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Obituary to Pierre Loiseau

Professor Pierre Loiseau, died suddenly on March 29, 2004 leaving a world of family, friends and colleagues at a loss. Pierre was an outstanding clinical neurologist and renowned epileptologist. He was also an unrivalled teacher and an innovative clinical investigator in the field of the treatment of the epilepsies as well as a pioneer in the epidemiology of the epilepsies. Pierre was born on O...

MORT: a powerful foundational library for computational biology and CADD

Background: A foundational library called MORT (Molecular Objects and Relevant Templates) for the development of new software packages and tools employed in computational biology and computer-aided drug design (CADD) is described here. Results: MORT contains several advantages compared with the other libraries. Firstly, MORT written in C++ natively supports the paradigm of object-oriented desig...

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"Pale as death" or "pâle comme la mort": Frozen similes used as literary clichés

The present study is focused on the automatic identification and description of frozen similes in British and French novels written between the 19 century and the beginning of the 20 century. Two main patterns of frozen similes were considered: adjectival ground + simile marker + nominal vehicle (e.g. happy as a lark) and eventuality + simile marker + nominal vehicle (e.g. sleep like a top). Al...

Mise au point d'une reaction d'hemagglutination proteinique pour la peste