fix doc related to #478
(cherry picked from commit 5779a6de0c5448fb4555043a7f8f710d251d64ed)
For Matlab >= 2013a on osx, use renamed SDKROOT macro, MW_SDKROOT
(cherry picked from commit 9a21667e69fbb305a8f4a6348e6a7b89e2d5808f)
Copy the generated time series in Base workspace (extended_path).

(cherry picked from commit 1b57cb4a073140f42055f82a9476e5b36ebdee2b)
Bug fix. Force axis tight in @dseries/plot method (otherwise the method crashes if Matlab/octave considers a too large x-abscissa).

(cherry picked from commit cf567dd5c05520b8b6a91e215159550236d5051c)
Cosmetic changes. Removed useless spaces and semicolons.

(cherry picked from commit 3790ab1dc71f75cc6ac0bacde414340c7d296503)
Removed old version of homotopic_steps (extended path).

(cherry picked from commit cf1bd26f845c3c8117ac7715f6a7dcbc9a1e3716)
Fixed typo.

(cherry picked from commit 4afcf8fdafafee457fdad9626a466b4959f8d0f6)
Do not systematically throw an errror message if the parameters in the provided mode_file does not exactly match the set of estimated parameters.

If some parameters are missing in the provided mode_file and if mode_compute>0, use the prior mean as an initial condition.

(cherry picked from commit f16689e76fd7a8bb719c7bf9e24878459ca2443c)
Merge pull request #562 from rattoma/4.4

Fixed bugs and continue GSA plots harmonization
fix typo
(cherry picked from commit 398076432cd988fe472c22b944f5a1244f061533)