Le développement et la prolifération des réseaux sans fil a contribué à l'évolution de notre quotidien. Toute cette multitude de technologies sans fil existantes permet, malgré sa complexité, d'offrir aux utilisateurs des services diversifiés, voix et données, de la manière la plus convenable, tout en permettant l'ubiquité des services dans une optique ABC (Always Best Connected). Ces réseaux utilisent des technologies différentes, mais en même temps, offrent des caractéristiques complémentaires. Ainsi, ce point s'avère attrayant dans la mesure où nous pourrons bénéficier des avantages de chacune des technologies en les interconnectant toutes afin de former un large réseau hétérogène. La mobilité, ou plus particulièrement la relève, que nous nous proposons d'étudier dans ce mémoire s'impose comme axe de recherche intéressant, et encore plus complexe dans un environnement hétérogène. Dans ce mémoire, deux architectures interconnectant un réseau UMTS et un autre Wimax ont été présentées. Plus précisément, nous avons mis l'emphase sur la procédure de relève verticale lors du passage de l'utilisateur d'un réseau Wimax à un réseau UMTS. Chacune des deux architectures utilise un protocole pour la gestion de la mobilité, en l'occurrence le MIP (Mobile Internet Protocol) et le SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). Afin d'évaluer les deux procédures, nous nous sommes donnés deux indicateurs, notamment le coût de signalisation et la durée de la procédure de relève verticale. Pour ce faire, nous avons spécifié un diagramme d'échanges des messages de signalisation propre à chacun des scénarios, un basé sur le MIP et l'autre basé sur le SIP. Ensuite, nous avons établi des expressions pour chacun des deux indicateurs précédemment cités qui ont été implémentées sous MATLAB. Les résultats démontrent que, généralement, le scénario de relève verticale basé sur le MIP présente une durée et un coût de signalisation moins élevé que celui basé sur le protocole SIP.

Cette thèse se base sur le besoin pour un utilisateur mobile d'accéder à ses services IP en tout lieu, à tout moment et de la meilleure manière possible (ABC, Always Best Connected). Elle étudie une architecture d'Interworking 3G/UMTS-WLAN en couplage loose pour faire coopérer des réseaux sans fil hétérogènes. Cette architecture, prouvée par sa faisabilité et sa simplicité, se base sur le protocole Mobile IP afin de gérer la mobilité des utilisateurs pour une continuité de service. Cette thèse propose un schéma de gestion du handover contrôlé par le mobile que nous intégrons à l'architecture d'Interworking dans un contexte multi-opérateurs en collaboration, répondant aux besoins des utilisateurs mobiles d'une part, et assurant la continuité de service d'autre part. Ce schéma, efficace et intelligent, collecte les informations nécessaires, décide du besoin d'initier le handover en temps opportun à l’aide d’un système de logique floue, choisit le réseau le plus approprié parmi les réseaux d'accès hétérogènes disponibles à l’aide d’un processus AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). Pour une solution de type seamless, la procédure d'exécution du handover, basée sur une combinaison Mobile IP-AAA, est préparée grâce à la stratégie élaborée de la décision du handover au niveau du terminal mobile

The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.

"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.

Through a number of case studies from the West African Sahel, this book links and explores natural resources management from the perspectives of politics, property and production.

A revised and updated text on cement chemistry. This edition forms a comprehensive and in-depth reference work that explains in detail all aspects of cement chemistry.

Proceedings of a workshop, the scientific reviews and the contributed papers presented at the symposium. The document presents a brief historical summary of marine research in the Gulf; reports the discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the different working groups on oceanography (physics, biology, chemistry and sedimentology) and on the fishery (fish and invertebrates); then presents the discussions of each multidisciplinary working group, centered around how the St. Lawrence system may be used as a natural laboratory which will contribute to the solution of major long-term problems of conservation of natural resources and of the quality of the environment.