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Viviparity (i.e. live-bearing) has evolved many times from oviparity (i.e. egg-laying), especially in squamates (i.e. lizards and snakes). This group is the one that has undergone the highest number of independent evolution of viviparity. Moreover, squamates have evolve...

International audience; One problem common to all researchers in the field of virtual cinematography and editing is to be able to assess the quality of the output of their systems. There is a pressing requirement for appropriate evaluations of proposed models and techni...

De quelle manière le lien travail-logement est-il pris en compte lors de la conception des documents de planifications ? Afin de répondre à cette problématique, une synthèse sociologique des conséquences du système de production sur les comportements des individus a été...

International audience; At present, no efficient technique is available for cleaning up soils which are highly polluted by heavy metals. Limiting the movement of pollutants out of the contaminated area by creating a dense and persistent plant cover appears to be the mor...

International audience; The 1601 conspiracy of the Earl of Essex could be seen as a minor historical event and yet, the Earl is one of the most important figures of the end of Elizabeth I’s reign, both from a literary and historical viewpoint. He was often represented i...

National audience; La diversité et la distribution géographique des musaraignes du Maghreb restent mal connues. Ainsi, de récentes analyses moléculaires ont signalé pour la première fois Crocidura pachyura en Kabylie, alors qu’au Maroc c’est C. russula qui serait présen...

Abstract A large body of experimental research indicates that oxidative stress contributes to the processes related to aging and age-related diseases. Trace elements, particularly zinc (Zn), are essential components of the endogenous enzymatic antioxidant defenses. The ...

International audience; We propose a novel formulation for parsing facade images with user-defined shape prior. Contrary to other state-of-the-art methods, we do not explore the procedural space of shapes derived from a grammar. Instead we formulate parsing as a linear ...