Diss.--Universität München, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 295-316.

Tese de doutoramento--sociologia--Lisboa--Instituto superior de ciências do trabalho e da empresa, 2004. / Bibliogr. p. 375-391.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Psychologie clinique : Lyon 2 : 2002. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. Index.

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L'orientation sexuelle est une notion juridique autonome en droit de l'union européenne et en droit européen des droits de l'homme. La présente thèse fait un bilan des questions qu'elle soulève, en droit public comme en droit privé. Elle propose également une synthèse de la notion et une définition, commune au droit de l'Union européenne et au droit européen des droits de l'homme. La présente étude vise à montrer que les problèmes juridiques que soulève l'orientation sexuelle peuvent être résolus par des raisonnements classiques de droit positif, sans recours au droit naturel ou à une théorie queer du droit. Elle apporte en outre une réponse négative à la question de savoir s'il existe des conflits entre le droit de l'Union et le droit européen des droits de l'homme en la matière; en d'autres termes, les Etats membres de l'Union européenne et du Conseil de l'Europe ne sont pas placés devant un dilemme lorsqu'ils doivent appliquer les différentes règles, adoptées par ces deux organisations, relatives à l'orientation sexuelle. / Sexual orientation is an autonomous legal concept in European Union law and European Human Rights law. This PhD thesis accounts for the issues raised by sexual orientation in public law and private law. It also provides a synthesis of the concept and a definition that is common to both European Union law and European Human Rights law. This study aims to show that legal issues raised by sexual orientation can be solved by conventional resoning of positive law, without recourse to natural law or queer legal theory. It also provides a negative answer to the question of whether there are conflicts between European Union law and European Human rights law in the matter. In other words, member states of the European Union and the council of Europe are not faced with a dilemma wthen they apply the different rules adopted by both organizations on sexual orientation.

The Unidirectional Hybrid Wave Model (UHWM) predicts irregular wave kinematics and pressure accurately in comparison with its linear counterpart and modification, especially near the free surface. Hence, in using the Morrison equation it has been employed in the computation of wave loads on a moored floating structure, such as Spar or TLP (Tension Leg Platform), which can be approximated by a slender body or a number of slender components. Dr. Jun Zhang, with his former and current graduate students, have developed a numerical code, known as COUPLE, over the past two decades, simulating 6 Degree Of Freedom (DOF) motions of a moored floating structures interacting with waves, current and wind. COUPLE employs UHWM as a module for computing wave loads on a floating structure. However, when the duration of simulating the wave-structure interaction is long, say 3 hours (typically required by the offshore industry for extreme storm cases), the computation time of using UHWM increases significantly in comparisons with the counterpart based upon linear wave theory. This study is to develop a numerical scheme which may significantly reduce the CPU time in the use of UHWM and COUPLE. In simulating irregular (or random) waves following a JONSWAP spectrum of a given cut off frequency, the number of free wave components in general grows linearly with the increase of the simulation duration. The CPU time for using a linear spectral method to simulate irregular waves is roughly proportion to N2, where N is the number of free wave components used in simulating irregular waves, while that for using a nonlinear wave model, such as UHWM, it is roughly proportional to N3. Therefore, to reduce the CPU time, the total simulation duration is divided into a number of segments. However, due to the nature of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the connection between the two neighboring surface elevations segments is likely discontinuous. To avoid the discontinuity, an overlapped duration between the two neighboring segments is adopted. For demonstration, a free-wave spectrum is input to COUPLE for simulating the 6 DOF motions of a floating 5-MW wind turbine installed on an OC3 moored Spar and tensions in the mooring lines. It is shown that the CPU time for the above simulation for duration of 2048 seconds is reduced from more than16 hours when the irregular wave elevation and kinematics are calculated without dividing into segments to less than three hours when those are calculated by dividing into five segments.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften--Berlin--Freie Univesität, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 253-277. Index.

This thesis describes an evaluation of a novel low light level charge couple device (L3CCD) technology. Two L3CCDs have been fully evaluated in terms of their signal and noise properties. The primary aim of this work is to identify the device characteristics that affect the overall performance. Conclusions have been made to this end and a prediction of the optimal performance in terms of the device sensitivity is made. Comparisons with other detectors suitable for use in medical imaging have shown that the L3CCD surpasses other detectors in specific performance characteristics and is comparable in others. The competitive performance of the L3CCD confirms that it may afford benefits in those areas in which the L3CCD has superior performance compared to other detectors. Two diagnostic imaging techniques which were identified as applications of L3CCD technology have been investigated. Linear systems analysis has been used to predict the performance of two L3CCD based imaging systems for use in fluoroscopic imaging. Comparison of the predicted performance of the two system with systems in clinical use show that an L3CCD coupled to an x-ray phosphor via a tapered fibre optic is a competitive alternative to present fluoroscopic imaging systems. Experimental validation of the model has confirmed this conclusion. An L3 detector has been designed, built and evaluated for diffraction enhanced breast imaging. To demonstrate the use of the L3 detector for diffraction enhanced breast imaging it has been used to acquire diffraction images of human breast tissue with cancerous inclusions. Measurements of scatter contrast confirm improvements in scatter contrast compared to transmission contrast. The successful demonstration of the L3CCDs ability to collect diagnostic information has shown that the L3CCD is suitable for diffraction enhanced breast imaging.

A truss spar, named as 'Constitution' was installed in Gulf of Mexico located at 90.58' 4.8" West Longitude and 27.17'31.9" North Latitude. Since its installation in October 2006, it has weathered multiple hurricanes. After the installation, British Maritime Technology (BMT) installed an Environmental Platform Response Monitoring System (EPRMS). The EPRMS is an integrated system collecting myriad of data that include the significant wave height and peak period of waves, the magnitude and direction of current and wind in the vicinity of the truss spar, its six-degree of freedom (6-D) motions, and tensions in its mooring lines and Top-Tension Risers. With the permission from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC), these data are available to the Ocean Engineering Program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In this study, the coupled dynamic analysis of the spar interacting with the mooring and riser systems will be performed using a numerical code, named as 'COUPLE'. 'COUPLE' was developed and is continuously expanded and improved by his former and current graduate students and Professor Jun Zhang at TAMU for the computation of the interaction between a floating structure and its mooring line/riser/tendon system in time domain. The main purpose of this study is to exam the accuracy and efficiency of 'COUPLE' in computing offshore structure motions and mooring line tensions and discuss the main issues of the computation. The numerical results will be compared with the corresponding ones obtained using another commercial software, 'Orcaflex', and the corresponding field measurement during Hurricane Ike which occurred on 12th September of 2008 and a winter storm on 9th November of 2009. The satisfactory agreement between the numerical prediction made using 'COUPLE' and field measurement are observed and presented. The results of the comparisons between 'COUPLE' with 'Orcaflex' and field measurements in this study have verified the accuracy and efficiency of 'COUPLE' in computing offshore structure motions and mooring line tensions due to its nonlinear hybrid wave model which could better estimate the second-order difference-frequency wave loading.

Our sample consisted of 116 adults aged 18 and older, recruited from college and community settings. Participants were currently in a romantic relationship and endorsed the sudden and/or violent death of a family member, close friend, or romantic partner. We hypothesized that: 1) prolonged grief is associated with poor dyadic functioning; 2) social support moderates the relationship between prolonged grief and dyadic functioning; 3) religious coping moderates the association between prolonged grief and dyadic functioning. Results indicated that prolonged grief was not significantly related to dyadic functioning, and neither social support nor religious coping moderated this association.