Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
This thesis focuses on two themes: a methodological and a decision making one. The methodological part introduces the development of a computerized information search tool. The program, called WebDiP (Web Decision Processes), enables the researcher to track participants while they are searching for information in a database. An experiment can be done either in the laboratory or on the Web. The...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005 ; Nr. 1465.
Ligand field theory has been used along decades with success to describe ground and excited electronic states originating from dn transition metals complexes. Experimental chemists use such a theory to interpret spectra. On the opposite side, computational chemists can describe with good accuracy the ground states properties but models to calculate excited states properties are still being...
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In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2005, vol. 11, p. 185-194
Detailed protonation experiments of the [5,6]-pinenebipyridine molecule and the unsubstituted [4,5]- and [5,6]-CHIRAGEN[0] ligands in various solvents indicate a variety of structures of the protonated species. UV-visible and NMR measurements (including ¹⁵N chemical shifts) show the transition from trans to cis conformation of [5,6]-pinenebipyridine upon protonation. The...
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In: Dalton Transactions, 2004, vol. 3, p. 402-406
The enantiomerically pure chiral tris-chelating ligand (+)-(7S,10R)-L(L) comprising three 4,5-pinenobipyridine subunits connected through a mesityl spacer has been synthesized. Complexes of L with RuII and FeII have been prepared and characterised. NMR spectroscopy indicates that...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
Based on a large collection of newspaper articles, political discourses, historical inquiries and testimonies, this research analyzes the emergence, development and resolution of the controversy about the "Jewish assets and nazi gold" in the Swiss public sphere between 1995 and 1998. The research starts with the analysis of the emergence of the role of Switzerland during the Second World War,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 1999 ; no 1256.
The factors influencing the production and deposition of carbonate sediments are known. These are namely accommodation variations (eustasy and tectonics), siliciclastic sediment input, environmental changes (temperature, salinity, trophic level), nature of the producing ecologies, and the hydrodynamic regime. However, the manner in which these factors integrate through time to produce the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2002 ; no 1393.
This dissertation addresses three fundamental problems, which have to be handled in application domains like ubiquitous computing and Web services. The three problems heterogeneity, static configuration, and dynamic configuration are not only considered to persist during the near future but to increase, as similar application domains will emerge. The heterogeneity problem is defined and examples...
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In: Norwegian Journal of Geography
The winter ascending circulation of air throughout an accumulation of coarse slope sediments (the so-called chimney effect) facilitates the cooling of the ground and even the occurrence of permafrost in the lower part of a deposit. Simultaneously, any freezing is unlikely to occur in the upper part. The chimney effect has been reported to date mainly for cold and sometimes perennially frozen...
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In: Ecological Modelling
Levins and Ginzburg raised two paradoxes concerning the logistic equation of population growth. None of them received a satisfactory answer within the frame of the original equation. Here, we propose solutions to both paradoxes.
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