Ligninolytic fungi are wood-degrading organisms that use cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin as sources of carbon and energy. However, the oxidative processes used by these fungi to decompose wood release a myriad of potentially toxic extractable molecules. These extr...

Multi-surface environments (MSEs) combine several of surfaces in a variety of physical arrangements to form a seamless information space. The large surfaces, such as tabletops and wall-displays are often used as a shared space to coordinate efforts, and handheld devices...

The numerical simulations evolve more and more to simulations of complex physical phenomena through multi-scale or multi-physics codes. For these kind of simulations data analysis is a main issue for many reasons, as detecting bugs during the development phase or to und...

South Greenland is a key region placed under Arctic and Northern Atlantic influences, whichis poorly documented in terms of atmospheric monitoring. The aim of my thesis is to conductand use the first regional atmospheric observations of CO2, O2, CH4 and isotopic composi...

Soft chemistry is attractive thanks to its easy implementation. However, the related phenomena are poorly understood to this day. Usually, crystal size and their nucleation rate are described using classical nucleation theories. By construction, they neglect (i) any pot...

The aim of this PhD thesis project was the development of self-standing Fe-N-C cathodes prepared by electrospinning, in order to achieve hierarchical microporous and macroporous electrodes. Such a structure is desirable to improve accessibility by O2 of the Fe-based act...

Introduction Maternal diet is the only prenatal source of nutrients and the major source for non-nutrients and can influence foetal growth and offspring’s long-term health. Chemicals known as “obesogens” might also play a role in increasing obesity risk and one of the m...

In this thesis we used dynamical systems methods and numericalsimulations to study the mechanisms of epileptic oscillations associated with ionconcentration changes and cerebellar Purkinje cell bimodal behavior. The general issue in this work is the interplay between si...

Visual analysis begins with the parallel extraction of different attributes at different spatial frequencies. The aim of this thesis was to investigatethe mechanisms and the cerebral basis of spatial frequencies processing during scene categorization and their evolution...

Cultural values and their impact on people’s attitudes and behavior have long been a place for debate. Globalization, migration and expatriation have contributed to the conflict caused by the interaction among multiple cultural identities, particularly when it comes to ...