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Université de Fribourg

A unilateral section of the corticospinal tract at cervical level in Primate does not lead to measurable cell loss in Motor cortex

Wannier, Thierry. ; Schmidlin, Eric ; Bloch, Jocelyne ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Journal of Neurotrauma, 2005, vol. 22(6), p. 703

The effects of a unilateral interruption of the dorsolateral funiculus at cervical level on the survival of neurons in the motor cortex were investigated in macaque monkeys. The lesion was made on the left side at the transition region between the 7th and 8th cervical segments, above the motoneurons controlling hand muscles. As a result, the homolateral hand became paretic,...

Université de Fribourg

Analyse mathématique de la compétition entre les axones des neurones des ganglions sensitifs pour l'innervation d'une région de la peau

Kohli, Raymond ; Gabriel, Jean-Pierre (Dir.) ; Clarke, Peter (Codir.) ; Zwahlen, Bruno (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001 ; no 1334.

Many neurons and axons are eliminated during the development of the nervous system. These cells and their connections are thus overproduced, and the organism has to destroy the surplus in order to function correctly. A major mechanism responsible for this elimination appears to be competition between cells for a substance necessary for their survival. To examine this hypothesis, the present work...

Université de Fribourg

Transition to retirement and aging : change and persistence of personal identities

Teuscher, Ursina ; Retschitzki, Jean (Dir.) ; Spini, Dario (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2003.

This doctoral thesis deals with the question of how self-images change when people are getting into the age of retirement. Two main issues are addressed regarding the development of personal identities in that life stage: (1) The content of identity: the question if and how retired people have a different way of defining or characterizing themselves than employed people. (2) The age identity...

Université de Fribourg

Cave Genesis and its relationship to surface processes : investigations in the Siebenhengste region (BE, Switzerland)

Häuselmann, Philipp ; Monbaron, Michel (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2002 ; Nr. 1383.

The Siebenhengste region is one of the most significant cave areas in the world. Its high density of cave passages that extend over 1500 m in altitude makes it a key site for the study of Alpine paleogeomorphology and paleoclimatology. The present thesis concentrates on St. Beatus Cave and Bärenschacht at the southern rim of the cave region. The tectonics, hydrogeology, speleogenesis,...

Université de Fribourg

Atomic level widths and shake probabilities as inferred from high-resolution measurements of x-ray emission spectra

Raboud, Pierre-Alexandre ; Dousse, Jean-Claude (Dir.) ; Weis, Antoine (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001 ; no 1362.

Two different projects related to Atomic Physics are contained in the present Ph.D. thesis. The first project concerns the natural widths of atomic core levels whereas the second one deals with the double KL excitation of gaseous argon resulting from impact with monoenergetic photons. The first project itself is divided in two parts: the first one is an experimental study of the L1 to N5 atomic...

Université de Fribourg

Arabidopsis-Phytophthora, un pathosystème modèle pour la caractérisation d'une interaction entre une plante et un pathogène oomycète

Roetschi, Alexandra ; Mauch, Felix (Dir.) ; Gisi, Ulrich (Codir.) ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001 ; no 1345.

Oomycetes are pathogens responsible for many plant diseases over the world and the economical impact of their damage is quite important. Although these organisms show a mycelar growth, their biology is quite different from that of fungi. This makes them not easy to fight against and up to now no fungicide is able to stop an epidemy due to Oomycetes in a durable way. The particular biology of...

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A study of the photophysical and photochemical properties of metal complexes using density functional theory

Buchs, Matthieu ; Daul, Claude (Dir.) ; Schläpfer, Carl-Wilhelm (Codir.) ; Weber, Jacques (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001 ; no 1332.

The first objective of this thesis is the calculation of excited state energies and properties of transition metal complexes using Density Functional Theory (DFT). To explore this wide topic, we did choose three different chemical systems. The first one, presented in the chapter 4, is about the photodissociation of the tris(2,2’- bipyridine)ruthenium(II) ([Ru(bpy)3]2+) ion. Over the last two...

Université de Fribourg

Analyse de l'activité de glissements de terrain et relation avec les conditions climatiques : exemples dans les Préalpes fribourgeoises (Suisse)

Oswald, Daniel ; Caron, Christian (Dir.) ; Raetzo, Hugo (Codir.) ; Müller, Imre (Codir.) ; Strasser, André (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2003 ; no 1417.

Deep landslides (> 10 m) are generally characterized by phases of acceleration alternating with periods of lull, but most often lack real stabilization. Due to the continuous movement, it is difcult to evaluate the evolution of the activity. Therefore, a new methodology has been developed in order to precisely identify the sub-recent (20th century) and present evolution of deep landslide...