Summary Background Since the beginning of 2008, the implementation of a 100% activity-based payment system, has made efficiency one of the prime concern for the French health-care providing institutions. We therefore assessed the real cost of a scheduled total hip repla...

To perform a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial to determine the impact of CD133+ bone marrow cells (BMC) on left ventricular (LV) function and clinical symptoms. 70 patients with chronic ischaemic heart disease and impaired LV function (left ventricul...

AbstractWe study buoyant displacement flows with two miscible fluids of equal viscosity in the regime of low Atwood number and in ducts that are inclined close to horizontal. Using a combination of experimental, computational and analytical methods, we characterize the ...

Three Ecopath models were built to reproduce 3 experimental treatments carried out in earthen ponds located in Olhao, southern Portugal, to understand the energy transferred and the ecosystem state in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). These earthen ponds beha...

This paper presents a survey of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and its use in computational fluid dynamics. As a truly mesh-free particle method based upon the Lagrangian formulation, SPH has been applied to a variety of different areas in science, computer graph...

Several synthetic techniques are available for the preparation of halogen-bonded adducts, including traditional solvent-evaporation methods and mechanochemistry. With the intention of reducing solvent usage and experimental times, we establish cosublimation as a synthet...

A study of the two body decays $B^\pm\rightarrow X_{c\bar c}K^\pm$, where X$_{c\bar c}$ refers to one charmonium state, is reported by BaBar collaboration using a data sample of 424 fb$^{-1}$. The absolute determination of branching fractions for these decays are signif...

International audience; This study investigates the effects of a low-noise environment when used for recording the scalp electroencephalogram (EEG). Analysis of the EEG recordings from three volunteers confirms that clean EEG signals can be acquired in the LSBB shielded...

Ferdinand Rozier, issu d’une famille de négociants nantais, a migré vers les États-Unis en 1806. Après quelques années sur la côte Est et dans le Kentucky, il a, en 1811, fondé une famille avec une Créole, Constance Roy, à Sainte-Geneviève, dans le Missouri. Nous étudio...

Thermoacoustic instability in a fluid monolayer complex plasma is studied for the first time. Experiments, theory, and simulations demonstrate that nonreciprocal effective interactions between particles (mediated by plasma flows) provide positive thermal feedback leadin...