International audience; We examined the environmental impacts of farmland management practices (FMPs), considering FMPs as frequent or single actions that change both land use AND use rights (land and property relations). Based on a review of the international literatur...

The major part of ongoing research in the field of robotics is to mimic the behaviour of species present in nature. This paper presents the workspace of the multi-section bionic manipulator Robotino-XT under the failure of one of its bellow. These types of failure may b...

International audience; Si la base de l’alimentation des familles mongoles, urbaines et rurales, nomades etsédentaires, demeure la viande et les produits laitiers – les produits qui nourrissent, font repas et sont socialement valorisés –, le régime alimentaire se modifi...

When humans interact with each other, collaborating on a shared activity or chatting, they are able to tell whether their interaction is going well or not and if they observe that its quality is deteriorating, they can adapt their behavior or invite their partner to act...

Abstract. The long-term record of Umkehr measurements from four NOAA Dobson spectrophotometers was reprocessed after updates to the instrument calibration procedures. In addition, a new data quality-control tool was developed for the Dobson automation software (WinDobso...

In August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the first Doppler wind lidar into space, which has since then been providing continuous profiles of the horizontal line-of-sight wind component at a global scale. Aeolus data have been successfully assimilated int...

International audience; The predatory mirid bug Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur (Heteroptera: Miridae) is commonly employed to control whiteflies Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae), a common pest on tomatoes. In greenhouses of the Mediterranean, tom...

Une enquête ethnographique et historique couvrant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle et le XXe siècle fait apparaître l'évolution contre-intuitive d'un type d'organisation des maisonnées dans une commune agricole aveyronnaise : l'organisation en familles souches «traditio...

Le papier analyse les conséquences de la politique de développement des biocarburants sur la production française de grandes cultures. Les simulations sont conduites à l'aide d'un modèle d'offre de biocarburants, construit à partir de modèles micro-économiques d'exploit...

International audience; NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This paper presents the development ...