaining stars with unknown radial velocity. We derived parallaxes with accuracies of 1-2 mas yielding the average relative error of 25% on the distances. Finally, we investigate the properties of the various subgroups and the three dimensional structure of the Lupus and Ophiuchus cloud complex and conclude that significant depth effects exist. We use the new distances to refine the physical parameters (luminosity, mass and age) of stars and the HR-diagram for each star-forming region considered confirming the different age distribution of the two T Tauri subclasses. These results represent a first step towards better understanding the structure of star-forming regions and the early stages of star and planet formation.

Chemická depozice grafenu z plynné fáze (CVD) je metoda schopná produkovat grafenové monovrstvy velkých velkých rozměrů. Část experimentální práce v rámci této diplomové práce je zaměřena na depozici a analýzu grafenových monokrys- talů připravených metodou CVD na měděném substrátu. Pro analýu grafénových domén je použito technik optické mikroskopie, elektronové mikroskopie, mikroskopie atomárních sil a Ramanovy spektroskopie. Úkolem další části je studium defektů po- zorovaných na mědi po depozici grafenu pomocí energiově disperzní rentgenové spek- troskopie. Množství těchto defektů bylo odstraněno úpravou depozičního systému ačkoliv takto nebylo dosaženo eliminování všech typů defektů. Poslední část této práce se zabývá měření elektro-transportních vlastností grafenu. Výsledky této části zahrnují měření ve vakuu se zapojeným hradlovým napětím a měření při nízkých teplotách v magnetickém poli.

Les méthodes de réduction de modèles offrent un cadre général permettant une réduction de coûts de calculs substantielle pour les simulations numériques. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons d’étendre le domaine d’application de ces méthodes. Le point commun des sujets discutés est la tentative de dépasser le cadre standard «bases réduites» linéaires, qui ne traite que les cas où les variétés solutions ont une petite épaisseur de Kolmogorov. Nous verrons comment tronquer, translater, tourner, étirer, comprimer etc. puis recombiner les solutions, peut parfois permettre de contourner le problème qui se pose lorsque cette épaisseur de Kolmogorov n’est pas petite. Nous évoquerons aussi le besoin de méthodes de stabilisation sur-mesure pour le cadre réduit. / Model reduction methods provide a general framework for substantially reducing computational costs of numerical simulations. In this thesis, we propose to extend the scope of these methods. The common point of the topics discussed here is the attempt to go beyond the standard linear "reduced basis" framework, which only deals with cases where the solution manifold have a small Kolmogorov width. We shall see how truncate, translate, rotate, stretch, compress etc. and then recombine the solutions, can sometimes help to overcome the problem when this Kolmogorov width is not small. We will also discuss the need for tailor-made stabilisation methods for the reduced frame.

In many applications from industry and technology computer simulations are performed using models which can be formulated by systems of differential equations. Often the equations underlie additional algebraic constraints. In this context we speak of descriptor systems. Very important characteristic values of such systems are the $L_\infty$-norms of the corresponding transfer functions. The main goal of this thesis is to extend a numerical method for the computation of the $L_\infty$-norm for standard state space systems to descriptor systems. For this purpose we develop a numerical method to check whether the transfer function of a given descriptor system is proper or improper and additionally use this method to reduce the order of the system to decrease the costs of the $L_\infty$-norm computation. When computing the $L_\infty$-norm it is necessary to compute the eigenvalues of certain skew-Hamiltonian/Hamiltonian matrix pencils composed by the system matrices. We show how we extend these matrix pencils to skew-Hamiltonian/Hamiltonian matrix pencils of larger dimension to get more reliable and accurate results. We also consider discrete-time systems, apply the extension strategy to the arising symplectic matrix pencils and transform these to more convenient structures in order to apply structure-exploiting eigenvalue solvers to them. We also investige a new structure-preserving method for the computation of the eigenvalues of skew-Hamiltonian/Hamiltonian matrix pencils and use this to increase the accuracy of the computed eigenvalues even more. In particular we ensure the reliability of the $L_\infty$-norm algorithm by this new eigenvalue solver. Finally we describe the implementation of the algorithms in Fortran and test them using two real-world examples.