Contribution d’Alain Mercier

Raphael Mercier

Raphael Mercier is a researcher at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin, located at the Versailles node of INRA. He graduated from the University of Paris XI in 2001. After a postdoc at the University of Birmingham UK with Gareth Jones and Chris Franklin, he returned to Versailles, where he got a permanent position in 2003. His entire scientific career has been devoted to the study of meiosis in t...

Mercier therapy helps infertile women achieve pregnancy.

Introduction Among women ages 15–44, 6.7 million have impaired ability to have children, 1.5 million are infertile, and 7.4 million have used infertility services in their lifetime (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/fertile.htm). Now more than ever, women are having their fertility manipulated by reproductive endocrinology clinics and are undergoing multiple cycles without knowing the long-term effects ...

Identification of Mercier Instabilities in Alcator C-mod Tokamak

During current ramp-up discharges, highly localized magnetohydrody-namic (MHD) fluctuations were observed on the electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostics of Alcator C-Mod tokamak [I. The electron temperature profile was hollow, while the density profile was weakly decreasing. Assuming that the equilibration time was short enough to quickly thermalize ions the pressure profile was also foun...

Fraud And Illusion In The Anti-newtonian Rear Guard - The Coultaud-mercier Affair And Bertier's Experiments, 1767-1777

Juridical exploration in women’s urban management contribution

The issue under women’s involvement or lack of involvement in political and social activities refers to one of the most controversial issues to which a large body of scientific efforts and discussions has allocated. One of these activities includes tenure of religious authority by women which is of great importance due to abundant outcomes. The present research intends to examine juridical expl...