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L’objectif général de cette thèse était d’investiguer l’organisation posturale de l’initiation de la marche (IM) lors de l’application cumulée de contraintes temporelles et spatiales. L’hypothèse générale était que le système postural, chez le jeune adulte sain, est capable de s’adapter à une variation du degré de contrainte imposé expérimentalement, pour maintenir un niveau de performance motrice et de stabilité invariant. Trois études ont été réalisées pour tester cette hypothèse générale, auxquelles s’est ajoutée une étude de validation de mesure des dimensions de la base de support (BS). L’objectif de la première étude était d’analyser l’effet de la pression temporelle (PT) et de la présence d’un obstacle à franchir sur l’organisation posturale de l’IM. Les résultats ont montré que la durée des ajustements posturaux anticipateurs (APA) était réduite en condition de PT forte comparativement à la condition de PT faible. Cette contrainte n’entrainait cependant pas d’altération de la stabilité et de la performance motrice, vraisemblablement grâce à l’augmentation concomitante de l’amplitude des APA. Par ailleurs, il a été montré que l’enjambement de l’obstacle induisait une augmentation de la durée de la phase oscillante provoquant, de fait, une augmentation potentielle de l’instabilité posturale. Cet effet négatif était cependant contrebalancé par un développement d’APA plus important qu’en condition sans obstacle. Dans cette première étude, la hauteur et la distance à l’obstacle étaient fixes. L’objectif de la deuxième étude était d’analyser l’effet d’une modification des caractéristiques de l’obstacle, combinée à une variation de la contrainte temporelle sur l’organisation posturale de l’IM. Trois hauteurs et distances d’obstacle, et deux niveaux de PT étaient combinés. Pour mettre en évidence le caractère adaptatif de la modulation des caractéristiques des APA en fonction des contraintes spatiotemporelles imposées, un modèle mécanique original du corps humain permettant de formaliser la trajectoire du centre des masses a été élaboré. En accord avec la première étude, les résultats ont montré que la stabilité posturale et la performance motrice demeuraient équivalentes dans les différentes conditions, malgré les larges variations des contraintes imposées. Le modèle mécanique nous a permis de démontrer que cette invariance était liée à la modulation de l’amplitude des APA, témoignant ainsi de l’adaptabilité du système postural aux contraintes imposées. Cette expérimentation a également permis de mettre en évidence de façon fortuite que plus la distance à l’obstacle était importante, plus le pourcentage de pose avant-pied augmentait. L’objectif de la troisième étude était d’analyser l’effet de la pose de pied (avant ou arrière-pied) sur l’organisation posturale de l’IM avec franchissement d’obstacle. Les résultats ont montré que cette organisation posturale dépendait étroitement de la stratégie de pose du pied. Ceux-ci suggéraient l’existence d’une relation d'interdépendance entre les mécanismes de contrôle de l'équilibre de l’IM et la stratégie de pose du pied permettant ainsi, un contrôle optimal de la stabilité. L’objectif de la quatrième étude était de valider la mesure des dimensions de la BS au cours de l’IM à l’aide d’une plateforme de force (méthode dynamique), en prenant pour « gold standard » le système VICON. Les résultats ont montré que la méthode dynamique était suffisamment précise pour pouvoir être comparée au gold standard. En conclusion, l’ensemble de ces résultats suggère que chez le jeune adulte sain, le SNC est capable de moduler de façon adaptative et optimale les mécanismes de contrôle de l’équilibre en fonction des contraintes spatiotemporelles imposées. En termes d’implications cliniques, l’IM avec franchissement d’obstacle serait une méthode de rééducation intéressante aussi bien en évaluation (test-retest) qu’en rééducation où l’obstacle permettrait de proposer une contrainte dosable et reproductible / The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the postural organization of gait initiation (GI) during the application of temporal and spatial constraints. The main hypothesis was that the postural system, in the healthy young adult, is able to adapt to the degree of constraint imposed experimentally, in order to maintain an invariant level of motor performance and stability. Three studies were conducted to test this main hypothesis, with the addition of a validation study measuring the dimensions of the base of support (BOS). The objective of the first study was to analyze the effect of temporal pressure (TP) and the presence (or not) of an obstacle to be cleared on the postural organization of GI. The results showed that the duration of anticipatory postural adjustments (APA) was drastically reduced under the condition of high TP (GI in reaction time) compared to the condition of low TP (GI in self-initiated). This constraint didn’t result in a decrease of stability and motor performance, probably due to the increase in APA amplitude. In addition, it has been shown that clearing an obstacle induces an increase in the duration of the swing phase causing, a potential increase of the postural instability. This negative effect was, however, counterbalanced by the development of more significant APA than without obstacle. In this first study, the height and the distance of the obstacle were fixed. The objective of the second study was to analyze the effect of a modification in the characteristics of the obstacle to be cleared, combined with a variation of temporal constraint on the postural organization of GI. Three heights and three obstacle distances, and two TP levels were combined. To insist on the adaptive character of the characteristics of APA modulation according to the spatiotemporal constraints imposed, an original mechanical model of the human body formalizing the centre of mass trajectory has been elaborated. In agreement with the first study, the results showed that postural stability and motor performance remained equivalent under the different experimental conditions, despite wide variations in the imposed stress level. The mechanical model allowed us to demonstrate that this invariance was related to the amplitude modulation of APA, thereby demonstrating the adaptability of the postural system to imposed constraints. This experiment also highlights "fortuitously" that as the obstacle distance increase, the higher percentage of forefoot strike increase. Also, the objective of the third study was to analyze the effect of the foot strike strategy (front or rear foot) on the postural organization of the GI with an obstacle to be cleared. The results showed that this postural organization was dependent on the swing foot-off strategy. These results suggested the existence of an interdependent relationship between GI's balance control mechanisms and the foot strike strategy, allowing an optimal control of stability. Finally, the objective of the fourth study was to validate the measurement of the BOS dimensions during GI using a force platform (dynamic method), taking the VICON system as gold standard. The results showed that the dynamic method was sufficiently precise to be compared to the gold standard. In conclusion, all of these results suggest that in the healthy young adult, the CNS is able to adaptively and optimally modulate the balance control mechanisms according to the spatiotemporal constraints imposed experimentally. For clinical implications, GI with obstacle to be cleared would be an interesting method of rehabilitation in both test-retest and rehabilitation where the obstacle would provide a measurable and reproducible constraint.

"Endymion" è il traît d'union tra i juvenilia di Keats ("Poems", 1817) e i suoi lavori più conosciuti ("Lamia, Isabella ... and other Poems"). Per sua natura, è un'opera di transizione e quindi concede allo studioso un punto di vista privilegiato sullo sviluppo della poetica e della lingua di Keats. Inoltre, l'"Endymion" è l'opera keatsiana più aspramente contestata dalla critica romantica. Gli studiosi moderni hanno analizzato il problema alla luce di considerazioni socio-politiche, il mio lavoro mira invece ad un'analisi più strettamente linguistica. Ricostruisco il contesto linguistico del diciottesimo e diciannovesimo secolo al fine di spiegare il disagio dei recensori nei confronti di "Endymion". Sostengo che il prescrittivismo del Settecento nasce da una profonda ansia relativa alla lingua, causata dalle teorie di Locke. L'atteggiamento prescrittivista influenza la critica romantica e i critici di Keats in particolare, più di quanto potessero fare considerazioni di natura politica. Analizzo le peculiarità linguistiche e strutturali di "Endymion" al fine di provare che Keats elabora una 'poetica dell'incontrollabilità', una serie di strategie stilistiche e testuali, che violano le convenzioni linguistiche e narrative e che vengono quindi percepite come destabilizzanti e stranianti. / "Endymion" is the traît d’union between Keats’s juvenilia ("Poems", 1817)and his better known, and, conventionally, ’mature’ works ("Lamia, Is- abella ... and other Poems", 1820). By its nature, it is a transitional work, and thus gives the scholar special insight into the development of Keats’s poetics and idiom. Moreover, "Endymion" is the Keatsian work which most irritated and provoked contemporary critics; the two pieces of venomous invective it received in the periodical press of the time have become the stuff of scholarly legend. Recent scholarly work has analysed the language of "Endymion" in socio-political terms; my work focuses on more strictly linguistic concerns. I reconstruct the linguistic context of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in order to explain the reviewers’ unease with regard to "Endymion". I maintain that eighteenth-century prescriptivism arose from a deep-seated anxiety regarding language, Lockian in origin, and that the ensuing desire to stabilize and therefore control language informed Romantic criticism in general, and the criticism of Keats’s work in particular, more fundamentally than politics could or did. I analyse the imaginative and linguistic markers of "Endymion" in order to prove that Keats had elaborated a “poetics of uncontrollability”, a series of textual and stylistic strategies, which violated linguistic and narrative standards and were therefore perceived as unsettling.