Tombes à armes et auxiliaires gaulois aux IIe et Ier siècles avant notre ère : de l'étude de l'armement gaulois et romain à l'histoire sociale

Résumé Cette étude analyse de façon approfondie la question des auxiliaires gaulois à l'époque tardo-républicaine par le biais des découvertes archéologiques. Elle couvre toutes les Gaules (Transpadane, Transalpine, Celtique et Belgique), ainsi que l'aire alpine. Le corpus est composé de 450 tombes de guerriers provenant de 145 sites répartis entre l'Italie du Nord, la Slovénie, la Suisse, la France, le Luxembourg et l'ouest de l'Allemagne, datables entre le IIe et le Ier siècle av. J.-C. 29 sites de bataille ou d'habitat et 9 sanctuaires, sur lesquels de l'armement a été mis en évidence, s'ajoutent à cet ensemble. Un point fort de cette recherche est l'étude renouvelée d'ensembles souvent découverts anciennement et dont les publications ne répondent plus aujourd'hui aux critères de la recherche archéologique. Le rafraîchissement de cette documentation permet de reprendre l'analyse de l'armement gaulois dans ces régions et de montrer comment, petit à petit, celui-ci est remplacé par une panoplie manifestement romaine. La mise en parallèle ce corpus archéologique avec les informations données par les sources antiques (Polybe, César, etc.), permet d'enrichir l'histoire des auxiliaires gaulois à la période tardo-républicaine en mettant en lumière leur rôle dans l'évolution de la République vers l'Empire.

Factors influencing privatization of urban solid waste collection: some evidence from Spain

In this paper we analyse some of the organisational aspects of the urban solid waste collection and, in particular, the privatization modality of contracting out. We start by discussing some of the theoretical aspects of contracting out. We then specify and estimate an explanatory model on a sample of municipalities that we surveyed. Our purpose is twofold: on the one hand, we identify the economic factors at work when deciding to contract out the service and, on the other hand, we analyse the role of ideological factors in choosing between the public production of the service or contracting it out. The results show a significant effect of the demand for waste collection on contracting out. There also appears to be a neighbouring effect as the municipalities close to other cities that contract out are also more prone to do so. Finally, the decisions to contract seem to have been motivated by pragmatic rather than ideological reasons.

Classification of urban multi-angular image sequences by aligning their manifolds

When dealing with multi-angular image sequences, problems of reflectance changes due either to illumination and acquisition geometry, or to interactions with the atmosphere, naturally arise. These phenomena interplay with the scene and lead to a modification of the measured radiance: for example, according to the angle of acquisition, tall objects may be seen from top or from the side and different light scatterings may affect the surfaces. This results in shifts in the acquired radiance, that make the problem of multi-angular classification harder and might lead to catastrophic results, since surfaces with the same reflectance return significantly different signals. In this paper, rather than performing atmospheric or bi-directional reflection distribution function (BRDF) correction, a non-linear manifold learning approach is used to align data structures. This method maximizes the similarity between the different acquisitions by deforming their manifold, thus enhancing the transferability of classification models among the images of the sequence.

A Review of Urban Geocoding,1973.

The purpose of this report is to describe and evaluate recent efforts in spatial referencing problems and to assess the utility of the developments for urban research, particularly. and to speculate on future developments in the field attempting to structure the issues and review literature and directions of what has become known as "geocoding."

Effects of urban development on the flood-flow characteristics of the Walnut Creek Basin, Des Moines Metropolitan area, Iowa,1978.

This report deals with the probable impact of urban development on the magnitude and frequency of flooding in the lower reach of the Walnut Creek Basin.

Getting to know about health and safety related to products used in painting, drawing and printmakin

Practicing art is not a high risk activity. This statement, along with the creative, expressive and intangible aims of this activity, as well as the lack of information, promotion of safety awareness and training of thepeople in charge of art studios, may have pushed the implications of practicing art as regards health, safety and environment into the background. Faced with this prospect, a comprehensive study of the facilities and the activities carried out in art studios becomes necessary. The study concerns experimental activities involving Health and Safety risks for both the artists and the teachers and students, especially those carried out in the studios located in educational institutions.