A set of colloidal particles (be they sterically-or charge-stabilized) can never be made truly identical. They are polydisperse in their sizes (or charges), and their interactions are a function of that property. A truly polydisperse system in the thermodynamic limit contains innnitely many species. Therefore, calculations of phase equilibria involve innnitely many coexistence constraints (a di...

Remerciements Je tenais tout d'abord à remercier Dr Rodolphe Weber pour m'avoir permise d'effectuer ce travail sous sa direction, pour ses conseils, pour sa patience et pour son temps, et Dr Albert Enfin, je remercie ma famille qui a cru en moi, et qui m'a apporté toute l'aide dont j'avais besoin pour en arriver là, je ne serai jamais arrivée à ce diplôme sans vos encouragement, votre confiance...

Contents Introduction 9 1 General definitions of the cyclostationarity property 16 1. References 111 6 List of figures 120 7 8 Introduction Les astres ont toujours été une source de crainte, de passion, d'inspiration et de quête pour l'Homme à travers les âges. Cette quête de connaissance de l'inconnu avait, à l'antiquité, pris forme de science de prédictions écliptiques, telle que la prédictio...

Most men with prostate cancer will not die from it. Although the most frequent cancer in men in the western world it ranks only 3rd place for cause of death (1). In men over 60 years of age prostate cancer is found at autopsy in over 60% (2). Overdiagnosis by PSA screening is estimated to be 57% when screened until 75 years of age (3). Considering treatment toxicity, careful selection of men fo...

To characterize the renln-angiotensin system in the Aokl-Okamoto spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) more fully, serial measurements of plasma renin activity (PRA), plasma renin concentration (PRC), renin reactivity (as relative index of circulating modifiers of the renin reaction) and renin substrate concentration were made in 6to 64-week-old SHR and in age-matched Wistar-Kyoto normotensive r...