L'utilisation d'un champ électrique non uniforme permet l'extraction de l'eau contenue en émulsion dans les hydrocarbures. Ce procédé est très efficace, même à faible concentration, que le champ soit alternatif ou continu. L'électrodécantation est produite par des effets de diélectrophorèse accompagnés d'un grossissement des gouttes par coalescence dipolaire.

On its own, Kosovo has neither come to where it is today nor could it move any forward in the near future. The role of the international community and especially that of the EU is crucial in helping Kosovo overpass some of the current barriers and become a truly European state, instead of just another state in Europe. Therefore, from a state-building perspective, this paper strives to shed some light on the process of state-building in Kosovo and the role of the international involvement during this past decade.

This research examined the role of men within the gender and development paradigm and male students’ perceptions of gender-related work in the professional practice of IDEV. The study addressed men’s experiences with both formal and non-formal gender training in IDS within Canadian and US graduate programs. The study asked questions about influential theory, skills and tools relevant to the GAD paradigm. The methods included an online survey of males in IDS graduate programs from five North American universities. Key informants were also interviewed, including faculty members from four universities and two senior level gender advisors working for large non-profit organizations. The findings were presented as four emerging themes: 1) Despite exposure to some gender training opportunities, many male graduate students are not engaged with theory and practise on GAD; 2) The relevance of men in GAD continues to be questioned by the field and men themselves; 3) There is little “buy in” to gender in IDEV by men studying IDS at the graduate level; 4) The field of GAD is primarily operating without the active engagement of men and therefore, is better associated with WID’s “women’s focused” policy and programming, an approach the UN acknowledges to have failed in the past. The study recommends adjustments within IDS graduate studies as well as further research on men and masculinity to strengthen the role of men in achieving GAD’s stated goal of gender equality.

In recent years there has been an increasing demand for a reform of the UN system at the national level. Objecting to a failure in aid effectiveness and a paternalistic implementation of a rigid western model of human rights, the call for reform has been concretised in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the Hanoi Core Statements on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the General Assembly Resolution A/60/1(2006), which recognize the need for a more effective and coherent UN country presence. The One UN reform – Delivering as One – is currently being piloted in eight different countries, one of them Viet Nam. One of the main principles governing the reform is the shift of power as to who directs the UN’s resources. The principle of increased national ownership is juxtaposed with the fact of a government repressing its people, as is the case in Viet Nam. This thesis builds upon a field study in Viet Nam, addressing issues of human rights violations, the Communist Party’s rhetoric of protecting the people, and the UN’s rhetoric of expertise conditioned by western thought. The question of whether the subaltern can speak is again raised here, as is further inquiries on whether the Government of Viet Nam and/or the UN hears and/or listens to it. Utilizing Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action to theorise the agencies of The Government of Viet Nam and the One UN, and by placing them in a Habermasian polity of communicative action, it becomes possible to view this occurring encounter of ideologically governed actors in a new light, and inquire as to whether it is possible to reach an understanding and coordinate plans of action by way of agreement. This thesis sheds light on and problematizes issues of western presence, communicative action, the colonial civilizing project, subalternity, as it is activated in the context of Viet Nam and in the principles of the UN reform.

<p>It is an unfortunate and cruel reality that both government and armed groups used child soldiers during armed conflict. Child soldiers have become an integral part of government forces as well as insurgent groups in Africa and elsewhere. Most of them are being exploited as combatants, while others perform functions, such as porters, spies who are able to enter small spaces, cooks, messengers, lookouts, and even suicide bombers. Some of the most disturbing aspects of child soldiering are that some of them are being forced to kill or are themselves killed, sexually abused and are exposed to drugs. The use of child soldiers in conflicts is not a recent phenomenon and has indeed become a common practice that characterises modern conflicts. Recruitment is usually carried out forcefully or voluntarily by both government and rebel forces. The difference between these two types of recruitment is not always clear since their decision to join is always influenced by external factors. Examples of such reasons for voluntary recruitment include the desire to revenge, adventure, peer pressure, and need for belonging and survival. Concerning the reason for survival, some argue that, the children do not actually choose freely to become combatants, but are rather forced by circumstances. There are numerous reasons for the continuous targeting of children by armed forces and armed groups. These include shortage of combatants, the fact that children are easy to train physically and psychologically, and also that children are obedient and are readily available. The recruited children are compelled to take part in brutal induction ceremonies, where they are threatened and forced to kill or witness the killing of someone they know.</p>

La présente étude est une analyse et une reconstruction interprétative de la centurie de Calliste Cataphygiotès, intitulée De l'union avec Dieu et de la vie contemplative, chapitres syllogistiques et hauts. Notre approche à ce texte pluridisciplinaire est prioritairement philosophique. Dans le but de mettre en valeur l'intérêt philosophique qu'il représente, nous avons concentré notre analyse sur les problèmes liés au rapport de l'intellect avec l'Un, sur l'étude du concept de l'infini, sur son rôle dans la contemplation et sur la méthode dialectique dont Calliste Cataphygiotès s'en sert. Nous avons reconstruit la doctrine de la contemplation, implicite au texte de Calliste et nous avons tenté une reconstruction globale de la centurie qui permettra au lecteur d'apprécier les qualités spéculatives et l'esprit synthétique de ce mystique byzantin presque inconnu. / The present study is an analysis and an interpretative reconstruction of Callistus Cataphygiotes's syllogistic chapters, entitled The union with God and the contemplative life. Our approach to this multidisciplinary text is primarily philosophical. In order to emphasize the philosophical aspect of the text we focused our analysis on issues related to the concept of infinity, its role in contemplation, the relation of the intellect with the One, as well as the dialectical method used by Callistus Cataphygiotes. We rebuilt the doctrine of contemplation, implied in the text of Callistus and we tried to do a complete reconstruction of the text that will allow the reader to appreciate the speculative and the synthetic spirit of this almost unknown Byzantine mystic.

This thesis discusses the role of language in Primo Levi's Se questo e un uomo and La tregua. On the basis of Levi's conviction that language and communication are an essential part of civilized human existence, such critics as Brian Cliff, Patricia Sayre and Linnea Vacca have focused on the role of language in the destruction of the human being in concentration camps, while Valerio Ferme and Fabio Girelli-Carasi have also underlined the power of language to regenerate a sense of humanity in Auschwitz and after. This paper attempts to integrate these two approaches to the early work of Primo Levi, and illustrates the process of linguistic destruction in Auschwitz on the one hand, and the subsequent rebirth of communication both within Auschwitz and on Levi's long journey home, on the other. Levi's attention to language and communication provides a focus which separates his work from that of other witnesses and provides a unique vantage point from which to view his Auschwitz experience.

L'assistance aux personnes ayant des troubles cognitifs, au laboratoire DOMUS, se fait selon deux approches. La première met en oeuvre des outils d'assistance personnelle portés par la personne, comme le panic button ou encore une application déployée sur un téléphone intelligent. La seconde consiste à équiper l'environnement de la personne afin de lui proposer une aide discrète qui ne modifie que très peu ses habitudes de vie. Ce présent projet de recherche s'inscrit dans la seconde approche d'assistance. Ce mémoire a pour but de proposer un prototype de sol intelligent permettant la localisation et même l'identification des personnes présentes dans un espace intelligent. Les sols intelligents jusqu'alors développés présentent tous la même particularité : ils nécessitent, pour les déployer et les exploiter, des connaissances avancées dans les domaines de l'informatique et de l'électronique ainsi que la mise en place d'un processus complexe pour leur déploiement et leur exploitation. L'architecture proposée pour ce prototype de sol intelligent vise à faciliter au maximum sa configuration et son utilisation afin de réduire au maximum les coûts qui y sont liés. Pour faciliter le développement des algorithmes d'auto-configuration et d'exploitation des noeuds constituant le sol intelligent, un simulateur a été réalisé. Il permet de confirmer le comportement de ces algorithmes dans un réseau de grande dimension sans avoir à mettre en place une réalisation matérielle qui représente une étape complexe et coûteuse. La mise en oeuvre, d'un point de vue matériel, au niveau matériel n'a été réalisée que sur un nombre limité de noeuds afin d'en démontrer la faisabilité.

El desarrollo de las habilidades experimentales de un estudiante de Arquitectura es una parte importante de su formación. Un profesional en arqui tectura debe saber medir, usar correctamente las unidades, realizar apreciaciones y generar conclusiones sobre ocurrencias reales, redactar adecuada y correctamente un inform e, etc. Estas habilidades habrán de ser adquiridas y afianzadas durante el desarrollo de su s cursos formativos dentro de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Dado que la Física es esencialmente experimental, e s evidente que será precisa para el aprendizaje y desarrollo de tales características. Por esta razón es que consideramos necesaria la realización de esta guía de laboratorio en que s e da un especial tratamiento de la parte experimental de la Física, contando con el debido s ustento teórico de los experimentos escogidos, de modo tal que los estudiantes desarrol len de una manera organizada y consciente, las pocas, pero sustanciales, experienc ias de laboratorio abordadas, y lleguen así a hacer suyos los conceptos que les serán de gran uti lidad no sólo en el afianzamiento de sus conocimientos del curso de Física, sino también en su futura actividad profesional.

Nous étudions la déformation d'une goutte d'eau par électromouillage. La géométrie de la goutte près de la ligne de contact, au coeur de la compréhension complète du phénomène, soulève encore des interrogations. Ce travail y apporte des réponses théoriques et numériques. Un modèle utilisant l'optimisation de forme nous permet de montrer que l'angle de contact est indépendant du potentiel appliqué. Pour permettre une visualisation, nous simulons numériquement les formes macroscopiques de gouttes grâce à un code existant. Ceci étant insuffisant pour visualiser ce qui se passe à la ligne de contact, nous proposons deux voies. Nous améliorons l'approximation de la singularité du potentiel à la ligne de contact. Puis vu le caractère local de l'information recherchée, nous modifions le modèle global et extrayons un modèle différentiel local pour préciser les formes de gouttes à potentiel donné, effectuer un calcul précis de courbure, et enfin visualiser l'invariance de l'angle de contact.