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Patient-specific multi-parametric computational model of lower limb muscle function from PET/MRI studies
Le but de la présente étude est d'étudier et de développer un modèle multidimensionnel des muscles des membres inférieurs spécifique pour le patient. Ce modèle combine des données anatomiques tridimensionnelles et des informations dynamiques fonctionnelles concernant la déformation musculaire, acquises à l'aide de l'imagerie PET et MRI.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action
In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Bootstrap estimation of uncertainty in prediction for generalized linear mixed models
In the framework of Mixed Models, it is often of interest to provide an es- timate of the uncertainty in predictions for the random effects, customarily defined by the Mean Squared Error of Prediction (MSEP). To address this computation in the Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) context, a non-parametric Bootstrap algorithm is proposed. First, a newly developed Bootstrap scheme…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Interests groups in parliament: exploring MPs' interest affiliations (2000-2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs' interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
A random-effects hurdle model for predicting bycatch of endangered marine species
Understanding and reducing the incidence of accidental bycatch, particularly for vulnerable species such as sharks, is a major challenge for contemporary fisheries management worldwide. Bycatch data, most often collected by at-sea observers during fishing trips, are clustered by trip and/or vessel and typically involve a large number of zero counts and very few positive counts.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Frictions in Regulation and Governance: Policy implications for public utilities
The Institutional Resource Regime framework appears successful in comparing natural resource governance systems but unable to provide a common and persuasive explanation of the evolution of these systems. To fill this gap, the concepts of institutional complexity trap and transversal transaction costs (TTC) have been recently put forward. IRRs tend to fall into an institutional…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Introducing spatial coverage in a semantic repository model
In this thesis, we propose a model for semantic digital libraries with a geospatial context and a definition of coverage as key concept. We present the document and spatial resource model. We define the annotation model and more particularly the geographic coverage that detail and define the location of each resource taking into account its type. Finally, we present the query model…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Established risk factors for addiction fail to discriminate between healthy gamers and gamers endorsing DSM-5 Internet gaming disorder
Background and aims The DSM-5 includes criteria for diagnosing Internet gaming disorder (IGD) that are adapted from substance abuse and widely used in research and clinical contexts, although evidence supporting their validity remains scarce. This study compared online gamers who do or do not endorse IGD criteria regarding self-control-related abilities (impulsivity, inhibitory…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
On the Inference of Random Effects in Generalized Linear Mixed Models
In the first chapter, the problem of Bootstrap inference for the parameters of a GLMM is addressed. We formulate a bootstrapping strategy consisting on the random weighting of the contributions to the Joint Likelihood of Outcomes and Random Effects. Using the Laplace Approximation method for integrals on this function, yields a Random Weighted Log-Likelihood that produces the desired…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Posthumous replications : rights and limitations, notion of original and copies
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Solidarity in times of inequality: trade union politics and union membership effects
Europe has been marked by many profound changes since the 1980s. Among those prominently discussed in the political economy literature are the massive decline in trade union membership, the alarming rise in income inequality, and the increasingly disproportionate distribution of labor market risks. This thesis combines these issues and explores how unionization relates to income and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Short-term dynamics in issue-ownership and vote conversion
In this paper, my primary goal is to test if vote conversion is in line with voters' perceptions of parties' competence, i.e. if the competence change in favor of a party during the political campaign triggers vote conversion in favor of this same party. Then, I assess the moderating role of saliency and political knowledge and the difference between ‘valence' and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
For the sake of market access: Comparing EU and US approaches to liberalize public procurement in Brazil, India and China
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy's functionalist hubris and political myopia
The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union's peculiar…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The limits of governance: How far does policy analysis travel in international relations?
This article retraces the mutual rapprochement between Policy Analysis and International Relations and addresses its limits. Looking beyond the circle of advanced liberal-democratic economies, three limits are discussed: the need to specify the prerequisites of different modes of governance; to consider the relations of power and domination in these processes; and to look beyond…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Labour rights promotion in the absence of conditionality ? How the EU and the US engage China and India
Labour standards are one of the most contested issues in economic relations between developed countries and emerging markets. As attempts to codify such standards in the WTO have failed, the EU and the US have intensified their efforts to promote them in bilateral and regional Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Whereas this practice has been quite consistent across the globe, the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The EU as a Global Actor in Reforming the International Investment Regime in Light of Sustainable Development
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Two logics of policy intervention in immigrant integration: an institutionalist framework based on capabilities and aspirations
The effectiveness of immigrant integration policies has gained considerable attention across Western democracies dealing with ethnically and culturally diverse societies. However, the findings on what type of policy produces more favourable integration outcomes remain inconclusive. The conflation of normative and analytical assumptions on integration is a major challenge for causal…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Real Estate Company Reactions to Financial Market Regulation
This study investigates the impact of international financial regulation on listed real estate companies. In particular, we look at how three regulatory reforms undertaken in the aftermath of the global financial crisis have affected returns and credit default swap (CDS) spreads of real estate companies. The three reforms are aimed at regulating different segments of the market –…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
High Frequency House Price Indexes with Scarce Data
We show how a method that has been applied to commercial real estate markets can be used to produce high frequency house price indexes for a city and for submarkets within a city. Our application of this method involves estimating a set of annual robust repeat sales regressions staggered by start date and then undertaking an annual-to-monthly (ATM) transformation with a generalized…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
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