The primary goal of this thesis is to develop analytical methods for the chemical profiling of explosives. Current methodologies for the forensic analysis of explosives focus on identification of the explosive material. However, chemical profiling of explosives becomes ...

Most terrestrial plants form specialized mycorrhizal structures with symbiotic fungi. These improve the establishment and development of the associated plants, through the modification of the root system, by facilitating greater uptake of water and nutrients from the en...

A cooperative problem solving environment should allow the user to intervene and steer the solution process. Control over the level of intervention should also be permitted. For instance, it should be possible for the user to fully steer the solution, or for the system ...

O óxido de grafeno (OG), nanomaterial sintetizado a partir do grafite, tem atraído atenção como adsorvente com grande capacidade de remoção de cátions e diversos contaminantes de soluções aquosas, devido a presença dos grupos hidroxila, epóxi, carbonila e carboxila em s...

LETI possesses an expertise allowing to realize Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) made in microelectronic technology on silicon, having very high resolutions and very small pixel steps. LETI wishes to use a specific LCD technology (IPS technology), on the one hand the ele...

The future CERN experiment called GBAR intends to measure the gravitational acceleration of antimatter on Earth using cold (neV) antihydrogen atoms undergoing a free fall. The experiment scheme first needs to cool antihydrogen positive ions, obtained thanks to two conse...

Glasshouses have a favourable climate for greenhouse red spider mite, which can rapidly proliferate. Up to 1959 its practical control has been by chemicals only. Bravenboer studied whether biological control was also possible.<br/>Chemical treatment acted as a density-i...

This thesis presents an economical point of view of the power grid. The first part get onto the latest electricity laws ; the second one is about efficiency of costs and the third one deals with the regulation of the electricity network; Ce mémoire de thèse comprend tro...

1. INTRODUCTION Most complications after elective or urgent reconstructive operations on abdominal aorta are predictable and it is possible to prevent them. The development of the operating techniques, a good preoperative preparation of patients and post-operative nursi...

A prominent tool in computational materials modeling is density functional theory (DFT), which allows one to calculate macroscopic material properties from the atomic scale and based solely upon physical principles. The cluster expansion (CE), a statistical physics-base...