• HEUDIASYC laboratory: Heuristic and diagnosis of complex systems, (UMR 6599 CNRS / Compiègne University of Technology, France): – Franck DAVOINE (CR CNRS) – Thierry DENOEUX (PR) – Yves GRANDVALET (CR CNRS) – Vincent FREMONT (MCF) – Romain HERAULT (PhD Student, since oct. 2004, MENRT ACI SI) – Yisong CHEN (postdoc, since sept. 2005, CNRS) These researchers are members of the ASTRID1 research g...

The Red Sea and Indian Ocean seagrass Halophila stipulacea entered the Mediterranean in late 19th century via Suez Canal. Here, we report on discovery of a population H. covering 16.5 ha off harbour Cannes, French Riviera, France. This represents northernmost locality species jump 350 km to north from its closest western (Razza di Juncu Sardinia). At it was found dwelling between 11 17 m depth ...

Seismic monitoring of southwestern France began in the 1960s, and homogeneous coverage by observation networks has been place since 1990s. The accumulation data now allows a refined understanding regional seismicity, not only on its spatial aspects, but also regularity earthquake distribution over time. This paper is both review work carried out subject, progress report current knowledge seismi...

Gathering is a fundamental coordination problem in cooperative mobile robotics. In short, given a set of robots with arbitrary initial locations and no initial agreement on a global coordinate system, gathering requires that all robots, following their algorithm, reach the exact same but not predetermined location. Gathering is particularly challenging in networks where robots are oblivious (i....

The ageing process has both psychological and physiological effects on women, and tactical choices are often made regarding beauty interventions to mask the outward signs of increasing age. The bra is believed to counteract the negative effects of ageing on the breast and alter the perceptions of one's body. Due to the profound anatomical changes to the breast with increasing age, this paper ai...

Previous studies have found that women with larger breasts than the average were considered to be more physically attractive. In these studies attractiveness was measured with the help of silhouette figures or photographs and the effect of breast size on men's behaviour was not considered. In this study two experiments were carried out in order to test the effect of a woman's breast size on app...