The aim of this paper is to study the adoption and diffusion process of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in firms located in low density areas. We analyse the relationships between organizational and environmental factors and the firms' ICT uses in order to reveal their...

This report describes the design, development and test activities of the inexpensive GNSS-based sea level monitoring device. The objective of the campaign was to demonstrate the feasibility of using a low cost Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) based sensor to measure and...

This report describes the design, development and test activities of the inexpensive GNSS-based sea level monitoring device. The objective of the campaign was to demonstrate the feasibility of using a low cost Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) based sensor to measure and...

In this paper, we make an exploratory use of computational techniques (genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulations) to compute efficient and emergent networks in a spatialized version of the connections model of Jackson and Wolinski (1996). This approach allows us to observe and discuss...

Ce travail se justifie par l'absence d'indicateur socio-économique de gestion durable de la forêt privée fragmentée des agriculteurs. L'objectif est d'apprécier la performance de différents scénarios sylvicoles avec un outil qui tienne compte des spécificités de cette forêt telle que...

We propose a structural empirical approach à la Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) to disentangle the effect of experts' grades from the effect of unobserved quality on the pricing of experience goods. Using a panel data set of 108 châteaux selling wine on the Bordeaux "en primeur" market, we provide...

Dans une première partie, l'auteur rappelle brièvement les principes de la certification ISO 14001. La Fédération Nationale des Coopératives d'Utilisation de matériel Agricole (FNCUMA) est engagée depuis 1998 dans une expérimentation visant à adapter la procédure de certification à la...

Bottled water consumption has been steadily growing in the world for the past 30 years, in spite of its excessively high price compared to tap water. The Italian drink more bottled water than anybody else in the world, followed by the French who drink about 130 liters per year per inhabitant. In...