Le groupe nominal épithète:Monsieur le Professeur, mes amis les linguistes, les linguistes mes amis

This paper explores the syntactic structure of those French constructions where an NP directly follows another. Examples are provided by Monsieur le Professeur, Mes amis les linguistes, Les linguistes mes amis, the later being equivalent to the English cases My Brother the fool and The fool my brother. Following an analysis of their distributional property, the syntactic structure of the groups is shown to involve the modification of the first noun by the following DP. While therefore structurally comparable to an adjectival modifier, these DPs impose a condition of coreference between the two nouns. A further interpretative constraint is shown to hold concerning the referentially anchored status of either of the DPs. Thus, the form of the complement can determine the behaviour of the head, as demonstrated by this atypical nominal group.

Efficiency improvements to the Groupe Special Mobile (GSM) digital mobile radio system

Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) has been developed as the pan-European second generation of digital mobile systems. GSM operates in the 900 MHz frequency band and employs digital technology instead of the analogue technology of its predecessors. Digital technology enables the GSM system to operate in much smaller zones in comparison with the analogue systems. The GSM system will offer greater roaming facilities to its subscribers, extended throughout the countries that have installed the system. The GSM system could be seen as a further enhancement to European integration. GSM has adopted a contention-based protocol for multipoint-to-point transmission. In particular, the slotted-ALOHA medium access protocol is used to coordinate the transmission of the channel request messages between the scattered mobile stations. Collision still happens when more than one mobile station having the same random reference number attempts to transmit on the same time-slot. In this research, a modified version of this protocol has been developed in order to reduce the number of collisions and hence increase the random access channel throughput compared to the existing protocol. The performance evaluation of the protocol has been carried out using simulation methods. Due to the growing demand for mobile radio telephony as well as for data services, optimal usage of the scarce availability radio spectrum is becoming increasingly important. In this research, a protocol has been developed whereby the number of transmitted information packets over the GSM system is increased without any additional increase of the allocated radio spectrum. Simulation results are presented to show the improvements achieved by the proposed protocol. Cellular mobile radio networks commonly respond to an increase in the service demand by using smaller coverage areas. As a result, the volume of the signalling exchanges increases. In this research, a proposal for interconnecting the various entitles of the mobile radio network over the future broadband networks based on the IEEE 802.6 Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) is outlined. Simulation results are presented to show the benefits achieved by interconnecting these entities over the broadband Networks.

Le groupe du Fer de Lance mélanésien face à ses défis

Cet article examine la complexité du processus d’intégration régionale en Océanie à travers le cas du groupe du Fer de Lance mélanésien (gflm). L’émergence de cette structure subrégionale en 1988 avait pour but d’affirmer la spécificité mélanésienne au cœur du Pacifique Sud. Or, en vingt-cinq années d’existence, le Fer de Lance ne semble pas avoir pleinement réalisé tous les objectifs qu’il s’était initialement fixés. Ses ambitions, politiques en particulier, ne sont qu’en partie réalisées. Quant à la récente présidence fidjienne du Fer de Lance, elle a tenté de donner une nouvelle stature régionale au groupe, mais y est-elle parvenue ? Cet article analyse les défis politiques, intérieurs et extérieurs, que le gflm rencontre depuis sa création et considère ceux qui lui restent à relever. This paper examines the complexities of regional integration in Oceania through the case study of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). The emergence of a new subregional structure in 1988 aimed to support the development of the Melanesian identity within the South Pacific. However, after twenty-five years of existence, the Spearhead Group does not seem to have reached all its initial objectives. Its political ambition has only partly been achieved. The recent Fijian leadership of the MSG has attempted to give a new regional dimension to the Melanesian group, but has it succeeded? This paper analyses how the subregional group has faced the challenges that emerged from its regional environment as well as from within its own structure. It fnally considers the new challenges ahead for the Melanesian group.