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Hydrology A Science of Nature

André Musy, Christophe Higy

Looking beyond a purely scientific discussion of hydrology, the authors of this volume emphasize that mankind needs to recognize the urgency of the situation in which our water is threatened. Providing a comprehensive overview of the broad and complex fiel ...

CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group2011

Le coût attentionnel associé aux fonctions exécutives impliquées dans le contrôle postural

Estelle Palluel, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot

The present paper tried to provide a review of the different works investigating the attentional cost of postural control. Within the context of a dual-task, the attentional demand associated with postural control depends on various factors such as (1) the ...

2011

Exploring the Nature of "Trader Intuition"

Experimental evidence has consistently confirmed the ability of uninformed traders, even novices, to infer information from the trading process. After contrasting brain activation in subjects watching markets with and without insiders, we hypothesize that ...

2010

Venture Capitalists in Firm Governance: Impact on Founder Turnover

Anu Wadhwa

Prior literature tells us VCs are responsible for ousting founders from their leadership positions and replacing them with professional management around IPO time. This argument assumes all founders are equally incapable of running a company beyond the ini ...

2010

Tackling Engineering Education Research Challenges: Web 2.0 Social Software for Personal Learning

Denis Gillet

This paper focuses on Engineering Education Research on Technology Enhanced Learning carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and on its current focus on personal and collaborative learning. After some thoughts on the di ...

2010

Recent knowledge and innovations related to hexofuranosides: structure, synthesis and applications

Ronan Euzen

Hexofuranosides are widely spread in nature, and notably in numerous pathogenic microorganisms. This particular five-membered ring for hexosides leads to novel biological properties and, as usual in glycochemistry, to completely different reactivity and se ...

2008

Efficient synthesis of cyclic glycolipids analogues

Sandrine Gerber, Gérald Coste

A straightforward approach to macrocyclic structures containing deoxysugar subunits was developed through the functionalization of a bishemiketal. The choice of the length and the nature of the linkers can provide macrocycles with diverse rigidities and po ...

2007

Synthesis of galactofuranose-containing disaccharides using thioimidoyl-type donors

Ronan Euzen

Four galactofuranose-containing disaccharides have been prepared utilising various thioimidates [Galf-SC(NR)XR′] and suitably protected acceptors as key precursors. We observed that the efficiency of the coupling reactions was particularly dependent on the ...

2006

From e-government to e-governance: implications for technology management

Matthias Finger, Pierre Rossel

Our paper draws upon concrete research cases to show: firstly, how the approach, the perspective and the representational framework of eGovernment initiatives influence the nature of the changes taking place and, as too many problems remain unaddressed, wh ...

2006

On network form and function

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

Moving from the observation that drainage network configurations minimizing total energy dissipation are stationary solutions of the general equation describing landscape evolution, we review theoretical and observational evidence on river patterns and the ...

2004