Ce travail entend examiner les conditions de production d’un syndicalisme « politique », à partir de l’analyse localisée d’un syndicat CGT d’établissement dans un hôpital psychiatrique de 1968 à aujourd’hui. La catégorie de « politique », au cœur de ce travail, recouvre différentes dimensions qui sont analysées : des activités syndicales qui ne s’éprouvent pas seulement sur le lieu de travail, une présence importante de militants multipositionnés dans des organisations politiques, un attachement à attribuer une signification aux positions occupées dans les rapports sociaux. L’attention portée à l’ancrage syndical dans le lieu de travail permet de saisir comment ce dernier façonne le syndicat et ses membres. La thèse montre dans quelle mesure les modalités de l’engagement des militants procèdent conjointement des socialisations professionnelles et des socialisations syndicales. Néanmoins, l’inscription du syndicat dans l’univers hospitalier a pour effet de reproduire une inégale distribution des positions sociales et professionnelles dans l’organisation, accentuant des rapports différenciés à l’engagement et aux conceptions syndicales qui sont portées par les militants. L’approche socio-historique permet d’appréhender dans le temps la production de l’institution syndicale et ses spécificités en étant attentif aux continuités et aux évolutions. / This work aims at examining the conditions of production of a “political” trade unionism through a study of the specific case of a CGT trade union in a psychiatric hospital from 1968 to nowadays. The sense of “political”, crucial to this work, is explored and analyzed in its numerous dimensions, such as the trade union activities experimented in other places than work, the large amount of multipositioned activists taking part in political organizations or the tendency to give a meaning to the different positions in social relationships. By focusing on how a trade union and a workplace are closely intertwined, we aim at showing how a workplace can shape both a trade union and its members. Similarly, the activists’ commitment has to be understood in association with the socialization process within their work and their union trade. However, in this case, the unbalanced distribution of social and professional positions in the hospital is reproduced in the organization, which in turn widens the gap between the activists’ different ways of being committed in the trade union or even of considering it. Through its socio-historical approach, this work seeks to understand how a trade union is produced and what its characteristics are while keeping its developments in sight.

Les Structures localisées (SLs) apparaissent dans les milieux dissipatifs nonlinéaires ayant un grand rapport d'aspect et où plusieurs solutions coexistent pour la même gamme de paramètres. Elles ont des longueurs de corrélations bien plus courtes que la taille du système ce qui en fait des objets individuellement adressables. Les SLs ont été largement étudiées dans les résonateurs optiques pour leur potentiel dans le traitement tout-optique d'information. Nous focalisons nos recherches sur les structures localisées temporelles obtenues dans un laser à blocage de modes passif. Il s'agit, plus spécifiquement, d'un laser à Cavite Verticale Émettant par la Surface (VCSEL) monté dans une cavité externe délimitée par un Miroir Semiconducteur à Absorption Saturable (SESAM). Nous montrons que les pulses émis par ce système peuvent être individuellement allumés et éteints par le biais d'impulsions électriques dans le courant de pompage. Nous étudions la possibilité de déplacer ces pulses l'un par rapport à l'autre et/ou de reconfigurer leur disposition dans la cavité à l'aide d'une modulation du paramètre de pompage. Ceci nous a permis de découvrir un nouveau paradigme pour la dynamique pour les SLs, jusqu'ici étudiées seulement dans les systèmes à symétrie de parité (systèmes spatiaux et résonateurs à Fibre de (type Kerr). En effet, dans notre système, le temps de réponse fini du milieu semiconducteur introduit la causalité dans la cavité, brisant ainsi la symétrie de parité du système. Ceci a des conséquences très importantes sur la vitesse de propagation des SLs, sur leurs formes et sur leurs interactions. Dans la partie finale de ma thèse, inspiré par le résultat obtenu dans ce système, je m'intéresser à l'implémentationdes SLs spatio-temporelle, aussi appelées Balles de Lumière (BLs). En effet, une version similaire de ce système a servi pour implémenter des SLs dans la section transverse du résonateur, ce qui en fait un bon candidat pour générer des BLs. Nous étudions donc les modifications à apporter pour atteindre ces structures. Les indications obtenues ont suggéré de remplacer le VCSEL par un dispositif similaire mais incapable de laser sans un miroir externe. Ce dispositif, appelé demi-VCSEL ou VECSEL et son SESAM compatible ont été fabriqués par l'Institut d'Electronique et des Systèmes de Montpellier. L'optimisation des caractéristiques de ces dispositifs permet d'atteindre le régime de localisation temporelle, ce qui est un résultat prometteur vers les Balles de Lumière. / Localized Structures (LS) appear in non-linear dissipative mediums with a large aspect ratio and where several solutions coexist for the same range of parameters. They have a correlation length much shorter than the size of the system which makes them individually addressable objects. LS have been widely studied in optical resonators for their potential in all-optic informations processing. We focus our study on Temporal Localized Structures in a Passive Mode-Locked Laser. More specifically, we study a Vertical Cavity SurfaceEmitting Laser (VCSEL) coupled in an external cavity with a Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror (SESAM). We show that pulses emitted by this system can be individually turned on and off using electrical pulses in the bias current. We study the possibility to move those pulses and/or to reconfigure their positions in the cavity thanks to a modulation of the bias current. We were able to discover a new paradigm for the dynamics of LS, studied until now only in system with parity symmetry (spatial system et Kerr fiber resonator). Indeed, in our system, the finite response time of the semiconductor medium brings causality in the cavity, and so breaks the parity symmetry of the system. This fact has important consequences on the LS drifting speed, on their shapes and their interactions. In the last part of my thesis, inspired by the results we obtain in this system, we focus on the implementation of spatio-temporal LS, also called Light Bullet (LB). Indeed, a similar system was used to implement LS in the transverse section of the resonator, so it can be a good candidate to generate LB. So we study the modification needed to obtain those structures. The results suggested to replace the VCESL by a similar device but that can't lase without external mirror. This device, called half-VCSEL or VECSEL, and its compatible SESAM, were design the Institut d'Electronique et des Systèmes of Montpellier. The optimization of the characteristic of those devices allows to get a regime of temporal localization, which is a promising towards the Light Bullets.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Sweden. Patients with the condition have a good prognosis in general and most cases can be treated. Localized prostate cancer is primarily treated via surgery or radiation therapy and is diagnosed with the help of different imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, and positron emission tomography, PET. The diagnosis is confirmed and the aggressiveness of the cancer is determined through biopsies. Samples from a small part of the prostate are extracted and then examined. This could mean that parts of higher aggressiveness may be missed, which in turn could lead to under-treatment of the cancer. The aggressiveness of a lesion can be described by Gleason Score, GS, which is determined by an visual assessment of the shape, size and arrangement of the cells. The aim of this study was to correlate GS with in-vivo images using MRI and PET. This was accomplished by investigating image data from PSMA PET, Acetate PET, Ktrans MRI and T2-weighted MRI from a cohort of 26 prostate cancer patients containing 74 lesions. Regions of interests, ROI:s, were created and applied on all images. Statistics such as median and max value were extracted from each ROI. The statistics were combined to get a wide range of descriptive variables for each respective imaging modality. These were normalised against a certain zone of the prostate or only the absolute value. The results indicated that PSMA PET, Acetate PET and Ktrans MRI were correlated to GS, while T2-weighted MRI was not. Data also indicated that PSMA PET, Acetate PET and Ktrans MRI give complementary information to each other, which could indicate that a combination of the modalities would better predict GS. The implications of these findings could affect both the diagnostics and the treatment of prostate cancer.

Jamaican males are a high-risk population for aggressive prostate cancer (PrCa) due to genetic influences, and identifying empirical data on treatments, which provide survival benefits is a prime challenge for clinicians who manage Jamaican PrCa patients. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to elucidate treatment effects of brachytherapy and ERBT in the survival of a Jamaican PrCa cohort. Differences in survival outcomes of brachytherapy and ERBT treated Jamaican, and White U.S.-born PrCa patients with localized PrCa were compared. The mechanism of radiation programmed cell death in PrCa carcinogenesis explained in the oxidative stress theory, was the theoretical base for interpreting the research questions. A retrospective cohort design was used, and included survival analysis of secondary data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database. The sample size was 10,752 Jamaican and White U.S.-born prostate cancer patients diagnosed between 1992 and 2011. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazard regression models confirmed that brachytherapy resulted in enhanced survival benefits to the Jamaicans, HR 0.63, 95% CI [0.55, 0.73], p < .001, but ERBT did not, HR 1.6, 95% CI [1.38, 1.84] p < .001. Hence, brachytherapy may be an appropriate treatment option for Jamaican PrCa patients. Clinicians and health care planners can utilize the results for policy decisions aimed at increasing access to brachytherapy treatments to Jamaicans. Improving access to efficient PrCa treatments could reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of PrCa among Jamaicans, decrease years of potential life lost from PrCa, and enhance the life expectancy of the Jamaican male population.

Le retour haptique disponible aujourd'hui dans les produits grand public est d'un intérêt limité pour les interactions tactiles et moins efficace que l'utilisation d'un clavier physique pour la saisie de texte. Relativement simple, celui-ci ne peut communiquer que peu d'informations : signaler silencieusement un appel, notification de messages ou confirmation de frappe de touches sur clavier virtuel. Bien que des améliorations aient été apportées aux technologies haptiques existantes, comme des actionneurs plus performants et des gammes de vibrations plus larges afin de simuler des boutons ou des textures, elles restent limitées à un retour tactile unique. Ceci empêche tout usage multi-doigts ou multi-utilisateurs en simultané.Ce travail vise à développer un retour tactile statique et dynamique sur grande surface (format A4). Les interactions avec les écrans tactiles nécessitant un retour tactile plus riche et plus performant, deux types de retour complémentaires ont été identifiés afin de les enrichir. Le retournement temporel des ondes de flexions dans les plaques est étudié afin de simuler l'appui sur un bouton (retour statique). La 2ème approche se base sur la stimulation par électrovibration, qui permet de simuler des textures ou de différencier des zones d'interactions (retour dynamique). Afin d’estimer de manière précise la résolution spatiale du procédé tactile par retournement temporel, un modèle analytique basé sur l'équation de Kirchhoff est proposé. Des mesures expérimentales confrontées au modèle ont permis de le valider. Par ailleurs, des règles de conception sont élaborées et appliquées pour le développement d'un nouveau prototype avec une électronique dédiée sur une plaque en verre de faible épaisseur (1.1 mm). Différents types de signaux de commande sont étudiés. La quantification sur un bit (i.e. signaux de forme carré) avec filtrage des fréquences audibles s’avère être l'alternative la plus efficiente en terme d'amplitude de déplacement générée et de réduction des émissions sonores. Des problématiques de dimensionnement, comme le placement des actionneurs, l'homogénéité de la résolution spatiale et l'amplitude de déplacement sont analysées. L'effet de la force d'appui du doigt sur l'amplitude de déplacement est quantifié (6 % de perte d'amplitude dû à une force d'appui de 2 N sur une localisation autre que le point de focalisation, et jusqu'à 37 % pour la même force d'appui sur le point de focalisation).Le seuil de détection d'une focalisation par retournement temporel mesuré sur 10 utilisateurs se situe à environ 10 µm et est peu influencé par la force d'appui de l'utilisateur sur l'écran. En répétant la focalisation des ondes de manière à former un signal modulé en amplitude, il devient possible de générer des retours tactiles enrichis, notamment de simuler le comportement du clic d’un bouton poussoir. Des motifs avec des fréquences de répétition et des enveloppes différentes sont comparés. Il apparaît qu'une fréquence de 200 Hz et une enveloppe en sinus cardinal sont les plus plaisants pour l’utilisateur.Par ailleurs, l'électrovibration produit des stimuli capables de reproduire une sensation de texture, en modifiant le coefficient de friction entre le doigt et la surface à explorer. L’intensité de ces stimuli dépend de l'épaisseur de peau du bout du doigt. Les seuils de détection des mécanorécepteurs sont dépendants de la fréquence du signal appliqué. Une étude utilisateur ayant pour but de déterminer l'influence de la force d'appui sur le seuil de détection d’une stimulation par électrovibration a été conduite. Les seuils minimaux ont été observés pour une fréquence de 240 Hz. La force d'appui a une influence limitée sur les seuils de détection.La combinaison des deux approches de stimulations (retournement temporel et électrovibration) sur une même surface offre un retour tactile riche et multi-point pour une interaction statique (simulation de clics) et dynamique (simulations de textures). / The current haptic feedback in end user products provides limited tactile interactions and is less efficient than physical keyboards for typing. Most people are used to the simple tactile feedback available in smartphones. However, it is very limited, and can only convey little information: silently signaling a phone call, notifying an incoming message or acknowledging touch inputs when typing on a virtual keyboard. Although advances are made to enrich existing technologies in hand-held devices, such as more efficient actuators with broader ranges of vibrations to emulate buttons or textures, they remain limited to a single point feedback. This prevents any simultaneous multi-user scenario.This work aims to develop static and dynamic haptic feedback on large surfaces (A4 format). Interaction with screen based devices is in need of better and richer haptic feedback. Two types of feedback with complimentary performance are identified as necessary to enrich tactile interactions. Time reversal, as a static feedback technology, is studied to simulate a button press. Electrovibration, as a dynamic feedback, is investigated to simulate tactile textures or to differentiate specific areas of interaction.An analytical model based on Kirchhoff's equation for wave propagation to compute the spatial resolution of time reversal of flexural waves applied to plates is presented. Measurements on a physical system are confronted to the model's prediction. Design guidelines are elaborated and used to develop a new time reversal enabled screen with adapted drive electronics, on a 1.1 mm thick glass plate. Driving signal alternatives are investigated. Signals quantified on one bit (i.e. square type signals) with audible frequencies filtered out are found to be the most efficient in terms of amplitude generation and audible noise emission. Integration issues, such as the actuators’ distribution on the plate and their impact on focalisation point's amplitude and spatial resolution homogeneity are investigated. The effect of the fingertip pressure on the amplitude vibration is studied (6% loss of amplitude due to a 2N force applied by a fingertip on a position other than the focalisation location, and up to 37% for the same force at the focus point's location).The detection threshold measured on ten users is found to be about 10 µm and is not influenced by the force applied on the screen. While a single impact (one impulse) demonstrates the feasibility of time reversal for tactile feedback, a repetition of impacts varying in amplitude offers the possibility to generate richer haptic feedback (such as a button click). Patterns with different repetition frequencies and envelopes are compared in a user study. It appears that frequencies of 200 Hz and the smoothness of the cardinal sine envelope are found to be the best in terms of pleasantness.On the other hand, electrovibration stimulations are able to create a texture feedback by modifying the apparent friction coefficient between the fingertip and the surface. The electrostatic force generation depends on the fingertip skin's thickness. The mechanoreceptors detection threshholds are frequency dependent. A user study on the influence of the applied force on the perception threshold of tactile feedback is presented. The minimum perception thresholds are observed for 240 Hz stimulus. The effect of the applied force appears to have limited effect on the perception threshold.The combination of both stimulation approaches (time reversal and electrovibration) on a single surface will offer a rich multi-point tactile feedback, both for static buttons and dynamic textures.

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The Quality of Service (QoS) routing approach is gaining an increasing interest in the Internet community due to the new emerging Internet applications such as real-time multimedia applications. These applications require better levels of quality of services than those supported by best effort networks. Therefore providing such services is crucial to many real time and multimedia applications which have strict quality of service requirements regarding bandwidth and timeliness of delivery. QoS routing is a major component in any QoS architecture and thus has been studied extensively in the literature. Scalability is considered one of the major issues in designing efficient QoS routing algorithms due to the high cost of QoS routing both in terms of computational effort and communication overhead. Localized quality of service routing is a promising approach to overcome the scalability problem of the conventional quality of service routing approach. The localized quality of service approach eliminates the communication overhead because it does not need the global network state information. The main aim of this thesis is to contribute towards the localised routing area by proposing and developing some new models and algorithms. Toward this goal we make the following major contributions. First, a scalable and efficient QoS routing algorithm based on a localised approach to QoS routing has been developed and evaluated. Second, we have developed a path selection technique that can be used with existing localized QoS routing algorithms to enhance their scalability and performance. Third, a scalable and efficient hierarchical QoS routing algorithm based on a localised approach to QoS routing has been developed and evaluated.

<p dir="ltr">Recent developments in computer technology have increased the number of internet stalkers, child pornographers, traffickers and sexual predators. In a world where digital literacy is on the rise and people strive to keep up with the latest technology, this paper explores the relationship between digital literacy and online grooming(computer-mediated sexual grooming) and offline grooming (localized sexual grooming) and the effect of age, gender, marital status and parental status on the way individuals perceive grooming. This data was collected via a survey from 256 respondents who are 18 years and above and classified as parents within the United States. Several analyses such as correlations, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test were conducted, and our results suggest that there is a relationship between digital literacy and the perceptions of grooming, which may have implications on cybersecurity awareness training. The results highlight the importance of digital literacy in the perception of computer-mediated sexual grooming and familial sexual grooming, with enough evidence to support its essential role in people’s sense of safety. In conclusion, this study emphasized the need for targeted programs and campaigns to create education and awareness with the aim of improving parental digital literacy skills, understanding of grooming risks, and responsible Internet use education across society.</p>