Numéro 71 - juillet 2009

Juillet 2002

This paper focuses on the concept of a psychological contract. It argues that research analyzing the employment relationship through this concept tends to overlook the constraints which actually mark the actors' behavoirs. A lot of papers dealing with the Psychological contract approach conveys the view of a free actor. To support this thesis, this paper will first review some of the main featu...

Numéro bibliothèque: ThèsedeDoctoratdel’universitéParisVI

The deployment of Self-Organizing Networks (SONs) raises a number of key design issues such as scalability, spontaneity, ease-of-management, adaptability, and dynamicallychanging topologies. In this context, routing is particularly challenging, and requires revisiting important components of the routing architecture/protocol suite, such as, establishing and managing an addressing scheme, provid...

SOCIÉTÉ MATHÉMATIQUE DE FRANCE quatrième série - tome 42 fascicule 4 juillet - août 2009

Bulteau N ̊ 3209 Juillet 1997

An eecient family of methods to evaluate network reliability is the class of factoring algorithms. Their eeciency is due to the use of reliability-preserving reductions (for instance, series-parallel ones). In this work, we follow a similar approach for the problem of counting the (s; t)-mincuts of a graph with size i, for all i. In order to take into account these possible reductions, the pape...

Enterovirus 71 infection: An experience in Korea, 2009

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) has been recognized as a frequent cause of epidemics of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) associated with severe neurological symptoms. In the spring of 2009, HFMD was epidemic in Korea. Severe cases with complication, including death, have been reported and it has become a public health issue. Most symptomatic EV71 infections commonly result in HFMD or herpangina. These ...