O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar propriedades qualitativas das equações diferenciais funcionais neutras (EDFNs) e introduzir uma classe geral de equações chamadas EDFNs em medida. Obtemos resultados sobre o comportamento assintótico para uma classe de EDFNs com coeficientes periódicos, onde o período e o retardamento estão racionalmente relacionados. Também, conseguimos mostrar que a dicotomia exponencial do operador solução das equações diferenciais funcionais com retardamento (EDFRs) não autônomas implica na existência de soluções limitadas para EDFRs não homogêneas associadas. Finalmente, através da teoria das equações diferenciais ordinárias generalizas (EDOs generalizadas), obtemos resultados de existência e unicidade, dependência contnua em relação aos dados inicias, das soluções das EDFNs em medida. Os resultados novos apresentados neste trabalho estão contidos nos artigos [31, 43] / The aim of this work is to investigate qualitative properties of neutral functional differential equations (NFDEs) and introduce a general class of equations called measure NFDE . We obtain results on the asymptotic behavior for a class of NFDEs with periodic coefficients, where the period and delay are rationally related. Moreover, we show that the exponential dichotomy of the solution operator of non autonomous retarded functional differential equations (RFDEs) implies the existence of bounded solutions to the associated non homogeneous RFDEs. Finally, using the theory of generalized ordinary differential equations (generalized ODEs), we obtain results of existence and uniqueness, continuous dependence on parameters of the solutions of measure NFDEs. The new results presented in this work are contained in the articles [31,43]

聞一多（1899–1946）是詩人、學者，晚年思想左傾，熱衷於政治運動，遭暗殺而死，又成為大陸至今頌揚的鬥士。因為政治的因素，臺灣方面，罕少有人留意聞一多；大陸熱烈頌揚的氛圍，往往也造成對聞一多學術研究評價的偏頗。本論文以聞一多的《詩經》學為研究的主要重心，企圖根據最新的史料，以客觀的立場來重估聞一多《詩經》學的成就。本論文從聞一多的學者角色辨析入手。以往的研究者受聞一多晚年自白的影響，混淆了學者與鬥士時期的角色。第二章裡，筆者從早期的書信考知，聞一多成為古典學術的研究者，純粹出於興趣、能力與生計的考量。本章除為其學者的角色重新定位外，並藉以突顯大陸學界研究聞一多的迷思。第三章至第五章，討論了聞一多廣為人知、影響較深，也是後來學者津津樂道的三個《詩經》學主題。第三章談聞一多援佛洛伊德性學說解詩的論點、立說背景，聞一多接觸佛洛伊德學說的經過，以及援性說詩的影響、得失。筆者認為此種解詩方法有開拓眼界之功，但恐過於相信佛洛伊德性學說的科學性，導致在文本的閱讀有所不足，缺乏思辨，其說多有附會。第四章辨正聞一多的《詩經》時代嫁娶正時論。毛、鄭等學者或主秋冬、或主仲春為嫁娶正時，聞一多異於舊說，以春、秋兩季為嫁娶正時。本章考察了舊說及聞一多的新論，以《春秋》經記載嫁娶四季皆有，且分布均勻等證據，而定《詩經》時代應通年聽婚。第五章專論〈詩•新臺鴻字說〉一文。〈新臺〉「魚網之設，鴻則離之」的「鴻」字，舊解為鳥名，聞一多以為當解為蟾蜍。此說甚為風靡，許多學者都捨舊解而信從聞一多之論。透過對聞一多論點的辨析，筆者以此說無法通解古籍，且聞一多所論證據薄弱，故不可驟信，當依舊解釋作鳥名為宜。第六章結論，重申筆者在緒論中強調的客觀立場。聞一多的《詩經》研究成果，不愧為一大家，然也受到當時大膽、率斷的學風影響，而有失謹嚴。郭沫若「前無古人，後無來者」的誇獎，實過於溢美；後學必須以考而後信的態度，批判地繼承聞一多之創說，方是正途。

This dissertation examines the relationship between phonetic sound and content in Latin poetry, with a focus on Books 1-3 of Horace's Odes. The central argument is that a relationship exists between sound and content in poetry, that this can be analysed and described more thoroughly and systematically than is usually the case, and that the appreciation of poetry can be enhanced by doing so. Part 1 presents a scheme for describing the sound-content relationship, and argues that this accurately reflects the perceptions of poetic audiences and is psychologically valid. The scheme begins with the concept of the 'sonance', defined as any set of sounds that renders a passage sonically noteworthy. Sonances that relate to content are classified either as 'harmonic sonances', which relate to content due to the properties of the relevant sounds, or 'repetitive sonances', which relate to content purely due to the repetition (including patterning or contrasting) of sounds, regardless of their properties. Harmonic sonances, it is argued, may relate to content through four 'harmonies', depending on whether acoustic or articulatory properties are involved and whether the relationship is one of similarity between property and content or a more distant 'metaphor'. Repetitive sonances may relate to content by several different means, or 'modes of repetition'. Part 2 presents a simple method of numerical analysis which may be applied to the text by computer to extract passages that are relatively likely to contain a sonance, and briefly discusses the process of assessing these results, identifying further sonances by more natural means, and relating each sonance to the relevant content. As an essential preliminary to such matters, Latin phonetics and phonology are also discussed in detail. Parts 3 and 4 present the results of applying these resources of assessment and description to the text, to demonstrate the type of poetic appreciation which may thus be gained. Part 3 consists of two catalogues of harmonic and repetitive sonances taken from the whole of Odes 1-3. Part 4 is a specific examination of two entire odes in much greater detail. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Humanities, 2004.

Cette thèse traite de la vérification automatique de composants matériels décrits en VHDL. C'est une étude de faisabilité d'un outil de vérification automatique qui réunit: exhaustivité, efficacité de calcul et simplicité d'utilisation. La méthodologie de l'interprétation abstraite a été adoptée: l'algorithme de simulation de VHDL est d'abord formalisé par une sémantique opérationnelle, de laquelle une analyse statique est dérivée de façon systématique par abstraction. L'analyse calcule un sur-ensemble des états accessibles. Le domaine numérique utilisé pour représenter les valeurs possibles des signaux de la description peut être choisi librement. Une instance possible de l'analyse a été implémenté en OCaml. Le domaine numérique choisi ici est celui des égalités linéaires entre variables booléennes. L'outil a permi de valider un code correcteur d'erreur de type Reed Solomon. Les performances sont excellentes, en particulier meilleures que celles du model checker à base de BDDs VIS.

La signalisation cellulaire induite par les r écepteurs à sept domaines transmembranaires (R7TM) contrôle les principales fonctions physiologiques humaines. Ces R7TMs sont cibles de m édicaments et initient de larges réseaux d'interactions. Nous avons modélisé dynamiquement les réseaux de signalisation du récepteur à l'hormone folliculo-stimulante (FSH) régulant la fonction de reproduction et du récepteur angiotensine, un R7TM modèle régulant la tension pour comprendre le fonctionnement de ces réseaux et prédire des données inaccessibles expérimentalement. Notre modélisation a utilisé des équations différentielles ordinaires, en assimilant une variable par espèce et un paramètre par constante cinétique. Les paramètres manquant ont été déterminés par optimisation paramétrique. Puis, nous avons d éveloppé un environnement afin de comparer plusieurs algorithmes d'optimisation et de créer une nouvelle méthode hybride plus performante et adaptée à la paramétrisation des réseaux de signalisation.

Nous calculons presque sûrement, simultanément, les dimensions de Hausdorff des ensembles de branches infinies de la frontière d'un arbre de Galton-Watson super-critique (muni d'une métrique aléatoire) le long desquelles les moyennes empiriques d'une marche aléatoire de branchement vectorielle admettent un ensemble donné de points limites. Cela va au-delà de l'analyse multifractale, question pour laquelle nous complétons les travaux antérieurs en considérant les ensembles associés à des niveaux situés dans la frontière du domaine d'étude. Nous utilisons une méthode originale dans ce contexte, consistant à construire des mesures de Mandelbrot inhomogènes appropriées. Cette méthode est inspirée de l'approche utilisée pour résoudre des questions similaires dans le contexte de la dynamique hyperboliques pour les moyennes de Birkhoff de potentiels continus. Elle exploite des idées provenant du chaos multiplicatif et de la théorie de la percolation pour estimer la dimension inférieure de Hausdorff des mesures de Mandelbrot inhomogènes. Cette méthode permet de renforcer l'analyse multifractale en raffinant les ensembles de niveaux de telle sorte qu'ils contiennent des branches infinies le long desquels on observe une version quantifiée de la loi des grands nombres d'Erdös Renyi ; de plus elle permet d'obtenir une loi de type $0-\infty$ pour les mesures de Hausdorff de ces ensembles. Nos résultats donnent naturellement des informations géométriques et de grandes déviations sur l'hétérogénéité du processus de naissance le long des différentes branches infinies de l'arbre de Galton-Watson.

Nous généralisons dans le cadre de groupe localement compact non necessairement abélien, une famille d'espaces de Banach qui sont entre autres des sous-espaces d'espaces d'amalgames de Wiener admettant une dilatation isométrique, et sous-espaces d'espaces de Morrey. Sur ces espaces, nous établissons des inégalités à poids pour l'opérateur maximal fractionnaire et l'intégrale fractionnaire.

Basotho family odes (diboko) form part of oral literature, and refer to names of families, clans or totems. They constitute poetic compositions conveying information about clans' historical origin, philosophy and ancestors. The performance of this oral art form makes use of formulaic techniques such as linking, parallelism, alliteration, etc., which are commonly used in praise poetry. As basis to the content of these oral art forms, the genealogies of the various Basotho clans are discussed to show the reflection of the progenitor names in the clan praises. The functions of family odes are of educational, social and religious nature. Other functions include their use in compositions of other genres, such as, praise poems, mine workers' chants, traditional doctors' falls (mawa) and songs. The recitation of this oral art form is characterised by the instability of the texts, which takes the form of extensions, additions, truncations, improvisations and genre transitions. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar propriedades qualitativas das equações diferenciais funcionais neutras (EDFNs) e introduzir uma classe geral de equações chamadas EDFNs em medida. Obtemos resultados sobre o comportamento assintótico para uma classe de EDFNs com coeficientes periódicos, onde o período e o retardamento estão racionalmente relacionados. Também, conseguimos mostrar que a dicotomia exponencial do operador solução das equações diferenciais funcionais com retardamento (EDFRs) não autônomas implica na existência de soluções limitadas para EDFRs não homogêneas associadas. Finalmente, através da teoria das equações diferenciais ordinárias generalizas (EDOs generalizadas), obtemos resultados de existência e unicidade, dependência contnua em relação aos dados inicias, das soluções das EDFNs em medida. Os resultados novos apresentados neste trabalho estão contidos nos artigos [31, 43] / The aim of this work is to investigate qualitative properties of neutral functional differential equations (NFDEs) and introduce a general class of equations called measure NFDE . We obtain results on the asymptotic behavior for a class of NFDEs with periodic coefficients, where the period and delay are rationally related. Moreover, we show that the exponential dichotomy of the solution operator of non autonomous retarded functional differential equations (RFDEs) implies the existence of bounded solutions to the associated non homogeneous RFDEs. Finally, using the theory of generalized ordinary differential equations (generalized ODEs), we obtain results of existence and uniqueness, continuous dependence on parameters of the solutions of measure NFDEs. The new results presented in this work are contained in the articles [31,43]

In all their various categories, the arts serve as the dominant subject matter of Gesamtkunstwerk and Other Trifles. The title itself begins with a German word-meld—gesamt (total) + kunstwerk (work of art). Thus a primary aim of these poems is to bring as many elements of art together as possible and to use their various forms (self-portraits, nocturnes, odes, etc.) as metaphorical frameworks that inform abstractions such as regret ("How to Draw Regret"), psychological disorders ("Insomnia Nocturnes") and confusion in how one should feel about living realities as opposed to inanimate objects ("Dead Starling"). Most of the poems that are not related in some way to the arts (other than their inseparable relation to the art of poetry itself) deal with death or some other form of loss. Some of them humorous ("Commencement Speech"), others poignant ("In Places Where We Store Our Deaths"), these poems ironically find their place as the "other trifles" of the work. The purpose of this somewhat irreverent categorization of death and tragedy is to create ironic commentaries on the triviality of humankind's grand designs and accomplishments and to show the many similarities shared by comedy and tragedy alike, a project Tony Hoagland took up in his first book of poems, Sweet Ruin. My aim in writing these poems is to better understand how various art forms relate to each other and how aligning those arts in poetry allows the various genres to be "in conversation" one with another. I hope that readers will come away with a better understanding of how art forms are interconnected, but at the same time, I always aim to construct my poems in such a way that multiple readings can occur.